Chapter 142 – I Was Just Passing By

“How is the situation in Shencheng?” Inside the Quarantine Cordon, Lv Zifeng was asking. After an entire day and night of being run ragged, he had not even touched a bed yet. But there were many others like him. Aside from screening the people coming to the Quarantine Cordon and settling them in, stabilizing military morale was also a very troublesome matter.

Everyone had family. From time to time, someone in the ranks would suddenly break down, hoping to go back and search for their parents. Fortunately, the special operations teams serving as the main force had gone through layer upon layer of screening before this. With them present, everything had not yet fallen into chaos.

These troubles could still be overcome, but what truly made Lv Zifeng feel difficult to handle was that judging from the images captured by satellite, Ningnan would probably soon fall into an even greater predicament. To say nothing else, how were they supposed to defend such a long security line? With manpower insufficient, what could they use to fight those terrifying monsters? Even though they had not been attacked yet, had they not already been forced to abandon more than half the city?

That was why he thought of neighboring Shencheng. In this region, Shencheng was the most prosperous and had the strongest military force.

“They haven’t replied to us yet, but from what I see, they still seem to want you, Captain, to go over and discuss things with them in detail,” a team member reported.

Lv Zifeng’s brow furrowed, and he gave a cold snort. “Discuss in detail?”

Once he went, he would probably become a hostage!

After all this pushing and stalling, Lv Zifeng had already more or less understood what those people were thinking.

He was both angry and helpless. At a time like this, there were actually still people single-mindedly thinking about things like command authority.

“Our request is to connect the Quarantine Cordons on both sides. Ideally, they should be merged into one. But Shencheng feels that doing this is too risky. Following your instructions, Captain, I told them that if they don’t take risks now, once the Xenospecies free up their hands, we won’t even have the chance to take risks anymore. But they still said this concerns the safety of several million people and requires more consideration. In addition, they also hope we can support them with some supplies, saying they have more people…”

At this point, even the team member seemed unable to continue.

“Do they think they’re doing research or conducting an inspection? They still want to consider more…” Lv Zifeng’s face was so dark it seemed ready to drip water.

The team member also muttered indignantly, “I think these people are just selfish. For the sake of improving their own survival rate, they don’t care about anything else. People like that deserve to suffer a little! Speaking of which, their commander is also from the Operations Group, and now he’s using his higher rank as an argument.”

The subtext was that the other party’s tone had not been as polite as he had just relayed. It should have been more like an order.

Lv Zifeng thought with a dark expression for a while, then suddenly gave a cold laugh. “Tell them we can talk. Have them send people to pick me up.”

“Do you want me to go with you?” A voice suddenly came from the doorway. Yu Zai stood there smiling, a playful look seeming to flash through his eyes.

Having said this, he suddenly added for no apparent reason, “That Jiangnan Biomedical Group, Jiang Fusheng’s daughter, doesn’t seem to have returned to the group, nor has she come to the Quarantine Cordon. Speaking of which, that young man who was with her, weren’t you paying a lot of attention to him back then?”

Lv Zifeng froze for a moment, then revealed a thoughtful expression. “Su Lifeng…”

Several days passed in the blink of an eye. During this period, Su Lifeng made a trip to the laboratory. From a distance, everything appeared to be operating well.

Just as he had thought, because it was too far from the urban district, the Xenospecies would not be able to focus on this place for the time being.

After that, he went to take a look at the warehouse he had rented. But the moment he pushed open the door, Su Lifeng frowned.

On the door, he had actually seen a little blood.

There were also some bloodstains inside the room, but no person could be seen.

“Who could it be?” Su Lifeng thought of Gouzi.

He crouched and scraped at the bloodstain with his fingernail, then furrowed his brow.

This blood had been coagulated for several days already.

Back then, Gouzi had given his address to Su Lifeng. After carefully crossing half the urban district, Su Lifeng arrived outside an old residential building that was somewhat shabby.

Along the way, he felt that quite a few Xenospecies sensed him, but these Xenospecies did not rashly follow.

After standing outside the residential building and observing for a while, Su Lifeng walked inside.

But after knocking on Gouzi’s door for a while, Su Lifeng did not wait for anyone to open it. Instead, just as he turned around, a faint sound suddenly came from behind the door next door.

Su Lifeng immediately stopped. He glanced at that tightly closed door, then walked over.

“Bang!”

The Exoskeleton emerged. With one light punch, the door lock rapidly blackened, finally turning into flakes of rust that fell away.

Su Lifeng pushed open the door and walked in. The moment he entered, his nose wrinkled.

A rotten smell came from inside the room, and bloodstains were everywhere on the floor.

Su Lifeng followed the bloodstains all the way in, then stopped at the bathroom door.

A hand covered in blood scabs rested on the edge of the door. Su Lifeng pushed the door open, and before his eyes appeared a man covered head to toe in blood, his hair a tangled mess.

This person looked not far from death. Through his hair, a pair of eyes stared fixedly at Su Lifeng.

“Who are you?” Su Lifeng crouched and asked.

“I… I’m one of Gouzi-Ge’s… men… My… my girlfriend… is hiding in my place. Help me…” His voice was extremely hoarse, so faint it was almost impossible to hear clearly.

“Where is Gouzi?” Su Lifeng’s expression did not change, and his tone remained very calm.

Perhaps influenced by Su Lifeng, the man’s Adam’s apple moved, and his voice gained a little more strength. “At… Fengyue Nightclub… The one who made a move… is a…”

He failed to finish this sentence. A few seconds later, Su Lifeng looked at his already frozen gaze and helped close his eyes.

It was hard to imagine that he could hold on until now with such heavy injuries. After saying these words, he probably felt that his mission had been completed…

“Don’t worry,” Su Lifeng said quietly, then stood up.

Fengyue Nightclub…

Those who would still remain outside the Quarantine Cordon at this time were most likely Mutants, right?

A little anger slowly began rising from the depths of Su Lifeng’s heart.

When he walked out of this building, Su Lifeng suddenly caught sight of a figure.

That person seemed to be keeping watch here. He hid in a corner and peered around, not expecting Su Lifeng’s senses to be this sharp. He immediately turned and ran into the alley.

However, he had not run far when a figure suddenly turned out in front of him.

“You’re one of Fengyue Nightclub’s people, aren’t you?” Su Lifeng stared at him icily and asked.

This person looked to be in his twenties. His eyes kept darting around, making him look quite cunning.

“It’s not some nightclub. That place is only a station now… Besides, I was just passing by…”

The moment his words fell, he suddenly pulled the hand in his pocket out and flung a handful of sand straight at Su Lifeng. Immediately afterward, his mouth opened and split all the way to his ears.

“Ask your mother, die!”