CH 36

Li Ge wore the same outfit as Hao Jian, but Hao Jian was sure that he couldn’t have come to save people like her, so he’s most likely a part of ‘Wugui’.

When she came to this conclusion, she quickly blended into the crowd and ran away while Li Ge started shouting at the same time she reacted, “That woman was injured by a zombie! She’s carrying a zombie virus!”

His voice drew the attention of his accomplices and caused some people to panic. However, Hao Jian’s figure suddenly disappeared in the corridor while Li Ge angrily chased after her, trying to locate Hao Jian.

When he reached the entrance of the corridor, he thought about going upstairs, after all, there were fewer people upstairs than downstairs and Hao Jian’s figure couldn’t have disappeared so quickly.

As soon as he ran up to the fourth floor, he heard the sound of the door on his right. He held his gun up and carefully searched the conference rooms one by one.

There was nothing unusual with the first two rooms, but when her searched the third room, another door suddenly opened. He subconsciously looked at the door, but a hand suddenly stretched from behind and pinned him to the ground. The hand not only took his gun, but a fist hit him hard on the temple, knocking his lights out.

He was dragged inside and when he came back to his senses, Hao Jian was sitting across from him, holding a gun in her hand with its black muzzle aimed at him.

He struggled and found himself tied up in a chair. When he was about to scream, a cold muzzle was pressed against his temple. Only then did he realize that Hao Jian had a helper and it was definitely not just any ordinary person.

“This is a VIP room. The sound insulation is very good, but if you try to make even a little noise, I will immediately send you to your god.”

The voice was very unfamiliar and Li Ge was sure that it wasn’t Lian Ru Ning or Xin Ting.

Hao Jian met Chen Zhen while escaping and Chen Zhen dragged her directly to the fourth floor. The two worked together. When Hao Jian made a noise from the back door to attract Li Ge’s attention, Chen Zhen would hide behind the door and sneak up on him.

Chen Zhen had more combat skills than Hao Jian, including how to subdue armed men. She is very proficient.

Chen Zhen pulled a chair and sat down beside him with a gun still pointed at his head. She looked at Li Ge with contempt, “I recognize you. You fled to the civic park with your wife and daughter. When you found that your wife was bitten by a zombie, you killed her with your own hands.”

Hao Jian raised her eyebrows, thinking of the fate of his son, Mrs. Li, and Li Chang.

Li Ge pressed his lips, “She, she’s hopeless. I didn’t want to be infected by her!”

Chen Zhen’s face was grim as she slammed the butt of her gun on his face hard. She then gagged him with something and smashed him fiercely some more, “What about your daughter? How young was she? She saw you as the only person she could rely on. She trusted you, but you pushed her down the river and droned her with your own hands in front of the cult. How confused and helpless was she when she looked at you? How desperate she was for you to save her?!”

A trace of sorrow flashed in Hao Jian’s eyes, but she didn’t feel too angry.

How many people treat their children as their private property. Not to mention in the chaotic times, they can hurt their children in order to survive. Even in the peaceful age, there are people who can drown many baby girls in order to have a son?

Although Li Ge seems to be a filial son, but when he lost his mother, son, brother, and killed his wife who wasn’t a zombie yet, his heart had already changed. It would be no surprise for him to kill his own daughter as well.

Li Ge was beaten by Chen Zhen. With a bruised nose and swollen face, tears streaming down his cheeks, he sobbed, spit some blood in his mouth and argued, “It was ‘Wugui’. . . It was the cult that forced me. If I didn’t kill her, they would have killed me! I’m the only one who survived with great difficulty, there is absolutely no reason for me to give up my life- !”

Hearing this, Hao Jian stepped forward and kicked him in the stomach, “Then who gave you the right to give up your daughter’s life?”

Li Ge naturally had a lot of excuses for his justification and Hao Jian didn’t really want to continue talking to him and asked, “When why did you want to kill me?”

It is reasonable to say that Li Ge didn’t know that she had gone to the refugee camp in Jiangxin island. Where did his hatred for her come from that he would kill her the moment they reunited?

Li Ge stared at Hao Jain with swollen eyes, revealing some resentment in his eyes, “Because it’s not fair! Why can you live, but my loved ones had to die?!”

Hao Jian and Chen Zhen both looked at him with confused eyes, Hao Jian said, “Just because you took our car, you thought that we should have died in the convenience store. But now, we did not only survive, we’re also doing well. So, you felt life is unfair in your heart, or you want to reduce your guilt towards killing your wife and daughter. That’s why you went and looked for me to vent?”

Li Ge’s behavior is unreasonable, however, for a person whose heart has been twisted, he will not feel that his logic is wrong.

Hao Jian had nothing more to say to him and said, “It’s your turn to force a confession.”

Chen Zhen pressed Li Ge if he knew the location of the ‘Xiangzhu’, but Li Ge naturally didn’t know, so Chen Zhen thought for a while and strangled him to death with her skills.

The corners of Hao Jian’s eyes twitched, but she didn’t become a saint. Chen Zhen hated the members of the cult and hates everyone who blindly joined ‘Wugui’, especially those who were instructed by them to hurt her teammates. Even if she got something out of Li Ge, she wouldn’t let him go.

Chen Zhen took the gun from Hao Jian again, leaving her with only the handgun that she used to intimidate Li Ge. It was the same handgun that she snatched from her!

Hao Jian opened the magazine and saw that there were no bullets in it.

“You’re a bandit, right? You take everything I have!”

Chen Zhen glanced at her and tossed another pistol at her, “There are still a few bullets inside, and don’t say I’m unkind. You can’t kill people using the gun, you’ll only waste the bullets.”

Hao Jian was speechless.

Chen Zhen said, “Just now, I went to the monitoring room and cut off the surveillance and now that the people outside have come to support, there will be a lot less people who can defend. Later, I will go to the fifth floor to find their ‘Xiangzhu’. You go to the signal dispatch room, or the communication equipment room and cut off the signal first.”

“What’s the difference between cutting the signal now and not cutting it off?”

“We have another means to communicate, but if the jamming equipment here doesn’t stop all day, all signals will be interfered by it.”

Hao Jian understood.

“Then where is the signal dispatching room?” Hao Jian thought that since Chen Zhen had been to the monitoring room, she must know where the signal dispatch room was.

Chen Zhen replied, “The VIP meeting rooms are generally not monitored, but I noticed that there are several non-VIP conference rooms on the fourth and fifth floors of this building and on the third and fourth floors on Block A that has no surveillance footage. I was in a hurry and did not have time to check them one by one, so I can’t say for sure.”

Hao Jian sighed slightly. She’ll have to check the rooms one by one.

After Chen Zhen left, she began to search this floor according to the rooms indicated by Chen Zhen.

There is no assembly hall on this floor. It’s mostly VIP rooms but there are more than 20 total meeting rooms here, and only eight of those meeting rooms had no surveillance footage reported to her by Chen Zhen.

She carefully thought about it again. The signal dispatch room must not have few equipment and there should be strange noises coming from inside. But the soundproofing of the conference rooms here is good, so she couldn’t hear anything when pressing against the door to listen.

She was glad that Chen Zhen had cut the surveillance, otherwise, her sneaky appearance would have been discovered long ago.

At this time, the corner of her eye suddenly caught a glimpse of a figure flashing out of the side. She then subconsciously dodged to the side, just in time to avoid the attack that would have landed on her head.

The two of them had a face-to-face meeting, and while a little awkward, they each breathed a sigh of relief. Hao Jian even had a fluke of surviving, “A Tao?!”

A Tao was surprised, “It’s you!”

Hao Jian didn’t bother about him almost injuring her just now, “Where’s Adjutant An?”

“He’s cleaning up the traitors, ” A Tao paused, “Why did you come back?”

“To help you guys.”

A Tao replied, “Thank you. Was it you who did to those people in the cafeteria?”

It finally dawned on Hao Jian that A Tao must have been in the cafeteria. She also understood why the other chef didn’t show up anymore. He probably met A Tao when he was out wandering and was killed!

“I didn’t kill the people, but I made them unconscious.”

It a while for A Tao to digest Hao Jian’s sorrowful words and said no more. He sneaked with Hao Jian on the walls since his purpose was also the signal dispatch room and he has long detected the location of the room. Hao Jian only needed to follow behind him and observe the surrounding situation for him.

The two of them soon reached a conference room, the third room from the end of the hallway. A Tao gestured to Hao Jian and she went and knocked on the door, “Open up. Team Leader Wei asked me to bring you food.”

Fortunately, she had kept an eye on the cafeteria and got the information of the leaders of ‘Wugui’ which came in handy at this time.

When the doorknob moved, A Tao signaled Hao Jian to retreat. When the door fully opened, A Tao began to open fire.

Hao Jian was accustomed to sounds of gunshots while playing games, but she was till shocked by the sight in front of her. Seeing multiple bullet shells falling on the ground, her adrenaline spiked.

Suddenly, A Tao’s serious face grimaced and then rushed in.

Hao Jian glanced outside the door and saw two still warm bodies lying on the ground. They wore uniforms of the escort team and they also had the team member’s numbers. She suddenly realized that this was the reason why A Tao looked sullen. It was because they were traitors who betrayed their organization and joined ‘Wugui’, right?

The sound of a fight came from inside and Hao Jian found at the door that a member of ‘Wugui’ heard the gunshots and rushed here.

She took off one of the traitor’s gun and fired several shots at the people who were running over. But reality is always different from the fame. She didn’t hit any vital points and only shot them in their waists and legs at most.

The people who came were so frightened that they shrank back into the hallway while she dashed into the signal dispatch room.

“We’re surrounded. . .” Hao Jian reminded.

She though to herself that if she really did end here, she should be considered to have died with some value.

But then again, she wouldn’t be willing. She still had so many tasks left to complete. How could she die at the hands of these people?

And A Tao seems to have solved the traitors and held his gun, “You hide inside and cut off the signal. You leave this place to me.”

Hao Jian saw the blood seeping out from his uniform around his waist and wrinkled her eyebrows, “You’re injured!”

A Tao grunted in pain, his forehead was covered with a layer of sweat and pushed Hao Jian, “Forget about me. The mission is more important.”

Hao Jian no longer wasted time and focused on the communication equipment. There were several equipment cabinets in the conference room that were bigger than her. These cabinets were closed, and although she tried smashing the glass, it wouldn’t break. She had to manually rummage through the traitor’s body for the key and it took her a while to find it.

The panel inside the equipment cabinet not only had many red and green lights, but also many switches. Although Hao Jian didn’t understand these devices, it was still a simple matter for her to cut off the signal.

Amidst the rain of bullets and gunpowder outside, she scrambles to cut all the equipment wires, she also did the same thing to the transmitter equipment. Since it was a little difficult to destroy it, she used her gun to do the job.

“Done!” Hao Jian said.

A Tao retreated, “They have fewer people. I’ll cover you. You can can escape through the back door, there’s an escape route there.”

Hao Jian saw a lot of blood dripping onto the floor from where A Tao was standing. She pursed her lips and without knowing why, her heart was suddenly very sad.

The situation did not allow her to waste time. She did not hesitate to go towards the back door, “I will wait for you at the door with Adjutant An and the others.”

Time seemed to pass quickly that it felt like a century long. A Tao’s unsmiling face finally revealed a smile, “Yeah.”

When A Tao shot those people and forced them back into the room to hide, Hao Jian opened the back door and ran towards the escape route as if the wind was at her feed. Her heart had never been in such awe and desperate to live than at this very moment.

They system read Hao Jian’s emotional changes. It compared it to the data it gathered 11 days ago, when it first bound with her as host. It found that at that time, although Hao Jian did not despise her own life, her will to live wasn’t that strong.

Even when she met her love interest and needed to complete her missions, she had never been as eager to live as she was at this moment.

It told what it analyzed to Hao Jian, who had just taken refuge in a bathroom on the third floor.

She could, of course, go straight up to the fifth floor, but they generally search towards the most important places so they would go up to the fifth floor to search first. If she escaped to the fifth floor, it would be like sending herself into the wolf’s den.

“People’s thoughts change depending on the encounter, and I’m also human.” Hao Jian replied to the system, then took out the wireless dispatch radio hidden on her body and turned to the band given to her by A Tao.