Outside the Arknights camp, three elite teams were hiding in the dark, waiting for Zhang Fan's signal and waiting for the opportunity to move.
Zhang Fan was already sitting at the banquet table, chatting and laughing with everyone.
Of course, in addition to mutual business support, many people also tested Zhang Fan's identity overtly and covertly. However, Zhang Fan ignored them all.
Zhang Fan thought Hu Xingguo would say something during the banquet, but the old boy said nothing.
Zhang Fan was still unsure of Hu Xingguo's meaning, so he just held still.
After the banquet, Hu Xingguo dismissed everyone to go about their business, leaving only Yuan Shaohua and Zhang Fan.
"Captain Hu, which step are you taking?"
Zhang Fan took the initiative and asked first.
Hu Xingguo smiled and said nothing.
On the contrary, Yuan Shaohua said with a smile.
"You are the legendary Barbarian King, right?"
Zhang Fan also laughed.
"Since Captain Hu specially asked you to stay here, I must have told you my identity."
"Lord Man King, are you interested in visiting our experimental base?" Yuan Shaohua asked.
Zhang Fan looked at Hu Xingguo, "I'm more interested in Captain Hu's plan than visiting your experimental base!"
Seeing that he couldn't deal with it anymore, Hu Xingguo had to sit down again.
"Okay, let's be honest. The matter of joining your Dawn event may come to an end!"
Zhang Fan's expression remained motionless, but his pupils shrank slightly, revealing a dangerous light in his eyes.
The voice said coldly.
"What does Captain Hu mean by this?"
Hu Xingguo pretended to sigh.
"Lord Barbarian King, you don't have much time left for me! Although our Tomorrow's Ark team is not the strongest team in the west of the city, our population is the largest among all the forces in the west of the city!"
Zhang Fan had indeed felt it when he was at the Arknights camp today.
Almost every few steps you take, you'll meet people of all kinds saying hello. It's as lively as a market!
Hu Xingguo continued.
"Our Arknights team is the one among the five major forces that accepts everyone who comes. Therefore, we have the largest number of people."
"I thought about the plan you told me yesterday when I went back."
"Indeed! For me personally, joining Dawn is a better choice! I even believe that for most of the superpowers in the team, relying on strong people is the best solution!"
Hu Xingguo sighed and continued.
"But! For ordinary people who believe in me and follow me, what benefits can joining Dawn bring them?"
Zhang Fan couldn't help but laugh out loud.
"Captain Hu, I don't understand what you are saying. Since you understand that by joining us, both you and the superpowers of Arknights will benefit from it, so why is it not beneficial to ordinary survivors?"
Zhang Fan raised his head.
"Ordinary survivors can get better protection and can get whatever they want based on their own labor, even a toy or a bottle of perfume. We can easily provide it."
"They can be infinitely close to their own life before the end of the world! Work! Have fun!"
"But this is still not the most important thing. The more important point is that after two years! They may be able to survive! Isn't this enough reason to join us?"
After Zhang Fan finished speaking, he looked at Hu Xingguo coldly.
It’s not like he doesn’t know what Hu Xingguo is thinking in his heart! He just wants to negotiate more terms!
Hu Xingguo smiled bitterly.
"Lord Barbarian King, it's not that I don't know what you said, but I believe it doesn't mean that others will believe it!"
Yuan Shaohua also spoke at this time.
"Lord Barbarian King, you must have learned the two years you mentioned from other people's mouths!"
Zhang Fan let out a cold sound.
"Yes, I did learn about it from others, but the authenticity of this news has been confirmed!"
Zhang Fan said and looked at Yuan Shaohua again.
"Professor Yuan, it stands to reason that you are an expert in this field. I don't believe you didn't notice it at all?"
Yuan Shaohua and Hu Xingguo looked at each other and smiled bitterly.
"I heard that the Barbarian King has a department called the Secretariat. There are hundreds of wise elites in it."
Zhang Fan smiled and nodded, "Yes, everything I know was informed by the Secretariat. I can even say that the Secretariat is Shuguang's real brains."
Then he turned his attention to Yuan Shaohua.
"I remember Professor Yuan said that you are the only real experimenter in Team Arknights. But in my secretariat, you may be able to find many like-minded people!"
Yuan Shaohua couldn't help but his eyes lit up.
asked.
"What? Are there people in the Secretariat who study biological genes like me?"
Zhang Fan raised his eyebrows.
"Maybe it's not like you who directly caught zombies and came back to do research. But I remember that there are indeed many experts in biology."
Seeing that Yuan Shaohua was interested, Zhang Fan said again.
"Perhaps we can do more in-depth research together in the future!"
Yuan Shaohua nodded, excited.
"That's right! I'm still not very thoughtful in many places by myself. If there is a team, the research speed will be greatly improved! By then, maybe we can really develop natural enemies that can restrain zombies!"
Zhang Fan smiled secretly in his heart.
Yuan Shaohua is really obsessed with studying the natural enemies of zombies!
Seeing that Yuan Shaohua was also interested, Zhang Fan started to strike while the iron was hot.
"Captain Hu, Professor Yuan, Shuguang sincerely invites you to join the Arknights team!"
Hu Xingguo still looked troubled and looked at Yuan Shaohua for a few times.
"Lord Barbarian King, to be honest, as an individual, I really want to join you, Dawn! But our tomorrow's Ark is not decided by me alone..."
Zhang Fan laughed.
"Captain Hu, why don't I believe what you said? Just now at the banquet, I saw other people treating you respectfully. I guess, as the captain, your words still have some weight, right?"
Hu Xingguo smiled bitterly and shook his head repeatedly.
"Lord Barbarian King, I invited you here today. The reason why we haven't talked about business during the banquet is because you haven't met the person you were supposed to meet yet."
Zhang Fan raised his eyebrows and asked.
"who?"
Hu Xingguo said, "The vice-captain of our Arknights team is Ji Junwei!"
"Vice Captain?" Zhang Fan is somewhat familiar with this name.
The Black Lotus King seems to have mentioned this person before.
"Ji Junwei..." Zhang Fan tried to remember.
Hu Xingguo said, "Lord Barbarian King may have heard of his name. Ji Jun of Arknights team is known as Black Lightning!"
"Ah! Black Lightning!" Hu Xiaoguo suddenly exclaimed.
Zhang Fan turned back to look at Hu Xiaoguo.
"What? Do you know him?"
Hu Xiaoguo was so excited that he was a little incoherent.
"Lord Barbarian King! I do know him, but he doesn't know me! And not only do I know him, almost everyone in the west of the city doesn't know him!"
"Ji Jun of Arknights Team! Known as Black Lightning! He once teleported to a girl in distress fifty meters away and saved the young girl from the mouth of a super zombie!"
"According to the recollection of the person involved, the man had dark skin but a strong build. He took himself away from the dangerous place in the blink of an eye!"
"Because he was so dark and so fast, it looked like a flash of black lightning to outsiders, so the name Black Lightning spread."
After Hu Xiaoguo finished explaining, Yuan Shaohua continued.
"Lord Barbarian King may not know yet, but now in the Arknights team, Ji Junwei's popularity is even higher than that of our captain. That's why we must arrange for you to meet Ji Junwei!"
Zhang Fan asked.
"Since you intend to let me meet Black Lightning, what about the others?"
Hu Xingguo clapped his hands.
"That's the problem!"
Then he often sighs.
"This Ji Junwei, he has the ability! He also has the mind! But the only thing he has is that he is one of the best in not following discipline and doing random things!"
Hu Xingguo was also full of complaints when he talked about it.
"Just like today's matter, I told him yesterday that there is an important person to meet today. He must be brought to the camp. He also nodded and agreed!"
"But in the morning, I found that the person was no longer in the camp! After asking people around, I found out that he was going to the suburbs to challenge mutant beasts! When he left, he didn't even say hello to me, but he took a lot of them with him.
Brother, do you think it’s irritating or not?”
Hu Xingguo clapped his hands to express his helplessness.
"Ji Junwei is sought after by many people in the team, and two-thirds of the superpowers admire him. Especially after his reputation as Black Lightning spread, it was not just superpowers who were pursuing him, but ordinary survivors as well.
Among them, many of his fans appeared..."
Daiyu curled her lips, "What's so great about that? Isn't it just as popular as Brother Fan?"
Hu Xingguo smiled.
"Little girl, I'm afraid you may have misunderstood something. To be honest, Lord Barbarian King is probably not very popular in the west of the city."
"I don't dare to say it in the future, but those small groups that joined you before this probably weren't convinced by Lord Barbarian King's personal charm..."
Zhang Fan couldn't help but twitch the corner of his mouth, he was talking about someone else, why did he involve himself?
Daiyu tilted her head and thought for a while, then finally nodded in frustration.
"It seems to be true..."
"Okay! Stop! None of this is important!" Zhang Fan stretched out his hand to stop the two of them from continuing to chat.
"Brother Fan, don't be hit! You are enjoying your life in the east of the city!" Daiyu took Zhang Fan's arm and consoled her.
Zhang Fan forcefully pulled his hand out.
Hu Xingguo said again.
"Lord Barbarian King, there is no need to feel depressed. When I say this, I don't mean to belittle your ability. I just want to tell you something. Black Lightning's appeal is very strong in the Arknights team! You must not underestimate him, as long as you convince him
With him, we are 90% sure about the cooperation between Ark Team and Dawn tomorrow!"
Zhang Fan nodded and raised his lips into a smile.
"Then I wonder when this Black Lightning will come back?"
Hu Xingguo and Yuan Shaohua looked at each other, lowered their heads and sighed.
"We don't know this either."
Yuan Shaohua also showed his hands.
"I've actually been contacting him, but Ji Jun is a free and undisciplined person. Even if he receives a message, it's common for him not to reply!"
"So, I need to wait for him to come back now, right?"
Zhang Fan asked again.
The two nodded.
"That's right."
Zhang Fan smiled, stood up and stretched.
"Okay! Just wait!"
Then he turned to look at Yuan Shaohua.
"Hey, Professor Yuan, I heard that you want to take me to see your experimental building, right?"
Hu Xingguo and Yuan Shaohua were naturally very happy to see that Zhang Fan was willing to stay and wait for Ji Junwei.
Yuan Shaohua nodded repeatedly.
"That's right, I'll take you there right now."
Zhang Fan took a step forward, then suddenly stopped. He turned to look at Hu Xingguo, who was smiling broadly.
"Captain Hu, if you have such difficulties in the future, just say so. There is really no need to work on those twisted muscles."
Hu Xingguo laughed heartily.
"Lord Barbarian King, everything I said is not an excuse! It is a real reason!"
"It is my original intention to find a way out for ordinary survivors. It is also a fact that as the captain, I have no say."
Hu Xingguo said it frankly.
"After all, to put it nicely, it means joining Dawn, but in fact, it can also be understood as our Arknights team being annexed by Dawn! I think, as the leader of Dawn, Lord Man King, he can naturally understand that if there is a stronger team
Was it difficult to ask you to join?"
Zhang Fan smiled and could not deny it.
"Captain Hu, believe me! You will not regret your decision! Moreover, as long as you want, Arknights can even exist as an independent team of Dawn, and you will still have full authority to manage it! Of course, the staff of Arknights can even
No scheduling!"
Zhang Fan had already made his words so clear that Hu Xingguo naturally had nothing to worry about and just nodded.
He said, "I wonder how Lord Man King plans to persuade Ji Junwei?"
Zhang Fan smiled, "Don't worry, I will promise him something else. You will still be the captain of Tomorrow's Ark."
Hu Xingguo laughed.
"Lord Barbarian King, let's go to the laboratory first and take a look!"
Zhang Fan nodded, and the others moved towards the experimental building.
The experimental building is not very far from the office building.
This has always been a place that Hu Xingguo is proud of.
Here, they have even created a lot of good things that are recognized by the market. They have also created a lot of wealth for the entire team!
When they walked to the door of the experimental building, Daiyu and Hu Xiaoguo grabbed Zhang Fan's clothes.
Zhang Fan was pulled to a stop by the two men and could not help but frown and look back at the two men.
"What's wrong?"
Daiyu lowered her head and bit her lip gently. Hu Xiaoguo looked at Zhang Fan with wide eyes.
"Lord Barbarian King...this is where zombie experiments are done..."
Zhang Fan nodded.
"Yeah, what's wrong?"
Hu Xiaoguo swallowed and whispered.
"Lord Barbarian King, do you still need me to record and monitor your next trip in real time? If it is not so necessary...can I not go in?"
Hu Xiaoguo mustered up the courage to say these words. Zhang Fan took a closer look and saw that besides Daiyu and Hu Xiaoguo, there were two little girls in the team with pale faces, as if they were afraid and didn't want to go in.
Zhang Fan thought of the appearance of the strange fish, and then saw Daiyu's pale little face, and instantly understood...
Zhang Fan touched Daiyu's head.
"If you don't dare to go, you don't have to go."
Daiyu raised her head, "Really?"
Zhang Fan smiled and nodded.
"certainly."
Then he raised his hand again.
"If any of you dare not go, you don't have to go. Just stay here and wait for me to come back."