On the way, I asked about the wedding.
Suo Tian didn’t answer, but the person driving seemed quite interested and picked up the conversation instead.
Judging from what he was wearing, he didn’t look like someone from Team C.
If I wasn’t mistaken, he must have been specially sent from the wedding side.
Thinking about it, it was actually kind of ironic—look at it from another angle: if I weren’t sitting in this car with Suo Tian right now, but instead was still like before, leading a group of people struggling to survive, hiding and running everywhere, and then learned that a place like this existed—still spending manpower and resources on a romantic wedding, even providing private cars to pick up guests—I’d probably be furious to death.
But in the end, this apocalypse only applies to ordinary people like us.
Those who truly have power and influence are mostly just safely hiding behind layers of protection, still enjoying all kinds of superior conditions created by others, while continuing to issue orders under the guise of leadership.
No matter how overpowered Suo Tian is, he’s still just carrying out orders.
When faced with those nearly absurd commands, he doesn’t even have the right to say no.
I turned to look at him, staring out the window in a daze.
I reached out, hooked my arm around his, and rested my head on his shoulder.
Back then, when he said, “Only the strong can survive in this world,” I agreed at the time, but didn’t truly understand what kind of mindset he had when he said it.
His “cheat-like power” was forced upon him—between death and strength, he had no choice but to choose the latter.
Chatting with the driver the whole way, I roughly figured out the situation with the wedding.
This time, it was the wedding of Team A’s captain, Chang Wubai, and the daughter of the head of a top-secret research group.
If this had happened before, it would be like PetroChina marrying China Mobile—the scale and impact were easy to imagine.
As for what the top-secret research group actually did, the driver, Xiao Ye, didn’t know either.
He only said it was a group researching the virus.
I didn’t ask further.
Compared to that, I was more interested in the wedding itself than in the people involved.
Romantic things always make people look forward to them.
During the ride, I secretly glanced at Suo Tian a couple of times.
That guy really got off easy—no wedding, no proposal, nothing, and I already ended up being the mother of his child.
The drive went quickly.
Along the way, we passed the street where that shopping mall used to be.
It had already reopened.
It wasn’t too early anymore, and crowds had begun to flow in.
The whole street looked lively and prosperous, with no trace at all of the slaughter and bloodshed from that day.
I sighed softly.
Suo Tian noticed my gaze and looked outside as well, then said, “Jiang Honghua is dead.”
“Sister Hua?” I turned to him.
“Didn’t you say she got scratched? If she was infected, then death was inevitable anyway.”
“She scratched two Team A members. She was ‘filled.’”
As soon as Suo Tian finished speaking, the car suddenly braked.
I wasn’t prepared and lurched forward, hitting the back of the seat in front of me.
Suo Tian pulled me back and steadied me, then turned his head and looked at Xiao Ye expressionlessly.
“You can’t even handle something as simple as driving?”
Xiao Ye nodded apologetically. “Sorry, sorry,” then shot me a pleading look.
I blinked to show I got the signal and cleared my throat, changing the subject.
“What does ‘filled’ mean?”
Suo Tian hesitated, as if considering whether to answer.
Just as I was wondering, Xiao Ye glanced back from the front.
“You don’t know what ‘filled’ means? To the east, there used to be a crematorium. Those furnaces are now specifically used to deal with walker corpses after research is done on them, or ones that are no longer useful—that’s for burning the dead. ‘Filled’ means throwing a living person in and burning them into a pile of ashes.”
“What?!” I was utterly shocked.
I glanced at Suo Tian, whose brows had tightened again, then turned back to Xiao Ye, who seemed completely unaware, and asked, “Why burn people alive? Even if they’re infected, shouldn’t you at least give them a quick death first before burning them?”
“Yeah, who’s saying otherwise? Everyone thinks this method is a bit too cruel. Back then, even execution by shooting at least gave a quick end. But then again, the situation is different now, so they had to come up with a different way to deal with it. This base is big—when a place gets big, all kinds of trouble show up. Small disturbances happen almost every few months. Those infected who don’t die right away get taken back, and some can’t accept reality. They turn vicious, thinking if they’re going to suffer, they might as well drag a few others down with them. After too many incidents like that, the higher-ups had to find a solution. In the end, they just went with the old ways—severe punishment. But since those people don’t have long to live anyway, they’re not afraid of being shot or chopped up. Who knows which idiot came up with this method.”
Xiao Ye rambled on for quite a while, and it made my skin crawl.
“So… does that mean Sister Hua was burned alive too?”
Xiao Ye didn’t know who Sister Hua was, so he cleared his throat and didn’t respond.
Suo Tian, beside me, glanced at me. “She injured two Team A members. The one surnamed Chang personally threw her in.”
After a long pause, I let out two deep breaths. “Did those two team members die as well?”
“Yeah.”
Seeing Suo Tian nod, I couldn’t help but sigh heavily.
Sister Hua was an unlucky and pitiful person, but from the way she treated her Second Sister-in-law, you could tell she had a ruthless side deep down.
The knife wounds on her face cut almost to the bone—someone capable of harming innocent people like that… it wasn’t surprising.
Back in the mall, when I noticed something was off but didn’t know who was behind it, I deliberately said those harsh words, hoping to temporarily keep that person’s emotions in check.
It worked fairly well.
The few of us managed to secure some safety amidst the danger.
After driving for a long time, the car finally stopped in front of an outrageously large estate.
The area outside the estate was already packed with cars.
Not far away, on a large open field, several helicopters were slowly landing.
After getting out of the car, I looked at the hundreds of vehicles around and the helicopters in the distance.
Following Suo Tian toward the main gate, I couldn’t suppress the ordinary, small-minded part of myself and quietly marveled—no matter when it is, those with power and ability always enjoy a luxurious lifestyle.
The estate had an absurdly grand carved gate.
Suo Tian said it was an old residence left from before.
Once inside, a straight road led directly to the villa’s main hall.
On both sides were neatly maintained lawns, and nearly a hundred people filled the hall and the grass.
It looked pretty much like those extravagant weddings of wealthy people in the past.
Basically, it was just a gathering of people with some level of status taking the opportunity to network.
The only difference was that most of them wore various uniforms, which seemed to represent their identities.
People in the same uniforms gathered together, sizing up their surroundings and looking for connections they could latch onto.
As soon as Suo Tian and I entered, a young woman approached us.
She was wearing a professional suit and high heels that felt completely out of place in this setting.
“Captain Suo, please come this way. Master Gu is waiting for you over here.”
After Suo Tian nodded, he pulled me along as we followed the woman toward the hall.
I quietly asked from behind, “Who is Master Gu?”
“An old geezer.” Even though he said that, Suo Tian’s expression clearly carried a hint of familiarity and closeness when he mentioned him.
I pursed my lips.
The people here were really strange.
Just now there was someone named Bai Wuchang, and now there’s an old man called “Gu Ye.”
Along the way, we kept running into members of Team C and others in different uniforms greeting Suo Tian.
At one point, we even ran into the two Team B members who had pointed guns at him last time.
This time, they actually greeted him politely.
“Why are they being so friendly?”
Suo Tian didn’t answer.
He glanced toward the increasingly crowded main hall, hesitated for a moment, then reached out and pulled me into his arms.
Nestled in Suo Tian’s embrace, I instantly brightened up, no longer caring about those two people’s attitude.
Happily, I followed the beautiful woman up the stairs inside the hall to the second floor.
Compared to the courtyard and the busy hall, the second floor felt like a completely different world—quiet and calm.
It was designed somewhat like a hotel, with a long corridor covered in thick carpet, and rooms lined on both sides.
She led us to one of the doors, then stopped and knocked. “Master Gu, Captain Suo has arrived.”
A reply came almost immediately from inside: “Let him in.”
The woman then opened the door and gestured for Suo Tian to enter.
I lifted my foot to follow, but she politely extended her hand to stop me.
“Sorry, companions aren’t allowed inside.”
Before I could respond, another, older voice came from inside the room: “Let the young lady come in as well.”
The beautiful woman froze for a moment, then said sorry and stepped aside, withdrawing her hand.
Suo Tian took my hand and led me into the room.
I quickly glanced around at the layout—it was very simple, just a circle of sofas and a few chairs in the same color.
Two elderly men sat upright on the sofa, both dressed in military uniforms.
When I saw one of them, he looked oddly familiar.
After thinking for a moment, I was shocked to realize—wasn’t he the old man who used to appear on TV broadcasting the news back when I was at home?!
Perhaps noticing my gaze, the old man shifted his attention from Suo Tian to me.
His stern, naturally imposing face studied me for a moment before he turned to the other elderly man beside him and said with a smile, “Old Gu, what do you think of this girl? Must not have been easy to match Xiao Tian’s taste.”
I froze for a second.
So he wasn’t Master Gu.
I quickly looked over at the other old man.
Compared to the one in military uniform, this “Master Gu” had a more indescribable aura about him.
It wasn’t exactly authority or warmth—just something about him felt… unusual.
He looked at me for a couple of seconds, his expression barely changing, then turned to Suo Tian with an inquiring glance. “Your wife?”
— The end of the Chapter–
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