Chapter 578: Can’t Be Happy
Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations
Lin Qiao guessed that Wu Chengyue might have broken into level-eight already, but he didn’t plan to let the others know so soon
She turned and took Lin Xiaolu and Tongtong upstairs, then told Lin Xiaolu to bring Tongtong back to her room to play. Then, she went to the conference room and sat in the middle of the room while waiting. Soon, Lin Feng, Yuan Tianxing, and Chen Yuting came in one after another.
As Yuan Tianxing came in, Lin Qiao said to him, “Tianxing, prepare the planning graph of the base. Give me a rough report later.”
“Sure,” Hearing her words, Yuan Tianxing turned and walked to the cabinet behind Lin Qiao and took out a few drawing rolls.
When everyone else got there, Lin Qiao started talking, “Today, I need to talk to you about a few things, and the changes of your jobs. First, the attacker who attacked Yan Fangyu a couple of days ago is Lu Zhuofeng, one of the leaders of Hidden Cloud City Base. His motivation is easy to guess. He wants nothing but to sow discord between Sea City Base and us. We are his main target.”
After saying that, Lin Qiao stood up as she rested her hands in her trouser pockets and carried on, “Second, Lu Zhuofeng has already broken into level-eight. Since the strength of those bases in Southwest China has improved, the situation might change soon. Let’s not talk about if Long Yubai can make Hidden Cloud City Base and Sky Fire Base help him or not. By now, he is no longer able to control Lu Zhuofeng. Third, the antidote…”
She paused briefly at that point, then turned to Qiu Lili and Yun Meng who seemed to have no interest in the content of this meeting, then carried on, “Earlier on, I heard that Huaxia Base has achieved some kind of breakthrough on the development of the antidote for the zombie virus. Now, there is a result. The breakthrough is huge and exciting. If I were still a living human being, I’d be very happy. But now, I’m something else, and I can’t be happy about it. After all, that antidote is made for zombies.”
“Made for zombies? What does that mean?” Finally, Qiu Lili and Yun Meng realized that Lin Qiao was talking about something serious. Yun Meng asked the first question.
Not too many people knew about the antidote, as it was still a secret. Except for Lin Qiao, only Yuan Tianxing among the people on the scene had heard a little about it before.
Lin Qiao nodded and said, “I heard that Huaxia Base has already developed this kind of an antidote. When ten grams of that antidote is burned in the air, the cells of all the ordinary zombies within the area ten meters around it will lose activity and die. As a result, the zombies will die as well. For now, the antidote is only effective on ordinary zombies. We can’t say for sure if they’ll be able to develop an antidote for high-level zombies or not. This is a good thing for human beings, but for us, it means trouble.”
After saying that, Lin Qiao sighed.
“It’s really a good thing for humans,” Qiu Lili nodded, but not with a happy face. After all, she and her friends were no longer human beings.
“One last thing… Yan Fangyu. I was going to kill her in a while, but now, it seems that we should take her out as soon as possible.” A sharp beam of light flashed across Lin Qiao’s eyes.
Chen Yuting asked with confusion, “Her? Do we still need to kill her? Didn’t Sea City Base accept our terms? They also delivered what they promised us. It’ll be a little immoral for us to kill her, right?”
Lin Qiao looked at him and said, “First of all, she entered this place and read quite some stuff. Do you think that I’d let her get away with it so easily? Not to mention if she would leak out what she had read in this place, knowing so much about our base is enough for her to die. Secondly, our base will not offend any other base, but no one can offend us either. That woman has done such a dirty thing in our base. If she continues living a good life in Sea City Base after that, the others might think of us as pushovers, won’t they? And, they might sneak into our base to scout around one after another!”
For stealing information, Yan Fangyu needed to die. Those zombie nuclei and seeds were only the compensation for that soldier’s life, but could not atone her crime.
Lin Qiao knew that Yan Fangyu didn’t manage to steal any information about the secrets that she wanted to know, but the other bases didn’t know it. The other people might think that Yan Fangyu swaggered back to her own base after attaining some important information about Upper City Base.
“But, we have accepted Sea City Base’s terms as well. If we kill her, the others would still judge us, won’t they?” Chen Yuting still didn’t understand.
“We sent her back, didn’t we? She has left our base, and will die somewhere else. If you don’t tell, who would know that we killed her?” Lin Qiao looked at him and said, “If Sea City Base can protect her well, or if she knows how to protect herself, she won’t die. So, if she died, no one but herself and her base should be blamed for her death.”
“Since the moment she left our base, the other bases have stopped caring where she’ll die and who’ll kill her. Otherwise, why would anyone sneakily attack her to try and ruin our relations.h.i.+p with Sea City Base?”
“I see!” Chen Yuting finally took a tumble and understood Lin Qiao’s meaning.
“I’ll kill Yan Fangyu!” Qiu Lili abruptly joined the topic.
Qiu Lili really hated that woman. Last time, if it weren’t for the two seriously injured people, she would have even caught up with her and kill her directly.
“No need. I’ll take care of her. You guys stay here… Try your best to accelerate the construction work of the fence wall. I’ll deal with Yan Fangyu and Long Yubai,” Lin Qiao shook her head and said.
The others glanced at each other. Did she mean that she was going to leave the base again?
Seeing the looks on their faces, Lin Qiao nodded and said, “Yes, I’ll leave. And this time, I won’t take any of you with me.”
“Yuan Tianxing,” she started a.s.signing tasks, “accelerate the construction work of the fence wall. Lin Feng, your power is still unstable. Make it stable, leave no s.p.a.ce for accidents. Chen Yuting, you and Yun Meng go out separately to collect constructional materials. Lili, you stay here and guard the base. Keep an eye on those high-leveled zombies that I brought back. Thankfully, we only have a small number of residents in our base, so we don’t need a giant amount of supplies for the winter. What we’ve collected before is enough.”
Lin Feng was one of the strongest people in the base, so no accidents could happen to him. Therefore, Lin Qiao specifically ordered him to stabilize his power, and gave the other jobs to Chen Yuting for the time being.
For now, they didn’t need to worry about food either. After all, Lin Feng and his people had found quite a lot military provisions earlier on from the army base which Lin Qiao told him to go to