Entrusted by Another

Zhang Songfu hurriedly asked, "You found our comrades?"

Jiang Xiao nodded. "The two comrades from the Guardian Army are there. Now, it's your turn."

Zhang Songfu's expression grew excited. After a long while, he finally spoke. "A long time ago—I'm not sure exactly how many months ago. I've lost all sense of time. In any case, I once encountered an old man."

Jiang Xiao's heart jolted. "What was his name?"

Zhang Songfu shook his head. "He didn't say. He just looked over my living conditions and left."

Jiang Xiao: "He left!?"

You've got to be kidding me, right?

Zhang Songfu said helplessly, "I tried to persuade him to stay. I also wanted to survive alongside him and ask him for information about this place, but he didn't reveal anything."

Jiang Xiao: "You..."

Zhang Songfu spread out his hands and leaned against the wall. "I couldn't catch up to him."

You couldn't catch an old man?

Zhang Songfu's expression turned solemn as he revealed a crucial piece of information. "He did mention that there were some people like me here who were still struggling to survive."

In his astonishment, Jiang Xiao's half-baked Beijing accent burst out again. "What do you mean, 'you'?"

Zhang Songfu said, "I'm not sure whether he only said that to encourage me. His exact words should have been: 'There are some people here who are like you. None of them have given up hope.'"

As he spoke, Zhang Songfu grew excited. "Looks like he wasn't lying to me. There are still two Guardian Army brothers here."

Jiang Xiao shook his head. "No, that old man probably wasn't talking about those two Guardian Army soldiers. I stayed at their residence for a long time and talked with them extensively. If they had encountered this old man, they definitely