Chapter 56

Tap, tap, tap—

One by one, black children were brought out from behind. The youngest were only three or four years old, looking like little potatoes, and the oldest were only in their teens. Because of long-term malnutrition, they all looked thin and small. The children's wrists were tied behind their backs with ropes. Perhaps because they were already used to hunger and suffering, none of them cried or made a fuss; their eyes were dull and hollow, and they stumbled forward.

"Hurry up!"

Behind them were two soldiers with loaded guns, pressing their guns against their backs and pushing their shoulders from time to time.

Soon, a group of children were brought to the center of the square, and Shi Yi counted silently in her heart...

"Why are there only 17?"

"Little bitch, you have quite a lot of tricks, two died!" Kuba said impatiently.

"Died?"

Shi Yi raised her head, her amber eyes looking at Kuba, her voice calm and steady: "How do I know they are dead, or if you hid them?"

A raging fire instantly rose in Kuba's heart, and he pressed a gun hard against Shi Yi's temple:

"Little bitch, don't you dare push your luck!"

At this moment, with the muzzle of a gun against her head, Shi Yi felt an instinctive fear, but she still tried hard to suppress it and said: "I need to see their bodies... otherwise I can't explain it to the government army... you know, the government army is outside... they could attack at any time..."

Kuba was flushed with anger, his teeth almost shattered.

After a while, he clenched his fists and roared:

"Go, drag the bodies of those two children over to me!"

Soon, a soldier dragged two small bodies out from behind roughly. Shi Yi looked closely and saw that they were two very small children, looking only four or five years old; she couldn't tell their gender, only seeing them lying softly on the ground, their two little hands hanging weakly on both sides...

Shi Yi's heart ached, and tears fell uncontrollably.

She knew that everyone had to die, and she hadn't intended to leave alive today—but seeing such young children die an unnatural death, she still felt incredibly sad.

Although they were born in the poorest and most backward place in the world, they were also the apple of their parents' eyes and had once looked forward to the beauty of this world with ignorant eyes...

"See, they died of illness."

Kuba avoided the two small bodies with disgust.

Shi Yi took a deep breath, calmed her breathing, and said again: "Release the rest of these children."

Kuba gritted his teeth hard, then raised his hand to his soldiers.

The two soldiers immediately walked up and brought the remaining children to the entrance of the military camp, then pushed them out one by one with force.

"Get out!"

The children's numb faces finally showed expressions of disbelief and surprise.

As soon as they escaped the military camp, they disappeared like little fish cast into the sea with a "whoosh." Only the teenager walking at the end, who also looked the oldest, turned around before leaving, looked at Shi Yi, and bowed deeply, his ice-blue eyes full of gratitude.

Shi Yi also curved her lips and gave a shallow smile in return.

She knew that Asante's troops were waiting outside, and these children should be safe for now.

However... there was one most important thing she hadn't finished yet.

"There is still one Chinese person, my friend, Zhou Yutong." Shi Yi turned to look at Kuba, her eyes cold and sharp.

Kuba was completely enraged by Shi Yi's question!

He grabbed Shi Yi by the collar, and with his other hand, slapped Shi Yi hard across the face with a "pop":

"Little bitch, are you playing with me? I've already released those little brats according to your request, and you're still making demands?! What about the password? I'm asking you for the password!"

With a loud "bang!"

Kuba fired a shot into the sky, then pressed the hot muzzle, still emitting blue smoke, against Shi Yi's neck:

"I'll give you one last chance, I'm asking you what the password is?!"

Looking at Kuba's scarlet eyes and his face, which was already distorted with excitement, Shi Yi knew that his reason was all but gone, and if this continued, her plan would likely fail, and Sister Yutong would be in danger.

"0, 4, 1, 0."

Shi Yi said word for word, thinking that for the next steps, she could only take a gamble.

"0410, go try it for me!"

Kuba roared, and the guard beside him immediately ran to the two boxes, squatted down, and began to try the password. He tried the first box and found it wouldn't open, then tried the second, and the box opened with a "pop."

"General, one box can be opened! It says... vaccine!" the guard said excitedly.

Hearing the guard's words, Kuba put down his gun for the time being.

"Call Doctor Mohamed over."

Soon, an old man with gray hair was brought out by soldiers. He was thin and small, and a dilapidated white coat hung loosely on his hunched body, but his eyes flashed with cunning light like a mouse.

"Verify this box of vaccines for me."

Kuba said, taking a bottle of vaccine from the top layer of the box.

Mohamed frowned, his eyes rolled around, and he said thoughtfully:

"Wait, General."

Saying that, he squatted down, walked to the box, and squatted down, opening the box layer by layer... until the bottom layer.

"General, let's verify this bottle instead." Mohamed said with a fawning expression.

Kuba immediately understood the military doctor's meaning, and he nodded:

"You're still the thoughtful one; let's verify this bottle!"

Next, Mohamed took the vaccine and checked it carefully. He first narrowed his eyes to check the product code and batch number on the bottle, then carefully looked at the production date, then shook the bottle to observe the liquid inside, and finally opened the cap and sniffed it at the tip of his nose.

It could be seen that he had very rich experience.

Watching the military doctor's actions from the side, Shi Yi secretly breathed a sigh of relief in her heart—it seemed that Heaven was on her side.

The bottle of vaccine Mohamed took was exactly the real vaccine she had put in the bottom layer in advance.

She had won the gamble.

Sure enough, after a while, Mohamed took the vaccine and walked to Kuba, nodding cautiously:

"General, it can basically be confirmed that this bottle is a real Ebola vaccine. However... some poisons are colorless and odorless, and I cannot be sure that there is no poison in here. Why don't we..." Mohamed's thief-like eyes slanted toward Shi Yi.

Kuba's eyes tightened, and he immediately ordered the soldiers on the left and right:

"Pour it into her!"

At the order, two soldiers immediately came up, one pressing Shi Yi's arms from behind, and the other forcibly prying open her jaw.

Mohamed popped the vaccine open with a "pop" and forcibly poured it into Shi Yi's mouth.

"Cough, cough, cough!"

Shi Yi choked and coughed repeatedly, her body struggling violently, but the vaccine soon slid down her throat and into her stomach.

A burning sensation immediately ignited in her stomach, and Shi Yi's face turned pale.

Ten minutes passed, and Shi Yi's body did not show any other abnormalities.

Kuba looked at Shi Yi, who was pale and lying on the ground, and showed a satisfied smile. But the next second, he raised his gun again and aimed it at her neck, his expression fierce:

"Hmph, you're sensible. What's the password for the other box?!"