Chapter 344
"Children? Distributing supplies?"
Mo Chun was puzzled.
"What exactly is going on?"
After hearing the accounts from several people, Mo Chun and the others finally understood the sequence of events.
It turned out that when Yun Xiaoxiao and Qu Xiaobei arrived at the base's main gate, they left a few words before being taken to meet the leaders of the various factions.
Seeing how convincingly Yun Xiaoxiao spoke, those leaders believed that Yao Guangguo and his men were on their last legs, prompting them to call an emergency meeting.
But when they tried to find Yun Xiaoxiao again, she and her companion had already disappeared.
At that time, however, they were solely focused on intercepting Yao Guangguo and didn’t think much of it.
Now, upon hearing that two little girls were distributing supplies, the group suddenly had an epiphany.
They exchanged stunned glances.
One man slapped his thigh in frustration. "Damn it, we’ve been tricked!"
Seeing Mo Chun’s questioning look, he quickly explained.
After listening to him, Mo Chun furrowed her brows.
"So, they claimed that Yao Guangguo and his men were severely injured, deliberately luring you to confront him?
But in reality, Yao Guangguo wasn’t injured at all. They wanted you to fight each other.
And now they’re publicly distributing supplies, so those supplies must be..."
Almost simultaneously, everyone arrived at the same conclusion.
Mo Chun immediately sent someone to check the warehouse while she led the others to the location where Yun Xiaoxiao and her companion had been distributing supplies.
However, by the time they arrived, the place was deserted.
There was no trace of the little girls.
Mo Chun stopped a woman who was still lingering nearby.
"Auntie, where are the little girls who were handing out supplies?" she asked.
The woman, still visibly shaken, pointed tremblingly at the sky.
"They... they flew away. They flew away on a giant eagle."
A giant eagle?!
Instantly, an image of a small figure flashed through Mo Chun’s mind.
Mo Xing and Huang Yan’s eyes also lit up with recognition.@@novelbin@@
They, too, had thought of the same familiar little girl from their memories.
There were only a handful of little girls in the world who could ride on a giant eagle.
Up until now, they had only ever seen one.
"Sister, it sounds like it might be Xiaoxiao!" Mo Xing said excitedly.
Mo Chun then asked a few people nearby about Yun Xiaoxiao’s appearance and finally confirmed it.
"One of them was definitely her."
Connecting all the dots, the answer became clear.
"I think Yao Shengwei was probably killed by her, and Yao Guangguo was also lured out by her.
And you..."
She glanced at the leaders of the factions.
"...were deliberately led out to deal with Yao Guangguo.
As for the supplies in the warehouse, half of what Yao Guangguo took out must have been taken by her.
The other half was distributed to the survivors in the base."
It had to be said, Mo Chun was incredibly sharp.
In just a short while, she had pieced everything together, and her conclusions were almost identical to the truth.
"Should we go after those two little girls?" asked the middle-aged man beside Mo Chun.
Mo Chun shook her head. "She’s done us such a huge favor. Why would we chase her?"
"But the supplies..."
"Half of the supplies have already been distributed to the people in the base. The other half, as a token of gratitude, is more than fair."
Hearing this, the middle-aged man said nothing more.
Indeed, compared to eliminating Yao Guangguo and his vile followers, a few supplies were nothing.
If Yao Guangguo had remained in the base, their chances of victory would have been slim.
Many of the scattered factions in the base were neutral.
Unless their own interests were at stake, they wouldn’t lift a finger to help.
Yun Xiaoxiao’s clever scheme had perfectly divided and conquered, helping them eliminate Yao Guangwei and his remaining followers, allowing them to regain control of the base.
They truly owed her their gratitude.
"Round up all of Yao Guangguo’s remaining underlings. Not a single one... is to be spared," Mo Chun ordered.
At this moment, she exuded the commanding presence of a seasoned leader.
Having experienced the loss of her family, she had changed profoundly.
"Yes!"
The middle-aged man left with his team.
Mo Chun gazed up at the distant sky, her eyes filled with guilt and regret.
If only she had been more decisive back then, when the little girl had urged her to kill Yao Shengwei, her parents might not have died such tragic deaths.
But there was no cure for regret.
No matter how much she dwelled on it, it wouldn’t change a thing.
What she hadn’t expected was that the person who ultimately helped her would be the little girl she had only met twice.
If she ever had the chance to see her again, she would make sure to thank her properly.
"She really is a remarkable little girl," Huang Yan couldn’t help but remark.
"Auntie, do you know Xiaoxiao?" Mo Xing asked curiously, looking up.
Huang Yan then briefly recounted what had happened at the clock tower.
Both Mo Chun and her brother were astonished.
Fate could be truly mysterious.
That enigmatic little girl had, without them even realizing it, helped their family so many times.
"Bad news! A large group of unidentified entities is approaching the base from the east. It looks like... a horde of zombies!"
Suddenly, the screech of brakes echoed as a man frantically jumped out of a vehicle, his voice trembling.
Hearing this, everyone present turned pale.
"Are you sure you saw correctly?" Mo Chun raised an eyebrow.
The man nodded vigorously, almost as if his head might fall off.
"Take us to see."
The group hurriedly made their way to the city walls.
Mo Chun took the binoculars handed to her by a guard and peered into the distance.
There, on the pristine snow-covered ground, a massive swarm of zombies was stumbling and staggering toward them.
From afar, they looked like an endless, seething mass.
With a grim expression, she passed the binoculars to Huang Yan.
Huang Yan, the middle-aged man, and the others took turns looking, each of their faces growing increasingly somber.
"Why are so many zombies migrating in this heavy snow?"
"The numbers are terrifying. If they all reach us, can we hold them off?"
"I never thought the reports of zombie sieges on the radio were actually true!"
"Sigh, if only Yao Guangguo hadn’t stubbornly opposed it back then, we could’ve joined forces with other bases to deal with the zombies.
Maybe we wouldn’t be in this situation now."
Back then, bases in the east, west, south, and north regions had all responded to the zombie eradication initiative.
They had united with all the bases in their respective areas, actively clearing out the zombies in their territories.
The goal was to reduce the chances of a zombie horde besieging their own base.
Only the central region had refused to participate.
The reason was that the Yao family had vehemently opposed it.
They argued that zombies from distant areas couldn’t possibly threaten their base.
Why waste so much manpower, resources, and funds to eliminate such dangerous creatures?
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