CHAPTER 253: CHAPTER 253: PIN THE BLAME ON QINGRAN

Moli didn’t speak for a moment. Her breath was still catching, but her eyes searched his face for something, weakness, amusement, permission.

She found none, she sighed, not expecting this to have happened.

Boran released her throat and stepped back.

She let her feet settle on the ground, her spine still pressed against the wall. Her fingers slowly rubbed her neck where his grip had left heat behind.

"I didn’t disobey you.." she said quietly, a touch of defiance in her voice.

"You were about to.." he replied. "And that’s when I remind you who gives the orders."

She looked down for a beat, then lifted her chin again with that lazy, sugar-sweet smile. "Well. Now that I’ve been scolded..."

He walked past her without a glance, his presence brushing her shoulder like a cold gust.

The door to their room creaked open. The walls inside were bare, the bed neatly made, the lighting dim. Moli shut the door behind them and leaned back against it.

"I take it you’re not in the mood for pillow talk?" she asked.

He didn’t respond at first. He moved toward the desk in the corner, flicking through cards from the air.

The edges of the tarot deck glowed faintly, reacting to his thoughts.

"Im pretty sure she has found the cure by now. I mean it’s Qingran we’re talking about.."

Moli gritted her, she didn’t like it when Yan Boran mentioned Qingran’s name.

"I suppose, it is her job as everyone’s saviour to find the cure.."

Boran nodded, if they were in a game Qingran would be the self proclaimed main character.

"And that’s why I want to get my hands on that cure, re-engineer it and give it to all the desperate people out there. We’ll cause a massacre so big and pin it on our dear Qingran.."

Moli smiled, she would willingly lend a hand on anything that would make Qingran suffer.

"How are you going to get it? It’s not like if you show your face there she’s going to hand it to you?"

Boran smiled and pulled out a card "This is my favourite card. The mind control tarot card. I’ll find the weakest link and take over their mind. Getting the cure would be easy making pie."

Moli smiled, she just wanted to be in any situation where she got the opportunity to shred Qingran’s body.

"I wonder if she’s still take care of that kid, you know she’s got severe mummy issue, she sees one kid and suddenly feels responsible for them.."

Boran didn’t say anything, Haoyu was a good kid and he liked him. Moli was the one who had a problem with everyone.

"Haoyu is a good kid, tough even... I’d like to see him again.."

-_-

Moli didnt say anything and instead got on the bed, resuming her sweet talk.

Moli didn’t say anything and instead got on the bed, resuming her sweet talk.

"You’re still so tense," she murmured, stretching on her side. "You know... it wouldn’t kill you to let me relax you once in a while."

Boran said nothing.

She smiled at that.

"That silence of yours is really dangerous, you know? Sometimes it makes me want to bite harder."

He glanced at her. "You always want to bite."

"Only when I’m close to you."

She rolled over, propping herself up with one hand.

"You think I don’t notice when you’re stressed," she said, tracing the hem of his sleeve. "But I do. You get quiet in a way that even Tartarus shuts up."

He raised an eyebrow. "And you want to fix that with pillow talk?"

"I want to fix it by making you forget for a little while."

She crawled closer, voice low, warm against his shoulder. "Let me do that."

Morning came after than expected but Qingran was already up.

She wanted to see if she could use that teleportation method and go back to zone 1 for some zombie blood.

She wouldn’t need to take anyone, she could just pop out and pop in herself.

"Hey Lingquan. Help me search for radio frequency.."

[Why would you be needing that?]

-_-

"Just do as I say.."

[Alright, give me a second to analyse..]

Qingran nodded, if her guess was right this could really work in her favor.

[I’m back. There’s a military bunker at least 10 km from here. It’s good but its not promising, there are alot of flooded areas, you’d be able to use the one tenth of the place at best. That includes some rooms, a kitchen and bathroom, there isn’t alot of open space, but with a little bit of clean up you should be able to create space for people to sleep on the ground with their futons.]

Qingran nodded, just that there wasn’t a bit of futons left. Maybe it was time to raise the supermarkets here.

"Time for some planning.." she said to herself as she stood up.

Shen Li woke up soon after, she had regained most of her energy back.

"Good morning, miss Qingran.."

The sleep cleared from her eyes when she saw the seriousness in Qingran’s face.

"Morning.."

She stepped out of the space and when to meet the rest of the group, even calling Rong and his men along.

"Good morning everyone, I hope you all had a good sleep. I have some new adjustments I would like to relay, if you’re not okay with it kindly raise your hands afterwards."

The room was silent, as they waited for her to speak.

"This store is quite tight and we all can’t continue to leave in these conditions. So I found a new place for us to live, it’s not much but it’s also better than this store. But I won’t be following you all on your journey there.."

-_-

They felt a chill on their backs, if Qingran wasn’t with them, then they weren’t safe to leave.

"Dont worry, you won’t be going their alone. You’ll be going there, with Yu Song, Meng Nian and Xu Tianming.."