Chapter 636 Escape

After saying this, Zhou didn't linger. He clearly knew my men would be back soon, and if he stayed any longer, he wouldn't be able to leave. Running away now was the wisest choice.

The flashlight beam illuminated the exit of the secret passage in front of me. Because it was a time warehouse, all that Zhou had used to block the passage were some cabinets and chairs. However, because the passage was too narrow, I couldn't move these things, so I could only wait.

Within a minute or two, I heard someone coming from outside.

Old Li's voice came through: "Lu Xiaonan, are you alright?"

I said, "I'm fine. Quickly move everything away from the entrance to the secret passage, or I won't be able to get out."

After they pulled all the cabinets and chairs out, a large opening appeared in the secret passage, and I quickly climbed out.

I asked, "Did you see that guy surnamed Zhou when you came here?"

Old Li shook his head and said, "No."

I said, "Sigh, he still managed to get away."

Looking at the corpses on the ground, Old Li said, "All five of them are dead."

Looking at the five extra corpses on the ground, I felt helpless. They didn't have to die, but because of our negligence, they died. This was my fault.

Before long, someone discovered that in another corner, beneath the house, there was a cellar-like structure.

Seeing this cellar, I understood. The man surnamed Zhou had been hiding here, but because this corner was inconspicuous and too clean, no one noticed what was happening here. In addition, he deliberately showed us the entrance to the secret passage, so we assumed that he had entered the secret passage. But who knew that he hadn't, but had been waiting for an opportunity to ambush us.

I went outside. Now there were only fifteen of us left. I looked at the village in front of me and said to Old Li, "Burn this place down, and then we'll go to the next village."

"Go to the next village?" Old Li asked, a little puzzled.

I said, "Go find those people they've imprisoned and see if they're still there. If they are, rescue them."

When I saw the cellar entrance just now, I remembered what the guy we tied up on the earthen slope said: that the people they captured were all locked up in a cellar in the next village, and that they killed and ate people there.

Although I am not a kind person, I still don't want to see innocent people die or even be eaten.

Burning down a village is not an easy task, but after some effort, we managed to burn down all the burnable parts of the village and take away all the supplies they left behind.

We drove to the next village and saw that it was pitch black with a chilling wind blowing, which made us shudder.

Old Li lit a cigarette, then handed one to me, saying, "This place looks like it's haunted. Could it be that the ghosts of those people who were eaten are still here?"

I said, "What are you thinking? It's just a bit windy. Let's go in and find out where that guy was talking about. Since they're killing and eating people here, there might be a lot more bloodstains near one of the rooms than elsewhere."

After I finished speaking, everyone went inside to search.

This village is about the same size as the previous one, and its structure is simpler. There is only one road, with houses on both sides, and farmland all around.

We searched room by room, and soon we found the problem in the third house on the left.

It wasn't that I saw bloodstains, but rather that I smelled a very strong, pungent odor of blood.

It looked as if the blood hadn't dried yet.

Old Li also smelled a strong stench of blood and said, "Could it be upstairs?"

"Let's go take a look."

We rushed upstairs, and as soon as we got there, the strong smell of blood hit us, making me very uneasy and causing me to frown.

After the flashlight illuminated the second floor, I was so frightened that I took a step back.

Because the second floor is a slaughterhouse!

The ground on the south side of the second floor was covered in bloodstains. In addition, there were human remains, limbs, rotten flesh and internal organs on the table.

The smell of these things mixed together was truly disgusting, and the scene before my eyes was unbelievable. They were actually eating people, and they were killing people like pigs, bleeding them out, and then dismembering them into eight pieces.

I can't accept this situation, but the facts are right in front of me, and I have to accept them whether I want to or not.

I am neither a good person nor a kind person, but when I saw these people being dismembered, I really wanted to avenge them. They could have lived a good life, but they were captured and slaughtered because they encountered someone surnamed Zhou.

This is simply incomprehensible.

Old Li was also indignant, saying, "I'm going to fucking kill those bastards."

I said, "Now is not the time to talk about this. Let's look around and see if we can find anyone alive. That Zhou guy will die sooner or later. As for now, the people who are alive are more important."

We started searching the house and eventually found the cellar in the backyard.

Upon opening the cellar, a foul stench wafted out, and we also heard some noises coming from inside, indicating that there were still living people inside.

I shone my flashlight into the cellar entrance and called out, "Is anyone in there?"

No one answered me, but I could hear rustling sounds coming from inside.

I continued, "If there are people inside, come out. I'm not one of those guys who were arresting you; we've already driven them away. We're here to rescue you."

“If you’re scared, I can stand aside and you can come out yourselves.”

After I finished speaking, I promptly stepped back.

After waiting for a long time, a head popped out of the cellar entrance. It was a woman with a dirty face full of fear and terror.

Instead of shining a flashlight on her, I said, "Don't be afraid, come out. No one will hurt you."

As soon as I said that, the woman at the entrance shrank back, but seeing that we didn't react, she cautiously walked out, followed by two other people, a man and a woman.

After the two women and one man came out of the cellar, they hid to the side and didn't dare to come near us.

I took some water from the backpack of the person next to me, walked over and put it on the ground, saying, "These are for you. I told you, we are not bad people, we will not hurt you, we are here to save you."

(End of this chapter)