chun jie di xiao long
Chapter 685 Protection Fee
Zhou Ze walked out with the wine jar, Yingying and the others following behind him.
As they reached the vermilion gate, Zhou Ze saw "Spider" hanging from it with both hands and feet.
His entire being, however, had already lost its vitality.
It was winter, and Chengdu was even snowing today.
His body was already cold.
He had guarded this place for over twenty years, but the final resolution seemed a little too bland.
It didn't quite meet the "appreciation needs" of onlookers.
But for him personally, it was perhaps the best and most appropriate ending.
After all, it wasn't so much that he was obsessed with the ancient tomb, but rather with the vermilion gate. He and his classmates and teacher had never even entered the tomb chamber.
More than twenty years of guarding, living in anonymity, eking out an existence, perhaps he himself had been confused, wondering what his persistence was for.
And sometimes, so-called persistence, so-called suffering, doesn't really need a thorough and clear result.
The arrival of Zhou Ze and the others gave him the courage to re-enter the tomb.
"Spider" seemed to have regained the life that should have been his more than twenty years ago.
Since the tragedy began here, then the suffering should also end here.
Thus, the sensational zombie incident of the late last century finally came to a close. The last "witness" and "experiencer" had also closed his eyes.
As for whether there were other victims still suffering in pain, that was not something Zhou Ze needed to worry about.
"Should we pull him out and bury him?"
Lawyer An pointed at "Spider" and said.
Honestly, this guy was a bit ugly and looked like a villain, but it was hard to really dislike him.
"Let him stay in that position, let's go."
Zhou Ze rejected Lawyer An's suggestion and walked out of the tomb first.
When the others also came out, Zhou Ze looked around and said to Lawyer An:
"Get the property rights here, no problem, right?"
Lawyer An smiled and said, "My specialty."
Zhou Ze couldn't touch this place, including the half-face in the tomb below, now, but that didn't mean he couldn't touch it in the future.
In the future, when he could stand a little higher,
Or just wait for Tie Han Han (Iron Dummy) to wake up,
Dealing with it would be simple.
It was like finding a treasure for himself, hiding it well, marking it, and waiting to retrieve it later.
"Call Yue Ya, Liu Chuyu, and the others. Sort out the affairs here again."
"Sort out?" Yingying didn't quite understand.
"Yeah, I'll arrange it. Everyone in this sanatorium will be found, monitored, or simply placed here? Anyway, they only need to drink duck blood and chicken blood every day."
"You decide." Zhou Ze thought for a while and added, "Don't kill anyone."
Killing here, of course, wasn't just about personally killing people. Lawyer An couldn't really kill people himself, but just leaking the news that they were "sick" would easily lead to them being "eliminated."
"I understand."
"Yeah."
Zhou Ze didn't leave here, but went to the building in front. There were still a few rooms cleaned up here, the environment was okay, it should be where people from the sanatorium lived before.
Because of his cleanliness, Zhou Ze didn't get on their bed, but found an unopened mattress in the cabinet, spread it on the floor, and lay down on it himself.
With Yingying not by his side, he couldn't sleep, but Zhou Ze didn't plan to sleep, just wanted to lie down alone for a while.
After dawn, Xu Qinglang and Hei Xiaoniu (Black Little Girl) also came.
They didn't participate in yesterday's events and were arranged to rest in the hotel. Hei Xiaoniu was fine at the moment, but Lao Xu's face was still a little pale.
Obviously, the depletion of his body couldn't be recovered overnight.
But now was the time to use people.
Zheng Qiang, Liu Chuyu, and Yue Ya hadn't arrived yet. Even if they did, the matter of sealing the tomb entrance would still fall on Xu Qinglang.
Fortunately, this matter didn't need to be rushed. Xu Qinglang could arrange it slowly, and the difficulty of the formation wasn't great. After all, it wasn't pursuing any attack power or lethality, just to play a role of confusion and concealment.
In the afternoon, Yue Ya, Zheng Qiang, and Liu Chuyu all arrived by plane.
However, because Zhou Ze was still in the room and hadn't come out, they could only do their work first, as they originally wanted to pay respects to the newly promoted captain.
It wasn't until evening that Zhou Ze came out of the room, squatting against the sunset.
"So desolate?"
"Your surname is Lin, right?"
Zhou Ze remembered that "Spider" seemed to have called the owner of this villa Little Lin.
"Yeah, my surname is Lin, I'm called Lin Guan."
Lin Guan squatted down beside Zhou Ze, looking at the sunset together.
Zhou Ze took out two cigarettes and handed one to Lin Guan.
Lin Guan took out a lighter, lit Zhou Ze's first, then lit his own.
"I brought my mom here too."
Lin Guan said.
Zhou Ze was a little surprised to hear this, but he still nodded.
He had heard the noise when he came out, a few people had already been captured.
Before Zhou Ze and the others came, "Spider" had "dismissed" several people in the sanatorium, and under Zhou Ze's arrangement, Lawyer An led Yingying, the little boy, and a group of ghost messengers to capture those dismissed people again.
The reason for doing this was to keep the secret, and the second was to control these people.
If he really patted his butt and went straight back to Tongcheng,
Whatever happened here would have nothing to do with Zhou Ze.
But since he wanted to control this place, equivalent to taking over a bankrupt company, some of its messes naturally had to be managed and resolved.
"There's a basement under that building, with a simple laboratory inside. I can help you do some things."
"Why?"
"Because you can't let me leave, so I might as well do something here, and take care of my mother."
"Actually, I'm not very interested in these things, really."
He was different from "Spider."
"Spider" was tortured, so in order to struggle for survival, he thought of many, many methods, and made many seemingly right arrangements.
However, Boss Zhou was different. Regardless of what Lin Guan's experiments could research, Zhou Ze didn't have an urgent need for his research results anyway.
Ying Gou still had a huge treasure left behind, there was a Mount Tai in the depths of his soul,
In addition to the fact that he had found half of that face, and it was sealed at this time.
With three treasures in front of him, and Boss Zhou hadn't been able to fully develop them, why would he be willing to go to other places to continue digging holes?
"I know you're not interested in this, but I am." Lin Guan said, "Maybe I can find a way to save my mother...or, alas, actually find a way to save myself."
"I have no money."
Zhou Ze was very frank.
He knew how terrifying it was to throw money into a research institute once it started.
He didn't have much interest in the first place, so he was even less willing to invest money in it.
"I have money."
Zhou Ze suddenly felt hurt,
As if a knife had been stabbed into his chest.
In order to prevent being stabbed again,
Zhou Ze didn't continue to ask "Why are you so rich?"
This was equivalent to setting up a stage for the other party to brag, and he would foolishly sit below and clap his hands as an audience.
"If you want to study, then study."
"Okay."
Lin Guan nodded.
He didn't talk much, he was a very dull person, but even Zhou Ze couldn't deny that this guy, although seemingly a little "stupid," was "stupid" in a way that wasn't annoying.
Otherwise, he wouldn't have gained the "favor" of the hot pot restaurant female boss.
Sometimes, after too many days of intrigue, one prefers a silly type instead.
The sound of an engine came from outside. Soon, the little boy and Yue Ya, Zheng Qiang, Liu Chuyu, and the others came back, also escorting two people.
Seeing Zhou Ze in front,
Zheng Qiang, Yue Ya, and Liu Chuyu took a few steps forward together and knelt down on one knee to Zhou Ze:
"Greetings, Captain!"
"Greetings, Captain!"
Zhou Ze stood up, nodded, and said, "Get up."
The three stood up.
The three of them were subordinates that Zhou Ze had taken in when he was still a ghost messenger. When he successfully advanced to captain, the subordinate relationship between the two sides was officially confirmed.
"Where's Lao An?"
"There's still one target, Lawyer An and Yingying went to catch him."
"Oh, okay."
Lawyer An and Yingying came back after nine o'clock in the evening, bringing back another one. After the people inside mutually identified each other, there shouldn't be anyone who slipped through the net.
These people were very scared at first, thinking that they were being brought back to be "humanely destroyed," and they were all very panic-stricken.
But then they were all arranged in rooms, everything as usual.
Among them, except for Lin Guan, who was introduced as a "special talent," so he had a house outside, and usually came here to work, because the laboratory hadn't entered normal operation, so he would sweep the floor and do chores, and then go back to take care of his mother.
The others were basically "loners," either without relatives or had long been separated from their relatives.
Everyone usually lived in this sanatorium, walking out of the shadow of terminal illness, but entering another path of "prolonging life."
So, they had nowhere else to go.
Lawyer An and Yingying also brought back a lot of dishes and hot pot ingredients, planning to have a dinner party in the evening.
Nothing was more suitable for a dinner party than "hot pot."
Yue Ya and Xu Qinglang were responsible for preparing the meal,
Lawyer An walked to Zhou Ze's side with a wicked smile on his face:
"Boss, this time we've made a fortune."
"What?"
"That Spider, ordinary people really wouldn't bother with him, yeah, ordinary people can't find him either. This time I caught eight of them, that Lin guy, his family is rich, right?
Let me tell you, he's the one with the lowest assets among them, that is, his father did business and left a rich legacy, but among those eight people, everyone is a rich and powerful person.
But they've all long been disassociated from their families, and even made 'fake death' cover-ups.
Because they're all afraid that if they get a terminal illness and can continue to live, they might be discovered and sent for slicing research."
"Oh, so what?"
"Then? Boss, why aren't you happy? These guys are all very rich, and they're all unwilling to disclose their identities.
Originally, we had to arrange two people to stay and guard them,
Now it's completely unnecessary.
Just transform this place a bit,
Build a big manor under Mount Qingcheng,
In the future, you can run here to escape the summer heat.
They can't go out anyway, and they all have money,
What property fees, security fees, etc.,
We don't have to spend a penny.
There's even one who was more straightforward. After catching him, he directly gave me two boxes of gold bars, saying it was the protection fee for the past six months."
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PS: I have a cold, my nose and eyes are running non-stop, this chapter was delayed for too long, there will be another chapter at night, don't panic!