Lin Xia possesses the self-serving mindset essential for someone in a position of power; they won't do anything that doesn't benefit them.
Unable to see a clear picture of the situation, they will not easily give up their bets.
Especially in times of apocalypse, this makes those in positions of power feel even more like they are walking on thin ice.
Every decision they make requires a tremendous amount of brainpower.
"My father also wanted to work hard to build F City into the largest fortress in the apocalypse."
“You can laugh at him for overestimating his abilities, but he also saved many survivors.”
"In our city of F, there are also many survivors who have been given the chance to live."
"No matter what he did, he didn't deserve to die."
Lin Zhigang was in immense pain. He remained crouched, clutching his head, and painfully said to Hua Mi:
"What do you want me to do? What choice do you want me to make? If I spare you and your child, my father will die."
"But how could I possibly harm a mother and two infants in swaddling clothes?"
"How should I choose?"
He was just an ordinary man, and even after the apocalypse, he didn't even activate his superpowers.
How can a man like him save his own father? How can he have both?
Lin Zhigang, who was squatting on the ground, suddenly raised his face. In the dim light, his face was ashen, and he said to Hua Mi, who was coldly watching him:
"Given your personality, you certainly wouldn't let someone as heartless and ruthless as me go."
"You wholeheartedly helped me, leading me to escape this zombie horde, and yet I held a knife to your throat. I am an ungrateful and despicable person."
"Why don't you just kill me now? If you kill me, I won't have to face this painful, devastating apocalypse."
"I didn't have to make such a difficult choice."
Hua Mi leaned back, found a rock, and rested herself against it, saying coldly and indifferently:
"Dying is easy. In the apocalypse, it's an incredibly simple thing for someone to want to die."
"Living is harder than dying, no matter when."
"You feel that living is too painful and difficult, but have you ever thought about what will happen to your father after you die?"
“Who will go to save him? If your father is killed by Chen Hu, then all will be well.”
"But Chen Hu is clearly not the kind of person who would easily let you and your father go."
"Have you ever thought about what kind of torture your father will suffer in Chen Hu's hands?"
"I imagine it must have been worse than death."
With each word Hua Mi spoke, Lin Zhigang's face paled a little more.
After she finished speaking, Lin Zhigang's pain deepened even further.
He grabbed his white hair and forcefully pulled it out strand by strand.
"So now I can't even choose to die?"
"What should I do? What exactly should I do?"
Hua Mi spoke in a cold voice, her voice like that of a demon from hell, carrying a chilling undertone.
"When Chen Hu calls you again, just tell him directly that you have a way to take one of my children away."
“You sent Chen Hu to pick him up. Doesn’t he want my child? He has to make some effort too.”
“Tell him that you need to smuggle a child out of Xiangcheng and successfully escape our pursuit, and deliver the child to him. You can’t do it all by yourself.”
“Tell him again that you can only send the child to the outskirts of E City at most.”
“He doesn’t know you’ve already left Xiangcheng. When you ask him to pick up the child, he should bring your father along as well.”
“If your father were dead, you would never let him have his way.”
"In order to achieve his goal, Chen Hu will make sure your father lives a good life."
"But."
Lin Zhigang felt that the plan was full of flaws.
They want to lure Chen Hu out of F City and into E City. Will Chen Hu believe them?
He grabbed his hair, his eyes red-rimmed, and asked Hua Mi,
"Should we make the plan more detailed and thorough?"
"I always felt this plan was too clumsy; someone as shrewd as Chen Hu wouldn't believe it."
Hua Mi scoffed.
"How many chips does he have in his hand now? It's not up to him whether he believes it or not."
"Even if he doesn't believe it, he doesn't have the manpower or resources to verify the authenticity of this news right now."
“Everyone knows what he wants my child for. He can’t destroy the Xiangcheng base, so he wants to use my child as a hostage.”
“The child is in his hands. Neither Gong Yi nor I dare to kill him. No matter how many loopholes there are in what you say, he will definitely come looking for you, without a doubt.”
Lin Zhigang finally lowered his head. He had no other choice but to do as Hua Mi said.
Then, Lin Zhigang choked up and said:
"I don't know when Chen Hu will call me."
“He turned off my dad’s phone. What can I do now? I can’t just sit here and wait for him to contact me, or I’ll go crazy.”
He was too worried about his father.
He could not bear the fact that his father was suffering at Chen Hu's hands.
"Strive to fight your way out, strive to become stronger, strong enough that you can rescue your father from Chen Hu with a simple stomp of your foot. Then you will naturally escape the fate of being chosen."
Hua Mi looked at the electric grid on the gap. Lin Zhigang had at least one advantage: his technique for attaching the electric grid was quite good.
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