Looking at Luo Wen’an’s anxious yet hopeful expression, and then at Su Tanji covering his face in silence, Yue Zheng sighed. “Do any of you have an ability to observe the terrain from a high altitude?”
Kong’s eyes lit up. “Yes! Yes!” He patted Shunzi on the shoulder and said, “Birdman!”
Shunzi blushed, but he didn’t refute it. His ability… was it not similar to a birdman?
“Good then.” Yue Zheng breathed a sigh of relief. He glanced at Xu Song and suggested to the others, “Let’s start by exploring the terrain in the northern area and try to mark the approximate locations where these experiments are conducted. Since this project was halted once in the shelter and you managed to escape, the new laboratory location is definitely more concealed.”
The group of ability users nodded in agreement.
Among them, many were captured and taken to the laboratory with their companions. However, during their previous escape, only a few managed to get out.
There were also some individuals who didn’t have companions inside, but due to the inhumane treatment they experienced, they held great hatred towards the laboratory. They even had a vengeful mindset. Being able to help them vent their anger at the laboratory was already giving them face. Otherwise, they might very well harm ordinary people in the shelter.
After assigning the initial tasks, Kong’s expression turned serious. “Um, Yue Zheng, what did you do before?” Yue Zheng looked young, but his demeanor and the way he handled the questions gave off a sense of calmness that was not typically found in someone his age.
Yue Zheng paused for a moment and finally blurted out two words after a while, “Police.” As a former detective, a highly skilled undercover agent, and someone who had received special training, he now found himself helping a group of fugitives to rob a national research institute… He couldn’t even say the word “detective” with any dignity.
The room fell silent for a moment. Li San suddenly slapped Shunzi’s shoulder and burst into laughter. “It’s alright, it’s alright! Shunzi, weren’t you in the military before? It’s all the same, all the same!”
Luckily, with Shunzi in the group, the other ability users didn’t have any negative feelings toward Yue Zheng’s identity. Most of these fugitive ability users had experienced inhumane treatment in the laboratory. Apart from a few who had strong regenerative abilities and less frequent experiments, most of them were physically limited. Some were even bedridden and couldn’t leave their rooms.
Now that things were settled, Kong and the others allocated two rooms to Yue Zheng’s group. Luo Wen’an and Su Tanji shared one room, while Yue Zheng and Xu Song took the other with the twins.
Watching Xu Song crouching by the bed to help Mo Tiancheng take off his shoes, Yue Zheng felt a slight relief in his tense nerves. The fact that they refused to reveal their abilities in the shelter was precisely because they feared something like this would happen. Although it didn’t happen to them directly, it affected the people around them.
Out of moral obligation, their companionship along the way, and a deep revulsion towards this place, Yue Zheng wanted to help Luo Wen’an and the others. Liu Shishi wasn’t a bad person. She was a girl who had persevered throughout the anomalies. She shouldn’t be mistreated by those beings who didn’t treat others as human.
“I plan to wait until they obtain an aerial map of the northern area and then find an opportunity to go and see the situation there.” Yue Zheng estimated that even with aerial observation, it wouldn’t be easy to locate the laboratory. Kong mentioned that when they escaped, they almost destroyed half of the laboratory. With such a major incident, the laboratory probably moved to a different location.
Especially now that the laboratory seemed to be operating in secret, it would be even more difficult to find the target. With his exceptional hearing, perhaps personally investigating might lead him to some clues.
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The clever Mo Tiancheng blinked, his feet twitched, his small body turned over, twisting. He climbed into the bed, and fell down with Mo Tianyou who had taken off his shoes and climbed onto the big bed a long time ago. The two of them pulled Xiao Shu to roll on the bed.
Xu Song was about to reach out and pull Mo Tiancheng, after all, he still had one shoe on! But his shoulder was held down by a large hand.
Stiffly turning his head, Yue Zheng bent down and grabbed his left hand, dragging him toward the direction of the bathroom.
“What… what are you doing?” Xu Song was dizzy as he was pulled into the bathroom, asking without any sense.
Suddenly, Yue Zheng blocked the light in front of him, and Xu Song felt his face getting closer and closer… His heart raced wildly again, feeling like his heart had been beating more in these past few days than in the previous twenty years!
The warm touch on his lips told him what Yue Zheng was doing.
After a while, he raised his head, “Afraid of teaching the kids bad things.”
…
Because the twins were in the bedroom, Yue Zheng deliberately took him to the bathroom for a kiss? Why did it feel even more intentional now? Shouldn’t he be grateful that the two little ones were still young and couldn’t think of anything unhealthy?
A pair of big hands held Xu Song in his embrace, the warm body temperature making Yue Zheng involuntarily narrow his eyes. This feeling was too comfortable, too warm, too cozy, making him sink into it, abandoning everything.
When the two came out of the bathroom, the two little ones had eaten a pillow full of jujube…
There was no need to ask who created the jujube, it must have been Xiao Shu!
Seeing the two of them come out, the twins immediately hid their little hands behind them, blinking their identical dark eyes innocently as they looked at the two of them.
“No eating on the bed…” Xu Song looked at the jujube pits on the pillow, massaging his temples. “Don’t throw garbage on the pillow…”
Both heads with a tree crown in between them nodded in unison.
“Uncle Song, did you go to play kissy-kissy?”
Xu Song almost spat out blood, his already slightly red face almost flushing with blood. Even Yue Zheng looked embarrassed. He didn’t expect these two kids to be so crafty…
“Who taught you that?!” Who taught such things to such young kids?!
Mo Tianyou tilted his head, “No need to feel embarrassed, we’ve kissed Lanlan too!”
“And Xiaoyun!”
“And Auntie Wang!”
“And…”
Covering his face with his hand, Xu Song felt completely drained. He had heard that even kindergarten kids nowadays learn how to make friends, but he never expected their impact to be this big. How old were they combined? But they had kissed more girls than he had in his whole life!
Since childhood, he had only kissed his own mother. In middle school, he was too young and clueless, and the girls in his class joined forces to bully the boys. Who would dare to kiss? By the time he reached high school, he was too much of a chuunibyou and didn’t speak to the girls in his class.
When he entered college, enduring until the end of his sophomore year, just as he was changing his mindset to get a girlfriend in his junior year, the apocalypse happened… and he ended up running away with Yue Zheng and engaging in a same-sex relationship.
Xu Song suddenly felt that his life was so tragic.
At this moment, it had to be said that Yue Zheng had a strong ability to accept things. He patted Xu Song on the shoulder, led him to sit on the bed and rest, and tidied up the jujube pits on the pillows and bed. At the same time, he instructed the two mischievous kids, “Don’t talk about these things outside, remember?”
The three heads nodded in unison, “Mmm, even if Uncle Luo asks, we won’t tell!”
That bastard actually asked their own kids about such things?! No wonder they came up with such shocking statements!
Yue Zheng smiled and caressed the heads of the two kids, but a bunch of leaves also came over seeking a touch… The grasshopper on top expressed great pressure. It had almost been thrown off several times today. This plant was really restless!
“Hey, when Aunt Shishi comes back, can we tell her if she asks?” Mo Tiancheng blinked his big eyes and asked, looking up.
Yue Zheng’s hand paused, and he smiled even more gently, “You can tell her secretly, but don’t let Uncle Luo and the others hear.”
Xu Song’s mood suddenly broke free from the previous confusion. Yes, just be close to the person you like. There were more important things to do now.
To save their companion, Shunzi had been quite brave. He flew around that evening and quickly sketched a topographic map. Holding his left arm, which was grazed by a bullet, he complained, “I didn’t dare to fly too low at first, but the visibility at night was poor. Many places were pitch-black and hard to see. Later, I had to lower my altitude a bit, but then I was discovered by the guards in the city. They shot at me, nearly hitting me. I had no choice but to retreat.”
Shunzi suspected that the person shooting was a sniper or an evolved individual with enhanced vision. Otherwise, ordinary people couldn’t shoot so accurately in the dark.
Yue Zheng frowned as he looked at the schematic map. In many places, Shunzi only marked them as “suspected buildings.” There was no other choice. Shunzi wasn’t a professional reconnaissance soldier, so it was already good enough that he could draw the map like this with his flying ability.
“I still need to go there myself.” Yue Zheng sighed. He knew that this reconnaissance method might not work well in the shelter now that people knew about the existence of mutated animals with flying abilities and other evolved individuals. However, he still held a glimmer of hope. How could they protect so many people if they didn’t pay attention to the sky?
“But how can we get in? That’s the Northern District after all,” Kong furrowed his brow.
“I have a friend who works in the Northern District. I don’t know if I can ask her to help us go in once. If she becomes familiar with the roads, we might find a way to infiltrate.” Yue Zheng rubbed his chin and looked at Xu Song.
After experiencing the intimacy the previous day, Xu Song didn’t continue to resist in this matter. Yue Zheng knew how to coax him. It was more effective than any promise. Although he didn’t know why he believed Yue Zheng so much, it could be attributed to the unspoken understanding between men.
Their companionship along the way allowed Xu Song to understand that Yue Zheng was a man of action. He didn’t usually use sweet words to make empty promises, but he would silently act. Moreover, if he said something, he would definitely do it.
“A friend? Can she really take you inside?!” The several evolved individuals’ eyes lit up, immediately thinking about whether they could rescue people while entering. However, as soon as they thought about the registration process at the North Gate, they dismissed the idea.
“It should be possible, but I can’t guarantee that we can reach the vicinity of the research institute after getting inside.”
Yue Zheng pointed to a spot on the map. “You escaped from here last time according to Shunzi. According to him, this place is still in ruins and should be abandoned. Although the other buildings have a similar appearance, there’s no guarantee that they are all places for live experimentation. As far as I know, besides the laboratory where you stayed for live experiments, there are also places in the Northern District for researching mutated animals and mutated plants. It’s highly likely that the other facilities are for those types of experiments.”
They are preparing a heist!! Sort of 😂
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