RITAAB 82.1

Chapter 82 【o(￣︶￣)o】PART 1

Xia Liansheng nodded. “Yes, now it’s been snatched by Liu Zhongyuan while I was vulnerable. Initially, it was because I was trapped near the city center when the apocalypse first hit and couldn’t go to find Jiu Lin. But I didn’t expect that when I met him again, he was already with Liu Zhongyuan.”

Only then did Yuan Zhuo remember who the man was who had spoken to Liu Zhongyuan about the mission. No wonder he looked familiar. It turned out to be the unfavored eldest son of the Qin family!

Speaking of which, Liu Zhongyuan and Qin Jiulin were quite a match. Both were abandoned people, but both were lucky enough to awaken as Variant beastmen.

Eh? Wait! The one who led them earlier seemed a bit familiar too. He seemed to be from the Qin family as well? The younger son, right? That kid seemed alright.

Yuan Zhuo: “Mr. Xia, I wonder if you could do me a small favor?”

Xia Liansheng: “What favor?”

Yuan Zhuo: “Could you let us in? We want to meet with Liu Zhongyuan and have a good chat later.”

Xia Liansheng: “…I’m sorry, apart from military personnel and beastmen, even family members aren’t allowed inside this residential area. These are the rules set by the military, and there’s nothing I can do.”

Yuan Zhuo: “Then what should we do…”

Xia Liansheng: “You can continue to wait outside. I just heard that Liu Zhongyuan took Qin Jiulin to the outer perimeter to clear out scattered semi-beastmen. They should be back in an hour or two. You won’t have to wait too long.”

Yuan Zhuo nodded. “In that case, thank you very much, Mr. Xia.”

One or two hours… Was it one hour or two hours? They felt that even one hour was long enough, but their situation was different now. Waiting here was fine.

Shortly after Xia Liansheng left, the family of four finally felt a sense of crisis. Before, it was because they hadn’t reacted for a moment. After all, the impression Liu Zhongyuan had left on them was too deep.

It was understandable that they couldn’t change their previous condescending and dismissive attitude towards him for a while. Now, as they calmed down and waited, they truly began to reflect on what had happened.

When they saw Liu Zhongyuan just now, his attitude towards them didn’t seem very good. Although he didn’t look at them and didn’t speak to them, his mere act of ignoring them felt wrong.

Yuan Qingfeng rubbed his arms. “Mom, Dad, are you sure it’s okay? He doesn’t seem to be afraid of us at all now. What if he just attacks us?”

Jiang Meng gently stroked his hair. “It’s okay. We are his biological parents. He can’t possibly attack us. I gave him this life, and so did your father. If he doesn’t care about us, everyone will point fingers at him, making it impossible for him to stay here.”

Would that really work? Yuan Qingfeng felt something was wrong, but he couldn’t figure it out, so he simply stopped talking. He had a feeling things weren’t that simple.

Yuan Qingning: “Alright, Afeng, what are you worried about? With Mom and Dad here, we don’t need to do anything. Just wait and see. What tricks can he play in front of Mom and Dad? In the end, won’t he still have to obediently listen?”

“Right, it doesn’t matter if we can’t live here. We need a big house anyway, preferably a main villa. If possible, we should be able to get our own house back, right?”

Yuan Zhuo took a deep breath. “Variant beastmen… These Variant beastmen are so powerful and have such high status, getting a few houses should be easy, right? We’ll talk to him later.”

However, they waited there for a long time, until the sky gradually darkened, without seeing Liu Zhongyuan. This made them feel something was amiss.

Yuan Qingfeng: “Didn’t they say we’d see him in an hour or two? It’s almost dark and he’s still not back. Did that Xia guy lie to us?”

Yuan Zhuo: “Impossible…”

Jiang Meng suddenly thought of something. “Oh dear, this residential area might have more than one gate!”

Only then did Yuan Zhuo and the others think of this. Yes, how could a residential area only have one gate? They must have returned through another gate.

What should they do now? Continue to stay here? Or go to the free accommodation first? Could they even rest in a place like that? They found it disgusting just looking at it.

Even during the past few months when they were on the run, they had never lived in such a dirty place. Of course, they slept in the car, which was clean and relatively safe.

But their car completely broke down when they drove near here. Apart from carrying the remaining supplies and walking here, they had nothing left.

Yuan Zhuo: “Let’s forget about it today. It seems we can’t wait for him. Let’s go first and come back tomorrow.”

Jiang Meng: “Husband… Do we have to sleep in a place like that today? I really can’t even bring myself to enter that room. The smell inside is too strong, it makes me dizzy!”

Yuan Zhuo patted her shoulder. “Just bear with it, it’s only for one night. It’ll be fine.”

Actually, after staying there for a few days, they could be assigned to a separate house. After all, many residential areas and streets at the front had been cleared out, and some apartments and houses were ready for use.

It’s just that there was still some debris in the corners of the streets that hadn’t been cleaned up, and they were working hard to find people to clean it up. If they had stayed in the temporary accommodation during the day, many people would gossip, and they could roughly understand the current situation of this place. However, they were so disgusted by that place, they didn’t even want to get close to the people there, let alone inquire about information from them.

Little did they know that in such a place, the people at the bottom knew the most, and it was where information circulated the fastest. If they had stayed there for a while, they would have known what kind of people Liu Zhongyuan and Qin Jiulin were.

They were indifferent to people and things, and extremely ruthless when dealing with semi-beastmen, often biting off their heads or smashing them into pulp with their tails. It was a common occurrence.

If Yuan Zhuo and his family had known how ferocious these two were, they might have had some reservations about coming to find them.

Just as they were about to go back, Liu Zhongyuan and Qin Jiulin came from the direction they were going. Yuan Qingfeng’s eyes lit up. “They’re here!”

They didn’t expect them to come back so late. Fortunately, they didn’t enter the residential area from another gate; otherwise, they wouldn’t have seen them today.

In fact, Liu Zhongyuan and Qin Jiulin had seen these people from afar, but they didn’t take them to heart, so there was no need to deliberately avoid them.

Qin Jiulin sighed softly. “It looks like they’re going to stop us.”

Liu Zhongyuan: “Ignore them.”

Qin Jiulin: “They look very aggressive, and I didn’t even know that the Yuan family had such a relationship with you. This Yuan family… In the past, they were a wealthy and influential family that I couldn’t even dream of reaching.”

Liu Zhongyuan sneered. “So what? Now they’re the ones who can’t reach us!”

Qin Jiulin smiled. “That’s true.”

As soon as he finished speaking, Yuan Zhuo and his family walked up to them, and the two of them stopped in their tracks.

Yuan Zhuo: “Liu Zhongyuan, it’s not too late yet. The house you prepared for us should be ready, right?”

Before Liu Zhongyuan could speak, Yuan Zhuo looked at Qin Jiulin behind him and said, “You’re the eldest son of the Qin family, right? I heard your family is here too. You must have taken good care of them, right? Unlike our useless son, you know how to be filial to your elders.”

Since they had seen Qin Jiuzhen earlier, the rest of the Qin family must be here too. Qin Jiuzhen even kindly led them to this residential area, which meant that Qin Jiulin must be taking care of them.

Compared to him, Liu Zhongyuan was too much. He ignored them and left earlier. What a jerk! But if he could arrange everything for them now, they could forgive him a little.

Qin Jiulin blinked. “I don’t know what you’re talking about.”

Yuan Zhuo was stunned. “What? We saw your younger brother earlier, didn’t you…?”

Qin Jiulin: “Oh, you mean that Qin Jiuzhen who flirted with Xia Liansheng even though he knew Xia Liansheng was involved with me? They’re a perfect match. Anyway, someone who cheats before they’re even officially together has nothing to do with me. Don’t talk nonsense.”

Yuan Zhuo was a bit dumbfounded. Xia Liansheng had said that Liu Zhongyuan stole his boyfriend, but Qin Jiulin said that Xia Liansheng was ambiguous with him while being involved with his younger brother. So, who was telling the truth?

Of course, they were more inclined to believe Xia Liansheng and Qin Jiuzhen, since they had helped them, while these two in front of them were likely lying to excuse themselves.

After speaking, Qin Jiulin felt a little awkward. Why did he say so much to these irrelevant people? Wouldn’t it be better to just ignore them?

Jiang Meng, perhaps realizing they were about to leave, hurried forward and grabbed Liu Zhongyuan’s arm tightly. However, her tone was gentle, probably trained, so that no matter how agitated her emotions were, they wouldn’t affect her image. “Is everything ready?”

“We’ve given you so much time, haven’t you taken care of this small matter yet? Aren’t you the captain now? And a Variant beastman, with such a high status, can’t you handle this small matter?”

“Forget it, why don’t you just inform them and have someone take us there? It shouldn’t be so troublesome.”

Liu Zhongyuan wanted to pull his arm back, but Jiang Meng held on tight. If Liu Zhongyuan wasn’t so tough now, he might have been scratched by her long, untrimmed nails.

Qin Jiulin saw Jiang Meng grabbing his arm and talking at the same time. He wasn’t sure if it was intentional, but her nails were digging into Liu Zhongyuan’s arm.

He frowned slightly and reached out, slapping her hand away with a pa.