The man lowered his voice and said, "Captain Ling Lang, can you please excuse me?"
Ling Lang frowned, his patience running low. "Just say it right here."
Everyone around him is his people, and he has to hide when looking for someone.
What's one thing his teammates can't hear?
Xiao Yue coughed lightly. "Captain Ling Lang, this is a long story. My girlfriend has a sister who's been missing for over five years. She disappeared when the apocalypse began, and we couldn't find her for a long time. Just a while ago, we ran into her while we were clearing out zombies... but something happened in between, causing her to leave the team."
Xiao Yue paused, then continued, "Just now, we heard about her in our camp. Someone said they saw her nearby. I've already contacted the other two teams, and the only one left is Captain Ling Lang's team. If it's convenient, could you please..."
Ling Lang scoffed, "Looking for someone? You found our team? Who are the members of our team? What are their specific identities? How could I possibly let you check?"
"That's not what I meant. I just wanted to confirm whether she was real or not. I won't check her identity, and I won't reveal any of the team's secrets."
Ling Lang looked at Xiao Yue.
"If I remember correctly, I heard that a person with dual superpowers appeared in S1."
Xiao Yue lowered his eyes, "Yes."
"Is it you?"
"Let's be frank, Captain Ling Lang is the same, right?" Xiao Yue asked back, "Captain Ling Lang, there's no need to test me. S1 and I are from the base. Since the base has come to save us all, I will do my best to serve the base."
Pei Xiqing listened to the whole thing in the tent, took off her mask and put it aside. In front of her was a simple pot with a fire burning underneath. While eating, she glanced at the tent door through the steam from the pot.
Xiao Yue, who was standing outside the tent, was almost as tall as Ling Lang. He had a strong and well-proportioned body. From memory, his face was quite resistant to be beaten, which fully lived up to his identity as the male protagonist. He was neither humble nor arrogant in front of Ling Lang, and looked a bit like a savior.
The couple were notorious for their hatred of evil. On the surface, they were under orders to submit to the management of the base, but in fact, they always wanted to overthrow the apocalyptic hegemony, build their careers, and create a new world.
Pei Xiqing drank a sip of water expressionlessly.
Long Yan stared at her for a while and asked, "Is he talking about you?"
Pei Xiqing almost spit out a mouthful of water: "Sister Long Yan..."
Long Yan laughed: "Hahahaha, I'm just talking nonsense, don't take it seriously."
Pei Xiqing covered her mouth and coughed softly, her voice distorted. "I was scared to death."
Long Yan said, "I know."
"Um?"
"S1 started searching the camp for someone the moment they arrived. How could they have hidden this from me?" She twirled her chopsticks slowly. "They've been searching for someone, but I don't know if they're sincere. Some of the people in S1, in particular, seem ready to skin and tear the person apart if they find him. So Ling Lang won't tell anyone, and neither will I, nor will anyone else in our team."
Pei Xiqing was stunned and was speechless for a moment when he looked at her.
Long Yan took a bite of beef. "Xiqing, we don't know what you've been through, and why they're looking for you. I guess they know you've turned into a zombie, and they want to attack you. But since you don't want to reveal it, we will respect your choice. Anyway, whether you're a zombie or not, they won't attack us."
Pei Xiqing's eyes were slightly red. "Thank you... Sister Long Yan, if I can absolutely guarantee that I won't turn into a zombie, then I will..."
"Don't say that. There's no need. I'm not interested in your past, just like I don't want to tell you about mine. In our team, I don't think anyone would want their friends to know their past."
"It's the end of the world now. The past isn't that important. What matters is survival." Long Yan patted her shoulder. "But I have to remind you, that brat Ling Lang doesn't even understand what love is."
"Tsuyoshi, I understand... ah?"
Pei Xiqing was touched one second, and dumbfounded the next.
Long Yan winked at her and touched her face. "Take your time eating. I'm going to set up the lightning protection network. These zombies are lurking outside. They won't be able to wait until dawn. The outer defenses should be broken soon."
Pei Xiqing quickly grabbed her and said, "Sister Long Yan, don't be so stubborn. If anything happens, just retreat. This place won't be lost, and it won't be devoured by zombies..."
"I don't even dare to say that, how can you be sure?"
"I……"
Long Yan thought she was worried about him, so he smiled and said, "Hey, I get it. I won't be stubborn, don't worry."
In the apocalyptic wasteland, there is nothing worth protecting. It is clear that zombies are the only target of all superpowerful people. Now that they have encountered them, no one has any reason to retreat. No matter how many come, they must be killed.
If we don't eliminate them now, we don't know what they will evolve and mutate into next time, causing harm to more people.
Long Yan left soon, and the other team members in the tent also stood up.
Fu Feng and Nie Bin: "Then we'll leave too. Time is tight and the mission is urgent."
"Yeah, both brothers please be careful too."
Fu Feng and Nie Bin looked at each other and smiled, "That's really unpleasant, but I like to hear it."
Everyone left and the tent was empty. Pei Xiqing ate a few bites of beef. She enjoyed it, but when she thought about the zombie siege crisis in the plot, she couldn't eat anymore.
The protagonist has a halo and can survive in the face of death, but others don't.
Before, she always thought that she was separated from the main plot and had nothing to do with the male and female protagonists anymore. They were completely two completely unrelated lines. But now she realized that she had unknowingly become one of the cannon fodder.
Once she was caught up in the plot, everything around her was closely related to it, and she could no longer be careless and treat the plot as just a few words that could be brushed aside.
She was really worried about what they would do without the halo of the protagonist after being accidentally involved... After all, the strength of the zombies at this plot point could be ranked among the top three.
After putting down his chopsticks, he could still hear Xiao Yue talking to Ling Lang outside. However, the captains of the other two teams had also come over and were interrupting him one by one, so Xiao Yue couldn't say anything.
"Captain Ling Lang, we are almost ready for the offensive and defensive battle later!"
"Be prepared for battle at any time! That group of zombies won't even wait until dawn. It seems we underestimated them. My people roughly estimated their numbers and they are extremely terrifying. City B is a major thoroughfare. Zombies from all directions can converge here. Add to that the large number of people here, and it turned into a zombie city overnight five days ago. The base has sent more than ten teams here in the past five days, but they still haven't been able to completely clear out these zombies. This time, if possible, we must wipe them out completely!"
"Right! Let everyone in the base know that we've exceeded our mission targets. Maybe everyone will get a promotion then!"
"However, I didn't expect a team like S1 to be nearby. Are you sure they didn't show up on purpose because they knew Captain Ling Lang was here?"
Xiao Yue's eyes were slightly cold, but he smiled: "My team and I were just passing by."
The two captains snorted coldly, "Just passing by? I heard someone on Captain Xiao's team has awakened dual powers. Are you planning to level up again? I wonder if Captain Xiao can still sit still as the leader? He's not just some useless captain who relied on women to get to the top, is he?"
"And we also heard that Captain Xiao was entangled with another woman when he left the team. That woman even climbed into your bed. Tsk, tsk, tsk, Captain Xiao is really lucky!"
"I've heard that it's not enough for Captain Xiao to hold one in his arms; he has to keep an eye on the others...tsk tsk tsk."
Xiao Yue suppressed his inner anger, his face livid as he endured it, "Captain Ling Lang, I hope you can consider what I just said..."
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