Chapter 152 – Running Into a Stray Dog

The guard force near the Quarantine Zone was presumably quite tight. After meeting up with Su Lian, Su Lifeng had Jiang Yushi and her go back first, while he brought this female student toward the Quarantine Cordon.

Along the way, she kept secretly looking at Su Lifeng, which made Su Lifeng feel somewhat uncomfortable.

Did you fall for me? If you fell for me, just say it!

This sentence suddenly popped into Su Lifeng’s mind.

The two of them basically walked through small alleys. Aside from running into a few unlucky Xenospecies midway, there was essentially no major danger. Su Lifeng then found something to say and asked, “Which department are you from?”

“Fine arts…” The girl’s answering voice was also weak.

“Then what’s your name?” Su Lifeng asked again.

For some reason, Su Lifeng kept feeling there was a subtle disharmony about this girl. Her demeanor seemed very frightened, but thinking back, whether when Jiang Yushi killed someone or when she went downstairs and saw Xu Hao and the others’ corpses, she had shown no greater reaction.

If Su Lifeng had not become sharper after Awakening, he probably would not have noticed such details. Otherwise, with his personality, he most likely would not have taken the initiative to speak with her.

“Maybe she was frightened numb?” Su Lifeng could only think this.

“Liu Yue,” the girl continued answering quietly.

The name was very ordinary…

“After I send you to the Quarantine Zone, be careful on your own,” Su Lifeng said.

“Okay.” Liu Yue nodded.

There was still some distance from the Quarantine Zone when Su Lifeng already saw the newly erected barbed wire and the cameras installed on it.

The buildings and streets closer to the barbed wire had almost all become firing points. Su Lifeng looked over them one by one and spotted quite a few gun and cannon muzzles alone.

A large number of tanks were also parked behind the barbed wire, forming a second protective net.

Once humans and Xenospecies were separated, the strength of military power was immediately displayed.

But the price paid was that over a million people had been compressed into one crowded area. Correspondingly, the number of Xenospecies around this area had clearly increased as well.

Facing the gathering area of human survivors, all Xenospecies were surely eyeing it like tigers watching prey.

And to guard against these Xenospecies, they needed to maintain the highest level of alert around the clock without interruption.

Those barbed wires were all electrified. This was also why the Quarantine Zone had to include the power plant.

Corpses could be seen by the roadside from time to time, and heartbeats also sounded beside Su Lifeng’s ear from time to time.

This meant Xenospecies had already set their sights on them, which was why he sensed it.

But after Su Lifeng gave a cold snort, the surroundings seemed to return to silence all at once.

At this moment, he suddenly turned his head as if sensing something and looked at Liu Yue.

Liu Yue seemed to be staring at him with some curiosity, but when Su Lifeng looked toward her, she lowered her head again.

“What is going on…” Su Lifeng muttered inwardly, then said aloud, “I’ll send you a little farther. After that, you’ll have to walk on your own.”

“Mm. Anyway… it’s almost enough.” Liu Yue’s voice was pressed very low, and Su Lifeng did not hear clearly what she had said. He only took it as her having agreed.

But the moment he turned his head back, Su Lifeng sensed that something was wrong.

He turned around and discovered in some astonishment that Liu Yue had actually disappeared.

“What’s going on?”

The alley was empty, leaving only Su Lifeng alone…

“Is it really fine to just leave like that?” Not far away, inside a house, a door was suddenly opened, and the one who walked in was precisely Liu Yue.

And the woman sitting inside, holding a wine glass, happened to be someone Su Lifeng knew as well.

That well-known socialite of Ningnan before doomsday, Fengyue, who had tried to seduce him and been rejected.

“He isn’t that easy to fool. I thought if I placed myself in a weak position and then had him heroically rescue the beauty, it would make him trust me more. I didn’t expect that under such circumstances, he would keep suspecting me…” At this moment, Liu Yue no longer had the slightest appearance of weakness. The expression on her face also became lively, not at all like someone who had suffered a brutal beating.

“So… even you failed?” Fengyue asked.

“It wasn’t completely without gains. First, I have already gained some understanding of his personality. In addition, I also have a further understanding of his abilities. He truly is a very suitable candidate,” Liu Yue continued. “And no matter what, he should have a very deep impression of me now. Besides, didn’t we leave him a little greeting gift?”

“That’s true. But if he isn’t willing, we’ll still have to find another candidate,” Fengyue said.

“No need. I trust my judgment. He is the most suitable.” A very confident look flashed through Liu Yue’s eyes.

…With Liu Yue suddenly disappearing, Su Lifeng naturally could not just go back like this.

However, after searching nearby, Su Lifeng made a very unexpected discovery.

Under a corner of a wall, Gouzi lay there with both eyes tightly closed.

With Su Lifeng’s eyesight, he naturally saw at a glance that Gouzi’s chest was still rising and falling, and that he was not dead. Even the external injuries on his body had almost recovered because of his self-healing ability. The only thing that looked rather miserable was that not only was his hair disheveled, but his clothes were filthy as well.

But why would he be here?

Su Lifeng did not believe that in an environment surrounded by Xenospecies, Gouzi could lie here alive for more than five minutes. So as he walked over, Su Lifeng looked around at the same time.

He did not see any figures… And almost the first moment he saw Gouzi, Su Lifeng connected this matter to Liu Yue.

Thinking about it now, from the moment he felt that gaze, everything had carried a sense of being guided.

“But Xu Hao and the others had bad intentions to begin with… and now I’ve found Gouzi too…” After thinking for a moment, Su Lifeng felt that Liu Yue had not done anything to harm him, so he temporarily pushed this matter to the back of his mind. No matter who Liu Yue was or what intention she had, if they had a chance to meet again, he would eventually find out.

He pushed Gouzi and said, “Wake up. If you keep sleeping, it’ll be dark.”

Gouzi shook his head and groaned twice before slowly opening his eyes.

The instant he opened his eyes, he abruptly jumped up, and the mutated features on his body immediately appeared. “Shit! Trying to ambush me!”

However, after seeing Su Lifeng’s appearance clearly, he froze again. It took a full while before he finally reacted. “Su-Ge! How did you find me!”

Looking at Gouzi’s face, which was extremely excited, yet had whiskers moving and mutated ears swaying, Su Lifeng truly did not know what to say for a moment.

Was he supposed to tell him that he had suddenly picked him up from the road while passing by?

It was not as if he were really a stray dog…