Back to the Peak by 决绝 (Jué Jué): Chapter 75

Chapter 75: Finding a Missing Person

When Shi Qingyang had come to Anhang City in his last life, he had arrived half a year later from now, and it took him some time to find out the situation of things in Anhang City. At that time, there was a famous lunatic in Anhang City.

It was said that the madman used to be a very capable person, but it so happened that his daughter disappeared in an accident when she had gone hunting outside of the city. When he went out to go look for his daughter, his wife also secretly left the city to go looking because she had been too worried, and ended up killed by a mutant beast… Since then, that man was no different from a madman.

There were many rad-warriors who lived by hunting mutant beasts, but most of them grouped in teams. They then set out in the morning and came back in the evening. At most, they might stay outside the city for a single night. However, this madman would linger outside the city all day and all night. He’d never return until the point he couldn’t bear the outside environment anymore, and once he did return, he only took a rest at the entrance of the city, prepared enough medicine and food, and then left the city again.

This lunatic ran around outside, desperately looking for beasts and often not wanting to kill those mutant beasts he found, so at that time, some people liked to follow behind him to snatch those beasts and pick up a nice bargain. At that time, one of Shi Qingyang’s comrade-in-arms had a poor living situation and once followed behind that man for easy pickings.

Shi Qingyang had also seen the lunatic. In his impression, this man was dissheveled and never spoke a word to others. At that time, he had thought about his parents and wanted to help this sloppy man, but in the end, he discovered that the other party didn’t need help at all–the man ran out all day, and actually had the thought of seeking death..

The madman finally achieved his wish one day. Shi Qingyang never saw him again a year after he arrived in Anhang City.

That memory was far too deep into the past for Shi Qingyang. Although he had been in contact with the lunatic and knew some things about him, how could he have connected Ye Houan’s gentle appearance with that madman whose face was full of dirt?

It wasn’t until now, when Ye Houan said that his daughter was missing outside the city, that Shi Qingyang suddenly recalled this.

It wasn’t uncommon for relatives to disappear and die outside the city, but Ye Houan obviously attached great importance to his love for his family, and at the moment, he was entirely flustered and in a bad state.

“Mr. Cheng, could you let me rent a mobile fortress? My daughter didn’t come back from the city yesterday. She disappeared in a dangerous area, and I want to find her…” Ye Houan was trembling. His daughter was studying in Anhang Academy, and her talent of B-C+ was not particularly good, but also not particularly bad. She had just reached level-2 and had started practicing several level-2 combat skills not long ago.

Yesterday, she went out of the city with several female classmates, which was nothing unusual at all. There was also a safety zone near Anhang City. In the safety zone, there weren’t any mutant beasts that were too dangerous. These girls were all together, and even if they met a beast, they could easily escape in their armored vehicle… After they encountered a longhorn beetle beast, that was what they did, but the girls who drove didn’t know where to go, In a panic, they drove the car to the place they thought was the right way, only to go more and more off the path. Finally, they drove out of the safety zone in the process of running away.

The group drove two armored vehicles out of the city. During the escape, the two vehicles were separated. Now one vehicle had been brought back by others, but the other had disappeared. There were his daughter and two other classmates in the car. No one knew whether they were alive or dead.

Cheng Xuze soon learned about the situation from Ye Houan. He sympathized with Ye Houan, but actually he didn’t want to open this rabbit hole. After all, there were too many missing people outside the city, and he couldn’t care about all of them. However… Recently, Cheng Hong’s reputation in Anhang City had become worse and worse, and the Cheng family had also been undergoing scrutiny. If he refused on such an occasion, he didn’t know what others would say…

“Grandpa, didn’t you say you wanted to take me and Ranran out of the city for training? We can help look for the missing people along the way,” Shi Qingyang saw Cheng Xuze’s hesitation and said directly.

Of course, they didn’t really want to go out of the city to get experience, but to go out of the city to find the mobile town of the Yin family.

In the past few days of their competition in Anhang City, Cheng Xuze had found someone to check the Yin family, but now the Yin family had cleaned themselves up very well by virtue of what happened a year and a half ago, so they couldn’t find out anything… Cheng Xuze was worried about startling the Yin family and making the Yin family and the people behind them on guard, so he had planned to contact Liu Qilin and the others to first and go out of the city to find the mobile town.

As long as they found it, then let alone the Yin Family, even the people standing behind the Yin Family would also get uncovered! At the moment, however, the Yin family couldn’t know that their mobile town had been exposed.

“Yes, we originally planned to go out of the city for training in a few days. Now if you want us to go looking for people, we can go out in advance,” Cheng Xuze immediately said. With Ye Houan, they had a good reason to go out, which wasn’t bad for them.

“Thank you, thank you…” Ye Houan reached out a hand and wiped his tears. He never thought that he would cry.

In fact, if someone wanted to go out on a hunt for missing people, they could go out in an armored vehicle, but it was inconvenient to spend the night out in the wilderness in one. It was noon now. If they went out at this time, they might be able to reach the place where the girls had gone missing

Now that she was lost in the wild, his daughter wouldn’t last long if no one saved her.

“Then let’s go right away,” Shi Qingyang added. He and Cheng Ran were lucky to last so long in the wild, but Ye Houan’s daughter might be in danger. Even if she was still alive now, when the vehicle ran out of energy…

In fact, he didn’t even think they were still alive at this time.

“Thank you, really, thank you…” Ye Houan thanked repeatedly. At this time, several people ran over, including men and women, old and young: “We’ll also go, our daughter is also outside.”

“And me too. Ye Jinyu disappeared after going out with me. I know where she disappeared.” Another girl stood up, and Shi Qingyang was stunned, only to find that this person was actually Li Jiajia, the “Iron Lady” who fought with him a few days ago.

Li Jiajia cried when she lost the match a few days ago, but now her face was full of perseverance… Shi Qingyang thought that her change was too great before, but now he had a moment of doubt – was it this moment that had caused Li Jiajia to change?

“It’s all your fault. If our Ling’er hadn’t accompanied you out of the city to relax, how could she have disappeared?” Ye Houan didn’t say anything, but the families of the other two missing girls complained, looking at Li Jiajia with hatred.

Li Jiajia clenched her teeth and didn’t speak, but Ye Houan, who looked the most sad, inserted, “These children have long set a date to leave the city, which has nothing to do with her. What we need to do now is to get people back quickly!”

“Uncle Ye is right. In addition, people who have no combat power at all shouldn’t go out of the city, so as to not have any accidents, and so there won’t be too many people living on the mobile fortress,” Shi Qingyang said again.

“Qingyang is right. Qingyang, you can arrange this,” Cheng Xuze ordered.

Shi Qingyang quickly selected the people to follow. The fathers of the three girls all had some fighting power and simple identities, so they went. Li Jiajia naturally wouldn’t fall behind. In addition, he brought two teachers of Anhang Academy he had met previously.

As for the others, he didn’t let them go, whether they were looking for someone or trying to curry favor with Cheng Xuze.

Among the people who wanted to go, Cheng Ran was actually the least capable of fighting. But now Gu Changjin was still recovering from his injury, and Shi Qingyang wouldn’t leave Cheng Ran alone in the city. Naturally, he would take him with him. Anyway, with Cheng Xuze, Cheng Ran would never be in danger.

Shi Qingyang quickly made arrangements and took care of everything swiftly. Before leaving, he looked at Ye Houan and the others: “It’s better for you to leave a message for your families. It’s dangerous to go out searching. Don’t run around if you’re not capable!” Ye Houan’s wife secretly went looking for her missing daughter, only to disappear in the last life.

Ye Houan nodded, discussed with others, and then went to the mobile fortress.

The two mobile fortresses soon left Anhang City. At this time, Qin Liu, Cheng Hong’s wife, had finally arrived at the scene. She had learned what had happened while being driven over. Seeing Cheng Hong, her face had an unpleasant expression: “Why didn’t you offer to go with them? Wasn’t this such a good opportunity now? If you went along, others would have a better impression of you.”

“How could I follow? And even if I wanted to go with them, would they let me? Don’t you know who Ye Houan is? He’s the guy who had been putting up all those news reports about me before! I thought my father was just trying to be impartial, but now it seems that he is simply colluding with Ye Houan! He’d rather give his mobile fortress to outsiders than to me. Ye Houan gave me so much trouble, yet he’s helping Ye Houan go out to look… He doesn’t take his son to heart at all, so why should I send myself over again? ” Cheng Hong was gnashing his teeth.

“Exactly because that person was Ye Houan, you should have gone. It would also show that you forget the past. Otherwise, if someone throws Ye Houan’s daughter’s affairs on you, what would you do?” Qin Liu said.

“I haven’t done anything like this. If his daughter has an accident, it’s his karma,” Cheng Hong’s murmured lowly.

Qin Liu pursed her lips. Cheng Hong looked good when he was young. His family background was excellent; he was energetic, a little simple, and easy to control. But now, the first two were useless, and the last were naturally of little use.

Why did she feel more and more that Cheng Hong was a muddy man who couldn’t stand up to the wall; that he was so incapable that no matter how she tried to teach him, it wouldn’t amount to anything?

One bad thing follows another, and when Qin Liu and Cheng Hong came home together, they happened to see someone compare the performance of Ye Houan after his daughter disappeared with Cheng Hong’s performance after Cheng Ran had disappeared… But at this time, it was just a small matter for them.

After leaving the city, naturally, there was no way to receive the internet connection. Shi Qingyang put down the contact terminal and went to get their luggage.

When Ye Houan went to go talk to his wife, in fact, Shi Qingyang also contacted Liu Qilin and asked Liu Qilin to come alone – He was sure no one knew more about the mobile town of the Yin family than Liu Qilin.

This time, they were going to find Ye Houan’s daughter and the mobile town.

In the mobile fortress Cheng Xuze gave to Shi Qingyang. In addition to the driving and passenger area, there were also five bedrooms for the staff who operated the mobile fortress and a kitchen and dining room. These five bedrooms were well decorated, and each bedroom was equipped with an independent bathroom.

After Shi Qingyang went up, he put Cheng Xuze’s luggage into the middle master bedroom, and then smiled and put his own and Cheng Ran’s luggage into the second bedroom. In addition, there were three bedrooms, one for Li Jiajia, one for Ye Houan, and one for Li Jiajia and Ye Jinyu’s teacher Cao Yang.

As for the parents of the other two girls and the other teacher, they were arranged on the mobile fortress of Cheng Xuze, where Wang Qing was in charge.

Cheng Xuze didn’t notice at first. When he saw Shi Qingyang and Cheng Ran finishing dealing with their luggage and coming out of the room, he frowned, “Are you going to live together?”

“Grandpa, don’t worry, I’m not that much of a beast.” Shi Qingyang laughed. He could endure the pain of the radiation riots and the despair of being studied. It was impossible for him not to be able to bear through this.

“I’m afraid you’re not even as good as a beast!” Cheng Xuze spoke unhappily.

“Don’t worry, I’ll wait for us to get married first,” Shi Qingyang said. He had never touched anyone in his last life and didn’t feel any urges. It was nothing to endure in this life.

Cheng Xuze looked up and down at Shi Qingyang. He couldn’t help but doubt whether Shi Qingyang was dead down there, but he knew it was impossible.

Nowadays, it’s was fine for men to become women and women to become men. If he really couldn’t, he could be treated. It really wasn’t a big deal. Shi Qingyang was so young that he hadn’t tasted it and didn’t understand it.

Cheng Xuze relaxed at this thought. In fact, if Shi Qingyang and Cheng Ran really wanted to do something, would he be able to step them?

After pondering like this, Cheng Xuze stopped caring.

At the request of Shi Qingyang, Cheng Ran changed into a radiation suit and hid in the room to make medicine. Shi Qingyang found Li Jiajia and asked her for more detailed information with Ye Houan.

Li Jiajia was frightened outside the city all night yesterday. Not long after entering the city today, she came to them again. At this moment, her face was full of fatigue. She drank a bottle of refreshing medicine, and then repeated the situation at that time. Unfortunately, because they lost their way back then, she didn’t know the specific location of Ye Lingyu’s disappearance, so they could only slowly find it.

The mobile town soon came to the place where Li Jiajia and the others were attacked. Li Jiajia and the rest were in a panic because they met two longhorn beetle beasts at that time, and when they ran away, the vehicles also left traces.

Unfortunately, nowadays, plants in the wild grew rapidly, and it often rained. Many mutant insect beasts that ate plants would also destroy the mutant plants. Therefore, it was very troublesome for them to find traces. It was because of this that Cheng Xuze spent so much time looking for Cheng Ran at the beginning.

Moreover, it was already dark at this time. Even if the mobile fortress was equipped with searchlights, it was difficult to see the road ahead of them. They could only drive a section and leave the mobile fortress to check the road. Later, Shi Qingyang simply did not return to the mobile fortress, but drove an armored vehicle with Li Jiajia and Ye Houan to lead the way in front.

“You’d better take a rest first.” After stopping again, Shi Qingyang looked at Li Jiajia next to him.

“No, they must still be waiting for me to save them,” Li Jiajia opened her mouth. Now her eyes were swollen and bloodshot.

“I’m sure they’re all right,” Shi Qingyang comforted.

“Thank you.” Li Jiajia looked at Shi Qingyang: “Before you beat me, I had been unconvinced and complained to my classmates about you. In fact, what you did was right. When you really fight, victory is the most important… And you’re a good man.”

“Yes, I also want to thank you,” Ye Houan also said. If Shi Qingyang hadn’t helped him speak before, things wouldn’t have gone so smooth.

“If you want to thank me, please invite me to dinner after we’ve found them!” Shi Qingyang smiled.

Shi Qingyang really hoped to help Ye Houan find his daughter, so that night, they didn’t rest at all.

In the latter half of the night, Shi Qingyang drank a bottle of refreshing medicine, and finally found a clue. On a tree that seemed to have been hit by an armored vehicle, someone left two arrows with a wind blade, and then walked forward. Going further, the marks continued on, which should be left by those girls in order not to get lost.

At noon the next day, they found the destroyed armored vehicle. It seemed that the tank had been destroyed by some mutant beast attack, and it had been completely obliterated. Several ant beasts were moving in and out of the armored vehicle. Not only that, there were also some torn battle suits scattered here.

The three missing girls weren’t visible, but the scene here…

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