allonlinenovel Chapter 254 Familiarity 2
Chapter 254 Familiarity 2
After a quick breakfast, Jiang Li and Ye Jingmo tidied up the dishes on the table, just as a knock came at the door.
The room door didn't have a peephole. Jiang Li tiptoed closer to the door and cautiously asked, "Who is it?"
A familiar voice rang out from outside the door, "Sister Jiang Li, it's me, Qin Yue."
Jiang Li opened the door, and Qin Yue and Qin Yu were standing outside.
"Sister Jiang Li, we're planning to go up and familiarize ourselves with the entire base, and also to ask around some information. Do you want to come along?"
“Perfect timing, Mo Ge and I were just about to go up and take a look. Please wait a moment,” Jiang Li said.
"Okay, Sister Jiang Li, you guys get ready. I'll go call Brother Liang and the others next door."
Seeing that Jiang Li agreed, Qin Yue smiled happily and turned to knock on Liang Zi's door next door.
Jiang Li closed the door, and Ye Jingmo, who was inside the room, also heard her conversation with Qin Yue.
"Ah Li, put some makeup on your face."
Ye Jingmo looked at Jiang Li's face, which was as white as mutton fat jade, and gave her some instructions.
In today's world, it's common for people to be so hungry that they look pale and thin. People like Jiang Li, who are fair-skinned and lovely, are almost a rare sight. If she went out like that, she would be an easy target.
That's because they're afraid others won't know they have a lot of stock at home, that they're a fat sheep, and that everyone should come and fleece them.
Jiang Li and Ye Jingmo would never do something so foolish.
Jiang Li applied foundation to her face, and her fair skin instantly turned dull and yellow, as if she had been malnourished for a long time. She went from being a beauty to an ordinary passerby in an instant.
Jiang Li picked up her small handbag and walked out the door with Ye Jingmo.
Liang Zi was standing next to Qin Yue and Qin Yu, but Lin Panpan and Xiao An were nowhere to be seen.
However, Jiang Li could understand. They had just arrived at this underground base and were unfamiliar with everything. Moreover, Xiao An was still a child, so it was indeed much safer to keep Lin Panpan and Xiao An in the room.
Suddenly, someone opened a door in the narrow corridor, wanting to go out. As soon as they opened the door, they saw Jiang Li and others gathered at the doorway. Like startled birds, they quickly closed their own doors, seemingly afraid that Jiang Li and the others had some ulterior motive.
"Let's go up and see what's going on. If we stand here without moving, we'll be mistaken for bandits," Ye Jingmo said.
The lobby on the basement floor was packed with people, nearly twice as many as when Jiang Li and her friends came in yesterday. The noisy environment was like a bustling market.
Many people sat directly on the ground, and some children cried loudly. Most people held their belongings tightly, their eyes warily watching the crowd around them, as if afraid that their things would disappear into thin air.
Jiang Li and others didn't pay much attention to these things; this is the norm after a natural disaster.
Their gazes were drawn to the large screen in the center of the hall, which clearly displayed the scene outside the underground base.
A thick, gray fog enveloped the land like a heavy blanket, with pairs of reddish eyes appearing and disappearing within it, like hungry beasts silently lying in ambush for their prey.
Horrifyingly, there were exposed skeletons at the entrance to the base, along with tattered clothing, and dark red blood on the ground, as if telling the story of the fierce battle that had taken place here.
"Yesterday was probably not peaceful." Liang Zi stared intently at the screen, his brows furrowed tightly.
"Those birds actually eat meat?" Qin Yue witnessed this scene, and her heart, which had just calmed down a little after arriving at the underground base, instantly jumped into her throat again.
"Given the current situation, what is impossible?" Jiang Li patted Qin Yue's shoulder reassuringly.
"However, there is no need to worry too much. With the defenses and weapons of the underground base, those birds will definitely not be able to break in."
The group stood in front of the big screen for more than ten minutes and found that the scene outside had not changed, so they decided to go and explore other places.
“Let’s split up; too many people will attract attention. There are soldiers on guard and patrolling all over the base, so we’re safe. If anything happens, we can communicate using our watches.”
Qin Yu looked around and spoke.
"Okay, let's meet here in an hour."
As Ye Jingmo spoke, he took Jiang Li's hand and walked in one direction. Liang Zi also said goodbye to Qin Yue and Qin Yu, chose a direction, and left.
Qin Yue glanced longingly at Jiang Li's retreating figure, though she actually wanted to explore other areas with him.
"Let's go, what are you looking at?"
Qin Yu patted Qin Yue's head, then took her hand and walked away.
The place Jiang Li and Ye Jingmo arrived at was a designated area for selling goods. Two soldiers stood guard at the entrance, and compared to the bustling and crowded area outside the main hall, this place was deserted.
Jiang Li only saw a beautiful woman leading a robust little boy as they strolled around inside, accompanied by a tall and burly bodyguard.
When the woman saw Jiang Li and Ye Jingmo enter, her brows furrowed so deeply they could have trapped a fly, and the disgust in her eyes seemed to overflow, as if they carried some kind of germ.
"Son, let's go back now. There's nothing to buy here. We'll take you out for a stroll when we get back to the surface," the woman coaxed the little boy softly.
The little boy pouted reluctantly and lightly punched the woman a few times.
Jiang Li didn't take the woman and the little boy to heart; arguing over people who might die at any moment was simply not worth it.
She followed Ye Jingmo, looking at the items on the shelves.
Looking at the compressed biscuits on the shelf, Jiang Li glanced at the price and was dumbfounded. The price was more than five or six times higher than before, and the prices of the chocolates and candies next to them were no less.
"This price is too expensive," Jiang Li muttered softly.
Jiang Li had originally planned to buy some things to take back to her room, but now she gave up on the idea. Even if they had a lot of points, they couldn't spend them like that.
After wandering around the mall for five minutes, Jiang Li and Ye Jingmo came out.
The shelves were mostly empty, and the items that were placed there were expensive, so it's no wonder that no one came here to buy anything.
Jiang Li originally thought that this area was only a shopping mall and was about to pull Ye Jingmo back to the big screen when Ye Jingmo spotted a small room next to the mall that was labeled "medical room".
"Let's go take a look."
Ye Jingmo took Jiang Li's hand and walked towards the infirmary.
He was concerned about Jiang Li's health and wanted to find a doctor to help her improve her constitution. He wondered if the clinic had any traditional Chinese medicine practitioners.
Jiang Li assumed Ye Jingmo was worried that she had fallen ill before coming to the underground base, so she immediately said, "Brother Mo, what are you going to the infirmary for? My illness is almost cured, there's no need to waste points."
However, Jiang Li's refusal was of no use, and Ye Jingmo led his men into the infirmary with an air of dominance.