Chapter 547: Good News
Chapter 547: Good News
After deciding their next direction, Luo Feifan and Zhang Boxun returned to the base early the next morning. This time, they didn’t sneak in secretly. Instead, they walked around the city wall, found the gate, knocked on it, and spoke with the gatekeeper.
Isn’t it said that to understand a group’s behavior, the best way is to look at its foundation? Because only when the foundation is upright can the rest stand firm.
Fatty’s team was growing larger and larger. The elderly, the weak, the sick, the disabled, and the pregnant now made up the vast majority. From the looks of it, the ones protecting these burdens were mostly the soldiers left behind by Tang Jianjun.
In fact, Fatty had his own way of handling people. He held a certain prestige among the elderly, weak, sick, disabled, and pregnant. If he told them to stay quiet, they stayed quiet.
That was why newcomers like Liu Dong, at first, had no idea of the true strength hidden in Fatty’s team.
Perhaps even the members of Fatty’s team themselves didn’t realize what they were capable of. When Liu Dong’s subordinates, conscripted by Fatty, were forced into the tunnels, they tried escaping countless times, only to be recaptured again and again. After so many failed attempts, they eventually realized their lives were destined for captivity, with no hope of freedom.
They went through a long and bitter psychological shift until, at last, they gave in—picking up shovels and digging, relieving the soldiers who had been doing the labor.
With the combined efforts of Liu Dong’s remaining ability-users and Fatty’s earth-based ability-users, the tunnel was completed in just a few days.
Meanwhile, Luo Feifan and Zhang Boxun returned with good news from the base. They had successfully passed on word to the base leadership about the large group of old, weak, sick, disabled, and pregnant people waiting at the other end of the tunnel.
Good news: the message had been delivered!
“How is that good news?” In the RV, An Ran looked at Luo Feifan and Zhang Boxun with suspicion. “You just mean you managed to deliver the message? That’s all?”
“Exactly. That’s the good news.”
“Yeah, but where’s the feedback? Where’s our villa? Isn’t the base going to send anyone to help us?” Off to the side, Fatty looked strangely gleeful.
An Ran and her group might have wanted to cut ties with him, but that was impossible—without the villa, he never would have brought so many people into this base in the first place.
As if he had seen through Fatty’s thoughts, Luo Feifan gave him a glance before saying to An Ran and Zhan Lian, “It couldn’t be helped. Just getting the message through was already a struggle. The higher-ups here don’t seem to care much.”
“So what you mean is… they haven’t said whether they’ll accept us or not?” Zhao Ru frowned and yawned. The colder the weather got, the more lethargic she felt. All she wanted was sleep. Luo Feifan’s words didn’t sit quite right with her, so she added, “So then… why are we even going into this base?”
“No, this really is good news. Sometimes, the less a base involves itself, the better for us.” Zhan Lian, lost in thought, raised his head and looked at Fatty. “None of us wants too much attention. Don’t you agree?”
Fatty didn’t answer. He only kept eating, working through the two large baskets of strawberries he had brought to An Ran. His chubby hands clutched a fistful, his mouth stuffed full.
Whether he was genuinely absorbed in eating or only pretending not to hear Zhan Lian’s words was impossible to tell.