The cell phone rang unexpectedly.
Li Bufan didn't even bother to look at it and just hung up. Not long after, the phone rang again.
"Answer it." Jiang Qiu said.
Li Bufan parked the car by the roadside and answered the call. A familiar voice came through. He said little. After the call ended, he turned his head to look at Jiang Qiu and said, "It's that person."
I didn't even dare to mention the other person's name, for fear of angering him.
Jiang Qiu could guess without thinking that it was Fang Shan calling: "What did he say?"
Li Bufan said seriously, "He gave us one-third of the resources he looted from the Anti-Alliance Organization and asked us to send someone to get them."
The dimples on his baby face deepened, and Jiang Qiu raised the corners of his mouth, though not with much sincerity: "You're adept at combining kindness and force."
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In the same way, Wei Sushen was communicating with Fang Shan.
"If you use the same method too often, it might not be half as effective as before."
Fang Shan handed him the peeled apple and said, "It's just a gesture of goodwill."
He didn't want to bring the conflict to an early stage.
Wei Sushen noticed that the system seemed to be obsessed with peeling apples recently. He resignedly took a bite of the flesh before speaking, "We can divide the remaining resources into several equal parts and secretly transfer them to several equally powerful forces. Using them to befriend them is one thing, but the more important thing is to give them the illusion of growing stronger."
Once people become inflated, they will think about conquering.
Fang Shan immediately understood his intention: he was trying to provoke conflict indirectly. "What good would that do for us?"
Wei Sushen put the apple aside and stood up: "Raise the Gu and keep the strongest ones."
Fang Shan smiled and said, "Let's make him confront Dr. Bai head-on."
Wei Sushen nodded slightly.
Fang Shan clicked his tongue twice and said with a pinched throat, "The host is really bad."
The artificial voice dispelled Wei Sushen's remaining sleepiness. He turned around and gave him a deep look: "Each other."
Life is far from a script, and no matter how cleverly it is arranged, there will be deviations.
Fang Shan hadn't anticipated the fact that Dr. Bai was the first to be criticized, even without any prior planning. After one of the groups gained access to the resources, they immediately and privately stepped up their interference in the pharmaceutical market, even paying exorbitant prices for some rare medicinal herbs.
"It's illogical." Wei Sushen went out and felt a little puzzled by the volatile atmosphere in the city.
Although the anti-alliance organizations have abundant resources, their headquarters is not here, so the amount accumulated in Lin Valley is limited. For those major forces, it is just icing on the cake, and it is far from changing the situation.
After all, the two of them did not really have access to the center of power, and the information Wei Sushen obtained was limited. While others relied on mental power to deal with mutant creatures, he used it to eavesdrop everywhere.
Fang Shan glanced at Wei Sushen and was about to speak, but then he thought that it was not easy for him to find out all this, so after thinking about it, he decided to let Shanshan go out to be an intelligence agent.
Wei Sushen: "In your eyes, am I worse than a bug?"
Fang Shan always felt that these words were familiar. After careful recollection, he remembered a TV series he had watched not long ago. The male protagonist in the TV series asked the female protagonist, "Am I no better than a dog in your eyes, who comes when you call and goes away when you wave away?"
"Host...are you competing with a bug?"
Wei Sushen said nothing and looked at him coldly.
Fang Shan said seriously, "Of course you are more important than the Gu."
Wei Sushen's expression eased slightly.
After a while, Fang Shan asked again, "Are you happy that you beat Shanshan?"
Wei Sushen thought about it and shook his head.
I really can't find anything to be proud of.
The insect didn't return until the dead of night. Finding no one had left the door open for it, it struggled to get in through the crack. As soon as it entered, it saw its two owners: one was having a midnight snack, and the other was resting with his eyes closed.
And their clothes were a little messy.
Fang Shan was wearing a bathrobe because he had just taken a shower, while Wei Sushen had unbuttoned his shirt because it was hot tonight.
Hearing a slight rustling sound, Wei Sushen looked up and saw Shanshan twisting back and forth at the door. Thinking it was in a bad mood, he reached out his hand.
Shanshan climbed up and was about to drill into his collar. Wei Sushen remembered that the insect preferred beautiful women, so he put it back into the jar and handed it to Fang Shan.
A sigh rang out, and Fang Shan said helplessly, "I told you to learn another language a long time ago."
Wei Sushen: "I don't think I'm gifted enough to learn the Zerg language."
Fang Shan waved his hand: "Forget it, I don't dislike you."
Watching the insect's mouth opening and closing through the small hole in the jar, Fang Shan's eyes gradually flashed with enlightenment: "So that's how it is. This wasn't a spur-of-the-moment decision, but was premeditated."
The relationship between Dr. Bai and those forces is not as calm as it seems on the surface, especially in recent times. After collecting information from all sides, they vaguely feel that the other party is far from being controllable.
The resources provided by Fang Shan happened to be a suitable fuse. They wanted to see where Jiang Qiu's bottom line was.
This trial ended temporarily the next day when the vice president of a certain group suddenly fell ill with a strange disease, and both sides took a step back.
Wei Sushen walked to the window. Ever since he slipped out once to get information not long ago, there were more people monitoring the hotel entrance: "Nine out of ten times, the virus has not been developed yet."
If he had succeeded, Dr. Bai would have acted even more recklessly.
Fang Shan: "Jiang Qiu's true spiritual power has probably reached the legendary double S level. Sending the Gu worm to follow him will easily lead to his discovery."
Wei Sushen: "Lingu City is not very large. We can always find clues if we investigate carefully."
As they were talking, the night sky suddenly exploded with intense colors.
Fang Shan was surprised: "Fireworks?"
Wei Sushen looked at the direction of the sparks and said, "It might be more accurate to call it gun smoke."
Fang Shan pondered for a few seconds, and suddenly called Li Bufan. No one answered the call, so he guessed that the commotion outside was probably related to Jiang Qiu.
"There's a price to pay for treating people like soft persimmons." Fang Shan smiled and said, "Jiang Qiu is about to start fighting back."
As he spoke, he began to high-five and praise: "Excellent."
If you focus your attention on other things, the progress of your research will be further delayed.
If this goes on for a while, who knows? It might collapse.
When it was almost dawn, Li Bufan, for some unknown reason, actually returned the call.
Fang Shan: "Nothing serious, I just want to ask about that person's situation."
Li Bufan: "Who are you referring to?"
Fang Shan: "Of course it's Jiang Qiu's good brother. Is he still alive?"
Li Bufan: "To be honest, life is worse than death."
After listening to this, Fang Shan got to the point: "I saw a beautiful fireworks display last night."
Li Bufan's voice was cold and impersonal. After Jiang Qiu's identity was revealed, he didn't even need the most basic disguise: "Don't offend the master again."
He knew very well that if these two people crossed the line even by a millimeter, Jiang Qiu would kill them without hesitation.
Fang Shan: "Okay."
The submissive tone made Li Bufan swallow all the warnings that followed. For the first time, he understood what it felt like when Jiang Qiu dealt with this person. It was like a piece of taffy, the deeper the connection, the stickier it became.
Li Bufan hung up the phone first and shook his head, regretting his decision to call back.
Fang Shan lowered his hands: "Something is not right."
A few seconds passed without anyone responding.
Fang Shan quickly walked over to Wei Sushen, took the book from his hand, and said disapprovingly, "You're almost becoming a nerd."
Wei Sushen calmly took the book back and analyzed, "Making a big noise as a warning is normal practice."
"That's a good idea," Fang Shan pursed his lips, "but when you think about it carefully, it seems a bit unnecessary."
The system is a conspiracy theorist and immediately tried to make multiple analyses of Jiang Qiu's behavior.
Seeing that he was so persistent, Wei Sushen finally put down the book, stood up and glanced downstairs: "Two more."
After saying that, he went down and walked around for a while, then came back out with a much more serious expression: "They are all A-level mental powers."
It is a waste of talent to use a psychic of this level for surveillance.
There was a knock on the door.
Zhang Tian looked much stronger than before. He had always enjoyed VIP treatment in Lingu City and looked more high-spirited.
Although Fang Shan himself wasn't a warm-hearted person, he did appreciate people with good character, so his tone was relatively gentle and normal: "What's the matter?"
Zhang Tian: "Zombies were spotted on the railway outside the city. We need to organize a team to eliminate them."
By the middle and late stages of the apocalypse, they had basically been wiped out.
Zhang Tian said with a puzzled expression: "According to the news, it's still an advanced mutant zombie."
With more people watching outside, it was a good opportunity to leave the hotel with a clear conscience. The key was that this opportunity came too cleverly.
Wei Sushen handed him his coat: "It's good to go out and get some fresh air."
It was hard to figure out what was going on when he sat in the hotel thinking about it. Fang Shan didn't refuse and got into Zhang Tian's car, chatting and laughing all the way. The moment the car started, he glanced at the scene outside the hotel through the rearview mirror and didn't speak again for a long time.
As the car was about to reach the outskirts of the city, Zhang Tian jokingly said, "I used to think Lingu City had good feng shui, but now I realize it's a troubled place."
Fang Shan smiled faintly and said nothing. He just wondered if Zhang Tian would still be so relaxed if he knew the real reason why Lingu City produced so many S-level mutants.
The members of the team still have a harmonious relationship. The girl saw that Li Bufan was close to Fang Shan and others not long ago, so she asked a few more questions, and her words revealed her admiration for Li Bufan.
Fang Shan occasionally responded with a few words, then suddenly looked out the window at the sky and said, "There are a lot of planes today."
Before the end of the world, flying requires money; after the end of the world, flying requires money and power.
In order to ensure the safety of an airplane, at least one S-level psychic must be dispatched to escort it. Even so, not many people are really willing to take it. No one can guarantee that they will not encounter powerful mutant birds during the flight.
Zhang Tianzheng was driving. He glanced at the words and uttered a sigh. Finally, he racked his brains and came up with a possible explanation: "Maybe they are transporting supplies."
Fang Shan didn't have such simple thoughts. His idea was about to come out, but there was still a key point missing.
Wei Sushen, who was sitting next to him, seemed to be lost in thought. Suddenly, he sighed softly. Fang Shan turned his head when he heard the noise and asked, "Is there something you want to tell me?"
Wei Sushen: "I have a guess, but you may not be happy to hear it."
Amused by his serious tone, Fang Shan patted his chest and assured: "At my age, even the biggest things are trivial."
Seeing the system's persistence, Wei Sushen whispered a few words into Fang Shan's ear. The smile on Fang Shan's face gradually faded. He made several calls, each receiving a single empty beep. Then, with a firm grip on his hand, the screen began to crack.
Wei Sushen held down his wrist to stop him from exerting more force: "Calm down, be peaceful."
Fang Shan kept calling, and after an unknown amount of time, the call was finally connected.
"Hello."
The person on the other end of the phone was somewhere unknown, and the sound of wind whistling could be heard from inside the phone.
Fang Shan sneered: "Helicopter?"
Jiang Qiu: "I only have three minutes left to talk. I'm about to board the plane."
Fang Shan lowered his voice to a whisper, "I'm afraid the things on those planes ahead are all yours."
Jiang Qiu hummed, seemingly imitating Fang Shan's usual soft and docile tone.
He was very open-minded. Lingu City was in chaos, and the two brothers seemed to be a variable, especially Fang Shan. His fearless attitude indirectly conveyed a message that the other party had an unknown trump card.
In this case, it would be better to find a place to hide for a while and then come back after the virus is developed.
Fang Shan took a deep breath and said, "You run away when you can't win. Don't you feel ashamed?"
"I don't want you to have such a misunderstanding," Jiang Qiu's voice returned to the approachable tone they had when they first met. "I'm not running away, I'm just moving temporarily."
That's right, just moving.
After saying that, the call ended.
Fang Shan stared at the black screen in a daze. The villains were gone, so how could he continue playing?
Wei Sushen added calmly: "You've pissed people off."
Fang Shan's throat moved: "We have to find a way to stop it."
Wei Sushen looked up at the sky several thousand meters away and asked, "What do you think?"
Fang Shan forced a smile: "For example, running against the wind with a handkerchief in hand, shouting for you to come back soon."
The author has something to say: Fang Shan: You can’t afford to play, tell me, can’t you afford to play!
Jiang Qiu: Yes.
Fang Shan: ...
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