#357 - Chapter 357 Mr. Ma
"Did you find anything on your side?"
"I just went down into the mine, but Ah Cai wasn't there!"
Inside the coal mine base.
Li Hongwen anxiously asked his wife, who had just come out of their residence.
Their daughter, after seeing her this morning, was now missing!
The couple had just split up to search, Li Hongwen went to the mining area, but unfortunately, he found nothing. So, he rushed back to the residence to see if his wife had any leads.
The wife who appeared before Li Hongwen looked terrible, her face ashen as if she had encountered something unacceptable, and she said in a trembling voice:
"Husband..."
"Look at this..."
As she spoke, Huang Cailan handed a piece of paper to her husband, signaling him to take a look.
With an uneasy feeling, Li Hongwen took the paper and began to read.
As he read, his hands couldn't help but tremble. Finally, after reading the last word, he slammed the paper on the ground with a face full of anger and roared:
"Bastard!!"
Even Li Hongwen, who was usually well-mannered and rarely showed anger, couldn't hold back!
Their daughter!
Actually ran away!
Saying she was going out to save more people!
How could she be so stupid!?
What kind of world is this!?
Still thinking about saving people she has no connection to!?
When she returned the day before yesterday, their daughter brought back a female survivor she had rescued on the road, which already made them feel uneasy.
Later, they heard that the woman had been arranged to live in a house nearby.
Their daughter would occasionally go to see this person.
At the time, they just thought their daughter's sudden burst of kindness wouldn't last long.
After all, everyone had seen how cruel the outside world was now. Even if one or a few people could be saved, no one could come out and save all of humanity in distress.
This world doesn't have extraordinary powers.
Even if their daughter's reaction speed was fast, she could only deal with ordinary people with ease.
Once she encountered too many zombies, or bad people with thermal weapons, she would still die!
"Husband! What do we do!? We must find Ah Cai immediately! We can't let her do such a foolish thing!"
Huang Cailan's tears couldn't help but overflow from her eyes. She couldn't imagine how dangerous it would be for her daughter to face the omnipresent zombies and those vicious survivors alone outside!
Sometimes, humans are a thousand times more vicious and hateful than zombies who only know how to eat people!
"I know that too! But where do we look!? Ah Cai didn't say where she was going or what she was going to do in the letter! How can we find her? We can't just run around aimlessly, can we? We'll die before we even find her!"
Li Hongwen was also extremely angry and disoriented.
But seeing his crying wife, he forced himself to calm down and think of a solution.
His chaotic mind gradually stabilized.
That's right!
He suddenly thought of a possible clue!
"Let's go to that woman's place! She came back with Ah Cai! She probably knows something! Let's go ask her quickly!"
Hearing this, Huang Cailan also stopped crying, hope sprouting in her heart. She knew that crying wouldn't solve the problem. She had just lost her composure for a moment, and it was only because she was in front of her husband that she was like this.
Hearing her husband's words, she wiped away her tears, gave a nod, and quickly pulled her husband out of the house!
To ask that woman!
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Morning.
Suburbs of Shenzhen.
A commercial building where all the doors and window gaps from the first to the tenth floor have been sealed with cement.
This is the location of Tian Hong Group's base headquarters!
At this time, in a room on the fifteenth floor.
A group of people were surrounding several corpses that had been gnawed into white bones, talking about something.
"Mr. Ma, have you found anything? Where exactly are the people who killed my brother? Where are they now!?"
A handsome man, the one who had appeared in the top floor office before, asked a man wearing sunglasses with a face full of anger.
This handsome man was called Tang Yan.
His only younger brother, the one with dyed yellow hair who liked to cause trouble everywhere in his name, had been killed and thrown into the mouths of zombies to be eaten clean!
Even if Tang Yan didn't particularly like this brother who occasionally brought him trouble, blood relations were still there, and his brother's death still made him feel slightly uncomfortable.
Moreover, if he didn't avenge the murder of his brother, he might be pointed at behind his back in the future!
So, for both emotional and rational reasons, he had a reason to find the enemy and kill them with his own hands!
The Mr. Ma with sunglasses he was asking was named Ma Hong. He was a technical expert in the group. It was said that he had previously served as a professor in a prestigious university and also served as a technical consultant in some enterprises.
After the apocalypse, he was encountered by the leader and stayed in the group to serve.
The other party knew a lot of knowledge and ideas, and had come up with many effective good ideas for the leader.
For example, this building-style base was created based on Mr. Ma's proposal.
Also, the idea of raising the surrounding survivors and having these survivors look for food or supplies to hand in for so-called protection fees was also suggested by Mr. Ma.
In addition to other things such as defending against zombies at night, controlling the base population, arranging tasks within the group, and many other things, the leader often discussed with Mr. Ma.
It would not be an exaggeration to call him the think tank of the Tian Hong Group.
"I've seen the bullets on their bodies. The size matches our common machine gun model, but there is no production batch number or marking! It's something produced by a factory I've never seen before!"
"There are only a few possibilities. One is that these people found a batch of guns and ammunition that were privately produced by some underground factory in the past, or they dared to make their own guns in peacetime, hey! This possibility is unlikely, it used to be a major crime to be caught."
"Another possibility is that they were obtained from abroad, so they are not registered in China. This possibility is also unlikely, people from abroad can't come over after the apocalypse."
"There is also a possibility that this kind of bullet was recently made!"
"Someone or some force has mastered the ability to produce bullets!"
Mr. Ma's appearance was not old, looking only about thirty or forty years old, with a very ordinary face.
He sat in an office chair, touched his chin, and analyzed the information collected by his subordinates from the outside with an experienced air.
Based on those simple clues, he had already found many possibilities and approached the truth!
As he spoke, he also took out a map of Shenzhen, with the detailed location of their area clearly marked on it.
He took out a pen from his pocket, circled an area, and then said casually:
"You go to this area and ask those survivors, someone should have seen these guys kill Sun Wei and them! Find them and bring them back, I have a way to force out the whereabouts of that group of people!"
The other Tian Hong people responded in unison.
Mr. Ma rarely makes mistakes. If he said that, then it was almost certain!
This force that dares to touch their people must die!
(End of this chapter)
