Chapter 64 Meeting
A conference room of about 300 square meters was full of people.
Without exception, these people all had the surname Bai. Before the disaster, they had gained glory and wealth because of this surname, and now they have become the ruling faction in the survivor base because of this surname.
Before Bai Qi came in, the conference room was filled with noise and as lively as a rural market.
Young people in their twenties dared to challenge middle-aged and elderly people in their sixties. They both thought they were right and neither of them was willing to admit defeat. But after Bai Qi came in, the conference room suddenly became so quiet that it seemed as if no living creature existed.
"Aren't you guys having a lively discussion? Keep going."
Bai Qi sat down on the chair covered with soft mink fur in front of him. His tone was calm and he clearly didn't frown, but the people below felt a chill in their hearts.
"Third Uncle, you should speak."
The young man pushed the old man to the front with a small move.
"..." The old man who was called Third Uncle was startled and sweat broke out on his forehead.
The young man added behind him:
"Uncle San, besides Master Bai, you are the only one who has a higher seniority among us. If you don't stand up, who will?"
The Third Uncle had no choice but to stand up and salute Bai Qi, who was at the top.
"Master Bai, we have discussed it a bit, and here are the ones we have selected who are most suitable for you. Please take a look." He picked up a stack of information on the table, held it in front of him with trembling hands.
The butler immediately asked someone to bring the information over and delivered it to Bai Qi.
The stack of information detailed a person's life experience, blood relatives, current types and levels of superpowers, and a few recent photos of their daily lives. A rough count showed that there were at least five people's information.
Without exception, they are all women.
The person at the top looked very familiar. She should be the girlfriend of the grandson of the third uncle. She was 22 years old this year and her family used to be in politics. She was a top music student who studied abroad and played the violin very well. It was obvious that the third uncle had spent a lot of money to please Mr. Bai this time. He even pushed his future grandson's wife in front of everyone.
The butler stood quietly aside.
Based on his understanding of Bai Qi, this group of people might have misunderstood his intentions again.
Bai Qi quietly flipped through the stack of information and picked up each person's photo to look at it.
Everyone else in the room couldn't help but take advantage of this opportunity to exchange glances.
They all wanted to know which of these people Mr. Bai would take a fancy to. No matter which one he took a fancy to, the forces behind them would rise to prominence and remain invincible.
Bai Qi is not only the strongest of the Bai family, but also the strongest in Bai City. Perhaps he is also the strongest after the natural disaster...
For those who are blessed by this surname, nothing is more important than pleasing Bai Qi.
"That's all you want to show me?"
The corners of Bai Qi's lips twitched slightly, and his cold fingers pinched one end of the stack of information.
His eyes swept downward, sharp as a halberd.
The Third Uncle wiped the sweat from his forehead. Almost all the old men of his generation were gone. Some of them died of poor health, and some of them accidentally angered Bai Qi and ended up with no remains left. He felt lucky to be alive until now.
Why does Mr. Bai sound like he is angry now?
When Third Uncle realized this, he immediately threw his crutches aside, prostrated himself on the ground, and didn’t dare to say another word.
When the other members of the Bai family saw Third Uncle's appearance, they also followed his example and lay on the ground, completely losing their manners and image.
A group of psychics of different ages knelt down in unison begging for mercy. The scene looked quite ridiculous.
In the huge conference room, only Bai Mingxu, the second master of the Bai family, was still sitting there.
There were two thick piles of documents and two large account books on his desk, and he was looking through them carefully one by one.
Just when the black spear was about to pierce his third uncle's body, Bai Mingxu finally stood up.
The way he spoke slowly was somewhat similar to Bai Qi:
"Brother, Third Uncle and his friends are a little immature, please don't be angry. For their filial piety, please forgive them."
Bai Qi retracted his halberd.
After a while, everyone in the conference room ran away, leaving only Bai Qi, Bai Mingxu and the butler.
"You are always the bravest."
Bai Qi pointed his halberd towards Bai Mingxu.
"No, you know I'm a timid person. But you also know who cleaned up your mess. Who arranged all the things you wanted to do for you?" Bai Mingxu said. The things he did for Bai Qi made him more like a butler than Bai Qi's butler.
The only difference is that the butler is responsible for Bai Qi's food and daily life. He is also responsible for the Bai family's business, the operation of the base, and many shady things.
If the psychics in the base knew those things, they would surely attack the Bai family together and would not stop until they destroyed the Bai family.
As long as Bai Qi needs him for one more day, he has to give him some face.
Bai Qi did not refute Bai Mingxu's words, but just smiled:
"You've grown stronger now, and you're becoming more and more rude when you talk to me."
"I dare not. You are the god of the Bai family. How dare I?" Bai Mingxu also laughed.
"Originally, you knew what these people were going to do before I came, but you didn't stop them. You had to stand up after I got angry. This way, these people would be grateful to you and win their hearts. Your supernatural power level has been stagnant, and I heard that there have been voices of dissatisfaction with you recently. You don't need to go to so much trouble, just kill those who disobey." Bai Qi tapped his fingers on the table, making a slight "dong dong dong" sound.
Bai Mingxu shook his head: "Killing people blindly is your style, not mine."
What he didn't say was that he also wanted to see what Bai Qi's reaction would be if those old guys thought Bai Qi wanted to find a woman and rushed to find a partner for him.
He saw that Bai Qi's expression was truly wonderful.
This is also one of the few things that makes Bai Mingxu happy.
Bai Qi waved his hand generously, as if he was too lazy to argue with Bai Mingxu:
"Forget it. How's that thing I asked you to do?"
That's what he cares about.
"Everything went well. But why did you make it so obvious? Do you want them to go there even though they know there is a tiger there?" Bai Mingxu was a little puzzled.
He considered himself to be one of the people who knew Bai Qi very well, but sometimes he still didn't understand Bai Qi's thoughts.
Bai Qi is not a person who can be guessed using common sense.
"Don't you think it's funny that a moth flies into a flame?"
It was rare that Bai Qi wanted to say a few more words today. If it were any other time, he would have been impatient.
"Oh." Bai Mingxu threw up a folder he had kept in his files.
He also prepared a profile of a guy just like those guys.
Those guys simply choose people who are related to their family and are easy to control.
Trying to tie up Bai Qi with them.
In Bai Mingxu's photo, the person in the photo looks somewhat similar to Mo Fei.
Her name is "Chen Bingqing".
“Can she cook, too?”
Bai Qi took out the photo and looked at the person in it carefully.
Judging from the photo, this person's skin is slightly whiter than Mo Fei's, and he has dark circles under his eyes. When he smiles, the corners of his mouth turn down, revealing a larger part of the white of his eyes, and his eyes are full of impatience.
"I think as long as it's for survival, she won't do it."
Bai Mingxu said nonchalantly, "Do they look quite similar?"
"Although you are becoming more and more rebellious, I forgive you." Bai Qi stood up and said, "Let her cook dinner tonight."
"Yes." The butler bowed respectfully behind him.
The survivor base controlled by the Bai family is the largest underground air-raid shelter in Bai City.
It has a large area and complete facilities, and has everything a survivor base should have.
Registered psychics will receive a fixed amount of food and water every day.
Although the quantity is not much and the taste is not good, it can fill your stomach.
People with special abilities can find jobs that suit their abilities here, and can also go out hunting and exchange supplies or special ability crystal cores at the exchange.
As for entertainment, every Sunday is designated as Carnival Day, and the bar in the base will be open for business on this night. All kinds of drinks, even milk tea and ice cream can be enjoyed here.
Sometimes bars hold social gatherings to allow single people with special abilities to meet and communicate.
For the people with special abilities, life here seems to be no different from before the disaster.
Go to work, get paid, and even worry about relationship issues.
Most people have lost their families and are left alone.
There wasn't even anyone I knew around me.
Just like Chen Bingqing.
She is now a Level 1 water-based psychic. She no longer has to type code, and works in the botanical garden at the base. Her main responsibility is to use her psychic powers to water and fertilize the crops every day, protecting them from thriving growth and becoming food for everyone.
This work is very tiring and the pay is low.
But it was enough for Chen Bingqing to have enough food and clothing.
Her parents died of heat stroke long before she entered the base, and her beloved fiancé was scratched by zombies. In order to avoid being implicated by her fiancé, she locked him in the garage on the first floor.
I packed up the remaining food and water at home and came to the base.
In the first two months, she was just an ordinary person without any special powers, and she almost died in a zombie wave. Fortunately, a man saved her from the zombie wave.
He was also an ordinary person without any special powers, named Yan Xinghai.
Although he has no special powers, he is 1.85 meters tall, has sharp eyebrows and bright eyes, and has muscles on his body. He is definitely a handsome guy.
As luck would have it, Chen Bingqing and Yan Xinghai were assigned to the same resettlement building.
That's how they became acquainted.
At the beginning, they had no special powers, so they worked together to do dirty work like cleaning and taking out the trash in exchange for survival supplies. Yan Xinghai always helped Chen Bingqing do a lot of work that she should do.
He also said that since she was a girl, her hands should be beautiful and should not be used for such rough work.
Later, Yan Xinghai naturally confessed his love to Chen Bingqing.
Both of them have no relatives or friends, so there is no need for any ceremony.
Confession of love was equivalent to marriage, and after reporting to the base management office, their names were registered together.
After being together, they unexpectedly awakened the same water-related abilities at the same time, complementing each other.
This made Chen Bingqing quickly forget the pain of losing her family and her fiancé. She felt that she and Yan Xinghai were a perfect match and planned to live a good life with Yan Xinghai.
Yan Xinghai even promised Chen Bingqing that their lives would get better and better in the future and he would make Chen Bingqing the happiest person in the base.
In the future, when the natural disaster is over, they will have two more children, and the family of four will live happily.
With such a beautiful vision in mind, Chen Bingqing used the same enthusiasm he had when working 996/007 at the Internet company before the natural disaster, worked hard all the way, and even became a team leader at the botanical garden.
What she didn't expect was that she found Yan Xinghai would use the supernatural crystal cores they had saved to go to the bar at the base to play.
It’s okay to play, and it’s understandable that men like to drink.
But what made Chen Bingqing collapse was that she found that there were more and more women around Yan Xinghai. Chen Bingqing was not someone who could swallow her anger. She waited at home to question Yan Xinghai face to face.
"How could I possibly fall for those women? Are they prettier than you, or gentler than you, or have we gone through the same hardships together? They are not even one percent as good as you. No, they are simply not comparable to you."
Yan Xinghai was lying on the bunk bed with his eyes half open, still smelling of alcohol.
"Don't sleep, get up and talk. I don't believe what you said. What is your relationship?!" Chen Bingqing had a cold face and did not believe what Yan Xinghai said.
She is not her silly cousin Mo Fei, who is purely in love and will listen to men's sweet words. But she actually already has the answer in her heart, but she still wants to hear Yan Xinghai's explanation.
"I only love you the most, only you. Don't you know? I do all this for you." Yan Xinghai took Chen Bingqing into his arms and stroked her short hair. "They are all more powerful than us. I talked to them and they were willing to give me the power crystal core. With the crystal core, we can move out of this shabby house. Didn't you want to move out a long time ago?"
After they got together, they applied for a house of eight square meters, which was only big enough to accommodate a narrow single bed, a table and two stools.
The sundries can only be piled on the bed or under the bed. If you want to use the toilet or take a shower, you have to go to the public toilet. What's worse is that the sound insulation is very poor, and even mosquitoes crawled over from time to time when I was sleeping at night.
Chen Bingqing didn't expect that after the natural disaster, they would still worry about the house.
She had poor sleep quality to begin with, and living here made her almost suffer from nervous breakdown.
Hearing this, Chen Bingqing fell silent.
She wanted to ask Yan Xinghai if he was selling himself, but she was reluctant to let Yan Xinghai give up this shortcut.
Finally, the two hugged each other.
"Then don't betray me." Chen Bingqing said, her eyes fixed on Yan Xinghai's neck. What she didn't finish was, if you really betray me, I will kill you.
After the natural disaster, she felt that her personality had changed a lot. In the past, in a society ruled by law, she only dared to believe in many things, but now she really dared to do them.
Yan Xinghai smiled proudly: "How is that possible?"
Ever since the two of them had a frank talk, Yan Xinghai no longer cared about Chen Bingqing.
He often doesn't come home for a day or two.
Occasionally coming out of this person's room, occasionally coming out of that person's room.
Of course, he would get some supplies or crystal cores as rewards every time.
Doing these things is much easier than working hard or fighting in the outside world.
Yan Xinghai looked at the three crystal cores in his hand with satisfaction. He put them all away and decided to tell Chen Bingqing that he had gained nothing today.
But just as he walked through the dark passage and before he reached the door of their resettlement house, he found that Chen Bingqing had been taken away.
She was taken away by several people wearing black windproof suits.
The Bai family! Yan Xinghai hid aside to see what was going on.
Well, Chen Bingqing actually took advantage of his absence to secretly hook up with the Bai family and didn't tell him. It's true that we can only share adversity, but not wealth, right?
When Yan Xinghai saw those people leave, he walked into the house with a sneer and smashed the crystal core he had just hidden against the wall as if to vent his anger.
Never mind, he'll just wait here.
When Chen Bingqing comes back, he will have to question her properly.
By the way, let this woman give him half of the benefits she got from the Bai family.
But Yan Xinghai waited and waited, but never saw Chen Bingqing come back.
At this moment, Chen Bingqing had not yet recovered from the huge shock.
She was taken away by the Bai family and thought that Yan Xinghai had offended the Bai family and implicated her, but she was taken to a large kitchen.
"Ms. Chen, this is where you will work from now on. You don't need to go to the botanical garden. Your job is to prepare three meals a day for Mr. Bai. There is no menu. You can decide what to cook. The ingredients are all here. After you finish the meal, ring this bell and someone will come to take you away. If you feel the need, walk a hundred meters over here to your private lounge."
The man wearing the chef's hat gave Chen Bingqing some instructions and then left.
Chen Bingqing was the only one left in the huge kitchen.
A clean and bright kitchen with electric appliances, and fresh fruits, vegetables and meat.
In a trance, Chen Bingqing felt like she was dreaming.
Wait, who did the chef just say she worked for?
Master Bai?! Is that Master Bai?! She has been in the base for half a year. I heard that Master Bai is the head of the Bai family and the real person in charge of this underground base. If she can please Master Bai, then her future life will be smooth sailing.
Chen Bingqing felt her heart was beating wildly.
She had completely forgotten that she had a boyfriend waiting for her at home.
Isn't it just cooking? How hard can it be? Although she ordered takeout every day before the disaster, she also learned to cook a few times to please her fiancé. Since Mr. Bai wanted to eat her cooking, she would just follow her example.
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