The Last 299 Days of Humanity

Chapter 62 Angelica
Yu Qing led everyone inside without waiting.

Just then, Furong called out anxiously from behind, "Baby, don't forget me! Don't forget me!"

Yu Qing looked back and realized that the hole wasn't big enough, and Fu Rong's buttocks were stuck outside and she couldn't squeeze in.

Yao Dan and Chang'e couldn't pull her in no matter how hard they tried, unless they broke her up and put her in.

This is a difficult problem; widening the opening is not an easy task, and in fact, it's impossible.

Yu Qing had no choice but to say, "Fu Rong, you should stay outside and guard this gap to prevent other animals from getting in."

Seeing her aggrieved look, Yu Qing said again, "Daji, you stay and keep her company!"

Daji pleaded, "My dear, let Erlang accompany her. I want to go in and see."

Yu Qing remained noncommittal and turned to continue walking towards where the girl was hiding.

Arriving at the spot where the girl had just disappeared, Yan'er, with her sharp eyes, immediately spotted a covered floorboard on the ground beside the collapsed building.

Before Yu Qing could stop her, Yan'er flipped the board open without saying a word, and a sharp wooden stick stabbed at her face.

However, the stick couldn't hurt Yan'er; it was more like poking at this piece of cotton.

Yu Qing hurriedly called down, "We're from the First Paradise, and we mean no harm. Why don't you come up and talk to us, or let us come down and chat for a bit?"

The girl or anyone else below did not answer Yu Qing, and the stick once again poked at Yan'er, who was trying to look down at the situation.

Yan'er grabbed the stick and forced her way down.

After a moment, Yan'er called up, "Baby, there's only an old man and a girl inside, there's no danger."

Yu Qing hurried over and found that it was the entrance to a basement. He ran down the dilapidated stairs.

At this moment, Yan'er held the stick tightly and wouldn't let go, while the girl stood by the bed where an old man was lying and was competing with her.

Yu Qing hurriedly approached the old man and respectfully said, "Hello! I'm from the First Paradise. How are you?"

The old man rambled on and on, but Yu Qing couldn't understand a single word he said.

Then he suddenly realized that the two of them were talking in two different languages. The seven amusement parks were built in seven different countries, so naturally they spoke seven different languages.

Yu Qing looked at Chang'e and Yao Dan and asked, "Do you understand foreign languages?"

Chang'e and Yao Dan shook their heads. Then Daji hesitated and said, "We have foreign language abilities, but I couldn't understand what he was saying just now..."

Yu Qing pulled Daji aside and said, "Listen carefully, perhaps because they have been isolated from the world for too long, their accents have changed."

Daji squatted down and started talking to the old man. After a while, she finally said happily, "Darling, he asked us where we came from, greeted us, and spoke T language."

"Tell him about our situation."

Daji went to great lengths to finally make the old man understand her meaning. The old man burst into tears upon hearing this, then rambled on and on, pointed at the girl, and rambled on again.

"What did he say? Tell us quickly, Daji?"

Daji said, "My dear, he spoke too fast, and I didn't understand some of it. The gist of it was that we should take his granddaughter away, because staying here would be a dead end."

Yu Qingchao looked around; besides some junk, there was nothing else inside. A metal can contained some wild vegetables or something similar being cooked; it seemed this was their food.

Yu Qing asked Yan'er to bring out some cakes and have Daji give them to them. The old man shook his head and turned to his granddaughter. Daji took the cakes and walked to the girl's side. By this time, the girl had already let go of the stick.

Daji took her hand and spoke a few words softly before handing her a cake. She timidly took it, but dared not eat it. Yu Qing smiled at her, then took a cake and began to eat it heartily.

The girl then relaxed and turned around to wolf down her food.

The basement smelled awful, a mixture of dampness, mold, and the stench of feces and urine.

Yu Qing decided to let Daji stay down there and talk to them, while he led the rest of the people out to find a place to settle down temporarily.

He asked Daji to tell the old man, and then he and Chang'e returned to the ground.

Yu Qing breathed a long sigh of relief and said, "Thank goodness, we didn't make a wasted trip!"

Yao Dan laughed and said, "Husband, it seems you're going to be someone's father."

Chang'e said, "I don't think so. I glanced at the girl when she opened her mouth just now. Judging from her teeth, she should be in her twenties. I think she is severely malnourished and underdeveloped, which is why she looks like a child."

"Huh? You're so sure?"

"It's pretty much true. If you don't believe me, you can ask Daji to find out."

Yao Dan rushed downstairs again. A little while later, she rushed back up, shouting, "Husband, Daji has found out! The girl's name is Dang Gui, and she's twenty-three years old. You already have a wife!"

Yu Qing scolded, "What are you shouting about? Luckily, she can't understand us. We're not here to do these things. After we finish here, we're going to the Third Paradise."

Chang'e exclaimed in surprise, "You left them here, grandfather and granddaughter, and then you left?"

Yu Qing said, "If they are willing, we will of course take them with us. This place no longer has the good living environment it used to have."

"What if they don't want to leave?"

"Then let's leave one person here to take care of them. I think Yaodan is quite suitable."

“I won’t do it. Besides, there’s no electricity here anymore, and I’ll lose my power soon. How will I take care of them?”

"Didn't I hear that you get electricity just by sticking your butt out in the sun?"

Chang'e said, "How did you know, my lord? None of us told you. This method is extremely inefficient; it would take a week to dry, and even then, it would only provide enough electricity for one day."

"It really has that function? I was just joking."

At this moment, Daji came out with Danggui by the hand and said, "My dear, I want to take her to take a bath and change her clothes. Could someone help me? She said that wild boars often appear near the water source."

"Let Yaodan go. But we don't have any children's clothes."

"Who said she's a child? Didn't I say she's 23? Let her make do with my clothes for now."

"Do as you please. Chang'e, you and Yan'er clean this place up and see if you can build a shed. We'll stay here tonight."

Yan'er said playfully, "Shall we find a bridal chamber for our baby?"

Yu Qing slapped Yan'er and roared, "If you keep talking nonsense, I'll send you to guard that hole with Furong!"

(End of this chapter)