Chapter 87, Deliberate
Under the flickering lights, the three of them dealt with the zombies in the corridor and arrived at the entrance of the command department.
The heavy door was equipped with a pupil recognition device. After Chu Yuan scanned the pupil, the door made a heavy muffled sound and slowly moved away.
A strong smell of blood wafted out as the metal door was removed. The lights in the command room were still on, and when the bright light came on, one could clearly see the dried blood that was splattered on the walls and floor like ink, as well as the corpses piled up in the corner.
Qi Yuan only took a glance and then hurriedly looked away, unable to bear to look any longer.
Jiang Ran's fingers gripping the gun subconsciously tightened. She swallowed and forced herself to look directly at the tragic scene in the command room.
Most of the corpses were young, both men and women, wearing the black uniforms of the Xiling Special Ability Team. Without exception, their faces were filled with fear and unwillingness...
Closing his eyes, Chu Yuan slowly walked into the command room, into the place where his companions had fought.
"Jiang Ran, these people..."
Knowing what Qi Yuan wanted to ask, Jiang Ran whispered, "They were all bitten to death by zombies."
The corpse closest to them was that of a tall woman, her body riddled with holes from zombies, leaving no trace of her original appearance.
Seeing more than a dozen headless zombie bodies at her feet, Jiang Ran knew that this person had been fighting until his death.
Chu Yuan stopped in front of his companion's body and carefully laid her body, which was leaning against the wall, on the ground. His movements were gentle, with a heavy sense of ritual that could not be offended. This time, without Jiang Ran's explanation, Qi Yuan could also see that the woman who died in battle was a companion he knew and was familiar with.
"Her name is Min He, she's the captain of Team Four. Like me, she's also a lab subject." Chu Yuan lowered his gaze to look at his companions. His voice was low, and if you listened closely, you could hear the bitterness and anger within. "It was the Shen family who released Qin Huai. To weaken the forces around Seventh Brother, the higher-ups at the base finally arranged for Team Four, led by Min He, to pursue Qin Huai."
"...all the way to Jiangning?"
"Yes, Qin Huai is very familiar with this area. The base sent several reconnaissance teams but failed to catch him. Finally, the Shen family proposed to establish a blockade to temporarily trap him."
"At that time, no one knew about Qin Huai's special ability?"
"The information the Shen family gave us indicated that it was a mutated psychic type, with a very high danger level, even higher than that of Seventh Brother—but no one knows what the specific mutation is."
Chu Yuan stood up, looked around the command room, and walked towards the computer where the surveillance footage was stored.
Jiang Ran asked, "So, before coming here, no one knew that Qin Huai's psychic ability was a control-type ability within the psychic system?"
Chu Yuan shook his head.
"Now I know." Jiang Ran said coldly, "This time it was a surprise attack - next time we meet..."
"If he had been on guard, Qin Huai might not have been able to calculate Min He." Min He was able to become the captain of the fourth team by virtue of his strength. His combat power was not low. This time, Qin Huai just took advantage of him.
The man clicked on the surveillance video.
I don’t know if it was intentional, but Qin Huai did not handle the surveillance of the blockade area.
The footage clearly recorded everything that happened in the command room.
The team members controlled by Qin Huai's special ability took Qin Huai to avoid all surveillance and detectors and opened the door of the command room.
Faced with Qin Huai's large-scale deployment of psychic powers, the group of psychics in the command room didn't even have a chance to resist and lost their independent consciousness.
Min He, the only one awake, resisted Qin Huai's influence while defending against the zombies who had also awakened various powers to protect his teammates, but in the end he was defeated...
After Min He was overwhelmed by zombies, all the team members became fish on the chopping board and were slaughtered by the zombies.
After seeing the following footage, Jiang Ran was certain that Qin Huai had deliberately kept this surveillance video.
As for those team members who had lost their resistance, Qin Huai did not let the zombies kill them directly. Instead, he started to bite them from their arms and legs, which were definitely not fatal...
Looking at the team members struggling in pain but dying slowly in despair, Chu Yuan slammed his fist on the table. Without waiting for the video to end, he turned around and walked out of the command room quickly.
"Chu Yuan..." Qi Yuan looked at Jiang Ran and whispered, "I'm going out too," then quickly left the command room to chase Chu Yuan.
Jiang Ran didn't move.
The video ended quickly. After receiving Chu Yuan's instructions, the members of the first team quickly came in to collect the bodies of their companions and moved them out of the command room for burial.
Jiang Ran reopened the video and watched it carefully again.
"Sure enough." Freezing the video at one scene, Jiang Ran stared at one spot and sneered, "That guy got what he wanted."
Qin Huai in the picture was holding a notebook in her right hand - if she was not mistaken, the notebook belonged to Jiang Yize.
Jiang Ranran had seen it in her own study when she was a child, and because the cover of the notebook was a sketch of Shen Muxin, she was deeply impressed.
Qin Huai did not kill these people before escaping the blockade area.
He first escaped from the blockade area, went to Jiang's house, got what he wanted, then came back here, killed everyone, and waited at Jiang's house for the new team.
Wait, was he at the Jiang family waiting for a new team? Or was there something else in the Jiang family that he coveted but couldn't get?
…
When Chu Yuan reported Qin Huai's news and the situation of the fourth team back to the base, he didn't expect Si Xu to arrive within a day.
The speeding car rushed to the blocked area and braked suddenly. After a beautiful drift, it came to a steady stop at the entrance. Before the psychic on duty at the gate could react, the young man had already passed him and entered.
"That's... Professor Si?"
“It seems so…”
"What do you mean by 'seems'? That's Professor Si! It seems that the situation in the blockade area is really serious. Professor Si has come here in person..."
“…”
Si Xu, who had originally thought that he would be able to see the little girl when he arrived at the command room, stood in front of the monitoring screen in the command room with a cold expression and remained silent.
"Qin Huai left this footage there intentionally." Guo Zhehao, deputy captain of the First Squadron, stood respectfully aside, reporting on his work. "Because Miss Jiang requested it, Captain Chu brought a few members to accompany her into the blockade."
Si Xu remained silent.
Deputy Captain Guo's forehead was covered with cold sweat, and he continued with a stiff upper lip: "They went in this morning and should be back soon..."
Before he finished speaking, several familiar figures appeared on another surveillance screen.
Si Xu's gaze shifted from the main monitor to the lower right corner, and his cold expression eased slightly.
Deputy Captain Guo also saw the people returning and finally breathed a sigh of relief: "Captain Chu and Miss Jiang are back."
"Yeah." Si Xu's gaze shifted back to the main screen.
The man suddenly raised his hand and pressed the pause button. He tapped a spot on the screen and asked, "What is Qin Huai holding in his hand?"
He had seen this video before, but he had never noticed what was in Qin Huai's hand. Guo Zhehao was confused for a moment: "It seems to be... a book? Or a notebook or something?"
The picture was not clear and he couldn't be sure.
But why is Professor Si concerned about this? Could it be some important clue?
(End of this chapter)
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