“Brother, hurry and help me kill that Sheng Ge! My hand hurts so much. What if it becomes crippled in the future? You have to avenge me!”
Inside the hospital ward, Feng Shuang’er lay on the bed, tearfully complaining to Feng Tai, who stood beside her.
Feng Tai frowned, a trace of impatience flashing through his eyes.
“What crippled? You’re an ability user. A small injury like this will heal in a few days.”
“So you’re not planning to avenge me anymore? I’m your only younger sister! When Mom died, you promised her you’d take good care of me. Is this how you take care of me? Wuwuwu…”
“Why are you crying so much?”
Feng Wen walked into the ward, deeply frowning as he looked at his crying and screaming daughter.
When he saw the bandages wrapped around her wrist, anger and heartache surged inside him, though he did not show much of it on his face.
“Dad~”
The moment Feng Shuang’er saw her father arrive, she cried even more pitifully.
Then, grabbing Feng Wen’s arm, she immediately began complaining nonstop, recounting most of what had happened during the trip.
Naturally, in her version of events, everything was everyone else’s fault.
“Dad, hurry and send someone to kill Sheng Ge for me!
“And that group of old, weak, sickly trash too. Keeping them in the base is just wasting food. Chase them all out and let them fend for themselves!”
“Nonsense! The entire purpose of our base is to shelter human survivors. What kind of behavior is this, wanting to kill people over every little disagreement?”
Though Feng Wen righteously scolded Feng Shuang’er, there was not much actual rebuke in his tone.
“However, the base has its own rules. Randomly injuring others still deserves punishment. Feng Tai, I’ll leave the person who hurt your sister to you.”
“Yes.”
Feng Tai nodded perfunctorily.
Truthfully, he felt rather impatient inside. In his eyes, this kind of petty conflict between little girls was simply a waste of his time.
Still, Feng Shuang’er was his sister. Hurting her was also equivalent to slapping him in the face. He still needed to find a chance to teach Sheng Ge a proper lesson.
“Dad, I knew you loved me the most.”
Hearing Feng Wen tell Feng Tai to deal with Sheng Ge, Feng Shuang’er finally smiled.
She knew her brother’s methods.
This time, Sheng Ge definitely would not have a good ending.
“Alright, get some rest.”
Feng Wen patted Feng Shuang’er’s head, then suddenly remembered something.
“You just said that after you were injured, Siyu didn’t help you at all?”
“No!”
At the mention of this, Feng Shuang’er became even angrier and more aggrieved.
She and Song Siyu had practically grown up together. Now she was even Song Siyu’s teammate.
Yet from beginning to end, Song Siyu had shown absolutely no intention of helping her.
Combined with the fact that Yu Sheng liked Song Siyu, Feng Shuang’er had now started hating Song Siyu as well.
When Feng Wen heard this, a cold glint flashed through his eyes.
“Alright, I understand. I’ll find an opportunity later to talk with your Uncle Song. You just focus on recovering first.”
Only after comforting her a few more times did Feng Wen leave.
The moment he stepped out of the ward, his expression turned cold.
“Hmph. Looks like our Base Chief has already forgotten how much we helped him back then.”
He had known Song Xiangsong for over twenty years.
At the beginning, Song Xiangsong had been nothing more than an ordinary man with nothing to his name, someone who could only move bricks at construction sites. His wife and daughter had lived miserably with him.
It was Feng Wen who accidentally discovered Song Xiangsong’s incredible strength and natural talent for boxing. Coincidentally, Feng Wen had been running a boxing gym at the time, so he recruited Song Xiangsong and gradually trained him into a boxing champion.
One could say that it was Feng Wen who changed the fate of the entire Song family.
The two families had always maintained a close relationship.
Who could have expected that after the apocalypse broke out, Song Xiangsong would awaken an ability first?
Afterward, Feng Wen gathered a group from the boxing gym and followed Song Xiangsong in establishing the current Overlord Base.
Unfortunately, Feng Wen himself never awakened an ability. Otherwise, the position of Base Chief would never have fallen to Song Xiangsong.
Truthfully, Feng Wen did not care much about the position of Base Chief.
In his view, having someone as simple-minded as Song Xiangsong act as the Base Chief and charge at the front lines only benefited him.
But that did not mean he could tolerate Song Xiangsong gradually no longer taking him seriously.
Hearing his father’s words, coldness also flashed through Feng Tai’s eyes.
Both father and son were deeply calculating people. Neither said much more, but what plans they harbored inside were difficult to say.
……
The undercurrents secretly stirring inside the Overlord Base had not affected Sheng Ge for the time being.
Having just arrived, she wanted to go out and take a look around, to understand how this world operated.
Little follower Ah Bao naturally stuck closely behind her.
Not long after leaving, they ran into Yun Yanwu at the entrance.
The very first thing Ah Bao asked upon seeing him was:
“Uncle Yun, where’s the helicopter?”
Helicopter?
Ah, right. The helicopter.
Yun Yanwu suddenly remembered. He had nearly forgotten about the helicopter excuse he used to lure them before.
“You’re not lying to us, are you?” Seeing Yun Yanwu remain silent, Ah Bao stared at him suspiciously.
Yun Yanwu immediately denied it.
“Of course not!”
Well… he had exaggerated things a little, but the helicopter definitely existed.
“Perfect timing. I happen to be free right now anyway, so I’ll take you to see it first.”
The place where the helicopters were parked was inside the core area of the base. Ordinary people were not allowed in.
However, with Yun Yanwu, a member of the ability-user team, leading them, the group smoothly arrived at the grassy field where the helicopters were parked.
There were two helicopters in total, heavily guarded on all sides.
Sheng Ge looked at the ugly things that somewhat resembled birds and suspiciously wondered whether something so ugly could actually fly.
“Wow, it really is a helicopter! Grandma Grandmaster, with this we’ll be able to reach the official base and find Martial Uncle and the others very quickly!”
Ah Bao shouted excitedly. Standing on tiptoe, he tried to move closer for a better look, only to be blocked by guards holding guns.
Ah Bao pouted before turning back toward Yun Yanwu.
“Uncle Yun, when can we ride the helicopter?”
“Ahem, well… did I forget to mention this? To use the helicopters in our base, you need to submit an application beforehand.
“And only base officials or ability-user teams are allowed to use them. If you want to use one, you’ll first need to join our ability-user team.”
Yun Yanwu spoke with a guilty conscience.
“Hm?”
“Ah? You’re not trying to trick us again, are you?”
Ah Bao wore an expression that clearly said, I’m not easy to fool.
“Why would I trick you? These two helicopters are among the base’s most important assets. Do you really think an outsider can just use them whenever they want?”
Ah Bao had no comeback for that, but he was still very angry.
“Come on now, Little Brother Ah Bao. Wouldn’t everything be solved if you joined us? We’re already so familiar with each other. Would I really harm you?”
Yun Yanwu continued trying to persuade him sincerely.
Ah Bao looked toward Sheng Ge.
“Grandma Grandmaster?”
Sheng Ge stared at the helicopter without even turning her head.
“Not joining.”
“Then what if they won’t give us the helicopter?”
“We can steal it.”
“But none of us know how to fly a helicopter. Even if we steal it, it’ll be useless.”
“……Then we’ll just kidnap someone who knows how to fly one too.”
Yun Yanwu: Hey, hey! Is it really okay to discuss stealing our base’s property right in front of all these people? Didn’t you notice the way the guards are looking at you two already?!
“Wow, Grandma Grandmaster, you’re so smart! Uncle Yun, do you know how to fly a helicopter?”
Ah Bao looked at Yun Yanwu seriously as he asked.
Yun Yanwu: “……”
Forget it.
He should just leave.