Chapter 370

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Chapter 370: Ambition
This “job” is a team mission for ‘Heiwu’ and also a “gift” promised to Luo Yan by Yu Qiushui.
Cheng Baisen’s camp ‘Suburban Wolf’ was originally meant for ‘Heiwu’ and served as a node for their surface transport route.
However, this node recently turned traitor and detained a batch of important supplies.
Luo Yan was supposed to take on this mission earlier, but it got delayed because of Liu Xiao.
By completing this mission, not only can they earn contribution points from ‘Heiwu,’ but they will also convert the value of the supplies into work points usable in the underground city, with one-third given as a bonus.
These are the obvious benefits.
As for the hidden benefits, such as recruiting the camp’s warriors, seizing Cheng Baisen’s personal assets, and other shady incomes, it would be a significant fortune for Team 7, which is still in its development stage.
Yu Qiushui made a big plan for a task, so Team 7 is in charge of it.
Only if Team 7 gives up, then other teams can take over.
Without this plan, a task like this would have been taken by other teams already.
After arranging the work, Luo Yan left.
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In the wilderness, the ‘Suburban Wolf’ camp.
At sunset, the camp in the abandoned town was busy with smoke rising.
Although not as big as the main base on the surface, thanks to Cheng Baisen and his group of soldiers, the ‘Suburban Wolf’ camp couldn’t fight against the giant beast, but could handle small groups of Giant Beast Parasites.
Therefore, this camp also attracted many homeless survivors.
They lived here, worked, and in return, received meager rewards just enough to make ends meet.
It was getting late, and the scavengers from the town who went to collect items were returning to the camp in small groups.
They had to pay one-third of their daily earnings upon entering the camp to enjoy the camp’s protection.
For easier management, Cheng Baisen used construction equipment to level most of the buildings and structures in the camp.
Low buildings were built on a large open space with good visibility, surrounded by only tents for new survivors who couldn’t afford the buildings.
It was already December, the weather was cold, and the ground in the camp was covered in a layer of white snow.
People from the camp cleared the snow on the main roads daily, but survivors had to take care of the rest themselves.
However, the survivors who had been tired after a day’s work had no energy to shovel snow, so most of them returned looking tired, walking on the snow with weary steps.
In the depths of the camp, barbed wire fences were erected and alert lines were pulled up, with soldiers inside walking a large wolf dog for patrol.
This area is where Cheng Baisen’s base camp is located, and it is also a forbidden zone.
Survivors, even if they just get close, might be shot at with a few bullets without even entering.
Only with Cheng Baisen’s permission and through vehicle pick-up can one enter his ‘palace’.
As the emperor of the surface world, Cheng Baisen’s residence is much better than that of the survivors; this place used to be a mall in a small town.
After being transformed by Cheng Baisen, it now combines both a residence and a fortress.
Easy to defend and difficult to attack, coupled with tight security, this small camp managed to survive after the natural disaster.
On the rooftop of the main building, Cheng Baisen was smoking a cigar, looking at the camp under the setting sun, feeling a sense of achievement as if a king inspecting his own territory.
Even though he is not young, he still remains in good shape due to his profession and practicing Visualization Technique.
At the table behind him, a chef wearing a tall hat placed a rare, juicy steak on the plate, adorned it, and then served it to the table.
A tall and slim woman, with legs as straight as pencils, who was once a third-tier actress, picked up a bottle of red wine from the ice bucket nearby and poured half a glass into a tall glass beside her.
Only then did Cheng Baisen turn around and invite the stern-looking man next to him to sit down.
“Mr. Chu Yuan, thank you for coming all this way. Please do try our chef’s cooking,” he said warmly.
Cheng Baisen smiled warmly, showing a friendly attitude, and winked at the former actress.
The woman understood the signal, warmly embraced Chu Yuan, pressing her warm body close to his.
At that moment, a clever-looking young man hurried over.
Li Yu, Cheng Baisen’s right-hand man and the commander of the camp warriors.
“Boss, just got a message.”
Cheng Baisen glanced at him and asked casually, “What’s the message?”
“Heiwu sent a notice, requesting you to send the detained goods to Silver Bay Base within three days and provide an explanation,” Li Yu quickly said.
Cheng Baisen sighed, glanced at Chu Yuan, and then said, “No need to worry about it.”
Li Yu frowned, about to say something.
Cheng Baisen glared at him and said, “Little Li, don’t you see there are important guests here?”
“Why are you being so careless? Go downstairs!”
Li Yu could only nod and leave.
At that moment, Chu Yuan, who had his hand on Little Star’s long leg, coldly asked, “What’s wrong?”
Cheng Baisen laughed and said, “Don’t worry, Mr. Chu, try this bottle of red wine, it’s really good.”
Laughter echoed on the rooftop.
Outside the French window, snowflakes were drifting down.
Li Yu glanced at the scene, sighed softly, and closed the door.
Behind the door, a woman with short hair opened a makeup compact, applied some lipstick to her lips.
“Did you get scolded?”
The woman with short hair put away the makeup compact and casually tossed her hair over her shoulder.
“I told you earlier, the boss has changed.”
“Or rather, he has always been like this, but now that he’s involved with that person named Chu, he no longer hides his ambitions and just puts them all out there.”
“Stop talking, Liu Si,” Li Yu pulled out a cigarette and put it in his mouth.
Liu Si ignored him and continued, “Now the boss is full of confidence, why would he underestimate the ‘old boss.'”
Li Yu lit the cigarette, took a puff, and sighed, “This organization, Heiwu, hardly anyone on the surface has known about it for two years.”
“So the boss doesn’t think much of the other side, but those people are not simple, every time we deal with them, they are either well-equipped or highly skilled.”
“In my opinion, this ‘Heiwu’ won’t be much worse than the ‘Yellow Spring’ behind the Chu family.”
“But now the boss and the Chu family have teamed up, and at the instigation of the Chu family, they have detained Heiwu’s assets as startup capital.”
“No matter how I advise him, it’s useless.”
“He wasn’t like this before.”
Just then, voices were heard and soon a dozen people hurried over, carrying a stretcher.
On the stretcher lay a person with a head injury, breathing heavily.
Li Yu threw the cigarette and exclaimed, “How could this happen?”
A man with long hair shouted, “Brother Li, you need to intervene!”
“The Chu family members were causing trouble in the camp. We only tried to stop them with words, but they beat Xiao Zheng almost to death.”
Li Yu furrowed his brows, creating a deep frown.