Sun Wenbo seemed to find Zhou Qingya's words amusing, so he chuckled twice and said, "Zhou Qingya, don't be naive. You're just dreaming if you expect us to surrender and join the villa community."
Zhou Qingya said, "Isn't your suggestion the same?"
Sun Wenbo said, "I have my reasons for saying this. What about you? What are your reasons?"
Zhou Qingya frowned. "So what? You want to control the entire villa community just because of your own reasoning? You want us all to entrust our lives to you? Don't you think that's wishful thinking?"
Sun Wenbo shook his head and said, "I don't think so. Zhou Qingya, do you remember who helped you and that little girl when you first came to Ninghai? It was me! If it weren't for me, you and that little girl would have starved to death out there long ago!"
Zhou Qingya said, "I am indeed very grateful to you for this, but that's not what we're talking about right now."
Sun Wenbo said, "Okay, let's not talk about that. Let's talk about something else, like this dog next to you named Li Kai."
Li Kai, at his wit's end, yelled, "What the hell do you mean! Try cursing me again!"
Sun Wenbo said, "Dog!"
"You fucking want to die!" Li Kai pulled out his gun and pointed it at Sun Wenbo's head.
Wow!
Instantly, everyone around raised their guns and pointed them at each other, creating a tense atmosphere.
Everyone present was tense and stood up, except for Sun Wenbo and Zhou Qingya, who remained seated.
I stood with my hands behind my back, holding the gun, and didn't move.
Li Kai was too impulsive, but I know he definitely won't fire the gun right now; he's just too angry and wants to vent.
However, his method of venting was completely useless.
Sun Wenbo glanced at everyone who had stood up, then gestured for them to sit down and said, "Sit down, everyone. We're not here to kill anyone, but to negotiate. We need to come to something. It's pointless if it's always like this, don't you think?"
He said those last words while looking at me, not at Zhou Qingya. Clearly, he felt that I was the one in charge of this matter.
Zhou Qingya said, "Since we want to reach a conclusion, then both sides should show some sincerity."
Sun Wenbo nodded and said, "Okay, no problem. Tell me, what kind of sincerity can you show?"
Zhou Qingya said, "Our armed forces are actually about the same. If we really go to war, neither side will win, and it will only cause a lot of unnecessary casualties. So I think we must reach an agreement now, which is to not use firearms!"
Sun Wenbo asked in confusion, "What do you mean?"
Zhou Qingya said, "Since you and I can hold peace talks here, it means there is still room for compromise between us. Therefore, we can cooperate instead of confrontation or one side surrendering. Only through cooperation can we achieve a win-win situation. What do you think?"
Sun Wenbo nodded. "Sure, cooperation is certainly possible. I'm not the kind of person who's bloodthirsty, and I don't want to see my brothers die. An agreement not to use firearms is no problem, but how will we cooperate? That's the real question, isn't it?"
Zhou Qingya asked, "Do you have an idea?"
Sun Wenbo said, "I have no problem with cooperation, but before we cooperate, we need to do some calculations. You have no objection, right?"
Watching the two of them negotiate back and forth, it seemed that Zhou Qingya genuinely wanted to secure a stable future for the villa community before leaving. Come to think of it, although she didn't have any particular attachment to the villa community, she had lived there for over three months, and it could be said that she was the one who built it.
How can a place we built be destroyed?
Zhou Qingya said, "What kind of score do you want to settle?"
Sun Wenbo said, "It's a very simple account, and I think you know about it."
Zhou Qingya didn't respond, waiting for him to speak.
Without hesitation, Sun Wenbo pointed to Li Kai, who was sitting next to Zhou Qingya, and said, "It's him."
Zhou Qingya knew what Sun Wenbo was trying to do, but she still asked, "What happened to Li Kai?"
I glanced at the departing figure and noticed that Li Kai's eyes were filled with confusion and anger. If he hadn't been suppressing his emotions, he would have definitely exploded when Sun Wenbo pointed at him.
Sun Wenbo said, "Don't you know what he did? Do you remember what you did outside when your villa community was being developed? What did you do to get certain small groups and families to join your villa community? Don't you know?"
Li Kai's expression changed when he heard what the other person said.
Zhou Qingya looked at Li Kai, and she must have felt very helpless.
The people in the villa community basically knew what Li Kai had done, but because he had a lot of influence and power in the community, almost no one was willing to cause him trouble, so his deeds were forgotten over time.
At this moment, Sun Wenbo brought up the old matter again, which made Li Kai very unhappy.
Zhou Qingya said, "I don't know."
Sun Wenbo sneered, "I can hardly believe what you're saying. Isn't Li Kai your dog? How come you don't even know what he's been doing?"
Zhou Qingya didn't speak because she didn't know what to say.
As I listened to Sun Wenbo's words, a possibility suddenly occurred to me.
The people in the villa community don't treat Zhou Qingya well. Could it be because of Li Kai? Most of the people in the villa community were recruited by Li Kai. They must have all been coerced or threatened by Li Kai. After entering the villa community, they saw that the leader was Zhou Qingya, so they transferred their hatred for Li Kai onto Zhou Qingya.
So why do the people in the villa community dislike Zhou Qingya so much?
That seems very likely!
Sun Wenbo said, "Going back to our previous topic, if he wants to cooperate, fine, but I'll make him pay the price!"
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Recorder Diary 34:
"Around noon today, Lin Zijie and his group were about to go out, but before they could leave, people arrived outside the research institute. It seemed to be a group of survivors, about seven or eight people in total. The supervisor let them in, and they all breathed a sigh of relief when they arrived. Lin Zijie and his group originally wanted to go out again, but some of these survivors told them that going out now would be suicide. The outside world was completely different; it was full of zombies, and they couldn't see any living people at all. Surviving here was the most important thing. Lin Zijie and Shou Tianfeng seemed to hesitate and said they needed to think about it before leaving."
(End of this chapter)
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