Quickly wear a child: The heirless bosses love me like their life

"When did Commander Su find out?"

He Zhou asked calmly.

At first, he thought Su Jiu was just a powerful but undeveloped brain. Later, after getting to know her, he realized that Su Jiu not only had power, but also intelligence and means. No matter what she did or what she planned, she was excellent, even more experienced than Mu Jiande, the old fox.

He Zhou admired him sincerely, and at the same time put away those inappropriate thoughts.

He thought he hadn't revealed anything, but Su Jiu still found out. However, when he thought about it carefully, he couldn't remember when he was exposed.

Jiang Dai smiled calmly and said:

"You don't need to find out, because from the beginning, I never really trusted you. After all, you are Mu Jiande's subordinate, and you have been with him for so long. I guess you two have already become a community of interests that cannot be separated. I am not a fool. I will not be so naive as to think that you will change your attitude towards me just because Qin Zhuo and I are friends."

"After all, in the adult world, there aren't that many people who would give their all for loyalty... brotherhood..."

"But after I became the commander-in-chief, you adjusted your mindset so easily and started to obey my orders. This action itself is very suspicious."

He Zhou sighed.

"I didn't expect you to doubt me from the beginning. I underestimated you at that time."

So much so that no matter how he tried to make up for it afterwards, he could never make up for it.

Jiang Dai's lips curled slightly.

"Yes and no. I did doubt you at first, but if you could do nothing like everyone else, you wouldn't have attracted my attention. But the only thing you did wrong was that you did too much."

"On my first day of work, the man named Zheng Fa was instructed by Mu Jiande to oppose me, and I fired him directly."

"Afterwards, Mu Jiande wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to kill Zheng Fa, and then pin Zheng Fa's death on me. He wanted to slander me, saying that I killed Zheng Fa because I had a conflict with him and was emotionally agitated. After all, everyone knows that I have that ability."

"But in the end, Mu Jiande didn't do anything at all. Why was that? Because..."

"You used a trick to force Zheng Fa to move and cut off the connection between him and Mu Jiande, making it impossible for Mu Jiande's people to find Zheng Fa for a while. And you took the opportunity to divert Mu Jiande's attention to cultivation."

"You were very careful in your actions. If I hadn't been secretly observing you, I wouldn't have noticed this."

"And that's just the first thing. There's also the second thing."

"The people from the Jing City Investigation Team came to Jiang City. Before they even met me, they already knew that Mu Jiande was seriously injured and dying. They had no chance to contact other survivors. The only ones who could help were the patrol team, and it was you who took the initiative to go and greet them that day."

"It's obvious who leaked the information, isn't it?"

He Zhou was silent for a long time. He really didn't expect that Jiang Dai knew everything. At this moment, he felt like he was naked. No matter what he thought or did, he could not escape Jiang Dai's eyes.

"Is this the power of the Golden Core Realm? It is truly a terrifying, yet desirable power!"

He Zhou sighed in an ambiguous way, and then explained:

"You are right. I did both of these things. But Zheng Fa was the pawn that Mu Jiande was going to use to frame you. I helped you solve this problem. Isn't that enough to show my sincerity towards you?"

"I am a soldier. My duty is to defend my country and obey discipline and orders. No matter who commands me, I will march forward without hesitation."

"Although I used to be Mu Jiande's man, I have long been your man. You don't have to be wary of me, because I won't target you like Mu Jiande did and regard you as a thorn in my side..."

The sincerity and seriousness in his eyes did not seem fake.

But Jiang Dai suddenly clapped his hands and praised:

"What you said is really true. I almost believed it, but you tipped off the investigation team and tried to get them to protect Mu Jiande, which is different from what you said now. Besides, I also found out something else."

As he spoke, Jiang Dai took out a piece of information and threw it in front of He Zhou.

He Zhou didn't care at first, but after turning the first page of the information, his expression changed drastically, and anger, grief, and despair flashed across his face. In the end, his vision was already blurred, and he no longer had the desire to continue struggling and arguing.

"I didn't expect you to find out this too. It's really beyond my expectation."

He Zhou murmured to himself, but he couldn't bear to take his eyes off the photo in the information.

"This is all thanks to you and my dad. If I hadn't invited Qin Zhuo to a farewell banquet before, and you hadn't come uninvited, and my dad hadn't asked about your wife, I wouldn't have thought of investigating these things..."

She just checked it out with the mentality of giving it a try, but she found a surprise unexpectedly.

How should I put it? It was expected.

At the farewell banquet, He Zhou said that his wife and children were attacked and killed by mutated plants at the beginning of the apocalypse, leaving only his adoptive father and mother at home. Due to their poor health and difficulty walking, they stayed at home and did not see strangers.

But Jiang Dai's investigation revealed that the two elderly people had just turned fifty and were in good health. But for some reason, after entering the safe zone, they rarely went out. When they occasionally went out, they looked sneaky. After a neighbor asked them out of curiosity, the two elderly people never went out again.

Jiang Dai was also very curious and guessed that the He family must be hiding some secret, so he sneaked in when He Zhou was not at home.

There was nothing unusual in other places, but Jiang Dai discovered that there was a secret room in the basement of the He family, which was surrounded by steel plates and was almost airtight.

She found an opportunity to sneak in, but saw a surprising scene.

In the basement, there is a mutant morning glory that is as tall as a person. The tiny rhizome and the huge morning glory are weird and shocking. The most shocking thing is that the morning glory makes the voices of a woman and a child from time to time.

At first Jiang Dai was just guessing, but when two old people appeared and called out to the mutant morning glory, calling her daughter and grandson, she understood everything.

It turned out that He Zhou did not lie at the beginning. His wife and children were indeed sucked into the mutated morning glory at the beginning of the apocalypse and became the nutrients of the mutated plants. But the difference was that just when He Zhou and his adoptive parents were about to reluctantly get rid of the mutated morning glory, a familiar voice came from the morning glory's trumpet.

They were their daughters, wives, children, and grandchildren. They were hungry, they were crying, they were begging...

In addition, He Zhou saw the mutants who had successfully mutated, and thought that the mutant morning glory might be his wife and children who had failed to mutate, so he couldn't bring himself to do it. Instead, he felt hope in his heart: what if his wife and children could also come back like those mutants?

So, they raised the mutated morning glory like this.

But the He family still knew the seriousness of the matter, so they built a metal secret room, and after making sure that the morning glory could not escape, they began a months-long journey of feeding it.

As for where the food comes from, it's simple. There are so many human corpses from failed experiments in the laboratory. He just needs to recycle them and take them home.

But the two elders of the He family could not get over the hurdle of conscience, so they chose not to contact anyone until the day when the dust settled.

Then the reason why He Zhou cooperated with the laboratory was very simple.

The Yin family is researching mutants, and he wants his wife and children who failed to mutate to come back. It's that simple.

At the same time, it also solved a doubt in Jiang Dai's mind. If the Yin family wanted to catch people for experiments, it would be impossible for them to completely hide from the patrol team's sight. So there was only one possibility, that someone in the patrol team deliberately let them go, or even... that person in the patrol team was actively using his position to help the Yin family laboratory search for experimental subjects.

Although the Yin family left unexpectedly and left nothing behind, don't forget that the mutant morning glory was also one of the experimental subjects in the Yin family laboratory. Jiang Dai found the medicine from the Yin family laboratory in it, which is irrefutable evidence.

The information displayed was these evidences, as well as the current appearance of the morning glory, and photos of He Zhou's wife and children before they died. Finally, it was Jiang Dai's analysis of the abilities of the mutant morning glory.

"…Its behavior is simple. In addition to eating instinctively, it can imitate the sound of swallowing prey. In addition, the flower fragrance has a slight confusing function, but as long as you are on guard, you will not be affected. Its ability is useless. It is a low-level mutant plant. It is certain that there is no human consciousness in this mutant morning glory. It is not a mutant, but a simple mutant plant..."

When he saw these words, He Zhou's hands trembled.

But in fact, he had guessed it a long time ago, but he just didn't want to believe it. He would rather listen to the laughter of his wife and children coming from the morning glory, as if he had returned to his once carefree and happy life, and would never wake up to face this nightmare world.

But now, it's time for him to face his nightmare.

"sorry."

He Zhou closed his eyes and spoke in a hoarse voice.

Jiang Dai sighed.

"You should apologize not to me, but to those people you captured as experimental subjects."

If He Zhou was just raising a mutant plant with little attack ability, Jiang Dai wouldn't think it was a big deal, but the wrong things he had done were too serious and unforgivable, and Jiang Dai was not qualified to speak for forgiveness on behalf of the victims. He even betrayed the trust of the survivors.

But Jiang Dai felt in her heart that He Zhou was not a bad person. If she encountered such a situation, she might not be able to get out of it.

Don't persuade others to be kind to others without suffering.

He Zhou was conflicted. He wanted to turn over a new leaf, so he helped solve the problem of Zheng Fa. But he also wanted to continue pursuing that illusory miracle, so he tried to save Mu Jiande. Only when Mu Jiande was in charge of the safe zone would the laboratory be able to restart one day, and his wife and children would have a glimmer of hope...

Finally, Jiang Dai had He Zhou taken away and locked up, and had the information obtained from the investigation made public.

As expected, the survivors were shocked.

In their view, Mu Jiande was a politician and He Zhou was a soldier. In the minds of the Chinese, soldiers are the symbol of the country, noble, upright and respectable. They doubted Mu Jiande but never doubted He Zhou.

But no matter what group of people, there will always be one or two people who go astray. As long as they are human, they will have emotions, will feel pain and will collapse. After all, they are human, not gods. They are not perfect and will never make mistakes.

The victims' families, who had finally calmed down, clamored to kill He Zhou in order to quell their anger.

But after the information was released, they all fell silent again.

This is also a poor man. He took the wrong path for the sake of his wife and children, for that illusory idea, but their lost loved ones will never come back, and they don’t know who to hate.

Finally, an old man sighed.

"It's all because of this cannibalistic world!"

Yes, if it weren’t for this sudden doomsday, their relatives and friends would still be alive and well. It’s a pity that they persevered, but those who have lost will never see a new future again.

"Did you hear that?"

Time goes back to the present. Just as He Zhou and the information were taken away, Qin Zhuo walked back with his head slightly lowered and a sad expression.

Hearing Jiang Dai's words, he nodded and said in a hoarse voice:

"In fact, Tengman had discovered that secret room before, but Hezhou said that it was where important secrets of the safe zone were stored, so I never sneaked in to take a look. If I had known earlier..."

If he had known earlier, he might have been able to stop He Zhou. However, when he met He Zhou after the apocalypse, the Jiang City Safety Zone had been established for more than a month. At that time, the Yin family's laboratory had already been opened...

He Zhou is different from him. Although they both had been in an orphanage, He Zhou was not abandoned by his parents. Later, he was firmly chosen by his adoptive parents. Their biological daughter and He Zhou were childhood sweethearts and they loved each other, so they got married.

Their life was the happy life that Qin Zhuo longed for the most, but He Zhou got it and then lost it, and then was unwilling to lose it and could never get out of it.

Qin Zhuo couldn't help but think of him and Jiang Dai, and couldn't help but hold Jiang Dai's hand.

"Jiujiu, we are all fine. Let's never abandon each other, okay?"

Qin Zhuo pleaded.

He couldn't imagine if he would go down Hezhou's old path if he lost Su Jiu, a path of no return where he knew there would be no result but was unwilling to wake up...

Jiang Dai hugged Qin Zhuo, her voice soft and soothing.

"Well, don't worry, I will never abandon you."

Just because of what Qin Zhuo said, she would definitely die later than Qin Zhuo. After all, she wanted to see if Qin Zhuo would be like Pei Yanli, who would wait until the last second of his death before contentedly restoring his favorability to 100.

Qin Zhuo hugged Jiang Dai tightly with both hands.

Jiujiu is right, they will not be like Hezhou, absolutely... absolutely not!

That night, He Zhou committed suicide using his spiritual power. It was said that when he died, he was holding photos of his wife and children.

After hearing the news, the two elders of the He family instantly lost their energy and spirit. After being sent to the hospital for a few days of emergency treatment, they eventually died because they had no will to live.

That mutant morning glory eventually became one of Jiang Dai's medicinal materials for alchemy...