Chapter 36 (1/2)

Chapter 36 Roots

“It ran away.” The soldiers shrugged at Qing shui.

“Yeah…it’s difficult to catch.” Qing shui smiled to them.

“Well, I feel like even if it wasn’t running, it would still be hard to deal with.” One of the soldiers that seemed more mature than the others spoke. “It ran too fast and it had a strong body. I doubt our rifle could wound it! The fog was dense too, so we didn’t fire too much in case we got injured.”

“We agree,” the other soldiers nodded. “I could only see within three meters, and to be honest, even if it was standing in front of me, I still wouldn’t be able to see what it looks like clearly since it was huge. We were lucky that we didn’t get ambushed.”

The soldiers started discussing the chase they had, and the sulky look on their face gradually turned into a horrified one.

“I’m glad that we didn’t catch up with it, otherwise we probably wouldn’t be able to come back alive.” The mature soldier made a conclusion and smiled at Qing shui and Chang. “You guys really have a hang of it, don’t you? The military also sent troops to try to hunt, but we didn’t even see any animals. These domesticated animals seemed to have gone wild after they mutated, and their alertness was far too high to us to even get close to them.”

“Same…it was difficult to look for anything in this fog; we were lucky to even run into one. But see, he almost died for it.” Qing shui pointed at Chang, implying that hunting was difficult for them too.

“So he is the guy you wanted to rescue.” They carefully observed Chang, “Fortunately he isn’t seriously injured. The mission is way easier than we thought!”

“Totally, the captain says that each of us will get half a kilogram of meat; for G.o.d’s sake, I haven’t had meat in so long…”

“Glug!” A soldier swallowed a mouthful of saliva and said, “it was actually only a few days, but the key is that we haven’t had proper food in days!”

The soldiers became excited when they were talking about the meat they were going to get. Obviously, the food they had these days were also hardtacks and canned food. Although they might have had bigger portions to have energy to fight, they were still starving.

Qing shui borrowed a flashlight used for night patrols from one of the soldiers and then pulled Chang aside so that those exciting soldiers wouldn’t notice them.

“Will you follow me?” Qing shui hinted to Chang with his eyes, then turned his head in the direction of the manhole behind the thick fog.

“Are you serious?” Chang frowned. “I just escaped from there, and I have no clue what is inside the sewer.”

“I want to see what exactly happened down there.”

“Why you are so curious?” Chang furrowed his eyebrows. “This doesn’t sound like something you would do. A rational person like you would normally avoid risks.”

“To be able to predict danger is what a rational person would want to do; I really need to see what happened.”

“Okay, go by yourself then, I’m not coming.” As he just got out from that desperate and dark world, Chang refused to have that experience again – especially since going in again seemed totally meaningless to him.

“That’s fine then, I’m going by myself.” Qing shui’s voice slowly softened as he carefully climbed down the iron ladder.