Chapter Eighty-Nine: The Gale Company and the Tiger-Leopard Company

Fang Xia gave it some thought.

“Brother Fang, those two teams have ideas too.”

The Swiftwind Team and the Tiger-Leopard Team had worked with Fang Xia for two days and earned quite a lot. By now, their ranks and strength were both fairly respectable.

“A merger is out of the question. They can station themselves in my territory, pay a certain fee, and I’ll assist them in night battles.”

Fang Xia could guess exactly what those two teams were thinking. Simply put, the zombies had become too powerful, and neither team had any high-ranking fighters, so they needed to find a strong ally.

But if the ally was too strong, they could easily be swallowed up; if too weak, there was no point.

Dawn City was indeed powerful, but with a population of over a hundred thousand, they did not care about small fry like them at all.

As for Lone Wolf Team, they had not even considered them. Too weak.

That left only the Blood Robe Team and Fang Xia’s Harem Team.

It was perfectly reasonable for them to ask through Guo Yu.

Fang Xia also needed manpower. Top-quality girls were hard to recruit, but if two thousand cannon fodder came knocking, that was not bad either.

And with the help of his own team, they could minimize their losses. Asking them to pay a little was hardly unreasonable.

Three o’clock in the afternoon.

Fang Xia gathered all the girls together and announced something.

The Tiger-Leopard Team and the Swiftwind Team would be taking up residence in his territory, forming an alliance.

An alliance? That was all right then. For a moment, they had nearly thought the captain had gone crooked, and the Harem Team was preparing to expand its ranks of male favorites.

The two teams were assigned the other two villas, for which they paid a large rent.

“As for weapons, tents, and the like, sell them to them at a slightly lower price.”

He left the remaining matters to the little loli and continued being his hands-off boss.

“Brother Fang, is something big about to happen?”

Today, it was not the twin sisters massaging him, but Bai Xing instead.

As one of the people who knew Fang Xia best after the apocalypse, Bai Xing keenly sensed that something was off.

“Are you afraid of a fifth-stage zombie?”

With Bai Xing, Fang Xia had nothing to hide. If this could not be resolved, everyone would die.

“No. As long as you’re here, I’m not afraid.”

Bai Xing answered without the slightest hesitation.

Fang Xia said nothing. His gaze drifted to the window, toward the direction where the fifth-stage zombie had been discovered.

The antidote pill—perhaps it really was time to try it.

“Brother Fang, time to eat.”

“I’m getting tired of hotpot every day.”

As Fang Xia stepped out of the room, he happened to hear the twin sister Jingru’s complaint.

“Then have rice balls today. Pick whatever flavor you like.”

For many people, rice balls were the best food for filling the stomach, but for the people on the second floor, they were pure torment.

They did have flavor, but there was far too little of it.

It was like compressed biscuits strengthened countless times over: one was enough to fill you up, and for the rest of the day all you could do was lick your lips while your stomach refused any more.

“No way!”

Jingru let out a mournful cry.

The little loli beside her did not care in the slightest. She swiftly took a spicy rice ball from her storage space and, while Jingru was still wailing, stuffed it straight into her mouth.

“I’m telling you now, if you dare spit it out and waste it, you’ll go hungry for two days.”

At Fang Xia’s words, Jingru stopped trying to spit it out, though she still glared at him with her big, resentful eyes.

Speaking of food, Fang Xia suddenly remembered something: if fifth-stage zombies had appeared, then upgraded beasts should be showing up as well.

The weaker of those beasts were comparable to fourth-stage zombies, and with their massive bodies they were not afraid of corpse poison at all.

Yet these beasts not only carried no poison, their meat was also extraordinarily delicious. By then, they would be able to eat fresh meat at last.

He was already growing weary of hotpot made from frozen ingredients every day.

“Do we have any good chefs in the team?”

Fang Xia asked suddenly.

“Yes, two of them. Chefs from before the apocalypse.”

Women were actually quite rare in the chef profession.

Before the apocalypse, let alone chefs—there were hardly any young women who could even cook nowadays. Everyone was some little princess; how could they be expected to make meals for others?

To think Liu Rui had actually found two.

As long as they could survive this zombie crisis, they would truly be able to enjoy life.

“Oh, right. When can Li Xiaochun recover?”

Only a day had passed, and Li Xiaochun still had not come down for dinner; she was resting in bed.

“She’s much better already. The main issue is the severe blood loss. It’ll still take some time to replenish it,” Doctor Jiang replied.

“Won’t an upgrade crystal help?”

Fang Xia was a little puzzled. He himself had never suffered such an injury, though in his previous life he had been hurt many times, and there had been no upgrade crystals to use.

“No. An upgrade crystal can’t directly replenish blood. She’ll probably need another two or three days to fully recover.”

After considering it, Doctor Jiang gave an approximate timeframe.

Two or three days? Then there was still enough time.

There were still four days until the zombie rain. As long as Li Xiaochun recovered before then, there would be no problem.

“Starting today, our team will still be split into two shifts. The people from the Swiftwind Team and the Tiger-Leopard Team are far more numerous than we are.”

Liu Rui nodded.

“Let’s keep our own team at around a thousand people. Even if we’re taking the elite route, we can’t be too few.”

Fang Xia only needed to mention these things; as for the details, Liu Rui would naturally handle them.

As they spoke, everyone had nearly finished eating. Only Jingru remained alone at the side, looking longingly at the food, breathing in the aroma and wanting to eat but no longer able to. It was torture.

“Go dump the trash. You eat so much every day and do no work—that won’t do.”

Once everyone had finished, Fang Xia handed the chore of cleaning up to the twin sister Jingru. She was the only one with nothing to do all day.

Her younger sister Jingyi was now in charge of the overall situation in the business hall within Fang Xia’s territory every day, and all pricing decisions were made by her.

On the entire second floor, Jingru was the only idler left. Even the twin massage had become her solo act. If she still was not given something to do, others would start complaining.

Or she could just eat it all up, that would work too.

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“Brother Fang, the captains of the Swiftwind Team and the Tiger-Leopard Team are here to see you.”

The bodyguard girl downstairs came up to report.

It was getting late. They were probably here to ask about tonight’s battle arrangements.

Fang Xia stood up, and Liu Rui followed him downstairs.

The two captains were waiting for him in the lobby below.

When Fang Xia first saw them, he was startled, and almost laughed out loud.

One fat, one thin; one tall, one short.

One like a reed pole, the other like a round ball.

Who knew how such a coincidence had come about, that the two of them had ended up colluding together.

The captain of the Swiftwind Team was, of all people, the fat one. No one knew how he qualified as “swiftwind.”

His face, round and stuffed with flesh, wore a smiling expression like a laughing Buddha.

“Captain Fang, Captain Liu, I truly envy your lives.”

“Lude Zhi, don’t think I don’t know. Didn’t you just take a fourteenth concubine two days ago? Your life is the real colorful one. Be careful you don’t get drained dry—if you end up like Zheng Fawen, that’ll be troublesome.”

“Captain Fang, my name is Zheng Fakun.”

The tall, thin captain of the Tiger-Leopard Team corrected him.

“Ah! My apologies, Captain Zheng. Everyone, please sit.”