At this very moment.
Doan Thanh Ho's mind was blank.
He felt a bit dazed all over.
"You....."
"Yes, it's me."
Lam Pham always smiled, "Don't be nervous. Although we are far apart, when I hear of surviving humans, no matter how far, in my heart it is very short."
Doan Thanh Ho: ...?
He was completely thrown off by the other party.
You even know it's very far.
"Did you really come from Hoang City?"
Doan Thanh Ho still couldn't help but ask, always full of suspicion about this.
Doan Nghe and Tran Vo, standing beside him, looked at the legendary Lam Pham, waiting for his answer, their eyes filled with clear confusion and astonishment.
"Yes."
Lam Pham said softly, his tone very firm.
The other party's suspicion was very normal. To arrive in just a few minutes from Hoang City was not a realistic thing in the first place.
It was just that often, he could do unrealistic things.
Doan Thanh Ho opened the door and welcomed Lam Pham in.
They had only seen Lam Pham's appearance in the illustrated book. Now, seeing him in person, the impact on them was immense.
Carrying a sword, with a smile.
He was... Lam Pham.
Lam Pham stared into Doan Thanh Ho's eyes, wanting to see through his heart. How he hoped that the living could maintain their former conscience.
His hope for their conscience was not to ask them to do anything good.
But to hope that they would not harm others.
The apocalypse was already desperate enough. If, in despair, one still had to face harm from their own kind, then for the living, it would be more terrifying and painful than being in hell.
Doan Thanh Ho felt a bit strange being stared at by Lam Pham.
He suppressed the shivers on his scalp and asked the question in his heart, "Hoang City is very far from here. How did you get here?"
Lam Pham said, "I determined the direction and ran and jumped all the way here."
A very normal behavior, it had always been like this.
No matter where he went, running and jumping were always the fastest.
Doan Thanh Ho: ...?
Doan Nghe: ...?
Tran Vo: ...?
Running?
Jumping?
Impossible, absolutely impossible.
The behavior Lam Pham described had surpassed their understanding.
Lam Pham saw that they were still in a dazed state and took the initiative to change the subject, starting with a conversation. As the conversation deepened, he believed he could have a deeper exchange with the other party.
"Hello, I still don't know your names. Can you tell me your names?"
From his observation, the three before him were full of energy and were Awakened ones. To have this kind of appearance in the apocalypse was very rare.
Of course, it definitely couldn't compare to Sunshine Shelter. The survivors there ate their fill, slept well, and their spirits were even fuller, no different from peaceful times.
"Headmaster of Hong Nhat Martial Arts School, Doan Thanh Ho. This is my daughter, Doan Nghe, and my student, Tran Vo."
Doan Thanh Ho introduced.
Lam Pham nodded. The students in the martial arts school had very good physical fitness. The number of survivors here now was not small, which was a rare thing after the apocalypse broke out.
Most places outside had been breached by zombies.
To survive...
Besides having a strong body.
The right time, place, and people were also very important.
"You told me before that you didn't want to go to Sunshine Shelter and wanted to develop here. I can understand that, and I have no other intentions. I can see that you are people with conscience, it's just that the apocalypse has made you cautious."
Lam Pham's purpose in coming here was to see their situation.
In any shelter, there were often wolves in sheep's clothing, and also people who were trapped in darkness, wanting to seek hope, but their path was blocked, and finally, in despair, they endured all kinds of terrible oppression.
Doan Thanh Ho had read the Zombie Illustration Book and knew some of the content recorded in it. Hearing Lam Pham's approval of them, he couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief.
After he made the call earlier, he also regretted it a little.
He was afraid of attracting wolves, tigers, and leopards. If they saw that they didn't want to go, they would forcibly take them away. In the apocalypse, survivors were simply not as good as pigs and dogs to some people, treated like livestock and crushed.
Clearly, there were fewer and fewer survivors in the apocalypse, but they never took the remaining survivors seriously.
Only now did he calm down.
"Thank you for your trust. My original purpose in starting Hong Nhat Martial Arts School, besides strengthening the body, was more importantly to hope that the students I teach could have a chivalrous heart."
Doan Thanh Ho had a martial arts dream in his heart. With a martial arts dream, he naturally also had the dream of becoming a leader.
The reason he didn't want to go to Sunshine Shelter was that he wanted to use Hong Nhat Martial Arts School as a base, slowly develop, and become another shelter force in the apocalypse, passing on the martial arts school and cultivating more disciples.
Now they had fifteen Awakened ones here.
Compared to other Awakened ones, their side was much more powerful.
When the apocalypse first broke out, ordinary people would flee for their lives when they saw zombies. Let alone whether they could kill zombies, it was already very good to be able to survive.
And his martial arts school students, as long as they had sharp weapons in their hands, could counter-kill zombies.
Under the circumstances of not relying on the geographical environment, being able to kill one zombie was already a great success.
Not to mention that after becoming Awakened ones, the strength they unleashed was even more astonishing.
"It's okay. The difference between people is that they have their own ideas. Everyone is an individual. I won't be angry just because you don't go to Sunshine Shelter."
Lam Pham could see the other party's thoughts.
He really had no other intentions in coming here, just wanted to take a look.
When the other party told him their location.
He knew there should be no problem.
Thinking back to the controlled zombie he encountered earlier, he had already shown a very friendly appearance, just wanting to know its location, but what he got was a rejection.
Regarding this, he knew the zombie was avoiding him.
Clearly, it had a guilty conscience.
Doan Thanh Ho heard Lam Pham say these words and his heart completely settled down. Ton Nang was right, Lam Pham from Hoang City was indeed different.
"Thank you."
He said his thanks.
"No need to say these thanks. You keep the satellite phone. When you encounter danger, you can call me, then you hide. No matter where I am, I will appear in front of you at the fastest speed."
Lam Pham hoped they could survive. To survive is to have hope, and with hope, there is a future.
Although he very much hoped the other party could come to Sunshine Shelter, he would not force anyone. After all, both sides were adults, and he had already made it very clear to the other party.
If in the future, they couldn't prevent accidents from happening.
Then they had to bear all that happened, after all, the path was chosen by themselves.
"You really are different from other survivors."
Doan Thanh Ho sighed sincerely. Having met too many survivors, he knew that in the current apocalypse, when people get along, they are often wary of each other, plotting against each other. There was absolutely no one as sincere as Lam Pham before him.
"No, there are not few survivors like me. There are still many, it's just that you haven't met them."
The apocalypse was a kind of growth for Lam Pham. He gradually grew up in the apocalypse, comprehending the impact the apocalypse brought to humanity, seeing light, seeing darkness, there were scenes that moved people's souls, and also tragic things that terrified people's souls.
He never thought that a person's change was because of the environment.
The environment was often just an invisible hand, only gently pushing from behind. As for whether to go or not, it really depended on one's own thoughts.
Just like when studying, the teacher's encouragement, the parents' urging, even if one was covered in wounds, it never changed the dislike of studying in one's heart.
Think about it carefully, how many pairs of hands can be seen pushing you forward, yet you desperately retreat?
So, often, what changes oneself is not the environment, but one's own heart.
"If there's a chance, we will definitely go to Sunshine Shelter to take a look."
Doan Thanh Ho said.
"There will be such a chance."