The moment the door to the small room closed, Mi Jun struggled to get up from the cart, ignoring the IV needle still stuck in his hand.

"Captain Cheng! Help!"

Cheng Zhen: ? ?

Jiang Wan:? ?

Mi Mang: !!

Sure enough, the US military wasn't crazy; they had encountered some serious trouble!

Cheng Zhen lifted him up and made him sit against the wall for support, then asked, "What exactly happened?"

The American soldier looked bitter, his lips moving as if he was struggling with whether or not to tell the truth.

That cry for help was purely subconscious; only after he shouted it did he realize that Cheng Zhen was a member of the city guards, and he wouldn't help him no matter who he was helping!

Who does he think he is?

In an oxygen-deprived apocalypse, we are not even as good as ants!

Jiang Wan quietly observed his changing expressions, then casually recounted the current situation: "...Therefore, Xiangcheng is now divided into two cities for governance."

The other two people in the room were confused. Weren't they listening to Mi Jun reveal some important little secrets? Why did they suddenly start chatting about everyday things?

Only the American soldier listened intently, his expression growing increasingly agitated. In the end, he almost wanted to grab Jiang Wan's hand and ask, "So, we're now under Battalion Commander Chen's protection, right? They can't interfere here from the inner city, right?"

"Theoretically speaking, yes, right?" Jiang Wan wasn't sure either, and looked up at Cheng Zhen.

Cheng Zhen nodded.

Mi Jun finally breathed a sigh of relief, then waved to Mi Mang: "Go home. Don't tell anyone about my recovery."

The more you know about certain things, the faster you die, which also suggests that the secret he's about to reveal is extremely explosive.

Mi Mang was initially unwilling, but Mi Jun insisted and even threatened that if she didn't leave, they would never see each other again, which forced her to leave.

"Now let's talk." Cheng Zhen personally stood guard at the door, so he could know immediately whoever approached.

Mi Jun sighed: "I was just too unlucky. I accidentally... stumbled upon Lord Bi's... secret."

"Lord Bi?"

Cheng Zhen and Jiang Wan were both quite surprised. They never expected that the fatal injury on his head would be related to Lord Bi.

"I was also quite surprised to run into him at the Optical Research Institute... but now that I think about it, he's the city lord, so it's probably normal that he cares about our research, right?"

Jiang Wan and Cheng Zhen exchanged a glance, neither confirming nor denying.

Mi Jun sighed for a moment before getting to the point: "I accidentally bumped into Lord Bi and knocked something out of his hand. When I looked at it later... it was a pill."

"I rushed to pick it up, and then I got hit on the back of the head, and then I don't remember anything else."

"Pills?"

Cheng Zhen asked with a stern face, "Are you saying that City Lord Bi is taking pills?"

Mi Jun looked dejected: "It should be, otherwise, what else could it be but chocolate? If it were really chocolate, why would he have tried to kill me?"

It is precisely because the elixir is so rare, and because it was a prohibited substance before the oxygen-deficient apocalypse, that Lord Bi's actions were exposed, which is why he suddenly became murderous.

Jiang Wan suddenly realized why everyone at the Optical Research Institute had been so hesitant yet unanimously insisted that Mi Jun had suddenly gone mad. So that's the reason. They must all know that the murderer is Lord Bi.

But who wouldn't want to live? Who would dare to tell the truth and accuse Lord Bi?

Jiang Wan felt sorry for him: "So what are you going to do now?"

He carries the big secret of the big boss on his shoulders. Now it's an oxygen-deprived apocalypse, and he has no chance to escape elsewhere. What can he do? Continue to play the fool?

Therefore, it was the right thing for him to keep Mi Mang out of it.

Mi Jun sighed, then turned to Cheng Zhen and was about to kneel down again: "Please, Captain Cheng, save me! I can do anything!"

But how could someone as weak as him kill mutated plants? Or zombies?

Cheng Zhen also felt a headache coming on, so he simply reported the matter to Lao Chen.

Old Chen was also taken aback upon hearing this, his face filled with astonishment. He then slammed his fist on the table in anger: "I knew something was wrong with him!"

"After the apocalypse of oxygen deficiency, look at the things he did, which one was reliable?"

Cheng Zhen didn't speak, but he thought to himself that what he did before the oxygen-deficient apocalypse was already unreliable. It was just that the world was peaceful back then, so even if he was unreliable, he couldn't be too outrageous. Besides, someone was obviously cleaning up his mess.

Thinking about it, he suddenly remembered a key point: "Essence? Cinnabar Town?"

Cinnabar is a very important ingredient in elixirs!

After being reminded by him, Old Chen finally understood the key point. No wonder the two cities that had never spoken to each other were now exchanging goods and services. Zhu Sha City was even willing to provide Omega.

Old Chen sneered, "If he wants to court death, we can't control him, and we don't need to!"

"However, we must keep a close eye on his movements at all times. We can't let the lives of all the people of Xiangcheng be sacrificed to go crazy with him!"

Cheng Zhen solemnly replied, "Yes!"

Old Chen let out a deep breath: "We need to make proper arrangements for that American soldier. We can't let anyone know that he's sober and that he told us such an important secret."

Cheng Zhen was perplexed. He was an expert in optical research; how could he possibly arrange things?

Sending him to the wilderness? That would be killing him!

He returned at a loss, looking at Mi Jun with a complicated expression: "Or, why don't you go cook in the cafeteria?"

I just cook some thin porridge, stir-fry some vegetables, and pickle some vegetables when I have the ingredients.

Mi Jun immediately nodded in agreement. He had no room for complaint now. If Lord Bi's men found out that he was awake, he would surely die!

With his problem resolved, Jiang Wan and Cheng Zhen continued their journey.

She had a mission to complete this time and didn't bring the twins with her, so she entrusted them to Huang Ying to take care of.

Xiashan Town is a small town located in the northwest of Xiangcheng. Xiashan'ao, where they previously collected supplies, belongs to this small town.

As they passed the gas station they had visited, Cheng Zhen suddenly slowed down.

They were driving Cheng Zhen's SUV this time. Jiang Wan was dozing off in the passenger seat when she noticed he had stopped. She sat up straight and asked, "What's wrong? Have we arrived?"

"no."

Cheng Zhen shook his head, then pointed inside the gas station and reminded her, "Look, is there anything wrong?"

"Where are the corpses?"

The two exchanged a glance. Yes, the body was gone!

So, have they all turned into zombies?

"Should we move all the oil now?" Jiang Wan asked. Since she had a spatial dimension, she hoarded everything. She felt it was unreliable to leave such important supplies in the wild!

"Alright! Old Chen has already gathered all the tanker trucks together. I'll just open a door and pump the oil into the tanker trucks..."

Before he could finish speaking, there was a loud bang, as if something had hit their car.

The two looked up together and saw a deathly pale face hanging down from the car's windshield.