In the middle-aged woman's eyes, these zombies were merely sick people who still had a chance of being cured. Yet Takashiro Soichiro had directly cut them down. Without a doubt, that was harming patients.
However, most people looked at Takashiro Soichiro's icy gaze and the blood-dripping blade in his hand, and fear rose in their hearts.
"Your father really is impressive."
Lin Feng looked at Takagi Saya's cold expression. Her hands were tightly gripping the window frame.
When the zombies had lunged at her father, Saya had been worried for a moment. But when her father said he would personally kill close friends, family, or lovers who had turned into zombies—
Saya's heart suddenly ached. In her father's eyes, zombies had to be killed in order to save more people.
That man had followed her father for many years. He had been her father's right-hand man, as well as his close friend.
Yet now, her father had personally killed him. Without the slightest hesitation.
That was right. In her father's eyes, any means were acceptable in order to save more people, even sacrificing the lives of a small minority.
Takagi Saya looked deeply dejected, because in her father's eyes, she was also someone who could be sacrificed.
Having a father like that was truly awful. Saya had never felt even a trace of fatherly love from Soichiro. For the sake of saving more people, he could even sacrifice his own daughter...
Lin Feng looked at Takagi Saya's gloomy face, patted her shoulder, and said, "He might be a fine family head and a leader worthy of respect, but he's a terrible father."
A terrible father?
Hearing that, Saya abruptly turned around and looked at the boy behind her. Why could he understand what she was thinking?
At that moment, sunlight fell upon the boy, making him shine brilliantly. Even in broad daylight, it felt somewhat dazzling.
Ding! [Takagi Saya's Affection Points +20]
After leaving the reception room, Lin Feng began wandering around the Takagi estate. It was truly enormous, and many people had gathered there.
Takashiro Soichiro's retainers and the survivors rescued from outside numbered over a thousand in total.
This right-winger, Takashiro Soichiro, did have some ability to gather so many people. He had even assigned specialists to maintain the electricity and water supply. Keeping such a massive network running required considerable manpower and resources.
Unfortunately, once the nuclear missiles were launched, the EMP would destroy Japan's entire power grid.
There were already too many people here, and their hearts were not united. It was impossible for all of them to obey Takashiro Soichiro.
Once the electricity and water were cut off, the food and water consumed by so many people would be staggering.
In order to seize leadership and gain priority in food distribution—
They definitely would not submit to Takashiro Soichiro's leadership.
Lin Feng had no intention of kindly warning Takashiro Soichiro to guard against an EMP attack, because Soichiro was someone he needed to defeat. Otherwise, if he coexisted with the right wing, Lin Feng's future life as a Chinese national would not be peaceful.
Sure enough, four men in black security uniforms were approaching him. The looks they gave Lin Feng were far from friendly. Clearly, they had come to cause trouble.
Very quickly, Lin Feng was surrounded by the four men. Takashiro Soichiro's subordinates had tightly enclosed him from all four directions.
There was only one reason for what they were doing: Lin Feng's nationality.
Those unlike us must harbor different intentions.
All four of them deeply disliked the presence of Lin Feng, a Chinese man.
"Move."
Lin Feng raised an eyebrow and spoke to the man in front of him.
The man before him was exceptionally burly, broad-backed and thick-waisted, with a face full of flesh. After hearing Lin Feng's words, the brute curled up his lips.
"Oh? You little brat, do you know where you are? The Patriotic Unity Association doesn't welcome foreigners like you."
Seeing that Lin Feng was smaller and thinner than himself, the man acted extremely arrogantly. He tilted his head and scrutinized Lin Feng's face closely, looking both ridiculous and ferocious.
Then, the man pulled a dagger from his waist, held the handle out toward Lin Feng, and spread his legs apart.
"Here. If you want to get past me, either crawl through my legs, or stab me to death!..."
Before the confident man could finish speaking, Lin Feng had already grabbed the dagger and slashed it straight at his throat!
Thud!
The blade scraped across his skin, and that icy sensation made the man collapse instantly.
His legs gave out, and his butt hit the ground. His large hand desperately clutched at the neck the dagger had passed over. His pupils dilated, and a warm liquid soaked his pants.
Only after touching his neck several times did he realize there was no blood.
Lin Feng had merely used the back of the blade to brush across his neck. Seeing the chill in the boy's eyes, the man suddenly felt cold down his spine as sweat poured from his back.
"I thought you really weren't afraid of death."
Lin Feng stepped over the man's body with a faint smile on his face.
Feeling humiliated, the man hysterically roared at his companions.
"Beat him to death!"
Lin Feng gripped the dagger, a fierce glint flashing in his eyes. Just as he was about to swing it, he heard a crisp voice.
"Ganging up on someone when your opponent is only a high school student—do you even remember how my father usually teaches you the spirit of bushido?"
Takagi Saya questioned the men before her with the bearing of a young mistress. The middle-aged man named Harano froze, then climbed to his feet and involuntarily called out, "Young Miss."
Saya walked in front of Lin Feng, separating the two sides that were about to clash.
"I never expected Mr. Harano to take the lead in doing something like this!" Takagi Saya frowned and began berating him.
"You keep talking about restoring Bed City, yet whenever you have spare time, you go around causing trouble for others. Are you worthy of my father's cultivation? Are you worthy of your identity as a member of the Patriotic Unity Association? Don't you feel ashamed?"
Being scolded to his face by a little girl who was barely grown—
And having the Patriotic Unity Association used to pressure him, Harano was naturally filled with anger. But she was the commander's daughter, so he could only endure it.
Behind Saya stood Miyamoto Rei, along with Busujima Saeko, who held a new katana. Needless to say, it was the Murata Sword Takashiro Soichiro had given Busujima Saeko.
The reason was that Soichiro had once received swordsmanship instruction from Busujima Saeko's father, so he was repaying the favor through his daughter.
"Takashiro Soichiro is coming."
Lin Feng held Miyamoto Rei's small hand while Saeko walked to his side and spoke softly.
"Mm."
Lin Feng nodded lightly. In truth, even without Saeko saying anything, he could sense an intense killing intent approaching from behind.
"What are you arguing about?"
In an instant, the man's voice rang out. Sturdy military boots struck the floor with steady steps as he walked toward them.
Behind him followed a voluptuous, mature beauty. Lin Feng did not need to guess to know that she was Saya's mother, Takagi Yuriko.
Yuriko wore a red dress and open-toed high heels. The off-the-shoulder dress exposed her snow-white shoulders, smooth and fair. Her gentle, captivating smile gave her the temperament of a virtuous wife and loving mother.
Lin Feng only gave her a cold glance, appearing entirely uninterested.
Yet inwardly, he was deeply drawn to this sweet, alluring married woman. Her body, like a fully ripened peach, fiercely stirred Lin Feng's nerves.
"C-Commander!" Upon seeing the family head, the four men immediately straightened their backs. Even the strongest among them, their leader, showed traces of fear on his face.
Just as Saya had said, her father had left an indelible impression upon these retainers. They all held their lord in awe.
"You're Chinese?" Takashiro Soichiro stood before Lin Feng and sized him up with a gaze that looked down on everything.
Lin Feng was somewhat displeased by Takashiro Soichiro's contemptuous look.
Sure enough, a right-wing leader like him wouldn't be as wonderful as fanfiction portrayed him. Even if the protagonist was Chinese, Soichiro would supposedly be crying and begging to entrust his daughter to him.
But now was not the time to tear off the mask. He merely replied coldly, "That's right. I'm Chinese."
Takashiro Soichiro frowned upon hearing that and asked sternly,
"Harano, what's going on between you and him?" As the chairman of the Patriotic Unity Association, the most powerful right-wing organization in Bed City, he obviously knew his subordinate had deliberately caused trouble for Lin Feng, yet he still gave Harano a chance to explain.
However—
"Obviously, Father's men were bullying my friend."
Saya felt the invisible pressure radiating from her father, but she still said, "And he is my lifesaver. If he hadn't been there, I would be one of the zombies now. Father, that's right—he protected me. No one may disrespect my daughter's benefactor!"
Saya had openly challenged her father. After all, she had been considered useless by her parents, someone who would not even survive the first wave of the zombie outbreak. Naturally, she could not help feeling angry toward a father like that.
Takagi Yuriko looked at the father and daughter confronting each other. Her soft pink lips moved slightly. She truly wanted to persuade Soichiro, but faced with such a stubborn man, she ultimately gave up on speaking.
These were extraordinary times. Whatever dissatisfaction she had, she could not show it before outsiders and subordinates.
"Is that so?" Takashiro Soichiro had intended to find an opportunity to drive Lin Feng out. These were critical times, after all, and allowing a Chinese man to stay in his camp would cause many problems.
But seeing his daughter step forward on Lin Feng's behalf, he carefully examined her. Usually, Saya was somewhat timid, yet now she actually dared to confront him.
"Yes. I mean, it's wrong for Father's retainers to treat his daughter's lifesaver this way. If word got out, it would inevitably damage Father's reputation!"
For an instant, the air seemed to freeze because of the confrontation between the father and daughter.
However, it was only temporary.
"Commander! The survivors are protesting!"
At that moment, an adjutant stepped forward and reported to Takashiro Soichiro.
Takashiro Soichiro glanced at Lin Feng.
But he said nothing and left with Harano and the others.
There was a faint, nearly imperceptible resentment in Yuriko's eyes. She had urged Soichiro to send people to rescue Saya from her school, but Soichiro had sternly refused. His reason was that the school was too densely populated, and he could not waste limited manpower on a futile effort. But in Yuriko's eyes, Soichiro simply did not care about his daughter.
This model couple, envied by everyone on Second Street—
Every member of the Isshinkai knew their story. Yuriko had once been a famous super-businesswoman on Wall Street. While returning to Japan on vacation, she met Soichiro, and they married on the second day after meeting.
Not long after their marriage, Yuriko became pregnant. She gave up her work on Wall Street and settled down in the Takagi household, becoming a wife and mother.
But this model couple was not as wonderful as they appeared in public. Yuriko was not the Yamato Nadeshiko who obediently followed her husband outside, and Soichiro was not the tall, mighty, truly masculine man he appeared to be in public. That day, the couple had a fierce argument, with Saya's matter merely serving as the fuse.
But in the end, Yuriko still compromised.
Saeko and Rei's Competition
Lin Feng turned his head and met Saya's exhausted eyes.
She watched her father's departing back until he disappeared from sight.
Saya finally let out a breath of relief, but then the exhaustion from their confrontation immediately erupted through her relaxed body. Her face turned somewhat pale, and her legs felt weak.
"Saya, are you alright?" Noticing the girl's weakness, Lin Feng blurted out.
"I'm tired. To keep Father from looking down on me, I had to stay tense in front of him and force myself not to show any weakness."
To bid farewell to her timid former self, and for the people she wanted to protect, she had to appear strong enough.
If she had not done so, judging from her father's behavior, he would definitely have driven Lin Feng away.
"It must have been hard for Saya, facing a father like that." Seeing the trembling girl, Saeko took the initiative to pull her into her arms.
However, Saeko's action suddenly stirred Saya's intense competitive spirit once more.
She did not want to expose her weakness under other people's gazes, much less appear useless before Lin Feng.
She was a genius with an IQ of 300. As long as she wanted to do something, there was nothing she could not accomplish.
Fine. Since my parents and Father's retainers look down on us so much, I'll show you what I can do!
After thinking it over, she finally nodded and agreed to Lin Feng's assimilation plan.
That evening, during dinner—
Led by the naturally dumb Kikukawa Shizuka, all the girls except Alice energetically cracked open canned beer and began drinking.
As a man, Lin Feng did not particularly enjoy alcohol.
But he was happy to watch them relax and ease the tense atmosphere of the apocalypse.
Lin Feng ate fried dumplings by himself, occasionally touching Miyamoto Rei's smooth, delicate thigh beneath the table and squeezing Saeko's firm, perky ass.
He was enjoying himself as well.
Miyamoto Rei and Busujima Saeko drank can after can of beer. No one knew what had gotten into them, but the two had suddenly become such heavy drinkers.
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