Chapter 275: 274 I am such a timid woman like a mouse
Before Hua Mi could find Qin Zhen, it was actually Qin Zhen who came looking for Hua Mi first.
She wanted to buy a batch of weapons from Hua Mi.
She knew that Hua Mi had weapons, a lot of them.
Looking at Qin Zhen sitting in the car, Hua Mi shook her head,
“Weapons must not be spread indiscriminately, but if you want, I can bring a team with me and accompany you on your journey.”
No matter the time, weapons should not be allowed to spread unchecked, even if those ruthless killers had started troubling Xiang City first.
Even in such times, Hua Mi still believed that the weapons in her possession should not end up in the hands of ordinary survivors.
If that precedent were set, survivors wouldn’t have to wait for mutant monsters and zombies to kill them.
They would end up killing themselves.
Hesitant, Qin Zhen looked at Hua Mi’s pregnant belly; she had her own sources of information, so she knew that Ma Yongchun had gone to meet Ma Zhixuan.
At this moment, Hua Mi had already opened Qin Zhen’s car door and sat down.
She patted Qin Zhen’s shoulder,
“Don’t worry, how could I possibly risk rushing ahead of you? I know fear too.”
“Going to see Ma Zhixuan is just out of curiosity; I want to see what kind of devils and demons he has managed to befriend.”
“A woman as timid as I am only needs to hide behind you all and sneak peeks.”
Seeing Qin Zhen’s hesitation again, Hua Mi patted the driver’s seat back,
“Let’s go. I’ve found an extraordinarily strong expert to lead the team. Without me, you won’t win this fight.”
Finally, under Hua Mi’s persistent soft-hitting and threats of various kinds, Qin Zhen could only take Hua Mi along to meet Ma Zhixuan.
Liu Shengyuan had already torn the “Xiang City Observation Tower” transmission ticket to return and was now getting ready at the city gate.
Knowing that this was going to be a tough fight, Cao Feng told Liu Shengyuan to pick several dozen people to come along, but Liu Shengyuan just pointed here and there and ended up selecting only three people.
The primary task of these three people was to protect Hua Mi and Qin Zhen.
As the car drove on, Qin Zhen stared out at the snow through the car window.
She might have been quiet and seemed calm on the surface, but her fingers clutched tightly at the hem of her clothes, betraying her nervousness.
In the tranquil cabin of the car, Hua Mi didn’t know what to say. Probably, at this time, Qin Zhen didn’t feel like talking to anyone either.
The car continued on its way, and it looked like it was heading to City C.
And those killers who had kidnapped Qin Jianqiang, along with Ma Zhixuan, were holed up in an abandoned building by the side of Xiang C Highway.
The snow kept piling up, there was a hustle of people on the Xiang C Highway, and the snow on the abandoned building had been buried up to the top floor.
Ma Yongchun arrived at the destination on a snowmobile, scanning the snowy expanse before him, Ma Zhixuan stood atop the front building, cheerfully waving down at him.
“Brother, you didn’t bring anyone else, did you?”
Ma Zhixuan trudged through the snow as he approached, watching Ma Yongchun dismount from the snowmobile.
Hearing this, Ma Yongchun spread his hands wide, his face stoic, and without a word, let Ma Zhixuan come forward to inspect.
Ma Zhixuan glanced around his brother’s back, indeed seeing no one else; it was just Ma Yongchun who had come alone.
With an apologetic face, he gave his explanation,
“Brother, it’s not that I don’t trust you. Those people are all very vigilant. It wasn’t easy to shake the Garrison, and now they don’t want to take any risks.”
Ma Yongchun stepped forward, he seemed to have no interest in listening to Ma Zhixuan’s excuses, urgency evident on his face,
“Follow me, the child is fine, it’s just that…”
As Ma Zhixuan spoke, he had already led Ma Yongchun down from the top floor of the building, entering the icy and pitch-dark interior of the building.
The entire building was buried, serving as a natural shelter. If it weren’t for the exact location given, the garrison wouldn’t have been able to easily locate them.
Ma Yongchun followed Ma Zhixuan and had only descended one floor when he heard the heart-wrenching cries of the infant, mixed with a group of men’s curses.
He kept a stern face, rushing Ma Zhixuan to move faster. After hurrying down several floors, they saw a group of men gathered around a fire.
And there, little more than a month old, Qin Jianqiang lay abandoned on the cold ground a distance away.
Under the scornful gaze of the assassins, Ma Yongchun sprinted over, picking up his wailing son from the ground with a heart full of pain.
He turned his furious gaze towards Ma Zhixuan.
Ma Zhixuan was completely oblivious, not even realizing the seriousness of leaving a barely one-month-old premature infant laying on the cold ground, left to cry helplessly.
“He’ll die if you keep this up, all this torment will kill him.”
Ma Yongchun was so angry he could hardly speak, cradling his son in his arms, barely bigger than a rabbit, and watching him cry himself hoarse.
His heart was in complete turmoil.
Perhaps even Ma Yongchun himself hadn’t expected that his first meeting with his son would be under such circumstances.
Without waiting for Ma Zhixuan to reply, Ma Yongchun felt that his child’s temperature was off and quickly opened his coat to wrap Qin Jianqiang inside his own clothing,
“This child has a fever, he needs to be taken back.”
However, before Ma Yongchun could finish speaking, the smiles on the faces of the killers by the fire collapsed.
A few assassins stood up.
Vasily sat behind several assassins, his face cold with murderous intent,
“I lost so many brothers just to bring this child out. You want to take him back just like that, as if my brother’s lives were lost in vain?”
Wrapped with the child, Ma Yongchun’s lips moved, wisely refraining from insisting at this moment,
“At least give my son some medicine. After all, you want the resource warehouse. If my son dies, Qin Zhen will definitely not let the resource warehouse go.”
Vasily narrowed his eyes dangerously. With a toss of his hand, a box of expired adult ibuprofen landed by Ma Yongchun’s feet,
“Feed it to him. Make him stop crying.”
It wasn’t that Vasily felt pity for the child. If this kid wasn’t Qin Zhen’s son, Vasily would have crushed him to pulp under his foot long ago.
These inhumane people, where would they care about the life of an infant?
Ma Yongchun looked down, eyeing the expired adult ibuprofen by his feet, his brow furrowed and never relaxed.
Vasily said sarcastically,
“Not giving it to him? We’ve all been through this. Is your son any different?”
Standing amidst the dark and cold, Ma Yongchun really wanted to say that yes, his son was different from these killers.
Even more so, Ma Yongchun himself was different from these killers.
“From the time we remember, we were trained in the organization. Saving such a fragile little thing at the expense of such resources, it’s a tremendous waste.”
As Vasily spoke, he slowly walked towards Ma Yongchun.
Like a giant humanoid beast, the corners of his mouth sported a bloodthirsty sneer,
“Ma Yongchun, speaking of which, you as the garrison commander of C City, are not doing a good job.”
“How about you make a call and have Qin Zhen come over here alone? What do you say?”
“This is also a show of your sincerity.”