Infinite Ebullience
Chapter 233 - 51 The Mission is About to End

Chapter 233: Chapter 51 The Mission is About to End

"What are you looking at, why aren’t you lending a hand?" Seeing Tang Zheng appear at the convenience store’s entrance out of the corner of his eye, Zhang Hao gave a sigh of relief, signifying Ai Li was safe. But he immediately started to roar again, blaming these people for choosing to stop to shop and thus providing an opening for the Ironblood Warrior, which led to him revealing his abilities.

"It seems like you still have some energy left, based on how loudly you’re shouting. It’s a good opportunity for us to learn something from you." Tang Zheng joked, ignoring Zhang Hao’s complaints. He turned his attention to Yin Shanzu, who had easily beheaded an Ironblood Warrior. But Tang Zheng didn’t even understand what abilities had been used. However, there wasn’t time to contemplate, with the five hiding on the Night Bus were in a critical condition.

Zhang Lanyu cowered underneath a seat, holding her head and praying, afraid of being spotted by the aliens through the glass window. Li Yuanhang, who initially wanted to fight back, hid after an alien spat acid at him before he could even open the window, which completely shattered his confidence. The leopard print woman and the cop were still counterattacking with rifles. Of course, if it wasn’t too dangerous outside, they would have fled by now. Only Pang Meiqin was relatively calm, and quite smart too. She hid not far behind Lin Weiguo, and shot from there, which was a safe position.

Tang Zheng’s Thunderstorm Rifle shot out blue lightning balls, clearing the aliens surrounding the bus. He had heard footsteps from behind and hurriedly stopped the others, "None of you should go outside."

If the monsters see Ai Li’s group, Tang Zheng’s pressure would definitely increase greatly. This was the best option, letting them fend off the monsters, while he provides firepower and even conserves his own Seed Ability.

After five minutes, the battle ended. Zhang Hao really wanted to yell at Tang Zheng right to his face but held his breath when he saw his indifferent expression.

"Fuck, just one Bronze Seed. They are not worthy of the title Ironblood Warriors at all. What a joke!" Lin Weiguo felt envious, seeing Yin Shangwu win a gold seed.

"Well done. I didn’t get anything." Zhang Hao was even more depressed. He had killed an Ironblood Warrior but didn’t get anything at all.

"Brother Tang, we got two bronze seeds and a silver one." Bai Guo handed the seeds collected from the battlefield to Tang Zheng, but he declined.

"Give the silver one to Xin Lan. You keep the rest." Tang Zheng patted Lu Fan’s head and comforted him, "Don’t worry, just put in some effort. When we get back to the room, I’ll give you a silver seed to activate an ability."

"Thank you, Uncle." Lu Fan was well aware of his own abilities and considered this promise as his greatest gain.

"What about me?" Pang Meiqin felt jealous. Tang Zheng hadn’t taken care of her in such a way.

"Let’s see once you’ve managed to kill an alien on your own." Tang Zheng replied indifferently, then turned to the newbies, to put pressure on them, "You have to work hard to become our acknowledged companion. Of course, if you are capable, and think you can survive alone in the Trojan Horse Game, you are entirely free to leave."

"Who cares!" grumbled the cop, just loud enough for Zhang Lan Yu to hear, who thought he was trying to rack up some points by showing his bravery. Little did he know that behind her sweet smile, she was secretly calling him an idiot.

"Let’s sleep in the convenience store tonight. Old Lin, lock the door. The rest of you, clean up the alien corpses." Considering that sleeping on the bus wasn’t safe, Tang Zheng chose the convenience store.

In the night, Li Yuanhang volunteered to take Zhang Hao’s place for the night watch, earning Zhang’s admiration.

"Bai Guo will be the main attacker tomorrow. Use your invisibility ability to kill each of them in the hot spring." Tang Zheng, lying in his sleeping bag, explained the operation plan to everyone, "Qin Yan and Yin Shangwu will be supporting you."

"Isn’t it too risky? They should be alert after we kill one." Pang Meiqin felt that it was too much of a gamble, "And to give such an important mission to a naturally stupid person like Bai Guo..."

"That’s enough. Why don’t you go?" Qin Yan questioned, instantly silencing the timid Pang Meiqin.

"I’ll work hard." Bai Guo’s cheeks turned red as she promised.

"We won’t be able to annihilate them in one stroke. We can only proceed this way, which is why the sequence of assassination is important. There will certainly be runaways." Qin Yan looked at the sketched portraits drawn by Tang Zheng and asked, "Can’t we just kidnap Liu Nai?"

"No, they must die." Yin Shangwu declared, nonchalantly disregarding the stunned expressions of everyone around her.

"Then let’s start with the weakest, the newbies. If they disappear for a few hours, the others probably won’t notice." Qin Yan continued to explain, but she was stopped by Tang Zheng.

"No, start with the Conquerors. After these few days, they have lost their vigilance. Coupled with the relaxation after taking a hot spring bath, this is a great opportunity for assassination."

"What if we fail to kill in one hit? It’ll be disastrous." Qin Yan wouldn’t worry if it was Tang Zheng who was taking action, but it was Bai Guo.

"That’s not a problem. After the newbies survive, they will plunge into a panic and directly affect the team’s atmosphere and formation, even slow them down. Deciding whether to leave the newbies behind or not is a difficult problem every small team has to face."

"Uncle, you’re so sneaky." Lu Fan murmured. Bai Guo quickly nodded in agreement.

"Is there an even sneakier approach?" Old Lin also joined in the fun, jokingly teasing Tang Zheng.

"Yes, those guys have had a bitter look on their faces all day, never happy. If everything goes as expected, they should belong to Ai Li’s faction. So, start by killing the others first and break their balance. It might bring unexpected benefits." As expected, Tang Zheng lived up to his reputation.

"Impressive, I already feel sorry for those who are against you," Lin Weiguo stroked his beard, feeling that the Russian team was unlucky to encounter such a cunning person like Tang Zheng.

"Even if they run away, it doesn’t matter, we can still find them, like hunters, we only need to constantly put pressure on them, they will break down on their own. So, as long as we knock down five targets tomorrow, we’ll take the initiative." After saying this, Tang Zheng packed up his sketch paper, "Alright, rest easy and sleep."

With Tang Zheng’s plan, everyone felt that this would be an easy victory like a picnic. However, a blow came head-on early the next morning.

"Li Yuanhang ran away," Pang Meiqin, who was up for a shift change, couldn’t find the fat man and immediately ran to report with a panic-stricken face.

"What, he ran away?" Zhang Lanyu got up with disbelief, "Why would he run? Tang Zheng’s plan is good."

"Why not run, think about Zhang Hao’s words, by running away, he has guaranteed his own safety." The policeman snapped back to reality, showing regret. He was about to steal a glance at Tang Zheng’s reaction, but then he stopped upon hearing a nerve-wracking sentence.

"You can also leave, I’m not going to stop you." Tang Zheng said, looking towards Pang Meiqin, "What’s there to be surprised about? I trusted you to stand guard, and yet you still woke everyone up."

"Tang Zheng, are you sure you’re not talking nonsense?" Pang Meiqin pointed at Zhang Lanyu, not understanding why he was letting them go, "Wait, you’re being sarcastic, right?"

"No, I mean it. Rather than troubling ourselves to look after them, let them fend for themselves. They’re not much use anyway." Tang Zheng didn’t care anymore, if he didn’t save people he would be morally condemned, yet if he did save them, he would be burdened. It would be better if they ran away, a win-win situation.

"Haha, it’s good if they run away, it’s been a long time since I have seen anyone run away." Zhang Hao wore a weird grin on his face, as though thinking of something amusing, even Yin Shang Wu had a similar expression.

"There must be some rules that we newcomers don’t know about." Upon realizing this, Zhang Lanyu quickly expressed himself, "I won’t go, I’ll stand with you guys."

The policeman hesitated for a moment, but he reluctantly nodded after Zhang Lanyu pulled him over.

"Idiot, you don’t even speak Japanese, where can you run to?" If Zhang Lanyu didn’t want a meat shield, he wouldn’t bother with the policeman’s life.

"Not leaving either?" Seeing that the leopard print woman was still huddled in a corner, not saying a word, Zhang Hao asked.

The leopard print girl didn’t say anything, she just nodded her head.

"Tch, with your attitude of not even daring to speak, you’re a...hoe?" Zhang Hao suddenly seemed interested, "You didn’t have your first client on that day, did you?"

"Two days." The leopard print girl didn’t hide her status, "But I didn’t get a single client."

"Ha, how about I become your first client?" As Zhang Hao spoke, he reached out to grab the leopard print girl’s chest.

"That’s enough, Zhang Hao, if you spout nonsense again, get out of here." Tang Zheng couldn’t stand his personality.

"Tch, boring." Zhang Hao, a little upset, walked back.

"Now that it’s daylight, let’s get moving." Tang Zheng got out of his sleeping bag, packed his belongings, and was the first one to leave the convenience store.

Maybe because of the off-season for tours, there were very few guests, which conveniently facilitated Tang Zheng’s group’s actions. He let the newcomers and Pang Meiqin wait in the car, and the rest of the crew entered a hot springs resort called Crane Soup. While making the payment, Tang Zheng also enquired about the information related to the Russian guests.

Once they entered the lodging room, Tang Zheng dismissed the waiter saying that he was tired and needed to sleep first. Then he started to change into a blue, patterned robe full of the essence of a kimono.

"Ladies, stay here, I will go and figure out the structure of the hot springs resort." Tang Zheng, followed by Lin Weiguo and Zhang Hao opened the Japanese-style wooden doors and walked out, and soon, the sound of wooden clogs clicking on the floor could be heard in the corridor.

"Why did you have to bring Ai Li? Isn’t it very dangerous?" Bai Guo didn’t understand, "And how do you wear this dress?"

"Don’t you think it’s more dangerous to leave her behind? You would trust the newcomers to protect her?" Yin Shang Wu put on her bathrobe, laid on the tatami, and started to recuperate.

"The target has appeared, hide quickly." Zhang Hao, who was initially appreciating the women in bathrobes walking by, suddenly heard Lin Weiguo’s words. He was startled and cursed himself for being careless.

"Where do we hide? Jump into the pool?" Zhang Hao complained in a low voice, they had just turned not less than ten meters from the fork, they were in a straight corridor; the left side had rooms and the right side was a courtyard paved with pebbles. He had been appreciating the scenery, but now, he wished he hadn’t appeared here.

"If we turn and run now, we’ll definitely be found." Zhang Hao felt helpless, he looked towards the room

on the side, deciding their only choice was to barge in.(To be continued. If you like this work, please go to qidian.com to vote, your support is my greatest motivation.)