Chapter 134: Disposable Subordinates
"How could you slander even the eagles!"
"Slander them? Do they need me to slander them?! Where’s your brother! Let him see your masterpiece!"
Feng Jiexu struggled to his feet, about to hop off and tattle.
Gu Zhao immediately had the Arctic Bear lift him up.
"You need to get one thing straight. You’re a prisoner now!"
’Tattling on me? Dream on!’
Gu Zhao then turned to the limping Ye Zuiyi, who was trying to run away. "And where are you going?~"
She took a few quick steps to catch up, watching her with a wide grin.
Ye Zuiyi jumped in fright and scrambled backward.
"What are you doing?! Murder is illegal!"
’There are no cameras here, no one else... What if Gu Zhao decides to kill me!’
Ye Zuiyi was terrified.
"Who would ever know?~" Gu Zhao said, deliberately scaring her.
Then she approached her step by step.
Ye Zuiyi frantically backed away. "Don’t... don’t kill me! I’ll tell you about your parents!"
"That’s right! I know where your parents are! If you kill me, you’ll never see them again!"
Gu Zhao looked completely baffled.
"Huh? I have parents?"
Ye Zuiyi was both scared and angry. She was convinced Gu Zhao was nuts. "You weren’t born from a crack in a rock!"
"That’s true."
Seeing that Gu Zhao didn’t seem to care much about the news of her parents, Ye Zuiyi grew anxious.
"Don’t you want to see them?" she guided her bit by bit. "If you find them, your brothers will dote on you even more."
"So, let me go, and I’ll tell you where they are."
Gu Zhao lazily rolled her neck. "Oh."
’Oh?’ Ye Zuiyi was furious. ’What was that "Oh" supposed to mean?!’
But she quickly found out.
Gu Zhao did a quick stretch and knocked Ye Zuiyi out with a single punch.
’Gu Zhao! You’re insane!’
That was Ye Zuiyi’s only thought before she passed out.
Gu Zhao huffed, grabbed Ye Zuiyi by the arm, and dragged her back to the room, handing her over to the Arctic Bear to hold.
’Finding parents is something for the adults to worry about. A kid like me should just be eating, drinking, and annoying my brothers.’
’Besides, I can just hand Ye Zuiyi over to my brothers, and that’ll be that.’
Feng Jiexu wasn’t surprised by Ye Zuiyi’s fate.
After all that, Gu Zhao finally noticed the whimpering little bear and the trembling children who couldn’t stop crying.
Gu Zhao rubbed the little bear’s head and led the children to the place where the people in white coats were being held.
The Arctic Bear carried Feng Jiexu and Ye Zuiyi.
Gu Zhao dragged along her dear Brother Jia.
She left the children with the smaller animals to be comforted. The crying kids were distracted by the animals.
Gu Zhao took a few animals with her to go rescue Gu Xulin and the others. She thoughtfully had the Arctic Bear bring Feng Jiexu along—she was determined not to let him escape again!
The Snow Wolf prostrated itself before Gu Zhao, wagging its tail. "Xiangxiang, hurry and get on!~"
Gu Zhao climbed on, and they ran off with the animals.
Inside a laboratory, Gu Xulin and the others were forcefully barricading the door.
Outside, several large men were ramming the door together.
"I give up! Is installing a lock that expensive?!" Gu Xulin cursed, the veins on his hands bulging.
Gu Huaiyan was also pushing hard against the door, but he spared a moment to answer Gu Xulin. "There are no women here. Someone couldn’t take it anymore, locked the door, and then... violated all the lab animals."
"This seriously ’contaminated’ the animals, so the former base commander got furious and had all the locks removed."
The others: ???
’They’re insane.’
Gu Zhen couldn’t help but curse out loud, "Fucking perverts!"
Zhong Mingrui tilted his head, about to voice his thoughts, but was stopped by Zhong Siqi.
"Zhong Mingrui, not a word out of you! If you piss me off, what if I run out of strength?!"
The men outside started ramming the door frantically again.
"Bro, you guys hold it for a sec." Gu Xulin stood up, and the pressure on the others instantly increased.
He quickly walked further into the lab and strenuously pushed some equipment over to block the door.
...
"Why is there no one here?" Gu Yunqi frowned, twirling a pen in his hand as he looked at the empty laboratory and hallway.
Jiang Xiubai was also full of confusion. "They shouldn’t be. They rarely leave this place; they usually stay in their respective labs."
"Then maybe they got word ahead of time? Ran away?" Gu Yunqi smiled, but his eyes were ice-cold.
Jiang Xiubai shook his head, certain.
"Impossible. There’s no signal here. No information can get in or out."
"Even to order supplies, they go somewhere far away to make contact, precisely to avoid exposing this location."
"The animal holding area is up ahead. If they were to leave, they would definitely take the animals with them." Jiang Xiubai suggested they go check.
The group headed over.
After reaching the place Jiang Xiubai had mentioned, the group immediately went on high alert.
’There’s something in the room!’
Jiang Xiubai moved to open the door but was stopped by Gu Yunqi. "There are plenty of adults here. We don’t need a child to do it."
A man behind him dutifully walked to the door. He hid behind the doorframe, grabbed the handle, and yanked it open.
As soon as the door opened, a few animals lunged out.
"ROAR!"
"AWOOO!"
"SQUAWK! SQUAWK! SQUAWK!"
An old Snow Wolf was in the lead, shielding the other animals as it attacked first.
"Open fire," Gu Yunqi said coldly.
"Don’t shoot!" Jiang Xiubai stopped them. "Zhaozhao likes animals..."
Gu Yunqi frowned. "What does what she likes have to do with me?"
He kicked the old wolf that was lunging at him, sending it flying.
The old wolf hit the ground and whimpered a few times in pain.
The other animals anxiously gathered around it.
Gu Yunqi felt nothing. He issued the command again.
At that moment, however, little children holding small animals ran out and stood in front of them.
"Bad guys! Don’t you bully the little sister’s pets!"
"Waaaah, bad guys."
Gu Yunqi frowned.
’Dealing with work day in and day out is annoying enough, and now I have to clean up Gu Zhao’s messes.’
"What’s this ’little sister’ you’re talking about look like?"
"Tell me, and I won’t touch them."
A slightly older boy looked at him. "The little sister is really cute, but she’s missing a tooth."
Gu Yunqi understood. It was Gu Zhao.
’After all, he was the one who brought the little gap-toothed kid home.’
"Where did she go?"
The little boy hesitated for a few seconds before telling them.
Jiang Xiubai was extremely anxious. He immediately ran out to find Gu Zhao.
Gu Yunqi left a few men behind to guard the children and left as well.
...
「Meanwhile, with Gu Zhao.」
Led by the animals, she quickly found a group of large men.
"Stop!"
The big men looked over, their jaws dropping one by one in disbelief.
"Boss! Y-y-you... why are you wearing so little?" Goon Number One asked, his face full of confusion.
"Idiot!" Goon Number Two smacked him. "Can’t you see our boss has been stripped of his clothes?!"
"Our boss’s innocence is gone!"
"But the way he’s tied up is quite pretty..."
Feng Jiexu was being dangled and displayed by the Arctic Bear...
The Arctic Bear, afraid they wouldn’t get the full picture, gave them a full 360-degree, no-blind-spots presentation.
Feng Jiexu: ...
’Great! This batch of subordinates is a write-off, too!’
He sighed. Ever since meeting Gu Zhao, his subordinates had become disposable.
"Put down your guns," Feng Jiexu said, his face cold.
The goons were surprisingly obedient and tossed their guns away.
Gu Zhao watched in disbelief. She gave Feng Jiexu a strange look. ’Does he have some kind of fetish for collecting idiots?’
’Every subordinate he brings is... exceptionally... brainless.’
’Because they don’t have one.’
"What are you looking at me for? Beat them up. I’m being so considerate here."
Feng Jiexu urged.
The goons: ’Beat us up? Boss?’