Apocalyptic Disasters: Carrying a bun and hoarding supplies - Chapter 425

Chapter 425: Scheming
At the same time, Yu Miaomiao returned to the building where she was staying at the moment. She had a cold face, and she looked like she was about to explode at any second. She asked in a low voice, “Who is that woman? The one beside Lei Qian? Why is he listening to her so much?”

Behind her stood Dacheng and Lu Yin. While Lu Yin was a bit scared of the woman’s anger, Dacheng stood with his back straight and a dignified expression on his face. His personality didn’t allow him to lower his head in front of Yu Miaomiao. Though he was a bit annoyed after being led by another woman, he still replied in a low voice, “Her name is Bai Meiyue, and she is the one whose water ability can produce the water hydra.”

“Ah, so it’s her,” Yu Miaomiao frowned. She had been thinking about killing the woman who tried to take the man she had taken an interest in, but as soon as she heard that Bai Meiyue was the one who could produce the water hydra, her will to kill that woman slowly got suppressed.

Bai Meiyue could be a proud asset of her base if she could get her.

Yu Miaomiao walked around the table where she usually sat. Pulling out the documents that she had stored in the cabinet, she read through the information and frowned. She raised her head and questioned, “Why has she not signed the document yet? I am really disappointed with how you two work.”

“We apologise.”

“This subordinate made a mistake.”

Lu Yin lowered her head when she saw Yu Miaomiao looking at them. The two of them were women, but for some reason, she was really scared of Yu Miaomiao. There was just something different about her.

Yu Miaomiao could sense that the woman was scared of her, but she simply laughed at her fear. Instead of saying anything to Lu Yin and wasting her time, she turned to look at Dacheng and said to him, “I am not an unreasonable woman. Since these people are useful for the base and human development, try to let their family know of the benefits that they would get after joining the base.”

“These two teams are really attractive at the moment. So do anything to get them to stand by our side; if possible, try to get their family members to join the base. I believe that as long as their family members join the base, they will be quite …obedient, ah.”

“I understand, chief!”

Dacheng was not Yu Miaomiao’s confidant, but he was not a fool. He could understand what the woman was trying to do. Under the pretext of making Bai Meiyue and Bai Feng’s family join the team; she meant to entrap them in such a way that Bai Meiyue and Bai Feng would have no other choice but to follow her lead.

With their weak nerve in Yu Miaomiao’s hands, it wouldn’t take much for Bai Meiyue and Bai Feng to be controlled to death by them.

There was an unfathomable light in Yu Miaomiao’s eyes. She hated Bai Meiyue, but she also understood that water and food were really important for the base. She couldn’t kill Bai Meiyue, at least not until she could get a decent water ability user.

As for Lei Qian, she was not in a hurry. That man would soon understand that his actions were nothing but foolish.

She tapped her knuckles on the table, and the golden rings that she was wearing made a clicking sound.

She said to the two people in front of her, “From now on, you are not only in charge of convincing Bai Meiyue and Bai Feng’s family, but also in charge of collecting those who don’t have any offensive ability. Go ahead and collect as many water and wood ability users as you can. This is a task that I am trusting you two with; don’t let me down.”

After speaking, she turned around and walked past the two of them. However, she paused just as she came to a stop in front of the door of the office and turned to look at the two soldiers behind her. She said to them,

“This water ability user—Bai Meiyue—she is very different from you two. Compared to your low-ranking abilities, she can actually summon a water hydra. I don’t believe that she would be willing to talk to you. A woman with a strength as powerful as hers has the right to be filled with arrogance. I don’t think you can convince her, so leave this matter to someone else.”

“Once she joins the base, send her to the special ability team.”

The so-called special ability team, as the name suggested, was a team that was made up of ability users. Their main task was to clear up zombies and collect crystal nuclei.

Though they were given a rather fancy name, Dacheng knew that they were no different from suicide bombers.

Ever since he had joined the base under Yu Miaomiao’s care, he knew how hard it was for the supernatural ability users to finish the tasks handed to them by Yu Miaomiao. These people were destined to die.

Since ability users started to join the base, they were sent to clear up zombies and collect crystal nuclei as well as supplies for the base. Every day, under the lure of generous rewards, more than twenty or so ability users would be sent out of the base. However, every time the ability users left the base, only five or six ability users would return. Thus, it could be seen at a glance whether this team was worth joining or not.

And as Yu Miaomiao was worried that the other ability users would find out about this exponential rate of death, she actually isolated them from the rest of the base. They were not even allowed to meet with family and friends. The ability users were either sent on missions or they were under extreme pressure.