Instead of killing all of them after they were discovered, they adopted a harassing and laissez-faire attitude, setting fire to some of the crops in the field, and not reporting the location of the survivors' settlements they found.

This strange behavior is actually a request for a murderous corpse———— the practice of large-scale captivity of humans is not appropriate, the population of the city itself is limited, and the evolving corpses are becoming more and more arrogant towards humans. They prefer to see humans degrade from their state of civilization, leaving the cities, leaving the countryside, and returning to nature under the threat of death.

This is a premeditated act of group rewilding. At the request of the murderous corpses, the Attached Army stopped capturing human survivors two months ago. As for the settlements that have already been discovered, in principle, they will not take the initiative to attack and destroy them, but will destroy the surrounding environment of the settlements by incineration, landfilling, polluting water sources, etc., so as to achieve the sinister purpose of reducing crop harvest and grain production.

As long as food is scarce, survivors must find new sources of food. Especially in the case of the destruction of the cultivated environment, the only way to maintain the current population is to leave the settlements and relocate to more viable places.

The retainers did not burn all the ripe crops in the fields, but left a very small amount of grain behind. Food is needed during the migration, and the corpses don't want all the human survivors in the wild to starve to death. All they want is for humans to go wild, to become more ignorant and unintelligent.

Hungry people are crazy. They don't think too much about what they do, and everything they do is based on filling their stomachs.

If you do too many crazy things, the good will become evil, not to mention wisdom. Just like the famous old saying in ancient times———— Cangli is enough to know etiquette, and enough food and clothing to know honor and disgrace. If you linger on the hunger line for a long time, the light of civilization will gradually recede from human beings and become lower animals that exist purely for food.

This is the difference between humans and monkeys.

Last winter, when the survivors' settlements were attacked by the Affiliated Army, Zheng Xiaoyue came to their aid. She knew that those people were short of food, and she was well aware of the stock of food in the settlements. She changed the tax that should have been collected last year to today, and also used part of the team's food storage to help those poor people survive the winter.

Grateful people aren't necessarily good people. It is inherently unequal that others can eat when they are hungry. Zheng Xiaoyue's "jealousy" is exactly like this.

"There is no problem with those people in the settlement, it is she who has the problem!"

Liao Qiu pointed to the woman lying on the ground and kept moving, "She has always been able to eat enough, her complexion is ruddy, and her figure is still a little fat. If you want to talk about jealousy, of course those people have it. They soon became suspicious of her, but by this time she still did not know whether she was alive or dead. Last night, she tricked another man out of the house. Several people saw it, and they secretly followed behind and watched as she cut the man's throat with a knife. ”

Zheng Xiaoyue turned around and looked at Liao Qiu: "Then what?" ”

Liao Qiu still looked indifferent: "Do you still need to say it?" They caught the woman, beat her, all kinds of terrible tortures, she couldn't stand it anymore, so she told the truth. The men burst into her house in the settlement, dug up a large bag of blood coins from under her bed, and found her tank full of rice, as well as a surprising amount of flour and potatoes...... Those things alone were enough for her to eat for at least a year. ”

The expression on Zheng Xiaoyue's face became relieved, and she didn't ask any more questions.

If it is only about finding food and killing people, Zheng Xiaoyue will still have doubts, thinking that the survivors in the settlement may have wronged the good people. But it was not the same when a large amount of blood coins were found in the residence. That kind of thing can only be obtained from the hands of the murderous corpse.

The corpse is very stingy with human survivors. Even if you turn in a corpse, you can still get a limited amount of blood coins. Only by hunting humans, especially members of the Resistance, in large numbers, according to their requirements, can they obtain the corresponding blood coins.

A large bag of blood coins, which are estimated to be the kind of small denominations. This corresponds to the number of more than 20 dead that Liao Qiu said before. The evidence is conclusive, this woman is really not wronged.

Zheng Xiaoyue put down the wine bottle and got up from the sofa. She walked her unbelievably long legs and paced back and forth across the room. The woman tilted her head hard, and all she could see was wrapped in black stockings, round and graceful ankles, and high heels that made a noise on the floor.

After about two minutes, Zheng Xiaoyue stopped. She crouched down and slowly untied the thin wire that bound the thumbs of the woman's hands.

This move won the favor of the woman. Tears welled up in her eyes, and her expression became extremely urgent. She stopped twisting her body and tried her best to cooperate with Zheng Xiaoyue, and when she untied the rope that bound her arms, the woman wanted to stand up with her hands on the ground as usual, but after being tied for too long, her shoulders were numb. Even the simplest act of moving one's hands from behind to the front causes pain that cannot be described in words.

She couldn't help but open her mouth and scream, and her long black hair slipped down one after another, blocking her face.

"You're a sinner."

Zheng Xiaoyue reached out and grabbed her hair, unceremoniously lifted the woman's head, condescendingly, and said lightly: "You heard it too, I've been helping you speak." Because we have the same gender, I have always believed that the reason why women take up knives and use violence against men should be that they should be treated unfairly by men in the first place. But I was wrong, this rule should not be applied to you at least. You've killed too many people, and you're not doing it because you're hungry. ”

Intense panic thoughts enveloped the woman's brain.

Zheng Xiaoyue tore off the plastic tape that sealed her lips. With a "snort", the woman's facial muscles twitched in pain.

"I ...... That's not true...... They...... Hit me. Her words were slurred, and disgusting filth spat flowed from the corners of her mouth.

"She's lying."

Liao Qiu clasped her hands, leaned against the wall next to the window, and said lazily, "Those people in the settlement have interrogated her. There was a man there who had been a police officer and had a knack for interrogation. The name and time of the deceased she confessed at the time were correct...... Seriously, I'm also afraid of killing innocents. When I passed today, I gave her a chance. If it was torture, I would have taught those people a lesson. But that's the way it is, and no one can change it. There is also those blood coins, which are used to kill and sell corpses, and there is indeed no second source. ”

The woman collapsed to the ground like mud, shivering.

"Please...... I...... I don't want to die. ”

With tears in her eyes, she looked at Zheng Xiaoyue with extremely pleading eyes, as if she was the god who could save herself.

She never refuted Liao Qiu, nor did she deny it. This means that the accusations made against her by the survivors of the settlement are not groundless, nor are they chasing after the wind. They have sufficient evidence to deny it.

It's a chaotic world, and it's a world where you can do crazy things for the sake of selfish desires. But in any case, evil is evil, and the act of killing for food may be forgiven, but the evil act of betraying one's fellow human beings must not be tolerated.

Zheng Xiaoyue turned to leave. When she returned to the woman again, she had an extra syringe in her hand. Through the thin wall of the tube, it can be seen that the syringe is filled with gray liquid.

"You have to atone for what you've done."

Zheng Xiaoyue looked at her with pity, pressed the woman's shoulder with her left hand, held the syringe with her right hand, and stabbed it hard at the exposed position on her shoulder. The thumb presses down on the bottom of the needle piston and slowly injects the gray liquid into the woman's body.

"This ...... What is it? ”

The woman's heart was filled with fear. She trembled and repeated the question: "What is the injection you just gave me?" ”

"You have no reason to continue living."

Zheng Xiaoyue put the empty syringe aside, hugged her knees with both hands, and squatted in front of the woman: "Even if I spare you, it's useless." There's no going back. The people in the settlements won't let you go. They want your head, or they cut you into pieces and chop them into pâté. Cannibalism is immoral, but it is normal when there is no food. ”

After a pause, Zheng Xiaoyue continued: "What's more, you killed so many people. Even if they're not hungry, you can't escape. ”

The woman completely understood her situation, and her fear quickly turned into horror, and her heart was raised high in the air, and she couldn't fall at all: "The one in the needle...... Is it poison? You're going to kill me? ”

Zheng Xiaoyue shook her head weirdly: "In that case, it would be too wasteful." ”

Liao Qiu stood by the window and watched this scene with interest.

"Even if you are a sinner, you have your own value."

Zheng Xiaoyue felt that her brain was slightly clearer, and the anesthetic effect of alcohol was passing: "If it were in the past, I wouldn't care about the things in the settlement." Don't say that you killed more than 20 people, even if you kill all the people there, it has nothing to do with me. ”

"But it's different now. I need you. You are of great use to me, to us...... Do you understand what I mean? ”

The woman shook her head blankly.

She couldn't even understand a word.

"It's okay if you don't understand, really."

After saying this, Zheng Xiaoyue grabbed the woman's shoulders casually, just like Liao Qiu had just walked in, dragged the woman through the living room, and locked her in the innermost small room.

The doors and windows there are welded with steel bars and are very strong. The latch is locked from the outside and cannot be opened at all from the inside.

Zheng Xiaoyue's movements were very fast, and when she locked the woman in, she did not forget to re-apply the sealing glue to her, nor did she forget to tie her hands tightly with a rope. Although the binding is not as tight as it used to be, it is enough.

(There was some accident.,At the beginning of the month, I really couldn't watch five more...) Tears in the run)

(End of chapter)