Rotting Land: Survive

Chapter 584 574: Sudden Disturbance (Part 5)

"Hey, Xiaoquan, what are you asking the girl these questions for? Don't scare her off."

Wang Qiang interrupted Tang Xiaoquan's questioning, his concern evident in his words.

This was somewhat surprising to Tang Xiaoquan, but when he saw the gentle look his brother gave Yang Xue, he couldn't help but take a deep breath.

No matter how you calculate it, Wang Qiang is a sentimental guy. Could he be interested in this girl?

Oh my god, this is not good. Thinking back to Huang Yaru, Wang Qiang would do anything for her.

Now, this Yang Xue is someone Liu Yunpeng discarded; Qiang, you mustn't let yourself get carried away!

No way, under no circumstances can I let Qiang get involved in this mess.

"Thank you, Xiao Wang, I'm fine." Yang Xue gave Wang Qiang a playful smile, then continued with Tang Xiaoquan's question, "I know very little about the factory. I'm usually at home, very much a homebody, hehe!"

"Ah, a fellow homebody, Madame Curie!"

"Hehe, I can see it, Mr. Picasso!"

Tang Xiaoquan, not much of a follower of internet slang, had no idea what Wang and Yang were talking about, but he didn't care to understand these trivial things. For him, there were more important matters to inquire about: "Oh, really? During the trade today, I noticed that there seemed to be fewer survivors in the parking garage downstairs. I was wondering, did Liu send them out on some task?"

"Hehe," Yang Xue chuckled softly, her big eyes, accentuated by false eyelashes, stared directly at Tang Xiaoquan, and she denied, "There's no way those people in the parking garage were sent on a mission."

"What, they weren't sent out?"

"Well... the factory did have vehicles frequently coming and going recently, and each time they didn't stay out for long!" While Yang Xue didn't understand why he was so concerned about the factory matters, she, without any guard, tried her best to truthfully share what she had seen and heard in the warehouse.

"Do you know specifically what they were doing when they went out?" Tang Xiaoquan continued to press, eager to find out the answer to this question, to verify if his suspicions were correct.

But Yang Xue seemed a bit repulsed by this, shaking her head, "The specifics I'm not too clear about. I rarely probe into matters concerning the Liu family father and son."

"Oh, I see!" Staring at Yang Xue's somewhat evasive gaze, Tang Xiaoquan concluded she was lying.

After all, given her relationship with Liu Yunpeng, it was definitely not as irrelevant as she had just claimed.

So she must know something more, although it's unclear why she's so determined to sever ties with the Liu family, one thing is for sure, she's hiding something regarding the survivors.

Given this, Tang Xiaoquan, through his first conversation with Liu Fugui, had also formed a bold hypothesis.

And this bold hypothesis was that Liu Fugui used the "useless old, weak, sick, and disabled" to lure away the zombies surrounding the villa.

Otherwise, there was no way they couldn't see a single zombie wandering around the factory when they came this time.

Yang Xue mentioned earlier that the factory sporadically had vehicles going out; it must have been using living human meat to feed the beasts, to divert them away.

Moreover, this matter definitely couldn't be unrelated to Liu Fugui, because without his approval, given his authority in the factory, even if his men had a hundred times the courage, they wouldn't dare use the people in the warehouse as bait to lure the zombies away.

Thinking along these lines, Tang Xiaoquan couldn't help but gasp, thinking about the honest and stable exterior of this man, and then looking at what he did, if his inference was correct, then Liu Fugui is truly terrifying.

Regardless, they have to be wary of him in the future, otherwise, there'll come a day when they'll be sold out by him.

Coming back to his senses from his thoughts, Wang Qiang and Yang Xue were chatting lively and happily nearby.

To this, Tang Xiaoquan couldn't help but sigh again.

Upon hearing his sigh, Wang Qiang teased with a mischievous smile, "How about it? Yang Xue, didn't I tell you? My buddy here is always a bit mysterious, acting like he's Sherlock Holmes all the time, haha."

Tang Xiaoquan wasn't in the mood to joke with Wang Qiang, and through the latter's slightly abnormal behavior, he was more convinced his brother had developed feelings for this woman.

This is indeed troublesome. Being an old friend for many years, Tang Xiaoquan is all too familiar with Wang Qiang's character and experiences.

Though Wang Qiang easily falls for a woman, in terms of emotions, he's just like himself, absolutely devoted.

Once he falls for a woman, he will be fully devoted and unable to extricate himself.

Logically, as a friend, he should be happy that his buddy found true love,

but looking at this heavily made-up, blunt-speaking woman in front of him, Tang Xiaoquan just couldn't feel happy, rather he found her more and more unpleasant.

He couldn't even understand himself why he felt so repulsed by this woman; he just had an instinct that if things continued this way, his old friend would eventually suffer a setback because of her.

Sigh, femme fatale, he now greatly regretted agreeing to bring this woman to the villa earlier.

While Tang Xiaoquan was lost in his thoughts, the hand-held radio in his hand emitted a buzzing crackle, and then Hu Xiaodong's somewhat urgent voice came through, "Xiao Tang, something happened at home!"

"What!"

Relaying the situation report sent by Xu Renjie, Hu Xiaodong repeated it to Tang Xiaoquan, and after hearing what he said, the lively atmosphere in the back of the car instantly fell into a deathly silence, even the boastful Wang Qiang quieted down at this moment.

"Did Old Xu have any tasks assigned?"

"No, he just told us to get back as soon as possible, and to watch the road conditions on the way, to be wary of enemy roadblocks."

Ending the call, Wang Qiang and Tang Xiaoquan immediately switched to a combat-ready state.

The rest of the way, the car stayed as quiet as death.

Not until the Jianghuai car drove into the villa could everyone slightly relax.

Old Zhao expertly drove the Jianghuai into the courtyard and parked it, and as they stepped out one by one, the most eye-catching was undoubtedly the heavily made-up Yang Xue with her hair tied up.

"Hey, who is that woman?" Hua Biao and Li Xiaoxin murmured softly.

Wen Quanxin stretched lazily, swaggeringly approached, and laughed, "Who knows! But she looks quite flashy, yo, she's pretty close to Qiang, looks like there's an inside story."

Wen Quanxin's words immediately set off everyone's gossip curiosity, they exchanged glances, and Wang Zhongyu shouted with a raised voice, "Hey, Qiang, come over here, we've got something to talk about with you." (To be continued. If you like this work, please come to Qidian (qidian.com) to vote for recommendations and monthly tickets. Your support is my biggest motivation. Mobile users, please go to m.qidian.com to read.)