Before Hua Mi could find Qin Zhen, Qin Zhen came to find Hua Mi first.

She wanted to buy a batch of weapons from Hua Mi.

She knew that Hua Mi had weapons, a lot of them.

Looking at Qin Zhen sitting in the car, Hua Mi shook her head.

"Weapons shouldn't be overused, but if you'd like, I can bring a team with me."

Weapons should never be used indiscriminately, no matter the circumstances. Even the most ruthless killers will come after Xiangcheng first.

Even at this moment, Hua Mi felt that the weapons in her hands should not be allowed to fall into the hands of ordinary survivors.

Once this precedent is set, the survivors will be killed before the mutated monsters and zombies even arrive.

The survivors killed themselves.

Qin Zhen hesitated as she looked at Hua Mi's pregnant belly. She had her own sources of information, so she knew that Ma Yongchun had gone to meet Ma Zhixuan.

At this moment, Hua Mi had already opened Qin Zhen's car door and gotten in.

She patted Qin Zhen on the shoulder.

"Don't worry, why would I risk rushing ahead of you? I know I'm scared too."

"I went to see Ma Zhixuan out of curiosity, to see what kind of monsters and freaks he had associated with."

"A woman as timid as me will just hide behind you and watch secretly."

Seeing Qin Zhen hesitate again, Hua Mi patted the back of the driver's seat.

"Come on, I've found a super strong expert to lead the team. If you don't take me with you, you won't win this battle."

Finally, under Hua Mi's persistent pleading and various threats, Qin Zhen had no choice but to take Hua Mi with him to find Ma Zhixuan.

Liu Shengyuan has already torn up the teleportation ticket for [Xiangcheng. Watchtower] and returned, and is getting ready at the city gate.

Knowing that this was going to be a tough battle, Cao Feng asked Liu Shengyuan to pick a few dozen men to take with him, but Liu Shengyuan pointed and pointed and only picked three men.

The main task of these three people is to protect Hua Mi and Qin Zhen.

As the car drove forward, Qin Zhen looked out at the heavy snow.

Although she didn't speak and appeared calm on the surface, her fingers were tightly clenched around the hem of her dress, revealing her nervousness.

In the quiet carriage, Hua Mi didn't know what to say. At this moment, Qin Zhen probably didn't want to talk to anyone either.

The car drove straight ahead, seemingly heading towards City C.

The killers who kidnapped Qin Jianqiang, along with Ma Zhixuan, were hiding in an abandoned high-rise building next to the Xiang C Expressway.

The snow kept piling up, and while people were bustling on the Hunan Expressway, the snow on this abandoned high-rise building had buried all the way up to the top floor.

Ma Yongchun arrived at his destination in a snowmobile. Looking out at the vast snowfield, Ma Zhixuan stood on the rooftop in front of him, waving happily.

"Brother, you didn't bring anyone else, did you?"

Ma Zhixuan stepped forward through the snow to watch Ma Yongchun get off the snowmobile.

Upon hearing this, Ma Yongchun spread his hands, his face ashen, and silently asked Ma Zhixuan to come forward for inspection.

Ma Zhixuan looked behind his brother and indeed saw no one else but Ma Yongchun.

He explained with an embarrassed expression,

"Brother, it's not that I don't trust you, but those people are all very wary. We finally managed to shake off those guards, and now we don't want to take any risks at all."

Ma Yongchun stepped forward, seemingly unwilling to listen to Ma Zhixuan's explanations; his face showed urgency.

Where is my son?

"Come with me, the child is perfectly fine, that's all."

As he spoke, Ma Zhixuan led Ma Yongchun down from the top floor of the building and into the cold, dark building.

The entire building was buried, becoming a natural cover. If their exact location hadn't been provided, the garrison wouldn't have been able to find them easily.

As Ma Yongchun followed Ma Zhixuan down one floor, he heard the heart-wrenching cries of a baby and the shouts of a group of men.

With a stern face, he urged Ma Zhixuan to hurry up. After walking up a few floors, they saw a group of men surrounding a fire.

Qin Jianqiang, who was only a little over a month old, was left all alone on the cold ground in the distance.

Amidst the contemptuous gazes of the assassins, Ma Yongchun rushed over and tenderly picked up his wailing son from the ground.

He turned his angry gaze to Ma Zhixuan.

Ma Zhixuan was completely unaware, and didn't even realize that there was anything wrong with leaving a premature baby, only a little over a month old, on the cold ground and letting the child cry.

"He'll die. You're tormenting him like this; you'll kill him."

Ma Yongchun was so angry he could hardly speak. He held his son, who was only slightly bigger than a rabbit, in his hands and watched his son cry his heart out.

He was also feeling incredibly sad.

Even Ma Yongchun himself probably didn't expect that his first meeting with his son would be under such circumstances.

Before Ma Zhixuan could answer, Ma Yongchun noticed that the child's temperature was abnormal. He quickly opened his coat and wrapped Qin Jianqiang inside it.

“This child has a fever, we need to take him back.”

However, before Ma Yongchun could finish speaking, the assassin by the fire suddenly lost his smile.

Several assassins stood up.

Vasily sat behind several assassins, his face filled with icy killing intent.

"How many brothers died to get this child out of the body? You just say you'll send him back? Did you think my brothers' lives were for nothing?"

Ma Yongchun, wrapped in a blanket, moved his lips, but wisely refrained from insisting at that moment.

"Then at least get some medicine for my son. After all, what you want is the supply depot. If my son dies, Qin Zhen will never give up the supply depot."

Vasily narrowed his eyes dangerously, and with a flick of his wrist, a box of expired adult ibuprofen landed at Ma Yongchun's feet.

"Feed him, tell him to stop crying."

It wasn't that Vasily pitied the child; if this child hadn't been Qin Zhen's son, Vasily would have crushed him into a pulp long ago.

How could such inhuman people care about the life of a baby?

Ma Yongchun lowered his eyes, looking at the expired adult ibuprofen at his feet, his brows furrowed without ever relaxing.

Vasily said sarcastically,

"You won't feed him? We've all been through this, is your son any different?"

Standing in the darkness and cold, Ma Yongchun wanted to say, yes, his son was different from them, these killers.

Even more so, Ma Yongchun was different from these assassins.

“We’ve been trained in this organization since we can remember. It’s such a waste of resources to try and save such a fragile little thing.”

As Vasily spoke, he slowly walked towards Ma Yongchun.

Like a gigantic humanoid beast, its mouth curled into a bloodthirsty sneer.

“Ma Yongchun, speaking of which, you’re not a very good commander of the garrison in City C.”

"How about you make a call and ask Qin Zhen to come over alone?"

"This also shows your sincerity."

I'm so nervous about seeing my test results today.

(End of this chapter)