Chapter 124: The Fourth Rescue Target

  The emperor shivered with cold, for he felt that what the people said was true. But still he wanted to complete the procession, so he put on an even more haughty expression and his courtiers followed him, carrying a non-existent train...

  Wu Xiaotian had been telling stories to Ziling for five hours, his mouth was dry and he wanted to take a break, but Ziling wouldn't let him stop, insisting that Wu Xiaotian finish one more story after another. Wu Xiaotian began to beg for mercy, "Ziling, the Emperor's new clothes are finished, can we leave the rest for next time?"

  "Okay, but next time Xiao Tian must finish telling the more than 130 stories she owes people!"

  "Definitely, definitely." Wu Xiaotian said with a guilty conscience, because in just these few hours, he had already told all the Andersen fairy tales he could remember, and his stomach was really empty. Fortunately, Zi Ling agreed, otherwise Wu Xiaotian would have had to make things up randomly.

  "Well, that's good, they can go to sleep now."

  When the voice of "others still want to listen" in Wu Xiaotian's mind finally stopped, he let out a sigh of relief and looked up at the scorching sun with a bitter smile. He took out a cigarette from his pocket and began to think about how to find the fourth rescue target. This person was a vagabond, always on the move, maybe swindling little girls for lollipops in the south of the city today, and possibly coming to the north tomorrow to beg Wu Xiaotian for food. Although there were zombies roaming everywhere now, without any clues about his whereabouts, Wu Xiaotian was convinced that this person must still be alive, and living more freely than before the apocalypse.

  "Are we going to have to search the entire city of Spring?" Wu Xiaotian scratched his head, unable to think of a way to find this person. He fiercely threw the cigarette butt to the ground and spat out a wad of saliva before saying viciously: "Damn it, even if I have to search the entire city of Spring, I'll find that Si!"

  Wu Xiaotian decided to start looking for this person tomorrow, even if it means searching the entire city. Although he was a vagrant, Wu Xiaotian and his friends all admired him very much, because he was a truly admirable person.

  His name is Yang Ling, a soldier before his downfall, a real soldier, a soldier with the highest mission of protecting the people. As for why he fell to this point, Wu Xiaotian only vaguely knew that it seemed he was avenging a sacrificed comrade, single-handedly taking down a drug trafficking den with dozens of traffickers, and when he returned to his unit with serious injuries, he was expelled from the military.

  It wasn't until Wu Xiaotian and the others got him drunk that they found out about these things. Just as Wu Xiaotian and the others were about to ask what happened next, Yang Ling would burst into loud wails, crying so hard it seemed to tear his heart apart.

  Wu Xiaotian still remembers the first time he saw Yang Ling, who was beating up a person at the time. Wu Xiaotian found it strange that a vagrant like Yang Ling would be beating up a young man who looked like a dog. The young man was covering his head and running away while begging for mercy, but Yang Ling didn't care and continued to chase him until the police sirens sounded. Then, Yang Ling stomped on the young man's arm and ran away without a trace.

  The young man saw the police coming and cried to them like a child, one of the policemen heard his cry and immediately wanted to chase Yang Ling, but was blocked by the crowd at the scene.

  Later, from the mouths of onlookers in the crowd, it was learned that the young man's luxury car had been blocked by an old woman. The young man first cursed loudly and finally wanted to beat up the old woman. Fortunately, Yang Ling happened to pass by and saw this, resulting in what Wu Xiaotian saw.

  After getting to know Yang Ling, everything he did made Wu Xiaotian and the others admire him even more. As long as Yang Ling saw something unfair, he would go and deal with it; if he saw someone being bullied, he would help them out. Wu Xiaotian and the others had joked that Yang Ling wasn't a retired soldier, but a heroic knight! Although this heroic knight would often trick little girls into giving him their snacks, trick little kids into giving him their toys, and shamelessly ask Wu Xiaotian and the others to buy him drinks, and often go to different homes to scrounge for food, it didn't affect Wu Xiaotian and the others' admiration for Yang Ling.

  After re-lighting a cigarette, Wu Xiaotian began to walk towards the hotel. Since he had decided that he must find Yang Ling, he would start looking for him tomorrow, even if it meant searching the entire city, because Wu Xiaotian was convinced that he was still alive.

  "Ah, great, Dahe and Lengzi can practice martial arts while searching for a way out, and it's convenient to let them practice actual combat with zombies. But the problem is the weapons. If only we could bring all the weapons from Xiaoming's house, that would be great!" Wu Xiaotian thought to himself as he walked, regretting not bringing all those cold weapons with him earlier. Even if the Evolvers couldn't use them, Dahe and the others could.

  At this time, Wu Xiaotian had not considered the issue of hot weapons at all, because in the River Crab society, even knives were controlled, let alone lethal hot weapons. How many opportunities do ordinary people have to come into contact with real guns and live ammunition? Even Wu Xiaotian has only seen two hot weapons since the end of the world, one is a 54 police pistol, but it was abandoned in the battle with the Terminator, and the other is a 95-style automatic rifle seized from the fugitive, which is now used by Zhao Xinyu.

  Unconsciously, Wu Xiaotian walked to the Shubo Hotel and found that there was no trace of Zhang's car in the parking lot. He knew that Duan Yue and Zhao Xinyu were still outside. They didn't know if they had encountered something that delayed them, because if it was just looking for medicinal materials, they should have returned long ago. However, Wu Xiaotian wasn't worried about their safety, although there was only one Duan Yue, an Evolver, but that Duan Yue was not so simple.

  As soon as Wu Xiaotian entered the hotel, he found a survivor in the hotel, and this person was someone Wu Xiaotian had seen before. It was Xiao Ling, who had been following Xu Min that day with a notebook, recording something.

  "Hey, beauty!" Wu Xiaotian still didn't know her name so he could only call her "beauty", although this little Ling wasn't particularly pretty, but she lived up to the title.

  “？”

  Seeing Xiao Ling looking at him with a puzzled face, Wu Xiaotian spoke up: "Please go and inform Xu Min that we will set off early tomorrow morning. Tell her to think of an excuse as soon as possible."

  "Alright, okay."

  After hearing Wu Xiaotian's instructions, Xiao Ling directly hugged a large notebook and went to find Xu Min. After seeing Xiao Ling run far away, Wu Xiaotian also wanted to inform everyone to prepare well.