Part 2
Qi Yue suddenly thought of a possibility, “Is it a man or a woman?”
Xi Sihan said, “It’s a man.”
Qi Yue asked, “Is he constantly greeting the two of you, or just one of you?”
Cheng Tianxiang also realized, “It seems like it’s me…”
Qi Yue asked, “Is this man very handsome?”
Cheng Tianxiang touched her slightly flushed cheeks, “He’s indeed a little handsome, of course, he definitely can’t compare to the three of you. He can’t compare to you guys even if he tries his best.”
Qi Yue asked, “Is he an ordinary person or an ordinary beast-shifter?”
Cheng Tianxiang said, “He’s an ordinary person.”
Qi Yue asked, “Is he related to Zhou Lie and his people?”
Cheng Tianxiang said, “We haven’t checked yet, so we don’t know. Could it be that…”
Xi Sihan’s face darkened, “Then wouldn’t that be… they’re trying to use a ‘handsome guy’ plan to seduce Tianxiang?”
Cheng Tianxiang originally felt that she might be charming, and that these handsome guys were coming to pursue her, but after hearing what Xi Sihan said, her face instantly darkened.
Qi Yue asked, “Do you have a picture of him?”
Cheng Tianxiang took out her phone and sent a photo to Qi Yue. They had exchanged contact information a long time ago and would occasionally send messages to each other.
Qi Yue clicked to take a look, “He’s indeed a handsome guy, like a little wild wolf, really nice…”
Cheng Tianxiang said, “Don’t make fun of me. I admit that I do like looking at handsome guys, but I’m just looking. I don’t have any plans to be in a relationship for the time being. If I want a relationship, I’ll look for another variant beast-shifter like me. At least not an ordinary person, right?”
Qi Yue said, “I’ll have Captain Gao send someone to investigate this person. If they came with Zhou Lie, then stay far away, and don’t get cheated.”
Cheng Tianxiang slumped against Xi Sihan, “Sister Sihan, will I still be able to admire handsome guys in the future?”
Xi Sihan patted her to comfort her, “It’s okay, you can still purely admire them, just look from afar.”
Of course, they were also mindful of the people around them while chatting in the cafeteria. Fortunately, not many people came here to eat at this time, and they were sitting in a corner, so after lowering their voices, others wouldn’t be able to hear what they were saying unless they were too close.
Realizing that it was almost time, Qi Yue got up to leave. “I’m going first.”
“Bye-bye.” The two of them waved at him.
Qi Yue had finished eating, but they hadn’t, so they stayed here to continue eating.
As Qi Yue walked, he contacted Wu Feiyang and forwarded the photo that Cheng Tianxiang had just sent him. “Captain Wu, please check this person out for me.”
Wu Feiyang said, “No problem, has something troublesome happened?”
Qi Yue briefly explained the situation.
Wu Feiyang said, “It won’t take too long, wait for my message.”
Indeed, it didn’t take long, because they had recorded exactly when Zhou Lie arrived, how many people he brought, and who each person was.
Especially after Qin Jiulin relayed the information that Xia Liansheng had told him to Captain Gao, they had researched all the people that Zhou Lie had brought. They had a series of files on anyone he had brought, anyone related to him, and even anyone he had contacted.
Wu Feiyang recognized every face, so when he saw the man’s face…he didn’t have much of an impression, so he probably wasn’t related to Zhou Lie.
He was probably just a white face who wanted to latch onto someone and leech off them.
But this concerned a variant beast-shifter who was on Captain Gao’s side, so Wu Feiyang still carefully checked. He found that this man didn’t come with Zhou Lie, but arrived at the base five days after Zhou Lie, together with some scattered survivors.
This was very subtle. If he had arrived in the Modu before Zhou Lie, then he wouldn’t be very suspicious. But if he arrived after Zhou Lie’s group, then the relationship between them was unclear.
Maybe Zhou Lie had deliberately arranged for some people to arrive in batches later, while he himself only brought a few dozen people. Maybe it was to lower Gao Siyang’s vigilance, because the military here was now under Gao Siyang’s control. If he brought too many people or was too strong, then…
Gao Siyang knew very well what kind of person Zhou Lie was. They had been colleagues for so many years, and vice versa. Zhou Lie also knew what kind of person Gao Siyang was.
In the current situation, if Gao Siyang felt that his existence threatened his control over the entire Modu, then even someone like Gao Siyang who didn’t like fighting would probably secretly take action against him.
Zhou Lie was pretending to be weak. This trick was really effective. Gao Siyang had no intention of taking action against Zhou Lie, which they didn’t know if it was part of Zhou Lie’s plan.
And they couldn’t be 100% sure whether Zhou Lie had such a plan, but Zhou Lie was indeed a cunning person.
Wu Feiyang sent the investigation results to Qi Yue.
Qi Yue said, “Not related to Zhou Lie?”
Wu Feiyang said, “He hasn’t had any contact with Zhou Lie’s people since arriving here. He hasn’t been near Zhou Lie’s residence, and even when he passes by, he specifically avoids it. He just loiters around, but takes great care of his appearance, specifically walks around places where there are more women, leeching and slacking off. He’s not a good man.”
Qi Yue blinked, “Specifically avoids where Zhou Lie and his people live?”
Wu Feiyang didn’t think there was anything wrong with it at first, but after Qi Yue repeated it, it seemed like there was a problem! If he had nothing to hide, why would he specifically avoid it?
So…
Wu Feiyang said, “We can’t be sure if he’s deliberately avoiding it, after all he rarely goes near Zhou Lie’s residence, just passes by occasionally.”
“But no matter what, it’s better to advise Cheng Tianxiang not to play around with men so casually.”
Qi Yue, “…”
He didn’t think that Cheng Tianxiang was the type to play around with men, she would just look at them at most, and fantasize a little. “Don’t worry, I’ll talk to them.”
Wu Feiyang said, “Cheng Tianxiang listens to Xi Sihan a lot, you can communicate with Xi Sihan.”
Qi Yue said, “Okay.”
This matter had just begun. Qin Jiulin and the others soon returned to the base and handed over the batch of weapons to the military. After checking the reserves, Gao Siyang found them.
“You’ve gone so many times, these supplies should be enough for the winter.”
Qin Jiulin said, “There are still less than two months until winter. How about we go a couple more times? After all, Zhou Lie also knows the location of that military base, right?”
“He probably also realizes what we’re doing when we go out on missions. After all, Liu Zhongyuan’s beast form is so large, and he can definitely recognize the boxes he carries on his back when we return.”
Gao Siyang pondered for a moment, “You mean that Zhou Lie and his people know that the place has been cleared out by us and isn’t too dangerous, so they will also send people to get some military supplies back?”
Liu Zhongyuan said, “That’s a very likely possibility.”
Gao Siyang said, “But no matter how many times you go, you can’t bring everything back.”
Liu Zhongyuan said, “We don’t need to bring everything back. We just need to go every few days and continue until winter. Once winter arrives, I think they won’t go out so easily.”
Gao Siyang said, “That’s true. After winter arrives, it will be several times more difficult for all the animals to find food, and the danger of going out will also increase several times.”
Liu Zhongyuan said, “Then we’ll go back first?”
Gao Siyang said, “Okay, you guys go back first.”
Liu Zhongyuan said, “We’ll do our best to clear the half-beasts around the base while we’re here.”
Gao Siyang took a deep breath, “With everyone’s joint efforts, we can now say that we have control over one-third of the Modu. And recently, we’ve discovered some strange signs.”
Liu Zhongyuan asked, “What strange signs?”
Gao Siyang showed them a few surveillance videos. The videos showed locations in the southernmost part of the Modu. Many half-beast figures were leaving the city, heading towards the wild suburbs.
In these few combined surveillance videos, there were tens of thousands of half-beasts leaving the city. What was going on?
Liu Zhongyuan asked, “Do you know the reason?”
Gao Siyang said, “It’s not clear yet, but what’s certain is that none of these half-beasts that left the city have returned. Instead, they’re going further and further away.”
Liu Zhongyuan said, “Logically, this is a good thing…”
Gao Siyang said, “It’s just a bit strange.”
Liu Zhongyuan asked, “Jiulin, what do you think?”
Qin Jiulin said, “How would I know?”
In his previous life, this also happened, but at the time, everyone’s attention was focused on regaining control of the Modu. They didn’t care about these half-beasts leaving, so they didn’t investigate. But later, when they were out on missions, they would occasionally encounter some powerful half-beasts in the wild.
He then said with some confusion, “Looking at the surveillance, it seems like the half-beasts leaving are all agile, and have a stronger sense of combat.”
“It’s very likely that they’re being driven by their instinct to become stronger, leaving the city to find atavistic animals to hunt in the wild. That way they can satisfy their appetite, their desire to fight, and continue to become stronger?”
Gao Siyang said, “Yeah, with the continuous supply of blood bags and meat bombs during this time, we might have spoiled their appetites. After realizing that we won’t provide higher grade flesh and blood, they went out to find it themselves?”
Qin Jiulin said, “This is just a possibility based on my guess, I’m not sure if that’s actually the case.”
Gao Siyang said, “Whether it’s true or not isn’t important. What’s important is that there’s indeed a possibility of that. But we don’t have time to focus on why these half-beasts are leaving the Modu for the time being.”
Liu Zhongyuan said, “That’s true, we should focus on regaining the Modu for now, and deal with everything else after winter is over.”
Qin Jiulin suddenly asked a question, “Are you planning to build walls around the Modu?”
In his previous life, the Modu didn’t have walls. It was open like that, and in fact, nothing went wrong until the day he died.
Gao Siyang said, “We don’t have any plans to do that for the time being.”
Building walls is actually a huge project. Right now they didn’t have enough manpower, materials, or time. If they really wanted to build walls, it would take a year or two.
“What is it? Have you discovered anything else?”
Qin Jiulin shook his head, “I haven’t discovered anything yet, I was just thinking about the rat swarm we had before and felt a little uneasy.”
Gao Siyang laughed, “That’s okay. The research team has already created an effective drug to target the rat swarms, although most of it relies on this kid, Liu Zhongyuan’s venom.”
