Thinking of it this way, he felt so ashamed that he wanted to dig a hole and hide in it.
Ouyang Jin looked at his subordinate’s changing expression and knew that he had already figured everything out. There was no need for him to say anything.
"I hope you don’t talk about Leng Pan’s strength and abilities to anyone else and warn everyone who was with you not to spread the news. You can go now." Ouyang Jin ordered the flustered soldier.
The soldier looked at his superior and seeing that he didn’t look angry, felt as if he had been granted amnesty.
He regretted having such a righteous mind without thinking about the two sides of the coins first.
He saluted again and left almost like he was fleeing. He had never been in such a sorry state.
He immediately went to look for his companions who were together with him to warn them against sharing the news.
Ouyang Jin remained in his office and thought of what he had just heard.
He couldn’t believe that those two finally stopped saving the world like their sole responsibility and decided to chase their own happiness.
He had advised them before in their past lives to slow down even in the burning world and enjoy each other since they liked each other so much.
However, although Lu Zhen had been willing, Commander Leng had been a stubborn person who believed that they had to save the world first and preserve humanity before she could think about her own happiness.
Eventually she died trying to save that world and Lu Zhen who was left behind had become a wreck. He literally couldn’t live without her, so he soon followed her.
Now that there was another chance, a chance bought with Leng Pan’s life since she had sacrificed everything to isolate the city that had the last human survivors to a different space, it is good that they are finally together.
He still remembered when he woke up one day a couple of days after the apocalypse began with memories of their first lives.
He had been a soldier under their command and one of those who opposed Leng Pan’s decision to seal her consciousness and memories in a special meteorite from the alien planet, but as it turned out, that decision was probably why humanity was still standing.
He had later found a few more people who had been a part of their troop and had also awakened their memories and formed a group to find Commander Leng so that she could lead them again.
He hoped that in this life, things would be different. They had the advantage of memories from their past lives and knew the characteristics of the aliens and evolved zombies.
The best thing now is that the zombies hadn’t evolved too much yet. They were not as powerful as they were in the past life.
However, he was also sure that if they could gain their memories, then the traitors might too. Therefore, in this life, they had to change their strategies completely to avoid the enemy have knowledge of what they would do in advance.
In this life, he had become Lu Zhen’s friend from high school and they had stayed friends for many years.
It was just that, they hadn’t regained their memories before the apocalypse started. However, that was okay, they will fight side-by-side again in the future.
Right now, he needed to use his connection with the military to get intelligence about the traitors before he quits and goes to join his friend permanently.
Taking a deep breath, Ouyang Jin stopped thinking about the past and returned to his documents.
In a different apartment in the city, a group of people sat together looking like they were gossiping.
"Do you think the leader has gone to find Commander Leng and Commander Lu? That soldier found out where he lives, he must have told the Captain." The young girl who had been peaking at Leng Pan at the mountain when they were chopping firewood asked curiously.
"I am not sure. He had been reluctant about going to find them all along. Didn’t he say that even if we found them we shouldn’t approach and should instead stay away?
He probably doesn’t want to raise suspicions yet." A young man who looked like a scholar replied.
The others looked at him and nodded.
What he said was right.
"But, if we go looking for them it might arouse suspicion but if the leader goes, that’s a different story.
Remember that the leader had been Commander Lu’s friend in this life since they were teenagers. So, even if he goes looking for him, anyone watching would just think that old friends were catching up or looking to team up to help each other." Sonny said.
The others thought that he made sense. They were different from their leader, Ouyang Jin who had practically grown up with the commander in this life.
"What if we meet Commander Leng by coincidence and become friends?" The guy who looks like a celebrity asked.
"Are you really that naive? Those traitors won’t let go of any possibility even if it means killing a thousand innocent people just so that they won’t let one slip through.
It might become even trickier if they have also regained their memories like us.
What is more, we don’t know if the two commanders have regained their own memories yet. If they haven’t, then we would be putting them in danger without knowing." Another woman who looked slightly mature interjected. The source of thɪs content is Novᴇ(l)Fɪre .ɴᴇt
She hadn’t appeared in the previous meetings and only joined them a couple of days ago.
She was probably the oldest in this group, being thirty-four years old. In their last life when she fought side-by-side with the others, she had also been a bit older, but only by a couple of years.
This time she was more than a decade older than the commanders. It was both refreshing and somewhat awkward.
However, she was a believer that if she didn’t feel awkward, then it was others who will feel awkward. In that case, sh had accepted the fact that she was older than her superiors by more than a decade and made peace with it.