Chapter 43 Paying Interest
Gu Jingzheng had been on duty all night and was a little tired from driving, so he rubbed his eyebrows with his hand.
He glanced in the rearview mirror at the woman sitting in the back seat again, feeling a little helpless.
Feeling the gaze of the man in front, Ye Jin turned her face to the side, closed her eyes and leaned against the car window.
Gu Jingzheng shook his head. How worried was he about him?
After returning to the base, Gu Jingzheng was going to meet Xu Jiaguo and they parted ways.
"I have kept these things for you for so long, let me return them to you first." Ye Jin handed him the ring and the nuclear crystal.
Gu Jingzheng looked at the fair hands of the woman in front of him, his handsome face expressionless as he whispered, "The capital is in chaos."
Ye Jin's right eye twitched.
"It's a mess?"
Gu Jingzheng said hoarsely: "Yeah."
The atmosphere began to become depressing. The country's leadership was in chaos, and the people below would only have a harder time. She remembered that it was also at this time in her previous life that various bases began to seize power, and the survival space for ordinary people became even more difficult.
After a few seconds of silence, he said, "After the apocalypse, no one in the upper management had awakened their superpowers. By the time I arrived in the capital, the situation had changed drastically."
Ye Jin was a little panicked, but also expected it.
No matter where you are, the strong are the kings. The people in the country's leadership are all very old, and there is basically no possibility of awakening superpowers. The proportion of people with awakened superpowers is mostly among the young people with good physiques.
People with special abilities always think that they are the chosen ones and that ordinary people should be enslaved. Now in the end times, those who are already powerful feel that it is time to reshuffle the cards. There is only so much cake and everyone wants to get a bigger piece.
"Didn't they train people with special abilities in advance?"
Gu Jingzheng is a member of the national military, and the underground secret group mentioned by the wind-type mutant before, isn’t it a national organization?
"That's what I came here for."
In just two months, Kyoto was in chaos, and he escaped with a narrow escape.
"Ajin, I have found the whereabouts of the Ye family."
"Where are they? Are they safe?" Ye Jin was a little excited.
"They are all at the West City Base in Province C, which was also the address selected by the higher-ups beforehand." He glanced at Ye Jin and said, "They led the team to set up the base management before the apocalypse. The higher-ups sent people from the major families in the capital and the military to help with the pre-selected base location. This was a closed secret operation, so you lost contact with them."
He continued, "The Yan family rebelled first, and the Southern Base was supposed to be taken over by the Fu family. However, the Fu family is now fighting for power in the capital and can't take care of this area. That's why Xu Tian is running around in the Southern Base now."
Upon hearing the news that his elder brother and uncle were safe, Ye Jin finally breathed a sigh of relief. The Yan family, the Fu family, the Ye family, and the Gu family were all big families in the capital. The Yan family was the first to rebel just to gain more favorable bargaining chips.
Ye Jin asked again: "What should we do with the base now? Let them fight for it?"
This will only cause internal friction.
Gu Jingzheng said expressionlessly and gloomily, "If Commander Xu can be a good base commander, it will be a good thing for the people in the Southern Base."
Sure enough, it was the same as in the previous life. The upper-level leaders were in chaos, there were no constraints below, bases of all sizes were built, and those with some strength and abilities all wanted to become kings.
Ye Jin glanced at the wall gate that was still under construction. The base was now almost as complete as it was in his previous life.
If Chief Xu could become the base commander, he would definitely manage the base better than the brutal Xu Tian and allow other ordinary people to have a chance to survive.
Although Chief Xu has no special abilities and is a bit stubborn, his son Xu Zhouyun, who looks elegant, is actually a man with his own ideas.
"The contents of this ring and the grain in the granary are now considered ownerless. I'm only taking half. The rest, along with the car and the third-level spiritual core crystal, are considered interest compensation to you."
Gu Jingzheng picked up the ring and waved his hand gently, transferring half of the ammunition in the ring space.
He returned the ring to Ye Jin, and before Ye Jin could react, he turned around and waved, saying, "I'm going to see Old Xu first. Remember to save some dinner for me tonight."
Ye Jin wanted to say something, but the man disappeared.
He glanced at the ring that had returned to his hand. Did he get so many supplies for free and even add a storage space? Putting away the ring and the nuclear crystal, Ye Jin patted the front of the modified jeep. It was well modified and looked quite crash-resistant.
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Chen Tian looked at the young man in front of him, who was holding a senior military officer certificate in his hand, and quickly went to report to the leader.
When Xu Jiaguo heard Chen Tian’s words in the office, he immediately stood up. Could it be that someone from above was coming?
Then he saw Gu Jingzheng striding in. He saluted and said, "Hello, Chief Xu."
Xu Jiaguo immediately returned the greeting: "Hello, Comrade Gu!"
Chen Tian, standing next to him, was stunned. What kind of person was this? He had been in the army for so long, and except for higher-ranking leaders, he had never seen Commander Xu return a gift to anyone.
"It's Xiaozheng! I haven't seen you for so long. Come on, come and sit down." Xu Jiaguo waved at Gu Jingzheng, picked up the teapot beside him, poured a glass of water, pushed it towards Gu Jingzheng who was sitting opposite him and said, "Have a drink of water first."
He turned to Chen Tian and said, "Go and call Xiaoyun over."
"Yes!" Chen Tian saluted and closed the door when he went out.
Looking at the handsome man in front of him, Xu Jiaguo nodded and smiled, "Xiao Zheng, you're already so old now, is your old man okay?"
Xu Jiaguo was a soldier under Master Gu before, and it was the old man who promoted him to where he is today. The old man had been on the battlefield in his time, so he admired the old man very much, and naturally he also admired the younger generation that the old man had high hopes for.
Xu Jiaguo's concern didn't seem fake. Gu Jingzheng just had a blank expression on his face. He picked up the water cup, took a sip, and said, "The old man is gone."
"Gone?" Xu Jiaguo frowned and asked, "The old man had been living well in the capital, how could he disappear?"
Gu Jingzheng put down the water cup in his hand, his eyes sharp, and asked tentatively: "Didn't my second uncle tell you?"
Xu Jiaguo frowned even more and asked doubtfully, "Your second uncle and I are not close friends. I haven't heard any news about the old man going missing before. When did this happen?"
Before Gu Jingzheng could respond, there was a knock on the door and it was pushed open.
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