Chapter 1285: Get into Action
“I’m sorry. I’m not going to do what you said, or act together with this pretty captain of yours. Aren’t you aware of what situation we’re now in? I don’t like anyone to hinder me down there,” Lin Qiao said blandly. While speaking, she looked at Si Kongchen coldly, without even glancing at Xie Longyun.
“I agree with Chief Lu and Chief Du. It’s really unnecessary for such a large team to stick together. Such a large group of people can easily become a target. It might cause unnecessary trouble,” Wu Chengyue held his hands behind his body and said to Si Kongchen with a smile.
Lan Lu nodded and said, “It’s indeed safer for people to all stay together, but sometimes, trouble can also be attracted that way. If there has to be someone leading the team, I think Chief Lu is capable of doing that. After all, we’ve witnessed her power. As for Miss. Xie here, we don’t know her well yet.”
He could accept to let the team act together, but the one leading it had to be Lin Qiao. Otherwise, people should go separate ways.
As everyone else objected, Si Kongchen stayed silent for a long while, looking black as thunder. He was sullen-faced since the beginning. Meanwhile Xie Longyun stayed composed, and the smile on her face never faded. “Alright. Since you guys don’t agree with us, we will do it your way. We’ll go separate ways after getting down.”
After saying that, she turned and gave Si Kongchen an eye signal. In fact, the latter had foreseen that result. He believed that no one would agree to follow Xie Yunlong’s lead. What he really wanted was for people to go separate ways, so she would have an opportunity to do something to the others.
“Since everyone is here, let’s start,” Si Kongchen said with a deep voice after two seconds of silence.
The spot that people had decided to enter the underground world from was about a hundred miles away from Huaxia Base, and it would take them about two hours to drive there. Everyone got into their cars and headed toward the destination according to the location provided by their leaders.
Lin Qiao got into her car. But before that, she glanced at Wu Chengyue and said, “The things up here will be left for you to handle. I don’t want to see anything that I wouldn’t like when I come back from the underground.”
“Don’t worry,” Wu Chengyue responded to her with a smile, “That won’t happen. Be careful!”
He didn’t need to say much, because he knew what the zombie lady could do.
Lin Qiao nodded as she sat into the car and told Duan Juan to drive.
They were driving an armed off-road vehicle. Apart from the two armed off-road cars, Huaxia Base had also sent a military truck.
“They’re going in action now. Let’s head back and wait for the result.” Watching the motorcade leave, Lan Lu started prepared to leave the first.
Wu Chengyue nodded and said, “That’s the only thing we can do now. The action will take them some time. We’ll gather again when they came back. I still have some work to do in my base, so I won’t be staying here to keep you guys company.”
“I need to go too. See you around, guys!” Du Kunsheng waved at the others as he turned and got into his car, leaving with his people.
While the other base leaders were heading back to their own bases, Lin Qiao and the rest of the team had driven to miles away. At that moment, a red figure flashed across the sky. It was so swift that people couldn’t see it clearly, but everyone sensed its vibe.
Lin Qiao raised her head and glanced at it, but made no other reaction. On top of a car belonging to Green Mountain Base, the dog abruptly stood up and reared up its head to stare at the red figure in the sky, with its tail held between its legs.
Lei Cheng stuck his head out of the window and spent a short while observing the creature in the sky, then retracted his head.
“What is it? Is it just pa.s.sing through?” Ye Yingyue looked at him and asked.
Lei Cheng shook his head expressionlessly as he slightly furrowed his brows and said, “I can’t tell what it is. It doesn’t look like someone that’s simply pa.s.sing through though.”
While speaking, he raised his eyes and glanced upward again.
“It’s not pa.s.sing by? Is it following us then? Where did it come from?” Ye Yingyue stuck her head out of the window to look at that creature as well.
In another vehicle, Xie Longyun also raised her head to look at the red figure in the sky, but she didn’t say anything.
“Captain, aren’t we gonna do anything about it?” One of her subordinates said to her.
Xie Yunlong was holding a bottle of nail polish, preparing to paint her nail. On hearing her subordinate’s question, she said to the man without even raising her head, “Do what? Did you see anyone else do anything? Let’s just wait and see. Maybe it’ll be gone soon.”
While speaking, she carefully painted one of her beautiful nails, then pouted her red lips and blew at it gently. After that, she raised the second finger.
That kind of nail polish was created by some people in Huaxia Base. They collected the blossoms of some slightly mutated plants and turned them into nail polish through multiple processes. Due to the rarity of the raw materials and the complicated processes, the product could be considered luxurious. In Huaxia Base, nail polish like this was very hard to get.
The subordinate stuck his head out to look at the red creature again and said, “Why do I feel that it’s following us and intending to attack.”
“Let it attack us then,” said Xie Longyun blandly, “Don’t we have a level-eight one in the team? Do I need to worry about that level-seven flying beast?”
“Oh,” the subordinate didn’t know what else to say.
At that time, in Lin Qiao’s car, Duan Juan said to her, “Is it following you underground? Will it cause us any unnecessary trouble?”
Lin Qiao leaned against the back of the seat a she closed her eyes and said, “Judging by what happened before, it won’t cause us any trouble. It has been keeping a distance from us all the time. I’m just curious why it keeps following us.”
“It’s following you,” Duan Juan smiled and said, “But, it’s not gonna be a good thing if it acts friendly toward you in front of the people from the other bases.”
That would arouse some people’s suspicions, especially of the people from Huaxia Base. For them, that could be a perfect excuse to do something to Lin Qiao.
“I don’t know if that’ll happen or not,” Lin Qiao stayed silent for two seconds, then said, “Let’s hope it won’t suddenly descend from the sky!”
The big cat had no hostility toward her, but Lin Qiao doubted if it knew when to do what. If it came down right now and start interacting with her, the others would certainly have suspicions.
However, as the group of people was all observing the red creature that was flying high in the sky, the big cat suddenly sped up and disappeared.
People sighed with relief. At least, they wouldn’t need to worry that it might suddenly come down to attack them. They weren’t afraid of it, but they didn’t want any unnecessary trouble. To deal with the cat, they would have to interrupt their journey. They didn’t want any problems on the way, and only hoped to get to the destination safely and smoothly.