After Bai Ling had her subordinates bring the two back at noon, she went to collect some supplies. Just as she returned to the survivor base, before she could go to find Gu Lingchuan and the other person, Yu Hai found her and handed her the hundreds of crystals.

When he saw the hundreds of zombie crystals, he knew things were bad. Those two people who could kill so many zombies were definitely strong, much stronger than him.

She sensed danger as soon as she arrived, and now she was stuck, unable to move forward or backward. She should have known better than to talk nonsense and arranged a good room for them to avoid any misunderstanding.

Or you could just ignore them. Anyway, she's starting to regret it.

If I go there now to explain, I'm afraid they won't even give me a chance; I'll be killed before I can even open my mouth.

I felt like I had a thorn in my side, and I didn't know if I could withstand a single blow from the other side.

Praying she wouldn't be taken down in one fell swoop, Bai Ling still gritted her teeth and walked over.

As soon as I reached the door, before I could even speak, my whole body was firmly fixed in place, as if I had fallen into mortar, making it extremely difficult to move.

Even with bulging veins beneath her fair skin, she could only move a little.

Bang bang bang.

The iron gate made a loud noise, deformed, and the lock was blown off.

Because Gu Lingxiao's legs had not recovered, he was unable to unleash his full power and failed to smash the iron gate open with a single punch.

The moment the door opened, Gu Lingxiao was ready to kill the woman, but Gu Lingchuan stopped him.

Because the woman managed to utter the words "distant cousin".

"What are you doing?" Gu Lingxiao asked, frowning.

"Wait, wait," he managed to say with difficulty.

Gu Lingchuan released Bai Ling and used his mental energy to protect Gu Lingxiao and himself.

A pen flew from the opposite room and wrote a few words on the wall.

Who did you just call your distant cousin?

She was clearly shouting at Gu Lingxiao just now.

"Huff, huff, huff"

Bai Ling was panting heavily, her face flushed from the exertion and looked rather unpleasant. She couldn't even put up a fight against these two. Why did she bring them back? She really wanted to slap herself twice.

I almost, I almost died.

"Are you Gu Lingchuan?" she asked, panting, but still managing to answer quickly.

The direction she was looking was towards Gu Lingxiao.

After his hands grew back, Gu Lingxiao wiped the blood from his face. He looked somewhat like his distant cousin, Gu Lingchuan. Even if he wasn't Gu Lingchuan, the resemblance must mean they were related. Desperate, Bai Ling finally called him "distant cousin."

"Who are you?" Gu Lingxiao asked, then glanced at Gu Lingchuan.

Gu Lingchuan shook his head slightly; he didn't remember having such a distant cousin.

"My name is Bai Ling. I got into the Gu Group four years ago thanks to this connection."

Upon hearing this, Gu Lingchuan recalled that four years ago, a middle-aged woman had indeed brought a photo of herself and her mother and asked someone to join the company and be given a position.

But at that time he was busy consolidating the company, so he let his assistant handle the matter. He had no recollection of Bai Ling at all. With so many companies under the Gu Group, who knew where they were located? He was certain he had never met this person.

"There was indeed such an incident four years ago. How can you prove that what you're saying is true?" The pen on the wall wrote these words again.

Bai Ling took out several photos from her pocket. Most of them featured a middle-aged woman, and one of them also showed her mother.

Bai Ling had been planning to ask him about the boy when she thought he looked somewhat like a distant cousin, but seeing their reactions saved her life.

Upon seeing his mother's photo, Gu Lingxiao slowly suppressed his murderous intent.

Bai Ling found it strange that this person, whose face was bitten and mangled, would know about what happened four years ago. Shouldn't it be the person next to him?

"I am Gu Lingchuan, and this is my younger brother Gu Lingxiao." Although the two are four years apart and not twins, they look very alike for some reason.

Bai Ling was puzzled as to when Gu Dong had a younger brother, but she still smiled awkwardly and said somewhat restrainedly, "I was just making things up to scare you guys before."

"We're locking you up because you're outsiders; we have to consider your safety," Bai Ling quickly explained.

“These are your crystal cores, I haven’t touched a single one,” Gu Lingchuan said, taking them and then frowning.

"Her subordinates took it away." Gu Lingxiao held his mother's photo, staring blankly at the person in it.

Bai Ling was startled, then angrily said, "Damn it, I'll go get it back right now!"

Let me arrange for you to settle in first.

Gu Lingchuan grabbed a few zombie crystals to absorb, and handed the rest to Gu Lingxiao.

Gu Lingxiao naturally wouldn't stand on ceremony with him. He turned handfuls of zombie crystals gray, and his legs were rapidly recovering. In just over ten minutes, he was able to walk easily again.

By this time, many people had turned to look at this scene, feeling both envious and frightened.

"Let's go, we'll leave once we've recovered."

At this moment, Bai Ling was somewhat relieved that the two people had taken away the zombie crystals; otherwise, with that recovery speed, she might have found the survivor base littered with corpses when she returned.

Bai Ling arranged two adjacent rooms for them. Although they weren't very nice, they weren't prison cells either; they looked like rooms for the staff.

There was even a bathroom inside.

"Please rest here for a while. I'll have someone bring you some clothes and food," Bai Ling said, sounding quite reserved.

After Gu Lingxiao and the others had fully recovered from their missing body parts, they took a shower and changed their clothes, while Gu Lingchuan simply cleaned himself up.

The main problem is that there are hardly any intact areas, making it unsuitable for bathing.

During this time, the missing hundred or so zombie crystals were also retrieved.

Bai Ling was so angry she laughed when she saw the amount. "Good, good, good. He's kept more than half of it for himself. No wonder Gu Lingchuan knew it was short as soon as he took it."

"If you two want to live, go apologize, then you'll be locked in that little dark room for a week. You like taking half, right? From now on, you'll only take half of the supplies."

Bai Ling lashed out at the two of them, but they didn't care much. They thought that cursing wasn't bad at all, and that the cursing wasn't like they were being hit. Unlike the previous managers who would kill people at the drop of a hat.

They were led to Gu Lingchuan's room. The sight of his frightening appearance made them a little scared, but he was surprisingly easy to talk to and even gave off a kind and approachable feeling.

After apologizing, they were allowed to leave. When they arrived at Gu Lingxiao's place, the two of them intended to do the same thing as before.

This man was very handsome, with a faint smile on his lips, but before either of them could react, Gu Lingxiao snapped one of their middle fingers in two. "Don't touch things you shouldn't take in the future."

"Ahhhhh"

The excruciating pain of having their fingers crushed caused both of them to scream in agony.

"Alright, Lingxiao," Gu Lingchuan said as he came to the door, his throat having mostly recovered after the crystallization.

"Hehe, if you say it's good, then it's good." The nonchalant tone left Gu Lingxiao feeling quite helpless.

Bai Ling was also startled; how could the two brothers have such different personalities?