Duan Zhanfeng seemed to be angry, his dissatisfied tone was provocative and sarcastic, and every sentence hit Hesheng’s pain points directly.
If it had been before her rebirth, when Hesheng hadn’t seen Duan Zhanfeng’s true face, she would have been provoked and would have agreed to any of Duan Zhanfeng’s requests in order to prove herself, becoming his tool to deal with Li Yanting, and even taking the initiative to hurt Li Yanting.
But the current Hesheng wouldn’t be so stupid. A sneer flashed across her face, and she threw away the wood she was holding in her arms. When she turned around, she had already put on a deliberately indifferent face.
“Do you really want to help me?” Hesheng questioned coldly.
“If you really wanted to help me, you wouldn’t have let Li Yanting’s men drag me out! He was going to throw me into the wilderness! There are hordes of zombies in the wilderness. If I hadn’t bowed my head to him, I would have died long ago!”
Duan Zhanfeng had prepared himself to deal with Hesheng’s accusations before he came. If it had been before, he would have coaxed this young lady in a low voice, but now their situations were reversed, and the young lady no longer had much value.
Duan Zhanfeng wasn’t Li Yanting. Hesheng’s fuss only annoyed him.
“You know our strength. Including me, there are only three ability users in the team. Plus you and Xu Hanyan, two ordinary people, we are no match for those two barbarians at all.”
Duan Zhanfeng explained smoothly, without any apology or remorse in his words. Instead, he held his posture and accused her condescendingly: “Besides, that matter was your own fault in the first place. You blindly sought revenge without considering the timing. If I hadn’t intervened, you would have been thrown into the zombie horde downstairs!”
Even though Hesheng had spent a lot of time with Duan Zhanfeng in her previous life, she was still amazed by Duan Zhanfeng’s ability to distort the truth.
What intervening, he was completely fanning the flames at that time, gathering the center of the conflict on himself, so that he could step on her and retreat completely.
Seeing that Hesheng didn’t speak, Duan Zhanfeng felt a little smug. This woman had always been so easy to manipulate. He got closer and turned to gently appease her: “Hesheng, don’t make trouble. I’m here to help you.”
Hesheng turned to the side, half facing away from Duan Zhanfeng, making a look of being abandoned, aggrieved, and stubborn. She looked elsewhere and spent a long time reddening her eyes.
“I know, you were very sad that I couldn’t save you from Li Yanting that day, but I also felt bad. Especially seeing him… seeing him treat you like that, my heart really ached.”
Duan Zhanfeng grabbed Hesheng’s shoulder and turned her to face him, raised his hand to touch the red corners of Hesheng’s eyes, but Hesheng dodged it without a trace.
Such a small movement didn’t attract Duan Zhanfeng’s attention. He only thought that Hesheng was still angry and wanted to make a fuss with him: “Blame me for being useless, for not being able to protect my beloved woman. I saw him kiss you, hug you, saw you wearing his clothes, I really wanted to rush over and fight him, even I haven’t been so close to you…”
Hesheng wiped her eyes and quickly interrupted, appearing a little exasperated: “Don’t say it!”
…I’m about to throw up.
Duan Zhanfeng continued: “Hesheng, I know you’re angry, but now is not the time to be angry. The top priority is to save you. Even if Li Yanting’s ability is stronger than mine, as long as we work together, we will definitely be able to defeat him. Then you can come back to my side.”
Hesheng lowered her head and hesitated, “Hmm,” as if she had been moved by Duan Zhanfeng’s lies.
Hesheng’s reaction was as he expected. Duan Zhanfeng squatted down and picked up the wood that Hesheng had just thrown away, and handed it back to Hesheng’s hands considerately: “After you go back, follow our original plan and lead Li Yanting to the east of town. I will meet you inside at that time to ensure that everything is safe and that Li Yanting will never return!”
Hesheng seemed a little unconvinced: “Are you sure that the east of town can really trap Li Yanting?”
Duan Zhanfeng was full of confidence: “Of course, you believe me.”
Hesheng hesitated: “But, they were originally going to the east of town. I heard them discussing all the way how to avoid you and rush over first.”
The hunter pretended to be prey and set a trap. Hesheng used the weak and harmless appearance of the prey as a cover to throw a deadly bait to Duan Zhanfeng.
“What? They were originally going to the east of town?”
Duan Zhanfeng was surprised when he heard this, and then immediately questioned, “He and Da Kun both came from the northern region and have never been to that town, and it is impossible to know the layout of the town. Maybe they just randomly picked a direction.”
Hesheng shook her head, threw out the most fundamental question, and brought the bait to Duan Zhanfeng’s face: “But why did they take the initiative to avoid others and rush to the front?”
This question really made Duan Zhanfeng fall into suspicion: “You mean…”
Hesheng struck while the iron was hot and sent the bait to Duan Zhanfeng’s eyes again: “People like Li Yanting are driven by interests in everything they do. If there is no benefit, how could he be so persistent and insist on rushing ahead of others? This shows that he must know something!”
“When they left the gas station, they didn’t want to go with you in the first place. It was Zhao Xing who came over and insisted on going together before they agreed.”
Duan Zhanfeng froze and found that things were indeed as Hesheng said.
When they were preparing to leave, Da Kun was indeed dragging his feet. If Zhao Xing hadn’t come over, Li Yanting would definitely not have left with them based on the situation at the time.
And his knowledge that Li Yanting had never been to the town was just a guess. In fact, Li Yanting was the captain of the field team when he was in the refuge city. Going out to find supplies was his job, and it was very likely that he had been to this town.
So what else is there in the east entrance of the town, besides a large slaughterhouse, that is worth Li Yanting risking to rush over there.
Thinking of this, Duan Zhanfeng seemed to have suddenly opened up the two main channels of his body and immediately thought of the key to this.
If Li Yanting had been hiding the supplies he had found in this town while performing a mission before the refuge city fell, and put them in the most dangerous east of town for the sake of concealment, it was not impossible for future use.
“Hesheng! He must have hidden supplies there!” Duan Zhanfeng grabbed Hesheng’s hand excitedly, “I felt that the supplies he brought back to the refuge city later were getting less and less. They must have been hidden by him privately!”
Hesheng was caught by him before she could dodge. Just as she was feeling disgusted, she heard his subsequent guess and couldn’t help but twitch the corners of her mouth.
Why didn’t she realize before that this person’s ability to make up stories was so strong? It saved her from having to make up any reasons to convince him.
The more Duan Zhanfeng thought about it, the more certain he became. Then he grabbed Hesheng’s shoulders, his face full of calculations: “Hesheng, those are the supplies that belong to the refuge city, they should be ours! We must get the supplies back!”
Hesheng looked at him in confusion and surprise, thinking when did this person grow up and learn to open the lid of the trap himself and jump in?
Sure enough, people are never satisfied, like a snake trying to swallow an elephant. Once greed arises, they don’t even want their brains.