The next second the eyes met, the child's eyes narrowed slightly. Ning Chengyou sensed something was wrong, and immediately pulled the blanket, wrapping the child together with the blanket and hugging him.In the next second, the child who was almost able to jump was held down by him.

It is still very simple for an adult to control a child.The hands and feet were restrained, the child's chest was heaving and unsteady, and his eyes were also fierce, struggling unceasingly, trying to escape from his confinement.The cat also arched its waist abruptly, making a whining sound in its throat, as if it was about to pounce on it in the next second.

"Ho... ho...!" The child opened his mouth, but only made a sound of breath.

There was a lot of movement, and other people were called over. Yan Jian and Zhang Bei both touched the guns at their waists vigilantly. Qin Yan picked up the cat with one hand and stood silently beside the other two.

"shush"

Ning Chengyou shook his head at them, signaling not to move for now, so as not to irritate the children.

He observed that the child's body temperature is still high, and the fever has not subsided, but there is no sign of zombification. Obviously, it is just a stress reaction after suddenly finding himself in a strange environment. At this time, the threat of violence will only have the opposite effect, and a soft voice is needed. Appeasement can make people relax.It was a method of reassuring frightened Sentinels that he had learned in his early days as a guide.Although it is just a child in front of me, the method of comfort is always the same.

"Don't move, kid, we're not bad people," Ning Chengyou tried to make his voice sound gentle, filled with a little soothing spirit, while holding the child and not relaxing, he explained, "You have suffered a lot of injuries, I just gave you medicine, if you struggle again, the wound will open."

He hasn't had much contact with children of this age, let alone in this situation, he can't figure out the thinking and behavior patterns of the other party, and he doesn't know how long the other party has stayed in this empty city, and how he survived the siege of zombies. Up to now, I don't know how much these things have hurt him, so I can only use my own method to express my kindness to the greatest extent, hoping that the child can feel it.

"Little friend, there are no more... monsters here." Not sure what the image of a zombie would be in the eyes of a child, Ning Chengyou picked up the most easy-to-understand name, and at the same time connected his fingertips with soothing spiritual power, gently patted Holding the child's back, he said, "We have already beaten all the monsters away, don't be afraid...don't be afraid..."

I don't know if the consolation really worked, but slowly, the child in my arms really calmed down.

Feeling the disappearance of the resistance, Ning Chengyou did not rush to let go of the other party, but continued to comfort him for a while, and did not let go of the other party until the child's breathing calmed down.

But he didn't completely relax his vigilance, instead, he sneaked out his mental tentacles and put them on the child's hands and feet, to guard against any abnormalities in the other party.

When he was ready, he straightened up and looked at the child in his arms.

Having struggled violently just now and having a high fever, the child's face is very red now, and his forehead is covered with sweat. He seems to be at the end of his battle, but his eyes are still very sharp, staring at Ning Chengyou's face from beginning to end.

But since it is no longer struggling, it represents a good sign.

Ning Chengyou tried to communicate with him: "Little friend, can you understand what I said?"

The child looked at him steadily.

"Could it be that he doesn't understand?" Cheng Yue looked at it for a long time, and tentatively said, "Judging from his appearance, he should belong to a Westerner. Do you want to communicate in English?"

Ning Chengyou thought about it and felt that it made sense, so he repeated his words in English.

The child still didn't respond.

He had no choice but to bite the bullet and continue, gesticulating while speaking, pointing to his face: "Look, I'm a human being."

"You have suffered a lot of injuries. I just helped you deal with them. Now there is no danger."

"We're here to help you, please, don't be afraid."

"Don't be afraid, as long as we are here, no monster will hurt you again."

Ning Chengyou fully expressed his thoughts to the child in two languages. After speaking, he took a deep breath and tried to put on the kindest smile in his life. He tried his best to beautify his image in the eyes of the child, trying to gain the trust of the other party.

The kid seemed to be listening carefully, at least while he was talking, and didn't struggle to escape.

After a while, when Ning Chengyou felt that his face was going to freeze from laughter, the child finally responded.

"I..."*

The child opened his mouth, as if he wanted to speak, but Ning Chengyou hurriedly listened to it, only to hear a single letter, accompanied by an extremely hoarse voice, the child started coughing as soon as he uttered a word.

"Don't worry," Ning Chengyou patted his chest for him, and brought over the water that was just boiled and now almost cold, "Drink some water first."

The child glanced at him and closed his mouth.

Ning Chengyou saw a hint of vigilance in the eyes of such an older child, and couldn't help laughing: "Afraid there is a problem with the water?"

The child glanced at the water, then back to him.

"Let me have a sip first?" Ning Chengyou was quite speechless, "I didn't realize that you are so young, so you are quite wary. Okay, let me take a sip first and show you."

Before he finished speaking, he really took a sip, and after swallowing, passed the water to the child's mouth again: "Can you rest assured now?"

The child observed his expression, rolled his Adam's apple quickly, then opened his mouth and began to drink water. He was a little reserved at first, but the speed became faster as he drank, and in the end he was almost gulping. Ning Chengyou had to help He controlled the frequency, otherwise he would have to choke.

After drinking a glass of water, Ning Chengyou took the glass away, and the child's gaze was still following his hand, watching eagerly.

"You are not in good health now," Ning Chengyou explained kindly, "You can't drink too much water at once."

"Cruel-heartedly" put the water glass aside, Ning Chengyou turned his head and saw the child's eyes still glued to the glass, looking a little pitiful.

"Cough", Ning Chengyou couldn't help coughing lightly, the child reacted quickly, his attention was immediately attracted to him, and he looked at him vigilantly.

Ning Chengyou had to reiterate the fact that he was a good person.

The child's face was expressionless, and there was an expression in his eyes that did not belong to this age.

The feeling of disobedience flashed by, Ning Chengyou cleared his throat, and asked: "You should not be able to speak now, so when I ask you, you nod if yes, and shake your head if no, do you understand?"

The child stared at him for a while, then nodded.

Now that we can cooperate, it will be much easier to handle next.

Ning Chengyou asked the others to disperse first, and asked the boy, "Are you from here?"

The child shook his head.

"Then you came here with your parents?"

The child shook his head.

Such a small child, didn't he come here with his parents?Ning Chengyou frowned, then asked, "Have you been here for a long time?"

The boy shook his head, then nodded again, a trace of confusion flashed in his eyes.

"Do you not know the exact time?" Ning Chengyou asked.

The boy nodded now.

"Maybe it's too young to remember," Zhang Bei interjected, "It's frightening for a child to be alone in a place like this. How can I know how long I've been there?"

Ning Chengyou felt the same, so he stopped asking this question. Seeing the child drooping eyelids and looking tired, he patted the child: "Okay, the question is almost over, are you tired? Then you continue to rest, I will not bother you anymore."

At this moment, the child shook his head, forced to open his eyes and stared at him.

Ning Chengyou wasn't sure what the child meant, so he guessed, "Are you...afraid we'll leave?"

The kid blinked, didn't nod or shake his head.

"Don't worry, if we don't leave, even if we leave, we will take you with us," Ning Chengyou comforted, taking the silence as a default, "Don't be afraid, just sleep."

The child was very stubborn and insisted on keeping his eyes open, but Ning Chengyou had no choice but to carefully take one of his hands out of the blanket and let him grab his clothes: "Is that okay?"

His fingers moved slowly, grabbed the corner of his clothes, and clenched it tightly in the palm of his hand. The child seemed to breathe a sigh of relief at this moment, and all the strength in his body was slowly released. His tired eyelids could no longer hold on, bit by bit Closed on the ground, fell asleep again.

Feeling the sound of the child's even breathing, Ning Chengyou was truly relieved.

He put the child on the ground covered with a sleeping bag, lifted the quilt and examined it carefully. After the struggle just now, the wound on the child's body was indeed opened. He took off the gauze, applied medicine to stop the bleeding, and wrapped it back up again.When the wound was being treated, it might have been noticed. The child opened his eyes and his body tensed up. The green pupils rolled around, and finally locked on him, and took a second look.

Ning Chengyou immediately explained: "Remember? You suffered a lot of injuries. When you were struggling just now, they were torn apart. I'm helping you to re-bandage them now."

After listening to his explanation and seeing what he was doing, the child closed his eyes again, relaxed his body, and fell asleep.

"You're really wary," Cheng Yue ran over, helped him wipe the child's sweat, and complained in a low voice, "Such a young child has scary eyes."

Ning Chengyou sighed: "Think about it, what kind of environment was he in when we found him?"

Cheng Yue thought for a while: "That's right. Oh, poor kid."

Yan Jian followed and watched the two of them treat the child's ruptured wound: "Is he really not infected?"

Ning Chengyou paused, then shook his head: "I'm not sure about that either."

Yan Jian narrowed his eyes, grabbed Cheng Yue's hand subconsciously, and looked at Ning Chengyou in the latter's voice of "what are you doing?", "So he might still be infected?"

"There are bite marks on his body," Ning Chengyou said truthfully, "the possibility of infection cannot be ruled out."

Without waiting for other people to respond, he said again: "But you also saw just now that he was self-aware when he woke up, and he could understand what I said, and his thinking logic was very clear, that is to say, at least so far. So far, he is still just an ordinary, seriously injured child who deserves to be taken care of."

"No, Yan Jian, what do you want to do?" Cheng Yue broke his hand out of Yan Jian's grip, pointed at the child on the ground, and said in a low voice, "You think he is a zombie?"

Yan Jian's expression was serious: "At least there are potential risks."

"But he's still a child now." Cheng Yue had the same opinion as Ning Chengyou, "Look, there is no abnormality in his wound, maybe there is no infection at all?"

Ning Chengyou pondered for a moment: "As far as I know, humans will transform into zombies within 48 hours at the latest after being infected with the virus."

"Although I don't know how long he has been like this, from now on, we only need to wait another 48 hours, and everything will be revealed naturally."

While helping the child cover the blanket, Ning Chengyou said calmly: "During this period, if he shows even the slightest sign of zombification, I will deal with it personally. I will watch him and will not let him have the opportunity to hurt others. .”

We've reached this point, Yan Jian couldn't say anything more, but he still pulled Cheng Yue over and wiped his hands carefully.

This episode will pass quickly.

Rest in place until two o'clock in the afternoon, and it's time to start the operation.

Ning Chengyou carefully removed the sleeping child's hand from the corner of his clothes, asked Zhang Bei and Cheng Yue to stay and watch, and also left Fufu by the way, while he led the others to travel outside the city according to the established plan. Expand the search.

Sure enough, they found the wreckage of a plane not far from the city. It seemed that it had experienced a disaster. The fuselage was severely damaged. It should have caused an explosion after an emergency landing. There were many zombies beside the plane. The corpses, they checked before approaching, were all dead, and the death was quite tragic. A part near the wreckage of the plane was blown out of its original shape, which was horrible, and there were still a pile of them not far from the plane crashed , The number is not small, Ning Chengyou checked and found that this group of zombies were killed artificially, and most of them were headshot with precision, while a small number of them were decapitated.

Looking at the conditions of these zombies, Ning Chengyou suddenly recalled the zombies he saw in that small supermarket this morning, and always felt that the death methods of these two waves of zombies seemed... somewhat similar?

A thought flashed through his mind, but before he could catch it, he shook his head and walked forward with the others.

The plane was seriously damaged. In addition to the corpses of the zombies, there were also several human corpses. They looked like Westerners, and the documents on the corpses just proved this point.

Through these characteristics, Ning Chengyou preliminarily judged that this plane should be the one that the professor was on, and it was also the one that sent them the distress signal.Just don't know what happened to make it look like this.

The target person's whereabouts are also currently unknown.

Qin Yan and Yan Jian went to the interior to search together, while Ning Chengyou and Ming Xiao checked the outside.But there were corpses outside, not even footprints. Ning Chengyou found the communicator from those humans and tried to open it, only to find that it was damaged.

He scratched his hair, at this moment, Qin Yan and Yan Jian came over after searching, and shook their heads: "No."

"There is no black box?" Ning Chengyou frowned, "How could it be? Have you searched everything?"

"Well," Yan Jian said, "I've searched for it all, and there isn't one."

"How come?" Ning Chengyou said, "The black box will not be damaged under normal circumstances... Have you found the wreckage yet?"

Qin Yan was also very surprised: "It's strange that nothing was found, not even wreckage."

Ming Xiao folded her arms: "Maybe it was taken away?"

Ning Chengyou: "That's the only possibility left."

After searching all the way, nothing was found except that the plane crashed and the whereabouts of the people were unknown. It is not known why the plane crashed.I don't know where the target person went, and I didn't even find the recorder.

Several sentinel guides searched together again, but there was still nothing, and finally had to return without success.

All the way in silence, when returning to the foothold, Ning Chengyou got out of the car first, and used his mental power to cover another layer outside the building before letting others follow in.

But when they entered, they realized something was wrong.

There was a sound of "whooping" in the building, like some kind of animal, Ning Chengyou didn't have time to think about it, and immediately ran over. Others also heard the sound, rushed over, ran to the source of the sound, and suddenly They were all stunned.

The Cheng Yue and Zhang Bei they left behind are still fine, but their expressions and movements are a little bit wrong. They are looking at the "culprit" who made a "whooping" sound - the cat, the cat breathed at them, As if he was stopping them, but he was being rushed back and forth tirelessly by Fu Fu Le, which stirred up his anger, and he felt a little helpless.

Most importantly, the child woke up.

Ning Chengyou noticed the child at a second glance, sitting in a corner far away from Cheng Yue and the others, with his head buried in his knees, motionless.

"What's going on?" Ning Chengyou asked as he walked over there.

Cheng Yue shook his head: "I don't know. He woke up not long after you left. After waking up, I asked him if he wanted to drink water, something to eat, etc., but he ignored me and ran there by himself Sit down, don’t let us get close, and ask this cat to stop us..."

Before the words finished, Ning Chengyou had already walked to the corner and squatted beside the child.

The child buried his head, and Ning Chengyou didn't know whether he was awake or asleep, so he didn't touch him directly, so he asked softly, "What's wrong?"

Hearing his voice, the child reacted, his body moved, and then slowly raised his head.

"What's wrong? Are you uncomfortable?" Ning Chengyou asked tentatively.

The child didn't answer his question, his face remained expressionless, and his eyes showed no emotion. He suddenly reached out and grabbed the corner of his clothes, held it and squeezed it, and before Ning Chengyou could speak, he said:

"You... left..."

He was still struggling to speak, as if he hadn't used his voice for a long time, and he had exhausted his strength after only saying two words, so he closed his mouth and didn't speak anymore.

Ning Chengyou understood his meaning through these two words: "You mean, I'm leaving, right?"

The child looked at him and nodded.

"I didn't leave, and I didn't lie," Ning Chengyou said. "I just went out to deal with some things just now. Look, haven't I come back now?"

Ning Chengyou tried to put his hand on the child's arm, but he was not rejected. The child just took a look at him and let him go.

"I won't lie to you, kid," Ning Chengyou said, "Please trust me."

The child stared at him for a while, then lowered his head, his body suddenly tilted, Ning Chengyou hurriedly caught the child, took the child into his arms, and looked down, only to find that the child had closed his eyes again.

After sniffing and confirming that he was just asleep, he was relieved, picked up the child, and turned back to the original place.

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