Chapter 68: The Rational Fanatic

"I'm from the old residential area of ​​the Third Ring Road. I mainly want to ask if you know of any places where survivors gather?"

"It's too dangerous in the city right now. I think it's better for everyone to gather together."

Xu Zhi answered honestly, but the other party's expressions still didn't relax at all. They even hurriedly replied: "We don't know where it is. Go ask somewhere else!"

"Don't you often lie or hide something important?" Xu Zhi couldn't stand it anymore. She couldn't continue to act with this group of people because of their poor concealment and the tension that could be seen at a glance.

As soon as she said these words that were tantamount to tearing off the relationship, the attitude of the people opposite her changed visibly. Even the girl with the gun aimed directly at Xu Zhi's head, as if she wanted to shoot her directly if the situation turned out badly.

"Hey, don't be so nervous. I don't mean any harm." Xu Zhi didn't expect that she just asked casually, but the other party reacted as if she was stressed. Xu Zhi could only wave her hand lightly. Before the other party could make any reaction, Xiao Zhen swooped down from the sky and accurately grabbed the old hunting rifle in the girl's hand.

At this moment, the dog that had been staying in the car to avoid scaring people jumped out from the back seat, jumped to Xu Zhi's side, lowered its body and let out a low growl. The grinning local dogs immediately took a few steps back and tucked their tails between their legs.

Xu Zhi took the hunting rifle Xiao Zhen handed her and asked curiously, "Such an ancient object actually exists in the Federation. Is it still usable?"

As she spoke, she pretended to aim at the people across from her, wanting to test whether the gun could still fire bullets. At that moment, the expressions of the people across from her were filled with fear, but Xu Zhi only maintained the aiming action for about two seconds before lowering the gun: "I'm just kidding."

Although she said this and put down her gun, the expressions of the people opposite her did not improve. In their eyes, Xu Zhi looked like a slightly crazy villain.

"Answer my question, what are you nervous about? What are you hiding?" Xu Zhi raised his hand and touched the wolf head of the dog beside him, and the dog obediently stopped growling.

None of the middle-aged men and women still holding their weapons spoke. Their faces were tense and terrified, even a little confused, until the short-haired girl standing in the front took the initiative to answer Xu Zhi's question: "We are worried that you will kill people of the same kind. We have encountered him before and killed him. My elders think that I have killed people, so they are very nervous."

It sounds like that, but...

"I don't believe it."

"I'm not the type to casually kill my own kind, but if you stop telling me the truth, I might be."

Xu Zhi's tone when she said this was quite relaxed, but it gave people a huge amount of pressure for no reason. It was precisely because she said it so easily that people felt that she could do such a thing very easily.

The huge silver wolf next to them was still watching them intently. The guns and hunting dogs they had relied on were now ineffective. Soon, a middle-aged man could no longer bear the pressure and said tremblingly, "No, don't kill us. We are only protecting our families."

As soon as he said this, the girls' expressions changed noticeably, while the others looked a little annoyed, while some of them looked more relaxed, as if a burden had been lifted from them.

"Protecting your family is a good thing, why are you so nervous?" Xu Zhi saw that these people were frightened by her, so she tried to ask in a softer tone. Who knew that as soon as she asked this, their faces became even uglier.

It was as if what she said had hit upon some unspeakable secret.

Xu Zhi raised his eyebrows slightly, finding this matter somewhat interesting. The short-haired girl, who seemed to be the backbone of these people, gritted her teeth and said, "He killed someone. I'm not lying. We are indeed worried that outsiders will want to kill him."

Xu Zhi was not satisfied with this answer: "It's just murder. Weren't you just considering whether to kill me? You didn't lie, but you were still hiding something."

"My patience is running out. Tell me the truth." As he said that, Xu Zhi released his hand on the goat's head. The goat then bared its fangs and rubbed its front paws on the ground, looking as if it couldn't hold back and wanted to rush forward and tear the enemy to pieces.

Seeing this, the girl pinched her wrist helplessly and said, "My cousin not only killed someone, he's also crazy."

As soon as these words were spoken, Xu Zhi immediately understood what the other party meant.

This "cousin" may have degenerated into a fanatic.

But according to what these people said before, protecting your family

"Where is he now?"

"He's much better now after being tied up at home by us! He's conscious most of the time and only goes crazy occasionally. Please don't kill him!" the girl pleaded.

How could he be sane?

Xu Zhi's eyes narrowed slightly, and she ordered, "Take me to see him. Don't worry, I won't kill him."

The girl with short hair knew that no matter whether she believed what Xu Zhi said or not, she had no choice but to take Xu Zhi to see it.

She brought her people into the small western-style building, and in a room with closed windows on the third floor, Xu Zhi met her crazy cousin.

The man, who was probably in his twenties, was tied to the bed with a dog chain, his hands and feet were bound, and a towel was stuffed in his mouth. His clothes were relatively clean, but not very tidy, and showed signs of a struggle.

The girl brought Xu Zhi into this dimly lit room. As soon as they opened the curtains and let in the not-so-strong light, the man lying on the bed shrank his body as if stimulated, and then slowly opened his eyes.

The moment he saw his eyes clearly, a look of surprise flashed across Xu Zhi's face.

As we all know, the eyes of fanatics are pure black, but this man's eyes are not pure black. Instead, some black threads are crawling all over his eyeballs like spider webs, making his eyes appear weird and abnormal.

"Brother, are you okay now?" the girl asked cautiously.

The man on the bed nodded with difficulty, and then the girl walked up and pulled out the cloth stuffed in her mouth.

After the bandage was removed, an ordinary fanatic would have already gone berserk and furious, but this man didn't. He just gasped weakly and asked incoherently, "Yes, what happened?"

That's really interesting.

This reminded her of the process in the cafeteria of the affiliated high school when the man who saw the ceremony turned into a fanatic. His eyes turned from white to black, and some black threads like thick fog crawled into his eyes, although they occupied the entire eyeball. The process was quite fast, and Xu Zhi had never seen any fanatic who could maintain such a state of transformation before.

Xu Zhi looked at him, not caring about their feelings at all, and asked bluntly, "I want to know, how can you remain rational?"

(End of this chapter)