Looking at the dozen or so middle-aged and elderly people who were half-buried in the pit and barely alive, Wen Yanchen said to Ye Jinyan, "You get them out first, I'll go kill those bastards."

"Go."

Ye Jinyan used his metal-type ability to pull the people out of the pit and onto the ground. He saw a group of people who were skin and bones and had weak breaths. He quickly used his healing ability to cover them.

The problem was quickly discovered: these people did not have any diseases or viral infections; the only infected area was the wounds on their bodies from being whipped.

Wen Yanchen spared one person, but killed the rest.

The survivors knelt before Wen Yanchen, crying and begging for mercy, "We were just doing manual labor, we are innocent!"

Wen Yanchen kicked him away: "Tell me, why did you bury them?"

"Director Liu told us to bury it, but we don't know why."

Wen Yanchen approached him: "So you're worthless, then you should die too."

"Wait a minute, I'll talk, I'll talk."

The man curled up in a ball, enduring the excruciating pain as he quickly said, "These people who were buried were causing trouble, so Director Liu got annoyed with them and decided to torture them by burying them alive."

As for why they caused trouble, it was because their relatives were eaten by Director Liu and her son. Director Liu had a huge appetite and ate one person every day.

They prepared various dishes for them, including steaming, boiling, and stir-frying. As for why they were buried alive, it was because they had very little flesh on their bodies, and Director Liu and his men didn't want them, so…”

After listening, Wen Yanchen recalled the moment when Director Liu grabbed Ye Ling when they first entered the base, and Ye Ling pulled her hand away.

At the time, he felt that there was something wrong with this Director Liu, otherwise Ye Ling would not have looked down on him.

Wen Yanchen asked in a deep voice, "Did all the survivors from outside end up as food?"

The man shrank back slightly: "...Yes."

Wen Yanchen looked at the mound of earth at his feet: "Are there bones underneath all of this?"

The man hesitated for a moment, then nodded: "...Yes."

A murderous glint flashed in Wen Yanchen's eyes. He punched the man to death and then turned to Ye Jinyan's side.

Seeing that the people's heartbeats were gradually returning to normal, he whispered to Ye Jinyan, "The situation here is even worse than at Nanli University. Nanli University eats corpses, this place eats living people."

Ye Jinyan nodded expressionlessly: "I heard you. Lingling should know who's involved. Once they're all found out, I'm going to go on a killing spree."

Wen Yanchen used his healing abilities to save these people, saying, "I'll go with you then. These bastards have truly shown the full extent of human evil."

By the time Ye Ling and the others arrived, these people were already able to stand up.

They knelt down and kowtowed to Wen Yanchen and Ye Jinyan to express their gratitude, each of them sobbing uncontrollably. They were so thin that they looked unrecognizable, and just looking at them made one's heart ache.

In the apocalypse, the most pitiful are these lowly people with no strength to even kill a chicken. They may be honest and hardworking farmers their whole lives, but their fate will be the most tragic.

It would be one thing if they could die a natural death, but the fact that they can't die a natural death is the most despairing thing.

Ye Ling raised her hand and helped these people stand up. She pursed her lips and said, "Let's go back first. The northwest wind is too strong here. If you stay any longer, you'll freeze to death."

She realized that her heart had begun to grow cold. If it were before, seeing this scene would have made her angry, sad, and silently shed tears.

But now, perhaps because she has seen and experienced more, she is now able to handle things calmly.