Abnormal survival in the end times

Chapter 262 Interrogation
The car stopped, and almost in the blink of an eye, only Zhang Shaoda, who was driving, was left inside.

Shi Jiashu, who usually kept a low profile, leaped up the tree like a leopard. His opponent, clutching his bleeding arm, leaned against the trunk of the tree, a long knife hovering in front of him. The moment Shi Jiashu climbed the tree, the long knife slashed out.

Shi Jiashu dodged to the side, grabbed a branch, spun around, and kicked the man.

Bang!
Jiang Minglang looked down at the man who had been thrown to the ground and couldn't get up. His features looked Chinese, but his eyes were brown, so he was obviously of mixed race.

Meanwhile, Ren Bin had already dashed into the woods to chase after another person.

"Boss!"

Before Ren Bin arrived, Lao Sheng's voice came from deep in the woods. This guy was carrying something in his arms and arrived in front of them almost in the blink of an eye.

He proudly showed this to Jiang Minglang, saying, "I found this inside, boss. Isn't it cute? When my niece is born, I'll give it to her."

Hearing that he wanted to give it to his daughter, the words of rebuke he was about to utter were swallowed back down.

Jiang Minglang's gaze shifted downwards. It was a very small golden monkey cub, only the size of his fist, and so thin that its head appeared particularly large.

The little monkey has golden fur, and even though it is malnourished, it is still obvious that it is a golden snub-nosed monkey with good looks.

If this were before the apocalypse, it would definitely be a Class I protected animal in China.

He asked Lao Sheng, "Where did you find it? Wasn't it a female monkey?"

Old Sheng said, "It was in a tree hole, and there was only one monkey inside. However, after I looked around, I found the head of an adult monkey in a pit about 500 meters away from the tree hole, along with some messy fur and a paw. I guessed that the little monkey's parents must have died not long after it was born, otherwise this little thing wouldn't have been so hungry and on the verge of death."

The little monkey had big, round, clear, and pure eyes, no wonder even a tough, straight man like Lao Sheng couldn't resist picking it up.

"Alright, then take it back."

No sooner had he finished speaking than Ren Bin carried someone and strode over from the other side of the woods.

This person was rather short, looking less than 1.6 meters tall, with a large head and a thin body. For some reason, Jiang Minglang turned his head and glanced at the little golden monkey that Lao Sheng was carrying in his clothes.

Ren Bin said, "Boss, this guy can't speak. I looked at him, and he only has half a tongue."

After receiving Jiang Minglang's instructions, he beat the man unconscious, tied him up, and threw him into the trunk.

Seeing that it was getting late, the group headed back home, intending to interrogate the people they had captured first.

Jiang Minglang assigned the interrogation task to Qiao Fei, who had been bored out of his mind these past few days and was planning to go to the western base to investigate.

But Jiang Minglang stopped him, saying it wasn't worth it for a mere Hu Ziyi.

Give him these old diplomats now, and he'll be busy.

Back in Yunxi Village that evening, before dinner, Jiang Minglang saw his son and was about to reach out to pat his head when the boy dodged away. Not only that, the little guy gave him a disapproving snort and then ran off.

Jiang Minglang:
He turned to his wife and asked, "Did I offend him?"

Bai Li chuckled softly, rubbing her belly. "Zeng Mei showed Zeng Xi's daughter a picture during the day and said that she was his wife. He thinks that you arranged a marriage for him so that you would sell him to someone else."

The two of them hadn't taken this matter seriously when they talked about it before, but they never expected that Qiqi would have a different interpretation of the 'arranged marriage'.

However, a child's temper comes and goes quickly. Before long, Jiang Minglang heard Qiqi's cheerful voice ringing out from outside the courtyard—
"Wow, is that really a golden monkey? It's so small, should we feed it goat's milk?"

"Go heat up the goat milk. This task will be yours from now on."

"Uncle Sheng, you mean you gave the little monkey to me, right?"

"It's for your sister, but before she's born, you and Gigi can help train it to be docile and well-behaved so it can help take care of her when she's born."

Bai Li turned to look at Jiang Minglang, "Old Sheng picked up a little monkey for his daughter?"

Before Jiang Minglang could nod and explain, Bai Xiangtian walked in from outside and said to the two of them, "Today, Professor Leng and I went out for a walk around the back mountain and found swarms of ants moving house. The rain came rather suddenly before, so we didn't notice this phenomenon. However, we think it might rain in a couple of days."

When it rained last time, Professor Leng collected some rainwater for testing. The composition was quite complex, but one of the components was similar to a plant he had come into contact with before.

About eight years ago, he took his family on a road trip. When they passed a rural chemical plant, they saw several bright red morning glories blooming on the riverbank where sewage was being discharged.

It is called a trumpet flower because its shape resembles a trumpet, but its color is an eerie and unusual red.

His daughter saw the flower and wanted to pick it to look at it, but before she could pick it, a country dog ​​quickly ran past her, ran to the flower, and swallowed it whole.

His daughter was bitten by a dog when she was little, and has been afraid of dogs ever since, never wanting to be near them. So when the stray dog ​​ran over, she dodged and went back to the car.

The family then saw the dog's owner, a plump middle-aged woman, walking and scrolling on her phone while calling to her dog. But what happened next left Professor Leng and his family speechless: the dog, which had swallowed a flower, suddenly opened its mouth and began to bite its owner like a madwoman.

The woman's screams were so loud they hurt one's eardrums. Before Professor Leng could find something and get out of the car to help, three burly men in security uniforms, carrying iron bars, ran out of the chemical plant.

Soon, the stray dog ​​was beaten to death by the three men, and the middle-aged woman covered in blood was taken to the hospital.

On instinct, Professor Leng got out of the car, picked a flower, put it in a plastic bag, and then quickly drove away with his wife and daughter.

Upon returning to the school's laboratory, he immediately began testing the flower.

Then, to everyone's shock, it was discovered that a tiny flower contained large amounts of sodium cyanide and potassium cyanide, which can cause brain death, as well as two unidentified elements that were remarkably similar to a class of psychotropic drugs that can cause madness. These four elements combined form a terrifying and mysterious toxic substance; one can only imagine what would happen if ingested by humans or animals.

Professor Leng was deeply disturbed by the thought. He even called the environmental protection department where the chemical plant was located, but when he pressed for details about how the matter was handled, he was given the runaround.

Professor Leng sighed helplessly. He was no longer a young man; how could he not understand what was going on?
Now that he has detected this substance in rainwater, he finally understands why so many animals go berserk and attack humans when it rains.

Upon hearing the test results, Bai Xiangtian immediately began preparing bamboo poles and plastic sheeting. He had bamboo poles inserted and buried in front of every plot of land and his orchard, and when it rained, he would tie the plastic sheeting over them to cover all the land and orchard.

Although soil contaminated by rainwater can be diluted or neutralized with water from people with superpowers, it is very time-consuming, and any unripe crops or vegetables in the field will be destroyed, or they will be harvested hastily, which is a real waste and a pity.

The people of Yunxi Village followed suit, exchanging their own grains and vegetables with Bai Xiangtian, and also planting and burying bamboo poles in advance in each plot of land to protect them when it rained.

Therefore, early the next morning, Xue Deng and Bai Wei notified the villagers that they could tighten the plastic sheeting and set it up. Jiang Minglang and his team then notified the base to conduct emergency patrols inside and outside the city to eliminate any potential hazards, such as rats, which are most prone to causing outbreaks.

Everyone was busy but organized. After a day, Zeng Bei felt that there were no rats or even mosquitoes left in the entire city of Shenzhen.

The air itself felt so refreshing that he didn't want to leave.

Pengcheng was able to create such a situation because, apart from the city itself being difficult to manage, the main reason was that Captain Jiang and his wife stood at the very top of the city's superhumans, and no one had the right to challenge them.

Furthermore, with no power struggles or conflicts of interest, there are no disputes to hinder management and important matters.

Conversely, Kyoto is too complicated.

At this moment, Zeng Bei finally realized why his third brother would support his sister, such a simple person, to come to Shenzhen.

Even so, the thought of his sister's overjoyed, worthless demeanor after getting their marriage certificate still made him feel heartbroken.

Is Xi Yu really that good?
Yesterday, Xi Yu invited him to stay at his house, but Zeng Bei declined.

Go where?

They always force-feed him dog food (a Chinese slang term for witnessing public displays of affection), why would he bother to suffer like this?
I heard that Xi Yu's sister moved to the Bai family's house yesterday, so as not to affect the two of them.

The other girl moved out in advance to give them space, but he wants to move in instead?
Does he look like someone who lacks tact?
Zeng Bei ignored his sister and instead followed Qiao Fei to interrogate the few thugs arrested by Captain Jiang.

Old Huo personally examined the superhuman whose strength had shrunk after losing blood and confirmed that the person's superpower was not awakened by him, but rather that he had been injected with a drug that caused his body to expand, thus allowing him to intermittently possess superpowers.

Not only that, he also had his blood replaced using a special method.

According to the tests, the person who received the blood transfusion has the same blood type as this person and they are also related by blood, most likely cousins.

That's terrifying.

As for the 1.9-meter-tall foreigner, he had been speaking in broken English since he woke up, demanding that they release him, saying they had no right to arrest him, and that there were still people at the Kyoto embassy, ​​and that he was going to sue them.

This made Qiao Fei extremely happy.

In the past, even when catching a criminal, torture was not allowed. Sometimes, the bad guys were so arrogant that they could drive the criminals crazy.

Now, of course, there aren't as many rules. Qiao Fei is eager to try it out and plans to revive my country's culture from a thousand years ago and try all ten kinds of torture.

To do this, he specially had someone find thin bamboo skewers and inserted them one by one into the foreigner's fingernails.

Before this, in order to carry out this torture quietly, he humanely sealed the foreigner's mouth with tape and had Lao Du wash his feet with water. To be fair, he also inserted it into the crevices of his toenails.

He carefully inserted the bamboo skewers one by one without looking up, so he didn't see the foreigner strapped to the chair, his face flushed red with pain, and his forehead covered with blue veins.

When the whimpering sound came, he said in a gentle voice, "It'll be done soon, just bear with it."

After inserting all twenty bamboo skewers, he clapped his hands, stood up, and walked out of the interrogation room, calling to his men, "Sanpao, did you bring the fire tongs?"

Before long, a foul smell, like burnt meat, filled the interrogation room.

The foreigner's mouth was still covered by tape. His face was contorted in pain, and he was making muffled noises, as if he wanted to tell him to remove the tape.

Qiao Fei shook his head and said, "No, we've only used two types. There are still eight types we haven't tried."

The foreigner looked at him with horror, as if he were a devil, and then shook his head violently.

Qiao Fei sneered, "I gave you a chance to speak earlier, but you didn't. Now you want to speak? It's too late!"

After saying that, he turned to Sanpao and asked, "What's next?"

"We can dissect the kneecap, but we're not good at that. How about we break the kneecap instead?"

"Okay, but it's too easy on him."

Not long after, Sanpao came in from outside, holding an iron hammer in his hand.

Upon seeing this, the foreigner immediately began to struggle violently, making muffled noises, while his eyes widened like a bull's, blood red.

Zeng Bei, who had been sitting on the sidelines observing, reached out to stop him, saying, "Captain Qiao, calm down. Why don't we listen to what he has to say first? If it's just the same old nonsense, then we can crack it down on him later."

As soon as he finished speaking, the foreigner nodded vigorously.

Qiao Fei scoffed dismissively, "Isn't he just a bastard who can only speak gibberish? How could he possibly understand us?"

The foreigner completely ignored his mockery; he still had bamboo skewers stuck in his fingernails and toenails, and as they say, the ten fingers are connected to the heart, so it really hurt.

So now he couldn't care about anything else, he just wanted the devil in front of him to pull out those bamboo skewers.

Zeng Bei stepped forward and ripped the tape off his mouth. After catching his breath a few times, he spoke fluent Mandarin, “We, we are Ankar’s friends. We just want her child. She is one of our people, and we want to raise her child ourselves. Really, I’m telling the truth. We have no other purpose than to want the child.”

Zeng Bei was unaware of Xiao Lan's situation. He turned to look at Qiao Fei and saw him staring coldly at the foreigner, as if he were looking at a dead man.

He immediately realized that the foreigner was lying.

You son of a bitch.

Zeng Bei immediately taped his mouth shut again, turned around and gestured to Sanpao, "Go ahead and smash it!"

The next day, the foreigner died in the interrogation room. The other three did say a lot, but they were clearly peripheral personnel, only responsible for carrying out the foreigner's orders, arresting whoever he wanted and doing whatever he wanted. They didn't know anything else.

They ran eastward, but their temporary shelter was in the west.

Yes, it was temporary accommodation. According to the three men, they frequently changed locations over time, and each time they moved, someone would bring them a truckload of supplies to eat and use during that period.

good night!