Luo Wei pulled up his trousers and straightened his legs. He looked at Shen Shian, “Mr. Yun, or should I say, Mr. Shen, I invited you here today to eat and to talk privately. Mr. Shen, I don’t know why you want to hide your real name, and I won’t ask if you don’t want to say it, but you saved my life, and to some extent saved the lives of more than 100 soldiers under my hands. With my life and my brothers’ lives, I swear: whatever your real name is, even if you are a wanted criminal, in my eyes, you are a savior. Anyone who dares to go against you must ask my gun first.”
Tao Yuan also said, “You saving the captain’s life also saved my life. If I were to take revenge then, I would have been killed by the zombies.”
Shen Shian stared at the two for a moment, and said, “My surname is Shen, and my real name is Shen Shian. The reason why I hide my name is because someone wants my life.”
Before he finished his sentence, he had used his spiritual power. If they had any movements, he would be able to detect them. But the two of them did not make any special moves. Apart from the obvious surprised expression on their faces, their heartbeat did not increase at all. Shen Xun leaned in Shen Shian’s arms and felt his tension. He held his hand and squeezed: Don’t be afraid An An, if they dare to hurt you, I’ll eat them all in one bite.
Shen Shian carefully looked at the two of them. He was relieved in his heart. He held the child’s hands and organized his sentence to continue speaking.
The whole thing was not complicated to explain, because there were many things that Shen Shian was not clear about. “I can’t be 100% sure who is behind the scene. It’s just my speculation that the other party commissioned the army to look for me with bad intentions, but I have to be careful.”
“You are right to be careful.” Luo Wei pondered a moment after listening to his words, and put forward another idea, “Gu family in the capital, almost all the people who have been in the army for more than 1 year should know. It’s not an exaggeration to say that the Gu family controls a quarter of China’s military. Strictly speaking, the battalion I brought was also a branch under the Gu family. But more than half of the people died after the virus broke out. Now, the entire system is completely chaotic. No one knows who to listen to, and everyone wants to take advantage of the chaos and get some soldiers into their hands. The person who is looking for you may be trying to use you as a bargaining chip to threaten the family, to get profits. Anyway, with that said, you are right to be cautious, and in other words, I will do the same.”
The possibility of what Luo Wei said to be true should be considered. The Qin family has a large number of materials in hand. It was impossible for the Qin family to not want some part of the army, but they have a shallow foundation, and have little dealings with the military. The door was not clear. The best way was to rely on the old power, the Gu family, as a support. It was a pity that Gu family’s current master, Mr. Gu, has been dissatisfied with the Qin family for a long time because of the marriage. It was absolutely impossible for him to pretend to be kind for the benefit of the two families. Since it was absolutely impossible for Mr. Gu to support them sincerely, Shen Shian was undoubtedly the best tool to suppress Mr. Gu.
On the other hand, the cost of entrusting the base garrison to find someone would not be cheap. Such an expense was probably not funded by a married woman like Mrs. Qin, so they were more likely to be funded by the entire Qin family. Of course, the possibility of Mrs. Qin secretly using some methods to change the commission of “bring him alive back to Beijing as a bargaining chip” to “ensure that the target died without a burial ground” was not low.
Luo Wei added, “But you can rest assured, I can assure you that I have not received any similar orders or commissions here. It is probably only a few bases near your home that have received them. No matter how thick their fund is, it is impossible to pay the whole country’s military.” Speaking of this, he whispered in a low voice, “Public weapons are used for private parties, what the hell is this.”
Tao Yuan asked, “Then why did you go into our base, the cigarette factory? Shouldn’t you just stop for a while or exchange information? If we can help, we will not refuse.”
At this time, there was nothing to hide, Shen Shian said, “Our destination is Beijing, but I don’t know what is happening in Beijing now, so I want to borrow your communicator and hope to get in touch with my father.”
Tao Yuan and Luo Wei glanced at each other, and at the same time smiled bitterly. “I’m afraid we really can’t help in this matter.”
“Don’t get me wrong,” Luo Wei explained immediately. “It’s not that we didn’t want to help, but that our communicator had a problem, and it couldn’t be used since two weeks ago.”
Liu Fangzhou, “Ah? How did it happen?” Could it be that someone played with it and it broke?
Luo Wei answered, “It’s not clear. There was no problem with the back and forth call, but one night two weeks ago, it suddenly couldn’t be used, and no signal could be received no matter how it was debugged. We used a strengthened satellite phone, it would relay the message directly via satellite. The correspondent tried to figure out what was wrong for several days and concluded that the phone was still good. It was either the satellite had an accident or the other side had an accident, and there was a possibility that the signals on both sides were intentionally intercepted.”
Either way, it was bad news.
Although he was prepared to return without success before entering the base, it was impossible to say that he was not disappointed. The longer he lost contact with Mr. Gu, the anxiety in Shen Shian’s heart increased.
Tao Yuan was a bit overwhelmed, “How long are you going to stay in the base? If our communication equipment is restored during this time, I will tell you immediately!”
Luo Wei nodded, “As long as there is no chaos in the base, there is absolutely no problem how long you want to stay.”
Shen Shian said, “Thank you, I need to discuss with my teammates before giving a definite answer.”
“Of course, don’t worry. Although the base is a bit chaotic recently, it is generally under control.”
Now that they were talking about this topic, Liu Fangzhou immediately said, “Captain Luo, do you also know that someone is doing things at the base? I’m not talking about the mess in the cafeteria, but the kind of secret mischief.”
Liu Fangzhou was not stupid. Today he saw the farce in the cafeteria from the beginning. The reason why it ended up so big was obviously that someone is fanning the rhythm inside, deliberately guiding the contradiction between the survivors and the garrison. That’s right.
Luo Wei took out a pack of cigarettes and offered Shen Shian and the others. They replied that they did not smoke. He held one in his hand and did not lit it. “There were two evolvers in the base, but they left. They reminded us before leaving. Some of the survivors planned to seize power and wanted to make the tobacco factory their own base.”
So this is the truth of the “inexplicable disappearance” of the two evolvers in the rumors. Missing? Fart, it was clear that they didn’t want to join them. Liu Fangzhou secretly slandered, and asked, “Who did they say who wanted to seize power?”
Luo Wei shook his head, “But it’s not hard to guess.”
Eh?
Before Liu Fangzhou responded, he listened to Shen Shian, “It’s an evolver.”
Luo Wei glanced at him, and nodded. “Ordinary survivors have nothing against us. First, our existence is only good for them, there is no harm. Secondly, even without us, they cannot guarantee that their power is not affected. Following the law of the jungle these days, strong power is the one in charge.”
“But the evolvers are different,” Shen Shian went on to say, “The evolvers have better physical fitness than ordinary people. If the evolved ability is strong enough, it is no different from the superheroes in film and TV series. Having powerful ability is the easiest to spawn powerful desires. This kind of person may not matter at first, but after a long time and with the law of the jungle, it is impossible for them to be willing to succumb to people, be constrained or even ‘ruled’ by ordinary people.”
Therefore, it was only in this base that the ability holders were called “evolvers”: natural competition chooses the survival of the fittest, they feel that they are selected by natural laws as the superior ethnic group, and they are eligible to become leaders.
Luo Wei said, “My group of soldiers has a total of 261 people, all of them are ordinary people, and there is no evolver. But we have guns and bombs in our hands. If the evolvers want to establish their own ruling system, we are the biggest blocking stone. It seems that no evolvers can stop bullets yet?”
Chen Nan suddenly realized, “No wonder those people wanted to divide weapons inside and out! It’s not for fighting zombies and courage, but for weakening you to strengthen themselves, so that they can fight against you in the future!”
Liu Fangzhou was anxious, “Captain Luo, you know who is messing up inside, and you don’t want to manage it. They fanned the flames everywhere and brainwashed the survivors, they even secretly shove papers in the isolation area! If it was not for Shen Shian telling us to wait and see, I certainly dare not stay here any longer!”
“Paper note?” Luo Wei and Tao Yuan looked at each other, and they were confused. “What note?”
“F*ck, you don’t know.” Liu Fangzhou looked at Shen Shian, and when he saw him nodding, he immediately opened the zipper and pulled out a note from the small pocket on his arm. “Fortunately, I didn’t throw it away. In the isolation area, someone stuffed this under the board that night. There were three in total, and two were picked up by others.”
Luo Wei glanced at the words and his face darkened immediately. Tao Yuan was so angry that his eyes were like spitting fire. “What nonsense! When have we experimented with the evolvers! F*ck this sh*t!!!”
Liu Fangzhou thought, it seems that they don’t know the rumors circulating among the survivors, otherwise they would be more angry.
Luo Wei sneered, “This Lao Tzu finally understands why no one in thousands is willing to admit that they are an evolver. Their emotions have long been brainwashed to treat us as a beast.” Looking up at Liu Fangzhou, “You asked us why we didn’t care even though we knew that the evolvers were messing things up, but the problem is that there are more than 3,000 people in the base. Except for the doctor, we don’t know who are the evolvers at all, this thing can’t be seen by naked eyes. They were so reluctant to show themselves that they would not tell us even if we asked. Not only that, it was more impossible for the brainwashed evolvers to show themselves among 3,000 people.”
Liu Fangzhou raised his head and chest, his tone was very proud. “You don’t know who the evolvers are, we know!”
Luo Wei was stunned, and he seemed to not believe him. He looked at Shen Shian, “Really?”