Chapter 453: Every Second Counts
Han Wanghuo—who had learned the news from the intelligence peddler—avoided most pedestrians with Zeng Duo and returned to his rented room.
"Did... you do something?" Zeng Duo looked at Han Wanghuo in confusion and broke the silence.
Han Wanghuo frowned slightly. He also didn’t understand why he was in such a situation.
"Even if I’ve done nasty things and offended others, it was done elsewhere." He thought for a long time but couldn’t think of anything that required the Hand of Order to make such a big fuss. He felt that even if his Subhuman identity was exposed, it was impossible to attract such attention.
Could it be that someone I’ve been in contact with recently did something major? Han Wanghuo looked out the window and said in a deep voice, "There’s no time to consider why. We have to move immediately."
"Yes," Zeng Duo agreed.
They definitely couldn’t blindly move. The two of them quickly used the materials around them to disguise themselves so that they wouldn’t be recognized or remembered by others on the way.
They went downstairs separately and moved the supplies they had been preparing into the car. After doing this, Han Wanghuo closed the door and drove his black, battered SUV to the other end of Antanna Street.
After circling around a bathhouse with good business, the vehicle drove into a relatively quiet alley and stopped in front of an old apartment.
"Second floor," Han Wanghuo said simply.
Zeng Duo didn’t ask further and followed him up to the second floor. She watched as he took out a key and opened a brownish-red wooden door to a particular apartment.
Under her slightly confused gaze, Han Wanghuo casually said, "This was prepared in advance. It’s never wrong to be careful in the Ashlands."
"I understand. A cunning rabbit has three burrows." Zeng Duo nodded slightly.
Upon seeing Han Wanghuo look over in surprise, she smiled and explained, "Although our town has many infected and mutated people, we have always had plenty of food. The environment is relatively stable, and we retained much of the Old World’s knowledge."
Han Wanghuo nodded indiscernibly. "Stay here and rest. I’ll go to Antanna Street and retrieve that batch of weapons before the arms dealers learn about this. Yes, I’ll go back to the previous place and drive your car. We won’t unload the supplies on this car for now since we don’t know when we’ll need to move again."
"I’ll go with you," Zeng Duo said very calmly.
"There’s no need for you to take this risk," Han Wanghuo habitually advised.
Zeng Duo smiled. "To a person like me who doesn’t have long to live, achieving a goal is more important than life. I don’t wish for the helper I found with great difficulty to vanish. I don’t have any time left to find another batch of helpers."
Han Wanghuo fell silent for a few seconds before replying concisely, "Alright."
The disguised duo walked downstairs again.
Zeng Duo looked at the stairs in front of her and suddenly said, "I thought you would let me leave by myself because the Hand of Order is looking for you, not me. That’s how you usually act—you always prioritize others."
Han Wanghuo glanced at her and coldly said, "That’s because it hasn’t harmed my core interests yet. This time, your heart concerns my life, just like how that batch of weapons concerns whether the mission can be completed. Therefore, I won’t give up. Even if I have to take a slight risk, I have to retrieve it. Don’t think of me as a good person; that was just me pretending."