Chapter 18: The Shadow Woman
Ke'er cried and threw herself into Cheng Ming's arms, hugging Cheng Ming's waist tightly, while Cheng Ming raised his hand and gently stroked Ke'er's hair and comforted.
"Don't cry Ke'er, isn't Dad fine, isn't it a big deal? Ke'er don't cry anymore, it won't look good if you cry again. ”
Ke'er cried for a long time, and raised her little face full of tears to look at Cheng Ming.
"Dad, do you know how worried Ke'er is about you these days? That day was really scared to death. ”
Cheng Ming looked at Ke'er's tear-stained face, and he was afraid in his heart, that day was really too mysterious, if it wasn't for Qiaoba's emergency shield turned on at the critical moment, I am afraid that several people present would have died on the spot.
"Okay, Ke'er, don't be afraid, you see that your crying has woken up Xiaofan."
Ke'er looked at Cheng Ming's side, at this time Lin Fan was standing beside Cheng Ming with a complicated face, Ke'er saw that Lin Fan woke up, and straightened up a little embarrassed.
"Thank you, Uncle Cheng." Lin Fan thanked him earnestly and bowed to Cheng Ming.
Cheng Ming pulled Lin Fan over, hugged him into his arms and said with a smile.
"Thank you, you are all my children, dad protects his children, do you still need any thanks?"
Hearing Cheng Ming's words, Lin Fan's eyes turned red, tears gushed out, and he blurted out: "Dad, you will be my father in the future." ”
"Okay, Xiaofan, you will be my son in the future, my good son. Hahaha. ”
Ke'er saw that her father was so happy, and her body seemed to be fine, so she touched the tears in the corners of her eyes, pulled Lin Fan and said, "Brother, hehe." ”
Lao Dao also smiled when he looked at this warm scene, turned around and brought some food to Cheng Ming.
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Everyone didn't sleep again this night, although the nervousness and desperate rush of the past few days made them all tired, but Cheng Ming's awakening also made them extremely excited, and finally in the experience of several people talking about the past few days, the night passed like this.
"Real person, do you know where we are now?"
"It's not too clear, we have been in a hurry these days, and we haven't taken the main road, we are walking on the mountain paths, and the general direction is not wrong, but where it is, I don't know very well."
Lao Dao said very uncertainly, because of the attack in the past few days, everyone is very nervous, and Lao Dao has to take two children and carry Cheng Ming who is unconscious, so he didn't dare to enter the city, just walked on the mountain path, so in fact, they didn't go far, and it is estimated that they only walked 100 kilometers.
"Thank you so much for the past few days." Cheng Ming sincerely thanked Lao Dao, although Lao Dao didn't say it himself, but Cheng Ming knew that letting an old man in his 80s run for his life with a self in the prime of life, and at the same time take care of two children, the old man also paid a lot, at least the shoes that Lao Dao was wearing at this time had already been tattered, and there were still a lot of dried blood stains on them.
"Thank you, if it weren't for you kid, Lao Dao would have returned to the West that day, didn't you still want Lao Dao to kneel down and thank you for saving your life." Lao Dao smiled and waved his hand, and exaggerated the appearance of kowtowing, which caused several people to laugh.
Cheng Ming saw that Lao Dao said this, and he didn't say any more words of thanks, but said: "Okay, then according to what you said, there should be no danger here, or we will rest for a day, and when I recover my strength, we will set off again, so that we can rush back to the base as soon as possible." ”
Lao Dao nodded: "I think so too, sharpening knives is not a mistake for woodcutters." ”
Then the two discussed the future route, and the two little ones went to play around.
While the two were talking, Lin Fan and Ke'er ran back.
"Dad, I found out there's a cave over there, and it's quite big in there." Lin Fan gasped and said to Cheng Ming.
"Caves?" Cheng Ming and Lao Dao glanced at each other, hurriedly got up, and followed the two little guys in the direction they came.
Cheng Ming and Lao Dao came to Lin Fan and took a look at the place where they found the cave, and the two couldn't help laughing, this is not a cave, but a cave dug by the people who lived here in the past to store livestock and forage, the area is not large, but it is more than enough for four people to rest here.
Cheng Ming touched Lin Fan's head and said, "Good boy, this place is good, you are not afraid of being discovered by the outside if you make a fire." ”
"Dad, this is what I found out first."
Ke'er saw that Cheng Ming only praised Lin Fan, and said to Cheng Ming dissatisfied.
"Okay, my precious daughter, you also have credit, both of you are our heroes today."
The four of them walked into the cave, Lao Dao went to find some firewood nearby, and lit a fire in the cave, while Ke'er and Lin Fan went to dig some wild vegetables around and made a meal of wild vegetable chowder porridge for a few people.
After a day's rest, the next morning, a few people had a brief bite to eat and then set out on the journey again.
Today's Cheng Ming's body is no longer in serious trouble, which shows how much that gem has improved his body, but until the morning, Cheng Ming finished eating all the food they carried, and still couldn't contact his dark space, which made him a little depressed.
Since Cheng Ming's body was no longer in serious trouble, several people decided to go to a nearby city to determine the location of several people so that they could correct their travel routes.
They walked all day, and it was in the evening that they discovered a small city, during which they rested for an hour, but since there was no food, they had to dig some wild vegetables in the mountains to satisfy their hunger.
Fortunately, in recent years, the invasion of alien creatures has destroyed many happy cities, but the natural environment has improved a lot, and there are a lot of wild vegetables in the mountains, so there are not a few hungry people.
Several people came to the entrance of the city, and it was already dark at this time, so for the sake of safety, several people did not enter the city, but found a dilapidated house nearby to live.
A few people divided into the house for a long time, hoping to find some food, but to their disappointment, there was nothing here except for the damaged furniture and the like, and at this time it was completely dark, and it was a bit unrealistic to go out to dig wild vegetables, so they had to sleep to relieve the hunger in their stomachs.
After a day's journey, everyone was very tired and slept very deeply, and the reason why no one was selected to keep vigil was also to see that this small county town was not big and there was no need for conquest, so they were not afraid that there would be alien creatures at night, after all, alien creatures were not endless.
Just when Cheng Ming was sleeping soundly, he suddenly felt a trace of coldness in his neck, as if something metal was placed on his neck, Cheng Ming was suddenly awakened by this coldness, and opened his eyes to look ahead, at this time, a black shadow was putting a dagger on his neck, and the other hand of the black shadow stretched out a finger to put it to his mouth, making a silent gesture.
Cheng Ming looked at the person in front of him carefully, although the light was not strong and he couldn't see the appearance of the person who came, but from the large size, it could be seen that this person was a woman.
"Who are you and what are you going to do?" Cheng Ming asked in a low voice.
"I should ask you that." A very nice young female voice came, the same voice was very low, but a chill could be heard in it.
"We're just passing through, it's too late, so take a break here, take a break, and we'll be leaving tomorrow." Cheng Ming glanced at his side as he spoke, and found that the two children were still asleep, and he was relieved, but he glanced at the place where Lao Dao was sleeping, but found that it was empty.
Where did the old way go? Cheng Ming was a little flustered in his heart, but because the light was dim, the woman didn't notice that Cheng Ming's eyes were wrong at this time.