Chapter 823: Zombie King
"Are you going somewhere?" Lei Yan walked over. She was covered in dirt, and from the looks of it, the mission this time was not a simple one.
When Bai Meiyue saw her covered in dirt, she could not help but frown in slight worry. "What happened?"
She hurriedly walked over and did a quick scan. Only when she was sure that Lei Yan was not injured and only had a few scratches on her face did she calm down. However, the worry in her heart was not eased, and she repeated, "Did something happen?"
"It seems like the zombies are evolving." Lei Yan was too tired and wanted to go back and have some rest, but when she thought about the zombies that she had to deal with while she was on the mission, Lei Yan decided that they needed to relay the news to Bai Meiyue first. After all, she was the one who was managing the safe base. "You have no idea, but not only have they gotten stronger, but they are much more agile and sharp-witted than before. They had learnt to hide in the morning and make a move at night. When we were scavenging in City B, there were many times when we were ambushed by the zombies."
Lei Yan paused and then added, "And there have been some missing reports. It seems like countless children who were awakened are missing. I heard from a few teams that I ran into that many children were taken away from their parents as soon as they awakened. No one knows where they were taken away."
Bai Meiyue was not surprised after she heard Lei Yan’s report. It had been quite a few months since the end of the world arrived. There was nothing surprising about the zombies evolving. But the thing that made her eyes darken was the missing reports of children. It seemed like that man had started making the awakening pills. Even if they were not on the market yet, Bai Meiyue knew that the man was already working on it.
If she were not wrong, then it would take him less than six months to create the first pill.
"Is that so? No one stopped them?" Bai Meiyue asked. Since the teams witnessed it happening, why did no one stop those people from kidnapping the children? What were they thinking would happen to the children if they were taken away?
When Lei Yan heard her question, her eyes could not help but darken. "Why would they help those people? The children do not belong to them, and the one who snatched the children is from the capital. It seems like they are from a very high-profile family. No one dared to make things difficult for them." She thought of something and added, "And there were many families who basically sold their children for some food resources, since they were willing what could anyone do to stop them? They were willing to sell, and the other person was willing to buy."
The capital?
Bai Meiyue’s eyes darkened. It seemed like she was fooled in her past life.
In her previous life, she did go to the capital, but the trail led her out of the capital. It seemed like someone was aware of her actions and tracking her, and deliberately led her out of the capital before killing her. Bai Meiyue felt a surge of anger rise in her heart and soon a cramp followed, causing her to wince in pain.
"Sister Yueyue? What’s the matter? Are you okay? Please don’t bite the bullet even if you feel sorry for the kids." Lei Yan knew how much Bai Meiyue cared about young children, but more than anything, she was worried about Bai Meiyue kicking the bucket. She was in her sensitive time period; if Bai Meiyue became too emotional and ended up going into early labour, she would become the sinner of her Lei family.
And what was more, her big brother was in a coma. No one knew when he would wake up. In the absence of her brother, she was the one responsible for taking care of Bai Meiyue. How could she make a mess of the situation?
"It’s nothing." Bai Meiyue had to release a few breaths before calming down, but at the same time, she could not help but wonder what was going on. She had clearly hidden her agenda of looking for her son very well. So how come someone still sensed that there was something amiss and chased her out of the capital? It seemed like there was a traitor in her team.
However, Bai Meiyue did not relay this matter to Lei Yan. Firstly, nothing like that had happened, and even if she relayed the truth, Lei Yan would probably treat it as her dreaming. She shook her head and explained, "It’s nothing; I just feel that the world has turned rotten to the point of no return. People are not attacking even young ones....I wonder what they might do to the kids."
"Probably nothing good," Lei Yan replied darkly. No one wanted to take care of the young children, and even if they awakened, they would be of no help. Bai Meiyue’s two nephews were the classic example. Even though they often followed their father on missions, they only killed a few zombies. In fact, they had to be protected quite closely because of this; they were not often taken to missions and were asked to train in the training centre.
Since that was the case, why would anyone take care of children and even hand over supplies in exchange? There had to be some kind of demon hiding behind their actions. However, Lei Yan never ran into those people, so she had no idea what they were doing.
Bai Meiyue parted her lips; she was going to ask Lei Yan more about the children kidnapping but before she could even start, the alarms of the safe base started to blare as loudly as possible.