"Why don't you go wash up first?"
"..."
Hearing Ray's words, the two women were slightly startled. They were about to say they had just taken a bath when a pungent odor suddenly wafted over from beside them.
"You smell bad..."
The women looked at each other and almost in unison blurted out.
It was then they realized, and immediately sniffed themselves, the pungent smell rushing into their noses almost made them faint from their own odor.
Their faces instantly turned red, and they hurriedly got up, rushing into the bathroom as if fleeing.
Before long, sounds of frolicking came from the bathroom.
Ray, speechless, shook his head and sat down on the sofa, found the remote control, and turned on the living room TV.
But the screen was just snow, no signal at all.
"Jarvis, connect the signal."
"Okay, sir."
As Jarvis's voice sounded, the next second the snow disappeared, and the signal was restored, but, most of the TV stations were replaying some uninteresting stuff.
The most outrageous thing was, in the current end-of-the-world scenario, some TV stations were still broadcasting advertisements...
Besides the advertisements, the rest were videos deployed by the Ministry of Culture, aimed at calming the citizens. One of them featured a representative from the Donghai City's Ministry of Culture speaking on TV, mainly to soothe the citizens of Donghai City, advising them to prepare supplies, stay at home obediently, and wait for rescue.
These were just prerecorded videos, circulated on TV stations.
As for the effect, well, there's no need to elaborate.
After experiencing the video impact released by Ray last night, the world was already in chaos, and the official credibility was completely lost. How could any survivors still believe their words?
Ray watched for a while, got bored, and casually tossed aside the remote control, not bothering to continue watching.
Click!
At that moment, the bathroom door opened, and the two women came out after their shower.
They had changed into another set of clothes, still very breezy ones.
From their expressions, it was evident they must have noticed the changes in their bodies after drinking the potion, through the mirror in the bathroom.
Zhao Zhirou, who was walking over, immediately noticed Ray's direct gaze and couldn't help but recall the 'strange noises' that lasted for most of last night, her face instantly turned red, and she said, "I'm going to sleep in my room now."
Ray smiled and waved, "Good night!"
"Good night."
Zhao Zhirou lowered her head and walked into her and Liu Yuqing's room, then closed the door directly behind her.
"I've also prepared a gift for you, but you'll have to wait a bit longer before entering the room."
Watching Zhao Zhirou's room door close, Liu Yuqing, with a flushed face, left a message and turned to walk into Ray's room.
"A gift?"
Ray was curious. What kind of gift could she have prepared for him?
After waiting for only five minutes, Ray lost his patience, stood up, and walked into the room.
"What is this..."
Upon entering the room, Ray's eyes immediately heated up.
"Do you like this gift?"
After speaking and seeing Ray remain silent, Liu Yuqing panicked.
"These were taken earlier with Zhirou at the Hilton Hotel. I heard men like this, so I wore it. If you don't like it, I can change into something else."
"Ha, I absolutely love it!"
"Let's talk about changing it later, let's get down to business now!"
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On the other side!
In the operation meeting room of a military camp on the outskirts of Donghai City, near the border with Shangbin City, a video of them driving armored vehicles and forcibly crossing the river bridge during the day was being played.
After that video finished, other videos were played in succession.
Among them, there were videos of military checkpoints being overrun by survivors, police stations being looted by survivors, and some crazed survivors firing at civilians on the streets...
Over a dozen different videos were shown in total.
In the operation meeting room, there were eight people watching these videos, including a person seated at the head of the table, the chief person in charge of investigating and monitoring the infection situation in Shangbin City, Major General Lu Gang from the Donghai Military Region.
The other seven, all colonels, with six sitting on either side of Lu Gang, and one standing beside reporting on the situations shown in the videos.
After the videos finished playing, everyone's face was grim.
Bang!
Suddenly, a dark-skinned colonel slammed the table, "Damn it, if this were peacetime, these people would have been arrested and shot several times over."
Colonel Zhao, who was sitting across from him and somewhat burly, lifted his eyes, "Now you can also go catch them, as long as you have the ability to freely navigate through the horde of zombies."
"Zhao Xianmin, what do you mean by that? If it weren't for last night's turmoil that caused us heavy losses, I wouldn't need you to say it. I'd directly get the helicopters out and bomb them."
Colonel Li, with his beard bristling and eyes glaring, said.
"Alright, alright, stop arguing."
Colonel Zhou, with a square face, somewhat headache-ridden, intervened.
Regarding those who broke the law, although they were all angry, they felt somewhat powerless.
If it were just one group, that would be manageable, such as if it was only the team that drove the armored vehicle through the checkpoint, they could simply carry out an air-to-ground strike with a few helicopters.
But now, chaos was everywhere, with crazed survivors everywhere, and having suffered heavy losses, they were simply unable to address any of the issues.
"Yes! Last night's turmoil resulted in us losing nearly half of our personnel. Now, where do we have the time and energy to deal with them?"
Sitting in the high seat, Lu Gang, who was already in his fifties, shook his head wearily and then waved his hand, signaling the reporting colonel to step down.
"Now is not the time to deal with them!"
Due to the increasingly severe infection situation in Shangbin City and last night's severe outbreak of zombies in Donghai City, their soldiers had gone out.
The result was that less than half of them returned!
Moreover, for the sake of caution, these returnees had to undergo infection screening. If any infections were found, the consequences would be unimaginable.
After the reporting personnel left, Lu Gang's sharp gaze swept over the still somewhat angry Colonel Li, Colonel Zhao, and the other six colonels.
"Gentlemen, the top priority now is to quickly complete the infection screening for the soldiers who returned last night. Other matters must be put aside for now, understood?"
"Understood!"
The still angry six colonels, upon hearing his words, immediately straightened their faces and stood up to answer loudly.