Chapter 249: Planning to Escape 1
“Are you really going to pick up that group of people?”
Huang Feng walked beside Li Ming and asked quietly. He smiled like a fox and said, “Brother Huang, don’t you think they’re good for testing the waters?”
“What do you mean?”
“We definitely won’t be able to get out for a while. Tonight, we’ll bring them out first. The Base will surely be in chaos then, and there will be more patrols.”
Hearing this, Huang Feng was completely confused: “Then won’t it be even harder to escape!”
Li Ming glanced around meaningfully and whispered into his ear, “Hai Cheng turns off its lights at night, entering dark mode, and there will be a Cold Attack, right?”
“That’s right, and there are many strangely shaped and powerful Magic Beasts patrolling!”
Li Ming: “So, we’ll lie low for a few days first, and then escape when they let their guard down.”
Huang Feng: “Oh, so you have a secret passage. Brother, you can’t forget about me, I’m also one of the Doctor’s subordinates.”
Huang Feng tried to get close to Li Ming, which Li Ming found very disdainful. On the surface, however, he put on a friendly demeanor and said:
“Of course. This passage was told to me by the Doctor. He asked me to stay and observe the situation here. Most Supernatural Ability Users will generally take in ordinary people, so he gave me a passage to the outside. As soon as I’ve investigated everything, I’ll leave through this passage to find him.”
“Is the Doctor going to occupy Hai Cheng? It’s so good here, we can’t give it to others!”
Li Ming: “Of course. Don’t you know the Doctor’s methods? For now, let’s figure out how to stabilize these fools and let them draw fire for us. When their situation escalates, you and I will quietly leave through the passage the Doctor left for us.”
“Okay, that’s great, you’re truly a good brother!”
Huang Feng put his arm around Li Ming’s shoulder and happily followed him towards the Breeding Farm.
The few people left behind watched their backs: “Brother, why do I feel like this is a bit unreliable? Should we really listen to them?”
There was a pair of twins in the group. As soon as the younger brother Dong Weihan finished speaking, the older brother Dong Weixiang said, “You and I will keep a close eye on those two these days.”
The others in the group didn’t speak, but they all agreed with this statement. They looked into each other’s eyes and saw caution.
Fang Chao lay on the bed, motionless, pretending to be asleep.
The others in the hospital room who couldn’t leave were gathered in small groups, discussing something. Their voices were too low for Fang Chao to hear, and he didn’t want to join in.
Suddenly, Shi Feng returned. The group, who were secretly plotting and afraid of being discovered, were startled and jumped up: “Shi, Doctor Shi, why did you come back?”
Shi Feng said with a cold face, “Today’s examination is moved up. Everyone go to the blood drawing room on the second floor and line up. Draw one extra tube of blood today, two tubes per person. Take your number tags and go.”
After speaking, he turned and left cleanly.
“Why, why do they need to draw an extra tube? They’re not really using us to feed the Zombies, are they?”
“It’s possible. No, I, I must go with Brother Li and the others!”
“Yes, yes, it’s too terrifying!”
Fang Chao got out of bed, put his number tag on his hand, and looked speechlessly at a group of idiots!
Although they drew blood every day in the hospital, they had only been here for the second day. Before the Apocalypse, when going to the hospital for check-ups, they sometimes drew six or seven tubes of blood in a day. What was one tube? It wasn’t like they were draining all their blood!
Moreover, this group of people were all ordinary people. If they were really using their blood to feed Zombies, would they have the leisure to sit here and discuss how to leave?
Truly a bunch of idiots!
Fang Chao was extremely speechless, but he was too lazy to say anything. He simply followed Shi Feng and walked out.
Second Floor.
Upon arrival, only Fang Chao had followed. Shi Feng remembered this person who was usually the first to arrive.
Shi Feng: “You’re quite calm.”
Everyone else was always terrified when they came, but this person seemed fearless.
Sitting on a stool, Fang Chao looked at Shi Feng, who was speaking to him alone for the first time, feeling a bit nervous, his face turning red.
“It’s, it’s not that I’m calm, it’s just that I believe that someone who could build Hai Cheng like this and wouldn’t treat us like livestock wouldn’t be a bad person.”
It was the first time Shi Feng had heard Fang Chao speak. His voice was very weak and faint.
Shi Feng: “Livestock? Was it like that where you were before?”
He was curious about Fang Chao’s words and also curious about this strange person.
Fang Chao lowered his head, rolled up his sleeve, placed his hand on the table, and said in a light, ethereal voice:
“Yes, I’m from the Fang Zhaohai Base. Fang Zhaohai was the Ice Element Supernatural Ability User you killed earlier. He’s my Uncle. After the Apocalypse came, he awakened his Supernatural Ability. My parents were very excited because our whole family are ordinary people. Uncle was unmarried and unemployed, and had always lived with us, relying on my parents for support.
They thought Uncle would help them as they had helped him. But unexpectedly, he always hated our family. He used his Supernatural Ability to gather a group of people, established a Base, and then locked us in the basement, using our family to feed the Zombies he raised.”
Shi Feng asked while drawing blood, “You weren’t sure if Zombies could produce Crystal Cores at first, right?”
After coming to the Apocalypse, he learned many things and naturally knew that Crystal Cores weren’t present from the beginning.
Fang Chao: “Yes, but he still did it. He said we’d only know if they could produce Crystal Cores after raising them.”
Looking at the frail Fang Chao, Shi Feng nodded slightly: “So that’s how it is. No wonder you have so little blood in your body.”
It was precisely because his blood was so scarce, and it took a long time to draw each time, that he had such a deep impression of Fang Chao.
He was clearly on the verge of death from weakness, but he was always the first to come when it was time to draw blood, without a single complaint.
He didn’t even show any extra emotion.
Shi Feng: “I’ll still only draw one tube of blood from you each day. This is unavoidable, as I need precise daily reports on your body. However, I will have someone provide you with an extra blood replenishment package, and I won’t let you die.”
Hearing this, Fang Chao’s eyes welled up with tears. He knew then that the people in this Base were all good people.
If, if they had killed Fang Zhaohai sooner, perhaps his parents and older siblings could have moved in with him like he could now.
Seeing Fang Chao’s silence, Shi Feng thought he was afraid to accept the blood replenishment package and said coldly, “Everyone will receive this blood replenishment package. It’s just that I don’t like others, so I’m too lazy to waste these things on them. Consider it me giving you what you deserve because I find you agreeable. You don’t need to feel any burden.”
Fang Chao nodded, his voice trembling slightly with tears, “Thank you, Doctor Shi. I, I was just thinking about my parents and my older siblings. They were bitten by Zombies and died protecting me. If, if the City Lord, Doctor Shi, and the others had come sooner and killed those insane Supernatural Ability Users, our whole family could have lived in the Base. I can’t even imagine how good it would be if they were still alive.”
