"Brother Dam, help me say a few words. I, Chu Bang, am an innocent person. How could I have become a cruel person?"
Chu Bang expressed his extreme grievance.
However, seeing Dam Thanh's still wary gaze, he knew that Dam Thanh probably truly stood by Lam Pham's side and would absolutely not believe his words.
Dam Thanh said firmly: "Our Huong Son base unanimously believes what Mr. Lam says. We believe Mr. Lam will not wrongly accuse you, because you have no value worth wrongly accusing."
"Spoken very directly, very simply."
If they were all ordinary people and such a thing happened, Dam Thanh would truly find it hard to say. Both sides were people with their own ideas; mutual slander was also possible.
Lam Pham said: "Do you remember Quy Thu Nguyet and Kim Thu? She said the smell on you should have some connection with zombies."
Hearing Lam Pham's words, Chu Bang's mind instantly recalled the woman's appearance, and he also knew who Kim Thu was.
However, he couldn't show it.
"Quy Thu Nguyet? Kim Thu? I really don't know," Chu Bang shook his head, looking very innocent. If he was going to act, he might as well continue.
Giving up halfway would mean he was truly finished.
Lam Pham said: "It's alright. Come with me to the Sunshine Shelter. That child Kim Thu is right there with me. He will recognize you."
Chu Bang: ...?
For Chu Bang at this moment, he truly found this guy a bit difficult to deal with. If it were any other survivor, he absolutely wouldn't be able to endure it and would directly lay his cards on the table: "That's right, I am Chu Bang. Everything before was just an act to play with you all."
However, he didn't dare now.
Although he hadn't seen Lam Pham make a move, he knew this guy was terrifying, an existence even Thi Than was wary of. How could he deal with him, not to mention he didn't have any abilities now.
How could Chu Bang be willing to leave with Lam Pham? "I can't go. My base still needs me to watch over it. If something happens to me, then they won't be able to survive."
Lam Pham said: "You can tell me the location."
Chu Bang swallowed, his gaze gradually loosening, looking around, as if searching for an opportunity to escape. From the expression he showed.
The other survivors all sighed in their hearts.
They hadn't expected Chu Bang to hide so deeply.
If Lam Pham hadn't come here and met him, perhaps they would still be kept in the dark.
Lam Pham said: "Don't even think about running. Your eyes have already betrayed you. You should remember that you are human. Although you have harmed many people, don't you think that cooperating with zombies and harming humans together is an extremely outrageous thing?"
Chu Bang, with nowhere to hide, lowered his head and let out a low, cold laugh.
"I didn't expect... I really fell into your hands. I really shouldn't have come."
"No, your arrival was just at the right time. If you had continued to deceive Dam Thanh and the others, I'm afraid they would have fallen into your trap," Lam Pham said.
Chu Bang looked at Lam Pham, the sincere gaze from before completely gone, replaced by a kind of sinister coldness.
"Don't think you've won. At the corpse..."
Just then.
An accident happened.
Chu Bang painfully clutched his throat, his eyes filled with blood, and his entire expression became extremely agonized. His abdomen gradually swelled up. Seeing this situation, Lam Pham didn't hesitate and directly threw Chu Bang towards the sky.
In a brief moment.
Bang!
Chu Bang actually exploded directly.
Seeing this situation, everyone's eyes widened, unable to believe the scene before them.
"What happened to him?" Dam Thanh asked in shock.
Lam Pham said: "A friend of mine told me that Chu Bang should be related to zombies. I think his sudden change like this means that zombie was using Chu Bang to monitor us, and at the same time, was afraid Chu Bang would reveal the location, so it made him keep his mouth shut forever."
"Intelligent zombies are extremely terrifying."
Mentioning intelligent zombies, he also felt that the road ahead was still quite dangerous.
Dam Thanh said: "Then will our place be in danger in the future?"
Lam Pham said: "Danger will always exist and will not disappear. The situation in Hoang City has now been mostly cleared by me. We need more manpower. Actually, you can lead everyone over."
Dam Thanh looked at Mao Binh. This kind of decision-making matter was usually decided by Mao Binh.
Mao Binh spoke: "I agree. Although the Huong Son base is my painstaking effort, I also have to consider their safety. It's just that we have so many people here; driving over seems a bit unrealistic."
Lam Pham said: "It's alright. We have military transport planes there. A few more trips will be enough to transport them over. I'll go to Diem City now and come back later."
"Alright."
Lam Pham leaped up directly and vaulted towards the distance. When he encountered flat ground, he ran. His speed was so fast that his figure couldn't be captured by the naked eye.
Mao Binh watched Lam Pham's receding figure and sighed, "Fortunately, Mr. Lam met Chu Bang. Otherwise, we might have been kept in the dark all along."
Dam Thanh said: "Yes, although I've always suspected him, his actions were truly flawless, and I couldn't find any loopholes."
Mao Binh said: "But what exactly was Chu Bang's purpose? We have a total of eleven Awakened ones here, and we can also contact Mr. Lam. If a zombie tide really attacks, we can also notify Mr. Lam in a short time."
Dam Thanh pondered, "When I have nothing to do, I read the 'Zombie Illustrated Guide.' Some of it is recorded very clearly. When zombies devour the flesh and blood of Awakened ones, the zombies will evolve. I suspect that intelligent zombie wanted to use Chu Bang to lure us Awakened ones over to provide food for that mysterious zombie."
Dam Thanh's guess couldn't be said to be extremely accurate, only exactly the same.
Diem City.
Lam Pham stood on the rooftop of a building, concentrating his gaze on the surroundings. The situation in Diem City was much worse than he had imagined. This was the true appearance of a city under the apocalypse.
Zombies were everywhere.
Looking around, it was a city of zombies.
"An intelligent zombie that can manipulate humans. This is the most terrifying character among the zombies I've encountered. Wanting to find you here is like looking for a needle in a haystack."
"And where exactly is that base?"
He wanted to find it, but unfortunately... under the interference of the "meow meow" sounds, there were too many noises, and he didn't have that much time to waste here. The next thing to do was to transport the survivors from the Huong Son base to the Hoang City Sunshine Shelter.
The development of the area should truly begin.
At this moment.
Inside a certain building, in a patch of darkness, that mass of flesh broke through the ground, moving its body to hide underground. It used Chu Bang's eyes to see the situation over there.
Humans were not trustworthy.
Chu Bang was not important to it; he was just an expendable pawn in its hands.
"Useless human."
Gradually, the flesh completely hid underground, silent, without even the slightest movement. And it still used the vision of the zombies in the city to observe Lam Pham, who had appeared.
Suddenly.
In front of the zombie Thi Than was using for observation, Lam Pham suddenly appeared.
"You are the mysterious zombie controlling Chu Bang, right? When I didn't disturb the zombies, only you were observing me. Can you tell me where you are? I think we can talk."
"The relationship between humans and zombies, actually, can be eased a bit. Don't be so irritable."
Lam Pham was not a fool. He hoped to use extremely sincere words to move the zombie, thereby meeting it, and then nipping the danger in the bud. Although this method was a bit despicable, being able to resolve the danger early was a very worthwhile thing.
They were far apart, but the zombie controlled by Thi Than could transmit all the sounds it heard to Thi Than's side.
Thi Than didn't answer, severing the connection with that zombie. At this moment, it would not expose itself.
Lam Pham turned on the ordinary zombie in his hand, shook his head, turned, and left.
Returning to Huong Son.
He asked Dam Thanh and the others to pack their things first, then left, lifting the bus.
Hoang City, Sunshine Shelter.
"Let me go, let me go."
Upon arriving here, Nguy Ho began to struggle and beg for mercy. His face was already swollen from Cao Bac's beating, and the other few survivors were the same, with one side of their faces swollen very high.
"This is the Sunshine Shelter mentioned in the illustrated guide."
Little Dao spun around on the spot, his eyes full of light. It was the joy of arriving at a place of hope. The survivors following him were the same.
Some hugged each other and cried.
Some knelt on the ground, kissing the earth.
Some ran wildly in celebration, as if welcoming a new light.
It all seemed very exaggerated.
In fact, it wasn't exaggerated at all; it was very normal behavior. When people are shrouded in despair for a long time, they will become completely numb. That turbid, dim gaze is the manifestation.
And when they arrive at a place of hope, that contrast of surviving a disaster will instantly erupt.
Therefore, doing some strange actions is all very normal.
Just as Lam Pham was thinking about these things.