The more than 200 people who escaped from Weng City had already scattered.
But they were exhausted, still without food, still struggling on the brink of death.
They had no food; the bark on the roadside trees had already been eaten.
Though they had narrowly escaped death just now, stealing a life, they were now not far from death.
Da Bei Tou was somewhat exasperated at this moment.
The people around him dared not speak to him.
"Damn it, they actually have guns! How the hell are we supposed to fight this?" Da Bei Tou roared in a low voice.
"What about that brother and sister? Did they escape?" he continued.
"No, I saw them get swept into the crowd almost immediately. They're probably dead by now," a burly man next to him said.
As he spoke, the images from earlier flashed through his mind; those people in the base were truly ruthless. They just opened fire. If he hadn't stuck close to Da Bei Tou just now, he would have been dead already.
"Sigh, we have no hope now. We can only go and look elsewhere," Da Bei Tou said with a sigh.
"Big Brother, where can we go now?" the burly man asked.
"Where can we go? I don't know either," Da Bei Tou said with a melancholic expression, sighing towards the sky.
On the other side, the squad leader and his group were also feeling lingering fear.
He had seen the people on the base pull out submachine guns, which made him envious and resentful. If they had had these weapons back at Poyang Lake, they wouldn't have ended up in their current state.
"Fourth, how much food do we still have?" the squad leader suddenly asked the person next to him.
"Th-th-there are less than 5 pieces of bread, plus two bottles of alcohol and 4 chocolate bars. That's it," Fourth said with a sigh after checking the shriveled bag.
"Alas, these things won't last us long. We need to find food quickly, or we'll end up like them," the squad leader said, glancing at some people about ten meters away.
These people were extremely emaciated, their bodies so thin they had almost no muscle, and their skeletons were clearly visible.
The skin on their faces was directly Stick to bone, making them look like skeletons.
Their faces were sallow, and it was clear they wouldn't live much longer.
Even more so, because of prolonged lack of food, extreme hunger, and physical weakness, they had just undergone an intense physical exertion.
Humans have an immense desire to live. Some people, though already very weak, had still squeezed out their last bit of energy in the face of a chance to live.
At this moment, their physical capabilities were almost completely depleted during the escape.
It looked like more than 20 people among them were about to collapse.
Where would they go?
Above Weng City.
Li Yu stood, long gun in hand, looking down at Weng City.
In the spot closest to the inner gate, that brother and sister were dead beyond dead.
From the perspective of Yang Tianlong, Da Pao, Li Hang, and the others, this attack by so many people was caused by that brother and sister.
They had seen that brother and sister before, so when they opened fire and killed them, they specifically targeted them.
That brother and sister had been shot multiple times.
The people who were still alive, seeing the gunfire finally stop, looked around.
There were dense piles of corpses everywhere. Some people were directly scared insane.
Some people just stood there in a daze.
Some people had a glimmer of hope in their eyes.
And two people directly knelt on the ground, begging for mercy.
"Where are you from?" Li Yu's cold voice came.
To those people, his voice was like a booming bell, and because Li Yu was speaking from above, and the Weng City was enclosed, Li Yu's voice seemed to come from the sky.
Then it echoed continuously within the Weng City: Where are you from, where are you from.
Where are you from, where are you from.
From.
From.
No one dared to answer.
Their bodies trembled like sieves.
Fear. Terror. Despair.
Li Yu's patience with enemies was always low. At this moment, he just wanted to get their information as quickly as possible and get this matter over with.
Ten full seconds passed, and he received no response.
Li Yu directly fired, hitting one person's head.
Pfft!
The head burst like a watermelon.
Startling several people nearby.
After the killing, one person in Weng City spoke up: "We're not together. Originally, originally, we came from that direction."
Li Yu heard this and was not surprised.
In chaotic times, displaced people tend to band together.
Only by banding together could they attack a base. Although many might die during the attack, some could survive and obtain food.
This was an elimination round. It depended on one's luck and courage.
"Whose orders were you following?" Li Yu asked again.
Still the same person, looking at Li Yu with some fear, said: "We weren't necessarily following anyone's orders. It's just that during this time, there happened to be a man who suggested we rush in. He encouraged us to seize the opportunity, and under his instigation, we all rushed in."
Li Yu narrowed his eyes and asked, "Where is that person?"
The person in Weng City looked at Li Yu, then at some of the surrounding corpses.
He said, "I'm not sure."
Li Yu said, "But you can remember his face, right? Now, find him for me, look among the corpses."
Li Yu's voice was beyond doubt.
Under his words, most of the people began to search.
Only one or two people remained motionless.
Li Yu fired, hitting near them. The reason he didn't kill them was that he wanted to keep them to find that man.
But these two people remained in a daze.
Without any movement.
Under the deterrence of two new lives, the other eight people moved even more quickly.
Turning over bodies, searching.
Some corpses had their heads blown off, so they could only be identified by the clothes they wore.
Some people were still unsure if it was him and found others to confirm.
They searched through more than 700 corpses for over ten minutes.
Li Yu was very patient, waiting upstairs for over ten minutes.
The other people in the base had also come to the wall.
Li Yu sent about ten people to guard the entire base wall.
Except for the older children, he sent them back to the base.
The other 30-plus people watched from the Weng City wall.
Later, they would have to clear the corpses.
Li Yu's grandmother was a Buddhist.
Li Yu specifically kept her from going up the wall to see these killing scenes.
Grandma had accepted killing zombies and accepted retaliatory killing, but killing so many people at once...
The elderly are prone to nightmares.
Killing is a karma, a kind of evil karma.
If there must be a meaning to killing, then there is only one: this kind of killing can prevent those one cares about from being killed, and from a phenomenal perspective, this kind of killing can stop endless killing.
To stop killing with killing!
