Chapter 95 Something Terrible

“I have a bad premoni…”

“Shut up.”

Mingmei covered Lu Xiaoyao’s mouth the moment she was about to jinx them.

“Everyone else is outside. Letting you stay home to watch the house doesn’t mean you get to curse us.”

“Mmpth @#$ ao @#%$#”

Mingmei never expected that Lu Xiaoyao could stretch her mouth open like a Slit-Mouthed Woman for a moment to get her hand off.

Mingmei: 0.0

For a moment, she didn’t know what to do with her hand covered in saliva!

“Hey, you two are more energetic than the children. Settle down, settle down, come and sit in the shade over here.”

Zhen Hu couldn’t believe that Mingmei, who was usually cold and quiet, could actually play around with Lu Xiaoyao like this.

Because of their antics, the children playing in the yard were all staring at them with wide eyes.

For a moment, Mingmei and Lu Xiaoyao didn’t know whether to move or not.

Lu Xiaoyao: I have a guilty conscience for corrupting the children.

Mingmei: So embarrassing, orz.

Because of the two children, Zhen Hu also stayed behind. Currently, their team consisted of Mingmei, Lu Xiaoyao, Zhen Hu, Wang Wenyin, and two little ones left at the base.

But the overall combat power was still not enough. In order to take care of each other, they had even been living in Lou Jia’s small courtyard these past few days. The people left behind by Lu Gui were also here.

Lou Jia, who had always considered himself a neutral party, couldn’t avoid standing on the same line as them this time.

For the first time, Lou Jia felt that the place he had rented was quite crowded.

Because the adults basically gave the yard to the eight children to play in.

Yes, eight children.

Five raised by Lou Jia, two from Mu Chen’s team, and one from Lu Gui’s team who also had a child.

However, that child’s mother was also an NPC, meaning Lu Gui’s team had taken in a pair of NPC mother and daughter.

The eight children were having a great time playing in the yard, their laughter never stopping. The adults either sat under the eaves learning how to make things from Lou Jia, or, like Mingmei and Lu Xiaoyao, played around with a “peacemaker” nearby; or they went outside to scout or stood guard at the door.

“It’s been four or five days, I wonder how much longer it will take…”

Wang Wenyin absentmindedly picked vegetables, preparing to cook later. When the others heard her words, they naturally followed up with, “It should be soon, these granaries are distributed in the surrounding counties and cities, they can’t go too far. The main thing is that the trucks make noise when driving, and clearing zombies along the way slows them down.”

“Slow is fine, as long as it’s safe~”

Zhen Hu also said something practical after hearing this.

Just as everyone was absentmindedly chatting, the courtyard door suddenly rang.

The knocking was very rhythmic. After hearing the knock, an ability user who was standing guard near the courtyard door immediately opened it. Soon, a human figure gradually appeared in the air.

Li Yuan had just used his invisibility ability to take a stroll outside.

“What’s the word?” Before he could speak, everyone became anxious.

“The situation outside is getting tighter and tighter. Today, the checkpoints for entering the outer city have increased a lot of manpower, and their faces are so serious that they are scary.”

After taking the warm water Wang Wenyin handed over, Li Yuan thanked her, drank it, and continued, “I hid there for a long time, eavesdropping. I heard that many people from the teams above haven’t returned yet.”

“If their people come back, wouldn’t our people be in danger?”

“That’s right, in that case, this may not be good news for us.”

“If they can’t come back, it’s either they encounter our people by chance, and everyone gets entangled and hinders each other’s return; or they are taken care of by our people.”

“I hope it’s the latter.”

Everyone chatted at once, but as they talked, Lou Jia’s expression turned bad for a moment, and he asked, “If our people succeed and come back, do you think everyone here will become hostages?”

Everyone fell silent after Lou Jia asked this question.

This was definitely possible.

“Isn’t that what we’re here for?!”

Zhen Hu suddenly patted his chest, and the other ability users echoed, “Yeah, we’re here!”

“Actually, being a hostage isn’t the worst thing…” Mingmei said silently, glancing at the confused crowd, “If they’re pushed too hard, they might drag everyone down with them.”

Everyone: ???

“Meimei, why are your thoughts so dark?”

Mingmei: ???

Looking at Lu Xiaoyao’s frightened expression, as if a hamster couldn’t even hold its sunflower seeds.

“But… you can’t think of our enemies as normal people, right? Those people are so controlling. If they can’t win you over, they will suppress you crazily, and even want to quietly kill you. ‘Those who submit to me will prosper, those who resist me will perish.’ Are you thinking too highly of such enemies?”

Mingmei couldn’t help sighing in her heart as she looked at Lu Xiaoyao, who had played so many escape games, and was still like this—didn’t she learn anything?

The villains in escape games are not normal people.

“Then… how do you think they would drag everyone down with them?”

When Lou Jia asked this, a terrifying murderous aura was constantly emanating from him. He couldn’t help but wonder what he would do if the children he raised really died.

“I don’t know, but it’s nothing more than precision strikes or indiscriminate damage.” Mingmei thought for a moment and said, “For the former, they may come to arrest people from the opposing teams to use as threats. If the threat doesn’t work, then everyone dies together. For the latter…”

Speaking of this, Mingmei paused, and her eyes instantly became frighteningly tight: “For the latter, it’s better for everyone in a base to be finished, after all, ‘if I’ can’t have it, you can’t keep it either.’”

After Mingmei finished speaking, everyone was standing in the bright sun, but at this moment, they inexplicably felt a chill down their spines.

The expressions on everyone’s faces became more and more ugly.

“What if, oh, I mean what if…”

“You better not say it.”

Everyone was already quite upset, but at this time, Lu Xiaoyao looked eager to try and tempt fate, and no one wanted her to speak.

“It won’t happen.”

At this time, Lou Jia suddenly said, “Even if the latter you mentioned has such thoughts, other people, other people in the leadership, will not agree.”

“That’s true~” Mingmei smiled at this, at least they still had Julian above them, and the latter’s situation shouldn’t be like this, “I thought too highly of them.”

Everyone: “…”

Was that what she was thinking?

…Outside the city…

“This is outrageous, you guys actually have so many rocket launchers…”

As a “prisoner” and a “traitor,” Mu Ning was not as gloomy as others who had been captured. Instead, she was eating the dry food they gave her, and her curious little eyes were spinning around Zhen Po, who had come to deliver the dry food to her, for a long time.

Mu Ning had also prepared herself mentally before speaking.

“The weapons in your hands are more numerous and advanced than ours~”

“Is that so?”

Zhen Po glanced at the ponytail girl beside him, raised his eyes and glanced at the other prisoners nearby, then silently retracted his gaze.

If he didn’t know that the other party was actually one of them, he would have suspected that she was trying to get information to escape.

“Yes, no wonder we lost. The higher-ups are really inhuman. They knew you were so dangerous, but they still gave us these things. Facing you, it’s like bird guns against cannons, sigh~”

After saying that, Mu Ning sighed heavily, and her eyes turned to the captured personnel on the side, seemingly waiting for their reaction.

As a result, the pretty sister who had been interested in Mu Ning earlier glared at her and said, “What are you pretending for? You are a traitor from beginning to end. You fired the signal flare. Are you feeling sorry for us now?! It’s all your fault that so many brothers died! You traitor!”

The angry woman, with her hands and feet bound, kicked a pile of sand towards Mu Ning’s line of defense on the ground. Mu Ning didn’t dodge all of it, and the dry food she hadn’t finished eating was all dirty.

Zhen Po was about to stop the woman’s actions, but the seemingly weak Mu Ning in front of him was also angered by the other party’s words. She simply stopped pretending, shook off the hemp rope on her hands and feet, and rushed to the other party like a gust of wind.

She stepped on the woman’s head with one foot!

Zhen Po: 0.0!!

“Your brothers’ lives are lives, but the people who were killed by you earlier aren’t? You feel sorry for your brothers’ lives, but have you ever felt sorry for the people who were killed by you, and what their relatives and friends would be like?!”

What this woman said just now was like the last straw that broke Mu Ning’s desire to live a peaceful salted fish life in this world.

Earlier in the car, this woman later bragged to others that she had once led a team to intercept and kill a team of ability users who were resisting the higher-ups’ recruitment.

She talked about how they ambushed and eliminated all the ability users in that team, and also said that the group of ordinary people who were seeking shelter from that team were all stupid, which made Mu Ning full of fire.

Therefore, at the moment she saw the figures of Lu Gui’s team’s vehicles, she couldn’t wait to fire the signal flare in her hand that had been specially changed by Julian.

It was almost undisguised, so the other party saw it clearly.

Perhaps, at that time, Mu Ning subconsciously didn’t want to deal with these people anymore?

“Someone like you who has no empathy, I don’t think it’s good for everyone to return to the base if I keep you, don’t you think… is that right?”

Mu Ning didn’t reduce the strength under her feet, but turned her head and smiled at Zhen Po, who was already dumbfounded…