Chapter 489: Lost the Map
The person who emerged from the tent was Zhang Ke.
He got up in the middle of the night to urinate, and faintly noticed some movement from Lu Yuwen’s side, casting a suspicious glance their way.
——Lu Yuwen was tied to a tree, head sagging, seemingly unconscious.
There were sporadic snoring coming from the nearby tent.
Zhang Ke withdrew his gaze, only to dismiss the noise as a mishearing.
He walked to the side of the road to pee, and after zipping up his pants, prepared to head back to the tent. Accidentally, he noticed the lid of the motorcycle’s rear box was not fully closed.
It was not too far, so he walked a few extra steps, raised his hand to reopen the box lid, intending to close it properly.
Upon opening it, however, he found the pile of papers inside was gone.
Zhang Ke was dumbstruck.
On instinct, he assumed the other two had taken the map into the tent to study it.
But after a few steps, he felt something was wrong.
The tent was pitch black, there was no light, nothing to aid in reading a map. Besides, the map has always been kept in this position, there was no reason for it to suddenly move.
Zhang Ke once again looked at the bound Lu Yuwen.
With Lu Yuwen bound by those tools, it was impossible for him to steal the map.
The only remaining suspects were either Brother Xiao or Yang Zi, unless…there was a fifth person here?
At this thought, Zhang Ke became vigilant and scanned his surroundings——
Everything around him was too dark, too quiet, anyone hiding would be hard to detect.
Despite him thinking the possibility was slim, he still cautiously approached the tent and tentatively asked, “Brother Xiao… Brother Xiao? Is the map with you?”
After a few seconds of waiting, a muffled male voice came from the tent, “What do you want with a map in the middle of the night…”
Yang Zi was also woken up and grumpily complained, “What’s wrong with you, not sleeping in the middle of the night?”
Zhang Ke said, “Oh… The map isn’t on the motorcycle, so I thought I’d ask if it’s with you.”
The two people in the tent were taken aback, instantly wide awake!
Brother Xiao crawled out of the tent and asked, “What’s going on? You said the map isn’t on the motorcycle?”
“I just glanced at it.” Zhang Ke pointed in the direction of the motorcycle, “Everything else is there, but the map is gone.”
Brother Xiao didn’t believe it and hurriedly walked to the motorcycle. He swung open the box with a smack!
Other than the map, everything else was in the box!
“Yang Zi! Have you taken the map?” Brother Xiao asked with a frown.
The short young man angrily retorted, “Why would I take the map?! Didn’t you say it’s useless unless we have all 100 squares?”
He looked at Lu Yuwen, “I’m sure it was him! I’ve said it before, this guy isn’t trustworthy!”
As he said this, he moved to confront Lu Yuwen.
Brother Xiao, annoyed, held him back, “He’s tied to the tree by you, how could he take the map?! Even if he did, where could he hide it? That thick pile of papers couldn’t possibly be hidden on him!”
Zhang Ke was on guard as he looked around. All the shadows in the darkness became suspicious.
“Brother Xiao, it seems this place isn’t as safe as we thought.” said Zhang Ke.
“What do you mean?” Yang Zi asked with a furrowed brow, “Could it have been carried off by an animal?”
“What nonsense! Since the world turned into this, have you seen any animals?” Brother Xiao retorted, “Even if there were, have you ever seen an animal that only eats paper?”
Finally, the realization hit Yang Zi, “You mean… there are others here?”
He looked around, “Impossible… ever since we arrived, we’ve only encountered mannequins, no living people…”
“Regardless, we have to arrange someone for night watch.” Zhang Ke looked at Brother Xiao, “Losing the map isn’t a big deal, we can always redraw it, but we can’t afford to carelessly lose anything else.”
For instance, our lives.
Brother Xiao, with a grave expression, nodded in agreement.