Chapter 412: Binding the Birth System to Become a Winner in Life Chapter 413: Wasteland Gathering Daily Life (41)

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Protagonist:

Shen Yao

"How did your parents put it?" Shen Yao looked at Cheng Qi, who was sitting on the sofa playing and fooling around with Manman.

Cheng Qi, staying at home, seemed especially leisurely, showing no sign that the two of them had ever had a huge fight.

"My parents found it hard to decide, but they fully support us leaving," said Cheng Qi, scooping up his one-year-old daughter in one arm, then raising his head and walking to stand beside Shen Yao. "I plan to go out in a few days to check the situation. If possible, I'll quietly leave under the pretense of the conflict between the Patrol Team and the Temporary Workers, leaving no room for gossip."

Of course, this quiet departure is debatable, because the Patrol Team and the Temporary Workers have already reached a state of being irreconcilable. If he were to 'get into trouble' because of this again, the Base Upper Echelon would definitely have to appease both sides.

"That works too. My parents are reluctant to leave. If we just leave openly and grandly, it might affect their lives."

Shen Yao considered that the Base Upper Echelon placed great importance on population loss. Ordinary people leaving and them leaving were two different matters. Besides, Cheng Qi had been the Captain of the Patrol Team before, and his identity had always been sensitive.

Even though he had already resigned and was staying home unemployed, people would still come knocking every now and then, wanting to ask Cheng Qi to return to work.

The Base Upper Echelon could not possibly allow people who knew so many secrets to leave safely. The Cheng Family was also much harder to leave than the Shen Family. Although both families had decided not to leave for the time being for various reasons.

"Mm, leave these matters to me to handle. You and Manman stay home more recently."

"If there's an opportunity, visit your parents more. Even if in the end only our family of three leaves, the house and subsequent arrangements cannot be lacking."

They were all relatives, and the relationship was still fine. Staying at the base was tantamount to a slow death.

Cheng Qi and Shen Yao couldn't take them away, but that didn't mean they couldn't leave a retreat route. It was just to fulfill the affection between both parties.

Shen Yao raised her hand to hug Cheng Qi's arm, leaning sideways against his shoulder. "I'll listen to you. My parents have their own concerns and lives. We'll just do our best."

There was no need to shoulder all the responsibility. Every adult must be responsible for their own behavior. Would them leaving guarantee smooth sailing? Would arriving at the new base mean no waves at all? Everything was still unknown.

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"Come over and rest. The house has been in chaos recently. How are you and Manman doing?"

Shen Yao had just entered the door with the child and hadn't even sat down before she was greeted by Song Ling's rapid-fire questioning, like a machine gun: tat-tat-tat-tat-tat.

Shen Yao patiently explained that she and Manman were doing fine recently. Although Cheng Qi no longer worked at the Patrol Team, their daily gathering still yielded many harvests.

"Besides, the Patrol Team hasn't completely given up on Cheng Qi yet. After some time, when Cheng Qi returns, his salary and treatment might even be raised."

"That's good. As long as you and your son-in-law have a clear idea in your hearts, your father and I won't have to worry too much."

Song Ling waved her hand, leading Shen Yao to first take a look at Shen Yu and Chen Jia's child—a baby only a few months old—before the two of them (Manman was too small to count) returned to the room for a heart-to-heart talk.

The topic naturally couldn't avoid the matter of leaving. Shen Yao couldn't lay out her and Cheng Qi's plans completely, only saying they had already made preparations so the family wouldn't need to worry.

Song Ling:...

"You child, can you talk like that?" Song Ling made a gesture as if to pat her, her eyes brimming with tears at some point.

Seeing this, Shen Yao hurried to persuade her, "We're not unable to meet in the future. Let us go scout the situation first. Maybe you'll be able to come later."

Song Ling laughed with a puff upon hearing this, "As if going out for a walk is that simple, something that can be done in a few minutes." Going outside was full of countless difficulties.

Shen Yao smiled and didn't argue further. Some words indeed couldn't be said carelessly.

After staying for a while, Song Ling was busy and still had to take care of the child, so Shen Yao didn't disturb her too much.

Leaving the Shen Family home, Shen Yao and Manman went to the Cheng Family home not far away.

Only Cheng Ma was at home. Everyone else was either at work or at school. Seeing Shen Yao and her daughter at the doorway, Cheng Ma smiled broadly and took Manman into her arms.

"How is Second Brother? Hearing what your father and your Eldest Young Master said, there's still a possibility he could return. Tell him he absolutely must not be willful. Where outside the city is safer than the base? Let him honestly earn money to support you and the child, and my heart can settle down..."

Cheng Ma was more talkative than Song Ling. Some words Song Ling found hard to say were spoken by Cheng Ma without holding back at all.

Shen Yao listened with a serious expression, cooperating fully no matter what Cheng Ma said.

She waited until Cheng Ma felt satisfied, then turned around and brought the two of them into the living room to rest.

"Try these fruits. They were all picked from the Base Planting Garden. This year, the Base Planting Garden had a better harvest than previous years, and ordinary people at the base could also share in the harvest."

Cheng Ma had always followed Cheng Ba's path. Even though Cheng Qi had lost his position at the Patrol Team, Cheng Ma could still get a spot to enter the Base Planting Garden.

Nowadays, 80% of the Cheng Family's food, clothing, and daily necessities came from base supplies. To truly give up all this and leave with them would be very difficult.

They had been somewhat presumptuous at first.

Shen Yao sighed inwardly. The words she had originally wanted to persuade them with disappeared right at her lips.

Anyway, they would also help leave a backup plan. The Cheng Family and Shen Family continuing to stay at the base didn't mean there was truly no way to survive.

Opening her mind and not obsessing over it, Shen Yao's further questions were just some everyday trivial matters.

Cheng Ma answered every question asked, and occasionally took care of the self-entertaining Manman. The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law had a rare harmonious atmosphere. When Shen Yao left, she even harvested a basket full of snacks.

"Don't be polite with Mom. Take them back for Manman to eat. You two are both at home, and you still have to take care of the child on weekdays. Life isn't easy. Unlike us, we have income from earning money at home, grain in the storage room, and don't fear hunger. Our days are better than yours young couple."

Shen Yao:...

Shen Yao accepted the basket and silently decided that before they left, she would leave more backup plans. At the very least, she had to guarantee there would be vehicles and enough fuel for both families to escape at any time.

Squeak—

Entering the house and opening the door, she seriously put away the firewood and bamboo sections piled in the courtyard.

Shen Yao found time to check her space and discovered that the spot for parking the vehicles had become crowded again.

Huh?

Slightly widening her eyes, Shen Yao felt Cheng Qi belonged to the dog genus; his nose was truly sharp.

"It feels like you're scolding me," Cheng Qi said with a gloomy expression, glancing at Shen Yao, then took off his tattered clothes.

Shen Yao said with a straight face, "This is praising you. It shows you have ability."

Others couldn't get the vehicles back (and even if they did, they'd probably be seized by the base, since private vehicles aren't allowed openly).

Cheng Qi shook his head helplessly. "I found a hidden spot."

"By then, I'll park the three vehicles separately and tell your parents the location, so they won't lack suitable transportation when they want to leave."

Shen Yao hummed twice, mentioning that she had visited the Shen Family and the Cheng Family today; neither family leaving was fine, but staying behind wasn't exactly a bad thing either.

It was their escape plan: "Privately, we still need to hint at something—the wristwatch can't be used; I'm afraid Mom and Dad will take these things seriously."

Leaving and going offline are two different things; they wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to create a false appearance of an incident to cover up the truth of escaping the base. If the Shen Family and Cheng Family refused to let go and really investigated something unlucky, it would still be them, after all, the base couldn't cause trouble for someone who had already left.

"Leave all these to me; you just make sure Manman rests well at home."

Cheng Qi raised both hands and placed them on Shen Yao's shoulders, speaking seriously, "There's still half a month."

Half a month—not long, not short.

Manman was still that little child who had just turned one year old, and Shen Yao was still in the state of going out early and returning late every day.

"Be careful when you go to the base's Planting Garden today," Cheng Qi held Shen Yao's wrist, the two exchanged a glance, their gaze falling on the room behind them.

The furnishings had not been removed, except that the food in the Storage Room was a bit less.

"Once we leave this time, I don't know if we'll have a chance to come back."

It wasn't that we couldn't bear to part, but after all, our moods were complex; these were items we had acquired bit by bit, and just to make the act more convincing, we had to abandon them.

"Don't be afraid; one day, we will definitely have a chance to come back," it's just that this time won't be too short.

"Mom and Dad's side has already been arranged; after we leave, this place won't be empty either," try to avoid waste; people must always look forward.

Shen Yao pulled up the corners of her mouth in a smile, handed Manman to Cheng Qi to hold securely, turned around, and locked the room's big gate.

All the way to the waiting point outside the base, Shen Yao got on the car under Cheng Qi's reminder.

There were quite a few people beside her; Manman felt cramped and moved slightly, looking a bit uneasy.

Shen Yao hurriedly turned her head and coaxed her softly, touching her hair and pinching her cheeks, until the car beneath them started up, rumbling as it drove forward.

The base behind was gradually shrinking; Shen Yao looked back one last time, then withdrew her gaze.

On the other side, Song Ling, who didn't know the specific situation, held her chest and felt somewhat uncomfortable.

What on earth was going on? She felt uncomfortable since waking up in the morning; she frowned and thought about it, but didn't expect Shen Yao and the three of them to leave, so she simply threw these things to the back of her mind and focused on taking care of the child who had been crying and wanting milk since waking up.

Cheng Ma and Song Ling currently had the same idea, but Cheng Ma had no child to take care of; she thought something was wrong with her own body, so she simply went back to her room and slept.

When she opened her eyes again, it was bright daylight outside; Cheng Ma got up, took a basket, and went out.

She had agreed with a few good friends to go around picking some wild vegetables and wild fruit to supplement the household expenses; Cheng Ma's mind flashed with inspiration, and she used the wristwatch to ask Shen Yao.

Unexpectedly, no reply came at all; Cheng Ma's heart followed and became nervous.

It was just that her old best friend kept urging her annoyingly, so Cheng Ma had no choice but to put down the wristwatch, lower her head, and busy herself with the wild vegetables newly sprouting around.

Shen Yao's wristwatch was temporarily unusable because, taking advantage of the gap when an accident suddenly happened at the Planting Garden, Shen Yao had already passively turned off the wristwatch and put it away.

Manman in her arms opened her big eyes and looked outside; although there were screams from time to time, it didn't affect Manman's mood at all.

The little one looked very calm, even having a bit of an eager impulse.

"Good baby, we should go now."

While Shen Yao was speaking, she had already turned onto the road they had discussed earlier, asked the system to help locate the destination, Shen Yao hid left and right, and from time to time threw out a few blood-stained, torn pieces of clothing from the space.

These were things prepared long ago, just to make today's play more realistic.

"Ahhh, they're coming, run!"

"Wolf pack, wolf pack..."

"Don't leave me behind, save me, save me!"

"..."

It was impossible for Shen Yao to run into no one; occasionally meeting a few people scared out of their wits, she had to carefully detour around them.

Manman lay in Shen Yao's arms giggling nonstop; the child had no thought of being afraid, and from that little face, one could even see that it was fun.

"Be good, don't make trouble."

Pressing Manman into her arms so she wouldn't move, Shen Yao went around a small earthen slope; since there was no one around, she hurriedly took out a blood-stained strip of cloth and hung it on a tree.

Continue running forward, can't stop, until she arrived at the gathering destination.

The car in the space was driven out, already filled with fuel and supplies.

Shen Yao sat in the driver's seat, at the same time put Manman in the passenger seat, and casually fastened the seatbelt for the child.

"Where's Cheng Qi? How much longer?"

She and Cheng Qi acted separately; for safety's sake, Cheng Qi was responsible for setting up the situation.

Seeing that the time for their gathering was getting closer, she still hadn't seen Cheng Qi.

"He encountered trouble; currently at a location five kilometers from here."

After the system finished speaking, Shen Yao had it turn on the positioning, and she stepped on the accelerator and rushed straight out.

Sparks flying and lightning flashing all the way, she finally caught up with Cheng Qi; Shen Yao turned onto the main road intersection and headed straight for the route they had set earlier.

"There's a medicine box in the car; handle it yourself," they still couldn't stop; they had to run out of the base's normal range before they could rest.

Cheng Qi grunted, gritted his teeth, picked up the medicine box, simply bandaged his more serious arm wound; as for his face and legs, since they weren't serious, he left them for now and would deal with them when they stopped.

Manman in the passenger seat furrowed her little brows, looking somewhat uncomfortable, on the verge of tears but not crying, a sight that made one's heart ache.

Fortunately, Shen Yao had prepared early; she took out the cloth doll from the space and handed it to a position Manman could reach; sure enough, this little one didn't furrow her brows anymore, but wholeheartedly pulled the doll around to play.

Around half an hour later, the car slowly stopped.

Shen Yao didn't stop in the middle of the road, but turned into the dense bushes.

"Quick, let me see; handle the wound as soon as possible," Shen Yao took out more professional medical supplies from the space, pulled Cheng Qi over, and was about to start.

Cheng Qi:...

Cheng Qi, with a good temper, took off his clothes and pants, letting Shen Yao treat him before putting on clean clothes again.

"How is the wound so deep?" Not only were there marks of beasts biting, but also long, narrow wounds left by cold weapons, more like being ambushed from behind.

"There's some grudge, but I was on guard against him, so he didn't fare well either," he was directly buried in the wolves' mouths.

He took off the wristwatch and handed it to Shen Yao to put away; neither of them could use these anymore, as they could easily be located by the base's signal.

"I'll drive these two days," Shen Yao said, getting back in the car and placing Manman in the back seat again. She took out two fragrant meat Meat Meat Roujiamo, one for each person. "Eat quickly," she said. After eating, they still had to continue their journey.

Meat Meat Meat Roujiamo certainly wouldn't fill them up; the two of them ate purely to satisfy their cravings, relying mainly on nutrient agents, which had no shortcomings other than tasting bad.

The black off-road vehicle was back on the road, moving forward along the straight avenue.

Meanwhile, at the distant base, Shen Yao and the Cheng Family had already received news of their mishap.

Song Ling and Cheng Ma were immediately shocked into fainting; it was Shen Jiancheng and Cheng Ba and the other men who made the decision, cutting through the mess like a sharp knife to gloss over this matter.

"Sigh"

After retrieving the relic from the Patrol Team, Cheng Ba and Shen Jiancheng both didn't know what to say.

Both sides understood the true situation, but neither was certain whether the other knew.

Perhaps to be on the safe side, they should continue concealing it?!