Ma Liantao couldn't move anymore, and Lei Ping also received several punches and kicks from his followers in the process of protection. He felt helpless, as if he had received a warning in peacetime and rushed to a village on the outskirts of the city with another teammate to stop the large-scale fighting between the two clans. At that time, the number of people on both sides involved in the fight exceeded three hundred. The red-eyed villagers didn't care about the police, and the guns in their hands didn't have any restraining effect on them. There were even people who shouted things like "kill the police".

The facts that are happening in front of us are so similar to that scene.

An indescribable feeling of powerlessness spread through Lei Ping's body.

He raised his head suddenly, and shouted hysterically at Liu Tianming, who was standing in the distance: "Aren't you going to intervene yet?" Are you just standing there watching and not wanting to do anything? ”

Only Liu Tianming can stop all this. He is the leader of the team and the absolute controller that everyone here fears and respects.

Everyone's eyes followed Lei Ping's roar in that direction. Liu Tianming frowned slightly. He didn't like the feeling of being coerced, and he never wanted to meddle in this matter. However, Lei Ping directly pointed the finger at himself, everyone was watching, and his attitude was very important at this time, and even became an important basis for followers to judge good and evil.

He walked slowly down the steps and soon came to Lei Ping's side.

Looking up at Liu Tianming, who was much taller than himself, he didn't know why, Lei Ping suddenly had a premonition of extreme danger. The feeling was taking over his nerves, and an unspeakable remorse was creating in his mind.

Sure enough, the words that came out of Liu Tianming's mouth confirmed Lei Ping's guess.

"What do you want me to do?"

Liu Tianming glanced at the dying Ma Liantao with indifferent eyes, and the cold words that came out of his mouth were full of cruelty: "Everything was done by himself." Anyone on this team, including him, must take responsibility for their actions. ”

Chen Lin had been standing behind Liu Tianming, her eyes flashing with a beastly light. The anxiety became fanatical as Liu Tianming said these words. Chen Lin's face was full of excitement, he clenched the fighting knife in his hand, and howled and pounced on Ma Liantao who was lying on the ground. Lei Ping hurriedly stopped her, but he couldn't stop Chen Lin's obsession full of revenge———— she threw the knife from the air to another woman with flexible movements, and the other party borrowed it and stabbed the tip of the knife into Ma Liantao's shoulder from a completely opposite angle. This is still the effect of Lei Ping's timely response and blocking. If his reaction had been a few seconds slower, Ma Liantao's throat would have been cut by the woman.

"Enough!"

Liu Tianming suddenly became furious. A low, ferocious roar came from his mouth, not at all like the usual style of handling team affairs: "What do you want to do?" At this time, you still have to protect this person. ”

"He didn't commit a crime!"

Lei Ping didn't know where the anger came from, so he suddenly stood up next to the dying Ma Liantao, opened his bloodshot eyes, and glared at Liu Tianming without fear: "Scolding and verbal insults is not a mortal crime. You...... You guys...... You can't treat him like that. ”

The pity and appreciation in Liu Tianming's heart for Lei Ping's insistence on his views has long since disappeared. In its place, there is only disdain for ignorance of current affairs and anger at disobeying his orders: "Do you think you can still uphold the so-called law until now?" Open your eyes and take a good look at it, there are man-eating monsters everywhere outside, and if you want to live, you must use a knife to cut off the head of the murderous corpse. Law...... According to the legal interpretation, the murderous corpse is also a human being. They are just infected by the virus, and they are likewise not guilty. But what about you? Tell me, how many zombies have you killed since the outbreak of the virus? How many mutant monsters? At that time, when they opened their mouths and were going to gnaw your throat and eat your flesh, how did you not think about any damn laws? ”

Liu Tianming rarely used such sharp words. Leipin's actions provoked his anger, and these words also had an extremely subtle effect. All the followers present stared at Lei Ping with hostile eyes, and the latter's body also became trembling and then shaking. He took several steps back, a look of loss on his face.

Lei Ping suddenly felt that he had lost his insistence on his position.

Liu Tianming grasped the core of the problem and completely destroyed the greatest moral reliance in his heart.

"No matter what the world becomes, staying alive is our greatest goal. To do this, I can do whatever it takes, and I am willing to do anything. It's a good thing to have your own persistence. But you also have to look at the specific environment and time. We all make mistakes, and whether we are faithful to our duties or obey our conscience, we must make choices that are right for us. You have to learn to understand, you have to learn to adapt. Sometimes, killing is not an evil, but a good act to uphold justice. ”

After speaking, Liu Tianming sighed and shook his head, turned around and left the crowd, and walked towards his room.

Chen Lin looked at Liu Tianming's back with respectful and adoring eyes, and it was not until he walked into the room and closed the door that Chen Lin took the fighting knife from the woman next to him and stabbed it into the neck of Ma Liantao, who couldn't move, with indescribable heartiness, and forcefully cut off the soft tissue in that position. The poor abusive's eyes widened, and his hands involuntarily groped around his throat, but he could not stop the blood that splattered from the wound.

The sub-zero temperature froze the blood, and Ma Liantao's body quickly became stiff. Several women, led by Chen Lin, dragged him from the ground and fastened him to a telephone pole on the side of the road with wire and nails. Under the diffuse light, it looks like a foreign object protruding from the middle of an electric pole.

The frenetic atmosphere soon cooled down, and the crowd of onlookers gradually dispersed and returned to their respective houses. On days when there is no entertainment, beatings, verbal abuse, murder and the like will become the focus of attention. The logic of the followers' exercise of justice is actually not as strong as imagined, at most it is a kind of psychology to watch the excitement. They like to show their presence at the right moment. In doing so, you can not only obey the rules of the team, but also give yourself extra points among the waiters. In practical terms, when trading in the future, you can exchange a lower price for enough benefits.

In the dark sky, the snow was falling, and Lei Ping stood in the open space in a daze, silently staring at Ma Liantao who was tied to the telephone pole by wire, and the whole person seemed to be a statue that was piled up by falling snow and covered up.

Liu Tianming stood in front of the window, looking at Lei Ping, who was gradually turning white outside.

Zheng Xiaoyue walked over, grabbed his arm, and said worriedly, "Aren't you going to persuade him?" In any case, Lei Ping is also the one who has followed us to the present very early. Even if you don't like this person, you have to give Captain Qi and Huang He a face. ”

"It's useless."

Liu Tianming was holding a cup of hot tea, he blew open the tea stalk in the cup, took a sip, and said lightly: "Lei Ping is different from them." He is persistent, even stubborn. Persuasion will only make him feel that you have become weak and have more opportunities to argue with reason. ”

"But you should at least persuade him to come in!"

Zheng Xiaoyue looked at the outside of the black hole with concern: "It's so cold, it's still snowing, he will freeze to death." ”

"Lei Ping is not the kind of person who is willing to wait for death."

Liu Tianming sighed and said, "I have a feeling that he won't follow us. His ideas are at odds with ours. He is not our enemy and will not be on our side. He was just born at the wrong time. False stubbornness and convictions would ruin him. No one can help him. Want to change ...... Only on his own. ”

Zheng Xiaoyue was a little puzzled: "You mean, he will leave the team?" ”

Liu Tianming nodded: "Definitely, I have always felt this way." ”

The conversation did not continue, and the room fell silent.

……

The hunch quickly became real.

At dawn, Liu Tianming received a temporary communication from the guards on the roof, who reported that Lei Ping had left the camp with a backpack and weapons and walked alone in the direction of the south.

Anyone on the team has the freedom to come and go. However, leaving with food and weapons must be absolutely prohibited. Listening to the intercom guard's inquiry of "do you want to arrest him back", Liu Tianming was silent for a few seconds, and said calmly: "Lei Ping is on a secret mission, and I asked him to go." Keep on guard and keep quiet. ”

Zheng Xiaoyue poked her head out of the quilt and looked at Liu Tianming, who had turned off the communication and had fallen asleep, with complicated eyes: "What, he's still gone?" ”

Liu Tianming sighed "hmm", not wanting to bother with more words on this issue.

He rolled over and turned his back to Zheng Xiaoyue.

It's not possible for everyone to agree with their own philosophy. At all times, there are disagreements.

Lei Ping didn't take much away, for the sake of Qi Yuanchang and the Yellow River, it should be regarded as a parting gift for him!

……

The area covered by severe weather obviously does not include the south. Lei Ping left Guangyuan along the highway and walked in the direction of Mianyang for a day, and he felt that it was not so cold, and there was even sunlight in the sky.

He had good luck getting a car. Picking up gasoline from the wreckage of other vehicles, Lei Ping drove the car off the obstructed highway and headed south from the path.

For the future, Lei Ping is also at a loss.

He doesn't have a fixed goal like Liu Tianming.

Lei Ping wanted to find Qi Yuanchang.

That sounds like a slim goal.

He himself didn't know where Qi Yuanchang was, he only had a vague idea———— Qi Yuanchang was heading south after leaving Jixin Farm at that time. As long as you keep going south, you might be able to find Captain Qi.

(End of chapter)