Stockpiling in the Apocalypse: Supplies Forging a Legend of Survival

Zhang Yuan's eyes seemed a bit distracted, as if his mind had been drawn away by something.

It wasn't until he heard Liu Ruyan's words that he finally came to his senses and looked at Liu Ruyan.

Meeting Zhang Yuan's gaze, Liu Ruyan frowned subconsciously.

Zhang Yuan had very good-looking eyes to begin with, a pair of eyes that were full of vitality.

Most of the time when they looked at each other, she could see a glint in his eyes.

But now, looking at Zhang Yuan's eyes, Liu Ruyan still felt that something was a bit off.

"What's the matter with you?"

Before Zhang Yuan said anything, he smiled first. "I think today is a good day and it's not suitable to see blood."

Liu Ruyan, "???"

Could you please say that after looking at the wild boar corpses all over the ground?

Zhang Yuan didn't explain to Liu Ruyan anymore but looked at the other three people standing beside the car. "Who among you is the captain?"

One of them took a step forward.

"I'm the captain. My name is Fang Xiang."

"Your team members made mistakes, yet you, as the captain, didn't say anything or do anything about it?"

Fang Xiang smiled self-deprecatingly. "We're just a temporarily formed team, and I've never had much say as the captain. When I say what to do, they don't listen to me. Since they made their own decisions and made mistakes, of course I can't take the blame for them."

Fang Xiang's answer was a bit unexpected.

The most surprised one was Qin Yuanyuan.

Qin Yuanyuan was even more shocked than before. "Cap... Captain, how can you say such a thing? We're a team!"

"No buts!"

Fang Xiang interrupted Qin Yuanyuan. "Yuanyuan, I've told you many times that the current situation is different from before. Don't always think that whoever makes a mistake will still have a chance to turn over a new leaf. And don't think that just because I'm the captain, I have to bear the consequences for the stupid things you've done."

"You... I..."

Qin Yuanyuan stammered for a long time but couldn't say another useful word.

Fang Xiang didn't pay attention to Qin Yuanyuan anymore but looked at Zhang Yuan. "I have no objections to whatever you plan to do with them.

Thank you for what happened today. Although you said you didn't save us on purpose, I'll remember this kindness. If you ever need anything in the future, just let me know."

"Don't wait for the future." Zhang Yuan said. "How about now? After all, those two are your team members. Since they made mistakes, of course it's up to you, as the captain, to punish them.

I'll leave them to you. You can deal with them however you like."

After saying that, Zhang Yuan walked to Liu Ruyan's side, reached out and pulled her sleeve. "Hurry up and deal with the remaining wild boars. I have something to tell you."

Liu Ruyan always felt that Zhang Yuan was acting a bit strange now, but hearing his urgent tone and thinking that he might really have something important, she didn't dwell on it anymore.

The two of them took the steel wire ropes, tied up the remaining wild boars and hung them behind the car.

It was only because this car had enough power that it could carry so many wild boars and run.

If it were another car, probably even if the accelerator was floored, it wouldn't move an inch.

After driving for a while, Liu Ruyan looked in the rearview mirror and saw Fang Xiang walking towards the two people on the ground step by step.

Then, Fang Xiang took out a knife and chopped off the two people's hands.

Qin Yuanyuan was standing not far away, covering her eyes with both hands and her body was trembling slightly.

It was hard to tell whether she was scared or crying.

Seeing this, Liu Ruyan lost interest and immediately looked away.

These people claimed to be a team, but from this, it could be seen that their relationship wasn't that reliable.

Just from Fang Xiang's previous words, it could be known that he had a lot of complaints about those two people.

Today's incident probably gave him a legitimate excuse to get rid of those who held different opinions.

As for Qin Yuanyuan, whether she was truly naive or just pretending to be soft-hearted, Liu Ruyan just regarded it as a joke.

It had been a long time since the end of the world. People who had survived until now, unless they had been very well protected, surely had their own ways of survival.

Liu Ruyan couldn't fully understand or agree with other people's ways of survival, nor did she give any judgment.

The only thing that caught Liu Ruyan's attention now was Zhang Yuan beside her, whose attitude was a bit strange.

However, Zhang Yuan was driving the car seriously and didn't seem to have any intention of talking, so Liu Ruyan didn't say anything either.

Liu Ruyan wasn't lacking in patience.

Zhang Yuan drove the car back to the base at the fastest speed he could and went straight to the service center.

Since this car entered the base, it had caught everyone's attention. There were quite a number of people going out hunting now. After all, everyone wanted to eat meat. In such cold weather, without eating meat and having no heat in the body, it was really unbearable.

Previously, there were also people who could bring back a few or a dozen prey at a time.

But it was really rare for people like Liu Ruyan and Zhang Yuan to bring back so many wild boars at once.

When they arrived at the service center and weighed these wild boars, each of them got another 4,000 contribution points credited to their accounts.

Without the wild boars in the car and being inside the base where the road conditions were better, Zhang Yuan drove a bit faster.

It didn't take long before the two of them returned to the small building.

After entering the iron gate, Zhang Yuan finally spoke again.

"I have something to tell you. Come with me."

Liu Ruyan just frowned slightly and then followed Zhang Yuan to his home.

Having been away for most of the day, in Zhang Yuan's bedroom, the charcoal in the stove had almost burned out.

But Zhang Yuan didn't seem to have any intention of adding charcoal. Instead, he stared straight at Liu Ruyan. "You just said that I'm yours?"

Liu Ruyan had been waiting for such a long time and finally waited for Zhang Yuan to speak.

But she never expected that when Zhang Yuan opened his mouth, he would say such a sentence.

Liu Ruyan still remembered what she had said herself, and it hadn't been long since then.

"I said that at that time because—"

"Liu Ruyan."

Zhang Yuan interrupted Liu Ruyan's words. "Listen to me first."

Zhang Yuan's tone was so serious that Liu Ruyan subconsciously stopped and just looked at him.

Zhang Yuan took off the mask on his face so that Liu Ruyan could clearly see his expression.

"Liu Ruyan, you said I'm yours. In my heart, you're also mine."

Liu Ruyan also took off her mask. "I think the meaning of 'you're mine' in your mind is different from what I meant when I said that.

Having known each other for so long and cooperated so many times, we should be considered like-minded partners.

Under that situation at that time, there was nothing wrong with me saying that you're mine, right?"

Zhang Yuan slowly shook his head. "Of course there's nothing wrong.

However, I still want to say that after knowing each other for so long and cooperating so many times, we are indeed like-minded partners.

And I want to always be your like-minded partner."

As someone who had died once, Liu Ruyan's heart was stirred when she heard these words, but she wasn't so panicked that she didn't know what to do.

Liu Ruyan quickly calmed her emotions and looked at Zhang Yuan quietly, asking softly, "What do you mean by that?"