Chapter 1853: Su Yuan's Performance, A Scheme Within a Scheme! (Part 2)

Chapter 1853: Chapter 995: Su Yuan’s Performance, A Scheme Within a Scheme! (Part 2)

Xiao Yuan began to answer, “My name is Su Yuan, from Yunnan Ma City. A while back, during heavy rains, the Zombies breached our base, and I was the only one left.

After leaving there, I had nowhere to go. I happened to arrive here yesterday, so I wanted to see if you needed any help. I’m just trying to get a meal, a chance to survive…”

Tears fell as he spoke.

“After the Zombies outbreak, my parents were bitten to death by Zombies. Later, I was with my elder brother, who was also bitten to death by Zombies during the last Zombie Tide to save me. In this world now, I’m just all alone and miserable, wailing…

Alone, I eat grass and wild vegetables when hungry, find an empty house or sleep in trees when tired. It’s been a long time since I’ve seen another living human.

I really don’t know what to do…”

Xiao Yuan mixed in many things he’d actually experienced while speaking, like indeed losing his parents when the Zombie outbreak began.

And some of the hardships he’d endured.

He spoke half-truthfully, making it hard to discern the truth from lies.

Nearby, Zuo Ruxue, being a woman, was more emotional and empathetic.

As Xiao Yuan spoke, she also remembered the hardships she and her sisters faced.

For a moment, her eyes reddened.

Perhaps Xiao Yuan indeed seemed non-threatening—his frail body, coupled with a tragic story, stirred compassion even in Dong Tai.

“But the Camp Commander said there’s something off about this person,” he thought.

Moreover….

Recalling being fooled by Gan Gaojie and the Gan Family before, he suppressed his sympathy.

He continued, “Su Yuan, right?”

Xiao Yuan nodded, teary-eyed, choking up as he said, “Yes, please, give me a chance to survive. I will repay you well, I can do any kind of work, really.”

His face full of sincerity.

Zuo Ruxue looked at Xiao Yuan, pitiful as he was, and couldn’t help but say to Dong Tai:

“Dong Tai, he’s just a child. How about loosening his bonds first? He seems so pitiful.”

Dong Tai shook his head seriously and said, “Have you forgotten the lessons from our past mistakes?”

Zuo Ruxue’s face changed slightly at the words, glaring at Dong Tai:

“He’s already so emaciated, why keep him tied up? He’s still a child; now he’s lost everything and looks for help, how can you be so heartless!

You lack humanity, but don’t stop me!”

Saying this, she moved to loosen Xiao Yuan’s bindings.

Dong Tai felt something was off with Zuo Ruxue.

What’s going on?

The usually strong-willed, clever, and decisive Zuo Ruxue had become like this?

Seeing her going to untie the child, Dong Tai quickly said to Xiao He and others, “Stop her!”

Two people stepped in to stop her.

Zuo Ruxue, looking at the two in front of her, pointed at Dong Tai in fury but could say nothing.

She stomped out of the room.

Dong Tai watched her leaving, eyes full of doubt.

He couldn’t release this child, even without the Camp Commander’s orders, he wouldn’t.

Perhaps being at the Big Camphor Tree Base for so long made one suspect a conspiracy in everyone.

Thus, he cautiously handled everything.

Sitting back down, Dong Tai looked at him and asked:

“Honestly, I don’t trust you, but I warn you, if you have any malicious intent towards Oil City, it won’t end well for you. If someone sent you here under duress, just confess, and I might spare your life.”

Having said that, he instructed Xiao Wu standing nearby:

“Watch him.”

Then he left the room.

Just outside the room, he saw someone waiting.

It was Zuo Ruxue.

She took him to the next house over.

“Dong Tai, did I act well just now?” Zuo Ruxue asked with a smile.

Dong Tai was dumbfounded.

After a few seconds, he came to, speechless, “I was just wondering how you changed so much, turns out it was all an act, why, why the drama?”

Zuo Ruxue replied:

“Don’t you want to find out who sent that child?”

Dong Tai was surprised, “How do you know he was sent by someone?”

Zuo Ruxue explained:

“One, he said he’s from Yunnan Ma City, but his accent doesn’t sound like Yu Province, it feels more like Jin City.”

“Two, how is it so coincidental he ended up at our place, and hearing from Xiao Wu he has no weapons, such a child, if truly that helpless, wouldn’t survive long in Doomsday.

Survivors aren’t weak, and wouldn’t cry so pitifully like that, Captain Ju is right, he’s suspicious, very suspicious.”

“Three, didn’t you feel he seemed eager for us to believe him?”

Dong Tai listened to Zuo Ruxue’s analysis, increasingly convinced.

So he said:

“So, your acting was, hahaha, I get it, you want us to cooperate, one as bad cop, one as good cop, you’re clever.”

This method is often used in many interrogations.

However, in the Big Camphor Tree Base, they seldom got to interrogate, so not intimately familiar with Li Yu Dapao’s interrogation tactics.