CHAPTER 162: CHAPTER 162: MATTERS WERE NOT AS SIMPLE AS THEY SEEMED

"Sir, the apocalypse is a serious matter and I was worried about improving the strength of our soldiers. We found out that some of the zombies have a crystal inside their heads that could improve the strength of those who had awakened superpowers.

I don’t want anything to go wrong, so I sent them to bring back as many crystal cores as possible and also see if there are varieties. After all, there are many types of superpowers at the moment. So, the crystal cores must be different.

I also want them to find out if there are other ways to improve strength. That’s why I had to use the best." Commander Qiu was aware that he could not fool the president so easily.

That was why he exposed the secret of the crystal cores, which he was aware that even though not popular, some people have already discovered their use already.

Moreover, he also made it clear that he thought that there might be other ways to improve strength and he was just trying to find out if he could discover it.

This way, he could hide the information about the catalyst core but even if it was discovered in the future, he could claim that he was just guessing and had discovered it later on.

These people were still playing politics at this time. The lieutenant at the side wasn’t an otherworldly individual but he still understood the politics.

Even though commander Qiu had done everything in secret, the issue of crystal core had still leaked among the top officials. They had not mentioned it or asked anything because of the level of secrecy at which the mission was conducted, but they were investigating in secret.

The lieutenant had originally not thought much about the rumors spreading, but seeing how the commander was even hiding the truth from the president, and also seeing the interest the president had for what the Dominion squad was searching for veiled as concern, he became interested too.

However, as a soldier, he had cultivated the ability to hide his emotions and true thoughts. This was a survival technique those who had worked undercover are adept in using. So, he remained where he was like an unmoving statue that could not hear or see.

The two leaders seemed to believe in this principle too, which was why they were comfortable discussing such matters in his presence.

"Then let me know what you find and please, send some of the crystal cores your people gather to my residence for the soldiers there. If you find anything more useful, you can share as well so that our country can prosper together.

Some resources for the experiments you mentioned will be sent to you. Set up the lab and find the researchers, I will recommend a few for you. Let’s see if we can find a way to strengthen the country and fight the aliens." The president said before standing up to leave.

"Yes, Mr. President." Commander Qiu replied and stood up to salute before following the president out to escort him to his fleet of cars.

The lieutenant remained where he was in deep thought. Even when the president and the commander had been gone for a long time, he was still deep in thought.

He was thinking about the conversation between the president and the commander, which didn’t seem to carry much weight, but he felt that things were definitely not as simple as they seem.

Even though he had been there the whole time and heard and understood everything, he still felt as if the two leaders were speaking in riddles. He felt that there was more to their conversation. But he couldn’t figure out what.

Also, he felt that for a leader, the president was indeed a good person who was even concerned about the lives of normal soldiers.

But something the president said before leaving confused him. The president said, ’Let’s find a way to strengthen the country and fight the aliens.’ However, the world was now infested with zombies, not aliens. What did he mean by that?

Or, was it just a confusion of words? He didn’t dwell on it as he left the conference room and went back to his living quarters to contact his confidant.

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In a high-rise building within the city, another group of people were also sitting in a spacious living room talking.

The mature-looking leader was asking if there had been any progress in their search. And their mission was going a little better than Vortex.

"We located her traces in a slaughterhouse outside the city. She must have been there because a lot of meat was missing from the cold storage. It was easy to tell because the angle at which the meat was missing was not visible to the people at the door.

She must have been doing it in secret, which means that she hasn’t publicised the space even to those around her.

The other location is a clothes factory which had the same signature energy and also had more than half of the products in the warehouse missing. Particularly, the materials for making winter clothes were missing." The youth dressed like a hip hop singer said.

"Have you managed to track her using this information?" The leader asked again.

"No." Another member said. It was the young girl who replied this time.

"We managed to capture her whereabouts using these two locations because the space was used long enough to leave an obvious energy signature. But after leaving, I am assuming she didn’t use it all that much." The girl continued.

"But the residue energy headed towards the communities of the rich in the city before it dissipated. It’s just that, there are many communities in that direction and I don’t know which to look for her in. We have to wait until she has opened the space long enough to leave a signature to find her.

This time, we won’t be far, as long as the space is in use, we can start moving right away." another young man suggested.