Chapter 157 - 149: Nail

Chapter 157: Chapter 149: Nail

A pleasant surprise!

A purely pleasant surprise!

Lin Mo’s appearance was a huge boost to Yu Dong’s side!

Their team not only had guns, but now they also had a capable female soldier and a commissioned officer with the rank of second lieutenant.

"Lin Mo, welcome to the team! We’re teammates now." Yu Dong extended his hand. This was the first time he and Lin Mo had formally met.

Lin Mo shook Yu Dong’s hand. "Comrade Yu Dong, as per the commander’s instructions, I will do everything in my power to assist you with your work, as long as it doesn’t violate regulations. Please give me my orders."

"No need to be so formal. Just act like everyone else... We’re all teammates here. Come, have a seat and let’s talk."

Lin Mo nodded, sat down, and her body relaxed a little.

At the same time, her gaze toward Yu Dong was filled with curiosity. She wanted to discern some truth about the future from his eyes...

Just now, she had been observing Yu Dong’s micro-expressions while he was on the call with the commander.

People can lie, but micro-expressions don’t.

Every one of Yu Dong’s micro-expressions proved he was telling the truth and was genuinely trying to act in the best interest of Yanhai City’s military. Unless he had undergone long-term, specialized training since childhood, it would be impossible to appear so natural.

Therefore, she trusted Yu Dong.

Yu Dong also sensed Lin Mo’s friendliness and respect.

Since Qiao Yunliang had entrusted Lin Mo to him, he decided to put her skills to use.

"Lin Mo, from now on, while on this cruise ship, only reveal your identity as a military psychologist. Keep your ’all-around king’ skills and your gun hidden."

"Understood."

If Qiao Yunliang hadn’t taken the initiative to tell him, she would have hidden her skills anyway to secretly protect Qiao Ping and prevent anyone from harming the commander’s family.

Now that Qiao Yunliang had revealed her true identity, it was clear he trusted Yu Dong and wanted her to trust him as well.

"Also, there’s something else... Your identity might be able to help me."

"Hm?"

"Help me recruit someone for our team."

Lin Mo went out... A short while later, the veteran Yang Ze followed Lin Mo to the 16th floor and entered the suite where they were meeting.

Lin Mo pointed at Yu Dong and said, "Commander Qiao has ordered me to fully assist Comrade Yu Dong, follow his command, and contribute to the liberation of Yanhai City."

"Veteran Yang Ze, reporting for duty!"

Obeying orders is a soldier’s duty. Being recruited by a commissioned officer like Lin Mo meant Yang Ze joined Yu Dong’s team without hesitation.

Qiao Yunliang’s word carried a lot of weight in Yanhai City.

This was especially true for soldiers; they all knew him.

When Yang Ze was in the army, he had heard Qiao Yunliang speak and had even seen him once from a distance.

Just like that, Yu Dong had gained another strong addition.

"Yang Ze, tell us a bit about yourself."

"I’m 31, married. I served in the army for eight years as a sergeant. I’m skilled with various firearms and crossbows, as well as drones and robotic dogs. I left the military two years ago to get married and took a job in the local government."

"Not bad, not bad at all. I saw you having a pleasant chat with Officer Wang just now. Do you two know each other?"

"Yeah, Wang Dingbei is well-known in Yanhai City. Working in government, I’d always heard his name and met him once before. So when he invited me to help him manage order on the cruise ship, I agreed."

’Just as I thought... Wang Dingbei has already started forming his own faction.’

He was quick on his feet. Just like Yu Dong, he was trying to win over people with obvious skills in this post-apocalyptic world.

"If you need me to, I can tell Wang Dingbei that I’m quitting his team and will be operating with you."

"No need. Wang isn’t a bad person. He’s trying to do good, just like me. On that point, we should have no disagreements... It’s just that we might have different views on the future development of this cruise ship. You’re very capable, so stay with Wang Dingbei for now. Help me keep an eye on him and see if he does anything out of line."

"I understand."

After a brief chat, the veteran Yang Ze left.

And just like that, Yu Dong had successfully planted a mole inside Wang Dingbei’s police officer team.

This was a move that Wang Dingbei would never have expected. In fact, even Yu Dong himself had only thought of it on the spot after learning Lin Mo’s identity.

’Officer Wang, I hope we can cooperate well from now on... without too much conflict.’

Yu Dong still wanted to manage the cruise ship properly with Wang. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have gone to such lengths to save Wang Dingbei.

After finishing these arrangements, Yu Dong looked quizzically at Qiao Ping, who had been quiet the whole time.

"Sister Qiao, is there anything you want to say?"

Qiao Ping looked up, her eyes red-rimmed. "My husband and Nuonuo... they didn’t make it. And your people all turned into zombies."

She took out her phone and played a video. It was surveillance footage from that laboratory, from an internal link her husband had given her before he went inside.

Yu Dong’s gaze hardened.

"Let me see."

At 6:59, inside the negative-pressure laboratory, Xufeng and the others were still casually doing something in their hazmat suits. But at 7:00, they all froze instantly.

A moment later, the vast majority of them had turned into zombies and began to wander around the lab.

"Dammit! This is definitely not the virus we knew!"

"How could they have been infected under these circumstances?"

Qiao Ping said, "Unless... they were already latent carriers before they went in, and it just took time for the symptoms to manifest."

Yu Dong frowned. He couldn’t figure out when humanity had been infected on such a massive scale.

He simply couldn’t comprehend it; he didn’t have the knowledge in this field.

’If only we had a lab that could monitor what was happening in real time...’

Just then, as Yu Dong was watching the surveillance video, he noticed something unexpected!

"Huh?"

One person had survived. His movements were clearly different from the wandering zombies.

He was deliberately avoiding the other zombies.

He looked terrified!

However, the surrounding zombies were completely encased in thick hazmat suits, which not only blocked their scent but also muffled most sounds. They hadn’t noticed there was a living person among them at all.

Of course, even if they had noticed, it would be difficult to attack the person through the hazmat suits.

"Huh, who’s that? How did he survive?"

Yu Dong zoomed in on that part of the surveillance footage and got a clear look at the person’s face.

"So it’s him..."

It was the highly efficient lawyer from Xufeng’s household.

At the last moment, Xufeng had said he wanted to bring the lawyer in. Seeing as he had helped them so much over the past few days, Yu Dong had no reason to refuse, so he agreed.

This person, whom he had never met in his previous life, actually had a ten percent chance of not turning into a zombie. But as it turned out, he had entered the lab and was now stuck with a bunch of people who had become zombies in the previous life.

’Oh no, it looks like the lawyer is trapped inside... What do we do?’

Yu Dong and Xufeng’s original plan was that after the apocalypse broke out, if they were fine, they would walk out of the negative-pressure lab, make a phone call, and then stay in the research institute for a while.

They had stocked some food and water in the institute beforehand.

Once things had stabilized on Yu Dong’s cruise ship and they had formed a fighting force, they would go to the lab to rescue them.

The lab was conveniently located on Binhai Avenue, in a suburb a bit further to the west.

It was sparsely populated, with few zombies, and directly accessible from Binhai Avenue.

It could be said that it was very convenient for a rescue mission.

Now... Xufeng and the others were all gone, leaving only an innocent lawyer.

"This..."

Yu Dong felt a headache coming on.

Was it still worth organizing a team to go on a special trip to rescue him?

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