Chapter 39
As Wen Xin and his companions entered the city’s access gate, they could clearly see that there were fewer zombies on both sides of the road.
By the time we reached the checkpoint, there was no sign of zombies at all. There were only reconnaissance teams in neat uniforms patrolling the various passages and possible hiding places.
A little further away from them, Wen Xin saw a high wall.
The wall was surrounded by electric fences and spikes, and at regular intervals on the top of the wall there were men standing guard with guns, which showed that the defense was tight.
There were two passages under the wall, one in and one out, with long queues forming in and out of them.
The man with a crew cut turned on the indicator light, changed lanes, and lined up directly behind the vehicles entering the city.
He turned around and said to everyone, “It’s almost safe now. At this speed, we’ll probably have to wait for another three hours. If you’re tired, you can take a nap now.”
Perhaps it was the sense of security brought by arriving at a familiar place that caused everyone else in the car to involuntarily reveal their tiredness, relax their bodies and lean back in their seats.
The back seat was also peaceful and quiet. Wen Xin was helping the purple squirrel pack its small bag.
Half an hour ago, the crew-haired guy and his men mentioned unintentionally that the number of mutants has been increasing recently, and their destructive power is no less than that of the zombie virus, which spreads very quickly, so all bases are paying close attention to prevention.
Therefore, when a vehicle enters the city, in addition to checking whether people are carrying the zombie virus, they will also check whether there are mutants mixed in the car.
Upon hearing the news, the purple squirrel immediately became alert.
Unless you are a mutant like a chameleon that is naturally good at camouflage, or have sufficient understanding of the object you want to mimic, it is actually very easy to expose some small problems when you mimic it.
For example, the scaly tree viper and the blue walrus cannot change their original color even if they mimic a cat.
From a normal person’s perspective, it would be somewhat weird.
Now that they no longer have the little fox to help them tamper with outsiders’ perceptions, in order not to reveal their identities and to avoid causing trouble for the human youths, the purple squirrels decided to leave a day early.
Braided rope, pre-made knots, wet wipes, detergent…
Wen Xin packed these things for Zi Tuanzi one by one.
He drooped his eyelashes and was about to say something when a beautiful small cloth bag was held high in front of him.
It is about the size of a palm, with a warm apricot color on the outside, a colorful flower sewn in the middle, and fresh green leaves as embellishment.
The purple ball raised its paw and looked at him expectantly: “Squeak.”
Wen Xin was slightly stunned.
When he woke up in the town, he saw Zituanzi sewing this cloth bag.
Because I had only learned how to weave knots before and had never learned sewing, it was a bit difficult for me to knit the little balls.
Several times, Wen Xin saw Zituanzi violently tear apart a half-sewn cloth bag because he was dissatisfied, and he slammed it aside with a squeak.
But within two seconds, the little ball would slowly walk over, pick it up, and continue weaving.
Wen Xin knew that Zituanzi had put in a lot of patience for this cloth bag, so he asked in a low voice: “Can you give me such an important thing?”
Zituan squeaked several times and then patted Wen Xin’s pocket.
Wen Xin understood and took out the souvenirs left by other Tuanzi from his pocket. Then he looked at the size of the cloth bag and found that it was just the right size to hold these souvenirs.
Seeing that Wen Xin discovered the wonderful use of the cloth bag, Zituanzi raised it higher.
That impatient look seemed to be saying: It was originally knitted for you.
Wen Xin opened his mouth, unable not to be moved.
But before his sadness was about to show up, the little squirrel suddenly jumped up on the spot and slapped his forehead with its paw.
Wen Xin was feeling uncomfortable, but this sudden attack immediately dispelled all the feelings.
He covered his forehead, and before he could say anything, the purple squirrel’s long tail rubbed the place where he was slapped.
Even though it knew it hadn’t used much force, it was still afraid of hurting the young man.
His forehead was brushed by the soft fur, and when he met the little squirrel’s serious eyes, Wen Xin felt relieved a lot in an instant.
He smiled and said, “Okay, I’m not sad.”
Afterwards, Wen Xin put these souvenirs, including a tuft of hair that Zituanzi had temporarily pulled out, into a cloth bag and then put it back into his pocket safely.
Seeing this, Zi Tuan couldn’t help but jump into Wen Xin’s arms, rubbing from his arm all the way to his thigh.
Wen Xin knew that it was very happy, so he let it jump up and down beside him, and his eyes became softer.
After Zituanzi calmed down a little, he held out his hand and said, “It’s a deal. We will definitely meet again in the future. No one is allowed to regret it.”
The purple squirrel responded and high-fived him: “Squeak!”
It’s a deal!
The vehicles in the queue were still anxiously waiting to be cleared to pass, and no one noticed that a car in the middle opened a small gap, and a small purple figure jumped out from it.
The small figure moved agilely and at an extremely fast speed, using the crowded traffic as cover. Soon, it disappeared on the straight road.
Wen Xin was slow to take his eyes off the rear window of the car.
It took so long that Xu Qiang next to him couldn’t help but turn his head and look back: “What happened? You kept looking back.”
Wen Xin shook his head.
Seeing that Xu Qiang and others showed no surprise or confusion at the decrease in the number of dumplings, he naturally couldn’t tell them what had just happened.
Wen Xin withdrew his gaze, reached into the cloth bag in his pocket, and felt the touch of various objects through the fabric.
After touching it for a while, he couldn’t help but look at the black mass beside him.
Heituan did not show any reaction to Zituanzi’s departure. He lay on the seat next to Wen Xin with his eyes closed, as if he was sleeping.
Wen Xin knew that Heituan was not asleep at all.
I don’t know if it’s because he’s leaving and he doesn’t want to add to his sadness, but these days Heituan rarely gets close to him and behaves very coldly.
But when he turned his head inadvertently, he could always see a small black ball either perched on a high place or standing at a corner, staring at him quietly.
Question: What weird habits does your cat have?
Answer: He always likes to hide in the corner and observe secretly, and pretends nothing happened when he is discovered.
Wen Xin called out tentatively: “Xiao Hei, are you awake?”
The black group didn’t respond.
But he couldn’t help but lift the tip of his tail.
Wen Xin: “…”
Exactly the same.
He kept silent and just stared at the black ball.
But no matter how long Wen Xin stared at it, the black ball remained motionless, like an emotionless stone.
Until the young man softened his voice and asked it a little aggrievedly: “You are leaving soon, why don’t you let me stay close to you for a while?”
The black ball’s tail trembled immediately.
The two sides stared at each other and lay down in silence.
After a long while, Heituan couldn’t stand the other party’s increasingly passionate gaze and stood up slowly.
Under the young man’s expectant gaze, she snuggled into his open arms.
Wen Xin immediately curved his eyes: “Xiao Hei is so nice.”
The voice came right next to Heituan’s ear.
Gentle and clear, with a hint of sly smile at the end, it sprayed out along with the young man’s hot breath.
Hei Tuanzi’s ears moved quickly as if they were burned. Then, realizing that something was wrong, he quickly lowered his head to cover it up.
Fortunately, the young man was immersed in the satisfaction of holding his cat again and did not notice the inconspicuous abnormality of the black ball.
A few hours passed quickly.
The inspection was slow at the beginning because in addition to checking whether there were wounds left by zombies on the body, the identity information of passers-by had to be checked.
When it was Wen Xin and his friends’ turn to go through security check, the man with the crew cut happened to know one of the people, and they knew each other well, which saved them this troublesome process.
But without the little fox as cover, the black group’s presence was inevitably a bit conspicuous.
Wen Xin was stopped while holding the black ball. No matter what he was thinking at that moment, his face showed sufficient calmness.
“Can’t you bring your pet into town?”
The young man’s brows were relaxed, and his pleasing face looked particularly soft, which made the security personnel involuntarily think of their own children at home.
His tone softened a bit, “That’s not the case, but we need to do a routine checkup.”
A routine checkup involves feeling the cat all over its body to see if there are any wounds or visible signs of a variant.
Wen Xin was with him throughout the whole process.
After the security officer confirmed that there was no problem, his heart, which had been in his throat, finally settled down.
But at this moment, the security personnel suddenly took out a knife and stabbed it straight at the black group!
Wen Xin was sweating profusely, and reflexively grabbed his wrist, and shouted: “What are you doing?!”
The security personnel expected the pet owner to behave aggressively, but they did not expect the young man to react so quickly.
The knife in his hand was pulled away, and he almost cut himself. He said embarrassedly: “This is just part of the inspection. It won’t hurt your cat. Calm down, calm down!”
The crew cut guy and the others also noticed the commotion here and walked over with a serious look on their faces: “What’s going on?”
Fearing that this might cause misunderstanding, the security personnel hurried to explain.
It turns out that with the rampage of zombies, it is rare to see ordinary cats and dogs now, and there are only a handful of people who would keep pets with them.
So much so that Wen Xin, who was holding the black ball, caught their attention at first sight.
According to the information they received, some very cunning mutants would disguise themselves as small animals and attack humans by using their soft, cute and harmless image.
Also, because mutants’ disguises are generally not very stable, they are easily affected by emotions such as fright.
So, they came up with a way to stimulate the mutants to appear.
The security officer said in a heavy tone: “We are sorry for this sudden incident, but for the safety of the entire city, we have to be cautious.”
“Perhaps you don’t know yet, but a particularly terrifying tiger mutant appeared near the First Base, and all the hundreds of survivors who hadn’t had time to enter the city were killed.”
His voice was trembling and unstable. “That mutant was cruel. The victims were disemboweled. Not even a complete body was left.”
Everyone looked stern when they heard this.
The performance of the black group was considered acceptable.
It lay on the platform with an expressionless face, its eyes looking at a monkey.
The security officer, feeling inexplicably disdained, rubbed his nose and said, “Your cat is quite courageous, hahahaha…”
As he said this, he couldn’t help but look at Wen Xin a few more times.
When the young man got anxious just now, a threatening look flashed in his eyes, which reminded him of a big shot in the base for some reason, and made him feel a little scared.
But the security personnel really couldn’t remember who the big shot was.
Wen Xin hugged Hei Tuan in his arms. His mind was filled with the scene of the security personnel stabbing Tuanzi with a knife. His hands were still shaking.
When Hei Tuan looked at him worriedly, he quickly calmed down and patted Hei Tuan’s head soothingly.
The man with the crew cut waved his hand at the agitated Xu Qiang and asked, “Can you please help us contact Lieutenant Li Yongming?”
Upon hearing the name, the security personnel stood in awe and quickly said, “Please follow me.”
Wen Xin, whose mood had just calmed down, was attracted by these words again.
After being away from home for so many years… am I finally going to meet Wen Jinfeng?
