Apocalypse: Why did you provoke her? She's a cultivator.

Chapter 37 She's Lying
As expected, her guess was correct; Heaven was only wary of her, this "outsider" cultivator.

He was terrified that she would kill His lucky charm.

But the person He chose was really not that great.

She'll take Zheng Shuxue's life sooner or later.

Nan Shaohua turned his head and looked around, but didn't see Zheng Shuxue.

"Sister Ye, where is Zheng Shuxue?"

Ye Qiumian walked to Nan Shaohua's side and patted him on the shoulder.

"She's gone, Zheng Shuxue has run away."

Nan Shaohua gave a blank "Ah," and then asked, "Why didn't you stop her?"

"She's still useful," Ye Qiumian said calmly.

Nan Shaohua nodded. Since Sister Ye said that keeping Zheng Shuxue around would be useful, then he could only let her go for now.

He chased after her, genuinely curious about what other use Zheng Shuxue might have.

In the end, he moved his mouth, but wisely refrained from asking.

Never mind, curiosity killed the cat.

The two figures gradually disappeared into the alley.

...

Zheng Shuxue ran all the way back to the military building.

I ran into Li Hongbo as he was leaving when I entered.

Li Hongbo also happened to see her run into the building in a panic, as if someone behind her was going to kill her.

In fact, Li Hongbo's guess was correct; Zheng Shuxue was indeed afraid that Ye Qiumian would come after her and kill her.

What Li Hongbo didn't know was that Wu Tong and Zheng Shuxue had been keeping it from him these past few days, and they didn't know how many superhumans they had lost.

To this day, the two are still keeping it a secret and have not reported the number of dead superhumans.

If Li Hongbo knew what the two of them had done, he would be so angry he would vomit blood.

Although it has been more than four months since the apocalypse, the number of people with superpowers is still too small.

Fortunately, there are still many ordinary people who are gradually awakening their superpowers.

Otherwise, at the current rate of death and improvement of superpowers among those with superpowers, humanity will be unable to contend with zombies in the future.

At that time, the world will become a zombie paradise.

Although these are not things that Li Hongbo, as a city lord, needs to consider.

But he was well aware of the importance of superhumans to Lincheng.

Without superhumans, Lincheng could be overrun by zombies at any time.

By then, everyone in the city will either become food for the zombies or become one of them.

As the head of the Lincheng military, Li Hongbo would naturally not allow such a thing to happen.

Li Hongbo narrowed his dark eyes. "Go ask her what happened."

Following Li Hongbo's gaze, the security captain outside the car saw Zheng Shuxue's back.

The captain nodded and replied "Yes," then strode away.

Soon, the guard captain returned, followed by Zheng Shuxue.

Zheng Shuxue lowered her head, secretly thinking that today was incredibly unlucky.

Go kill Xiao Nuo. Let's just leave it at that since Xiao Nuo's family was saved by that demon.

She later escaped, but the demon found her anyway.

She finally managed to escape back to the military building, only to be seen by Li Hongbo looking terrified.

When Li Hongbo's security captain came looking for her, she knew that many things could no longer be kept secret.

Previously, with Wu Tong around, they were able to suppress the reports of the deaths of other superhumans.

Wu Tong is now very likely to have been killed by those two demons.

Wu Tong's death could not be concealed, and the deaths of the other superhumans would also be exposed.

She has to find a way to extricate herself from this situation.

Li Hongbo's expression was serious. "You were in such a panic just now. What happened?"

Zheng Shuxue lowered her head and recited the prepared speech she had prepared beforehand.

"Reporting to the commander, it is Ye Qiumian who is hunting me down. She holds a grudge against me and Wu Tong because of what happened at the northwest city gate a few days ago."

Today, Wu Tong, some others, and I went out, but unfortunately, we ran into her. Without saying a word, she attacked us. Wu Tong and the others stayed behind to fight Ye Qiu Mian so I could return with the news.

Li Hongbo looked at her suspiciously. "Then why didn't I see you call someone out just now?" Several minutes had passed between when he saw her enter the building and when he called someone out to question her.

But he didn't see anyone come out with her.

It is clear that she did not inform anyone.

Zheng Shuxue's heart skipped a beat, and she said guiltily, "I was so scared that I didn't even have time to look for anyone before the guard captain came looking for me."

"Keep your head up."

Upon hearing this, Zheng Shuxue's heart tightened, but she forced herself to remain calm and raised her head.

Although she appeared calm, her shifty eyes betrayed her.

She is lying!

Li Hongbo's serious face darkened, exuding an aura of authority.

It inspires awe and makes one want to confess and seek leniency.

Zheng Shuxue clenched her clothes, cold sweat breaking out on her brow.

Li Hongbo turned to the guard captain and said, "Arrange for a few men to go with her to find Wu Tong."

"Yes."

The guard captain went and spoke a few words with one of the team members, then returned.

"Reporting to the commander, it has been arranged."

Li Hongbo gave a deep "hmm" and said, "Let's go."

As he spoke, he closed the car door.

The captain of the guard also got into the car, started the engine, and drove away.

Watching the car drive away, Zheng Shuxue breathed a huge sigh of relief.

The remaining guards quickly summoned five men.

"Miss Zheng, let's go."

The thought of going to find Wu Tong and inevitably seeing Ye Qiu Mian filled Zheng Shuxue with a strange sense of fear.

She forced a smile. "Hehe, how about this? I'll give you the address, and you can go there yourselves?"

The guard frowned, his expression serious and brooking no refusal. "Please lead the way, Miss Zheng."

Seeing that he refused to compromise, Zheng Shuxue's face turned ugly.

Because this guard was one of Li Hongbo's men, she didn't dare to offend him and could only reluctantly lead them to find Wu Tong.

When Zheng Shuxue led her people into the alley, they found Wu Tong lying motionless on the ground.

Zheng Shuxue glanced around warily, and only when she didn't see Ye Qiumian did she finally relax.

The guard stepped forward and checked Wu Tong's breathing.

He had been dead for some time when they discovered him.

But what about the other people Zheng Shuxue mentioned?

Besides Wu Tong, there were no other bodies at the scene.

Moreover, after carefully examining the traces of the fight, he concluded that they did not appear to be from a large-scale brawl.

Thinking it over, the guard asked directly, "Didn't you say you brought people with you? Where are the others?"

Zheng Shuxue's face stiffened. "They probably ran away."

The guard looked at her suspiciously, unsure whether he believed her.

The group took Wu Tong's body away.

Ye Qiu Mian asked Nan Shaohua to take the things back, and then she went to the military building.

She guessed that Zheng Shuxue had escaped and would definitely come here.

When she arrived, she saw several people carrying Wu Tong's body back.

Zheng Shuxue happened to be among those people.

Unexpectedly, Zheng Shuxue was so afraid of death that she actually dared to lead people back to collect Wu Tong's body.

It seems she wasn't heartless towards Wu Tong after all.

Ye Qiumian raised an eyebrow, her opinion of her changing considerably.

But this was only a slight improvement, and it did not affect Ye Qiu Mian's intention to use her for body tempering.

She looked at the group of people in the distance and smiled slightly.

(End of this chapter)