Chapter 40: The Fine Line between Life and Death (Part I)
Green City’s governnt building, in the main hall on the third floor.
A dozen people were gathered around a round table. An intense eting was in progress.
Sitting at the head of the table, a middle-aged man in a white shirt put down a docunt and wearily pinched the bridge of his nose. “Up till now, still no news of the chairman of Lewei Group?”
“No.” Soone on his left stood up to report, “A thorough search has been conducted to pick up on his trail, and according to our findings, over the past few days, not a single warrior in the Foreign Realm has seen Lewei and company. The presumption is that… most likely they t with misfortune.”
“Didn’t he bring a Level 3 warrior with him? And several Level 2 warriors? None of them are alive?”
“Yes. Inside 312B Foreign Realm, other than radiation, we haven’t detected any other dangers. So our preliminary assessnt of the situation is that it was a case of homicide.”
“…. Who in Green City could have possibly killed a Level 3 warrior?” the middle-aged man questioned, a sharp, stern look in his eyes.
“Not many.”
“Are their nas all included on the list?”
“Yes, they’re all on the list.”
“Let’s wait a day or two more. If we still don’t hear from Le Wei, then we’ll start the tracking process.”
“Yes, Mayor.”
After he finished making the arrangents, the middle-aged man adjourned the eting, shut his eyes, and did so eye exercises.
The disappearance of Le Wei was, in fact, only a small matter.
At the mont, his greatest headache was the matter of the missing team of Capital University…
In order to collect samples from the peripheral region surrounding Green City, Capital University had sent a total of two teams.
They were still in contact with the main team, which was led by the president of the Student Association of Capital University.
The secondary team, led by Xing Bi, had lost contact with the school as early as four or five days ago…
Le Wei was rely one of many businessn. His death wasn’t anything to cry over.
But the students from Capital University were all the pride of the nation, so it would be a major problem if even a single one of them was injured!
Not to ntion a whole team going missing…
After a long ti, the middle-aged man looked up and asked, “Has contact with Xing Bi’s team been re-established?”
“Not yet. The technical team is still trying its best to work on it,” soone next to him replied.
“Sign…” Letting out a deep sigh, the middle-aged man felt ntally and physically drained. “Can’t you all just let finish with this college entrance examination in peace?” he lanted.
“Bang!”
At this juncture, the door of the hall was pushed open.
Xing Bi, covered in blood, walked in step by step.
“Clamor…”
The middle-aged man, as well as the other governnt personnel around him, all stood up in shock.
“You… What happened to you?”
“Nothing much.” Xing Bi grabbed her ponytail and wrung out so blood. Then, shaking it off, she said, “Just escaped from the doors of death. That’s all.”
The middle-aged man stepped forward and asked, “Where’s the rest of your team?”
“Dead.”
“…” At that point in ti, the entire place instantly fell into absolute silence.
His face sowhat pale, the middle-aged man said, “Xing Bi, you’re joking, right?”
“No. Our team, two teammates and one safety officer, was all sacrificed. I’m the only one left alive.”
“Weren’t you guys there to just gather samples?!” The middle-aged man instantly flew into a rage and slapped the table forcefully, demanding, “How can people die on a mission like that!!”
“Gathering samples? That’s all a lie. Capital University has lied to you.” Xing Bi wasn’t afraid of incurring the mayor’s wrath. So, she continued to speak slowly, “The main reason they lied to you was that they didn’t want to cause panic among the local official authorities.”
“You… what do you an…” The middle-aged man was now breaking out in a cold sweat, as he vaguely sensed that sothing ominous was coming.
“Step, step, step…”
With slow steps, Xing Bi left a trail of bloody footprints as she walked to the podium of the hall. Then she scanned the whole room once before saying, “The reason why Capital University sent two teams here to Green City wasn’t to gather samples but to investigate the issue concerning foreign beasts.”
“Foreign beasts…”
“Yes. Through satellite observation, they found that in recent months, the foreign beasts around Green City have been growing at an abnormally rapid rate. And they have demonstrated a tendency to form clusters. In layman’s terms…”
Xing Bi paused for a slight mont. Then, she spread her hands and said, “There may be an ergence of a beast tide. The target this ti is Green City.”
After she finished speaking, the entire hall was in total silence. And it was so silent that you could hear the sound of a needle dropping.
But Xing Bi simply didn’t give the crowd the slightest ti at all to catch their breath. She went on to say, “Therefore, Xing Bi’s team ventured deep into the danger zone, and at the cost of sacrificing three lives, we managed to get information on the population size of the beast tide, their direction of travel, their speed, their different levels of strength, their racial composition, and lots of other valuable information.”
That said, she picked up an unopened bottle of mineral water from the table, twisted off the cap, and took a sip before saying, “Now, please help contact the main team led by the president of the Student Association of Capital University. I have to pass on the information. Then…”
“Sound the air raid siren throughout the entire city. Prepare to fight for your lives with all your might.”
…
At the sa ti, in the KTV district of Clearwater Foot Bath City…
Inside a certain private box room…
“Lover, lover. How could I forget that, midnight, intoxicating voice that sang…”
“Lover, lover…”
Sitting on the sofa, he watched the duet between Sister Qi and the box room princesses. Chen Yu had to admit that this lady boss of his was indeed very charming.
Although she was much older than the four young girls and didn’t look as good as them, her poise and temperant were far beyond them by leaps and bounds.
That kind of noble disposition that she exuded ca from deep within. It wasn’t sothing that ordinary won could easily imitate.
Just that…
This voice of hers…
She sounded as if she had just returned from a World War II battlefield…
Downing half a glass of red wine, Chen Yu propped his swollen, painful head with his palm, feeling like he was about to collapse into complete madness soon.
While others had voices that were blessed with the kiss of angels…
He, on the other hand, suspected that Sister Qi’s throat might have been ddled with by the lock of a devil…
If she were to record a song in the national Karaoke system, the software might simply uninstall itself.
“Lover, lover, how could I forget that, midnight, intoxicating kiss…”
After she was done with one song, Sister Qi sat beside Chen Yu with a wide grin. As she sipped on her wine, she said, “How’s it going for you? Are you feeling relaxed today?”
Chen Yu replied, “Extrely relaxed.”
“Satisfied?”
Chen Yu replied, “Very satisfied.”
“Did I sing well?”
Chen Yu replied, “Your voice is wonderful.”
“Then I shall sing another song.”
Chen Yu said, “Let’s not sing anymore. Just now, I went to the toilet and found that even the toilet had a shattered WC.”
The smile on Sister Qi’s face imdiately disappeared, and she said, “What do you an? Are you saying that my singing is terrible? Do you know that people would have to line up to hear sing?”
Chen Yu said, “It seems like these days, it’s not easy to get a prescription for sleeping pills.”
“B*llshit! Many people tell that my singing voice can even give them eargasms!”
Chen Yu replied, “That’s because they were raped.”
“Bang!”
Sister Qi angrily slamd her palm onto the table and said, “How about you sing! Let’s see how good you can sing!”
“I… I don’t know how to.”
“Since you don’t know how to sing, what right do you have to criticize ?”
Chen Yu: “…” (speechless)
“Now let ask you, is my singing nice or not?” Sister Qi lifted a bottle of beer and aid it at Chen Yu’s head.
Chen Yu stamred, “… very nice, very nice.”
“What about you all?” She then pointed to the four box room princesses and demanded, “Is my voice nice?”
The young girls all fearfully replied in unison, “Very nice!” (x4)
Sister Qi asked, “Enough to give you all an eargasm?”
Young girl no. 1 said, “Yes!”
Young girl no. 2 said, “Definitely will!”
Young girl no. 3 said, “I’m already having an eargasm…”
Young girl no. 4 blabbered, “Abba, abba-abba…”
“Bang.”
Slamming the bottle of beer heavily onto the table, Sister Qi crossed her legs in an exaggerated and candid manner, then said to Chen Yu, “In one sentence, complint my voice.”
“… Can you not ask to give a review?”
“Are a complint and a review the sa?”
Chen Yu: “…” (speechless)
Sister Qi picked up the bottle of beer again, then threateningly, she asked, “Are you going to give a complint or not?”
“Say, say, say!”
Turning around to look at the four princesses, who were shivering in fear, then back at the bottle of beer in Sister Qi’s hand, Chen Yu gulped a mouthful of saliva and said, “Err… That is… Your voice, I can use a beautiful line from a wonderful poem to describe it.”
“Go on.”
“What we can never hold back in this world is the eternal youth we see in the mirror now, and the flowers falling off the trees…”
“Mmm…” Squinting her eyes, Sister Qi frowned and said, “Why do I feel… as if you’re scolding ?”
“No, no, no. You think too much.” Chen Yu snatched the bottle of beer from her, unscrewed the cap, and poured the beer out into two glasses. Then, offering her one of the glasses, he said, “Co, let’s toast to your wondrously beautiful voice. Cheers.”
With that said, he downed his glass of beer.
Then…
“Woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo…”
He heard the sound of an air raid siren, which tore through the quiet atmosphere.
Chen Yu said, “Eh? Sister Qi, are you going to sing again?”
There was a drastic change in Sister Qi’s expression as she exclaid, “Sing? In my dreams! This is a citywide siren!”
“Citywide siren…”
Chen Yu instantly ca to his senses and felt a chill sweep through his entire body…
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