Apocalypse: After Being Reborn, I Stocked Up on All Supplies-Chapter 223 - Changed the Core
Chapter 223: Chapter 223: Changed the Core?
Chapter 223: Chapter 223: Changed the Core?
Hearing Chu Hui’s voice in front of her, Jiang Yan’s heart gave a lurch.
She turned off the electric saw, lifted her eyelids slightly, and gave him a cold glance.
This person looked to be in his early twenties at most.
He even had a pretty decent skin.
But his voice revealed the old age, sounding at least 50+.
That feeling—
It was as if a grandson’s body had had its core replaced by the grandfather’s.
Recalling Dr. Xue Qianmei from Flame Base, who was equally young and beautiful, a strange thought flashed through Jiang Yan’s mind.
But it was just a passing thought as she groped in the bag on the ground for a strong flashlight, stood up, and sharply fixed her gaze on Chu Hui:
“So what if it is?”
“Um?!”
“!!”
“…”
Ding Dayong and his three subordinates realized from her voice that she was a woman, a young woman at that, and their pupils dilated in shock for a second.
Chu Hui, on the other hand, seemed amused by her response and took an interested glance at Jiang Yan, his originally sullen and fierce eyes lighting up in a second.
With a brightness filled with shrewdness and delight.
It felt as if he had found some valuable prey that had long been sought after but had now suddenly landed on his doorstep.
He dropped the sinister smile, adopted a mild expression, and his tone gained a depth that contrasted starkly with his youthful appearance:
“Little girl, to be able to survive alone in this icy and snowy world for so long, and to have avoided our detection outside earlier, it’s clear that you have some tricks up your sleeve.”
Jiang Yan’s gaze sharpened.
Little girl?
This way of addressing her was strangely quaint.
He gave himself away with just one sentence.
“Whoo Whoo Whoo Whoo??” Listening to Chu Hui’s words, Ding Dayong became even more astonished.
If Jiang Yan had left when they arrived at the cabin, there should have been footprints at the door.
But when they had arrived at the cabin earlier, the snow outside seemed as if it hadn’t been touched for days and nights.
It was uncommonly smooth.
He was a materialist, but this situation seemed supernatural.
Dr. Chu must have known something.
Too bad, his mouth was taped shut, and he couldn’t say a word.
Jiang Yan deliberately ignored Chu Hui’s words.
In her opinion, someone like him who could still act so arrogantly despite having become a prisoner was bound to reveal too much if he spoke any further.
Sure enough, she heard him continue to coax:
“However, now it’s the apocalypse, and it’s not the time for solo fights or personal heroism. If you were to come to the base and join our lab, you would enjoy endless glory and wealth in this world of apocalypse.”
“Oh, a base, a laboratory?” Jiang Yan raised an eyebrow slightly, “Which base is that? What does it do?”
Seeing her interest, Chu Hui couldn’t help but smile and explained leisurely:
“In Jin City here, there is only Flame Base. As for the laboratory, you’ll find out once you join. It’s an entity that exists in this world, like a savior reborn.
Ordinarily, without an IQ of at least 170, or special scientific achievements in hand, you wouldn’t have the chance to join.
But now, since you’ve rescued me, Chu Hui, from danger and we’ve had such fate to meet, I don’t mind recruiting you into the lab, to be a—”
Chu Hui’s gaze drifted to Ding Dayong and the others by his side and his words abruptly ceased.
Ding Dayong and the rest shifted their gaze sharply toward him, their eyes filled with a puzzled and eager look.
They knew very little about the base’s laboratory, only that it was a place of authority and endless mystery within the base.
It was directly overseen by Dr. Xue Miaomiao, but it seemed to stand above her.
Their mission this time was merely to escort him back to the base headquarters’ laboratory.
Jiang Yan had already walked up with the electric saw and used the tip of the saw blade to lift Chu Hui’s chin slightly.
Then she twisted the flashlight on and shone it toward him.
Startled by the bright light, he closed his eyes and instinctively turned his head to avoid it, which inadvertently exposed the skin near his earlobe.
Jiang Yan’s gaze lingered on the white scar, and she took a deep breath.
The scar, starting from behind the earlobe, extended down the back of the neck.
It looked like a very fine white line had been left by some quality scar removal cream.
Seeing Jiang Yan retracting the electric saw, Chu Hui attempted to persuade her again, “Little girl, what do you say?”
“Not much,” Jiang Yan said, sitting back on the stool with her legs crossed and the electric saw in hand. The tone of her voice shifted to a cold one:
“Alright, small talk time is over. Now we begin, I’ll ask a question, and you answer. If you answer well, I’ll grant you a way out. If you don’t answer well, I don’t mind disassembling your parts, one by one.”
Jiang Yan finished her sentence word by word, glancing at the electric saw in her hand.
Chu Hui did not expect such a response from her, and his expression changed, “So earlier, you were just playing with me?!”
Jiang Yan didn’t respond to his words but mentally directed Hua Bao to tear off the duct tape from the mouths of the remaining people.
“Ow!”
“Ow!”
“…”
As Ding Dayong and the others screamed in agony, they concurrently wet their pants in fear.
It was too eerie.
They must have seen a ghost today!
Otherwise, how could they have accomplished something as improbable as materializing objects out of thin air!
The remaining men, who had been determined to keep silent and reveal nothing, suddenly began to feel their resolve crumbling.
Seeing Jiang Yan’s unusual demeanor, they reasoned that getting their teeth pulled out without answering would lead to a terrible death.
But if they answered, there was no way they could return to Flame Base.
They knew all too well the dreadful consequences of being a traitor under Dr. Xue Miaomiao.
It seemed better to switch allegiances and leave this place of strife, possibly preserving their lives.
And given the situation, it seemed Jiang Yan had some tricks of her own.
Perhaps following her wouldn’t be worse than staying at the base.
Having made up his mind, Ding Dayong nodded vigorously:
“Ma’am, just ask away, and I, Ding Dayong, will hold nothing back!”
If not for being bound, he would have nearly knelt down.
The remaining three subordinates also nodded frantically: “Me too! Me too!”
Chu Hui, having witnessed the four pieces of tape being torn off their mouths at the same time, was stunned for a second but then filled with indescribable joy.
It seemed this little girl, whose face was not visible, must be like Dr. Xue Miaomiao, not an ordinary person!
Moreover, she was likely the girl mentioned in the internal secrets, whom both the government and the major bases had been stealthily searching for—the girl who had hoarded supplies all over the world before the apocalypse!
It had to be her!
Chu Hui felt as if he had hit the jackpot, his emotions surging with excitement:
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“Little girl, what do you want to know? I will tell you everything! I have only one request, kill those few!”
“Dr. Chu?! Are you trying to silence us in advance?!” Ding Dayong and the others glared fiercely at Chu Hui.
“Quite smart.”
Chu Hui followed with a cold laugh:
“After all, what you know, I know. What you don’t know, I also know.”
