Chapter 171 She's Crazy
Zhao Yunduo also felt that compared to the so-called Mr. K, he was simply an angel.
If the reward that Mr. K gave to people was a plate of fish, the reward that Zhao Yunduo gave was a fishing rod and bait. She also purified the soil and water sources, and now she is in charge of aquatic life, and she has even taken over the fish fry in the pond.
No wonder the Y City Base and the B City Base defected so quickly.
But Mr. K probably only knew that it was a new base that completed the mission, and he didn't know that there was another person with a system in this world.
Therefore, this time he sent people from P City Base to L Base, simply because he wanted L Base to "submit" to him, to become his slaves, and to work like his slaves.
In this way, he can continue to deceive others into completing tasks and receive rewards from the system for nothing.
I just don’t know if anyone would have been able to shovel away the green monster and the giant octopus if Zhao Yunduo hadn’t appeared, and I don’t know how many people would have died.
After knowing Mr. K's purpose, Zhao Yunduo did not plan to continue asking. She rinsed her dagger with the remaining mineral water, put the dagger back into the scabbard, and said, "Okay, I got it."
She spoke calmly, and when she took a step back, the ponytail on her head swayed.
But the man had no mind to appreciate the hair on Zhao Yunduo's face. Instead, he saw Zhao Yunduo retreating and had no intention of untying the rope for him, and he suddenly became anxious.
"I'm done. Didn't you say you would let me go? Let me go now. Otherwise, if the people in our base find out, you'll be in trouble—"
"I did let you go." Zhao Yunduo raised her hands and showed the man that her palms were empty and there was no weapon.
"But you have to ask her yourself whether she will let you go or not."
The man's gaze followed Zhao Yunduo's line of sight and moved to the woman.
"Tao, Taotao, Taohua, you...you will let me go, right? We were so good before. Besides, if it weren't for me, would you be able to stay in the P City base? In the end times, you might have been bitten by zombies a long time ago--"
Before he could finish begging for mercy, the woman slapped him in the face.
"I'd rather be eaten by zombies!"
The man was tied to a tree and could not move. He could only let the woman punch and kick him, hitting him wherever it hurt and using whichever hand was stronger. She also used an electric baton to shock him, causing him to become incontinent.
The man was tortured to the point of screaming, and could only ask Zhao Yunduo for help, "She's crazy, please let me go, you promised me, please..."
But Zhao Yunduo turned a blind eye and took out a bag of supplies from her bag, which contained instant noodles, self-heating rice, mineral water, and a pistol loaded with bullets.
"Hey," Zhao Yunduo called to the woman, "What's your name?"
The woman turned around and looked at Zhao Yunduo with a look of happiness in her eyes. She told Zhao Yunduo, "My name is Taohua."
"Taohua, the supplies I promised you are here. I have to leave now."
Taohua cast a grateful look at Zhao Yunduo, "Thank you."
When she left, she could still hear the man howling, but when she was further away, the man couldn't even make a sound.
Shen Linglan had a comprehensive perspective and kept relaying the information to Zhao Yunduo.
"Oh, don't look at Taohua as weak and timid, she hit the man with a stick until he vomited blood. Hiss, how did the dagger get stuck there? It looks like it hurts. Wow! Physical castration."
Zhao Yunduo looked back, and the bloody scene made her quicken her pace as she left.
Taohua was good at beating people up, and she didn't even notice that Zhao Yunduo had conjured up a motorcycle out of thin air, nor did she hear the rumbling sound of the motorcycle. All she could hear was the man wailing for mercy.
When Zhao Yunduo drove out of the range where Taohua could be seen, she took out her walkie-talkie and told Zhou Micheng that the P City Base might go to the L Base.
Zhou Micheng couldn't make up his mind whether he would accept P City Base after L Base made friends with B City Base and Y City Base.
"So, if any of them come, should we receive them? Or should we kill them directly?"
"Neither." Zhao Yunduo said, "If anyone goes, just tell them we know and ask them to leave Mr. K's channel number."
"OK."
Zhao Yunduo didn't plan to reveal her true colors to Mr. K for the time being. She didn't know Mr. K's background, how much supplies and ammunition he had, and she didn't know his purpose.
But as long as he and Zhao Yunduo are in a competitive relationship and only one of them can complete the task, they are definitely not friends, but enemies.
If he knew about Zhao Yunduo's existence and blew up L Base with a bomb, Zhao Yunduo would be the one who would suffer the loss.
She had to find out where Mr. K came from and where he was before making a decision. Now she had to use a delaying tactic to make him lower his guard.
There are a lot of guns and ammunition left at the L base, and the vegetables and poultry are all well-raised. Even the fish fry are released into the small river at the base earlier than those outside.
It can be self-sufficient internally and self-defensive externally.
After Zhao Yunduo's reminder, he never worried about L Base again.
She was not affected by this incident and focused on killing zombies and purifying rivers and seas in this familiar yet strange land.
There were many streams and rivers in the south. Whenever Zhao Yunduo found a river, he would pour water regeneration agent into it.
Finding a river and dealing with zombies were much easier than fighting monsters before. As she continued to look for a river, the task progress displayed on Shen Linglan's system also climbed up little by little.
After knowing that her best friend was not in danger for the time being, Shen Linglan was finally able to take time out to deal with Shen Zhaoshan's affairs.
After being interrogated for a day and a night, Shen Zhaoshan was taken into police custody.
He claimed that he had no involvement in the illegal activities and was unaware of anything. He only participated in the planning and establishment stages of the project.
He tried to clear himself of the charges, but after the police interrogated everyone in the Hawthorn Technology Department and the laboratory, they found that the employees were the ones who were truly unaware.
Each of their experimental steps and production processes are recorded and monitored, and the skin care products that pass through their hands are clean and ordinary.
But the strange thing is that all cosmetics go through a testing process before leaving the factory, and it turns out that they contain banned ingredients.
This step is still an automated "detection" by machines, without any staff involved, so no one knows what is going on.
When Shen Zhaoshan was interrogated, he said that this step was set by the programmer and he didn't know how to add that ingredient.
Further investigation on the programmer revealed that he had left the country a month ago. The police are now applying to have him deported back to the country for questioning, but this process usually takes a long time and may not lead to successful deportation.
The interrogation card ended at this point, and no useful clues were found.
The police were unwilling to let Shen Zhaoshan go, so they detained him in the police station on charges of tax evasion, domestic violence against his wife, and prostitution.