Chapter 5: Chance Encounters
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From Camp Cortez to the city center of Linglin City, it would take at least a few hours to walk with Li Xin's three people. Along the way, you not only need to carefully avoid mutant beasts, endure the scorching sun, but also be vigilant against attacks of the same kind. This trip can take at least a day or more.
After several hours of trekking, the trio had to enter the ruined building to escape the scorching sun. They were resting in dark corners, replenishing their bodies with water and food.
The Black Merchant took out his map and notes and began to plan his next journey, and it was not easy to make sure he made his way along the city center while avoiding mutants. After the cataclysm, the compass simply went around and was completely useless. The only way they could find their way was to rely on maps and old building markings.
"Our current location should be around here!" Tony sat down on the map with a pen and marked, and for a few hours they had shortened the journey by only a third.
"Rest here today, clean up the mutant beasts on the floor first, you shouldn't want to be killed while resting." Li Xin glanced at the gloomy staircase and said, "One person stays behind, and the other two are responsible for cleaning the first to third floors of the building, and then find a way to seal the stairs on the first three floors." β
"Who's left to take care of the backpack." Tony looked at the two of them with interest, and said gentlemanly: "It's still the lady who stays, and Li Xin and I are responsible for the cleaning of the coolies!" β
"No, I'll go, Li Xin stays." Yayun said flatly: "Usually the strength of the mutant beasts hiding in the dark is not too strong, I can handle it." She pulled out the metal dagger and added, "This will improve the actual combat experience." β
"Alright! We cleaned separately, left and right, and finally met at the top of the staircase. Tony revealed his weapon, a bone whip that was usually wrapped around his right hand, and looked like a strange armor that made people misunderstand his abilities.
The black merchant has also metamorphosed, and his strength is good. The second mutation is a temptation that is hard to refuse, after all, strength is the foundation of living in this world.
After the two left, Li Xin closed his eyes and rested vaguely on the wall. After a while, he heard some strange movements, and it seemed that the cleaning had officially begun. There are definitely not a few mutant creatures hiding in the floor to avoid the sun, and when he occupied the original floor, he killed at least thirty mutant rats, and even walking corpses or other things.
In short, as long as it doesn't appear during the break, the threat is not high.
Time passes by minute by second, and the waiting time is always very long and boring. To survive a world like zΓ i, one must have patience; Learn to endure loneliness, pain and hunger, and keep your body in tip-top shape at all times.
Tony and Yayun went to the second floor after cleaning the first floor of the building, and the cleaning work continued. In the haze, there was a strange movement outside the building, Li Xin immediately opened his eyes, and his casual expression gradually faded and was replaced by cold and cautious. He looked up and looked down the entrance to the building, waiting for the other to appear.
It's a survivor!
Several survivors also seem to have planned to enter the building to escape the scorching sun. The men, still dressed in ordinary clothes, not even animal skin cloaks, walked into the building talking to each other and complaining, as if they had just returned home from an interesting outing.
"A bunch of idiots!" Li Xin left to label the group as idiots.
However, he was a little surprised by the number of people who entered the building, there were ten people, men and women, except for a few older middle-aged people, most of whom should be the age of college students. Only one pair of men and women among these people gave Li Xin a sense of threat, and the strength of this team should not be weak, otherwise how could they spend these months safely?
Li Xin stood in the shadows, squinting at the student team. Suddenly, the words of the cap student came to my ears: I feel that someone is hiding in the dark and watching us.
He was amazed by the other party's keen intuition, and he was revealed by the other party in the first place.
Then, the group of students actually took it apart and began to search the building in pairs. Only the cap student walked in the direction of Li Xin with his companion.
"Somebody's here." After the cap student had already appeared on the backpack on the ground, he quickly turned his head, but it was too late, and Li Xin appeared behind the two.
"Damn, we've been tricked!" The student in the ball cap roared, instinctively reflexively, and swung his bayonet at the enemy, trying to fight for the first opportunity. The next moment, the bayonet flew mercilessly, and a pair of hands grabbed his arm and threw him into the air, and the sky spun and fell heavily to the ground, and when he came back to his senses, a cold sword rested on his neck.
"Aoyu!"
Another student exclaimed, staring at Li Xin vigilantly, clutching his weapon tightly for a chance to save his companion.
Suddenly, several hurried footsteps walked towards the place, and a reckless student said in surprise, "I have the corpse of a monster that has just been killed, there must be other people in the building." He looked at the scene with a long mouth, and exclaimed uneasily, "Oh no, it's too late." β
The exclamations attracted the attention of the others on the first floor, and they continued to appear and surrounded Li Xin's position.
"You're surrounded, drop our companions, and get caught!"
Li Xin stared at the ball-capped student on the ground, pouted disdainfully and asked, "Are your companions all fools?" β
"They're not fools!" The man in the ball cap got up and asked in a low voice, "Why did you sneak up on us?" However, even if you kill me, you will not be able to escape the siege of my companions. He looked like he was at home.
"Run?" Li Xin put a foot on the other party's knee and made the other party kneel to the ground, and sneered: "Why should I run away!" β
After all, one person's strength is limited, how can he withstand the siege of many people? The faces of the few capable people present showed ugly expressions, and they already regarded Li Xin as a madman.
Tony and Yayun, who had been searching the floor, had completed the task of cleaning and returned to the first floor, noticing the scene in front of them, Tony raised his eyebrows and asked, "Oh, who are these people?" β
"A bunch of uninvited guys!" Li Xin said annoyingly.
"Kill or get out!" Tony looked at the two beautiful college girls with amusement, "I'll kill them with the tilt and kill the trouble in the cradle." β
After hearing this, the face of the student's companion changed dramatically, and he stared at Tony angrily, and the other party's contemptuous tone was like a paper figure they glued together, and they would fall down at the touch of it.
An eldest female student in a pink shirt stood up in vain and said loudly, "We just came here to rest, and we didn't know you were already here." We have no ill intentions and we do not want to conflict with you. β
"Malice?" Li Xin lowered his sword and sneered: "If it had been malicious, he would have died a long time ago." β
The Ball Cap's fellow student asked loudly, "But why are you attacking us?" β
"It was he who attacked me first, and ......" Li Xin said without looking back: "Pay attention to your tone the next time you speak, not all people are as good-tempered as me." β
Yayun ignored the few capable people around her, and said flatly, "We have a good place to rest on the second floor. β
"Oh, unlucky fellow, you shouldn't mess with him." Tony looked at the man in the ball cap with a pitiful expression, then made a gesture of please feel free, and followed Li Xin and the two up the stairs, leaving everyone with angry faces.
"A bunch of arrogant nasty guys." The short student of the ball cap classmate who was supporting him looked at the backs of several people leaving, showing an extremely disgusted expression, "Look at what he said, why did I run away, did he think he could defeat us all?" β
"He's strong and dangerous, and I was taken down with one move." The ball hat classmate said with a complicated expression: "That man is right, if he kills me first, I will have lost my head when I fall to the ground." β
"But......" The short student was a little slow to listen to his friend's words.
"Don't mess with them!" The eldest girl shook her head and reminded: "Now more things are better than less things, besides, we don't have a grudge, only unrelated strangers who happened to meet each other, and after leaving here, they went their separate ways, and there was not much intersection." β
Although everyone was very angry, the two strongest people in the team both opened their mouths to say that the other party was not easy to mess with, and the rest of the people nodded their heads to show that they understood, and did not take the initiative to provoke each other, causing trouble for themselves and the team.
However, these people are too naΓ―ve after all, they can't understand the cruelty of this world, and they haven't been able to fully realize their luck.
In the rest area on the second floor, several people are drinking water and replenishing their food.
"I thought you'd just kill them." Tony deliberately put on a surprised expression.
"I'm not a murderer, I'll kill the other party when I encounter a conflict." Li Xin chewed the food, drank the saliva and swallowed his stomach.
The black merchant began to reveal the evil nature hidden deep in his heart, and sneered, "When you killed Onimaru, I didn't see any mercy from your subordinates. β
"That's different."
"What's the difference!"
"A hostile guy, the best way to do the season, of course, is to kill the other person immediately to prevent future trouble." Li Xin's tone was calm, as if he was just pinching a worm to death, "Shouldn't I wait for him to kill me, not to mention that that guy's hand shouldn't be stretched too long, let alone deep into me." He added: "As for those guys, they are just a group of unrelated A-passers, and maybe the next time they encounter them after separation, they may be a pile of white bones." β
"However, Onimaru is indeed a handsome fellow, and Ju said that he has a rich father." Yayun interjected: "It's a pity, he's just too lustful and ruthless, otherwise he's definitely a qualified lover." β
"Aren't you afraid that he will be jealous?" Tony asked gossipingly.
"Anyway, people are dead, what's there to be jealous of!" Yayun always likes to tease Li Xin's nerves appropriately, after all, most women like men to duel for themselves, so as to prove that the other party values them.
Tony didn't know what he had written in his notebook, muttering something like that. He tried to ask again, "Is he good-tempered?" β
"The temper is indeed very good!" Yayun said honestly: "That's one of the strengths I like about him. β
"I can't see it!"
"Shut up!" Li Xin glared at the black merchant and whispered impatiently, "When did you become so gossipy." β
Li Xin opened his eyes in vain, and Tony's vigilant voice came from the right side: "It seems that other capable people have come into this building." β
"As long as you don't cause trouble, you don't need to pay attention to them, everyone should hurry up and rest, and we will be ready to come out after a while." Li Xin closed his eyes again after speaking, as for who entered the floor, as long as there was no malicious intent, he would ignore it, after all, they would leave after the break, and there was no need to get into any trouble at all.
A few minutes later, there was a fierce fight downstairs, and Li Xin opened his eyes, and the blue tendons on his forehead skyrocketed, proving that he was in a bad mood now.
Yayun and Tony were already on their feet.
"Now what are you going to do! Go down and stop them? Tony looked at Li Xin with interest, waiting for the other party's reply.
"Stop them, you have nothing to do when I'm full?" Li Xin also sat up and said in annoyance, "Before the sound of their fight attracts other mutant beasts, we'd better leave now." β
"But we've only had a two-and-a-half-hour break." Tony took out his mechanical watch and glanced at it, and said with some annoyance, "It will take us a lot of time to clean up this floor, and I still need to rest for a few hours to fully recover, maybe I should go down and kill them and solve this problem." As soon as he finished speaking, Li Xin had already walked out of the room with his backpack, and Tony had to speed up his pace to keep up, and the three of them walked to the stairs.
The hall on the first floor was in the middle of a scuffle, and the seven older ables who came in later were fighting with the original student team for some reason. However, their situation is at a disadvantage, and two people have already fallen to the ground with serious injuries and incapacitated to fight.
The student team has twice as many capable opponents as the opponent, and they completely rely on the superiority of numbers to completely overwhelm their opponents. Two or more people besiege one.
"You're an idiot, you're so weak that you want to kill us?" A middle-aged man with a bloated figure and an obscene expression kicked down an opponent surrounded by his companions, kicked the opponent in the stomach several times with his feet, and said disdainfully: "Why, what are you going to kill me now?" β
"This is your own land, since you want to die, let me die!" The middle-aged man who fell to the ground showed a hideous face, and suddenly took out a pistol from his pocket with his right hand, and pulled the trigger on the lewd man.
The shrill sound of gunfire echoed through the hall for a short time. The lewd man was hit in the abdomen, and his body fell to the ground in pain.
Everyone didn't expect that the other party would have a gun, the ball cap student reacted very quickly, trying to snatch the gun from the opponent's hand, but he didn't expect that the pitch-black muzzle had been pointed to this side, the bullet was coming head-on, he raised his hand in panic to block, the bullet stuck on the bone of his left hand, his eyes were black in great pain, and he lost his balance and fell to the ground.
"Don't move, don't move, whoever dares to act rashly will shoot him." The middle-aged man raised a foot and stepped on the back of the lewd man's head with a hideous face, ran over his head a few times with his shoe, and said with a hideous smile: "Don't you really want to die?" Don't worry, my companion will take good care of you. β
The lewd man was pulled up by other capable people, and after a beating, he fell to the ground like a dead dog.
Li Xin and the three of them happened to see this scene after going downstairs, and suddenly stopped and stood at the corner of the stairs.
"The other party seems to have a gun in his hand." Tony pulled a submachine gun out of his backpack and made a neat gesture to cut off his head.
Li Xin looked at the hall and said calmly: "No need, let them fight!" Let's just watch the play. β
A middle-aged man's exclamation of surprise came from the hall: "Hey, aren't you very strong?" Most of us beat up a few of us. The man with the gun kicked the lewd man in the face and raised it to the cap student with a smirk, "Aren't you very powerful?" Now, let's fight one-on-one, and if you can promise me, I'll spare you all. He handed the pistol to his companion and motioned for the others to step back and make room for a duel.
Although the cap student is strong, how can he, who has lost a hand with a serious injury, be an opponent of a man with a gun? He had to grit his teeth and endure the pain, holding the bayonet in one hand, and struggling to block the machete of the man with the gun, the gunshot wound on his left arm made him bear the burden, half-kneeling on the ground, and a head-on kick made him completely unable to fall to the ground.
"That's it. You should be honored to die at the mercy of my skills. The middle-aged man raised his machete and roared, "Thunderbolt." β
Li Xin saw that the other party put on a domineering posture, wielding a machete and slashing at the opponent's head with lightning speed, but he didn't expect the eldest girl to suddenly appear and block the slash with a short knife. The force of the shock caused the gun-wielding man's body to tilt back unnaturally, and he almost fell.
Tony, who was watching the play, laughed and couldn't help asking, "Can that also be considered a skill?" β
"No, do you think you can be a skill by adding a random name to your random chop?" Li Xin pursed his lips disdainfully and said, "If it was really a skill, the woman who blocked this blow would have been dismembered a long time ago." The guy with the machete is just swinging the knife like a child, and the real skill is not cheap enough to do so. β
"Bastard, what are you talking about?" The middle-aged man couldn't help but be stunned when he heard Li Xin's words, he suddenly reached out and grabbed the pistol in his companion's hand, and roared angrily: "Give me hell to repent!" β
In vain, Li Xin's raised cloak blocked the other party's view, and the bullet passed through the animal skin cloak and left a smoking hole in the stairs. After the cloak landed, Li Xin's figure had disappeared from the opponent's eyes.
"Be careful!" The man with the gun didn't expect that the other party actually jumped down the stairs and appeared in front of him in a blink of an eye. The cold sword fell slowly, slicing through the neck, leaving a trail of blood. The man's frightened expression remained forever, his head tilted and slid down, and a fountain of blood gushed out of his neck.
"There are no more bullets." Li Xin bent down to pick up the pistol, and when he opened it, there were no bullets in it, so he put it away in disappointment.
The black merchant had also joined the fight, and the long whip in his hand wrapped around the neck of an capable person, and he instantly pinched one to death with a casual pull. The remaining few capable people were already killed by the two of them before they could react.
They searched the contents of the bodies and found no bullets, only the remaining water and food. Li Xin turned around and reminded, "It's time for us to go, if the gunfire attracts the mutant beasts nearby, it will be troublesome." β
The eldest girl held her unconscious companion, looked at the backs of several people leaving, and said, "Thank you for your help!" She knew that the three who had left had not heard her.