LWDC Chapter 119

Chapter 119 – Are You Coming?

Chapter 119 – Are You Coming?

Chapter 119 – Are You Coming?

Duan Yunhong only said two sentences, and before Ning Fei could come to his senses and ask carefully, he hung up the phone.

Ning Fei stared blankly at the call ended screen, frowning and squinting. Just as he was about to blurt out something unpleasant, his phone alerted him to a new message.

Clicking on it, it was the message Duan Yunhong had just sent: [Not convenient to speak now.]

The message page also indicated that Duan Yunhong had sent several messages before, but Ning Fei was asleep at the time and hadn’t seen them. Now, clicking in to read from the first one, Ning Fei finally understood what was wrong with this guy.

[I accidentally encountered a new mutated species on the road. It seems to be mutated from some kind of monkey. They move fast and act collectively. Adult males stand over 2 meters tall and are very strong. Females will gather their companions to act together. Nocturnal, poor eyesight, but very sensitive sense of smell and hearing.]

[(Video of the mutant activities)]

[I can’t easily deal with all of them alone with weapons. Rash action could easily anger these mutants.]

[The nearby base responded to my request for assistance, but the team that came was too weak, and they retreated after losing half their people. The combat quality and firepower of these people are not as good as mine.]

[They are trying to reorganize their forces to exterminate these mutants, but this base is very small, and the overall combat strength is not strong. It will definitely take longer to wait for them to apply for reinforcements from a large base. If I weren’t a space-type and didn’t have enough supplies, I would have died long ago.]

[But my supplies can last for ten days or half a month, no problem. This house, I estimate, will be difficult to hold. Do you have time to bring people over?]

This message was followed by an address location, and then Duan Yunhong’s latest message saying it wasn’t convenient to make a sound.

To be honest, just looking at these messages, with their calm tone, flat narration, and even taking the opportunity to praise (himself) and belittle (others), Ning Fei really couldn’t tell that this guy was so anxious that he had to call for help in the middle of the night.

But the fact that he only dared to say two sentences on the phone just now and then hung up, combined with what he said earlier about the mutants having good hearing, meant that those things had probably surrounded him “impenetrably,” causing him to not even dare to say more, for fear of being accurately located by the mutants.

Then again, the fact that Duan Yunhong called for help in the middle of the night was enough to judge how urgent this matter was.

Ning Fei sent him a message asking: [Where are you hiding?]

Duan Yunhong: [In a village, the people have already left. There is still water, but no electricity. I chose a new house that looks relatively strong, and all the doors and windows have been reinforced with materials I brought myself. I am now in the room on the right side of the 3rd floor. The room door has also been reinforced separately.]

Duan Yunhong: [The mutants have already discovered that there is someone in this house. They tried to enter through the main door a few days ago, and also climbed up the water pipes trying to invade through the window of another room, but they didn’t succeed. After the rescue team came, they were distracted and left. But I confirmed at the time that they had sentries monitoring me here, so I couldn’t take the opportunity to leave. After the rescue team left, they came back to surround this house again tonight. Judging by the sound, they are attacking the downstairs door. I’m not sure how long that door can last.]

Ning Fei: [You’re hiding so well, where did the video come from? Don’t be trying to trick me into going there to frame me, are you?]

Duan Yunhong: [The rescue team took it. The contact person from their base sent it to me, meaning that it’s not that they don’t want to save me, it’s just that these mutants are too difficult to deal with.]

Ning Fei: [Why didn’t you run during the day?]

Duan Yunhong: [They’re not completely inactive, just not as active. And they should have been resting in the village these days.]

Ning Fei thought to himself that this was really bad luck, and mockingly said: [I have no obligation to save you. You made a misjudgment yourself, this is your consequence. If you die, that’s your loss.]

Duan Yunhong: [I won’t let you work for nothing.]

Ning Fei: [Points are useless to me.]

Duan Yunhong: [I know. According to your conversion, 500,000 Fate Points.]

Ning Fei raised his eyebrows slightly.

But he reacted quickly and immediately replied: [This gamble is only worth 500,000? Then I choose to let you lose.]

Duan Yunhong: [800,000. And I can tell you 3 times confidential information in the future.]

Ning Fei: [Listening to your description, me alone is not enough. If I mobilize the Tianyue team, I need to get approval from Yu Zhou.]

This sounded mercenary, but to Duan Yunhong, it was actually good news. Being able to bargain meant that Ning Fei wasn’t dead set on letting him lose right now. He could be saved, he just didn’t want to suffer a loss, didn’t want to think later that “it would have been better to let him die back then.”

So Duan Yunhong replied: [I’ll give you a total of 1 million Fate Points, you can decide how to split it. If Tianyue comes in the form of a mission, I’ll pay reward points. Everything else remains the same.]

Ning Fei: [Director Duan, I don’t have a car to get there.]

Duan Yunhong: [Why don’t you just squeeze a three-story villa with top-of-the-line appliances out of me?]

Ning Fei glanced at the message, didn’t reply, and got up to get a drink of water. Anyway, it wasn’t him who was in a hurry, so it didn’t matter, let the other side wait.

When he came back after drinking the water, Duan Yunhong had indeed sent another message: [If I return to Huichuan, I’ll have someone get you a car just like mine.]

Ning Fei smiled silently, and his fingers quickly typed: [And I have to ensure you get back to Huichuan? Keep dreaming.]

Duan Yunhong: [Just solve these mutants this time. But the car will have to wait until I get back.]

Ning Fei finally relented: [Even if I take this on, considering the time it takes to get people and travel, even driving non-stop will take a day and a night. Are you sure you can last until then?]

Duan Yunhong: [Otherwise? Waiting for you is the same as waiting for someone else. If I can’t wait for rescue, I’ll probably die.]

Ning Fei: [Fine, then try your best to stay alive first. Transfer all the points to me first, otherwise, I don’t want to risk calling Yu Zhou in the middle of the night.]

If he didn’t have to hand over the Fate Points in person, Ning Fei would definitely have taken 500,000 Fate Points first.

A few minutes later, Duan Yunhong did indeed transfer the points for a SS-level 12-person team mission to Ning Fei, plus an extra 10,000.

Ning Fei didn’t even ask what the extra points were for, chuckled, and instead dialed Yu Zhou’s phone number.

*

Ning Fei’s phone call in the middle of the night was accompanied by Yu Zhou’s sarcastic scolding for a long time, and ended with Yu Zhou arranging a team for him.

Before hanging up the phone, Yu Zhou emphasized: “Do you think I’m doing this for the sake of those 200,000 Fate Points? I’m letting you bear the consequences of this choice because I see that you want to go and save him yourself. Why do you have to meddle in this business, think it over yourself, don’t tell me you’re still concerned with fair competition. If you regret it later… don’t blame me for agreeing to this.”

Ning Fei replied: “I know what I’m doing.”

Yu Zhou said meaningfully: “I’m not talking about whether you win this gamble or not.”

Ning Fei said: “I know.”

“Then I have nothing to say.” Yu Zhou finally said, “Only one thing, however many people you take out, that’s how many people come back. This is the mission you’re taking, you’re responsible for the number of people, understand?”

“Do I need you to tell me that?” Ning Fei said, “Just don’t give me any useless people to take out there.”

Yu Zhou also said: “And the establishment of that comprehensive office is just one step away from completion. Once you leave, I don’t know how many more days will be wasted. Come back and work overtime to finish it quickly for me. I’ve basically cleared everything with the higher-ups, just waiting for it to be built as a model. You running out to do other work at a crucial time, that’s really something!”

Ning Fei also agreed.

Yu Zhou was still unhappy, but continuing to talk would make even himself feel long-winded, so he simply hung up the phone. After thinking about it, he opened his contacts list and scrolled back and forth, selected a person, and pressed the dial button.

*

At nine o’clock in the morning, a mission team consisting of three off-road vehicles set off from Tianyue. Ning Fei paid half of the mission points in advance as a deposit, sweeping away the early morning grumbling of the people who had been called up in the middle of the night.

This was Zheng Liwen’s team.

His team had a total of twenty-three people, an elite squad of eleven, all understaffed, plus Ning Fei was just right. Their strength was also good, ranking at the top in Tianyue. More importantly, they had completed several SS-level missions before, and knew the dangers. Sending them to cooperate with Ning Fei was quite appropriate.

Of course, Yu Zhou was still unhappy that Duan Yunhong had called Ning Fei away overnight like this. Arranging for Zheng Liwen was still somewhat intended to make Duan Yunhong unhappy as well.

As for Zheng Liwen himself, he didn’t hesitate too much about this job. After asking the opinions of a few brothers, he accepted the mission quite readily. High risk, high reward, this was exactly the kind of work his team liked. Some people in his team were even so excited in the middle of the night because they hadn’t taken on such a big job in a long time, that if some stores selling necessary supplies hadn’t opened at eight in the morning, these people would have wanted to set off overnight.

In short, Ning Fei set off in Zheng Liwen’s car. Along the way, they changed drivers without stopping the car. Except for the routine half-hour safety inspection every day, the cars were speeding all the way. There were four people in Zheng Liwen’s car, three of whom took turns driving, and the co-driver had to stay awake, giving directions and helping the driver stay awake. The two people in the back seat could take the opportunity to rest and recharge.

Along the way, Ning Fei kept confirming Duan Yunhong’s situation.

The good news was that he had luckily survived another two nights. The bad news was that he hadn’t heard any more gunshots in those two days, which meant that no one had come to rescue him.

Moreover, according to his judgment, the door of this building was already in imminent danger. By tonight, it was very likely that the door would be breached by the mutants. And how long his room door could last was a matter of opinion. Anyway, Duan Yunhong had piled up all the things he could in front of the door and windows, and it wouldn’t be easy to open them by brute force or smash them all to pieces. The entire room was dark, except for the vent that he had deliberately removed from the air conditioning duct. If Duan Yunhong didn’t have a lot of spare power supplies, light sources, water, and food in his own space, he really didn’t know how he would have survived these days.

However, Duan Yunhong adapted well to the siege, and was even able to communicate with people in Huichuan about work on his phone, and send Ning Fei messages and locations. At first, Ning Fei would reply to him, but later he simply ignored him, glanced at it, and closed it if there was no crucial information. Duan Yunhong more or less guessed his thoughts, and didn’t care if he didn’t reply.

——Anyway, Ning Fei was coming.

Duan Yunhong knew that once Ning Fei had decided, he would do it. He wouldn’t give up halfway, and wouldn’t stop until he achieved his goal.

——He actually really came.

Duan Yunhong found it difficult to describe his mood when Ning Fei agreed to come, it was a feeling that was both reasonable and unexpected. He recalled his conversation with Yu Zhou that day, and remembered Ning Fei saying that he would ask Yu Zhou for his opinion first. He could imagine Yu Zhou telling him to ignore him, but no matter how much influence Yu Zhou had on Ning Fei, Ning Fei still chose to come and save him from afar.

Even if all of this was indeed Duan Yunhong’s own fault.

He sat in the corner of the room, on a mattress he had brought with him, with a weapon at his side, and his phone in his other hand. He would close his eyes to rest from time to time, and wake up automatically after a while, and check his phone at the first opportunity. Although he didn’t know when Ning Fei would arrive, he knew that Ning Fei would definitely arrive.

The sun set in the west, and another night came.

Duan Yunhong basically stayed awake all night, listening carefully to the noises outside. As he expected, before long, he began to hear banging sounds coming from downstairs, interspersed with monkey-like calls. As time went on, the noise grew louder and the calls became more frequent. Late at night, he heard a “bang—!” Duan Yunhong realized: a window downstairs had been breached!

Rummaging sounds came from downstairs. Duan Yunhong sent Ning Fei a message: [The mutants are in the house, I only have one line of defense left.]

After that, he put his phone into his space and picked up his shotgun.

He didn’t know how long it had been, maybe a few tens of minutes, maybe more than an hour, before the mutants finally discovered this locked room.

Bang! Bang! Bang!!!

Fortunately, there were many barriers and there was no sound in the room. The mutants couldn’t clearly smell or hear that there was someone in this room, so not all of them were slamming on the door with force. They just slammed it as they passed by. The door was shaking so hard that it hurt his ears, and the things blocking the door were also shaking slightly. Duan Yunhong’s gun was already loaded, and as soon as the door was smashed open and the mutants showed their heads, they would receive a shower of bullets from him.

Just when he was highly stressed, in the distance, a “bang—!” gunshot pierced the night sky!

——Ning Fei had arrived!