Chapter 16

"Stop following me." After following Allen for a while, he stopped. However, if you look closely, you can see that the place where he stopped happened to be the blind spot of the surveillance camera. He turned around and asked Jiang Fei, "What do you want to do?"

"You don't really want to do this, do you? This is aiding and abetting evil. Everyone follows you to the North District because they trust you." Alan is not as cold-blooded as he appears. On the contrary, Jiang Fei can feel his hesitation and entanglement when they get along with him.

So she guessed that Allen didn't want to do that, and this would be a good starting point. She looked determined and said, "So I want you to help us, as a way to atone for your sins."

Allen stared at Jiang Fei for a few seconds, then laughed mockingly, "Atonement? I didn't do anything wrong."

Nona said angrily, "You obviously did something wrong. You indirectly killed so many people. Isn't this a sin?"

"But at the same time, I also let you and some other people survive. How do you account for this?" Alan crossed his arms.

Nona takes things for granted, believing that the world is either black or white, and that human beings are either good or bad.

"You also thought you could save others at the beginning, right? But because of that young master, his perverted habits caused the people you saved to die... If you help me, I can take you away from here." Jiang Fei was used to the big promises made by his superiors at work, and now he can make promises to others without any hesitation.

Alan's expression changed, "Are you kidding me... Do you think I will believe it?"

Usually when someone asks this kind of question, it means that he has begun to waver. Jiang Fei nodded, "I think you will believe it."

"Tsk." He frowned impatiently. He knew that if he stayed with Joshua any longer, this perverted young master would really kill him if he got upset. Instead of living in fear every day, he might as well give it a try. "What do you want me to do?"

The subtext of this was that he could help. Jiang Fei was delighted. "Don't bother. I'd like to borrow your computer for a while. We need to contact other people."

Allen explained in advance, "But you can only send messages, not talk. Any calls longer than ten seconds in the base will be monitored."

"Then I'll control it within ten seconds." Jiang Fei was determined to find the bug. Allen took off the computer and said, "You'd better keep your word, otherwise we'll all be doomed."

Jiang Fei tried hard to recall Anna's contact information, but she wasn't sure if it was correct. She then remembered the landline phone number she had seen in the research institute before. The number was relatively short, and she remembered it very clearly.

The voice call is dialed.

drop--

drop--

On the other side of the phone, the research institute was empty. Leon happened to go to the restaurant. The ringing of the phone echoed in the empty office, and Jiang Fei's heart sank little by little as time passed.

At that moment, a figure appeared outside the institute. Lucian, who was passing by, heard the ringing sound and walked inside. It was an unfamiliar number. He hesitated for a few seconds and answered before the ringing died down. "Who is it?"

Jiang Fei heaved a sigh of relief when she heard the familiar voice. She quickly said, "I'm Jiang Fei. Don't ask me how I survived, but I'm in some trouble at the A-1 base in the North District. Come and help me." She had already prepared a speech in her mind before the call was connected. She said everything she wanted to say in one breath and hung up the phone at the perfect time.

The voice on the other end was indeed Jiang Fei's, but these days everyone had assumed she had been killed by the pollutants. A call from someone who was supposed to be dead would be considered fake by most people, but Lucian didn't think so. He put down the phone, and Leon returned from the restaurant. "Lucian? Why are you here?"

Lucian said, "Nothing, I just received a phone call." He needed to have a good talk with Captain Anna about this matter, but he couldn't tell Gru now, otherwise, given his personality, he would definitely clamor to go to A-1 base to find her.

Could it be a trap? But why would the other party do this?

Lucian was lost in thought. He walked to Captain Anna's office and knocked on the door. Before Anna could speak, he opened it, poked his head in, and said, "I got a call."

Anna, who was sitting behind the desk, looked up and asked, "What call?"

"That's Jiang Fei calling." Lucian's cautious nature came in handy at this moment. He recorded the rest of the conversation the moment he heard Jiang Fei's voice. Now he called up the recording of just a few seconds and played it from the beginning.

Anna said, "Play it again." In this world, it is easy to fake someone's voice, but she couldn't figure out what the other party's purpose would be if he really faked Jiang Fei's voice?

Lucian played the video several times as she instructed, even pausing every second. After listening to it several times, Anna concluded, "The possibility of it being fake is very low."

Anna frowned, "She said she was at A-1, but we looked for her in the North District before and couldn't find her."

"There's also a possibility that we were searching for her extensively four days ago, and she might have arrived at the North District A-1 base two days ago."

"How did she get to A-1 base alone?" Anna remembered it clearly. Their transport vehicles were scrapped, and it was Bill who brought them back. It would be difficult to reach other bases within a few days by walking alone, not to mention the huge temperature difference between day and night when night fell, which was enough to cause people to die from dehydration.

"Unless someone brought her there." Lucian had heard about the A-1 base. As the most developed and prosperous base in the northern region, the son of the person in charge, Joshua, was an out-and-out pervert. Although his father hid it all well, Lucian still learned about Joshua's perverted interest in collectibles from various rumors.

He already had the answer in his mind, and even speculated on the whole process of the incident. She had survived the explosion, met people from the A-1 base on the way, and now she was trapped there. Maybe she would become part of the collection.

“I think it’s worth a look,” Lucian said.

Anna thought for a moment, "It's enough for the two of us to go. Don't let Gru know."

Just as he finished speaking, Gru's loud voice rang out outside the office door, "I heard from Leon that Jiang Fei called!?"

Hearing this, Lucian covered his face with one hand, forgetting to remind Leon. "Oh no."

"Really? Why did you hide this from me?!" Gru was so excited that he wanted to rush out to find Jiang Fei. He was still brooding over the fact that he "killed" Jiang Fei last time.

Anna and Lucian sighed at the same time, and both saw helplessness in each other's eyes.

*

After Jiang Fei ended the call, he handed the laptop to Nona, "Do you want to call your brother? You can think about what you are going to say first."

Nona held the light brain and said, "I have too much to say to them."

As he was speaking, Allen's light brain rang strangely. Jiang Fei asked Allen: "Is this calling you?"

"I don't recognize this number." He answered the phone and a male voice came out, "Give the laptop to Nona."

Alan did as he was told and said, "It seems your brother called on his own initiative."

Being able to do this means that their every move is actually under the surveillance of Nona's two brothers. Jiang Fei looked around while Nona was on the phone. This place is indeed a blind spot for surveillance, so how did they know?

Nona beside him listened carefully to her brother Jason.

"We will be here tomorrow. Just hold on a little longer. By then, the guards in the quarantine area will be weakened, and you can take the opportunity to leave."

"Can't the others be saved?"

"…We'll try our best."

The call ended quickly. Nona threw the laptop back to Allen, and she and Jiang Fei left side by side.

When returning to the small cubicle in the isolation area, Jiang Fei intentionally or unintentionally told others that the son of the person in charge here was a pervert, hoping that they would leave with him. However, without direct evidence, most people did not believe it, and some even thought that Jiang Fei wanted to kill them.

Well, it’s hard to persuade that damned guy with nice words, so Jiang Fei didn’t waste any more words arguing with them, because she herself couldn’t be sure of the success of her escape. She could be considered a kind person, but not so kind that she had no brains.

That night, the black cat quietly returned to her bedside. She had just discovered not long ago that after subduing the pollutant, she could actually directly read the pollutant's thoughts, which made collecting information much easier.

She sorted out the information Black Cat had gathered, removing the irrelevant information, and she had already figured out the layout of the entire base.

In addition to escaping, she has another more important thing to do, which is to collect pollutants. She also needs to collect the pollutants trapped behind the wall of Joshua's room. The only pollutant she has at hand is the black cat.

I don’t know if the black cat alone is enough to deal with the pollutants from the hawk moth.

She spent the whole night thinking about how to subdue the pollutant, and she was sniffing when she woke up in the morning. After breakfast, she was taken by the doctor to have her eyes checked. She did not sleep well, which led to some red bloodshot eyes. This made the doctor very nervous. He prescribed a bottle of eye drops and told her to use them on time every day.

"This way your red blood streaks will disappear quickly."

"Oh." Jiang Fei didn't take it to heart at all. She sat on the chair and looked at the scenery outside the window. The previous second it was a peaceful and tranquil city morning, and the next second the artificial sun hanging in the sky was blown with a hole.

Rumble——

Fragments of the artificial sun fell from the sky, and the city center became chaotic, with screams and shouts rising one after another.

The doctor walked to the window and asked, "What happened? It's dangerous outside. Don't go out yet."

But when he turned his head, Jiang Fei, who had been sitting on the chair, had disappeared.