Chapter 273
Lü Chaoyang was a senior official, after all. An ordinary person like Zhao Qiang would never have been able to meet him.
But since Lü Xiangyang had defected, Lü Chaoyang had most likely done the same.
Surviving in this apocalypse required a certain amount of strength.
Blind Cheng had beaten the fighting spirit out of Lü Xiangyang. He probably knew that advancing on his own would be difficult from now on, leaving him dependent on Promotion Potions.
But Cao Yuan could turn people into aberration symbiotes, immediately giving them tremendous combat power.
For Lü Xiangyang, that was definitely an option he couldn't ignore.
Cao Yuan had probably infiltrated the research team long before Lin Yi and the others arrived. Studying aberration creatures was her specialty.
Besides, she was a level five aberration symbiote herself.
Defeating Lü Xiangyang would have been child's play for her.
Lü Chaoyang possessed the Curio called the Dream Sandbox. Since Cao Yuan had taken over the Northern Settlement, he must have sided with her too.
Both brothers were probably standing against humanity now.
"What did you see when you escaped?"
Lin Yi continued, "Tell me everything you saw at the time. Besides the convoys that escaped, did any of the senior officials show up?"
"I saw a lot of aberration creatures. They were people who'd transformed into aberration creatures, and they were shouting things about evolution."
Zhao Qiang thought back, then said quietly, "When we were escaping, Lü Xiangyang turned into a bull-headed aberration. He looked really powerful. Several other people who'd turned into aberrations were strong too, about seven or eight of them. There were also aberration creatures coming out of the ground."
"After I escaped, I heard other people say those aberration creatures fought Lü Xiangyang and his group too, but I