Chapter 166 – An Outburst After Lying Dormant

After they came out of the subway station, Yu Zai reported the situation over his radio. Then he said to Su Lifeng, “While you were carrying out the mission with us, command of the Jiangnan Biomedical Group security team was already transferred to Miss Jiang. Right now, you should count as our suppliers. I hope our cooperation will be pleasant.”

Su Lifeng merely nodded at that. This had been part of their agreement in the first place. Lv Zifeng had simply handled it without dragging anything out. Seeing that they were about to part, Su Lifeng suddenly turned his head and looked at the female soldier.

“My name is Song Minyao.” The female soldier hesitated for a moment, then took the initiative to extend her hand. “Thank you for saving me earlier…”

Su Lifeng extended his hand too and held hers. Song Minyao’s palm was stronger than an ordinary girl’s, and her body temperature felt very low. Even her skin looked almost transparent because of it. Su Lifeng had not noticed that underground, but now that they were back on the surface, it was obvious. He then asked, “That ability of yours that can lower the temperature, that isn’t a Mutant ability, is it? What is it?”

Song Minyao froze for a moment, but she did not refuse outright. She bit her lip, glanced at Yu Zai, and after receiving his tacit approval, answered, “I don’t know either. This ability suddenly appeared yesterday. At first I thought it was only my problem, but others in the team have also developed this kind of situation. As for whether any survivors have it, we don’t know yet.”

“I see…” Su Lifeng nodded. Song Minyao must still have plenty of specific information she had not told him, but as long as he could confirm that these people, including himself, had all undergone Awakening at the same time, that was enough.

“You don’t seem especially surprised. Do you know something?” Yu Zai asked.

Su Lifeng looked at him and said, “I suggest you inspect the underground situation as quickly as possible. With that many Xenospecies lying dormant below, isn’t that an enormous threat?”

Li Heng, standing to the side, smiled. “Don’t worry. We thought about that long ago. A lot of explosives have already been placed at the subway station entrances. In an emergency, we can seal the entrances directly. Places like sewer openings have also been sealed off completely. Even toilets have assigned personnel responsible for inspecting them…”

But he quickly realized he seemed to have said too much, though even if he told Su Lifeng these things, it did not really matter.

“We still need to go deal with Shencheng’s problem, so we won’t keep you. But Commander Lv was very appreciative of your performance, so he has decided to give you another small gift. I hope you won’t refuse,” Yu Zai said.

“I won’t.”

Hearing Su Lifeng accept without the slightest politeness, Yu Zai’s remaining words were immediately choked back into his throat. He thought helplessly for a moment, then shook hands with Su Lifeng. “Then we’ll meet again.”

“We’ll meet again.”

As they spoke, an off-road vehicle reinforced with steel plates drove up in front of Su Lifeng. At the sight of this thing, so imposing that it looked like a steel beast, Su Lifeng’s eyes could not help showing a hint of joy. A machine gun had also been mounted on the front, and the windows looked bulletproof from their thickness. Su Lifeng took the keys from the driver and got in.

Boom!

As a plume of exhaust sprayed out, Su Lifeng drove the vehicle straight through the Quarantine Zone with a smile on his face. From time to time along the way, people looked out from behind windows. These people might once have been wealthy merchants, celebrities, or all kinds of other identities, but now they were only weak survivors. Without exception, they watched Su Lifeng with eyes full of both envy and resentment.

“Those damned men!” The actress also saw Su Lifeng driving away. A complicated look immediately appeared in her eyes, which had already dimmed again, and she could not help cursing under her breath.

She withdrew her gaze, then sighed sadly. When would she be able to return to life under the sunlight? When would she be able to keep enjoying those bright, glamorous days?

Then she looked toward the vehicle parked not far away. She knew the officer sitting inside it was called Captain Long. Whenever she sat here, she could always feel Captain Long Shan’s lecherous gaze on her.

But just like the other men who could not help looking at her a few extra times, this captain was also a coward.

Noticing that the young starlet was looking at him, Long Shan immediately narrowed his eyes and laughed with a “heh heh.” Still, the feeling of being able to look but not touch left him somewhat gloomy. Just as he bent down, preparing to pull up another blade of grass and put it in his mouth, the storm-drain cover that had already returned to calm trembled once again. A Black Thread drilled out from the gap and, as if it were alive, slowly turned and “looked” toward him from afar…

…

In the blink of an eye, a week had passed since Jiang Yushi took over Jiangnan Biomedical Group.

During this time, however, Su Lifeng and the others still lived in his home.

Entering the inside of the group would certainly be safe, but it would be inconvenient when it came to hunting Xenospecies.

In fact, just as Lv Zifeng had predicted, for the sake of evolution and survival, the Mutants had no choice but to remain outside the Quarantine Zone, fighting Xenospecies in the streets every day.

But ever since his trip to the Quarantine Zone, Su Lifeng had placed a question mark over its safety in his heart. With so many people gathered in one place, Xenospecies infiltration would absolutely never stop. Although Yu Zai was very confident in the Quarantine Zone’s defenses, Su Lifeng always felt that even machines had flaws, let alone a place guarded and defended by tens of thousands of people.

In addition, two major events had happened in Ningnan during this period.

One was that Lv Zifeng had opened the subway passage from Ningnan to Shencheng and established several large residential areas along the line. As large numbers of survivors from Ningnan and Shencheng moved into those residential areas, the surrounding farmland was also reclaimed. But according to what Su Lian saw on the Quarantine Zone website, as Earth’s environment changed, obvious problems had also appeared with planting crops. The survival rate of seeds had dropped sharply.

The survivors did not know these things, but it meant that Lv Zifeng’s idea of maintaining the Quarantine Zone over the long term had run into obstacles in a very short time. Although Su Lifeng had expected this long ago, he had not expected the effects to arrive so quickly.

The second event concerned the Mutants and survivors in Ningnan’s urban district. One side, led by Gouzi, occupied half the city, while the other side had all but entrenched itself across the entire downtown area. But no matter where they were, both sides had already welcomed the greatest change since the end of the world.

Those Xenospecies were starting to become more active. Their evolution was now surging explosively. It was as if, after more than a week of digestion, they had suddenly exploded…