Chapter 17
After a hole was blown in the artificial sun, the entire base was plunged into darkness. Jiang Fei ran down the corridor leading to the quarantine zone. A second explosion occurred. Another explosion soon followed, this time targeting the base's power supply equipment. The lights in the corridor began to flicker, and the guards rushed to the office building to protect the base's director and other important personnel.
Doctors are also a scarce resource in the end times, so when an accident occurs, a team rushes into the hospital to ensure the safety of the doctors. In the chaos, no one noticed Jiang Fei's escape.
Nona's brother had said he would come to rescue them today, but she had never expected it to be this way. She stepped over the shattered glass shattered by the shockwave of the explosion. The most urgent thing was to find Nona first. Thanks to Black Cat's previous guidance, she could now take a shortcut to the quarantine area.
The people in the quarantine area didn't know what had happened in the center of the base, but the loud noise just now still attracted everyone's attention. Some people stood next to the isolation wall, put their ears against the wall to try to hear what was going on inside, and people gathered in groups of three or four, whispering to each other.
"What happened?"
"I don't know, but why did the power suddenly go out?"
"Is there something wrong with the power supply system?"
"The artificial sun, the sun has been blown through!" He noticed with sharp eyes that there was a big hole in the middle of the artificial sun and pointed at it with trembling hands.
Jiang Fei didn't care what others were saying. She ran back to her cubicle. It was empty. Nona was not there.
"Did you see where the girl in this cubicle went?" Jiang Fei grabbed the arm of a passerby.
"A... a man in a black uniform took her away. Be gentle! My arm is scratched red!"
Jiang Fei's grip grew stronger with nervousness and worry. She muttered an apology and looked around. Had the guards taken her away? Aren't they supposed to be protecting important people at this moment? She was baffled. Or was Joshua already eager to remove her skin and use it as a lampshade?
She looked at the exits of the isolation zone one by one. At this time, the power supply equipment in the base was completely destroyed, and the power system was also paralyzed. The isolation zone was even darker. Fortunately, Jiang Fei had a very good night vision, so she didn't fall after taking a few steps.
"Nona—"
"Nona——!" She called Nona's name in the dark, but there was no response.
She came to the last exit of the quarantine area, and suddenly a pair of hands reached out from the corner of her vision and pulled her aside. The other party also skillfully covered her mouth with his hands, "Shh, calm down, I'm Nona's brother, you are Jiang Fei, right?"
Another voice very similar to his rang out, "Why isn't she saying anything?"
Jiang Fei rolled her eyes. How could she speak with her mouth covered?
Jason looked at Hill and said, "Brother, you covered her mouth. How can she speak?"
Hearing this, Hill finally realized and moved his hand away. He smiled awkwardly and said, "Sorry, I'm used to it..."
It makes you wonder if they did this often before.
Jason said, "You are Jiang Fei, right? We have moved Nona to a safe place, you should come with us as soon as possible."
Jiang Fei was still thinking about another contaminant. She was relieved when she heard that Nona was safe, "But I have other things to do." With the faint light in Jason's hand, Jiang Fei could see clearly that they were all wearing guard uniforms. It seemed that they were the ones who took Nona away by the guard-like people just now.
"What else could it be? Are you trying to teach that perverted young master a lesson?" Compared to his steady brother, Hill, the younger brother, was more volatile. Speaking of Joshua, a wicked smile appeared on Hill's face. "If you really want to do that, then add me in."
Jason reminded Hill, "We've only temporarily destroyed the base's power system. Once the system is restored, even we won't be able to escape."
Hill sighed, "What a shame, that guy should have died a long time ago."
Jiang Fei had let the black cat out long before the first explosion. According to the information the black cat sent back, it had already sneaked into Joshua's room. Its body suddenly changed from the size of a kitten to the size of a hill, and its claws also grew larger. With one claw, only a small crack appeared on the wall.
The black cat continued to hit it several times, and the cracks became more and more numerous and larger, until finally a hole appeared.
The last image it transmitted was of a caged hawkmoth curled up in a giant cocoon. Logically, it was already in moth form, so how could it become a cocoon again? But Jiang Fei felt more of a foreboding premonition.
Could it be that it is evolving again?
"Let's go quickly." Jason said again, but just as he finished speaking, a light flashed in the center of the dark base, and then the power system gradually recovered with this light as the center.
Seeing this, Hill cursed, "God damn it, how many backup power supply devices do they have!?"
Jiang Fei received another image sent by the black cat. Cracks gradually appeared on the surface of the cocoon, and the cocoon broke open from the top. The wings of the human-faced hawk moth spread open the cocoon, and its gray-white eyes looked at the black cat, giving Jiang Fei the illusion that it was looking at him.
That feeling was too real, no, it wasn't an illusion.
There were intermittent voices in her mind, as if she was learning human language for the first time, and the word order was also strange.
“People…are watching…”
“I see…”
“Gu, I’m so hungry… so hungry, so hungry, so hungry—!!”
The evolved hawkmoth had two pairs of wings, an extra pair of secondary wings, and a sharper mouthpart. It rammed its head against the cage but failed to get out. It drooled at the black cat through the cage, "I'm so hungry... so hungry..."
Jiang Fei was shocked. It was going to eat her cat!
That was the pollutant she had conquered with great difficulty. She rushed to Joshua's room in a hurry. The chaotic situation in the base was temporarily stabilized. She ran in the corridor. At the same time, Joshua returned to his room as soon as the crisis was over. Some of his collections needed to be kept at low temperatures. The power outage just now might affect his collection.
"Catch those invaders and hand them over to me." He told his men on the communicator. He had already figured out how to chop those people into pieces and use them to feed the pollutants.
He placed his hand on the door handle, and noticed with his sharp eyes that there was a very shallow scratch on the door handle. It didn't look like it was left by a human, but rather by some animal. The boy narrowed his blue eyes.
Did something come into his room?
He rubbed the mark with his fingertips and opened the door.
Suddenly, he heard footsteps not far away. He turned his head and saw Jiang Fei running. Her cheeks were flushed because she ran too fast.
"It's you, what are you doing here?" Joshua asked. She should have stayed in the quarantine area now.
Jiang Fei didn't answer him, but rushed to his side, pushed him away without any courtesy, and squeezed into the room. Joshua had never been treated like this before. His father was the head of the base, and he could be said to have gotten whatever he wanted since he was a child.
"Hey! How dare you bump into me!" he yelled, but the next second his voice was stuck in his throat. The scene in the room was something he had never expected.
Collapsed walls, a destroyed cage, and two fighting pollutants.
He can treat pollutants as pets through the cage, but once he leaves the cage, he will become the prey of pollutants.
"How, how is this possible..." he muttered.
The black cat's situation was not too good either. Its fighting power was higher than that of the hawk moth, but its lethality was always greatly reduced when it launched an attack. Jiang Fei understood that every time the hawk moth shook its wings, a lot of scales would fall off, and it was these scales that caused the black cat's attack power to decrease.
The excessive scale powder caused the black cat to sneeze several times in a row.
Jiang Fei didn't rush forward. The wings were undoubtedly the most vulnerable part of the pollutant. She held the gun she had borrowed from Hill. She opened the safety, but Joshua grabbed her wrist. "Are you crazy? The pollutant will attack us!"
He doesn't want to die!
"And if you shoot randomly, you will damage my collection!" Joshua became even more excited when he mentioned his collection.
But the hawk moth had already spotted them and was flying towards them. Jiang Fei's heartbeat accelerated, but her movements were very steady. She kicked Joshua away, who was in the way, and aimed at the moth's wings, which was the machine gun, and the base guard's hand. The gun was unexpectedly effective, but it was also possible that this pollutant had just completed its evolution and was still in a fragile state.
Without much hesitation, she emptied the entire magazine. The broken wings of the hawk moth fell from the sky. To Jiang Fei, they were fragments of book pages.
The contamination did not give her a chance to identify the text on the fragments, so she could not be sure what literary work the contamination in front of her was derived from.
A pile of scale powder flew towards her as it moved. Jiang Fei subconsciously held her breath, but it was of no use. There was too much scale powder, and she inevitably inhaled some of it. Her head began to feel dizzy, and she coughed several times.
This contaminant turned out to be of the psychic type! She rubbed her head and looked down to see Joshua looking gloomy. He had also been affected by the scale powder.
The speed of the surrounding objects slowed down, like a slow motion in a movie. Jiang Fei raised his hand with difficulty and picked up one of the fragments of the book page.
It read: “Hey Clarice, have the lambs stopped screaming?
You owe me a message, you know, and that's what I want."
Jiang Fei immediately understood that this pollutant was a derivative of "The Silence of the Lambs". She remembered the moth on the cover of the movie, which at this moment just matched the human-faced hawk moth in front of her.
In just a few seconds, the environment around her changed drastically. She was originally standing at the door of the room, but when she came to her senses, she found herself in the corridor of a prison, a 20th-century style prison with iron doors of cells on both sides.
She took a step forward and stepped on something soft. She looked down and saw that it was a light yellow larva. Her foot had just crushed the insect's body, and the same yellow mucus oozed out and stuck to the sole of her shoe. When she lifted her foot, she could even pull it apart.
She frowned in disgust and carefully avoided other larvae on the road. The closer she got to the center of the prison, the more larvae there were at her feet. In addition to the larvae, there were also many cocoons. They were very large, half a person's height. As the worms inside grew, the surface of the cocoons also rose and fell.
At the very center is a circular single cell, which allows for 360-degree surveillance without blind spots. This reminds Jiang Fei of the prison where Hannibal was imprisoned in the movie, which also had surveillance without blind spots.
But at this moment there were no prisoners in the cell, only a table and a chair, a style that Jiang Fei was very familiar with. She also saw the answer sheet on the table. It seemed that she had to answer the questions this time to subdue the pollutants.
The area outside the prison was filled with densely packed cocoons. Jiang Fei endured the nausea and walked into the cell. A question appeared on the stone slab in front of the table: Read the following material and write according to the requirements.
——Butterfly breaks out of the cocoon, the larva grows into a beautiful butterfly little by little. People often use the metaphor of breaking out of the cocoon to become a butterfly, but not everyone can become a butterfly. Some people have to spend the first few decades of their lives weaving cocoons, and may not even be able to complete the metamorphosis in the end.
You are required to write an argumentative essay with the title "Breaking out from the Cocoon and Becoming a Butterfly".
Requirements: The argument should be clear, the evidence should be substantial, and the reasoning should be reasonable; the language should be fluent and the writing should be clear; the number of words should be no less than 800.
Jiang Fei scanned the topic again. It turned out to be an essay question. Her Chinese essays were always good in high school, but not to the extent that every essay would be on the list of model essays. However, a mere argumentative essay was a piece of cake for her, not to mention that after the baptism of graduation thesis, 800 words seemed like a small amount to her.
The questions were not difficult, but the environment for answering them was really worrying. She had just finished writing the questions when she heard the sound of cocoons about to break open around her, and the sound of other larvae wriggling on the ground. She looked up and saw that there were also several larvae lying on the top of the cell, and mucus dripped down when they moved, and a few drops fell on the table with a clatter.
There was no time given for this test, and she couldn't even find a clock, so how was the time calculated?
She was confused, but the pen in her hand showed no sign of stopping. There are routines to follow for argumentative essays, and her high school Chinese teacher had also taught similar templates. She was not pursuing high-scoring essays now, as long as she could pass, so she didn't even make a draft and just started writing.
Soon, she realized how the test was timed. She clearly heard a click from one of the cocoons around her, and a moth stretched out its wings from inside. The cracks on the cocoons became bigger and bigger, and a hawk moth crawled out from inside. It walked towards Jiang Fei as if it had sensed something.
"So hungry..." it murmured.
That’s right, the last time I tamed the black cat, if I didn’t finish answering the questions within the specified time, I would be drowned by the mountains and seas of pages. This time, I would be eaten alive by moths.
Jiang Fei's arms were covered with goose bumps and her scalp was tingling, but she didn't dare to slow down her writing. She glanced at the moth that had just emerged from its cocoon. This was just the beginning, and after that, other cocoons would also emerge one after another.
She was about to be surrounded by the human-faced hawk moths. The moths huddled together and made a rustling sound, as if a swarm of small insects were crawling up Jiang Fei's back. She couldn't help but look back. Fortunately, she closed the door when she came in, but the moths that had just emerged from their cocoons were consciously moving towards the cell.
Their low whispers echoed in Jiang Fei's mind, making her feel upset. She patted her cheeks and continued to finish her composition. Time was running out, and she was aiming for 800 words. If she were in high school, she would have to write at least 1,000. Now the situation was critical.
After finishing the composition, she threw down her pen.
"I'm currently reviewing the papers..."
Her brain nerves were highly tense. The mucus secreted by the moths was corrosive and very corrosive. Their mouthparts bit the iron rod, and in a short while a big hole was corroded in the iron rod. It would not be long before the entire cage would be shaky.
The composition review was not as fast as the reading comprehension. Jiang Fei stood up. The gun had no bullets and could only serve as a cold weapon, but she would not sit still and wait for death.
Through the iron fence, she hit one of the hawk moths with the butt of her gun, and half of its head was broken into pieces. Jiang Fei quickly took a few steps back to avoid the mucus corroding her skin.
"So hungry..."
"I'm so hungry, so hungry, so hungry..."
“I want to eat, I want to eat, I want to eat!!!”
It was so noisy. Jiang Fei used her bulletless hand to kill a hawk moth. At this time, the composition results were finally released.
"Loading grades..."
"Your essay score is 45 points. Congratulations on passing the exam."
She had just finished writing the composition in a hurry. Normally, her composition would have scored less than 50 points. This voice made Jiang Fei completely relax. The human-faced hawk moths around her also restrained themselves, but they still spoke in a silly way.
"I'm so hungry, but I can't eat."
"I can't eat it, I can't eat it, wuwuwu——"
After the exam, the surrounding environment returned to normal. The original human-faced hawk moth stood there pitifully. It used its consciousness to ask Jiang Fei, "Can I eat him?"
There's no time to eat now! Jiang Fei rejected its request without a second thought, and the hawk moth walked towards Jiang Fei even more pitifully.
"Damn it, you monster, I am your master, stop right there and don't move, don't come over here again!" Joshua roared in fear and anger. His voice was shaking with fear, but he still maintained the airs of a young master.
The hawk moth would not listen to him. After all, its owner now was Jiang Fei. Jiang Fei ordered the black cat and the hawk moth to leave first. She did not want to expose her ability to control pollutants in front of Joshua.
Joshua saw the messed-up cabinet of collectibles and screamed, throwing himself against the wall. "My collection!!"
The human organs soaked in preservatives were scattered all over the floor. Jiang Fei couldn't understand what beauty there was in removing organs from the body. One of the eyeballs rolled to her feet. Joshua felt extremely sorry for her, "That's a beautiful eye. Forget it... I might as well dig your eye out today!"
Hearing this, Jiang Fei sneered. When Joshua bent down to pick up his eyeball, she grabbed his hair and lifted him up.
"You dare to grab my hair? I'll make you die miserably!!"
"I not only pull your hair, I also beat you."
As soon as he finished speaking, Jiang Fei punched him in the face with all her strength. His cheeks quickly began to turn red with blood. He was knocked to the ground, his face full of disbelief. He supported his upper body with his arms and wanted to say something, but saw Jiang Fei's eyes shining with anger.
He forgot for a moment that he had just been beaten and said involuntarily: "So beautiful, your eyes are so beautiful." An abnormal and fanatical smile even appeared on his face.
This guy is really hopeless.
If there was enough time, I should have punched him again.
Jiang Fei still knew the priorities. Now she had to take advantage of the chaos to leave the North District. The two pollutants she released caused an uproar in the base, and the situation that had just stabilized fell into chaos again. Jiang Fei only used the pollutants to attract attention and did not issue an attack order.
She took a quick look through the corridor window and saw a hawk moth flapping its wings in mid-air in the center of the base. Its wings, fully spread, were able to block out all the light sources on the ceiling, and each flap of its wings cast a large shadow in the center of the base.
"So you're here!" Hill saw Jiang Fei from afar and smiled brightly. "You're really brave. There are two pollutants in the base and you're still running around."
I'm so sorry, those two pollutants are hers. She quickened her pace and said, "I just took care of something."
"What's the matter? Are we really going to beat up that perverted young master?" Hill said as he easily took care of the other guards who came to support him with his bare hands. He knocked the guards unconscious and threw them aside. His series of actions were smooth and fluid.
"Well, you could say that." Because she did punch Joshua just now.
"Wow." Hill raised his eyebrows. "Then you are really, really bold."
"Where are Nona and the others?" Jiang Fei asked.
"They're waiting for us at the exit." Hill's steps suddenly paused. He sensed an ambush ahead and subconsciously protected Jiang Fei behind him. His hand slowly moved to the gun at his waist. Just as he pulled out his gun, the other party fired a second earlier than him.
He dodged the bullets. There was more than one person on the opposite side. Before the sound of gunfire died down, someone scolded him, "You could easily hurt Jiang Fei by mistake if you do this!"
Jiang Fei had good hearing. She caught the voice mentioning her name. Was it someone who knew her? However, they were all hiding behind the wall, so she couldn't see their faces clearly. She grabbed Xi'er's sleeve and said, "Wait a minute, they don't seem to have any bad intentions."
"Huh? He just shot directly. Doesn't that count as malicious intent?" Hill asked back angrily and amusedly.
"That's what I felt." Jiang Fei walked out from behind Xi'er and spoke to the people hiding behind the corner, "I'm safe now, so please put down your weapons. The people next to you are my companions, and we have no ill intentions."
Seeing that Jiang Fei said that she had no ill intentions towards him or the group of people, Hill pretended to raise his hands, but if he wanted to, he could shoot continuously in just a few seconds.
Jiang Fei walked forward step by step. Suddenly, a figure rushed out from the opposite corner. Looking closely, it was Anna, whom she hadn't seen in a long time. She grabbed Jiang Fei's arm and led her to the corner. She looked at Jiang Fei intently, observing her carefully. Lucian beside her took out a detector and said, "Check your iris too."
It seemed that they suspected that she might be pretending. Jiang Fei cooperated and asked them to check her iris. The comparison results came out quickly, and they were 100% consistent. Anna put away the detector and said, "Fortunately, you are not dead."
"Let's talk about reminiscing about the past later. Stop shooting. That man came to save me." Jiang Fei was afraid that the hot-tempered Gru would shoot at Hill again.
Lucian said sarcastically, "A new companion after just a few days of not seeing you?"
"I haven't seen you for a few days, but you're still as good at talking as ever." Jiang Fei walked around the corner and waved to Xi Er, "It's our ally, come over here."
Hill walked over doubtfully, "Friendly troops are still shooting?"
Gru smiled sheepishly, "Since you were wearing a guard uniform, I thought you were from the base."
"That's true..." Hill looked down at his uniform. It was indeed easy to be misunderstood.
After a few simple words, everyone present unanimously agreed to leave the area first. When the five of them arrived at the base exit, all the guards around them were knocked down. Jason frowned when he saw Hill, "You're too slow."
"There was a little hiccup," Hill said.
Jason had already seen the other three people. Based on the tacit understanding between him and his brother, he immediately guessed what this little situation referred to, but he didn't say much. He used the stolen guard door card to swipe open the gate. The guards of the base were all sent to deal with the pollutants, and they left very smoothly.
"It's strange that pollutants would appear in such a cluster." Lucian glanced at the two pollutants before leaving. Gru said, "Yeah, it's like someone deliberately arranged it."
Jiang Fei deliberately released two pollutants: ...
Hill opened the car door. "I think this is retribution. It's because the son of the base manager is such a jerk. I don't know how many people he's harmed by collecting his collection over the years. He deserves it."
After the car door opened, Jiang Fei saw Nona sitting in the passenger seat. She excitedly waved to Jiang Fei and said, "Great, you're still alive! Do you want to go with us?"
"Where are you planning to go?" Jiang Fei asked the three siblings.
Jason put on the helmet of his protective suit, and his voice was muffled through the helmet. "Wandering around is also very free."
The fact that Jason and Hill broke into the base and escaped unscathed alone showed how capable they were. If they could become members of his first base, they would definitely be his right-hand men.
Jiang Fei looked at Anna, who understood something and signaled Jiang Fei to continue with her eyes.
"If you don't mind, could you come to our base? Although it's a small base with few people, the environment is great and the people are nice." Jiang Fei racked her brains to paint a rosy picture for the three of them. "We need talents like you, and there's a lot of room for advancement after you join the base, which is also beneficial to your own development."
Gru, who was standing behind him, was confused and asked Lucian in a low voice, "Is our base really that good?"
Lucian poked him in the stomach with a grin. "Shut up."
Jason smiled rarely. "You said all this just to trick us, right?"
Jiang Fei, who was exposed, said, "That's not the case. I just think you will be a good fit for our base. You don't like being bossed around. That kind of thing won't happen in our base. You can stay in our base for a few days to see if you are satisfied. If you are not satisfied, you can leave."
Jiang Fei felt that he had made his words flawless.
Hill said, "Let's go and have a look."
I thought it would take some time, but things went even smoother than Jiang Fei imagined. Jiang Fei sat in the transport truck driven by Anna and asked, "Did they change the car?"
Anna quickened her pace, "Well, the transport truck was scrapped last time." She said lightly, without telling Jiang Fei what else had happened.
"What about the Sky City guards? Have they left too?" Bill's mission is to eliminate pollutants. Now that the pollutants have been subdued by her, they can be said to have been "eliminated" to a certain extent.
"I heard he hasn't returned yet because he hasn't completely eliminated the contaminants." Anna had also seen the contaminant black cat at the base. She had long guessed that a mere micro-bomb wouldn't be enough to kill the contaminants. "But he was eager to claim credit with Sky City, so he sent a message to the governor in advance, saying the contaminants had disappeared."
When the news of the pollutant attack at the A-1 base in the northern area reaches Sky City, everyone will know that Bill is lying. Jiang Fei doesn't have a good impression of this man, and can even be said to hate him. She feels happy when she thinks that he will not only bring shame to Sky City, but may even be demoted.
"It's just... everyone thought you were dead at the time." Anna changed the subject, "How did you survive?"
"There was an explosion. After the explosion, the pollutants blew out a hole. I crawled out from the hole, but because I couldn't find you, I had to take a ride to the North District. I didn't expect that I would almost become a collectible." Jiang Fei changed the subject, "Did no one notice that the son of the person in charge of the A-1 base did this?"
"What if they are discovered? The A-1 base has a close relationship with Sky City. Even if something big happens, Sky City will protect them. What's more, the people he killed are homeless wanderers." Ordinary people without the support of the base will not cause any trouble even if they die. That's why Joshua has been able to collect human organs and remain safe until now.
Jiang Fei thought of the other people in the quarantine area. She had wanted to save them, but no one believed her. "The others who went to the North District with us would have died if they hadn't escaped."
"Before you think about saving others, you should save your own life first. If you can't even save your own life, don't think about anything else." Anna said calmly.
Jiang Fei felt her eyes a little sore. She blinked and murmured softly, "How can we save such a world..."
Anna rolled up the car window, as if to lighten the mood. "Maybe one day there will be a savior who will save me, you, and everyone else from this broken world."
It was such a coincidence that she was the savior of this world. Jiang Fei sighed inwardly, but she quickly cheered up because she heard Anna say, "If the people in the base knew that you were not dead, they would definitely be very happy."
She had only been at the base for a short time. "Isn't this a bit too exaggerated?"
Anna shook her head. "I'm just stating the facts. And don't you know? You brought more than just supplies." She turned her head and looked at Jiang Fei seriously. "You also brought hope. This is the most precious thing."
Death is not scary. What is scary is losing the hope of living, living like a walking corpse, unable to see where the future is or what the future is.
Lucian, sitting in the back of the car, couldn't bear to listen any longer. He said coldly, "Can you please stop being sentimental? Gru is almost crying."
Gru sniffed and tried hard to hold back his tears. "Who, who said I was going to cry? A man should be able to hold back his tears even if they come!"
Lucian and Gru chatted with each other, and the atmosphere finally became relaxed and cheerful. The heaviness on Jiang Fei's face disappeared, replaced by a relaxed smile.
Once again returning to the D-3 base, the gate still looked a bit shabby. The transport truck stopped in front of the first gate. The moment Jiang Fei got out of the passenger seat, he became everyone's focus. The guards guarding the door exclaimed, "Great! You're still alive!"
After passing through one door after another, the disinfection room was translucent. Through the door, she saw other people guarding outside. Everyone had a smile on their face. Jiang Fei took off her protective suit and disinfected her whole body.
As she walked out of the door, the smell of disinfectant on her body hadn't dissipated yet when several children surrounded her. The one in the lead was a girl named Mia, whom Jiang Fei had met in the restaurant before. She looked at her with admiration, "I heard Captain Anna say that you solved the pollution problem by yourself. Is that true?!"
Huh? Jiang Fei was a little confused, but Anna was still disinfecting. She said, "It's not that serious. Maybe you heard it wrong."
Don’t believe in rumors and don’t spread them.
Mia was very determined, "Sister is really amazing. She can answer questions and deal with pollutants!" The admiration in her eyes was overflowing.
"How did you do that, sister?"
"Can you teach us?"
"Can I become as powerful as you in the future?"
The other children also started talking, asking all kinds of strange questions, and the scene became chaotic. This was why Jiang Fei did not choose the kindergarten teacher major. She was really not good at dealing with children!
"Okay, everyone, be quiet. You can ask questions later. My sister is very tired now. Can you ask her tomorrow?" In the end, it was Lucian who stepped forward to resolve this dilemma.
"I didn't realize you were so good at dealing with children." Jiang Fei said.
Gru's voice squeezed in, "Hey, didn't you know? Lucian is the teacher at the base, and he usually teaches the children."
As soon as these words were spoken, Lucian's original sarcastic and cold image turned into that of a kindergarten teacher in Jiang Fei's mind.
Jiang Fei was stunned. She asked Lucian, "Is what he said true?"
"Could it be fake?" He sneered as usual.
*
As outsiders, Jason and his friends naturally needed to go to Coyne's office. Jiang Fei, who recommended them to join the base, also had to be present. When they arrived at the office building again, Jiang Fei was very familiar with every layout, so she led the way in front.
Hill walked and looked around. "Your base is really poor and shabby! It can't even compare to A-1." Not only is its area only a dozen times smaller than A-1's, but the other facilities also look very old. "I knew your base, after tricking us into coming here with your sweet talk, wouldn't be a good one."
Jason said, "Please stop talking. I'm sorry, Miss Jiang. My brother is just outspoken."
"Then he must have a lot to talk about with Gru, right? They're both straightforward people," Lucian said sarcastically.
"Hmph, your place is too shabby and can't keep us here." Hill crossed his arms. In fact, they hadn't decided which base to go to. Developed bases would have more or less some entry requirements. They mainly wanted to find a place to stay now.
The office door opened and Coin was sitting at the desk, having obviously been waiting for a while. She nodded to Jiang Fei and said, "It's great to see you again. Are these the new members you brought in?"
Hill restrained himself a little in front of Coyne. He said, "My name is Hill. Next to me are Jason and Nona. If you want to keep us, can you offer us any favorable conditions?"
Jason glanced at him and said, "Sorry, my brother is not very good at speaking." Even Nona grabbed Hill's arm and muttered softly, "Who would say that right away? Brother, you are too anxious."
Fortunately, Coin was not angry. She was still smiling. "We welcome new members. Perhaps our base is too small for you, and the facilities are old and look like it will disappear at any time, but I think if you want to avoid annoying people, this is the best place to go."
Coin's voice paused as he slid over the word "annoying," and Jason's expression changed.
She continued, "After all, no one would have thought that a superpower like you would be hiding in such a small base."
Hill's expression also became strange. He couldn't help but ask, "What else do you know? And are you threatening us?!"
"Me? I only know a little bit, but you can rest assured that I've only ever considered the base. Perhaps we can reach an agreement," Coin said. "I'll provide you with shelter, and you can help the base a little. How do you like that?"
Jiang Fei was confused. What about the superpowers that Coin mentioned earlier? This world not only has pollutants but also superpowers?
Her eyes flickered between Jason and Hill, who glared at her impatiently, "What are you looking at, you country bumpkin? Haven't you ever seen a real-life mutant?!"
Jiang Fei nodded and answered honestly: "I really haven't seen it."
“Pfft—” Lucian laughed.
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