Pei Xiqing replied, "It's not that there's anything difficult to explain. He doesn't necessarily need a reason for what he does. Even if he did have a reason, I'm afraid most people wouldn't understand."
"You're right." Fu Yan sighed one after another, his brows tightly furrowed. It was not difficult to see his inner entanglement and hesitation.
"Marshal, if there's nothing else, I'll leave first."
"Wait." Fu Yan called her.
He said, "There is one more very important thing I must tell you."
"Please go ahead."
Fu Yan said seriously, "In about a month, the parasite will begin an all-out attack on humans even before the zombies do. The apocalypse will be even more devastating, like hell on earth."
"How could you know there was still a month left?"
"One month is the shortest time for parasites to reproduce," he explained. "We've just discovered the patterns of their reproduction. They start by parasitizing a zombie and then need to return to four different hosts, each taking a week. After four infestations, the parasite's virus will rapidly multiply using the host's body."
"So, one month is the last time?"
"That's not the case. I do have some confidence in the efforts of Xiao Lin, Ling Lang, and the other commanders so far." He snorted coldly, "One month is not the minimum deadline. Those parasites don't have the ability to overthrow these bases in a month."
Pei Xiqing asked: "What does the Marshal mean...?"
"Man proposes, God disposes." Fu Yan tapped the table with his finger, his tea a little unsteady, "And Xiao Lin is the key to success or failure."
Pei Xiqing came out of the office building.
A car was parked at the gate.
The man was wearing a high-end suit and stood beside the car as straight as a pine tree.
Pei Xiqing didn't expect to hear the news from him so quickly.
"Brother Duan."
Duan Xiaolin held her hand and rubbed it: "Your hands are so cold?"
"It's getting colder recently, why don't you wear more clothes, Brother Duan?" But his hands were really warm.
"I'm not like someone who only does superficial work."
Pei Xiqing punched him: "You are the only one who is warm. Your whole body is hot from the inside out. I don't know where the heat comes from."
"You don't know why?"
Pei Xiqing: "You are so shameless."
He probably knew what she had talked about with Fu Yan inside. She followed the man into the car and asked after taking her seat, "Does the Marshal think highly of Brother Duan?"
“It doesn’t count.”
"So, are you enemies or friends?"
"Guess?" he reminded, "If you were the marshal of the base and had no available men, what would you do?"
"Cultivate, win over, bribe?" Pei Xiqing denied it immediately, "That's a bit unreliable."
"So I can only form an alliance with people who share the same goals. He and I are both allies and rivals."
"The allies are the headquarters? The opponents are..."
"From what I've seen," he said calmly, "there are no allies, only opponents."
Pei Xiqing told him what had just happened and asked, "The Marshal came to me and asked me to persuade you to unite with the base. What do you say?"
"That depends on how my wife persuades me."
As he spoke, his big hand touched her lower back and began to rub it meaningfully.
"Don't be so frivolous." She felt that he was becoming more and more shameless.
She thought for a moment before speaking again: "You haven't achieved your goal yet. It shouldn't be that easy to achieve."
"Then do as you say and wait a little longer."
"When did I tell you to wait a little longer?" Pei Xiqing said aggrievedly, "If someone heard it, they'd think it was my fault again. Don't blame everything on a woman. If something goes wrong, it's always a woman's fault."
"Again?" The man said in a playful tone, pinching her waist with interest. "It seems there is an explanation."
Pei Xiqing's breathing stagnated.
Damn mouth.
How come it just came out so easily?
Duan Xiaolin pinched her face: "Hmm?"
"Ahem..." Pei Xiqing leaned into his arms, "Don't mention the past with Chen Yu anymore."
If you mention it, he will start to nitpick again.
Duan Xiaolin stroked her long hair and said, "I'm not blaming you. I take back what I said just now."
"If anyone cares, feel free to push it onto me."
"Who wants to push it onto you?" she retorted.
"I thought about how difficult your life was at the end of the world, but I didn't expect you to encounter so many unfair things before."
Pei Xiqing was distracted for a moment.
I didn't expect that this is what he cared about.
The original owner had no choice but to survive at the end of her life, and when her crime was exposed, she was pushed out by a man to take the blame.
Everyone called the original owner a vixen, but those men were better at hiding themselves than each other.
"This kind of thing will not happen again in the future, don't worry." Duan Xiaolin held her hand.
Pei Xiqing turned his head away: "Brother Duan, although I did have ulterior motives when I approached you before, now I really like you very much."
Duan Xiaolin's face darkened slightly and he slapped her on the butt.
"How dare you say such words."
Pei Xiqing was amused: "You are allowed to joke, but I can't?"
Duan Xiaolin pinched her chin, and pinched her cheek with his slender fingers. With a little force, it was already an unpleasant warning: "I don't like this joke."
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