Chapter 382: 374 Surefire Conspiracy_2
“Miss Hua, I’ve come to rescue you.”
“Whoever wants to hurt Miss Hua has to step over my dead body first…”
The hefty body of the Contractor crashed onto Huo Jing’s back, and Huo Jing let out a pained scream.
The assassin at the very bottom dropped his sharp knife and spat out a mouthful of blood; he was crushed by the weight.
The Contractor, frantic, yelled out, “Huo Jing, Huo Jing, are you okay? Don’t scare me, man, you can’t be hurt.”
Through Huo Jing, the Contractor landed a few more punches on the blood-spitting assassin,
“You’re looking for death. Not only did you want to harm Miss Hua, but you also hurt our Huo Jing. I’ll kill you!”
Hua Mi, who had watched the entire scene from a distance, felt truly sorry for Huo Jing.
If they didn’t rescue Huo Jing soon, he might end up flattened by the Contractor.
A few more of the Garrison rushed over and finally pried the clawing Contractor off.
They grabbed the bleeding man on the ground and took him downstairs, also sending Huo Jing to the medical center.
The Garrison would use their internal methods of interrogation to investigate the assassin who tried to attack Hua Mi thoroughly.
The Contractor huffed and puffed behind Hua Mi,
“Next time there’s someone like that, I’ll surely beat him to death.”
He clenched his fists, clearly filled with righteous indignation.
He was mainly upset because Huo Jing had also been dragged into this. The Contractor felt that he could tolerate a lot but not when his own people got hurt.
He turned around, intending to search the construction site and remove any potential threats.
Hua Mi listened to the Contractor’s grumbling, and after touring the west end and giving him a few pieces of advice,
She sat down, pregnant belly and all, under a stall at the western edge of Xiang City to rest, serviced by the bowing and scraping Contractor.
Outside Xiang City, there were no longer any street vendors, but inside there were, as the design of Xiang City Base was so expansive; it encompassed the area of three former towns, making it too vast. There was everything one could think of here,
Besides some women who came to work on the construction site, there was a constant stream of men coming and going every day.
The Contractor and Huo Jing really didn’t have the energy to sift through and select reliable individuals one by one.
Under the sunshade, the stall owner took out a cup of ice-cold orange juice from the cooler and offered it to Hua Mi, asking if she wanted a drink.
Hua Mi shook her head and rubbed her belly. She was avoiding cold drinks now, fearing that catching a cold or getting a fever at this time would only add to her and her child’s troubles.
The stall owner glanced at her belly and started to chat,
“How many children are you carrying in there? It looks like three or four.”
Hua Mi shook her head again,
She was nearly 8 months pregnant now, but she felt like she was going to give birth any day, with increasingly frequent contractions.
Even though Xin Qiuru had been preparing nutritious meals for her and tightly controlling her nutritional intake recently, fearing the baby would grow too large for Hua Mi to handle,
Her belly was still growing like a balloon, getting bigger by the day.
The stall owner looked at Hua Mi’s enormous belly in awe and curiously remarked, “Such a big belly for twins, how big must the children be?”
In these times, having the courage to bear children was indeed commendable.
Hua Mi, commended for her courage, smiled and asked the stall owner,
“You’ve got quite the nerve yourself.”
“Aren’t you afraid that a Zombie from the west might storm in and be the first to devour everything on your stall?”
And eat the stall owner along with it.
At these words, the stall owner pulled out two Kitchen Knives and placed them on top of the cooler,
“What’s there to be afraid of? I’ll kill any that comes. What time are we living in if even a small business isn’t allowed? These Zombies really deserve to die.”
He had been a vendor before the apocalypse, chased by the city management every day.
Even after the apocalypse, he continued to run his stall in Xiang City and didn’t feel the presence of Zombies should stop him from doing business.
If he didn’t conduct business, what was he supposed to do?
He then reassured Hua Mi,
“Actually, you don’t need to worry. Xiang City Base might look horrifying from the outside, but after all the natural disasters and man-made calamities it has faced, has it ever fallen?”
“Rest assured, based on my many years of living here, I believe Xiang City won’t fall this time either.”
Although many people inside Xiang City were saying that the city was on the brink of destruction.
Since the wall on the east side was erected, survivors were already forbidden from entering or exiting from the south and east.
So the western part has become more lively as a result.