Chapter 29: Almsgiving
Li Mu rode an electric motorcycle, followed An Ran's electric car back to the villa, and after passing the townhouse in front, Li Mu saw that there were people in several of the single-family villas, and several skinny women and children looked at Li Mu and An Ran's vehicles passing by with indifferent faces, and the expression seemed to have no hope for survival, just waiting for death to come......
"There are seventeen people in this wave, divided into seven families, with a maximum of four members and a minimum of only one person." After returning to the villa, An Ran explained the specific situation to Li Mu in detail, "Their organization is very loose, and they don't even have a leader, they just live separately as a family unit, and they will cooperate to kill zombies and guard the gate of the community in shifts." The guy you killed is the youngest brother of a family of three fathers and sons, and he is the one who guards the gate in shifts today. The strengthening effect of this family is good, it is one of the strongest families in this wave of people, usually it is more arrogant, and when I first came, I tried to grab Yu Zihao's Tianyang Energy Board, but fortunately, I went to trade two more pistols for them to defend themselves, which made those people not dare to rob ......"
"So, the guy I killed is damned?" Li Mu sneered.
"You don't have to feel guilty, if you don't kill him in that situation, he will definitely kill you. These guys say they're survivors, they're corpse hunters, but they don't mind being robbers at all given the chance. An Ran said, "Now most of their fighting people have gone out to hunt zombies, no one will find out that you killed people, and they don't dare to fight with us without evidence." ”
Li Mu nodded noncommittally and said, "By the way, I brought you something good......
Li Mu opened his backpack and began to dig it out from the inside. Because of the sufficient points, Li Mu can go back to carry his belongings at any time, so this return is considered to be light, the backpack is not too full, and the ones he brings are some seasonal food, a small bag of rice and flour, a large piece of cold pork, beef, mutton, seven or eight kinds of vegetables, and fruits such as apples and peaches.
"I completely believe that you are from another world......" An Ran said inarticulate as he took a bite of the apple and enjoyed the sweetness in his mouth.
"So you didn't trust me all along?" Li Mu said with a smile.
"What's the ...... People trust you very much, but your origin is too hard to believe......" An Ran said.
"Haha, you said that aliens have all descended on Earth, what else can't be believed?" Li Mu smiled, peeled another orange, gave half of it to An Ran, and ate it himself.
Although it is also an orange, it seems to taste really much better in the last days, and it is purely psychological.
"By the way, what about Yu Zihao and the two of them?" Li Mu asked.
"Went out and scavenged." An Ran said, "Look at it, this is what they have achieved in the past few days." ”
An Ran said, pushing open a maid's room on the first floor, but there was a small pile of various gold jewelry, and even a box of valuable jewelry, and even a few pieces of porcelain, calligraphy and painting that seemed to be antiques.
Li Mu checked it slightly, the gold looks a lot, but because it is a complicated jewelry style, it is actually not heavy, at most one kilogram is amazing, and those jewels are not found to be too high-end, they are all very ordinary platinum small diamond rings and the like, occasionally find a piece of jadeite, and the water is not very good, as for the antique calligraphy and painting, Li Mu does not understand very well, and he can't see the value.
"Will these two keep all the good things for themselves?" Li Mu pouted and said.
"That's not it," An Ran said confidently, "but the neighborhood is estimated to have been searched by him a long time ago, and it's true that good things have been searched by them a long time ago." ”
"Haha, it doesn't matter, it's a big deal to go back and let them all sell it to me." Li Mu laughed.
Yu Zihao's home can be described as a mountain of gold, half of the living room is piled up with all kinds of high-end valuable goods, this guy is not even limited to gold, jewelry, even all kinds of jade carvings, strange stones, and even electronic products, as long as it is the original more valuable things, he has not collected less, really want to transport it back, how much more than billions?
Returning to the living room, seeing that it was noon, Li Mu began to prepare lunch with An Ran, and lit firewood in the yard, but although there was an iron pot, there was no oil and salt in the kitchen, so he simply tore a few packets of instant noodles, used the seasoning package as barbecue ingredients, and grilled mutton skewers.
The fragrance of mutton suddenly spread, and in the two nearby villas, faces full of longing poked out, or begging, or blazing eyes Li Mu felt quite uncomfortable, and immediately greeted: "Who wants to eat?" Come here. ”
"What are you doing?" An Ran hurriedly pulled Li Mu, the preciousness of food in the last days can't tolerate you to have a little hospitality, let alone a little compassion.
"It's okay," Li Mu patted An Ran's hand and whispered, "Divide them." ”
There were two middle-aged women, a fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl, and a seven or eight-year-old boy, all four of them gathered in front of the villa, Li Mu opened the door of the villa, but no one dared to come in, his eyes were full of eagerness and timidity.
These people have been numb and desperate from the torments of the end times, and it seems that they need to change their strategy......
"Okay, a string per person." Li Mu went back and got four skewers of roasted mutton, this meat skewer is not a small meat skewer sold on the street, but a large piece of meat cut by Li Mu himself, a string of less than half a catty of meat!
There is no fresh meat in the last days, although some people who have snatched the base of the fresh cold storage of large supermarkets will trade frozen meat to the outside world, but a pound of frozen meat requires ten parasites! Not to mention the families of the survivors who usually don't have enough to eat, even those powerful corpse hunter teams can only have a luxury occasionally.
Li Mu took the meat skewers, but he didn't give them to them immediately, but said: "Go back and tell you men, I still have a lot of meat here, they can choose to rob me, or they can choose to work for me, I will take care of your food!" ”
After Li Mu finished speaking, he raised his hand and threw all four meat skewers on the ground outside the gate, allowing the four of them to grab food like mad dogs.
Although Li Mu is a visitor to the civilized world, in the last days, he has consciously formed a doomsday mentality, this is no longer a world where everyone is equal, and there must be a clear concept of hierarchy under the law of the jungle.
If you hand the meat skewers to those four people, it is equivalent to an equal gift, and throwing the meat skewers on the ground is charity!
What Li Mu needs is not a bunch of equal neighbors, but a group of slaves who work for themselves, at most their status can only be equivalent to tenants, to make them understand from the beginning that their status is higher than theirs, and they can only rely on their own alms to survive!