NOVEL NEXT Chapter 623: Black Bellied
When Bai Meiyue heard his reasoning, she had to admit that what Lei Qian said did make sense. If she went looking for the spies, then she would only be wasting her time and energy. In addition, the safe base was already in this condition; even if they started to pay attention to the number and quality of the survivors entering the safe base, Bai Meiyue didn't believe that they would be able to filter the spies from the normal survivors. They would only exhaust their resources and energy.
"Then what do you suggest?" Bai Meiyue turned and asked Lei Qian. The man seemed to have a much better understanding of how to deal with Yu Miaomiao. "Are we going to leave the spies alone?"
Lei Qian nodded. "I think it will be better if we leave them alone. Searching for the spies is not a rational step at the moment, not when we are still trying to get a firm foothold in this place." Lei Qian didn't see any sense in looking for spies and hunting them down one by one. It would not only waste time but also make the rest of the spies even wary of them. At least for now, those who came to spy on them were quite smug, thinking that they had entered and trespassed on their territory easily.
With this alone, they were bound to make trouble sooner or later.
But leaving them alone didn't seem right either.
"How about this?" Lei Qian began as he knocked his knuckles on the tea table. "We will start supplying to Fox and Bai Feng."
Bai Meiyue frowned and questioned. "What do you mean by handing the supplies to the two of them? What's the point?"
"The point is that Yu Miaomiao is banking on their supplies running out, right? Then we will make sure that their supplies don't run out. We will supply them with food and water. That way, the fight will continue to drag on; let them fight among themselves and weaken their forces. When the soldiers under Yu Miaomiao deplete a bit more, we will take advantage of the situation." The current conditions were not good enough for them to make a move.
Lei Qian had been involved in the corporate world for far too many years compared to Bai Meiyue, who didn't have enough experience when it came to business politics; she could not have come up with a scheme as detailed as this one. But Lei Qian could see through things better than Bai Meiyue. He knew how to exploit and use the very weak point that Yu Miaomiao had, having used this tactic many times in the past.
Bai Meiyue's eyes brightened. That was right. Yu Miaomiao was waiting for the two men's armies to weaken, and then she might as well make sure that their armies would never weaken to the point where they would be suppressed by Yu Miaomiao. Now she was quite glad that she didn't kill Bai Feng.
"You are really smart." Bai Meiyue turned and glanced at Lei Qian appreciatively. "With this tactic, we will be able to deal with Yu Miaomiao without joining hands with anyone." This should do the trick.
"Exactly! Then we don't have to worry about becoming a gun in the hands of others," remarked Lei Qian. He was not happy with how Lu Yin and Dacheng tried to manipulate him and Bai Meiyue by using their child as a betting chip. Those two were lucky that he wasn't there, because if he were there, then he would have certainly made them regret using his child as a betting chip. Who did they think that he was? He, Lei Qian, didn't need anyone's help to kill Yu Miaomiao.
Even if he died while killing that woman, he would do it on his own.
"Then we will send a few people to look for the two men," said Bai Meiyue. Her eyes were already glittering with a sharpness that had lost its edge just a while ago due to the worries in her head. "As long as the two of them are alive, we will make sure that they win this war at all costs."
Xiao Wu looked at the two people in front of him and silently lit a candle for Yu Miaomiao. These two—they had so many black-bellied plans in their stomachs. What was that woman even thinking, targeting these two? She really didn't care about her life!
The next morning, Lei Qian went to the safe base with Lu Yu and brought back the news that Bai Meiyue was waiting for. Though Fox and Bai Feng were still alive, their conditions were not good. Unlike Yu Miaomiao, who developed a means to keep the mutated bugs away from her hiding spot, the two of them were still trapped inside the cloud of mutated bugs and couldn't go outside to hunt for supplies, and the people under them were about to starve to death.
Bai Meiyue listened to the report that Lei Qian brought with him and frowned harder. "What about Lu Yin and Dacheng? How could they escape the safe base if the situation is so hard?" With Bai Feng and Fox stuck in the same base, how could those two step out without getting mauled by the mutated bugs?
"You are forgetting that the two of them came with two other soldiers," replied Lei Qian. "Those two cannot shift and change into beast forms like Brother Jixuan, but they can control animals. Those two were not high-level ability users, but their skills should be enough to divert the mutated bugs away long enough for Dacheng and Lu Yin to enter the car and leave the safe base. The same could be said about returning."
"They are really lucky." Bai Meiyue curled her lips and sneered. Neither Bai Feng nor Fox was lucky enough to get hold of ability users who could control animals, but the two of them were quite lucky they actually got hold of ability users who could control the mutated bugs.