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“So you’re saying you lost them in the end?” Wan Xingbang sounded quite displeased.

“Yes, at first, the RV was traveling at a normal speed, but after picking up Ren Anhua, it suddenly sped off at an incredible pace. We now suspect that the RV team had already detected us tailing them from the start. This was a premeditated escape, and we’ve now lost track of them.” The man’s camouflage uniform was still speckled with a few leaves, indicating that he had rushed back.

“But we’ve been able to preliminarily determine that the direction they accelerated away in was the Quanchuan Expressway. If it’s that area, then their final destination should be…” the man added.

“Should be the city center,” Wan Xingbang interrupted the man.

Although he was angry, as a competent leader, he had to control his emotions.

“Alright, you’ve done well enough.”

Raging at subordinates for a failed mission would only increase their fear of him, not increase his authority over them, and there was a subtle difference between the two.

Besides, the mission wasn’t exactly a failure.

At least they knew the possible direction the team might have gone.

However, after this, Wan Xingbang had a sliver of doubt regarding the team’s actions; they didn’t seem to have told Ren Anhua about the information.

But why would they be heading toward the city center?

And why bring Ren Anhua along first?

Could their purpose… be the same as the military’s?

“The city center?” Meng Fanhai was wearing a Hawaiian shirt, paired with thin beach shorts, and flip-flops on his feet.

After learning of Ren Anhua’s current situation, he seemed to have undergone some subtle changes.

“Are you sure he’s heading toward the city center?”

“Very sure.
Our men were spread out very widely at the time.
The brothers near the Quanchuan Expressway saw the RV heading toward the city center with their own eyes.” Er Gou was a little scared; the search overnight had been fruitless.

There was a lack of communication between personnel, and it wasn’t until the next day, when all the information was summarized, that they came to a conclusion—Ren Anhua had likely run off in that RV that robbed them on the road that day.

Given this result, Er Gou didn’t think that his second-in-command—or rather, their current real boss, Meng Fanhai—would give him a good look.

He trembled all over, afraid that Meng Fanhai would end his life in the next second.

“Very good.
Since we know where they ran off to, then let’s just chase after them.” Meng Fanhai didn’t seem angry.

Instead, he calmly issued the order.

He was determined to get Ren Anhua.

He should have been afraid of Ren Anhua’s high-temperature ability, but he remembered a secret weapon he had discovered when eliminating the remaining forces in the East Suburbs.

With this secret weapon, Ren Anhua was definitely no match for him.

Far from being angry, he could even be said to be extremely excited at realizing this.

It was just a little regrettable that he hadn’t arranged things properly last night.

If he had prepared this secret weapon in advance, then Ren Anhua might already be in his hands.

The leader of the Red Blade Team, Song Zhiyang, looked very happy.

“Excellent!
Very good!
Xiao Yang, you’re the secret weapon we’ll use to deal with Ren Anhua!” Song Zhiyang happily patted the young man’s shoulder in front of him, then asked the person behind him, “Can you confirm where Ren Anhua is now?”

The tall, thin man behind him stepped forward.

He was wearing a very strange outfit; the collar had been cut off, revealing a severely burned chest.

If Ren Anhua were here, she would recognize that this man was the crude youth who had provoked her when she entered the city that day and was beaten up as a result.

“Reporting, Song-ge, she’s currently moving at high speed, but the direction should be the city center.” It was already a rather cold autumn, and this attire made him shiver in the cold air.

The ugly burn on his chest was exposed to the outside, without any bandaging or treatment.

He didn’t dare to bandage or treat it, and didn’t even dare to wear a warm garment that would cover his chest.

This person was called Wobu Zai by those around him, and his ability was called “Hate Recording.”

Anyone who caused him harm, he could obtain the approximate location information of that person until the wound they inflicted on him healed.

After that day, his boss had gotten information from somewhere, insisting that the little loli wearing the school swimsuit was Ren Anhua.

In the end, he found him, personally tore off the medical gauze he had wrapped around his chest, then gave him this set of clothes, and frequently asked him for the location of the school swimsuit loli.

Wobu Zai was angry but didn’t dare to speak, and could only stay behind his boss in this cold autumn, exposing his terrible wound.

Until now, when he had found the young man in front of him who was being called the ‘secret weapon.’

The youth called Xiao Yang looked very gloomy, with a sturdy body and few words.

Even though his boss praised him so much, he didn’t have much of a reaction.

“Just give me that reward you promised,” Xiao Yang’s voice sounded very deep, with a hint of aloofness that kept people at a distance, as if he didn’t care about anyone.

“You don’t have to worry about that.” Song Zhiyang didn’t mind the young man’s haughty attitude at all, patted him on the shoulder, then got into the modified heavy truck behind him.

“Set off!
Destination: the city center!”

On this cold autumn day, the military, the new Survivor Camp, and the Red Blade Team, their respective leaders issued the same order, and all headed to the city center.

Traveling ahead of them was a medium-sized RV that looked weathered and worn.

Ever since leaving the laboratory, Bai Xiao An had felt that her brain was in a chaotic state.

Lu Shanshui was driving the car, occasionally glancing at the cute girl sitting in the passenger seat.

After lunch, she had left the group of girls in the back with some resistance, and had gotten into the passenger seat with a bit of confusion.

First, she sat properly in the seat, then she hugged her legs.

Then, she discovered that her ankles, which couldn’t be bent, didn’t seem to be very suited to this position, so she put her legs behind her and sat in the passenger seat, which seemed a little spacious for her, in a duck-sitting position.

Unlike the driver’s seat, the modified passenger seat was slightly higher and wider.

It was designed as a temporary sleeping bed and was usually Lu Shanshui’s resting place when he was driving.

The petite girl sitting on it, her soft white silk feet in lace-up high heels lazily placed on either side, looked very pleasing to the eye.

But before long, the girl seemed to be dissatisfied with her girly posture, so she put her legs under her little butt, pressed them down, and put her hands on her knees, sitting upright in the passenger seat.

However, sitting like this, she had a different kind of exquisite well-behavedness, and was still extremely cute.

“Ah~ What am I doing…” the girl patted her head, her expression a little complicated.

Bai Xiao An put her legs down, dangling in mid-air.

She started by looking at her soft white silk legs, feeling that they were quite alluring, then she thought that these were her legs, and then she began to inexplicably resist the feminine expression on her body.

But no matter how she changed her posture, she felt that she was exuding a cute aura of a petite girl.

Her subconscious actions and movements seemed to be inexplicably leaning toward a certain set personality, for example… Ke Xiaoshan.

Why was this happening?

Bai Xiao An couldn’t figure it out…. Bai Xiao An?

That’s not right, I’m Ren Anhua!

The girl felt a numb, itchy pain coming from the back of her head again.

Bai Xiao An was silent for a while for some reason.

“I… I was dumped yesterday,” the girl sitting in the passenger seat suddenly said.

Lu Shanshui didn’t know if she was talking to herself or to him, so he didn’t answer.

“Meng Fanhai told me not to change back; he wants to marry me, and he even drugged me; he’s my brother.” The girl’s sweet voice inexplicably sank.

Hearing this, and thinking of how she had been crying yesterday, he suddenly felt that this child was a little pitiful.

“And Lin Aijing said that the person she likes is Meng Fanhai.” Bai Xiao An looked at Lu Shanshui, who was driving the car.

“I…”

The girl’s voice seemed to have a faint, imperceptible sob, causing Lu Shanshui to turn around and look at the petite figure sitting in the passenger seat.

The adorable cherry-colored eyes were now full of tears, the light pink lips were gently pursed, the small face was innocent and aggrieved, but she was holding back and unwilling to cry.

Lu Shanshui couldn’t help but swallow.

‘What’s with this little thing all of a sudden?

Trying to seduce me?’ Lu Shanshui felt that his mental state was a little dangerous.

“Do I seem very much like a girl to people now?” Bai Xiao An suddenly asked.

Lu Shanshui was speechless at this question.

“Do you want to hear the truth or a lie?” After a moment of silence, Lu Shanshui answered.

“Forget it; you’ve already said your answer.” Bai Xiao An lowered her head, seeming to want to escape something, but what she saw was the pure white sukumizu, tightly outlining her slender body.

It seemed that in her daily line of sight, the girlish aura exuded by this body was becoming too obvious in her consciousness.

Bai Xiao An felt a little depressed, then suddenly leaned back, put down the passenger seat, propped herself up, and started rummaging through the cabinet behind the driver’s seat.

“Hey, hey, what are you doing?
Hey, hey, don’t wear my clothes; hey, what if you burn them, hey, stop!” Lu Shanshui reached out, wanting to pull the little thing that had become a little inexplicable away, but holding the steering wheel, he couldn’t be too distracted.

He could only watch helplessly as the little thing pulled out a loose black sweatshirt from his closet and put it on that petite body.

A sweatshirt, yet she had managed to turn it into an off-the-shoulder mini-skirt.

The slender shoulders came directly out of the neckline, and it only covered by the long sleeves that covered her hands, so that it would not fall down.

Lu Shanshui sized her up.

The hem of the sweatshirt covered about a quarter of her thighs.

This sweatshirt was a piece of clothing that Lu Shanshui had bought before, but he had only worn it a few times because it was too small.

He had only casually grabbed a few pieces from the closet when escaping during the apocalypse, but after meeting Bai Rui, he hadn’t worn his own clothes much.

If Bai Xiao An hadn’t pulled it out, he would have almost forgotten that he even had such a piece of clothing.

Now it seemed that it was quite suitable for this little thing to wear as a skirt.

The girl, who had no self-awareness at all, felt that she had returned to wearing male clothing, so she became a little more at ease.

Then, she discovered a pack of Zhonghua cigarettes on the dashboard, and her eyes lit up as she picked it up.

“Hey, hey!
My cigarettes!” Lu Shanshui usually smoked, but he smoked very sparingly, after all, cigarettes were quite difficult to find in the apocalypse.

He also wanted Ke Xingmei to cultivate some tobacco, but the girls on the team all opposed him smoking, let alone making cigarettes for him.

So he cherished every cigarette, and when he saw Bai Xiao An laying her hands on his cigarettes, he immediately became a little anxious.

Bai Xiao An, who wasn’t using her ability, wasn’t very strong, and Lu Shanshui easily snatched his cigarettes back.

But Bai Xiao An had already nimbly pulled one out.

Two tender fingers pinched the cigarette and skillfully rubbed a little fire, then her small mouth held the sponge filter and took a puff, lightly lighting the cigarette.

But when it entered her lungs, Bai Xiao An only felt as if a spicy knife had scraped into her lung lobes, and the choking breath immediately coughed out of her nose, burning her delicate nasal cavity.

Her new body couldn’t adapt to the mellow breath she had been accustomed to in the past.

Even though she had only taken one puff, it made tears stream from her eyes.

“You, you really are…” Lu Shanshui quickly snatched the cigarette from the little thing’s hand, and snuffed it out.

“What a waste!” Lu Shanshui said, carefully stuffing the cigarette butt back into the cigarette case.

With each one he smoked, there would be one less, and he couldn’t bear to throw it away.

“Lu Shanshui… cough cough…” Bai Xiao An pulled a piece of paper from the car cabinet and blew her runny nose.

“I can change back into a man, right?”

Lu Shanshui looked at Bai Xiao An’s uneasy expression and suddenly felt a little guilty.

“Yes, we’ll let you recover once we get the Kapok tree core.”

Bai Xiao An smiled happily.

“Now my brothers don’t recognize me as their boss anymore; it’s good that there’s still you guys.
Didn’t you ask me on the road yesterday if I wanted to join you?” Bai Xiao An seemed to be at ease, but still had a trace of sadness on her face.

“I’ll join.”

Lu Shanshui looked at the road ahead, which was constantly shortening, and didn’t say a word.