"Sister Dongmei! Are you alright?"
"Are you injured?"
The bespectacled young man turned pale with fright and stared at Ma Dongmei's finger for a long time.
"Alright, alright, it's okay. You've almost rubbed my fingerprints off." Ma Dongmei withdrew her hand a little embarrassedly.
People who are used to being strong will instinctively feel shy when they are being noticed and worried. Ma Dongmei couldn't stand this atmosphere and hurriedly and casually told everyone to continue working.
Lin Xiaobao was furious and glared angrily at the culprit, Yang Meng.
Seeing that everyone's eyes were on her, Yang Meng hurriedly and awkwardly tried to distance herself, "I didn't mean to! I just wanted to help my sister! I didn't know that my sister would lose her grip on the knife handle."
Lu Sheng and the others, who rushed over upon hearing the noise, had just arrived when they heard this person's cryptic remarks.
Say it again.
Lu Sheng stared coldly at the pitiful little white flower.
"I didn't mean to... I was just trying to help..." Yang Meng looked at Lu Sheng with teary eyes.
She had a sweet appearance, and it was rare to see someone so neatly dressed in the apocalypse. Even in such harsh conditions, she was still dressed cleanly and neatly, wearing a light-colored windbreaker set.
Yang Meng looked up and met Lu Sheng's cold gaze. She immediately took a few steps back and shrank behind her teammates.
"Brother Zhang, I really didn't mean to... I was just trying to help, I didn't expect something like this to happen." She timidly hid behind the oldest middle-aged man in the group and said softly, feeling wronged.
"Don't worry, you're just too kind. We all know your personality," the man said reassuringly.
The next second, Lin Xiaobao burst out cursing, "Are you out of your mind?! She almost killed someone, do you know that?!"
"Well... nothing's wrong... besides, I just wanted to help."
Yang Meng clutched her sleeve pitifully, looking frail and delicate.
The next second, Lu Sheng grabbed Yang Meng by the collar and pulled her up.
"Helping others requires ability. You can't even protect yourself, so what are you doing helping? You almost killed someone because you acted impulsively, and you think you can just pretend nothing happened by saying it wasn't intentional? It's been three years since the apocalypse, and you still think you're some naive, sweet idol drama heroine? You think you can cover everything up with an 'sorry'? Are you really stupid or just pretending?"
"I..." Yang Meng was so anxious that she was about to cry.
She had always been the darling of the team and had never suffered such humiliation before. Now, after being rebuked by Lu Sheng's few words, her mind went blank, and she almost burst into tears on the spot.
The next second, Lu Sheng tightened his grip, pulling Yang Meng up with her feet dangling in the air.
The intense feeling of suffocation made Yang Meng dizzy.
Lu Sheng took the bone-scraping knife that Ma Dongmei had just used from Lin Xiaobao and placed the blade directly against Yang Meng's delicate face.
Yang Meng turned deathly pale with fright. "Help me! Help me! I don't want to get infected!"
"You're not that stupid, are you? You know that getting cut by this knife can cause an infection?"
Lu Sheng sneered, threw her to the ground, and slapped her across the face.
"Knowing there's danger, you still caused trouble here? Getting into trouble and then pretending to be innocent?"
Three slaps in a row left Yang Meng dizzy and almost fainted.
"This is the apocalypse. Nobody's going to put up with your spoiled princess attitude. If you're going to court death, go do it elsewhere and don't dirty my place."
Endure uterine fibroids for a while, or suffer from breast hyperplasia.
In this apocalyptic world, why should we still indulge those who are innocent and scheming?
"Emm... As expected of Sister Lu, the God of War, she always throws two punches when she sees injustice." Zhang Xiaojuan looked at the goddess of war, a certain woman surnamed Lu, with admiration.
Yang Meng's teammates rushed over immediately upon seeing this, shouting, "Why are you hitting people?!"
Team leader Zhang Zhiguo stepped in front of Yang Meng, spreading his arms to protect her behind him. "That's enough. Is it necessary to hit a young girl so hard?"
After saying that, she gave Su Zheng a reproachful look, "Young Master Su, your K3 base represents legitimate military personnel, how can you bully people like this?"
"Yang Meng isn't a bad person, he's just a bit slow-witted. You've vented your anger, that's enough."
"If I kill you now, can you just say you're not a bad person and call it a day?" Lin Xiaobao was so angry he almost hit someone.
After hearing this, Zhang Zhiguo curled his lip, his face clearly displeased. "Young Master Su, we trusted K3 Base and trusted you, which is why we went through so much trouble to come and join you. What kind of nonsense is this?"
"Everyone talks about the close bond between the military and the people, but we weren't protected when the apocalypse broke out. And now you're just going to stand by and watch these people bully us?"
Before he could finish speaking, Lu Sheng kicked him to the ground.
"You still know this is the apocalypse? Before the apocalypse, you didn't pay any taxes or contribute a single penny to the army. Do you have the right to ask for so much?"
"Su Zheng is your father? Does he owe you anything? You're just trying to morally blackmail me?"
"If you're going to suck up to someone, you should have the right attitude. Don't take advantage of others and then act innocent."
After saying that, Lu Sheng crossed her arms and coldly sized up Zhang Zhiguo and the rest of their team. "You like being the White Lotus Guard? Fine, now I'll give you two choices: either none of you are allowed to enter M City, or you kick this pretty boy out of the team."
Choose.
When it comes to one's own interests, no amount of high-sounding words matters.
Zhang Zhiguo practically leaped up instantly, immediately distancing himself from Yang Meng.
The remaining people didn't say anything, but they also silently distanced themselves from Yang Meng.
Yang Meng suddenly became the one who was isolated.
She panicked and hurriedly got up from the ground. "I'm sorry, I'll never do it again. I was wrong. I'll never be stubborn again!"
"Please let me into M City! I'll really die out here!"
Lu Sheng didn't even glance at her, leaving only an arrogant back view. "Ask your sister Dongmei. You can only come in if she forgives you."
After dealing with the brief incident, Lu Sheng and the others returned to the M City Central Laboratory with the fresh corpses they had retrieved from the front lines.
Xu Yi personally performed the dissection on several mutated birds.
The sharp scalpel deftly sliced open the strange bird's chest cavity, and a thick, black worm swiftly poked its head out.
Just as the insect was about to dart out, Xu Yi precisely pinched it.
"This bug looks so familiar." Zhang Xiaojuan looked at it while suppressing her nausea.
"It looks a bit like the big worm that crawled out of Sun Tao's body that day," Sun Tiantian, with her exceptional memory, cautiously remarked.
Xu Yi dissected several strange birds and found the same black worms in their chest cavities.
After sealing the insects in special test tubes, Xu Yi carefully disinfected them before removing his mask. "Like Sun Tao, all these birds are controlled by parasites."
"But these insects cannot absorb nutrients from animals' bodies well, so they cannot evolve while parasitizing animals. They can only control these birds to attack human habitats."
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