In the days without lighting, the people living here have long been accustomed to waking up at sunrise and sleeping at sunset. So early in the morning, just as the sun was rising, the sound of rustling woke up Xiao Wen and his group.
Although they were trapped here with nothing to do, everyone had already woken up. Xiao Wen intended to lie down for a while longer, but Jinzi came over and whispered something to Han Ya, who nodded and came over to Xiao Wen.
“Boss, Lin Yan sent someone to ask how to deal with those who were brought back yesterday,” Han Ya said.
Xiao Wen remembered the people who had their limbs disabled and were brought back yesterday. “Let’s go take a look together,” he said softly. He carefully got up, not forgetting to tuck in the corners of the sheets that had been slightly lifted, making sure that Wen Le was sleeping warmly.
After instructing Mo Yan, who stayed behind, Xiao Wen and Han Ya followed Jinzi downstairs.
The people brought back yesterday were left by Lin Yan downstairs for the two of them to look after, and he hadn’t bothered with them since then.
Lin Yan was waiting downstairs for Xiao Wen now.
“Let’s interrogate them.” With a nod to Lin Yan, Xiaowen greeted him and let Han Ya question the half-dead men who had been tied up and left overnight with their limbs disabled.
The interrogation process was simple and there was hardly any threat. The men answered all the questions truthfully.
They were originally small gangsters in X City. After the apocalypse, they felt that there were no constraints and became arrogant. They later encountered Liu Yu, the man who was decomposed into a pile of flesh by Wen Le yesterday. Out of fear and indulgence, they joined him to become the tyrants near the underground mall.
They did not know Liu Yu’s identity before, only that he was ruthless and bold. They followed him to besiege the survivors and tried to recruit people to establish their own kingdom in the apocalypse. Those who were sensible joined their group, and those who were not were considered unnecessary to exist. Liu Yu was also an extremely good-looking man with a twisted mind. Anyone he set his eyes on, regardless of whether they were willing or not, became his plaything. During the process, they also encountered some ability users, but those people were not as extreme as them, so they did not immediately kill them upon meeting. However, those who were not sensible or did not comply would inevitably suffer. Even though the ability users they encountered caused them to suffer some losses.
Those people answered Han Ya’s questions very “carefully” and pushed all the blame to Liu Yu, who was already dead and couldn’t die anymore, emphasizing that they were also coerced.
Han Ya didn’t ask about their base because before Xiaowen and the others arrived, Han Ya, Yin Chengyang, and Chen Ye were taken there. The location was very close to the underground mall, and from one side’s window, they could see all the situations near the mall, naturally seeing Xiaowen and the others’ previous actions very clearly.
“Are there any other survivors?” Han Ya asked.
One of them didn’t hesitate and nodded, “There are a few people in the underground parking lot of the building we live in…”
Han Ya looked at Xiao Wen, who turned around and left the floor.
Seeing Han Ya pick up the gun, Lin Yan also followed Xiao Wen out.
Although these people had been crippled and could no longer do any harm, each of them carried the lives of countless innocent people and should not be allowed to live.
“Are there many more of these small gangs around here?” Xiao Wen asked as they walked. He remembered that Lin Yan and his team had intentionally avoided a few places when they came back yesterday.
Lin Yan led Xiao Wen and Han Ya, who had joined them after dealing with those people, to the top floor. The top floor was considered a meeting room and was generally not used.
Lin Yan sat across from Xiao Wen and nodded at him.
“To my knowledge, there are no fewer than four small gathering places, and they are not easy to deal with.”
“They all want to be king, don’t they?!” Han Ya sneered, thinking back to the words of those people just now.
Lin Yan shrugged his shoulders. “In the eyes of many restless people, isn’t the apocalypse a good platform?” He finished speaking and glanced meaningfully at Xiao Wen and Han Ya.
Han Ya felt disdainful in his heart. It was true that they themselves were not content, but the premise was to see the situation clearly. People who only dream blindly were not worthy of being compared to them.
“You haven’t thought about it?” Xiao Wen asked Lin Yan.
“Different paths cannot converge.” Lin Yan replied directly.
He didn’t have any thoughts of claiming to be king or ruling over others. In his view, this was all nonsense. It was extremely difficult to build a place where one could survive in the apocalypse, and if it wasn’t for his inability to let go of these powerless survivors, he would rather find a big tree to rest under. In the beginning, he thought that saving one person was saving one person, and saving a group was also saving people, so he did his best to help these people. This directly led to almost everyone here treating him as the leader. He was in his current position almost by default. He couldn’t protect them all, but he couldn’t abandon them either, so he slowly arrived at where he was now.
Xiao Wen didn’t continue with this question. Since Lin Yan said that they were difficult to deal with, he didn’t want to waste any more effort on them.
Xiao Wen had already heard about Lin Yan and Han Ya’s conversation yesterday from Han Ya. He understood that Han Ya wanted to recruit Lin Yan and his group, but Lin Yan clearly wouldn’t abandon the people under his care. They didn’t have the ability to take on such a big responsibility, and their development in the future was uncertain. Moreover, until now, Han Ya had abandoned his intentions to recruit them, knowing that Lin Yan still carried a sense of responsibility. Although this responsibility was self-imposed, it couldn’t be denied that it was because of this responsibility that he caught Han Ya’s eye and gained their recognition.
“We will meet with the military tomorrow and go back to the aid station together. What are your plans?” Xiao Wen asked.
Lin Yan hesitated for a moment and sighed. “We’ll go with you. The future is too uncertain. I can’t bear the lives of more than three hundred people.”
Upon hearing this, Xiao Wen and Han Ya nodded silently.
“I’m not sure if we can contact the army to come and take these people away. It’s not difficult to find a car to transport them, but I’m afraid we might encounter some problems like before and won’t be able to handle so many people,” Lin Yan looked at Xiao Wen.
Xiao Wen thought for a moment, “Let’s see if we can use the communicator that Bai Yang gave us to contact them. If not, we’ll have to send someone to find the army and explain the situation.”
Upon hearing Xiao Wen’s words, Han Ya shook his head and said, “The communicator couldn’t be used when we left the army. It’s probably due to distance. Let me and Mo Yan go find the army. We were given their rough route when we left.”
Xiao Wen nodded, and Lin Yan thought about letting Han Ya take a few people with him, but was rejected by Xiao Wen. Only Mo Yan and Han Ya went on the road. They didn’t really know Lin Yan’s people well, and although Mo Yan and Han Ya were not weak in combat, Xiao Wen didn’t want to take any risks.
Lin Yan understood Xiao Wen’s concerns. After all, they had just met each other and both sides were wary of each other. Xiao Wen’s caution was not unreasonable.
After roughly finalizing their plan, the three of them went back downstairs together. After eating some food and setting up a meeting point with the military as well as a signal for unexpected situations, Han Ya and Mo Yan left together. They agreed to meet up with the military and then act together. Meanwhile, Xiao Wen and the others would wait at the building until the next morning at ten o’clock. If the military did not send anyone over by then, Han Ya and Mo Yan would stay with them and wait for Xiao Wen and the others to arrive.
On the other side, Lin Yan arranged two cars to go to the place where survivors were said to be, and had people bring the survivors back. After bringing them back, Lin Yan arranged for them to rest on that floor. Xiao Wen glanced at the six men brought back, all of them handsome young men, with one even exceptionally good-looking, but all with pale faces and lifeless eyes. With just one look, Xiao Wen and Lin Yan knew what these six had experienced, but they said nothing, pretending not to know.
That day, Yin Chengyang and Chen Ye were still lying in bed, and Wen Le had not yet recovered from the exhaustion of his mental powers. He slept and woke up intermittently, maintaining adequate rest so that he could recover his mental powers as soon as possible.
During the day, they ate the food that Lin Yan had sent over, and at night, when everyone was asleep, Wen Le once again took out some food that had no sound or smell when eaten, and fed everyone to fill their stomachs.
Wen Le felt guilty about it. Just a dozen meters away were so many people living on biscuits, including many old people and children. Although Lin Yan had told them that they would set off for the rescue station the next day and had let them eat as much of the remaining food as they wanted, it was still not as good as the small stove they had set up in secret.
About an hour after daybreak, they heard the sound of many vehicles. Lin Yan arranged for someone to watch outside and come back to tell everyone that the army had arrived. As they watched the positions of Han Ya and Mo Yan on the locator getting closer and closer, Xiao Wen picked up Wen Le, and Qi Rui and Zhao Xiaogang helped Chen Ye, while Yin Chengyang lay on Xiao Tao’s back, and they followed Lin Yan downstairs.
They didn’t know how the military had arranged it, but the troops that came to meet them were actually a whole battalion of soldiers led by Bai Yang.
The situation here had already been explained to Bai Yang and the others when they encountered Han Ya and Mo Yan, so when they arrived and met Lin Yan, they counted the number of survivors, and then had them board the empty military vehicles. As for the supplies in the mall that were not used up, Lin Yan arranged for personnel and vehicles to take away everything that could be taken. Bai Yang didn’t say anything, after all, he knew that Lin Yan still had a bunch of people to take care of, so he gave all of these supplies to Lin Yan’s group.
After getting on the car, Xiao Wen and the others learned from Han Ya that the reason why the whole team came to pick them up was that Commander Yan instructed them to avoid detours and meet directly by crossing through here, and then they would meet again on the way back to the aid station.
After everyone was ready, Bai Yang gave the order to depart for the aid station.
At that moment, Wen Le had just woken up and heard Bai Yang’s voice. Looking at Yin Chengyang and Chen Ye, he sighed. This time, their action was really a lost cause!
Thanks for the chapter!
Thanks for the update!! 🤗🤗