Chapter 589 Zhao Hua
After Zheng Yi finished speaking, he straightened his clothes and led the Zheng family team to leave the venue first. The remaining relatives of the Zheng family also left one after another in disappointment.
Instead, the people who came to the wedding banquet were at a loss as to whether to leave or stay. In the end, Zhao Qiang gritted his teeth and said to continue, and everyone maintained calm and ate the meal.
But privately, Zhao Qiang has completely become a laughing stock among all the teams, and it also means that the Guards and Zheng's Army have completely torn their relations apart.
When leaving, many people felt that they had watched a big drama. No one expected the result to be like this. At this time, no one said anything bad about Zheng Yi. Instead, they began to sigh at Zhao Qiang's deep scheming and Zheng Miao's treacherous and ignorant behavior, and speculated about her future life.
Yue Banwan felt a lot more relaxed knowing that there was no possibility of an alliance between the Zheng family and the Zhao family. As for the future of a little girl, who would have the leisure to speculate?
The next morning, Yuebanwan and his group set out on the return journey. Knowing that the journey might not be peaceful and worried that some of the people in the Pingjin base might have been bribed to stab them, Li Zhuang communicated with Tang Bai and the others in advance and agreed that they would not go together.
Tang Bai didn't want to get involved in such a large-scale base dispute, so he readily agreed.
Before leaving, Li Zhuang handed a package to Lu Xiao in full view of everyone.
"I hope you can upgrade successfully as soon as possible," said Li Zhuang.
These suggestive words made everyone speculate about what was being sent out, with the most common being the crystal core.
The various opinions among the crowd did not affect the departure of the Yuebanwan group at all.
"Do you think it would be misleading?" While driving in the dark underground passage, Li Yan kept looking around with a telescope, his whole body filled with vigilance.
It was impossible to estimate the entire length of the team, so Liu Rui and Li Zhuang, two SS-level psychics, were located in the front and back of the convoy to prevent possible attacks.
"Who knows?" Li Zhuang lazily sat in the passenger seat with his eyes closed and his feet resting on the center console. Seeing Li Yan so tense, he said speechlessly, "It's dark all around, what can you see? It would be faster to use your supernatural powers to detect if there is anyone here."
"We have already sent psychics to explore the area ahead." Li Yan's ability was not capable of exploration, but he had arranged all the available people to ensure that any enemy attack would be discovered immediately.
As the two were talking, Ji Qian's voice came from the public intercom, "Deputy Captain, a captain said that there are cracks in the passage ahead. It may not be strong. Should we reinforce it?"
Upon hearing this, Li Zhuang immediately put down his feet and took the walkie-talkie with a serious face, "No, tell everyone not to waste their superpowers. The current main task is to return safely."
"Received" Ji Qian replied.
"Why don't we repair the underground passage while we're at it?" An unknown voice came from the intercom.
Li Zhuang raised his eyebrows and looked at several people in the same car with an inquiring gaze. Everyone shook their heads and could not tell who it was for a moment.
"Not for the time being. The priority is to return to the base safely. We will send personnel to repair it later," Li Zhuang replied.
No one asked any more questions on the intercom, only a few idle and conspicuous people were chatting out of boredom.
Just half an hour after they drove out safely, a fire broke out in the area where the Flame Team belonged, sweeping across the surrounding area. The huge energy announced to everyone that the Flame Team had also successfully developed an SS-level mutant.
At the same time, the Yuebanwan base also drove to the place where the underground collapsed. There were many earth-type mutants there, and the large army did not intend to walk on the ground as they did when they came. Li Zhuang directly asked the earth-type mutant team to build a path to pass through.
Just as the convoy was about to move forward, the car in front suddenly stopped.
"Are they here? Are they here?" Xu Sa looked at the convoy of cars carrying earth-type mutants in front of him that had stopped. He sat up straight and looked outside excitedly, while at the same time patting Liu Rui who was in the driver's seat.
"No, uh..." Lu Xi in the back seat had already explored with his mental power, and when he "saw" the scene in front, his tone became a little strange for a moment, making several people who didn't know what was going on even more anxious.
"Speak," Xu Sa urged.
"They caught someone...coming over..." Lu Xi said as he leaned forward to look ahead.
At this time, because the car in front suddenly stopped, the vehicles following behind also stopped. In the huge convoy, some people had just entered the underground passage. When they saw this situation, they thought there was an ambush, and the walkie-talkie was full of voices asking what was going on.
"What's going on?" Li Zhuang directly opened the private channel and asked Antonio.
Antonio stood by Dean as steady as an old dog, looking uninterested in everything, and replied, "Xu Sa went to see, and heard that someone was caught."
"Alone?" Li Zhuang wondered.
Xu Sa was already walking over there carrying a young boy.
Several people in the car looked at the boy who was standing next to him like a little child. His face was covered in dirt and his original appearance could not be seen for a moment. His clothes were even tattered.
"I am the only team leader. Now can you tell me which teammate's relative you are?" Xu Sa crossed his arms and signaled Lu Xi to build a mental barrier.
The person in front of them inexplicably appeared in the underground passage and blocked the vehicles moving forward. He said that he was the relative of the only team member and wanted to come over to see them. The subordinates did not dare to make a decision on their own and could only send him over.
"Think it over carefully, kid. If you talk nonsense, you will be responsible for the wasted time." Five years after the apocalypse, all the family members of the only team who could be found have been found, and most of those who could not be found have received confirmed news. He has never heard anyone say that there are such big relatives.
The boy swallowed and scanned the few people with a vigilant look. When he passed by Liu Rui, his look lit up. "I know you. You are Liu Rui, the only SS-level psychic in the team."
Xu Sa raised his eyebrows and looked at Liu Rui.
Liu Rui shook his head to indicate that he didn't know him, and then he heard the boy take two steps outside the driver's door and asked him seriously, "Can you save us? Someone wants to kill us."
Xu Sa raised an eyebrow, "Aren't you a relative of the only team?"
"I'm sorry, I lied to you. I just wanted them to bring me to see you," the boy admitted very quickly, "Qiuqiu, please save us."
Liu Rui didn't say anything, but Xu Sa stood beside him, looked him up and asked, "Are you worth rescuing?"
"..." The boy hesitated for a long time, as if he had gathered enough courage, and said, "I am Zhao Qiang's son, my name is Zhao Hua, and he wants to kill me and my mother."
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No matter how much information Yuebanwan had in Kyoto, he could not find out such secret information. For a moment, several people were stunned on the spot.
Xu Sa looked the boy up and down, his eyes full of suspicion, "What evidence do you have?"
"Besides, even if you are Zhao Qiang's son, we are lucky enough not to kill you. What's the point of saving you?"
The boy took out a small photo from his inner pocket and handed it to Xu Sa. It was a photo of a family of three. Zhao Qiang was holding a boy in his arms with a smile on his face, and a gentle woman was standing behind him.
The corners of the photo showed signs of wear and tear, probably because it had been cherished and touched countless times.
Xu Sa passed it around to a few people around him, then glanced at Antonio casually. After Antonio shook his head to confirm that there was no sign of fraud, he looked at Zhao Hua, with all kinds of thoughts surging in his mind, and asked, "Tell me what happened?"
Zhao Hua did not hide anything and told his mother about the changes in Zhao Qiang before and after the end of the world as well as the situation analyzed by his mother. "He should think I'm embarrassed, and Miss Zheng can bring more benefits than my mother... If Uncle Sun hadn't been reluctant, we might have really died in that fire."
The boy had tears in his eyes, trying hard to hold them back, but his clenched fists showed that he was not as calm as he appeared.
He had experienced the love brought by his father, so losing it was even more painful, but the fire burned away his last hope.
"I am willing to follow you, even if it's just to be your tool or to threaten his existence in your hands. I just beg you to save me and my mother. I know a lot about Dad... Zhao Qiang's plans, and some of them are aimed at your return. I am willing to tell you, just ask you to take me and my mother in."
This was the only way of survival his mother had deduced. Zhao Qiang's power was now at its peak, and not every force dared to provoke him, but Yuebanwan was an exception, especially since Zhao Qiang had attacked them secretly many times.
Zhao Hua couldn't miss this opportunity. He gritted his teeth and prepared to kneel on the ground, but Xu Sa raised his foot to catch his knee, so he didn't kneel down.
"Deputy Captain, can we continue going?" The voice of the earth-type mutant who was leading the way ahead came through the intercom.
"Yes, let's go." Xu Sa replied on behalf of Li Zhuang, took two steps to a place where they would not be in the way so that the convoy could continue moving forward, and at the same time winked at Antonio to ask him to contact Li Zhuang and ask Zhao Hua.
"Tell me what you know first, if you are valuable I will take you in."
Antonio nodded slightly, patted Liu Rui and asked him to continue driving, and asked Lu Xi, who was sitting on the other side, to follow Xu Sa to avoid their conversation being overheard by others.
The convoy moved forward slowly. Zhao Hua lowered his eyes with a conflicted look on his face. He still couldn't feel at ease about betraying Zhao Qiang, who was his respected father. But when he thought of his mother's current situation, he took a deep breath and spoke.
From Zhao Qiang's series of actions to unite various teams after the great war to the planning of this ambush on the road, Zhao Hua knew a lot of information. Of course, this was because Zhao Qiang would discuss important matters at home.
He thought that the people he kept in his home could not pose a threat to him and that it would be a safe environment, but he didn't expect that it would become a knife stabbing him.
Although Xu Sa and his team have already determined that Zhao Qiang was involved in this, they never expected that this was his behavior from beginning to end, and Zheng Yi took the blame for him. Thinking about Zheng Yi's disgrace at the wedding banquet yesterday, Xu Sa felt that a few words could be engraved on his head, which were "Forbearance Number One".
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