Old Master Song's kind expression suddenly changed, and he looked resistant. "Impossible! You invited us before, and we still gave the same answer: no!"
Ye Jingyu stepped forward and gave a reason, "Xu Bai, as you know, we have a six-month-old baby and elderly people in our family, so it's impossible for us to go to the Victory Base."
Song Yuanqing looked at the elderly and children among them with a worried expression: Lu Ke and Ye Zhi, "Xu Bai, to tell you the truth, the living conditions at your Victory Base are really too backward. They can't compare to our villa at home at all. Our Uncle Lu and Little Sweet Bean won't be able to adapt to it there."
Ye Yubai asked incredulously, "What? Each person only gets ten meat buns a day?"
"That's too little. We're not going. Lu Xingxiao, you've seen what our family eats. We have plenty of meat and fish every day. Why should we go to your base to suffer?"
Lu Ben and Zhang Dongliang also looked disapproving. Even though they had never eaten the Ye family's food, they had seen the meat in the kitchen. Ten meat buns would be more than enough for a dog.
Lu Ke also knew what Chen Yunhao had said. He hugged Ye Zhi, who was reaching out to him, and the two of them started a fake crying act.
When Lu Ke carried Ye Zhi, she was already trying to compose herself. She pouted, unable to muster any emotion. Not wanting to shed tears for an idiot, she decided to just wail!
Ye Zhi cried loudly, completely exposing her face to Tang Xubai's recording equipment. She even gave a contemptuous middle finger gesture, clearly saying, "I'm not going. Come and die if you dare."
"Waaaaah, I don't want to go, I don't want to go, waaaaah."
Ye Zhi's mouth was agape like a Type-C port, her eyes were tightly closed, but not a single tear fell; she was earnestly wailing.
Lu Ke, who was building up his emotions, was startled by Ye Zhi's loud shout and started throwing a tantrum on the ground as well. "I'm practically half-buried, can't you let me enjoy my old age in peace? I'm not going, neither Xiao Tiandou nor I are going today, neither is our whole family!"
Ye Zhi had her back to Old Master Song and the others, but even so, after hearing Ye Zhi's cries, Old Master Song and the others felt a pang of pain in their hearts. Ye Zhi's crying was just too realistic, and they couldn't bear it.
Ye Zhi knew that her family couldn't stand seeing her cry, so she turned and smiled at them, without a single tear on her face.
The pain in Old Master Song's heart and the others vanished instantly, a trace of helplessness flashing across their eyes. Their gaze shifted to Lu Ke, and that trace of helplessness turned into a great deal of helplessness. They even wanted to laugh out loud. Haha, so funny! They had to hold it in.
Grandpa Lu sat down directly on the ground, with Ye Zhi sitting steadily on his lap. But that wasn't the point. The point was that the old man was quite flexible. As expected of an earth-type ability user, he was like clay, and his upper body actually spun around to face Grandpa Song and the others.
He was secretly putting in eye drops!
Lu Ke quickly applied the eye drops. To prevent them from dripping onto the ground, he looked up and silently said to the others, "Be serious, don't laugh."
Ye Yubai couldn't help but twitch his lips. They didn't want to burst out laughing, but it was really because Uncle Lu's eye drops had gotten into his eyes!
Lu Ke turned his head, the eye drops in his eyes falling out the instant he turned. "It's really a bunch of ignorant kids from Nancun bullying me because I'm old and weak. Before the apocalypse, I, Lu Ke, was a famous architect in City A. I never thought that after the apocalypse, I would be forced to move by a bunch of ignorant brats."
"Heavens are blind, sob sob sob." The eye drops fell again, soaking the snow beneath him.
Wang Yao's acting skills came to a head. He came in front of the camera and showed a heartbroken expression. "Heaven has eyes. I've made a decision for our Victory Base. If you join our base, we'll give each of you ten meat buns and a plate of meat and a plate of vegetables every day."
Ye Zhi's wailing grew louder, "Waaah, I don't want to, I don't want to!"
"This old man is so miserable! A meat bun and a plate of meat and a plate of vegetables are enough to force this old man to move? No way, I absolutely disagree!"
Old Master Song stepped forward, but did offer them a way out, saying, "I don't agree either, unless you exchange crystal cores for it."
Tang Xubai looked troubled. "This..."
"Let's discuss it with the people at the base."
He, Wang Yao, and Lu Xingxiao arrived at an open space, followed by a large group of people. Tang Xubai took out a walkie-talkie and operated it, "Commander Gao, this is Tang Xubai, please respond!"
A buzzing sound came from the walkie-talkie, followed by a middle-aged man's voice, "Tang Xubai, is the mission complete?"
Tang Xubai answered without any hesitation, "No! The mission targets disagree; they demand that we provide the crystal cores."
Inside the conference room of Victory Base, the audio and video recorded by the surveillance equipment that Tang Xubai was forced to wear were being played on a large screen.
The meeting room was filled with high-ranking personnel from the Victory Base, all looking up. Among them, a portly, bald man in his fifties frowned when he saw Lu Ke's exposed eye drops.
This person is Gao Xin, a parasite in the Victory Base.
Upon hearing Tang Xubai's reply, Gao Xin shouted in front of everyone in the conference room, "Useless!"
Chen Yunhao, who had a faint smile in his eyes, turned and stared at Gao Xin with a deep gaze after hearing Gao Xin's insults towards Tang Xubai. Not everyone could insult his team members.
A deep, angry voice rang out in the silent conference room, "Commander Gao, these are my soldiers. You have overstepped your bounds by ordering them to do things!"
It seems that the division of Victory Base needs to be done as soon as possible.
Gao Xin glared angrily, his tone unfriendly, "Chen Yunhao, I am your superior!"
After saying that, Gao Xin regretted it, because Chen Yunhao's father, Chen Yuanzheng, was sitting next to him.
Chen Yuanzheng's expression was also very unpleasant. What did Gao Xin mean by cursing his son's subordinate in front of him? And daring to curse his son? His son couldn't take action, so he taught Gao Xin a lesson on his son's behalf.
"Hey Gao, I'm in the same grade as you, give me the walkie-talkie!"
He snatched the walkie-talkie from Gao Xin's hand. "Xu Bai, is Song Moshang next to you? Give him the walkie-talkie."
Gao Xin dared not speak out against his anger. Although he was of the same rank as Chen Yuanzheng, his influence in the Victory Base was far less than Chen Yuanzheng's. He could just endure it a little longer and then he would make Chen Yuanzheng die suddenly in a few days.
Grandpa Song took the walkie-talkie from Tang Xubai and saw Ye Zhi's hand gesture: ten. He replied with an expression that said he understood.
Once the commotion on the other side had subsided, Old Master Song spoke up, "Hey, Chen Yuanzheng, enough with the nonsense. I have eight people here, and if each of them gets 100,000 crystal cores, I'll give you the supplies."
He decides how much supplies to provide.
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