Chapter 1827: Chapter 1820: The Not-So-Proper “Foot Bath”
"Lu Zhi!" The other soldiers, witnessing this scene, also became furious with grief. They roared and launched a ferocious attack on the middle-aged man, but the lasers could only damage his clothes. As for causing harm?
Lasers couldn’t even leave the slightest mark on his skin!
Before long, the other four, besides the middle-aged man, also sprang into action. The remaining soldiers were like lambs to the slaughter, unable to withstand the assault. In no time, with blood splattering, the ground was littered with the bodies of soldiers!
The child among the five-member group tore off a soldier’s thigh with brute force, opened his mouth to reveal teeth as fine as steel needles, and with a single bite, swallowed a large chunk of flesh.
Seeing the child feasting, the elder and the youth seemed inclined to do something too. But as they lifted a soldier’s corpse, a beautiful woman’s mouth emitted a strange, chilling melody from not far away.
"A... E... Ga!... &D?"
Contained within these syllables was information humans couldn’t decipher. Upon hearing this sound, the child paused his meal, and the elder and youth abandoned their thoughts.
Ignoring the bodies scattered around, the strange group of five headed inside the building.
About ten minutes later, the 48-meter-tall tower suddenly collapsed, and the surrounding low buildings were caught in the destruction, with clamor breaking the night’s silence.
Early the next morning, before dawn, a heavily armed group of soldiers surrounded the place tightly, and the soldiers who had turned into zombies were already taken down. People in blue uniforms were carrying out bodies one by one.
As the dawn crept over the eastern horizon, Su Sigui arrived at the ruins of the collapsed building with a solemn face.
"Mayor, we’ve confirmed the attacker’s target was the SR-14 experiment."
"Who is the culprit?"
"We haven’t found out yet, but the attackers are high-level zombies disguised as normal humans; there weren’t any survivors."
"High-level zombies that can disguise as humans?"
"Yes, the people we lost have turned into zombies, but thankfully, they’ve already been controlled."
"You take some people and clean this place up."
"Understood."
After dismissing Chi Biyi, Su Sigui, with a furrowed brow, glanced at the small group watching from nearby. They were strong individuals who had just arrived at the Cloud Gorge Base from the Royal Court in the past few days.
Noticing her gaze, Yi Huangcheng, who was discussing something with Abeng, quickly ended the conversation and walked toward Su Sigui.
"Mayor Su, you’re not suspecting us, are you?" Yi Huangcheng’s face showed some dissatisfaction, but also a hint of guilt. They had quite a few high-level zombies capable of disguising as humans at the Royal Court, so they had some suspicion; he was genuinely worried it might have been their doing.
But Su Sigui did not answer him, only frowned and asked, "Where’s your Khan?"
"Huh? He should be arriving soon?" Yi Huangcheng looked around uncertainly.
Then, Su Sigui turned her gaze in a certain direction. After a while, a sports car appeared at the end of the street, drawing many eyes, and as its engine roared, quite a few onlookers hurriedly moved aside, and it stopped far from Su Sigui.
The flashy scissor doors of the sports car opened, and Huang Quanjiu stepped out of the car, followed by Tang Ye from the front passenger seat.
He noticed Su Sigui at first glance, but upon seeing her face, his expression quickly turned unnatural.
"Boss? We’ve arrived!" Huang Quanjiu, noticing Tang Ye in a daze from the other side of the sports car, reminded him.
"I know, move aside."
Waving his hand in annoyance, Tang Ye headed toward Su Sigui.
"Uh... about the other day... sorry about that." As he got closer to Su Sigui, Tang Ye’s face grew awkward, but Su Sigui showed no expression, appearing not to care about the previous incident.
This relieved Tang Ye a bit.
Reflecting back, that night might have just been Su Sigui’s way of repaying him. She knew he was a "Level 9 New Human," and whatever he wanted in the world, he could get.
She didn’t have anything else to offer, so had no choice but to give herself.
Perhaps... she wasn’t willing.
She just wanted to establish a link between them called "interest."
Tang Ye sighed inside, but it was for the best; if she cared, things could be awkward every time they met in the future.
"It’s nothing, you don’t need to worry." Her tone was flat, as if that day’s events were trivial or didn’t exist at all.
Tang Ye, eager to change the topic, failed to notice her eyelashes lightly trembling as she spoke.
"By the way, looks like one of your labs got destroyed, know who did it?"
"No leads yet. My subordinates told me the soldiers killed last night turned into zombies."
"Turned into zombies?" Tang Ye was momentarily stunned, then looked at Yi Huangcheng.
"Boss, you’re not suspecting our own people, are you?"
Tang Ye shook his head and said, "No, everyone knows we’ve got some high-level zombies under us. If anything happened, we’d be the prime suspects. Since it wasn’t us, let’s prove it to Mayor Su. I didn’t see Ah Fu and the others yesterday; where are they now?"
"They should be here too, right?" Yi Huangcheng rubbed his nose, but sure enough, at that moment, Ah Fu, using his large, strong build, forced his way through the crowd, bringing Chu Zha and the others along.
"Boss, you’re here too? What’s going on here? Why are there so many... bodies?" Ah Fu glanced at the bodies covered in white sheets. Originally just coming over to see what major event had happened at the Cloud Gorge Base, feeling Tang Ye’s presence, he couldn’t stay away.
"What were you doing last night?"
"We went... to soak our feet?!"
"Soak your feet?" Tang Ye was momentarily stupefied, unable to react, and Su Sigui also looked at Ah Fu with a strange expression, making everyone behind Huang Quanjiu and Chang Jinlun embarrassed.
"Just... soaking feet... but... um... very professional, what are you thinking?"
The atmosphere grew more awkward, and not far away, several soldiers with serious expressions nearly burst into laughter. Seeing the situation wasn’t good, Yi Huangcheng quickly stood out to lighten the mood.
"Hey, hey, hey, let’s not get stuck on this. Brother Hu, those bodies in front of you were killed by some zombies last night. Being able to infiltrate Cloud Gorge Base, they must be at least Level 7 or above, which is why Mayor Su is investigating." After speaking, Yi Huangcheng shot Ah Fu a "you know" glance.
Ah Fu immediately understood and urgently said:
"Hey? Suspect us? We were all at Old White’s club last night, there are records, and the club’s hostesses know we spent all night there... Damn! I slipped up!"