Chapter 1119 — Valentine's Day Special: Xiao Ning's Story, Part 4
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Wei Zhao shook his head. He supposed this was the girl's first time away from home and she lacked experience, so he said nothing more. Everyone's phones had, after all, had signal before; she could never have guessed what the satellite phone might be good for. And a satellite phone was bulkier and heavier than an ordinary one - decidedly inconvenient for a girl to carry about.
"My phone has a GPS function. All we can do is wait for friends back home to notice that the coordinates don't add up, and then come looking for us." Wei Zhao, at least, was not unduly worried; he switched on the phone's GPS. This was, in essence, a passive fix - he had no way of transmitting his present information back of his own accord.
"Thank you..." At that moment, the girl's gratitude toward Wei Zhao came wholly from the heart.
"No need to thank me," Wei Zhao said flatly. "There's a cave just ahead. Let's rest there a while - I'll go and find something to eat..."
"Wait... what is your name?" The girl suddenly mustered her courage and asked.
"Eagle. Don't you know that already?" Wei Zhao replied evenly.
"I mean your real name..." the girl explained.
"Zero-One," Wei Zhao said.
"Zero-One? What's that?" The girl blinked.
"A code name," Wei Zhao said.
"If you won't tell, then you won't tell!" The girl pouted, a little put out. "My name is Yu Ning."
"Mm." Wei Zhao answered with a single syllable, turned, and went off in search of food. Preparations had to be made early; the rescuers might arrive at any hour, and if they were not ready, they could very well die here.
The cave was shallow - sitting inside it, one could see everything that lay outside. The girl curled up in its mouth with her arms about her knees, quietly watching Wei Zhao's figure walk away, watching him vanish from sight. All at once a very lonely feeling stole over her, and she felt somewhat deflated.
That was the whole of what had happened...
Yu Ning trailed at Wei Zhao's side, wanting to help, but he moved so swiftly that he was already back at the cave with an armful of branches. The girl could only follow along behind him, at a loss for what to do.
The two of them returned to the cave and sat around the fire. Wei Zhao closed his eyes and cultivated the Xuanyuan Dragon-Taming Art. Few souls lived in this place, and the spiritual energy in the air was far richer than elsewhere; Wei Zhao had no intention of wasting so fine an opportunity to cultivate. If they had been cast down here, then it was calamity and blessing in equal parts.
Yu Ning watched Wei Zhao sitting there with his eyes closed, half bored and half curious.
Although Yu Ning did not move in large circles, she had met her share of young masters from distinguished families - and those men were either unfailingly attentive to her or fawning by every means. Yet not one of them had ever ignored her the way Wei Zhao did!
Of course, Yu Ning did not believe that Wei Zhao was playing some novel trick, deliberately acting this way to capture her attention. If he had been doing it on purpose before, then now that the two of them were alone together and she had shown him nothing but goodwill, why was he still exactly the same?