Gu Yicheng’s words gave Ruan Ning a shot of reassurance. That was right. There were no surveillance cameras in the base. Unless that burly man was here right now and came forward to identify them, who could recognise them?
Besides, the only clue they had left behind back then was the house they had rented for a month at the service centre.
Although, with the Dragon-Tiger Squad’s prestige in the base, it would not be difficult to find that record, they had only stayed there for one night before leaving. Even if the Dragon-Tiger Squad went there, they definitely would not be able to block them there. Since they had not found them in time that day, if they remembered the matter afterward and wanted to cause trouble for them, they had already missed their chance.
Sure enough, until Ruan Ning and the others left the base, the people from the Dragon-Tiger Squad beside them showed no sign of recognising them at all. Or rather, they treated them completely as a group of strangers and did not even look at them properly. From top to bottom, the entire team gave off an extremely arrogant feeling. Of course, with this team’s fame and strength in Base Three, they did indeed have the capital to be arrogant.
Naturally, Ruan Ning had no desire to have anything to do with this group either. As for their arrogance, let them be arrogant, as long as they did not get in their way. Other people’s matters had nothing to do with her anyway.
However, some things were not something Ruan Ning could avoid just because she did not want any connection.
After leaving the base, the two teams were actually still going the same way.
Because they were the ones who had left the base second, and because they had three vehicles’ worth of people, they were a step behind. Even when driving, they were behind the other team. Therefore, Ruan Ning ruled out the possibility that these people had deliberately planned to follow them.
However, after they had not even driven for a few minutes, the vehicle in front suddenly stopped. From a distance, they could still see white smoke rising from the front of the vehicle. It looked like the car had broken down.
“Damn it! What bad luck! Who got this crappy car? It can’t even last!” Sitting in the back of the vehicle, a burly man with a tattoo on his arm, who looked rough and not easy to provoke, said impatiently when he saw that the car would not start no matter what.
“Sorry, but this crappy car you’re talking about was obtained by our group. When we drove it before, there was nothing wrong with it. How come the moment it reached your hands, it suddenly stopped working?” Sitting opposite him, a cold-looking woman spoke.
“Gan Lan, don’t think that just because the captain values you, you can yell at me. At the end of the day, I came first, and you came later,” the man said angrily.
Hearing his words, Gan Lan merely glanced at him coldly and could not be bothered to argue with him anymore. She did not say another word. However, this attitude of hers only further stirred up the dissatisfaction in the man’s heart. Wu Yinchuan suddenly stood up from his seat and glared at her furiously.
The other people in the vehicle either lowered their heads and said nothing, or deliberately closed their eyes and pretended to be resting. Not a single person interrupted the matter between the two of them.
Even within the same team, a person’s status was divided into different levels. In the apocalypse, within a team, whoever had the stronger ability and harder fists was the one who had the right to speak.
Just like the man and woman who had just spoken, both of them were among the top ability users in the Dragon-Tiger Squad. They were both vice-captains of the team, and their poor relationship was not something that had started in just a day or two. This was especially true of Vice-Captain Wu Yinchuan. He found Gan Lan displeasing in every way and often picked fights. Because before Vice-Captain Gan joined, the team had only had one vice-captain.
If not for the fact that, despite having joined the Dragon-Tiger Squad only recently, Vice-Captain Gan had been the fastest person after the captain to break through to Tier Two, and was also an ice-type ability user valued by the captain, she probably would have long since been torn apart and kicked out of the team by the irritable and easily angered Vice-Captain Wu.
When Wu Yinchuan stood up, the atmosphere inside the vehicle gradually froze. At this moment, a younger man sitting in the front passenger seat clenched his fist, coughed lightly, and said, “Vice-Captain Wu, Vice-Captain Gan, we should think about what to do. The captain and the others are still waiting for us at the factory. That matter is the most important thing. Let’s put everything else aside for now.”
Wu Yinchuan seemed to think of something, and in the end, he hid the dissatisfaction in his heart and did not start fighting Gan Lan.
He sat back down, his expression ugly, and casually said, “Isn’t there a team right behind us? Three SUVs should have enough room for all of us.”
The young man who had just mediated was still thinking about whether this method was feasible when Gan Lan, sitting to the side, frowned and said, “I don’t think this method is appropriate. This team was living in the villa next to ours. It’s better not to provoke people who can live in Area A. At worst, we can go back and get another vehicle.”
Originally, Wu Yinchuan had not cared one way or the other. But now that Gan Lan said this, he stubbornly insisted on taking the vehicles from the team behind them. He snorted coldly and said, “So what if they live in Area A like us? Is there any team in Base Three stronger than us? It’s their honour that we’re using their vehicles.”
“Uh, I think Vice-Captain Wu has a point too. I’ll go over and negotiate with their team, then. I’ll see if we can borrow a vehicle from them,” the young man said quickly, afraid that the two people in front of him would start arguing again. Besides, they really did need to hurry to the factory and meet up with the captain. Walking back to change vehicles would also take quite a long time. If they could borrow a vehicle, that would naturally be best. He could give them more compensation.
Gan Lan also got out of the vehicle with the young man. She was not getting out to persuade the team behind them to hand over a vehicle. She was getting out to get some air. If she kept staying with someone like Wu Yinchuan, she might anger herself sick.
“Heh. I say women are just too timid,” Wu Yinchuan said after Gan Lan got out, still feeling annoyed.
“Even if our Sister Gan Lan is a woman, her ability is still stronger than yours. Go ahead and be jealous,” a short-haired girl who had been sitting beside Gan Lan earlier heard his sexist remark and stretched her neck out to refute him. She had always disliked people like him, who resorted to robbery whenever they were unhappy about something. He was practically ruining the atmosphere of their team. How was that any different from bandits?
Wu Yinchuan said, “Don’t think I won’t dare hit you just because Gan Lan is protecting you. I can’t beat her, but I can still beat you.”
“Bleh, bleh, bleh.” The short-haired girl also knew that when this person went crazy, he might really even hit women. After glaring at him, she quickly got out of the vehicle and went to find Sister Gan Lan for protection.
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The vehicle in front had stopped right in the middle, and the road was narrow. Ruan Ning and the others’ vehicles were blocked and forced to stop as well.
Very soon, a man got out of the vehicle in front and walked toward them.
Ruan Ning was not afraid of them coming over to cause trouble now. There were so many people on her side. If they really fought, the winner might not necessarily be the Dragon-Tiger Squad.
In terms of strength, Ruan Ning believed that the members of their Morning Light Squad were definitely no worse than the Dragon-Tiger Squad.
The reason she had been somewhat worried back in the base was only because even a strong dragon could not suppress a local snake. Base Three was their home ground. If they fought inside, her side would not have the advantage.
Now that they had left the base, even if they really fought, no one would know.
Ruan Ning’s gaze quickly moved away from him and finally landed on the woman who came out behind him.
This woman was…
Ruan Ning remembered. This person was the woman who had exchanged crystal nuclei with her back in the S City safe zone. But why was she here? And why was she together with the people from the Dragon-Tiger Squad?
Ruan Ning did not know her name, but she knew that she was definitely an ice-type ability user. Because the mutated crystal nucleus she had picked up as a bargain at the market back then had been a deep-blue ice-type crystal nucleus. Aside from ice-type ability users, it was completely useless to anyone else. Not to mention, that woman had been so persistent, waiting just to exchange for that crystal nucleus from her.
She really had not expected to meet her here.
After recognising Gan Lan’s identity, Ruan Ning had no intention of going over to reminisce. She and this woman had only made a trade some time ago. It was not as if they had any friendship.
Naturally, Lin Yang would not lend the vehicle to these people. After only a few sentences, he dismissed the man.
After a while, the young man returned to the Dragon-Tiger Squad, shook his head, and said, “That group doesn’t agree.”
“They refuse a toast only to drink a forfeit.” As Wu Yinchuan spoke, seemingly in order to deliberately anger Gan Lan, he even deliberately walked past her.
“Sister Gan Lan, are we really not going to stop him? Are we just going to let him bully other survivors?” the short-haired girl asked. She had always disliked this kind of behaviour.
Gan Lan crossed her arms and looked at Wu Yinchuan’s figure as he got out of the vehicle. “It’s good to let him learn a lesson. In any case, he won’t win.”
“Ah? No way!” Although the short-haired girl did not particularly like Wu Yinchuan, this reckless brute who only knew how to fight and kill and had no brains, she still understood his strength. Aside from the captain and Sister Gan Lan, he was one of the few people in the team who had upgraded his ability to Tier Two. Otherwise, he would not have become vice-captain.
“Whether he can win or not, we’ll know once we watch.” Gan Lan sneered. There were always people beyond people and heavens beyond heavens. Someone as arrogant in conduct as Wu Yinchuan would get into trouble sooner or later. The only reason nothing had happened before was because he had not met a real opponent.
But as for that group behind them, Gan Lan could basically be certain that Wu Yinchuan was definitely going to suffer a setback this time.
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