Chapter 47: Su Yao
Rushing over, he saw that the compressed biscuits he had stored were gone.
From behind, he heard a few people laugh, "Hey, look at how devastated he looks.? Who asked him to be so dishonest?"
"He deserves to be married to that witch Ni Mengxue! She tried to snatch away Su Yao’s husband, and he tried to snatch away Su Yao’s husband’s achievement."
"Why are trash like these even allowed in our base?"
"Exactly. Didn’t he leave with his wife? How did she even let him leave her for the past 2 months and not come here to cause a scene?"
"Sigh! Maybe it’s the high pay of our base! A base built by our queen Su Yao is enviable, and maybe he is thinking that he still has a chance with her?"
Burning Star, unlike other bases, was clean and didn’t emit any foul smell. There was food, good security, good pay, and even the survival rate was higher than other bases.
It also had many promising projects like solar grids in every house and hybrid seed experimentation. A few of the hybrid seed experiments have succeeded and are in the trial phase.
In terms of weapons, they have already made weapons that are capable of dealing with a level 5 zombie. The average level of people in the base was 11, and the highest level was level 15.
All of this was possible because of Su Yao. Her insight and her husband, who supported her during the past few years, were the reason why this base existed in the first place.
Meng Xiaoni didn’t fight them. Once he indeed saw Su Yao as his fiancée and had few expectations, but soon all of those hopes were dashed, and his heart turned cold.
’One day... I will take revenge on her and kill her...’
After all, she was partially responsible for his family’s current condition, and it was she who suggested such a high price to redeem his family members.
It was she who had accused him of trying to steal her husband’s achievement even when the evidence was lacking.
He slowly lowered himself to the ground and closed his eyes. The unbearable pain in his stomach, along with biting hunger, made him feel weak all over.
Suddenly the fragrance of warm porridge and roasted meat assaulted his nose, and he gulped.
’Just imagine that you have eaten it... You need to hold on, Xiaoni! For your family!’
Suddenly, a hard piece of stone-like thing was thrown at him. When he opened his eyes again, he saw a dirty bun lying near his leg.
Instantly, he looked around and found a young man with a heavy build trying to act innocent.
Lance Emerald. A young man he had sponsored on a whim. He was a young man with good martial arts skills and had protected Meng Xiaoni during his childhood.
Meng Xiaoni had repaid him by sponsoring him and considered the matter even. Yet this young man had remembered the kindness and sneaked him food items.
Sometimes buns, sometimes compressed biscuits.
With a grateful smile, he took the mouldy bun and ate a bite. Only its exterior looked bad; in reality, it was good from the inside.
Once the food was finished, Meng Xiaoni closed his eyes. Feeling a looming shadow on him, he saw Lance and a few men.
"Hey, you, come with us to the side alley." Lance gave an evil laugh, and the next second, his lackey An Xia dragged Meng Xiaoni.
"Hahaha! Looks like Xiaoni is about to be beaten up!"
"Again? I mean Lance shouldn’t be this cruel..."
"Hey! Are you defending that bastard? Let him be roughed up by these thugs!"
Meng Xiaoni didn’t hear what they were saying. For him, everything turned into nothingness, and eventually he lost his consciousness.
When he opened his eyes, the pain in his stomach was gone, and he was lying in a dirty alley. Blood was dripping from his lips, and there were several bruises on the visible portion of his arms.
Rubbing the sore spot, he said softly, "Thank you, Lance..."
He was most likely treated by Lance, and the bruises were a form of protection. Lance deliberately injured him in the places that were visible.
They looked so hideous and scary that one might think they were about to die. Even if people in the Burning Star Base hate him, none of them would want to kill him.
So each time he was injured so much... no one ever thought of roughing him up.
He searched the area and found a paper bag filled with warm steamed buns. After eating them up, he closed his eyes in delight. It had been such a long time since he had eaten something so delicious.
Just as he was about to leave, he noticed a small paper tucked inside. Curiously, he opened it and read the contents.
’Ying Luo Agency is trying to find your location. Your wife is the one who issued the task. The situation on her side had improved a lot. You should try to ask for help from her. She has lots of good stuff. Possibly 20,000 kg of rice too.’
For a long time, he stared at the paper before he laughed wildly as despair started to creep in.
His wife? Ni Mengxue? The woman who hated him to the point of death? Why would she help him?
If he dared to appear in front of her, she would dare to kill him.
However... his eyes struck at a few words.
If she truly had that much rice, then... exchanging his life for the freedom of his family doesn’t seem bad anymore.
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Ni Mengxue sneezed as she dodged the incoming zombie and murmured softly, "Who is plotting behind me, huh? Must be that Gu Lin. Looks like I need to kill her before I leave."
Just as she thought so, she heard slight rustling from behind and dodged.
Her training had paid off, and now she could easily take down level 2 zombies. Since she was planning to level up, she planned to solidify her foundation first.
"Fu Sinan, you bastard! How dare you hide crystals from us..."