Cheekier Than Heiyu

Yun Che would get tired as well, for he was not an iron man, particularly with a peculiar baby on the way who needed to absorb energy every day. The large consumption of energy in the zombie bird battle had exhausted him for days. Although people thought he was capable of anything, it took him two or three days to recover even with much supplement of energy and cultivation.

The Southwest Base suffered heavy casualties this time. The top executives were occupied with the aftermath of the battle. Mo Wenyang had no chance to take a break until 2 or 3 days after the attack. He then paid a visit to Yun Che in Chaoyang Community. When they met, Yun Che directly kicked him into the Jade Pool. The adjutants who waited outside thought the two of them were discussing something significant since they had been inside for more than 3 hours. Unlike Xing Feng and Tan Weiye, Mo Wenyang was not lucky enough to obtain a new superfunction. But Mo Wenyang's superfunction level reached 5 after he drank the tea infused with qilin's horn, which was quite an achievement already.

"The northwest is in a terrible situation. Most zombie beasts there are leve-4 or level-5. The only good news is, they are large so that they can't get into the back of the base through the gaps like zombie birds. Currently speaking, the situation there is still under control."

After leaving the space, Mo Wenyang took two adjutants to have a meal in Yun Che's house. After the meal, they talked about the real business. The two adjutants wondered what on earth Mo Wenyang and Yun Che had been doing inside the room and why they talked about such normal things till now.

"Hmm. I heard it from Xing. Just hundreds of thousands of zombie beasts besieged the city. That's a rather good lesson for them."

The northwest was also confronted with a severe situation. Xing Feng and other people took part in the battle that day. Over the past two mornings, they had been required to send emails to Mo Wenyang outside, but the emails were brief each time. It could be told that they were really tied up.

"I've reported to the capital about the zombie bird attack. The president has sent his condolence."

Saying that, Mo Wenyang curled his lip with mockery. Ever since he knew that Liu Xizhao made Wan Guoqiang draw a wedge between Xing Feng and Yun Che and kill Yun Yao and her son, Mo Wenyang had been completely disappointed in the president. Therefore, Mo Wenyang teased whatever the president did.

"So? Who cares about his condolence after the doomsday? Even a three-year-old kid knows that food matters most after the doomsday. Do you agree with that, Chenchen?"

"Yes, I do."

Chenchen who leaned against Yun Che was being as supportive as usual with his little fat hand stretched out and a thumb-up, which amused everyone around. Yun Che rubbed his head as praise and said, "I saw survivors working out there. Is all the aftermath finished?"

"There isn't much to do, is there? Burn the dead together, treat the wounded with the light attribute, and fix the houses by soldiers. That's it."

Mo Wenyang said with depression. This was what life was like after the doomsday: human's rights were given the least value. Even though the military had reserved plenty of resources, they dare not waste them randomly. Even though edible plants could be planted, they were not enough to feed millions of survivors. Moreover, no one could promise that there would not be other severer disasters in the future. To meet their basic needs, the survivors must work hard to trade for resources, leaving them no time for sadness.

"Actually, why not see the whole thing from a different angle? It's so cold. People can get warm from work, in which way not so many people would die from coldness. Even if you got numerous resources after the doomsday, better not adopt the social benefiting policies, like giving free resources to people. Or else, people would get dependent. It's not easy for any of us. To earn resources by labor work, that's quite fair. Those who don't work will just wait for death."

Yun Che's theory sounded cruel but actually suited the life after the doomsday best, which only those who had experienced the doomsday would know. Human beings were creatures of deep dependence. Once the military started to give in charity, people would ask for more. By then, the base would likely be in a mess.

"Hmm. Senior Wei has given free porridge in the civilian section these days in the name of you. He's earned reputation for you."

How would they not know Yun Che's theory? But as the upper class, they felt somewhat uncomfortable to see the survivors suffer from hunger and coldness after the base had been swept.

"Really? He's getting more and more adorable."

Yun Che raised his eyebrows, finding it amusing, and then said softly, "Why are they suddenly different? To be honest, it's a little weird."

"You think I don't think so?"

Mo Wenyang glowered at him and said with a resigned smile, "But it's definitely the best result, isn't it? The base unites. The three armies merge. Everything seems fine on the surface, but many of the soldiers keep old friendships in mind all the time. If they are really unwilling to give in, they may cause more turbulence. Now they somehow decide to threaten me together, it's best no matter for us or for the base."

"Hmm. The land apportionment thing, you've got to get a move on it. I see the the greenhouses are almost finished. We should be able to deal with the land before the new year and plant around February, the latest. Before that, we should apportion all the land in the way that please the superfunction possessors and the survivors."

Yun Che smiled and talked about another issue of more importance. Several days ago, they had attended a meeting about the land apportionment, but unexpectedly the zombie birds attacked the base. Like the saying went, plans could never catch up with changes. They should stay extremely vigilant all the time.

"Senior Wan has sent me the preliminary calculation result. At present, there are up to around 3 million survivors in the Southwest Base and many more survivors come here to seek refuge everyday from other small bases that are destroyed. We're going to spare the rural land for the expansion of the base and apportion all the other land to the superfunction possessors and the ordinary people. I don't think Chaoyang and Peak would care about giving out such small land, right?"

If the supply of land didn't fall short of demand, Mo Wenyang would never deduct such small land from them. Of course, what mattered most was that they had enough land to plant, the Yonghe Town that they had managed to enclose and Yun Che's space.

"Nah. The military won't spare some for their own use?"

Yun Che really didn't care about such small land at all. He even decided to apportion the previous land of around 1 square kilometre to the hard-working workers after the harvest. What surprised him was the military's selfless act.

"Our own use? There's not enough land to apportion evenly already. We're gonna use your method. Enclose the two towns on the right of the base and use them as the planting base. By then, lend me two gold eagles to guard against theft."

"What about saying please?"

Yun Che had never seen such a cheeky man as Mo Wenyang. Yun Che rolled his eyes with complex emotions. Did Mo Wenyang just treat him as an ATM?

"Saying please to my cousin-in-law? That's insane."

Mo Wenyang totally took it for granted that Yun Che should lend him the eagles. A short while later, Mo Wenyang turned serious and said, looking at him, "Seriously, when people get hungry, they could do anything. Without the eagles' guard, it can't be guaranteed that we could harvest all we plant. But we can't have soldiers go around on patrol twenty-four seven, right? If we do, the zombies may rush in at the smell of people and that's also such a waste of human resource."

"I got it. But we don't have gold eagles. When Eagle King and Heiyu come back, they will catch some mutant birds from mountain for you and for us, since we happen to be short of the birds as well."

It was a piece of cake to catch any mutant birds for Heiyu. But there was another problem.

"You've got to feed them by yourselves."

No labor was free, so were the mutant birds. Mo Wenyang said with a resigned look, "Can't you just feed yours and ours together?"

It was said that most mutant birds were carnivorous. Where could he find so much meat to feed them? There was even not enough food for human beings.

"You have no shame. Do you have any idea of how much food that a mutant bird needs to consume everyday? Do you really think I'm filthy rich?"

Yun Che rolled his eyes and retorted mercilessly. They dreamed to enclose two towns, but that needed at least around 20 mutant birds in large size, at least mutant eagles. In that case, the monthly food consumption alone was scarily large.

"Oh, come on. You and Xing Feng are always acting like philanthropists, aren't you? It's not a big deal for you to help your poor relative."

Yun Che's contemptuous look didn't bother Mo Wenyang at all. Ignoring the shocked look of the two adjutants, Mo Wenyang took the seat next to Yun Che and pounded his back in an ingratiating way. Gu Mingxuan on the other side stifled a laugh so hard that his intestines were almost knotted. It was so shameless of Mo Wenyang to save a little expense that way.

"Like they say, save the urgent not the poor!"

It was such a great honor to be pounded the back by the base commander. Yun Che accepted Mo Wenyang's service with his eyes slightly closed while rejecting his request. But Mo Wenyang was utterly indomitable. "That's about people of no relationships. But we have a relationship, don't we?"

"Don't make our relationship sound like a romantic one. Xing doesn't like to be cuckolded."

"Nothing to do with romance. Everyone knows you're my dearest cousin-law, right? Whoever dares to gossip about us, I'm gonna shoot him dead."

"Ahem…"

Mo Wenyang put on a bossy look with a piercing glare. But he just looked amusing to others on such an occasion. The two dumbfounded adjutants could hardly restrain their laugh. The loud cough showed how hard they retrained.

"See? Even your subordinates can't bear your cheekiness. You're a base commander. Can't you show yourself any respect?"

Yun Che seized the chance to lecture Mo Wenyang without mercy. Mo Wenyang cast a warning glare at the two adjutants and then said with a reproachful pout, "Can respect feed my 200,000 soldiers? If it can, I'll do that. If it can't, don't ever mention it again."

Base commander was never an easy post. Mo Wenyang was responsible for not only 200,000 soldiers but also millions of survivors in the base. If being shameless could fill their stomachs, he would absolutely cast his respect behind everyday.

"I think you should change your title. Saint Mo. No one deserves this title as you do."

Heiyu just had the flesh of a saint but Mo Wenyang was almost a saint, both physically and mentally. But Yun Che could still understand Mo Wenyang's situation. Different positions meant different responsibilities. Yun Che and Xing Feng were an example. Their responsibility as the leader of a community was the same but varied in size.

"Fine. No more jibber-jabber. I'll keep the mutant birds for you. Twenty. Max."

Since Yun Che took the bribe, he couldn't turn down Mo Wenyang who might otherwise act shamelessly, could he?

"Deal. How nice it is for a child to have a cousin-in-law!"

Mo Wenyang couldn't help sighing. Having a cousin-in-law was happy and having an extremely generous cousin-in-law was even happier.

Yun Che turned around and looked at him with doubts. "You call yourself a child? You don't look like one from head to toe, okay?"

Shame on Mo Wenyang!

"Screw you… That's a metaphor. Don't you get it?"

"Not really. I just know that I finally meet someone cheekier than Heiyu."

"…"

"Haha…"

Gu Mingxuan and other two people could no longer restrain themselves and laughed their heads off. What a sense of humor Yun Che and Mo Wenyang had! How come they could make such a serious topic so funny?