Chapter 196 Symbiotic Barrier
I walked up to him and looked at the devastated battlefield outside the wall and the lingering figures in the distance.
"They won't give up." I stated the facts.
"I know." There was no emotion in Bai Zang's voice, but the knuckles of his clenched fists turned slightly white. "This is just the beginning."
After a while, he seemed to let go of some of the tension, rubbed his brows tiredly, and softened his tone: "Let's leave it this way for now. They can't break through our defenses for now. At most... it will be a lot more troublesome in the future."
I nodded and turned to go upstairs, but Bai Zang suddenly called me.
"Ji Ling."
"Huh?" I stopped and looked back at him.
Bai Zang's eyes fell on me with a hint of subtle inquiry: "Did you succeed in what you were going to do?" He didn't know the specific details, so he could only use this method to refer to my recent mysterious whereabouts.
I was silent for a moment and answered truthfully, “Not yet.”
Hearing this, Bai Zang almost subconsciously tutted his tongue and said in a tone that was almost mocking, "It always feels like a thankless task."
I was amused by his words, shook my head and sighed: "Yeah, you are absolutely right."
"Is it necessary?"
"Well, it must be done."
After a long silence, Bai Zang simply sighed softly, as if mocking, yet also helpless, and ultimately did not press the issue. I turned around and walked up the metal stairs back to the office upstairs.
…
Back in the office, my eyes fell on the chip that Night Raven gave me.
I plugged the chip into a specially processed reader and began to browse it carefully.
The records of the "abundance" phenomenon are so detailed that it makes one's scalp tingle, including a large number of distorted images of biological tissues, abnormal energy fluctuation spectrum analysis, and speculation on specific mental induction patterns.
But I am not a professional researcher, and the large amount of profound biogenetic and abnormal energy terms in it are quite difficult for me to understand.
But I have better people to handle these things - the Abnormal Investigation Bureau. They have a professional analysis team and the necessary technical means, and these things can only be put to the best use in their hands.
I'm also betting that the Bureau of Anomalous Investigation will intervene and stop the plague.
I quickly reviewed the information, using my perception to double-check that there were no hidden mental contamination, tracking marks, or other unusual traps.
Then I began to handle the documents carefully.
First, convert all the content to a new, blank storage medium, and then delete any information that may point to the existence of the "Secret Garden Society", unique coding habits, and all contexts in which the nickname "Night Raven" appears, ensuring that this mysterious organization can still be perfectly hidden in the shadows behind the scenes.
After doing all this, I picked up an ordinary-looking black metal box on the table and put the new memory chip into it.
"Xiaobai." I called softly.
As soon as I finished speaking, the shadow beside me seemed to come alive, silently coalescing into shape. A night wolf appeared, its dark green eyes gleaming faintly in the dim light.
After Xiaobai appeared, he rubbed his head against the palm of my hand affectionately.
I handed the small metal box to it. "Send this to a man named Chen Yubing. Be absolutely safe and make sure it gets delivered," I whispered.
After saying that, I gave him the latest address of the Investigation Bureau that I had found in the Secret Garden Club.
Xiaobai may not be able to infiltrate the Investigation Bureau, but Chen Yubing will definitely go on a mission. Regarding this matter, I think people I knew before are more trustworthy.
Xiaobai lowered his head and picked up the metal box very carefully. His figure then began to become blurry and transparent, as if it was about to blend into the air.
It nodded its huge head silently, and the next moment, like an ink drop in water, it completely dissipated from my perception without leaving a trace.
Almost immediately after Xiaobai left, a faint quarrel erupted outside the office, and it was getting louder and louder. I frowned and pushed open the door.
The sound came from the conference room downstairs. I walked down the stairs slowly, but didn't go in immediately. Instead, I stopped outside the half-open door.
Inside, the dispute between the two factions is becoming increasingly heated.
"Can't you see what's going on outside? There are so many mouths to feed! We can barely support ourselves now, and we're still taking them in? What are we going to eat if we take them in? Are we going to starve?" Aaron's voice was loud and clear. He was a representative of the radical group that advocated for cuts.
"What else? Watch them die outside? And then wait for a bigger force to swallow us up? If you don't recruit more people now, when the real fighting starts, how many gaps can you defend by yourself?" On the other side, a relatively young cadre with sharp eyes argued. He was a supporter of the open faction.
"We have to defend it even if we can't! It's better than starving to death! If you ask me, those useless old, weak, sick and disabled people should be..."
"What should I do?" A cold voice interrupted him.
The door of the conference room was pushed open, and Bai Zang had arrived at some point. He stood at the door with no expression on his face, but his eyes swept over everyone present, making the temperature drop a little.
And behind him is me, and at this moment it feels like I came here with him.
The two people who had been arguing with each other until their faces turned red suddenly fell silent, and you could hear a pin drop in the meeting room.
Bai Zang walked in and sat down in the main seat, tapping his fingertips lightly on the table. His eyes finally fell on me: "Ji Ling, what do you think?"
Everyone's eyes instantly focused on me.
Bai Zang is a man with a lot of ideas. He throws the problem to me. If I make the wrong choice, he will either deal with the elderly, the weak and the sick, or take the opportunity to beat me up.
Directly expressing support for either side would lead to division. I stepped forward, not looking at the quarreling parties, but at Hakuzo and all the core members present.
"What we are arguing about now is not a multiple-choice question. Those fleeing soldiers outside are just the beginning." I said calmly.
"I just received some information that the chaos in other camps may only be the beginning. The external environment is deteriorating rapidly, and greater threats are brewing. At this time, any division and exclusion within us will only weaken the foundation of our own survival."
"The Black Dragon Gang isn't just a gang; it's a community of survival, an ark struggling to navigate the ruins of apocalypse. The stability of the ark requires every plank to be solid, every person to contribute, and even more so, we must support each other, not throw overboard those we deem 'unimportant'!"
I looked at both sides of the argument: "So, I propose that we immediately launch the 'Symbiotic Barrier' plan."
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