Chapter 318 - 262: Warm Xufeng

Chapter 318: Chapter 262: Warm Xufeng

He was in the distant Zongshan District, with only a handful of his own people. He still had to face a horde of migrant worker zombies and countless captured power engineers, secretaries...

He had vast resources at his disposal, but few people he could trust. Never before had he felt the start of the apocalypse to be so difficult.

’Did I really win?’

"Xufeng is so heavy... Let’s just leave him here for now. We can bury him tomorrow."

Hearing Huang’s voice, a sharp glint flashed in Yu Dong’s eyes.

BAM!

He kicked Huang to the ground, stomped on his chest, and pointed a pistol at his head.

"Why did you buy the lottery ticket! Speak! Do you have any idea how many people you could have gotten killed!"

Huang Zhiqiang looked utterly aggrieved upon hearing this.

"I wasn’t the one who bought it... Xufeng told me to say that! I can accept other people thinking I’m an idiot, but you? Don’t you know me better than that? Do I look like a complete moron?"

Yu Dong and Zhao Youcai glanced at each other, pursed their lips, and said nothing.

Huang Zhiqiang: "???"

"What’s that supposed to mean, you two?! Look at me! Look at me, you bastards!"

"If I hadn’t played the part of the moron so convincingly, your entire plan would’ve been exposed! I’m speechless!"

"Go find me a busty young woman right now! Otherwise, I can’t be comforted, and our friendship is officially over!"

Seeing Huang rolling around on the ground, Yu Dong gave him another kick.

"So, explain what happened. If you didn’t buy it, how did it end up in your pocket?"

"My subordinate, Zhang Wei, bought it! Dammit, how is that kid so stupid? I trusted him in my past life? I’m speechless! That idiot is acting like nothing’s wrong, and he’s about to go pick up Lin Zhixue from her cruise ship!"

’Zhang Wei???’

’That idiot...’

Yu Dong sighed. He never thought the one person Huang was supposed to activate would be such an idiot.

He sat down wearily, leaned back, and watched the last sliver of light vanish from the horizon.

"It’s over. I hope our people can hold on... Tomorrow, we’ll go rescue them one by one."

Huang Zhiqiang blinked. "What are you talking about, Dongzi? Rescue who? Look... who is that over there?"

"Hm?"

Puzzled, Yu Dong sat up and looked in the direction Huang Zhiqiang was pointing.

At the entrance of the industrial park, a massive crowd was walking toward him.

Jiang Zhuoyu, Liu Ye’ye, Shen Xinyi, Zhao Wenjie, Yan Yikai, Sun Shan, Xia Yao, Yu Chengfei, Sun Yu and his two companions, Zhang Wei...

And fifty students from Ocean University!

Everyone, under the protection of Lin Mo and Lv Sheng, was walking toward them!

Yu Dong stared in disbelief.

"How... How is this possible?"

"Who...?"

"You were all trapped, so who was giving the orders?"

The large contingent had reached Yu Dong. Jiang Zhuoyu, standing in the middle of the crowd, stepped forward with a smile. He walked up to Yu Dong and extended a hand, on which he wore a kids’ smartwatch.

"Yu Dong, hello. I am Jiang Zhuoyu, Xufeng’s successor. We... should have met, in our past life. I have completed the mission to assemble everyone. Professor Zhou chose to remain at the Capital Laboratory; he is very safe now."

CLANK... CLANK... CLANK...

The floodlights around the park flickered on, banishing the darkness.

The light illuminated the entire group!

It allowed Yu Dong to see every single face clearly.

’Everyone... Everyone... is here...’

Yu Dong felt a sting in his nose, and his eyes reddened.

Just moments ago, he had fought his way out of that building without even blinking. Now, seeing his old comrades standing before him, he couldn’t hold it in any longer.

He stood up and threw his arms around Jiang Zhuoyu.

"Zhuoyu, thank you! Thank you! I thought... I thought I’d never find them all."

At that moment, the plan Yu Dong had seen shatter was pieced back together by Jiang Zhuoyu!

They had succeeded...

Tears streamed down Yu Dong’s face, and a low, guttural cry tore from his throat, releasing all his ecstatic joy at finding what he thought was lost.

Lin Mo watched Yu Dong, her expression full of comfort.

"Go on, cry. You’ll feel better once it’s all out..."

She had personally witnessed him, stone-faced, gun down three non-threatening people, possibly for no other reason than... they had once been Yin Shuangyang’s henchmen.

Yu Dong had gone on a killing frenzy.

Lv Sheng shook his head. ’The world has changed,’ he thought. His mission was to protect Yu Dong and obey his orders. He wouldn’t say a word.

Liu Ye’ye looked at the blood-soaked Yu Dong and the countless corpses behind him, wondering what could have happened during the days he was missing. All she knew was that her heart... ached.

"Senior..."

Shen Xinyi glanced at Lin Mo and Liu Ye’ye beside her and frowned.

’Why are those two... looking at that man with such expressions?’

’Aren’t they afraid?’

The others looked at Yu Dong’s current state and felt a surge of fear. ’What kind of man is this? Our future leader?’

’Just how many zombies and people has he killed?’

’He’s too brutal, isn’t he?’

’Brother Jiang is so much more approachable...’

The Yu Dong of this timeline didn’t know them well.

"Zhuoyu, you... how did you do this?"

Yu Dong desperately wanted to know. In this life, Jiang Zhuoyu was just a name on the activation list. How had he, after Xufeng and the other two were captured and with no information to go on, managed to single-handedly complete the final piece of the puzzle and bring so many people here?

"On Tuesday night, Xufeng hid their three copies of the Reincarnator’s Handbook (Part 1). He told me that they might be in danger soon and had to prepare an escape route. If he suddenly became unreachable, I was to take the handbooks and complete all the remaining preparations..."

"Xufeng..."

Yu Dong’s mouth fell open. He never imagined that Xufeng had... had...

Just then, Zhao Youcai walked over and explained, "Dongzi, that day... after the lottery drawing, Xufeng realized the numbers were wrong. He had us contact our respective team members, and we eventually narrowed the problem down to Huang’s subordinate, Zhang Wei. Xufeng said that if your verification failed... you could be in danger."

"If Yin Shuangyang suspected you, all of your plans could be exposed. If he dug deeper... every person we activated could be rooted out."

"He told Huang to take that lottery ticket back and put it in his own pocket. Then he had us delete all records of the other Reincarnators and bribed the owners of the bubble tea shop and teahouse. He instructed them to tell their employees that if anyone were to ask, they should say they only saw the four of us and no one else."

"As Xufeng instructed, I buried our three handbooks in the flower bed beneath the dormitory building for Jiang Zhuoyu to retrieve the next day."

"Xufeng said... you don’t have a family, and you’re fiercely loyal to your friends. If he were a bad guy, he would definitely use that against you. The three of us would probably be captured for questioning..."

"Xufeng told two of us to be tight-lipped, and one to pretend to crack under torture and confess. In reality... Huang only ’confessed’ that he knew you were reincarnated and had bought a lottery ticket to procure supplies. He didn’t reveal a single word of the actual plan."

"Xufeng... he calculated everything perfectly. Even at the end, he was still thinking about helping us deal with a certain someone... so that... we could survive..."

As he said this, Zhao Youcai’s voice broke.

Their good brother had just died in there.

He had used the last moments of his life to help Yu Dong complete his preparations.

Only then did Yu Dong understand... the reason the plan hadn’t been exposed was because of Xufeng...

Xufeng had foreseen the danger and covered all their tracks ahead of time.

When Yin Shuangyang captured the three of them... he got nothing, aside from discovering one "complete moron."

On the contrary, the whole lottery ticket affair made him underestimate Yu Dong’s core team yet again.

With his wits, Xufeng had played Yin Shuangyang for a fool.

There was no such thing as a flawless plan, only someone who was there to patch the holes.

"Yu Dong, Xufeng... has a letter. He asked me to give it to you."

Jiang Zhuoyu pulled a piece of paper from his pocket. It was an ordinary sheet of lined paper, torn messily from a notebook and folded unevenly.

With trembling hands, Yu Dong unfolded the paper and saw the familiar script.

"Dongzi, by the time you read this letter, I’ll likely be dead, and you’ll be safe."

"Huang’s acting was convincing, right? Youcai and I agreed he was the best person to play the idiot (haha)."

"Sigh... As expected, there was a problem with the lottery. A variable like that is just too big. Next time, pick a better prophecy, like a natural disaster—something human hands can’t easily change."

"I’m a little scared right now. I don’t know if we’ll be in danger, or if your plans will succeed. I can only do my best to help you eliminate some of the hidden threats."

"I’m leaving the rest to Jiang Zhuoyu. I activated him today. You were right, he’s a very capable man..."

"He will complete the remaining tasks and ensure you and your team can rendezvous after the apocalypse begins."

"Dongzi, since you chose this difficult path for the vaccine, you are destined for a lonely, but brilliant, journey. It’s a pity that in this life, I can only accompany you this far."

"I hope you can achieve your goal. We... will see each other in the next life."