CH 93

Chapter 93: The Queen’s Meat

Before Li Rong boarded the armored vehicle, as a precaution, he divided everyone into two groups. Once he entered the mobile fortress, he chose a hall in the center of the vehicle, and then divided Shi Qingyang the rest into three groups. They were then placed in the corners under guard.

It wasn’t difficult for over twenty people to guard the six captives whose limbs were powerless after they had been injected with medicine. But even so, Li Rong was still worried. With extra care, he took out two bombs and installed them on Shi Qingyang and Cheng Ran.

He held contempt for Cheng Hong; Wang Qing and Gu Changjin were servants; and Zheng Gaoyuan could be completely ignored… The most important ones now were undoubtedly Shi Qingyang and Cheng Ran.

After all this, he smiled and patted Shi Qingyang on the shoulder: “Shi Qingyang, you’d better cooperate with me, or who knows what Cheng Ran will end up like.”

Shi Qingyang didn’t speak and closed his eyes. He just continued to operate the radiation energy in his body at an extremely slow speed.

He was used to relying on himself for everything. At this time, of course he had to find a way to save himself. His most urgent task was to neutralize the drug in his body, and then remove the bomb from himself.

At this time, he could consider it lucky that Li Rong chose to ride the mobile fortress that Cheng Xuze had given him, since Shi Qingyang had also prepared some adjustments on the mobile fortress around this time.

He watched Li Rong’s subordinates inspect the whole mobile fortress, uncovering all the dangerous objects. Shi Qingyang glanced at one of the boxes and thought deeply.

“Boss, do you want to put bombs on the other people?” a man beside Li Rong asked. As soon as he spoke, other people in combat suits nearby immediately stared at him.

“Two people is enough.” Li Rong also noticed the reactions of those people. Although the subordinate in front of him was loyal, the others who followed him weren’t necessarily the same.

These people would never have done such a dangerous act if he hadn’t had his grasp on them. It was enough to only place one or two bombs. If too many bombs exploded, the people watching over the captives wouldn’t have a way to survive. Even if he wanted to plant them, the guards wouldn’t agree.

Besides, people like Wang Qing and Gu Changjin, who knew if they had any special means? If they used their bombs to perform a suicide attack…

“Li Rong, what are you doing? You’re breaking the law!” Cheng Hong had been knocked unconscious by Li Rong without hesitation, and at this moment, he’d woken up and grew angry.

“Cheng Hong, don’t act like you haven’t done anything illegal,” Li Rong sneered. He knew Cheng Hong very well and knew a great amount of the things Cheng Hong had done. Cheng Hong was a surface-level hypocrite.

“You……” Cheng Hong glared at Li Rong angrily, then quickly glared at Shi Qingyang and Cheng Ran. Cheng Ran was his star of disaster. As long as something related to Cheng Ran, it wouldn’t bring any good at all. As for Shi Qingyang, how could he have ended up in this situation if Shi Qingyang hadn’t dragged him into the car?

Shi Qingyang only felt that the radiation energy in his body was running rampant, but the impact also made the toxins in his body disappear.

Although the poison in his body was gone, he still leaned on the boneless Zheng Gaoyuan–now he and Zheng Gaoyuan were tied together, Wang Qing and Cheng Ran were tied, and Cheng Hong and Gu Changjin were tied, each group all far away from each other.

Awakened by Cheng Hong’s words, Shi Qingyang swallowed another mouthful of blood, and the stench of the blood in the air was strong. The other people were all right, but Zheng Gaoyuan next to him was full of wounds. He looked horrible to look at. “You… Are you going to let Zheng Gaoyuan bleed?”

“Heal him.” Li Rong glanced at Zheng Gaoyuan, who was laying and gasping for breath. “Young Master Zheng’s status is quite valuable. We can’t let him die.”

“Yes, sir.” The people around Li Rong quickly helped Zheng Gaoyuan with medical equipment.

Shi Qingyang leaned to the side and finally determined that Li Rong didn’t want to kill them. This was undoubtedly a good thing.

Although Zheng Gaoyuan seemed to be seriously injured, because he was so fat, those wounds were actually all skin injuries, which was also good for the circumstances.

Of course, even if there were such “good things”, he couldn’t relax. Wang Qing and Gu Changjin had been taken care of and couldn’t be counted on now. Not to mention Zheng Gaoyuan and Cheng Hong. If he wanted to do something, he could only rely on Cheng Ran.

“Ranran, how do you feel? Do you feel sick?” Shi Qingyang looked at Cheng Ran. Cheng Ran hadn’t said a word since earlier, and hadn’t moved… The prior incident at the ant nest had shown that Cheng Ran was calm in the critical moment. That was why Shi Qingyang obviously wouldn’t think that he hadn’t been up to anything.

In fact, if Cheng Ran, who had no radiant energy in other people’s eyes, really wanted to do something in secret, he’d have a much easier time than Shi Qingyang.

“I’m fine.” Cheng Ran smiled at Shi Qingyang and gave him a reassuring expression.

“Ranran, don’t be afraid. Have you studied bombs?” Shi Qingyang asked again.

“As long as the control chip on the bomb can be destroyed with radiation, the bomb can be neutralized.” Cheng Ran smiled again.

Watching this scene, Cheng Ran’s guard kicked Cheng Ran and said with a grin: “What nonsense are you saying? He really is someone who doesn’t have rad-energy. He can think of crap like using rad-energy to destroy a bomb. Something like that would only make the bomb even stronger!”

“What are you doing?” Shi Qingyang immediately looked at the man in anger, but his heart was relaxed. He had been worried that Cheng Ran didn’t know how to deal with the bomb in his body. Now it seemed that Cheng Ran knew all about it.

“What am I doing? I’m teaching this son of a bitch!” The man burst out laughing.

“These people still have to stay alive. Don’t cause trouble for yourself.” Li Rong glanced at the man who was talking. The man also knew what was good for him, and immediately stopped talking.

Li Rong left the city supposedly to repair the optical fiber, but in fact he chased after Cheng Xuze. Because Cheng Xuze and the others had already set out, they also drove the mobile fortress at the fastest speed.

The turbulence caused by the high speed made people uncomfortable. Shi Qingyang closed his eyes and began to review various methods to cope.

Anhang City wasn’t close to Yangtze City, and there was even a big river between them. Even if there was a road left from the the constant travel of the mobile fortress between them, it would take 15 hours driving on the road. When Cheng Xuze and the others went to Yangtze City this time, out of precaution, they had taken a small mobile fortress, and the advancing speed was very slow.

“Mr. Cheng, will those people really come to intercept us?” The judicial officer of Yangtze City looked at Cheng Xuze in puzzlement.

“As long as nothing unexpected happens, they will,” Cheng Xuze said. Li Rong was a level-6 powerhouse, and he wasn’t the kind of powerful figure who had never left the city to fight. If he knew that Wang Qing was taking the witnesses to Yangtze City, he would certainly fight.

After all, the news they released was that Li Rong had too much influence, so they took the witnesses to Yangtze City for trial…

Seeing Cheng Xuze’s confident appearance, the judicial officer of Yangtze City finally calmed down and went back with a smile. Cheng Xuze stood in the protective cover of the mobile fortress and peered at the situation outside from behind through the protective cover. However, he couldn’t help feeling worried–they deliberately slowed down when they were moving, but the people behind them didn’t catch up…

Did Li Rong discover something, or had he been too timid to follow?

Time passed quickly. Cheng Xuze and his entourage set out in the morning, but in the twinkling of an eye, they had driven to the central area between Anhang City and Yangtze River City, and had even just passed the river between the two cities.

At that moment, an armored vehicle suddenly chased after them. Seeing the armored vehicle, Cheng Xuze’s first reaction was “he’s here”.

But soon after, he felt that he’d gotten something wrong. Although there were very few armored vehicles in this area, Li Rong wouldn’t bring only one armored vehicle.

While Cheng Xuze was in doubt, the armored vehicle suddenly accelerated, crossing past their mobile fortress and blocking the road.

The people on the mobile fortress had been ready for battle for a long time. At this time, they took out all their weapons. Cheng Xuze was even more serious. He was about to take action when he suddenly saw Shi Qingyang coming down from the armored vehicle.

How could it be Shi Qingyang?

“Sir…” The judicial officer of Yangtze City knew Shi Qingyang, and naturally he was curious.

“I’ll go and have a look,” Cheng Xuze said. Shi Qingyang couldn’t just come here out of nowhere. He had to go and have a look.

What’s more, only in the wild could a level-8 rad-warrior like him fully bring out his fighting power.

As soon as Cheng Xuze left the mobile town, he saw clearly that Shi Qingyang was strapped with a bomb and guessed the reason. Immediately, it seemed that all the radiation energy around him was under his control. In this area, he was the king. The armored vehicle in front of him and the people in the armored vehicle even had a feeling that they couldn’t move. It seemed that if they moved, they would be crushed into pieces.

For a time, no one could even break through the pressure.

Li Rong sat in the back seat of the vehicle. He didn’t disembark before. He felt the pressure and subconsciously wanted to resist it, but he almost spit out a mouthful of blood.

At this time, he could clearly feel the difference between himself and Cheng Xuze. If he didn’t know that Cheng Xuze had been here earlier, and ran to kill the witnesses…

After closing his eyes, Li Rong walked out of the car under the pressure: “Cheng Xuze, you’d better not do anything to me. Once I face an accident, the other hostages I’ve caught will die immediately.”

While he spoke, he played a video that he had saved a while ago onto his handheld computer. In the video, Cheng Ran, Cheng Hong, Gu Changjin and Wang Qing were all being pointed at with guns.

“Are you Li Rong? Before you threaten me, don’t forget that this is in the wild. I’m a level-8 radiant warrior.” Cheng Xuze snorted coldly and stared at the people in front of him.

“Are you sure you can catch me and everyone else before the bomb explodes? It’s not bad to be able to bury your son and grandson with us when we die.” Li Rong’s eyes narrowed under the mask: “No matter whether I’m killed or captured, the people who follow me will kill the prisoners and then flee for their lives. After all, they’ve all committed crimes, and once I die, the evidence will be completely exposed on the Internet.”

The pressure brought by Cheng Xuze threw the radiation energy in his body into chaos, but Li Rong just laughed.

“What do you want?” Cheng Xuze glanced at Shi Qingyang. Shi Qingyang was loaded with a bomb. Because the wilderness blocked remote control signals from transmitting, Li Rong was now pulling a wire between them. There was no doubt that once Li Rong broke the wire, the bomb on Shi Qingyang would explode immediately.

Shi Qingyang was in danger, not to mention Cheng Ran and the others.

“I want you to kill Ao Zhi and the Yin Family in front of me,” Li Rong immediately said.

“What do you want to do?” Cheng Xuze was shocked.

“You may have driven me to a dead end, but I don’t want to be left to live outside the city…” Li Rong wound the thread connected to Shi Qingyang around his finger several times: “When you kill them, I’ll take a video. If you target me again in the future, I’m afraid this matter might appear on the Internet.”

Cheng Xuze’s face changed and he immediately understood Li Rong’s plan.

Both Ao Zhi and the Yin family were witnesses of the mobile town incident. If Li Rong had a video of him killing these people, he could naturally threaten Cheng Xuze because he had no way to explain to the public why he wanted to kill those witnesses–even if the public didn’t know that he was the one behind the scenes, they would definitely suspect Cheng Hui or Cheng Hong.

At the same time, there was no evidence against Li Rong, and Li Rong could naturally return to the city in a clean and honest manner. Even if they told the truth, Li Rong can also say that they were framing him.

After the video of his killing those witnesses fell into Li Rong’s hands, he was afraid that this would mean him helping Li Rong cover up what Li Rong had done.

Their original plan to lure the snake out of the cave ended with them being bitten by the snake…

Li Rong looked at Cheng Xuze’s face and was more happy: “You can now go back to the mobile fortress, bring all the witnesses, and follow me. Once we’ve reached a distance, I’ll give you only half an hour to kill those people.” He and Cheng Xuze were standing not too close to the mobile fortress in the back. The people controlling the fortress could record videos, but they would never be able to hear the sound clearly.

As a matter of fact, so what if they could hear things clearly? He changed his voice, and the mask on his face only showed his eyes. Cheng Xuze could guess that he was Li Rong, but he could not prove to others that he was Li Rong.

Cheng Xuze originally intended to delay time, but right now he also knew that it would not work. He glanced at Shi Qingyang and said, “Fine, I’ll kill them!” They hadn’t taken the members of the Yin Family who weren’t deeply involved this time. For example, Yin Tiancheng couldn’t be a witness because he was young and had never been to the mobile town. In the end, he stayed in Anhang City and waited to be sent back to Spark City to serve time.

There was no innocent person with him this time. Even if he wanted to kill them, he wouldn’t have any psychological burden. Only, after he finished doing so…

Li Rong smiled proudly.

When Li Rong took Shi Qingyang back to the mobile fortress, he was full of pride. As soon as he arrived, he pushed Shi Qingyang aside, then turned on his handheld computer and displayed the video he had just taken.

In the video, Cheng Xuze killed several people with his level-8 combat skills that everyone could recognize. This video had not been edited. Only level-8 rad-energy warriors could use these level-8 combat skills. People could see at a glance that it was Cheng Xuze who killed these people.

“Li Rong, what are you planning?” Cheng Hong looked at the scene in horror.

“Cheng Hong, what do you think? If this video is released, will others think that the person behind the mobile town is you?”

The fear on Cheng Hong’s face deepened.

Shi Qingyang took a deep breath and calmed down. His body had almost recovered. If it wasn’t for Li Rong potentially finding out, he could destroy the bombs placed on him at any time. However, the people in front of him weren’t easy to deal with.

Today was his wedding day. It should have been a wedding night to look forward to. He even bought candles as recommended by others and planned to do some things beneath the candlelight. Now, everything was gone.

Li Rong didn’t intend to kill them. In fact, they were fine to return to the city safely under the current situation. However, it was really unbearable to be forced to this extent.

Moreover, if they really went back like this, Li Rong would probably threaten them again and again with this video in the future.

Shi Qingyang closed his eyes and suddenly opened them again. He poked Zheng Gaoyuan next to him and looked at Cheng Ran: “Ranran, do you feel uncomfortable? Are you hungry or cold?”

Shi Qingyang asked Cheng Ran, but Zheng Gaoyuan, who was paralyzed beside him, suddenly opened his eyes after hearing the words ‘hungry or not.’ “I’m hungry, I’m starving to death. Even if you kidnap someone, you still have to give them something to eat, right…”

Shi Qingyang had noticed that these people in front of him had not eaten for a long time. By contrast, his group had eaten a lot of barbecued meat before they got here. Although they were hungry now, they weren’t to the point of starving…

Li Rong had made several copies of the video he shot and let his confidants keep them. At this time, he heard Zheng Gaoyuan shouting and felt hungry.

He had been anxious all day and hadn’t eaten anything. Rad-warriors couldn’t withstand hunger any more than ordinary people…

“Go to the kitchen and see what we can eat.” Li Rong looked at his subordinates. He was anxious to return to the city. Naturally, it was impossible to delay by hunting at this time.

“There are only some vegetables and potatoes in the kitchen,” Li Rong’s subordinates said, “but boss, we found some frozen prey in Shi Qingyang’s room.”

“In his room?” Li Rong frowned.

“Boss, Shi Qingyang probably has a habit of collecting food. He was in the city before, but we found a lot of food and water on him,” the man said again.

Li Rong also knew what they’d found when they searched Shi Qingyang. “Then cook all the meat.”

“Good!” Li Rong’s subordinate spoke and opened the box that they had dragged out before. In the box, the queen ant was half eaten.

After Shi Qingyang arrived in Anhang City, he’d brought all the ant eggs he could into the city. In the end, he rented a cold storage room to place them. The queen ant, which was the size of three people, was also divided and stored in the cold storage room.

For the time being, he hadn’t wanted to use the things he’d kept here. For convenience’s sake, he’d left half of the huge queen ant’s body on the mobile fortress, and had planned to find an opportunity to send it anonymously to a research institute outside his hometown.

He’d purposely mentioned that he was hungry. In fact, he’d been hoping these people would eat the meat of the queen ant. Although this meat was very magical, it would cause pain all over after eating…

It was so painful that it had made Shi Qingyang unable to move. Naturally, for Li Rong and the others, the outcome would be no surprise… There was no problem treating them as free experimental subjects.

“Wait.” Li Rong suddenly stopped his subordinates. He was always cautious. Although there was nothing wrong with the meat, he didn’t dare to make a move on it. He immediately cut a small piece with a knife and then put it into the mouth of Zheng Gaoyuan, who was still shouting about how hungry he was.

It was natural to find the weakest person to test for poison. Cheng Ran was an ordinary person and eating raw meat could cause him problems. Zheng Gaoyuan would be fine.

“Do you know who I am? You’re giving me raw meat! You bastards!” As soon as he’d let down his guard, the meat already slipped into Zheng Gaoyuan’s throat. He immediately cried out, full of vigor.

Seeing that there was nothing wrong with him, Li Rong’s men dug the remaining meat from the queen ant’s body and sent it to the kitchen.

The smell started wafting from the kitchen, but Zheng Gaoyuan continued to cry and scold. He looked no different from usual. But Shi Qingyang, who was beside him, could feel that he was shaking.

Not only that, Zheng Gaoyuan’s body also oozed some blood beads just like Shi Qingyang’s did at the beginning. If Zheng Gaoyuan hadn’t been covered with blood and his face in a mixture of blood and tears, then surely those people would have noticed something was wrong long ago.

Under such circumstances, Zheng Gaoyuan could still bear through the pain, making Shi Qingyang suddenly feel impressed.