Chapter 23 Chapter 23 Smells Good
In an instant, time seemed to stand still.
Sudden.
"What are you doing?"
An angry voice broke the deadlock.
"You've never seen a woman before!?"
Lu Suye stared and looked around at his subordinates who had been waiting here, all staring at Jiang Xi behind him.
“…”
It was as if the spell of immobilization had been lifted, and the guild elders and managers who had been motionless before were able to move again.
"Cough cough." Some people used coughing to cover up their embarrassment.
Some twisted their necks, pretending to relax their muscles.
There are also those who are honest and cunning, who express their loyalty directly.
"Mr. President, you misunderstood... I didn't look, I was actually squinting!"
Faced with his subordinates' misconduct, although Lu Suye was angry on the surface, he was quite calm inside.
After all, they are all men and they know what the other person is thinking best.
The behavior of this group of people was exactly the same as when he first saw Jiang Xi!
However, with Lu Suye's absolute authority and personal strength here, he was not too worried that these guys would dare to have any intentions towards Jiang Qian.
However, being in the same room with such a group of people, Lu Suye clearly felt Jiang Ting's discomfort.
"Are you tired?"
Lu Suye held Jiang Xi's hand, which was holding her arm, in his palm.
It’s soft and smooth, and feels great to touch.
"Why don't you go back to my place and wait for me?"
He gently asked Jiang Qian's opinion, "Shall I send someone to take you there?"
The air in the conference room was filled with a high concentration of male suffocation, making Jiang Qian feel a bit suffocated. Now that Lu Suye had taken the initiative, she simply agreed.
It is better to leave familiar people in a strange place than to stay here and feel uncomfortable and every second feels like an eternity.
So, Lu Suye took Jiang Qian out, called a trusted younger brother, and gave him some instructions.
"Yes, President!"
After listening to Lu Suye's instructions, his younger brother Wang Mingming bowed reverently, indicating that he had received the task.
Then, he said to Jiang Xi with a smile,
"Ma'am, please follow me."
Wang Mingming is someone Lu Suye trusts, so there shouldn't be any problem.
As Jiang Xi followed him, she looked back at Lu Suye, but Lu Suye had already returned to the meeting room.
The door closed behind him.
As the current owner of Paradise Valley, his residence is also the most luxurious villa in the entire base.
It takes about twenty minutes to drive from the City Hall to the villa area of the Paradise Guild.
Wang Mingming sat in the front and Jiang Xi sat in the back.
They were driving a new car with the number of the Paradise Valley base written on it, and the supplies that Jiang Qian and Lu Suye had brought with them were naturally thrown into the old car.
Originally, Jiang Qian thought that when they arrived at Lu Suye’s community, they would need to rely on these supplies to survive for a while.
I didn't expect that you would just throw it away like trash?
Jiang Ying really couldn't accept the huge gap between the past and the present.
Ever since entering the Paradise Valley, more and more mysteries have shrouded Lu Suye. The inner confusion made Jiang Qian unable to help but start a conversation with the driver.
"Why do you call him President?"
"Um?"
Wang Mingming heard the pleasant female voice coming from the back row. As a well-trained servant, he quickly responded and gave a detailed answer to Jiang Ting's almost nonsense question.
"Because he's the president of our guild!"
It seems that the woman brought back by the president does not know his true identity.
Then Wang Mingming had to have a good talk with her. He was proud of the place where he lived from the bottom of his heart.
To be honest, a base like their Paradise Valley is not the largest base in the Melica continent where the zombie crisis is most serious.
However, the number of resident psychics in the base, the comprehensive combat strength of the base’s military, and the security level of the base are definitely among the best!
Otherwise, why would so many refugees come here to seek refuge, even if it means losing everything they have, just to get the right to live in Paradise Valley?
Almost every day there are new refugees applying to enter, and including those with special abilities, there are probably tens of thousands of people.
I believe it won’t be long before the Paradise Valley base will undergo another large-scale expansion.
However, the areas where ordinary refugees without special powers live and those with special powers are not in the same place, and the rights they can enjoy in the base are also completely different.
Furthermore, not everyone with special abilities can join the Paradise Guild that controls this base.
The guild has a limited number of 200 members, and because of its generous treatment, it is highly coveted by people with special abilities, who are scrambling to get in.
The guild adopts a last-in-first-out system, regularly replaces members, and gives priority to the strongest.
Therefore, it is simply impossible to just make a living in the guild by joking around.
The Paradise Guild only recruits members who have made outstanding contributions to the guild.
Becoming a member of the Paradise Guild is the first step. Moving up, there are seats on the Guild Council, elders, and management, totaling 50 people.
These are the people Jiang Qian had just met in the conference room. They are all the core backbone of the base. Of course, what she met today was only a part of them.
Wang Mingming explained it in great detail. Once he started talking, there was no end in sight. However, the car had already arrived at Lu Suye's villa, so he simply mentioned what the Paradise Guild usually did.
In short, everything is for the future of the guild!
Glorious and majestic, with a bright future.
But to Jiang Xi's ears——
As far as she understood what the Paradise Guild did, to put it nicely, it was called a guild.
Without sugarcoating, isn't this the legendary apocalyptic warlord?!
As the president of the guild, Lu Suye is a typical warlord.
Oh my God, she really didn't expect that Lu Suye would have such an identity.
Lu Suye had never mentioned it to her before, so Jiang Qian always thought that he was just a shameless, outgoing, and rude guy with powerful superpowers.
Even when he brought her to Paradise Valley, he had no intention of revealing his extremely special identity to her.
Come to think of it, there's no point in saying more. When she returns with him, someone will naturally tell her...
Jiang Ying carried Jiang Yongzhuang out of the car, and Wang Mingming opened the door using facial recognition.
There is nothing special about the villa. It has three floors and is quite large. However, many rooms from the second floor up are empty and there is almost no decoration.
Except for the room where Lu Suye lives, there is a breath of life.
In Jiang Ting's eyes, this is just an ordinary villa, but considering that it is the end of the world, such an ordinariness seems extremely precious.
Ordinary civilian shelters have running water for 6 hours a day, and electricity for 2 hours in the morning and 2 hours in the evening.
In the areas where people with special abilities live, electricity and water supplies are cut off for 4 hours every day.
Where members of the Paradise Guild live, electricity and tap water will not be restricted and will be available 24 hours a day.
Under the harsh living conditions, the cruel pyramid has become an unbreakable barrier between people.
Even though they have long realized that this is a world with inequality written on its face, there are still countless people who want to enter the survivor shelter provided by the base and do not want to worry about their safety all day long.
...Including Jiang Xi herself.
"Ma'am, are you hungry?"
After completing the task assigned by the president, Wang Mingming could have left directly, but he asked a question specifically. Otherwise, how could he be said to be perceptive? It was inevitable that he would be valued.
Jiang Xi sat on the sofa in the living room and withdrew her blank gaze from the front.
Although there is a large color TV hanging on the wall, it is no different from a decoration now and cannot receive any channels at all.
"I'm fine." Jiang Qian looked at Wang Mingming.
"The president should be back very late. They always have meetings all night long."
After all, they are all people with special abilities, and their energy is so good that they can be used like animals.
Wang Mingming was very understanding. He heard Jiang Ting's stomach rumbling, but he couldn't tell her directly that her stomach was rumbling, so he simply helped her make a choice.
"Let me bring you some food. What would you like to eat?"
Eat? (Special syllables trigger sensitive muscles)
“Meow meow meow!!”
At her feet, Jiang Yongzhuang raised his little head and looked at Jiang Qian with a look of longing.
"I'm fine with anything," Jiang Qian said, no longer caring about her reserve. The most important thing right now was, "Do you have canned cat food or cat food?"
Wang Mingming: “…” He was stunned by the question.
"There is no such thing at the moment,"
However, he reacted quickly and gave a solution before Jiang Ying reminded him that there was something in the car that Lu Suye drove her back.
"But we can ask the chef to help make a cat meal."
There are always more solutions than problems.
Canned food, cat food → pre-made ready-to-eat products.
Cat rice → fresh and delicious!
Seems better?
In a few minutes, Wang Mingming came back carrying a lot of bags.
Jiang Xi: “…” She couldn’t eat so much in three days.
However, since she didn't specify what she wanted to eat, Wang Mingming simply packed up all the delicious food he could find nearby.
It is equivalent to buying all the ready-made food that can be bought.
There is a strict limit on the number of food stalls in the Paradise Guild area. It is conceivable that if the boss has poor cooking skills and the food is not tasty, he will not be able to continue operating at all.
Of course, in addition to this, Wang Mingming lived up to expectations and brought fresh cat food.
Jiang Yongzhuang finally had four dishes and a soup, and the food was so delicious that he meowed.
Since Wang Mingming left immediately after putting down the food, Jiang Yongzhuang could only use the toilet in the deserted small garden behind the villa for the time being. Jiang Ying decided to wait until Lu Suye came back.
The electronic clock on the table showed that it was almost two o'clock in the morning.
With her head propped up, Jiang Qian waited for another half an hour. It was quiet outside, without any movement at all.
Maybe it was really like what Wang Mingming said, those people were going to hold a meeting all night.
Study how to seize territory, weapons, resources, and... fight zombies!
Jiang Xi went up to the second floor. In the entire villa, only the largest master bedroom was decorated. Similarly, there was only one bed in the entire villa.
So, she could only sleep in Lu Suye's bed.
Looking at the continuous flow of warm water from the faucet of the square bathtub, Jiang Xi was overwhelmed with emotions.
Taking a bath before bed, which was once an impossible luxury, became an easy daily routine for her again.
Just as Lu Suye said, her life here is basically no different from the world before the zombie virus outbreak.
As for other things, Jiang Xi knew that it was not something she could consider.
Do what you can. Now, she just wants to protect herself and her kitten.
Empty your mind.
Due to human laziness, adapting to comfort is always much easier than hardship.
Unless something unexpected happens, she will live here forever.
As long as Lu Suye likes her.
Always liked her.
Thinking of this, Jiang Xi's heart began to pound wildly.
She thought of the promise she had made to him.
But gradually, the pounding heart became disordered.
The loosened sense of security was like the bricks being pulled out from under her feet in the clouds, causing her to fall in panic.
It is true that the more Lu Suye likes her, the safer she will be.
But the key point is, love is the most illusory thing. What if one day he no longer likes her?
Then can she still get protection?
And this is not the most terrifying thing Jiang Qian can think of at the moment. Combined with what Wang Mingming had just told her about the Paradise Guild, he also praised the guild president Lu Suye to an unprecedented height.
In such a chaotic, disorderly, and extremely strong age where force is the first criterion, men like Lu Suye,
Is she the only woman?
Could she be the first woman he brought back?
If not, where did all those women go?
Jiang Qian had no intention of competing with Lu Suye's "void female companion" whether it existed or not. She was worried about her future fate.
Countless historical lessons of blood and tears are still before our eyes.
Serving people with beauty is doomed to fail in the long run.
Even if Lu Suye didn't force her, they liked each other. Of course, Lu Suye definitely liked her more now. Her love for him was mixed with fear, gratitude, attachment and other factors, but it was hard to say what would happen in the future.
What if one day, he gets tired of himself...?
Thinking of this, Jiang Xi's heart, which had just calmed down, could no longer be at peace.
She put down the hairdryer and looked at herself in the mirror.
She had to worry, could the temptation of her face to Lu Suye last until the day she found a new "survival solution"?
Jiang Xi felt lost, but out of the corner of her eye she suddenly saw another person next to her reflection in the mirror.
Caught off guard and frightened, she took a step back.
Her back pressed against his hard chest, and she fell right into a broad embrace.
Then, a strong and powerful arm came and wrapped around her waist.
With his other arm, a large hand clamped her chin, turning her small, delicate face slightly towards him.
Lu Suye sniffed her wet hair, his throat dry.
"You smell so good."
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