Chapter 76 Two-legged Sheep
At ten o'clock in the middle of the night, a figure was moving quickly in the underground passage. When he encountered a patrol team on the road, the figure immediately hid and continued to move forward quickly after the people left.
"Boom...boom...boom...boom...boom..."
Lu Chen, who was in the room having a video conference with Fang Qing and others in the Dawn Base, suddenly heard a light knock on the door. Hearing the special signal knock unique to the army, his expression froze. He hung up the video and quickly walked to the door, taking out the pistol from his waist and holding it in his hand.
Lu Chen leaned against the corner of the door and asked, "Who is it?"
"Chief Lu, I am a subordinate of Chief Liang from T City."
Lu Chen put down his gun and opened the door, and saw a slightly disheveled man in military uniform standing in front of the door. He stepped aside to let the man in, then looked outside, closed the door and locked it.
"Are you the person Chief Liang sent a few days ago?" Lu Chen frowned as he looked at the man standing in the room. His military uniform was messy and torn, with some parts dark in color, which were traces of injuries soaked with blood.
The man looked up at him, and Lu Chen realized that his face was covered in bruises and there were some cuts at the corners of his mouth.
He saluted Lu Chen and said in a hoarse voice, "I'm Gao Zongming, Captain of the Tenth Corps of the 32nd Division of T City! Six days ago, I was ordered by Commander Liang to fly a helicopter with three other team members to N City for assistance."
"How... do you know me?" Lu Chen looked at him puzzled.
"We heard the guards chatting, saying that Chief Lu from City S has arrived. Ahem... cough... cough..." Gao Zongming was halfway through his words when he suddenly raised his hand to his chest and coughed twice softly, "Ahem... sorry."
Lu Chen walked over and helped him sit down on a chair, then poured him a glass of warm water. "Are you seriously injured?"
Gao Zongming thanked him, picked up the cup and drank the water in a few gulps. He had been locked up for several days and only had a bowl of porridge in his mouth a day and nothing else. When he saw the water, he couldn't hold it back.
Seeing that he quickly drank up the water, Lu Chen simply put the kettle on the table and let him pour it. Then he turned around, went to the clothes rack, rummaged through his pockets, took out a pack of compressed biscuits and handed it to Gao Zongming.
He guessed that this person probably hadn't eaten much in the past few days.
Gao Zongming drank two more glasses of water and looked at the compressed biscuits handed to him by Lu Chen. He held them in his hands and looked at them, but was reluctant to eat them. "I got beaten a few times and broke a few ribs. It's nothing serious."
Lu Chen raised his eyebrows and glanced at Gao Zongming several times.
Lu Chen asked: "Were you detained by people from City N?" Chief Liang said that he had not received any news from those people. He came here to ask Zhang Jin and was told that no one was found. Now he saw Gao Zongming who looked embarrassed, so it was conceivable that Zhang Jin had detained someone.
Gao Zongming clenched his fists and gritted his teeth as he recounted his experiences over the past few days to Lu Chen. "We were ordered to come to N City to seek assistance. When we arrived here, we explained our purpose. Zhang Jin readily agreed and treated us very warmly. He then said that preparing supplies would take time and asked us to stay here for a while."
"We originally wanted to report the situation using the satellite phone, but for some reason it wasn't working here. I was planning to send a helicopter farther away from City N to try using the satellite phone again, but Secretary Zeng came over and said we were only staying overnight and could leave the next day after gathering our supplies. There was no need to go to such lengths and waste fuel. I thought about it and decided to listen to him."
Gao Zongming's eyes flashed with regret when he said this. "I was really too careless with them. The commander clearly told us to be cautious before we set out. That night, when we had dinner with those two, all four of us collapsed..."
"After that, they locked us up. Zhang Jin wanted to trade our lives with the leader for supplies, so he never killed us. We tried to escape in the past few days, but they were too many and had too many weapons..."
"Until today, I heard from the guards that you, Chief Lu, had arrived. Coincidentally, today was the day they were drawing lots, so the defenses were lax. Several of my teammates covered me and I managed to sneak out... The guards said you probably lived in this direction. I came here to ask for a favor. Could you pass on a message to our chief?"
Lu Chen listened to Gao Zongming's words and thought for a moment, "We will leave here tomorrow. Can you all find a way to get out?"
"I was able to come out today because of the weekly lottery at this base. If we can find something that can attract those people's attention, we should be fine."
After listening to Gao Zongming mention the drawing of lots twice, Lu Chen couldn't help but ask, "What is the drawing of lots?"
When Gao Zongming heard Lu Chen ask about the drawing of lots, his eyes suddenly turned red. He clenched his fists tightly, making a crackling sound, and the compressed biscuits in one hand were crushed by him. "Draw lots...to decide who will become the 'two-legged sheep'..."
Two-legged sheep?
If he was right, then the "two-legged sheep" was...
In ancient times, during wars and famines, people cooked and ate people to survive. The people who were eaten were called "two-legged sheep"...
No wonder! No wonder so many people are missing from this base, no wonder those people said they looked weird and crazy when eating meat...
This Zhang Jin deserves to be cut into pieces!
Lu Chen hung his head and said nothing for a long time. His eyes were dark and unclear. After a while, he said in a low voice: "I have a plan..."
A moment later, Lu Chen's door was opened, and a black shadow flashed by and then disappeared into the dark passage.
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Su Qing woke up suddenly. The dim room was illuminated only by a small night light. Being underground, she could not sense the time and thought she had not slept for long.
When Su Qing picked up the bracelet and looked at the time on it, he sat up suddenly.
It was already past seven in the morning, and Lu Chen hadn't asked her to change shifts last night...
Su Qing quickly got up, packed up briefly, opened the door and went out.
The two people who were chatting outside looked over when they heard the noise.
Secretary Zeng saw Su and smiled and said, "Good morning, Miss Su."
"Good morning." Su Qing stopped and replied.
"I'm here to bring you breakfast. The food is in Chief Lu's room. I won't delay your meal, so I'll be leaving now. I'll come back later to take you to the secretary."
After Secretary Zeng left, Su Qing followed Lu Chen to his room and asked as they walked, "Why didn't you call me last night?" She thought she would never be able to sleep well in such an environment, but she didn't expect to have no dreams all night long. Su Qing was a little annoyed.
"I was so busy having a video conference with Fang Qing and Gu Yan that I forgot the time. It will be almost morning when I finish, so I can wait a little longer." Lu Chen came into the room, picked up the breakfast on the table and placed it in front of Su Qing. "Eat quickly, the room will be freezing cold in a while."
Su Qing sat at the table, her breakfast consisting of a bowl of slightly watery porridge and a small dish of pickled mustard greens that she could finish in a few bites. She was startled by what Lu Chen said. "Video conference? Why didn't anyone notify me?" She, the nominal leader, didn't even know about the base's video conference...
Lu Chen stretched out his slender fingers and tapped the position of Su Qing's bracelet in the air. "Look at your bracelet. Fang Qing sent you a message but you haven't replied. I told them you were probably asleep, so we just chatted for a while."
Su Qing was drinking porridge with a spoon. Hearing him say this, he put down the spoon and quickly looked at the messages on his bracelet. He had been in a hurry to get up in the morning and had not read it carefully. Only now did he realize that there were many unread messages.
It contained information from Fang Qing about the video conference, information from Qin Yu about the progress of the migration to City T, and some messages from the group.
Su Qing looked at the long string of messages in the group. It was the minutes of last night's video conference, probably sent specifically for her to read. The general content was that the people in the S City base had been completely settled, and many people from T City had been brought in by helicopter one after another. Fang Qing had made arrangements. New people arrived at the base every day, and the management was very busy and some people were short of staff and needed to recruit some new managers, etc.
Su Qing sent a video to Fang Qing and talked to her about the base while eating. By the time she finished eating, they had almost finished talking.
Lu Chen had been watching silently from the side. When he saw Su Qing hang up the video, he said, "I want to tell you something."
Su Qing raised his head and said, "Go ahead."
"Last night... Commander Liang sent someone from City N to look for me."
Su Qing was slightly surprised. "Didn't the secretary and the secretary say that the people from City T didn't come?"
"They were the ones who detained the people. Zhang Jin and Secretary Zeng cannot be kept. I have a plan and I need your help." Lu Chen relayed what Gao Zongming said last night to Su Qing, but he subconsciously omitted the matter of the "two-legged sheep".
The more Su Qing listened, the angrier he became. "What kind of secretary is this? He's so evil! How on earth did such a person become such a high-ranking leader? And look at what kind of life those people outside had yesterday. You're right! These two people really can't stay. Just tell me what you need me to do."
"I gave the captain a few pistols and two grenades yesterday. We need to create some chaos and let them escape. We will be in the open and they will be in the dark, and we will take over this base together..." Lu Chen explained the plan in detail to Su Qing.
Su Qing listened to Lu Chen's words, and she became more and more excited. Especially at the end, she opened her eyes wide and suddenly felt a little impatient. What should she do? She wanted to take action now! How could she not be excited that her dream from two days ago was about to come true!
Afterwards, Su Qing took out several C4 bombs, grenades, and guns and gave them to Lu Chen, and he also loaded some weapons and ammunition on himself.
Fortunately, they were wearing thick clothes and had a lot of things stuffed on their bodies so that it couldn't be seen from the outside. Just as they had finished tidying up, they heard footsteps outside.
"Bang, bang, bang!"
"Chief Lu, it's me." Secretary Zeng's voice came from outside the door.
Lu Chen glanced at Su Qing, signaling her to calm down, then stood up and walked over to open the door.
"Chief Lu, have you two finished your breakfast?" Secretary Zeng asked with a smile while standing outside and looking at Lu Chen.
Lu Chen nodded and said, "I was just thinking about looking for you guys, but I didn't expect Secretary Zeng to come over."
Su Qing also walked out of the room and greeted Secretary Zeng.
"Hello, Miss Su, let's go now."
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