Burning Heart[ABO]

Early the next morning, after breakfast and going out, Ye Huaining said that he wanted to borrow a car first.

Ji Rao reminded him: "We won't leave here until the day after tomorrow, and there is still time to rent a car tomorrow."

Ye Huaining said, "I'm going to the north of the city, and I need a car now."

"What are you going to the north of the city for?"

The law and order in the northern part of the city was relatively chaotic, Ji Rao had done his homework before coming, and there was nothing interesting there, so he didn't think it was necessary to rent a car to go there.

Ye Huaining didn't want to explain, so he went to the service desk of the hotel to find out where he could rent a car.

Hearing that the deposit can cover the price of a second-hand car, and it would be troublesome to pay back after renting the car, Ye Huaining changed his mind and decided to simply buy a second-hand car.

So I went to the used car market.

Ji Rao asked him several times: "Huai Ning, what do you want to do in the north of the city?"

Ye Huaining ignored them, he took a fancy to a second-hand off-road vehicle with a decent brand, got into the car and tried it out.Ji Rao glanced at it, and directly rejected him: "This car is not good, the waistline of the body is bent, and there are signs of fracture here. It looks like it was completely deformed by the impact and then restored. It can't be used. Look at something else."

Ye Huaining looked at the details of his fingers, and finally curled his lips: "You choose."

Ji Rao had no choice but to roll up his sleeves and go into battle.

After spending a lot of time choosing and choosing, and carefully checking everything that should be checked, he chose a modified off-road vehicle that looked ordinary on the outside, but had a pretty good performance: "Just this one, drive It is very smooth, the chassis is higher and the desert road is easier to walk, I have checked everything, and there is no major problem.”

Ye Huaining didn't ask any further questions, and paid directly by credit card.

After the car drove out of the second-hand market, Ye Huaining still insisted on going to the north of the city.

Ji Rao turned the steering wheel helplessly: "You want to go there, at least tell me a reason?"

"There is an underground gland trading base over there, I want to go and see."

Ji Rao slammed on the brakes and turned to look at Ye Huaining.

Ye Huaining said expressionlessly, "What are you doing in such a surprise?"

Ji Rao frowned: "...Are you sure?"

"I'm sure. It's not hard to find out the group who captured Zhenia. They have appeared in the area around the base several times. They are all from here. The old den is here."

Ji Rao hesitated and asked, "Is it related to Ye Huai'an's organization?"

"Yes, someone has seen people with Chinese faces appearing in their stronghold. Ye Huaian's organization has almost monopolized the domestic underground market. It must have something to do with him." Ye Huaining said with certainty.

Ji Rao reminded him: "It's just the two of us, without any preparation, just go through like this?"

Ye Huaining said coldly: "I don't want to startle the snake, go over and have a look first, I won't contact them, if you are afraid, get out of the car and I will go alone."

Ji Rao shook his head, stepped on the accelerator and started the car directly.

He had nothing to be afraid of, he was worried that Ye Huaining's going would really scare the snake away.

But he knew he couldn't persuade Ye Huaining.

An hour and a half later they reached their destination.

The north side of the city is the slums of the city. The more you go to the suburbs, you can only see filth and chaos. There are dilapidated houses standing randomly on both sides of the road, and the sunlight can't even shine in. At first glance, they look like strange-shaped houses. The black hole, ready to devour everything at any time.

Occasionally someone passed by, or they looked numb, or stared at their car with a gloomy expression, Ji Rao stepped up the gas pedal, not daring to stop.

Ye Huaining stared at the map on the phone all the way, and suddenly said: "Here we are."

Ji Rao drove another 200 meters, and what appeared in front of them was a two-story building with a yard. The gray and white exterior walls were mottled, and the windows were all drawn with thick curtains, making it difficult to see the situation inside.

Ji Rao drove the car straight over, and parked under an inconspicuous riverside tree a few hundred meters away, using the green shade to cover up his whereabouts a little, Ye Huaining had already picked up the binoculars, staring at the unremarkable building in Ji Rao's eyes floor to see.

Ji Rao bent forward and looked through the front window for a while, but he didn't see anything different.

Half an hour later, Ye Huaining gradually became sullen.

"Why don't I get out of the car and go take a look," Ji Rao said, "It's been so long, I haven't seen a single ghost, and God knows if there are still people inside."

As he said, he went to push the car door, Ye Huaining stopped him: "Are you really going?"

"Come in the driver's seat and wait for me here. Start the car first. If something goes wrong, I'll get back in the car and we'll leave." Ji Rao reminded him.

Ye Huaining lightly pursed the corners of his lips: "... Hurry up and come back."

Ji Rao smiled, nodded, and got out of the car.

For 5 minutes, he stood outside the iron gate of the yard, raised his eyes and looked around for a while, and pushed the door lightly, and the rusty iron chain fell to the ground.

Ye Huaining waited in the car for 10 minutes, when Ji Rao came back, got in the car and frowned and said to him: "We are late, the building is already empty, everything has been emptied, I took a few photos, you have a look."

Ye Huaining took his phone with a sullen face, and quickly flipped through a few pages. The rooms inside the building were indeed empty, only some broken copper and iron, and a small amount of used things that looked like medical equipment.

They had found the right place, but they were late.

After a while of silence, Ye Huaining closed his eyes: "Forget it, let's go."

Ji Rao knew that he was probably in a bad mood: "Change the seat, let me drive."

Ye Huaining glanced at him, and Ji Rao smiled: "The steering wheel of this car is heavy, and it's hard for you to swing your hands."

Ye Huaining didn't have the energy to argue about this, so he got out of the car and changed seats with him.

As the car drove back, Ye Huaining leaned back in the seat, quietly looked out the window, and suddenly whispered, "Ye Huai'an may already know that I'm here."

It happened that they came here, and the place was cleared first, and he couldn't convince himself that it was a coincidence.

He rescued the little girl named Zhenia, and donated tens of millions to the organization without borders. He did not act low-key. Ye Huai'an should have received rumors before, but it was a pity that he had just a little clue, and it was cut off like this.

"There will be a turning point, take your time." Ji Rao comforted him.

Ye Huaining smiled ironically, closed his eyes, and didn't want to say any more.

It was already noon when we returned to the urban area, Ji Rao stopped at the entrance of a restaurant and woke up Ye Huaining who was already asleep: "It's noon, get out of the car and have something to eat."

Ye Huaining let out a soft "huh", Ji Rao's hand stretched out to touch his forehead, the temperature was normal.

Ye Huaining was a little confused: "What time is it?"

"12:30, sleepy after dinner, go back to the hotel and sleep, eat first."

Sitting in the dining room and drinking half a glass of lemonade that came first, Ye Huaining was finally fully awake. Ji Rao was still looking at the map and asked him if he wanted to go somewhere in the afternoon. .”

Ji Rao paused for a while as he flipped through the map: "Leave today?"

"It's not very interesting here, the city scenery is the same everywhere."

"That's fine. We'll go back to the hotel to pick up our luggage and check out after dinner, but we need to prepare something before we leave. We'll go to the supermarket first."

Ye Huaining originally thought that there was nothing to buy, but seeing that Ji Rao moved two boxes of mineral water as soon as he entered the supermarket, he bought a bunch of vacuum-packed cooked food, biscuits, and bread, and then went shopping for various items that might be used in the wild. I bought a lot of tools, equipment, and even medicine, Ye Huaining stopped talking, in terms of life skills, he was almost equal to zero, it is indeed much better to have a company by his side.

"You can buy some snacks if you want. The trunk of our car is big enough to store a lot of things." Ji Rao reminded him.

Ye Huaining took two pieces of chocolate, looked around, but was not interested in anything.

Ji Rao helped him get a few more dollars: "If you want to eat, you can get more. If you want to buy it in the desert, you won't have to sell it."

Ye Huaining ignored him.

When the checkout came out, Ji Rao saw the claw machine at the entrance of the supermarket, and pouted at Ye Huaining: "I'll clip a doll for you, do you want it?"

Ye Huaining glanced at it, not interested.

Ji Rao pushed the shopping cart with one hand, and took his arm with the other, dragging him over in a hurry.

Before Ye Huaining had time to say anything, Ji Rao had already dragged him to the claw machine. Ji Rao asked him to choose: "Which one do you want? You can choose."

Ye Huaining silently stared at the pool of dolls in front of him, not thinking too much.

At the beginning, he wanted to play this, so he asked Ji Rao to catch him. This person was impatient, but now he didn't want to play, this person insisted on doing it. This kind of compensation is actually meaningless to him.

But he was too lazy to say it.

Ye Huaining raised his chin, and his eyes fell on the big doll in the innermost corner: "That's the only one, if you can't pinch it, forget it."

Ji Rao was eager to try, took a large banknote and went to someone to exchange a bunch of coins, and said to Ye Huaining: "Look, I'm sure I can get it out for you."

Ye Huaining turned his head to the side, with an expression of indifference.

With nimble fingers, Ji Rao manipulated the lever quickly, and pulled out the dolls one by one, but none of them were the one Ye Huaining wanted.

The big doll was big and heavy, so it was hard to hang it up, but the clips flicked and fell down again. After several attempts, it was almost impossible.

The exchanged coins were all used up soon, Ye Huaining said indifferently: "If you can't hold it down, don't waste any more money."

Ji Rao refused: "No, I must pinch it out, don't worry."

Ye Huaining rolled his eyes at him: "Then take your time here, I'll go back to the car first."

Ji Rao turned around and ran to exchange money.

Ye Huaining went back to the parking lot first.

Sitting in the car, he fumbled for a cigarette out of boredom and lit it. The mood of being bored all day slowly dissipated with the eye circles he spit out. He was playing with the car keys in his hand. After driving away, the people inside came out and found that he was gone, what would be their expressions?

Probably going crazy again.

Thinking of this, I laughed first, and then felt really boring after laughing.

Fifteen minutes later, when Ye Huaining was about to light a second cigarette, Ji Rao finally came out with the shopping cart, and the big baby Ye Huaining asked for was also inside.

"Huai Ning, you secretly smoked again."

Ji Rao stuffed the things he bought into the trunk, sat in the driver's seat, and handed the doll to Ye Huaining.

Ye Huaining didn't answer, and asked him, "How much did you spend to get this doll?"

Ji Rao said a number casually, far exceeding the value of the doll itself.

Ye Huaining sneered, laughing at the fool in front of him.

Ji Rao didn't take it seriously: "Here you are."

Ye Huaining's eyes fell on the doll, Ji Rao sent it forward again, and he finally took it.

Ji Rao turned on the map navigation on his mobile phone and took a rough look at the route. He had to drive another [-] kilometers to the south to reach the edge of the desert. After replenishing gasoline there, he took the desert road. Although it was a road, it was not smooth, and many areas had been covered by sandstorms. , I have to take a detour, and I don’t know how many days it will take to go all the way, and there are many dangers.

He didn't want to take this trip before, but forget it, there are almost no places where there is no real danger here, they just need to be careful, otherwise this trip is not very interesting.

Click on the navigation, put the phone on the shelf, Ji Rao turned his head to look, Ye Huaining is pillowing on the doll he brought back, tilting his head in the chair and fell asleep again.

He stretched out his hand to scratch his nose, but didn't wake him up, Ji Rao sat up straight with a smile and started the car.