RITAAB 87.2

PART 2

“I’m a variant beast-shifter, I’m very strong, what right do you have… no, no, no, you can’t kill me, I’m very valuable, there are very few variant beast-shifters, how can you…”

“You’ll have to take responsibility for killing me! I can’t die… I can’t die!”

Cheng Lin had even seen the snake tail rising high. If it fell down, wouldn’t she die on the spot, smashed into meat paste?

No, no, absolutely not, she still wanted to go back!

“What do you want? I’ll give you everything, I’ll tell you all the information about the general, I know a lot of things that Lin Lou doesn’t know, I have many secrets, I’ll tell you all of them!”

Lin Lou sneered inwardly. This Cheng Lin was so pragmatic, but Cheng Lin was a viper woman who was a habitual liar. Out of the words that came out of her mouth, nine and a half out of ten were false, and the remaining half was half true and half false!

“Don’t believe what she says, she loves to lie, she loves to manipulate people!”

Lin Lou had been by Zhou Lie’s side long enough to understand Cheng Lin’s character. She would always tell them that they had to be well-behaved, otherwise she would do this and that to their families.

They weren’t allowed to harm them, but not giving them water for a day or starving them for two meals wasn’t out of the question, as long as they didn’t die. And although Cheng Lin was no longer Zhou Lie’s mistress, she still had a good relationship with Zhou Lie. She was also a variant beast-shifter, although her beast form was hideous, it was poisonous!

They were angry but didn’t dare to say anything. After all, if they complained to Zhou Lie, Zhou Lie would punish Cheng Lin a little bit to appease them, but those were only superficial punishments, such as being confined for two days or not being able to eat for a day. It was a joke, variant beast-shifters could go without food for two or three days as long as they had eaten enough!

And being confined was even more of a joke, what kind of punishment was being confined? Staying in a room for a day or two was considered being confined. On the contrary, every time they complained, Cheng Lin would find ways to torment their families.

They were variant beast-shifters and Cheng Lin couldn’t do anything to them, but it was different for their weak families. Every time they contacted their families, they would find that their food and water rations had been reduced. They wouldn’t starve to death, but they would only barely survive.

Others didn’t know, but Qin Jiulin was very familiar with Zhou Lie’s methods. After all, in his previous life, Zhou Lie controlled the Modu. Although the surface still looked good under his management, everything was dirty and stinky underneath.

Especially the people who were protected, like Cheng Lin. He hadn’t remembered her before, but now he realized that Zhou Lie had had a female secretary in his previous life.

He wasn’t interested in those things, so he hadn’t asked or listened much, but now it seemed that this female secretary was Cheng Lin. He didn’t expect that she had been doing bad things since now.

Qin Jiulin suddenly thought of something and raised his hand to stop Liu Zhongyuan. “Wait a minute.”

The snake tail that had been falling towards Cheng Lin changed direction in the middle, and this time, it directly smashed the ground less than ten centimeters away from her. The entire ground was cracked by the snake tail. When the snake tail was raised, there was a pit in the middle!

This showed that if the snake tail had really hit her, she would have died without a doubt!

Cheng Lin was truly afraid now. “I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I apologize, I apologize! It’s all my fault, all my fault, don’t treat me like this…”

“As long as you spare my life, I’ll do anything, I’ll do anything! I can give you everything I have! I don’t want to die…”

Lin Lou said, “Mr. Qin?”

Qin Jiulin smirked, “She’s seriously injured right now, and the entire base only has that small hospital that was set up by Commander Gao.”

“If Cheng Lin goes back, she can only be sent to that hospital. And also… if Zhou Lie finds out that three of his… half of his variant beast-shifters were because of Cheng Lin’s abuse of your families, that led to your collective betrayal, do you think Cheng Lin will have a good life in the future?”

Even if they were variant beast-shifters, if they were seriously injured and didn’t receive proper treatment, they would still be left with disabilities.

Lin Lou said, “She definitely won’t have a good life! But her beast form is poisonous, and this poison seems to be quite important to Zhou Lie. How about we just kill her?”

Great, Cheng Lin had really maxed out her hate value with Lin Lou.

Qin Jiulin sighed, “In that case, Cheng Lin’s life will be spared for now. When we get near the base, we’ll hide her somewhere secluded and then hand her over to the three of you, how about that?”

In this way, they would have another reason for Duan Shuangshuang and Song Wennan to defect. This could also be considered a double insurance.

Lin Lou had no objection, “Okay, I agree!”

Qin Jiulin reached out his hand to him, “Happy to cooperate?”

Lin Lou reached out his hand and shook his, “Happy to cooperate, Mr. Qin, thank you…”

Qin Jiulin said, “Let’s move the military supplies first. Mo Xinghui, go call Zhang Yuankai, we need to hurry this time and return quickly.”

Lin Lou said, “No problem, let’s go.”

No matter how much Cheng Lin wailed, objected, or begged for mercy, no one paid attention to her. Zhang Yuankai was a bit strange when he came, but he didn’t ask much after finding out that they were Zhou Lie’s people. The mission was important.

They set off on the return journey that evening. Before they left, they put the seriously injured Cheng Lin on Liu Zhongyuan’s back. He shook his tail in disgust, but he couldn’t do anything about it. Fine, he’d treat it as a bag of garbage for now.

Lin Lou’s butt, which had been scratched by Mo Xinghui, wasn’t too serious. The scab had already formed after half a day. Variant beast-shifters had such strong recovery abilities. Those scratches would probably be completely healed in four or five days.

Qin Jiulin and the others hurried back to the base. They had Lin Lou take Cheng Lin to a hidden place to wait while they went back to the base to discuss this matter with Gao Siyang.

After listening to their explanation of the whole matter, Gao Siyang found it a bit unbelievable.

Gao Siyang said, “You’re not mistaken? Zhou Lie would do this… okay, his temper seems like he would do something like this. His only good point is that he’s very protective. These three variant beast-shifters probably have some resentment towards him. They didn’t really become his subordinates, so Zhou Lie was partially allowing Cheng Lin to harm their families.”

Qin Jiulin said, “Does that mean… if Lin Lou and the others were truly loyal to Zhou Lie, and Zhou Lie treated them as his own people, then these things wouldn’t have happened?”

Gao Siyang said, “That’s right.”

Liu Zhongyuan found it unbelievable, “Isn’t that a vicious cycle?”

Gao Siyang said, “Isn’t it? This has been his problem for decades and he just can’t change it!”

His distrust of new people meant that no matter what they encountered, being bullied or tormented, he would just do a little bit of lip service to pretend. At the same time, he still hoped that they would truly be loyal to him. Wasn’t that absurd?

This would only lead to an increasingly worsening relationship between them.

Before, when they were in the military, his actions wouldn’t have been a big problem, but now, the situation was different…

Qin Jiulin sighed, “Captain Gao, so what should we do now?”

Gao Siyang said, “The entire area of the Modu that has been recovered is under my control. Even if Zhou Lie has military supplies, he definitely won’t be able to transport them in here.”

“There’s no need to worry about that. The most important thing now is to contact those two variant beast-shifters. With their help, it will be much easier.”

Qin Jiulin said, “It will still be difficult to infiltrate Zhou Lie’s residence.”

Liu Zhongyuan said, “In that case, why don’t we just openly go and ask for people?”

Gao Siyang was stunned for a moment. Yes, he had gone the wrong way. Since Zhou Lie didn’t want to expose his strength in front of him, then even if he went and asked for people openly, could he refuse?

The Modu was his home ground. Now that they were essentially at odds with each other, it didn’t matter if the relationship got a little worse.

Qin Jiulin said, “That’s a good idea. I’ll go with Zhongyuan. Even if the elephant and seagull return to Zhou Lie’s side, they won’t be a threat to us.”

Gao Siyang said, “Be careful of their poison.”

After all, the woman Cheng Lin’s beast form was poisonous, and Zhou Lie would definitely use that poison to make many poisonous things as a precaution.

Qin Jiulin said, “Don’t worry, I’ll have Zhongyuan take the lead.”

Gao Siyang said, “In that case, you guys go. I’ll give you a team of fifty people. I just had Wu Feiyang go prepare them, and he’ll go with you.”

Liu Zhongyuan smiled, looking not serious at all, “Okay, then we’re off!”

Qin Jiulin, who was walking out, was a little surprised, “Why are you so happy?”

Liu Zhongyuan said, “Yes, I just can’t stand Zhou Lie!”

Qin Jiulin said, “Your feelings towards him are so bad?”

Liu Zhongyuan said, “Yeah, when I connected with the military, it was this Zhou Lie who was so troublesome. He mocked me, belittling me implicitly. If I hadn’t spoken with my strength… forget it, that’s not important now, let’s go there first.”

Qin Jiulin said, “Okay, let’s go.”

When they walked outside, they happened to see Wu Feiyang leading a team of fifty people. Good lord, everyone, including Wu Feiyang himself, was fully armed. Were they going to war?

Wu Feiyang smiled, “Let’s go. Captain Gao ordered me to go with you on a secret mission!”

Qin Jiulin said, “It’s not a secret mission.”

Liu Zhongyuan patted Wu Feiyang’s shoulder, “Let’s go, this matter should not be delayed, let’s go take care of things now!”

Wu Feiyang led his men and followed Liu Zhongyuan’s pace. Fortunately, Liu Zhongyuan also knew that they couldn’t cause too much of a disturbance, so they took some smaller roads with fewer people.

Even if they were seen, people would think that they were going to clear out the half-beasts outside. After all, they could always see soldiers carrying guns like this.

It was just that the number of people was a bit larger this time. If they saw them, they would just look at them a bit more and wouldn’t make a fuss. In this way, they reached the residential area where Zhou Lie and the others lived without any obstacles.

This was a villa area. Many people who were powerful but didn’t want to accept the military’s recruitment and arrangements would choose to live in their own houses. Living in a villa required more supplies, but that wasn’t a problem for them.

With their arrival, about a dozen people quickly stood in a location not far in front of them, stopping them from continuing forward.

Two of them who were standing in the front yelled at them, “What are you doing here? Are you trying to make a move against us?!”

In front of them were over thirty fully armed soldiers. Standing in the middle was also a very famous person, the strongest variant beast-shifter at this stage, Liu Zhongyuan!

Liu Zhongyuan stood behind several soldiers. After all, he was in his human form now. If he was ambushed by the other side, he would still be injured.