Let’s Squander A Billion First!

Chapter 1212: Chapter 1212: Dark Descent (Part 32)

Ji Lin somehow found some snacks and ate them while asking her, ”Chuzheng, aren’t you scared?”

”Scared of what?”

Ji Lin chuckled, ”You don’t even know what that thing is, yet you just went in. Aren’t you afraid of encountering any danger?”

”Not scared.” Chuzheng’s little face was serious, ”I’m very powerful.”

How could a girl admit to being scared!

Ji Lin might have remembered those chaotic ’Special Abilities’ of Chuzheng, and chose to remain silent. He shouldn’t have brought up this topic with her.

The place where the ”Rich People” lived was different from where the tech bigwigs lived. Chuzheng led Ji Lin to avoid patrols and quickly arrived at the clearing she had seen before.

The shed had only a vague outline in the dark, with no light inside; it was pitch-black.

This shed was connected to the building behind it, presumably the ”Laboratory”.

They had planted ”Wheat” outside, there must be another reason.

”How do we get in?”

Chuzheng glanced at the guards outside and said softly, ”Follow me, don’t run around.”

”Chuzheng, I know what I’m doing. Don’t treat me like a child, I’m not as weak as you think.”

”...”

Ha!

A weakling has no right to say that.

Chuzheng had been inside once before, and now she was familiar with it, easily sneaking in.

However, there were many more guards at night than during the day. Ji Lin made a gesture, and Chuzheng nodded, acting without hesitation, rushing out directly. Ji Lin was startled and quickly pulled her back.

Ji Lin lowered his voice and shouted, ”What are you doing?”

Chuzheng replied matter-of-factly, ”Weren’t we going to knock them out?” Wasn’t that the gesture he just made, to knock them out before discussing further?

”...”

Knock out what! Knock out!?

How did she interpret it like that!

”If you knock them out, and we find nothing inside, wouldn’t that alert the snake?”

”How could we find nothing? Just grab and ask them, alert the snake if we have to! What’s there to be afraid of!”

Ji Lin: ”...”

He shouldn’t have acted with her.

With such different methods of operation, how could they become competent teammates?

”I’ll go distract them.”

Ji Lin told Chuzheng to wait here while he sneaked around to the back and made some noise, quickly luring the guards away.

Chuzheng was troubled by the two guards who hadn’t left.

Finally, she rolled up her sleeves and went up.

Ji Lin returned quickly and saw no one around. Chuzheng was already standing at the shed entrance. Ji Lin went over, and the two of them entered the shed together.

Inside the shed, the ground had some faint light, revealing the situation inside.

Just as Chuzheng described, colorful Grain appeared inexplicably eerie under such an environment.

At the far end, there was a door. Chuzheng went over to pull it but couldn’t open it.

”Chuzheng, look at this.” Ji Lin called Chuzheng back and pointed at the ground.

Several thick, finger-width tubes snaked across the ground, connecting to a small field of wheat inside the shed. The light was too dim to see what was in the tubes.

Chuzheng reached out and tugged.

Ji Lin: ”!!!”

The tubes were easily tugged, but they split into countless tiny infusion-like tubes embedded deep into the ’Wheat’ base.

With Chuzheng’s tug, the nearby tubes were all pulled out.

Chuzheng smelled blood.

Ji Lin smelled it too; was this blood?

The guards outside seemed to have returned, footsteps approaching.

”Weird, where are they?”

”Search for them.”

”Don’t let anything happen, you guys check inside.”

The footsteps closed in on the shed.

Ji Lin looked at Chuzheng silently: What did you do?

Chuzheng grabbed him and headed for the door. Before those outside could enter, she opened the door and slipped inside.

”Was there a noise just now?”

”You must have heard wrong.”

”There’s nothing here... Alright, let’s go out.”

The sound behind the door gradually faded away. Chuzheng quietly retracted the opening needle.

They were now standing in a corridor.

Looking down the corridor, there were several doors. The doors were closed, Chuzheng scanned the surroundings, didn’t find any surveillance, and led Ji Lin further in.

It was late at night now, and the people inside seemed to be resting.

”There’s a staircase here.” Ji Lin pointed to the side.

Chuzheng let Ji Lin walk behind her.

Ji Lin felt his male pride being severely provoked: ”Chuzheng, I’m a man. Why are you, a girl, always walking in front?”

Chuzheng shot him a cold glance, ”I don’t want to waste time saving you.”

Ji Lin was about to retort, but Chuzheng suddenly pressed his mouth, pulling him into a nearby corner.

Ji Lin’s eyes widened slightly, body pressed by Chuzheng into the corner. The humid weather caused his body heat to rise.

Thankfully, Ji Lin quickly had no energy to pay attention to this. He heard footsteps outside.

Sounded like three people coming down from upstairs.

”Go check the samples, make sure there’s no problem.”

Someone responded, quickening the pace downstairs, heading back in the direction they came from. The samples were those wheat.

”Still too weak for now...”

”Not enough fertilizer, need to get more back.”

”It’s not that easy.”

”Even if it’s hard, we have to do it. We’re close to success, this is something that will benefit all of mankind!”

”I know but...”

The two went downstairs, heading in the opposite direction of the wheat and entered a door.

Quiet returned to the surroundings.

”Mm...”

Ji Lin was still held by Chuzheng, only able to ’mm’ to signal her to let go.

Chuzheng released her hand, but did not step back.

”Chuzheng, how long are you going to stay in this position with me?” Ji Lin smirked slightly: ”Is this throwing yourself into my arms?”

Chuzheng suddenly embraced him.

Ji Lin was caught off guard by the hug. They had been somewhat apart, now they were fully pressed together.

In this silence, Ji Lin heard the pounding of his own uncontrollable heartbeat, something breaking out from buried depths of his heart.

Chuzheng quickly released him, patting his chest: ”That’s how you throw yourself into someone’s arms.”

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Chuzheng tilted her head: ”Your heartbeat is a bit fast, were you scared?”

Ji Lin’s heart, which was bouncing wildly, instantly calmed down, giving a forced smile: ”Yes, I was scared to death.”

”It’s okay, I’m here.” Chuzheng patted his chest again, confidently promising: ”I’ll protect you.”

Ji Lin: ”...”

Ji Lin tried to ignore how closely they were standing, redirecting focus to the issue at hand: ”What were they referring to as fertilizer?”

Chuzheng guessed blindly: ”Blood?”

Blood... the blood they saw earlier in the wheat field.

A chill inexplicably crept up Ji Lin’s spine.

What on earth was going on here?

Ji Lin looked at the upstairs, then at the door where those two disappeared, suggesting, ”Let’s split up, you go upstairs, I’ll check on those two.”

After speaking, Ji Lin immediately pulled away and headed for that door.