Han Junche glanced at Qin Zhao, pondered for a moment, and nodded decisively: "Okay, we'll leave in a bit. But before we leave, we need to come up with an excuse to stay halfway."
"There's no need." Qin Zhao's patience seemed to be running out: "After besieging them a few times, they'll naturally come begging to come to us. Why wait?"
That's true.
Han Junche sat down next to him, took out a cigarette from his pocket, lit it, and then gave him one: "But I really don't have the patience to wait for them to obediently come to my door. Winter is coming soon, and I don't want to have to go out and cause trouble when the roads are blocked by heavy snow."
Qin Zhao took the cigarette, not refuting his words, but asked, "Why did you pick up the cigarette again? I remember Lin Yi and the others said last time that you had quit smoking."
Han Junche exhaled a puff of smoke, his voice low: "I've been a bit annoyed lately, so I'll smoke when I feel like it, but I won't smoke when I get back."
"Heh." Qin Zhao gave him a disdainful look, took out a lighter, lit a cigarette, and took a puff. "We single dogs are so lucky. We can pick up whoever we want without worrying about anyone not liking us."
Han Junche turned to look at him and said calmly, "You will meet someone like that in the future too."
Hearing this, Qin Zhao scoffed: "Don't be ridiculous. I'm different from you guys. I may look like a normal person, but I'm only slightly better than a zombie. A normal person can get infected if bitten by a zombie. Am I supposed to spend my whole life having a Platonic relationship with someone? I'd better not cause trouble for others."
Han Junche paused suddenly, his hand holding the cigarette still. "So, that's why you gave up on your own."
Qin Zhao was silent for a while before speaking: "No, the main reason is that I know I can't win anyway, so there's no need to go out of my way to lose face."
Neither of them spoke again. They silently finished their cigarettes, then stood up and walked outside in tacit agreement.
The person in charge of the Nine Lives Base was surprised that they were so impatient; they gave up after only two days of talks.
To be honest, he was quite envious of the resources at the Starfire Alliance base. The Starfire Alliance's proposal to form an alliance with the Nine Lives base included resource sharing as its first condition, which secretly pleased him for a long time.
The reason he's acting so arrogantly and constantly making excuses to delay is simply to inflate his own value and gain more advantages.
Hearing that Han Junche and the others had given up, he felt a little panicked, but he still maintained his composure and said, "Captain Han's sincerity is nothing more than this."
"The conditions we could offer before were already the bottom line for our Starfire Alliance."
Han Junche said coldly, "Actually, forming an alliance with you would not benefit us at all. The reason we want to form an alliance with you is simply to start by eliminating the zombies in T City and gradually restore order. I am not doing this for myself, nor for the Starfire Alliance, but for all the living people."
"But Captain Hao doesn't seem to mean that. Instead, he's using our goodwill as leverage. Since we're on different paths, there's no need to force it. Farewell."
After saying this, Han Junche and Qin Zhao left without looking back.
As soon as they left, the man standing next to Hao, the person in charge of the Nine Lives Base, cautiously said, "Boss, actually, we got a great deal by forming an alliance with them. Besides, they're so strong, they only approached us because we're nearby. Moreover, if we can really eliminate the zombies little by little and end the apocalypse, we'll be the founding heroes of the nation!"
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