Jiang Shang and Ye Xingchen (1)

"Why on earth did you provoke Xing Feng's fellows?"

In the villa division, the territory controlled by the generals and soldiers of the Wei family, Wei Kan, the lieutenant general, received a call from Gu Mingxuan. He was firstly confused, and after learning the ins and outs of the matter, he couldn't control his outrage. The military officers standing in front of his office table kept their heads lowered silently. The sergeant who intended to detain Yun Che was shivering all over with fear. If only he knew that man was Xing Feng's fellow, he dared not challenge him even if he had multiplied his courage.

"Chieftain…"

"Go to hell! Keep yourself away from Xing Feng's business."

Interrupting his subordinate impatiently, Wei Kan turned his chair away, leaving his back to them. The military officers, glancing at each other, saluted Wei Kan in unison and left the study room successively. Wei Kan turned his chair back after making sure that he was the only person in the room. He pinched his nose bridge with the right hand, pondering the circumstances. He watched Xing Feng grow up from childhood, and trusted his character and style. Different from the third- military generation who bullied people by flaunting and using their powerful connections, Xing Feng was a self-made man. As long as you didn't provoke him, he would not rival against you. Yet he would revenge himself on whoever wanted to bully him, the highest leader or business tycoons, regardless of their status. And their lives were the lowest price they must pay. His both good and evil way of life harvested both praise and blame in the bigshots' circle of the capital. However, to soldiers among whom the winner takes it all, Xing Feng totally deserved the title of a hero, because he once destroyed the drug traffickers' headquarters in the Southeast only with a squad of eight soldiers. What's regrettable was that Xing Feng and the eight squad members all applied to be transferred to civilian work after they returned. Even today, no one knew the specific reasons for their quit.

Wei Kan wouldn't allow a powerful outsider to sleep beside his bed. The covert fifth force headed by Xing Feng posed quite a headache to Wei Kan, especially that the Xing family and the Mo family were closely tied by marriage, with Mo Wenyang's mother being Xing Feng's aunt. In case that they allied with each other, his Wei military force would have no say in the southwest base.

For all these reasons, Wei Kan had kept a neither friendly nor aloof attitude to Xing Feng. Yet he was not behind what happened. It had only been less than one month since the doomsday fell, and the base was still under all-round construction, with urgent want for people with talents and strengths like Xing Feng. Wei Kan was not goose-stupid as to offend him because of some trivial.

Later investigation certified that the main cause was his subordinates' excessive liberty in actions, yet he should also shoulder due responsibilities. After all, he didn't make it crystal clear to his subordinates that they could offend anyone but Xing Feng and his fellows. It was really bad that they still couldn't dispel the grudge and hostility of Xing Feng. Xing Feng, having decided to play hardball this time, was unwilling to hand in the research equipment. Misfortunes never came singly since the Mo family…Wei Kan dared not to think deeper. Besides, those from the Research Institute were driving him crazy, and he believed that the same misfortune had fallen on Wang Wei and Wan Guoqiang.

The previous trouble hadn't been solved, and new conflicts had arisen, again with Xing Feng.

Wei Kan never felt so exhausted like present. He had to clear up the messy situation caused by his subordinates, which made him the most miserable lieutenant general all over the country.

In the barter bazaar in C division, Yun Che, the primary cause of Wei Kan's headache, was bargaining with a man covered all over with so much filth that you couldn't tell his appearance or age:

"According to the rules of the military department, the award for the task of collecting 100 zero-level crystal nucleuses is only 2.5 kilograms of rice. I am generous enough to barter only one crystal nucleus with 5 kilograms. Trust me, no one will give you a higher price than mine."

Placed before them was a bead-sized transparent crystal nucleus, a second-level crystal nucleus with no attributes. After zombies developed into first-level zombies, the crystal nucleus in their brain would assume different attributes and colors. Apart from the five-element superfunctions and the power-intensified superfunction that were most common among both human beings and zombies, there were also some special superfunctions, including wind-and-thunder superfunctions, light-and-darkness superfunctions, space superfunctions, and mental superfunctions. Compared with people possessing the five-element superfunctions, special superfunction possessors could only absorb transparent crystal nucleuses with no attributes. Except the zero-level crystal nucleuses which naturally had no attributes, no-attribute crystal nucleuses at other levels could only be obtained from zombies with special superfunctions, so that no-attribute crystal nucleuses were rather rare, not to mention a second-level crystal nucleus. That was the reason why Yun Che sat through the enduring bargain with this man.

"10 kilograms of rice." The man uttered these few words, leaving no possibility for further negotiation. Yun Che was amazed by the unprecedented stubbornness showed by this man. He was not being stingy to this man. The offer of 5 kilograms of rice was already sincere and generous. Though he had a large stock of rice and could grow crops in the Space, he was unwilling to pay 10 kilograms. No rich guy should be deceived on account of his generosity, at least not Yun Che.

"Hmm…Eh-hem…" A burst of trivial cough reached their ears. The man squatting at the stall all the time suddenly turned back and walked away. Yun Che didn't notice the existence of another person until that person was, together with a quilt, wrapped into the first man's arms. Before this person was wrapped all over with the quilt and was mistaken by them as a pile of goods left on the ground. They learned from the cough that the person was a man.

"My senior, please have some water." The man, sitting on the ground with his legs crossed, hold the other man onto his laps. Opening a bottle of mineral water with his teeth, he put the bottle mouth to the lips of the other man.

"Eh-hem…Eh-hem…" After sipping some water, the man again coughed acutely, as if to cough his lungs out of his chest. Yun Che and his companions couldn't help frowning at the violent coughs, and they doubted that this man must have developed pneumonia. Before the doomsday, some aspirin tablets were enough to save his life, but now…

"Were you a medical student?" Yun Che, bumping his elbow against Lu Haixuan's side waist, looked at his two buddies and asked.

"Eh…Wouldn't you give me a break? I was enrolled as a student with specialty. What made you think I was a medical student?"

Lu Haifeng originally chose to go to the Huai City for college study mainly because the thousand-mile distance would free himself from the constraints of his families. Thinking retrospectively, he was really an asshead at that time.

It was said that growing to maturity was a process of continually despising one's own stupid decisions made in the past. This statement was true with Yun Che, also with Lu Haixuan.

"Nevertheless, Yafei should be a medical student. I am not sure of Yehan. You know it, Yehan couldn't speak out freely with anyone else except Yun…" Speaking of Yun Cheng, Lu Haixuan cast a quick and resolute glance at Yun Che, and omitted the name of Yun Cheng awkwardly.

"Um, as long as we have someone who studied medicine."

Yun Che acted as if he didn't hear Lu Huaixuan mentioning Yun Cheng, the name used to make him distressed. Yun Che patted on the head of Chenchen, instructing him to go to Zhou Zeyu, and then he himself strode forward.