Chapter 538: Decentralization
At the ruins of the Joint Research Institute, Dean had already healed the injuries of the injured personnel. The explosion happened so suddenly that in addition to the entire research institute being destroyed, the surrounding dormitory buildings were also affected and collapsed.
The earth-type psychics rescued the injured people from the rubble as soon as possible, and are now helping them sort out the buried supplies layer by layer, but most of their attention is focused on the research institute that has been completely reduced to rubble.
The earth-type mutant tried his best to gather aside the broken limbs, blood and flesh mixed with the red-stained white coat. The body parts had completely lost their human form and it was impossible to tell who they belonged to.
Some people wandered among the people searching the ruins, waiting without giving up, while others collapsed and knelt down beside the bloody flesh, looking dazed.
As soon as Zheng Yiren appeared, someone who knew the truth immediately came forward with an angry look and demanded his life.
The psychic who was traveling with him asked people to stop everyone a few steps away, preventing the angry family members from contacting Zheng Yi.
"They are all family members of researchers. Many of them do not belong to our base. We immediately asked our base to investigate and take responsibility. Someone was involved in adjusting the surveillance..."
Naturally, Jiang Shang was also seen.
Among them were people from the Kyoto base, so it was not difficult for them to recognize him. Even if no one said anything, the crime was still pinned on Zheng Yi.
Jiang Shang's death also left Zheng Yi with no chance to refute.
Passing through the emotionally excited family members, not far from the ruins, a familiar-looking man was leading a few people who were obviously not psychics to sort through a pile of metal.
He squinted his eyes to identify the person, and it was Sun Haicheng, the director of the Joint Research Institute whom he had met yesterday.
"President Sun?" Zheng Yi took two steps forward.
"Hey" Sun Haicheng wiped the sweat from his forehead, turned around and saw the person coming, his face immediately darkened.
"What are you doing here?" The person who was collecting the wreckage of the equipment with Sun Haicheng immediately stood up and stood in front of Sun Haicheng, glaring at Zheng Yi.
"What? Haven't you killed enough researchers? How dare you come here?"
"What hatred or grudge made you do such a cruel thing?"
Zheng Yi was speechless after hearing several questions. Facing a pair of red eyes, he said in a hoarse voice after a while, "It's not me."
But these three powerless words could not refute anything. Jiang Shang was sent out by him. Even if the current situation was not caused by him, he could not escape responsibility.
Sun Haicheng sighed and patted the shoulders of several students who were blocking him, and said, "Go and look around to see if you can reassemble some of the precious instruments."
A few people obediently turned around and continued to work, while others still stood vigilantly beside Sun Haicheng.
"Dean Sun, doesn't the laboratory rest at night?" Zheng Yi asked.
"There is no fixed rest time for researchers. You can take a break when you are too tired to continue." Sun Haicheng looked at the pile of broken limbs.
"After Director Zhuang sent the half-corpse over yesterday, they all wanted to conduct the dissection research as soon as possible. Those who couldn't participate also wanted to get the results first. Almost everyone in the laboratory was here."
"Then you..." Zheng Yi explained when the person next to him glared at him, "I don't mean anything else, I just want to ask about some things that happened at that time."
"Our teacher believes that a half-corpse with thoughts is still a human being, it's just that it has a disease that cannot be cured for the time being. He does not advocate vivisection, so we did not participate," a student explained.
He looked at the area not far away with a look of fear on his face. "Everyone who left survived. A few who secretly returned yesterday..."
It's a bit of a coincidence.
Zheng Yi glanced at the group of busy figures behind Sun Haicheng, and finally looked at Sun Haicheng with scrutiny. His grief did not seem fake.
Was it really just an accident?
Zheng Yi was suspicious but couldn't find any clues.
While he was looking around, in the government office building thousands of meters away, Zhuang Mingxu was standing at the window looking at the entrance of a hotel not far away, where the people from the Kyoto base were putting the counted crystal cores into the space.
"Will they leave?" asked Lin Yimu on the side.
"It's not a question of whether they want to leave or not, but whether they stay in Yueban Bay," Zhuang Mingxu asked as if he had solved a major problem, "Have those people been settled?"
"Yes. They were all knocked out and locked up. The decision was made in a hurry and there are no extra laboratories built on the island yet."
"Then we should detain them first and dampen their arrogance. Will the news spread?"
"Well, after talking to Zheng Yi, I informed all the bases involved of the entire incident. However... there is no evidence to prove that Zheng Yi was responsible. Some bases asked us to handle the matter and said that the person was handed over to us."
Lin Yimu looked at Zhuang Mingxu in confusion, "Since we have already decided to make such a big move, why don't we just leave Jiang Shang alive? Wouldn't that be a better way to nail the Zheng family down?"
Zhuang Mingxu shook his head, "Anyone who can become a confidant must have family members or weak points. If we leave him alive for interrogation, I'm afraid he will blame others, which will make things more complicated."
"And I didn't intend to blame the Zheng family. As Zheng Yi said, he has no motive. The current situation is the best. He has excuses to defend himself, but he will never be able to get rid of suspicion."
"As for us..." Zhuang Mingxu chuckled, "We will tell everyone openly that we will not ask the Zheng family for losses. Even if some people feel that something is fishy, they will not think that it was done by our family. They will only think that we have reached a secret cooperation with the Zheng family. This will also make them think twice before planning cooperation in the future."
Seeing Zheng Yi return to the hotel, Zhuang Mingxu took a deep breath and asked, "What's the news about Ning Yuan and the others?"
"The helicopter was sent out in the middle of the night. If everything goes well, it will arrive at the base tonight and the exercise will officially end tomorrow."
"Can"
He repeated in a low voice, "Okay."
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Yuebanwan’s attitude had been made clear. Not long after Zheng Yi returned, he led the team out of Yuebanwan. Compared to the grand welcome when they came, it was more like escorting prisoners when they left.
Even if some people were dissatisfied, no one said anything openly.
That night, Ning Yuan, who had been out, led his men back to the base. After secretly carrying out a final sneak attack, the first military exercise in Yueban Bay was successfully completed.
"People know that I was away for a few days, but those who don't know would think I was away for several months." After hearing what happened in the base, Ning Yuan gave Zhuang Mingxu a thumbs up from afar, "You are really a man who can do great things."
Zhuang Mingxu didn't respond and asked about the situation outside.
"Not good." Ning Yuan restrained his nonchalant attitude when mentioning the zombie army, "Cheng Chuan is sure that they are being controlled and consciously heading towards Kyoto."
He told Zhuang Mingxu everything that had happened in the past few days in detail, "I originally wanted to find out whether they were humans or high-level zombies, but their team was too large and had no purpose. I didn't dare to lead them deeper and had to give up."
"How does Cheng Chuan feel?"
"He doesn't think it was done by a psychic."
Zhuang Mingxu immediately remembered the unique zombie at that time, and glanced at Ning Yuan. He already knew what the other party was thinking, "I also suspect it was that zombie."
This made both of them silent.
After a while, Ning Yuan took the initiative to ask, "Are you... planning to... leave?"
"Well, I got a few S-level crystal cores recently. I want to send them over. I'll go with them." All the previous preparations were for this day to be able to leave without distraction. Zhuang Mingxu's face was relaxed, as if a heavy burden had been lifted off his face.
"...Should we participate in Kyoto?" Ning Yuan knew that he couldn't persuade him, so he turned to ask about what would happen next.
Zhuang Mingxu pondered for a while and asked, "Under what circumstances do you think a zombie would be obsessed with going to a place?"
Ning Yuan smiled speechlessly, "Who knows what the zombies are thinking?"
"Zombies are also transformed from humans, so there will always be some commonalities," Zhuang Mingxu put himself in their shoes and said, "If one day I became a zombie, I would definitely try my best to keep my consciousness at the last moment, so..."
"What keeps me concerned...is either love or hate."
Following his thoughts, Ning Yuan frowned, "You mean, either the family members he can't let go of are in the Kyoto base, or the people he hates are there?"
"It's not ruled out that it's an object. Everyone has different obsessions. Who can guarantee that the thing others can't let go of is definitely a person?" Zhuang Mingxu said, then patted Ning Yuan on the shoulder, "For the rest, you go contact my uncle and communicate the situation to him. It would be best if they could investigate the zombie's life."
He stood up and joked in a relaxed manner, "It's been so long and there is still no news. The leaders in Kyoto are no good."
"I've been on the run for so long and I haven't had a rest yet, and you want me to go to work?" Ning Yuan pointed at himself and asked in disbelief. His tone was so loud that it alarmed several people who were chatting in the living room, and everyone looked over.
Zhuang Mingxu shrugged nonchalantly, his eyes showing gloating, but his words were full of pity, "Thank you for your hard work, in the future..."
“There will be even harder times…hahaha…”
He laughed heartily, trotted forward a few steps, grabbed Zhuang Aiyi who was lying beside the sofa and lifted him up. Amid Zhuang Aiyi's exclamation, he took him out of the villa, leaving the people in the living room looking at each other in bewilderment.
After a while, Gu Qingyue asked curiously, "Brother Mingxu still has such a lively side?"
When these people met, Zhuang Mingxu was at his lowest point, and he always showed a mature image. After that, when he was in charge of the base, he was always calm and reliable. Even when the team in the base rebelled, he was still in charge of the strategy.
Lin Yimu watched Zhuang Mingxu carrying Zhuang Aiyi off the island with his brisk steps as if a heavy burden had been lifted off his shoulders. He recalled with nostalgia, "He was like this when he was in the army. He always took the lead in making mistakes, went against the instructors, and took advantage of loopholes in discipline. However, he had outstanding abilities and was notoriously difficult to deal with in the military region."
The people in the living room found it strange when they heard this. In terms of age, Ning Yuan and Wu Yue were of the same age as him, but they were not as calm as him.
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