Reborn in the end of the world, I scavenged in the empty city and bought for free

After Gu Tongwan left, the masked man kept thinking about what she said.

The last time he saw the Chicken Coop Man was early yesterday morning, but he seemed to have never seen him again after that. Not only did the Chicken Coop Man leave without saying goodbye, but he also didn't show up for the entire day.

Could it be that the Chicken Coop Man did not leave home, but "disappeared"?

This horrifying thought flashed through his mind for a moment, and the masked man suddenly raised his head, his face full of horror.

"Sister Wanwan, what did you say to him in there just now?" On the way out of the Security Bureau, Yan Fan couldn't help but ask the question he had always wanted to ask.

Just now, through the single-sided isolation protective window, he could clearly see the chicken coop man's momentary frightened expression, and his legs were still shaking until Gu Tongwan turned around and left.

"I just used a little trick to test him, but his reaction was very honest and immediately betrayed his previous disguise." Gu Tongwan put his hands in his pockets and could feel white air coming out of his nose and mouth while speaking.

"What should we do next? Aren't there still two people who haven't been caught? And it seems that the man refuses to speak. I'm afraid the remaining people will be the most difficult to deal with."

Yan Fan had grown so fast recently that when they walked side by side, he was already half a head taller than Gu Tongwan. He was at least 1.7475 meters tall. Boys in their growth period really grew fast. But when it came to height, she suddenly thought of another person. Whenever they walked side by side, she had to look up to see the expression on his face. His height of nearly 1.9 meters usually gave people a sense of oppression, but in front of her, he always seemed to lower his head slightly and listened carefully to every word she said.

"Leave the rest to the Security Bureau. That group of people doesn't seem to be a big criminal gang. They are just some idle vagrants in the outer circle." Gu Tongwan was not worried at all that they would continue to retaliate. After all, she had already guessed the instigator behind this incident, and it was the same as she had thought before. When the masked man heard Zhou Xiaojuan's name, his reaction was obviously different, which showed that the masked man at least knew Zhou Xiaojuan. As for why he was unwilling to mention Zhou Xiaojuan, it might be related to the man who was on the run.

She no longer cared about the truth. Instead, she could sense that one of her blood vines was on someone else's body.

But it’s better this way. As long as the blood vines are on that person, he won’t have an easy life.

Thinking of this, a stone in his heart fell to the ground. A gust of wind blew in front, and Gu Tongwan couldn't help sneezing. The weather was getting colder and colder. It was even close to zero degrees at night. He was in a hurry to wear only a tweed coat when he went out, and now he was shivering with cold.

"Yan Fan, I have to go out tomorrow. I'd like to trouble you to take care of the store. There are four plastic baskets on the pickup truck filled with vegetables and fruits to be sold. I'd like to trouble you to organize the shelves when the time comes."

"Okay, Sister Wanwan, I've been bored these past two days." Yan Fan's lips curled up slightly, but soon he looked at the gloomy sky without any moonlight and said softly, "It may snow these two days."

"How do you know?" Gu Tongwan stopped and looked at him in surprise.

"I can feel the superpowers in my body are active." After saying this, Yan Fan was afraid that she didn't understand, so he added: "Anything related to your superpowers, including weather and objects, the higher the level of the superpower, the stronger the empathy you can generate. For example, I am an ice superpower, so I am more sensitive to ice, frost and snow. If I were a fire superpower, I might be more sensitive to extreme heat, fire and other places with fire. However, this is not 100% accurate. After all, everyone's situation is different. Another thing is that the superpower level must not only be high, but also purer, so that the direction you can perceive is clearer."

Gu Tongwan heard this kind of explanation for the first time, but he understood it quickly and said with a smile: "No wonder last time I saw the base announce the relevant conditions for the recruitment of major units. For firefighting positions, those with fire and water abilities are given priority, and for the geological survey unit, those with earth and metal abilities are given priority.

There are other different positions, but almost every position and unit will have corresponding conditions.

However, Gu Tongwan could not be said to be envious. He just thought how great it would be if he had another auxiliary ability in addition to the space-related abilities. It would also give him more confidence to have an attack-related ability in troubled times.

This thought only flashed through her mind. After all, one should not be too greedy. It was already a great fortune for her to have superpowers half a year earlier than others in this life. As for the ability to protect herself, she could only rely on herself to find a way to learn it.

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At the same time, the smoking man was in a panic and not only did he not continue to run towards the outer circle, but instead he went in the opposite direction.

At six o'clock in the morning, there was still no sign of the sky getting brighter. It was almost completely bright after 7:30 during this period of time, and the time for sunset was getting earlier and earlier, often before 5:30 it was already foggy and dark. Therefore, the patrolling guards had to advance the watch time again and again, from 7 o'clock to 6:30, and then to the current 6:10.

Because the smoking man was in a hurry, he only took a thick coat when he went out, but he was still wearing thin clothes inside, and his pants were just ordinary jeans.

By the early morning, the weather was getting colder and colder. The smoking man couldn't stand the cold anymore, so he took out a thick coat from his backpack and put it on. He then took two puffs of his cigarette under the eaves of a house and then headed towards a residential area ahead.

After walking for at least three hours, I finally arrived at the community at 6:15 in the morning.

Huarui Community is a mid-range community in the inner circle with relatively good infrastructure and supporting facilities. Most of the people living here are staff currently serving in some government agencies. They can also be considered as civil servants with a regular job or some people with small backgrounds.

Zhou Xiaojuan lives in Unit 3, Building 60, Huarui Community. Her house was allocated by her parents' unit. It is a typical two-bedroom, one-living room apartment with a total area of ​​ square meters, but it also has a small balcony. Looking from the house, the tallest building in the entire Huarui Community is on the west side, which is on the seventh floor. It is a large residential building with three bedrooms and one living room, and each unit is about square meters. Another type of apartment is Zhou Xiaojuan's two-bedroom, one-living room apartment, which is a compact apartment with an area of ​​ to square meters, and the highest floor is on the fifth floor. All the apartments in the community are designed with four households per elevator, and the privacy is much better than that in the community where Liao Yunyun lives.

This was not the first time that the smoking man came to Zhou Xiaojuan's community. He had come once before when he sent Zhou Xiaojuan home. At that time, he only sent Zhou Xiaojuan to the apartment building and did not go up because Zhou Xiaojuan said that her family had strict discipline and she could not bring boys home before their relationship was made clear. The smoking man did not find it strange at the time, but later, every time he offered to send her home, Zhou Xiaojuan would always refuse for various reasons. This made the smoking man gradually realize that something was wrong. Later, he heard that Zhou Xiaojuan's family was arranging a blind date for her at that time, and during that time, there were always different "cousins" around her who called her. Because of that incident, the two broke up for a few months, and only got back together in the first half of the year.

Zhou Xiaojuan yawned while sitting on the bed. She had slept for two or three hours in a daze last night and received a wrong call in the morning. Therefore, she was still sleepy. Although she wanted to continue sleeping, her empty stomach kept reminding her that she had to eat in order to sleep more soundly.

In the living room, Zhou Xiaojuan felt like a cat with its fur standing on end because of the cold wind blowing in from outside. She immediately ran back to her room to put on a sweater, then went to the living room in slippers to pour a cup of hot water.

"What the hell is this weather? It's getting colder and colder. Is it really going to be an extreme cold?" Zhou Xiaojuan complained, but she was not at all panicked about the fact that the extreme cold was coming. The family had already prepared several hundred kilograms of charcoal, plus an electric heater given by relatives. The air conditioner at home also has both cooling and heating functions. Last week, the family also bought a lot of bedding sets for winter. She even pestered her parents to buy her many new coats, so there would be no problem keeping warm.

After yawning several times, Zhou Xiaojuan glanced at the dark sky outside the balcony, and then looked at the closed door of her parents' room.

It was absolutely impossible to ask her parents to get up and make breakfast for her at this moment, but she did remember that the snack bar downstairs opened at six o'clock every day. It was more than a hundred meters away from downstairs, which was an acceptable distance for her.

After making up his mind, he ran downstairs with a bag of garbage in one hand and the other hand in his pocket, hunching his neck.

Zhou Xiaojuan regretted going downstairs as soon as she went downstairs, because the sky outside was so dark that it made her feel uncomfortable. If there wasn't a street lamp below that could barely illuminate the surrounding area of ​​ten meters, she would not have been willing to go forward.

When Zhou Xiaojuan was hesitating whether to buy breakfast, she suddenly noticed a very long black shadow under the street light, and the black shadow seemed to be getting closer and closer to her.

Zhou Xiaojuan felt a tingling sensation on her scalp and turned around and ran away.

The dark shadow seemed to have already guessed her thoughts, so it followed her.

Zhou Xiaojuan could only hear her own basic breathing and footsteps, as well as the whistling of cold wind and other chaotic sounds beside her.

A brute force came from Zhou Xiaojuan's right shoulder, followed by the pain of bone compression that made Zhou Xiaojuan scream out.

But the voice was covered by a pair of cold big hands before it uttered only a single syllable. The hands were very thin but very powerful. Zhou Xiaojuan felt that she could hardly breathe. She subconsciously swung her hands backwards, but then her whole body was dragged backwards.

"Xiaojuan, it's me, don't shout, don't shout!"

The other person's voice and breathing were unstable, but the tone was very firm and rapid. Zhou Xiaojuan still recognized from the voice that it was the voice of the smoker.

After realizing that it was an acquaintance, Zhou Xiaojuan immediately rolled her eyes, then shook off the other person's hand. When she turned around and saw that it was indeed that familiar face, the expression on her face became extremely ugly.

"Are you crazy? You come to see me so early in the morning before dawn? Didn't I tell you not to come to my house before? My parents are not very satisfied with you. They will be angry if they see you with me!" After saying this, she saw the face of the smoking man opposite her fell, so she knew that what she said was a bit too harsh, and then her voice softened, "What I mean is that your job is not stable now, and you are definitely not a dating partner in my parents' minds. Before this, we should keep a low profile. And you don't want to embarrass me, right?"

After hearing the last two sentences, the smoker's expression looked a little better. He looked around and said, "I really had no choice but to come find you. I was in a hurry and forgot to bring my cell phone." When he went out, he only remembered to take his name card but forgot the most important means of communication.

"What do you want to talk to me about?" Zhou Xiaojuan asked with a frown.

The smoking man did not answer the question immediately, but turned his head to observe the surrounding situation. This action made Zhou Xiaojuan realize that something was unusual, and she began to wonder about the smoking man's real purpose.

"Let's find a place first. Is there any restaurant nearby? I haven't eaten since last night." The smoking man touched his pocket, looking a little embarrassed.

Zhou Xiaojuan's expression changed slightly, and she tried her best not to show that she disliked the other person.

"You come with me."

The two people came to a nearby snack bar, which mainly served breakfast and some steamed buns. Zhou Xiaojuan ordered a bowl of millet porridge and two meat buns for the smoking man, and she simply ordered a vegetable bun and soy milk for herself.

The smoking man was probably really hungry, as he ate everything in no time.

In fact, the taste of this snack bar in the community is not very good. The millet used in the millet porridge is also of relatively poor quality, and the steamed buns also have a sour taste. It is slightly better to eat them while hot. If they are cooled down, the steamed buns will be as hard as rocks. However, there are too few snack bars open during this period of time, and Zhou Xiaojuan can't be too picky.

"Boss, give me another meat bun and a bowl of porridge." The smoking man was obviously not full, so he asked the boss for more food.

Zhou Xiaojuan suddenly felt that the millet porridge she was eating was tasteless.

After finally eating, the smoker burped and looked a little more relaxed than before.

"We were discovered by the Security Bureau last night."

The smoking man said these words calmly, but to Zhou Xiaojuan they sounded like thunder in her ears.

"You went to the fruit and vegetable store again last night? So you are wanted now, right?"

The smoking man curled his lips but did not deny it.

"Are you crazy?" Zhou Xiaojuan stood up suddenly, then thought of something, turned her head and walked out, whispering: "The fact that you came to see me today never happened.