jdhmnovel Chapter 233 Yecheng 1 Farewell
Chapter 233 Yecheng 1 Farewell
The last vestiges of summer hadn't yet slipped away, and a humid summer breeze blew in. The two leaned against the armrest, and Chao Boyan pressed down his fluttering trench coat, took a cigarette, and handed it to her.
"I don't smoke, it smells awful."
"Okay." He wisely put the cigarette away, leaving one in his mouth but not lighting it.
"Cigarettes are a luxury, you really live a very good life," Miao Yin teased.
Chao Boyan chuckled: "Thanks to you, even a lawless outlaw like me has been recruited by the authorities."
"Oh?"
"With a single cold, mocking tone, they led me directly into Elder Lu's door."
Old Lu?
Miao Yin recalled her memories of her past life and finally found a clue in a corner.
The old man, who was short but had a dignified presence, was surrounded by a crowd as he emerged from the darkness. His soul, like a sharp sword, was hidden beneath his cloudy eyes.
"Old Master Lu, this is Bai Luosha, the person beside Bai Jingji." The decorated soldier beside him said, bowing his head.
That one sentence was enough for her to remember, but Miao Yin thought that there would never be another Elder Lu in the base.
What was she doing at the time?
...I remember now.
With her cooperation with the base broken, she robbed their inventory, fled to the South District in the dead of night, blasted down one of the base's walls, and then swaggered away.
The old man stood by the city wall, watching her leave in silence from beginning to end.
"Do you know who Elder Lu is?" Chao Boyan asked mysteriously.
"I heard something."
"Let me put it this way, do you remember what I told you in the lab back then, that I was hired by the government to go there?"
Miao Yin looked at Chao Boyan beside her: "You mean, the person who asked you to do this was Elder Lu?"
"That's not quite right. Strictly speaking, he wasn't the one who sent me to do this. He was just the one who gave me the order. He was following Elder Lu's instructions when he made the decision to send me."
Chao Boyan recalled the scene at the time: "You may not know that before I left Mengcheng, there was actually a very complicated political struggle here. Li Kangping had been in the officialdom for many years and climbed to his current position step by step. He seemed to have a lot of power, but in fact, he had a lot of complicated forces under him. He wanted to kick out all the old people and make his own fortune."
"Old Lu was his senior and the one who guided him into the field. However, after he grew old, he became a rival that he had to eliminate. The two sides split and were entangled from before the apocalypse until after the apocalypse. They only calmed down a little after entering the base."
"They do not agree with each other's governing philosophy and each wants to bring the other down so that they can dominate the country."
"When Elder Lu took control of the administrative departments, Li Kangping wanted to take control of the military. Elder Lu set up laboratories and medical departments in the base to deal with the mutations, while Li Kangping captured people with supernatural abilities in Yecheng to conduct research."
"They fought each other, controlling the base while planting spies under each other's noses, until... you appeared."
Miao Yin raised an eyebrow slightly, leaning against the armrest, seemingly watching him leisurely.
"Regarding this... I don't know exactly what happened, but I do know that Li Kangping died a horrible death. His eyes were gouged out while he was still alive, and ended up in my hands." Chao Boyan waved his hand.
"So, what did you do with those eyes in the end?"
"Of course, I threw it on the main road to feed the monsters. I don't want to touch such disgusting things." He shrugged.
"In short, Li Kangping died, and his cronies disappeared one by one soon after. Their power was naturally divided up, with Captain Peng Si holding most of the military power. The rest naturally fell into the hands of Elder Lu. Only then did the base stabilize, and the orders were truly transmitted from top to bottom."
Therefore, the base can now be considered truly unified, with various systems in place and the social machinery running again.
Miao Yin pondered the intricacies of the situation and couldn't help but find it amusing: "People are almost all dead, and they're still agonizing over this little bit of power."
"That's just how people are."
He continued, "After parting ways in Yecheng, I found my contact and went through a lot of trouble to return to Mengcheng. I took the information and reported the mission to them. As you said, I reported the news that Leng Miaoyin destroyed the laboratory. But less than ten minutes later, I was summoned to the underground city."
The underground city of Dream City was originally a commercial district, but it was greatly transformed after the apocalypse and became a place to hide important government secrets.
Those high-ranking officials who are rarely seen usually stay at the grassroots level, handling one confidential matter after another.
Under the bright yet warm yellow light, the old man sat quietly, waiting for his arrival.
"He asked me some questions about you, when you met him, how you met him, what kind of superpower you have, what you are doing. In short, I stayed down there for quite a long time."
Miao Yin asked, "What was your answer?"
"Just answer the truth," he said with a smile.
"I met you in the slaughter lab. You can use fire and seem to know a lot. As for why you were there... I don't know. After all, you weren't on the victim list. In the end, I don't know why they let me go, which allowed me to return to Dream City safely."
Did they ask about the experiment?
Chao Boyan was somewhat surprised that she had changed the subject so easily, instead of continuing to ask about him.
He said, "I gave them all the data and told them that the experiments had all failed. The subjects either died from the side effects or were buried in the rubble. But I destroyed the data on Ling's successful experiment and You Wenwen's data. The laboratory was destroyed so suddenly, so the flawed data was normal, and they didn't ask any questions."
Then you've passed this hurdle.
A drug that causes a user with superpowers to lose control and die has no value.
They will no longer turn a blind eye or pretend not to see Li Kangping's medicine.