Chapter 579 - 9.49 Hold Up!
"Commander!" Li Zhu immediately threw himself into Yang Tengfei’s arms as soon as he was brought out of that hellish place. Tears, snot and filthy soot covered his face, covering the delicate visage of the youth and turning him akin to a madman.
Li Zhu had been trapped in that place for more than an hour, listening to the sounds of zombies outside, choking on thick smoke, worrying about whether the door would be able to hold on until reinforcement arrived... He was truly at his wits’ end. If he had to stay in that place for one more second, he would definitely go insane!
Now that he had been rescued, he could not hold back the flood of relief, longing and grievance in his heart. He vented them all by hugging the person he liked tightly, unaware that Yang Tengfei’s face was darkening upon receiving his soldiers’ wide-eyed stare and Zhao Bolin’s meaningful smile.
The veins on Yang Tengfei’s forehead throbbed. That one smile from Zhao Bolin spoke a thousand words. He could even hear the professor’s voice mocking him, "What is this, Commander? You despise me for my unusual relationship with Lu Yizhou. As it turns out, we are the same kind of person?"
Yang Tengfei exhaled heavily and held Li Zhu’s shoulders, forcibly peeling the sticky youth away from him. His face was severe as he demanded, "Where are the others? What happened here?"
Being reminded of the terror he had gone through for the past hour, Li Zhu’s frame shook in fright and his complexion turned ashen. Tears covered his clear, black eyes as he recounted the situation. Of course, he omitted the operation part. "I–I don’t know what happened to them. Brother soldier told me to hide inside Professor Zhao’s office and wait there, but... but they are not coming back..."
Zhao Bolin cut him off coldly, "Where is Lu Yizhou?"
Li Zhu paused. From the start, he had never seen Lu Yizhou. According to the plan, he should have been led away by the soldiers. However, looking at their current situation, could he even survive...? Li Zhu raised his head to meet Zhao Bolin’s sharp golden eyes. All of a sudden, he recalled the ’treachery’ he had done and shrunk his head in guilt. He hid behind Yang Tengfei’s broad frame and stammered out. "I—I don’t know, Teacher. Last time, he went out to help the soldiers. He..."
"Bullshit!" Zhao Bolin sneered. "Li Zhu, who do you want to fool? Why should Lu Yizhou go out to help trained soldiers to fight the zombies? Is he an idiot? He will definitely hide inside the laboratory. But now, he is nowhere to be seen and you’re the only one left. Tell me, if you were me, what would you think of it?"