Abnormal survival in the end times

Chapter 272 Departure
"What do you mean?"

You Junyan looked at Zeng Bei and chuckled, "Have Zeng Mei come, I'll talk to her."

Zeng Bei stared at him intently for a few seconds before turning and leaving.

You Junyan thought he had gone to call Zeng Mei, but after waiting and waiting, until he was starving and the lights in the room went out, no one came to the interrogation room where he was being held.

No, even if he were caught, he should be the most important criminal among them, right?
Shouldn't people of his rank be coming in waves to interrogate him?
But why has only Zeng Bei come since he was arrested?

He was still an outsider, not belonging to this base.

They deliberately turned ordinary people into zombies. Jiang Minglang and Bai Li from Pengcheng even went out of the city to arrest him. Shouldn't they have come to interrogate him themselves?

And what about Qiao Fei, who's been searching for them outside the city like a mad dog lately? Where is he?
What does that mean?

Are you trying to ignore him? Or give him a hard time?
Ah.
In the darkness, You Junyan sneered and curled his lip, but couldn't help but hiss as he pulled at the corner of his cracked lip.

Damn it, aren't the Chinese supposed to be masters of disguise and never mistreat prisoners?

Why haven't they given him a single meal since they caught him?
Or do you want to starve him to force him to submit?
dream!

Finally, You Junyan fainted from hunger, and after an unknown period of unconsciousness, he woke up again.

The interrogation room had no windows, and it was unclear whether it was day or night. Besides the pain all over my body from the beating, I was also incredibly hungry, feeling like my stomach was cramping from hunger.

He trembled as he searched his entire body before belatedly realizing that everything on him had been taken the moment he was caught.

asshole!

He lay curled up on the floor for an unknown amount of time before finally falling into a deep sleep again.

A total of twenty-one people were captured this time. Excluding the two leaders, You Junyan and Wen Dien, it was impossible for all the remaining nineteen people to be as stubborn as iron. There were always some who couldn't withstand the torture and had to spill everything they knew.

This includes the approximate locations of their hideout and experimental base.

Yes, it's a general location, not the exact one.

The one who confessed was one of Wendion's men. This man was very cautious and only brought along men who had never been to the lair or base.

Compared to the experimental madman You Junyan, this person is much more cunning.

Yu Junyan himself left their experimental base half a year ago and went to the Kyoto base with a purpose. Afterwards, he contacted several former colleagues, including Li Jiao, his girlfriend before the apocalypse and also Zeng Mei's friend.

Later, they successfully "persuaded" two of their colleagues, promising them a lucrative opportunity to join a secret laboratory researching apocalyptic viruses, and secretly had their people take them away.

After that, he set his sights on several people in the biological research lab, intending to find an opportunity to secretly abduct them. Just then, he received a message from Li Jiao saying that Zeng Mei had a very rare self-healing ability.

Self-healing system?
If it can heal itself, then how about a cure?

The ability to quickly develop such an idea in his mind is not only due to You Junyan's exceptionally divergent imagination, but also related to his research on many superhumans a year after the apocalypse.

They draw blood, conduct tests, dissect the body to remove the heart, and then cut the heart open to study the differences from ordinary people, and even conduct detailed studies on the brain.
No one knows how many superhumans died at the hands of the madman You Junyan a year after the apocalypse.

It was precisely because of his detailed research on various superpowered individuals that when he heard that Zeng Mei possessed a self-healing ability, his first thought was that she must also be able to heal others!
This is not a guess, it's a certainty!
Actually, one of his original purposes in coming to Kyoto was to take Zeng Mei with him. He planned to take Zeng Mei with him when he left after he had accomplished his goal.

Discovering her supernatural abilities was purely accidental, and her decision to leave the Zeng family's sanctuary in Kyoto and go to Pengcheng to find Xi Yu was an even bigger surprise.

Stimulated by the two unexpected events, You Junyan dispatched over a hundred superhumans to intercept Zeng Mei at a time when they were not yet ready to reveal themselves.

That is, the great battle before.

These things were no secret to the superhumans who followed and protected him, but beyond that, they knew nothing about other things, such as the plans that followed.

Knowing the general location is enough.

As for Wendion, his purpose was different from You Junyan's; he came to find Xiao Lan.

According to his own account, he was friends with Xiao Lan's parents, and out of a sense of responsibility and guilt, he wanted to take Xiao Lan in and raise her himself.

That's a lie.

"When the apocalypse first arrived, three earthquakes of varying magnitudes occurred in this southwestern region. Here, here, and here, the towns and villages here before the apocalypse are all gone now. Two or three years have passed, and the terrain here has undergone tremendous changes. According to the latest satellite maps, it has become either hills or wild forests, but we still need to conduct on-site investigations to know for sure."

The next day, Zeng Bei joined Jiang Minglang's meeting with a map in hand.

After the heavy rain, the temperature dropped day by day. At this rate, it might snow in less than a month.

Now that we've decided to eradicate this cancer completely, we need to act swiftly and find their hideout before the heavy snow arrives.

Time is of the essence, and there is no time to lose!
Of course, Jiang Minglang and his group were not the only ones going; the main force was the defense department led by Zeng Xi in Kyoto.

Zeng Bei and his men will set off with Jiang Minglang and his group, and then they will join up with his third brother Zeng Xi's team in the southwest.

"The fact that they can send out more than a hundred superhumans at once is enough to show how big their operation is. They are located in the southwest, which is far from us, but don't the southern and western bases notice anything amiss?"

Du Qiyan adjusted his glasses, first circling the western base with a pen, then drawing two smaller circles to the south, and said casually, "These two places should be Western Base One and Base Two, not far from the main base. Before the people from the three bases came last time, I found it strange. Why establish two branch bases so close together? Are they overflowing with manpower and resources? Or are they just wasting their time?"
When Hu Ziyi came over last time, I asked Lao Wang to chat with him and casually inquired about it. Hu Ziyi also mentioned that the terrain in the southwest became extremely complex after the earthquake. Two areas that were not far apart as the crow flies had to cross mountains and valleys to get there, which was extremely difficult. Therefore, in order to save the survivors from having to travel so far, more branch bases were built.

At the time, I thought this argument was ridiculous and completely untenable. After all, the more complex the terrain, the less likely one is to survive a natural disaster. Shouldn't the survivors from these two branch bases be safer heading to the main base?
Now it seems, are these two branch bases really their branch bases?

As soon as Du Qiyan finished speaking, everyone's eyes fell on the two small dots he had circled. Indeed, it was quite unnecessary.

Because Jiang Minglang and his group were based in Pengcheng, they didn't pay much attention to or care about the bases in the west, southwest, east, or south, since it was none of their business.

Most of their attention was focused on the situation and development of the Kyoto headquarters. So after hearing Du Qiyan's analysis, they immediately understood.

The two western branch bases are located in the south, roughly the same location as the experimental base of You Junyan and his team that was interrogated. Considering their large scale, it's surprising that the western base seems unaware of this.
"Grass!"

Zeng Bei couldn't help but curse, "Is the Western Base trying to rebel? They're openly using the name of a branch base to cover for them? No way, I'm going to call Third Brother!"

Are you stupid?

Zeng Bei was interrupted by his older sister before he could finish speaking, and received a glare in return. "Let's not even talk about whether there's a mole from the Western Base around Third Brother. Even if there isn't, is the phone safe these days? The signal is so unstable, sometimes it's there, sometimes it's not. Who knows what's going on? Anyway, we'll meet in the Southwest. We can just tell him then."

Zeng Bei glanced at his sister, then awkwardly touched his nose. He hadn't expected that; it was his carelessness.

Zeng Mei was invited to participate in this confidential meeting because she was also going along.

After all, whether as an outstanding surgeon in a former military hospital or as a healing-type superhuman, she has a need to accompany him.

Bai Li placed one hand on her stomach, thinking that if she weren't pregnant, she would definitely have had to come along on this trip.

However, guarding is now of paramount importance. After all, in order to remove this cancer before the heavy snow, in addition to Jiang Minglang and Qiao Fei, Du Qiyan, Zhang Shaoda, Xi Yu, Shi Jiashu, Lao Sheng, Ren Bin, as well as Qiao Fei's trusted generals Sanpao and Zhao Kang Xiao Han will all go.

Therefore, the only ones who can protect Yunxi Village and Pengcheng are Bai Li and Bai Yang, as well as Xu Bo and Wei Lichuan.

After discussing a few more details, Jiang Minglang made the final decision, and they set off at five o'clock the next morning.

Immediately afterwards, Zeng Bei sent a cryptic telegram to Kyoto, the code of which only Zeng Xi could decipher.

After the meeting, Bai Li returned to her bedroom, closed her eyes, spread out the pothos vines, and strolled around Shenzhen to "patrol" the city. She only opened her eyes after finding nothing unusual.

Of the five women bitten by He Yan yesterday, two died on the spot, one was too badly injured to survive last night, one turned into a zombie and was killed, and the other is still unconscious but at least alive and has not shown any signs of turning into a zombie.

As for the little girl who survived after being scratched on the shoulder, she didn't turn into a zombie. However, she had a fever last night, and her wound was turning black, which looked very dangerous. So now Xiao He is being kept alone in a room at the military headquarters, with her uncle Li Si guarding outside, refusing to leave her side.

Old Huo had their blood drawn for testing. The middle-aged woman's blood contained very few elements of the zombie virus. The reason she was unconscious was because she hit her head on the railing, causing a concussion.

The zombie virus element in the little girl Li Xiaohe's blood is much higher than hers. Logically, she should have turned into a zombie within two hours after being scratched, but she hasn't. This is likely due to one reason: Xiaohe is very likely to awaken superpowers, and she is currently fighting against the zombie virus.

In other words, if she gets through, she'll become a superhuman. If she doesn't, she'll become a zombie.

Li Si hadn't slept for a day and a night. No one could understand how anxious he was at that moment, but he patiently waited quietly outside the door.

Because as long as he sits here, even if there's a door between him and Xiaohe, she'll know that her uncle is with her, which will make her less afraid and more courageous in fighting the virus.

So Li Si really didn't dare to leave for even a minute.

This uncle reminded Bai Li of her appendicitis surgery when she was a child. Her father hadn't been discharged from the army yet, and it was her second uncle and grandparents who accompanied her to the hospital.

After the surgery, her grandmother secretly told her that while she was having surgery in the operating room, her second uncle was crying outside, which confused the nurses coming and going. Those who didn't know the situation thought she was having a very risky major surgery.

Who would have thought it was just an appendectomy?

I was young then and laughed at my second uncle after hearing it, but now when I think about it, I can't help but feel a lump in my throat.

Before dawn the next day, Jiang Minglang slung his backpack, which he had packed the night before, over his shoulder and was about to quietly open the door and go downstairs when Bai Li woke up.

"You can go to sleep, you don't need to go out."

Jiang Minglang tried to push her back into bed, but Bai Li refused. They didn't know when they would be back, and since they were already awake, how could he not see them off?

She casually threw on a coat and followed him downstairs. Watching him break off a piece of pothos from the living room window and stick it into the outside pocket of his backpack, Bai Li couldn't help but laugh. "You're going to such a far place, and you expect me to see it?"

"I'll assume you can see it."

As Jiang Minglang spoke, he looked down at her stomach, then bent down and pressed one of his cheeks against it, saying in a soft voice, "Daughter, be good, wait for Daddy to come back."

With less than three months left until the due date, and the southwest being thousands of miles away from Shenzhen, coupled with the complex terrain, any delay in the round trip could mean missing Bai Li's delivery.

"Be careful, I'll be waiting for you to come back and witness the birth of our daughter."

Jiang Minglang reached out and hugged his wife, then leaned down and kissed the top of her head, saying, "Don't go out, just drop her off here."

The temperature was low in the morning, and it had rained a few days ago, so the humidity was high. His wife was also heavily pregnant, so he really didn't want her to go out.

"I'm not that delicate. Let's go. I can hear Dad and Uncle's voices."

The Bai brothers packed a lot of food and supplies for them, filling the trunks of all three cars to the brim. They also brought a pot, noodles, and various pickles and dried vegetables.

Anyway, Zhang Shaoda can cook, and with him around, they'll always be able to burn off the calories.

Of course, besides these, there are also many other things like flatbread, steamed buns, and dumplings. In short, we should prepare as much as possible for them. If there isn't enough food, we'll just have to use whatever we have on hand.

"You really aren't taking me? I'm very useful, I can definitely be of help."

Before the group set off, Huo Siyun heard the news and ran over with a backpack. The little girl stood next to the first car with a serious face and assured Jiang Minglang, who was sitting in the passenger seat, "I definitely won't hold you back, really, Uncle Jiang, please agree to take me with you."

Upon hearing Huo Siyun address him as "uncle," Jiang Minglang's face darkened.

Honestly, she calls him uncle, his wife sister, and Qiqi calls her sister. She really treats each of the three of them differently, without any formality.

"no!"