Chapter 60: Taking advantage of others’ misfortune.

When it was dawn, Lin Yi grabbed his hair tightly, his eyes were bloodshot.

No, no, and still no!

He finally forced himself to sleep, hoping to end this nightmare, hoping that when he opened his eyes again, his system and space would be back, but the nightmare continued.

"Brother Lin Yi, I couldn't sleep all night because of the noise. Why do you have to sleep outside?"

"Brother Lin, there were more zombies yesterday. The brothers are exhausted. Let's catch up on some sleep after breakfast."

"Commander, today's food..."

Lin Yi was as irritable as a powder keg that would explode at the slightest touch.

"Get out, all of you! Don't bother me today!"

What should he do? What should he do? So many people are staring at him. If they knew that he no longer has any special abilities, they would definitely skin him alive.

Lin Yi really wanted to pry open his head and find out where the space called system was hiding.

Meanwhile, Shu Lan handed out a biscuit to each person, telling them to eat quickly and not leave any traces. She couldn't start cooking right now, as it would attract attention.

There are more than 500 boxes of compressed biscuits in the space, which is more than enough to eat.

Su Zhen didn't know where she got the cookies from, but Zhong Mei, who healed her injuries last night, told her that she should just accept whatever Qin Xiaoshuang did, without thinking or asking, because Qin Xiaoshuang didn't like endless explanations.

After everyone finished eating, Shu Lan left the tent. No one asked her where she was going. Su Zhen was about to ask, opened her mouth, but realized it was very quiet around her, and closed it silently.

Don't ask, right.

Shu Lan went to find Lin Yi. The rice that Lin Yi promised to give her last night had not been delivered yet. In order to improve her character, she had to go after him to get it back.

Along the way, people kept coming out from Lin Yi's place in the opposite direction of her, with resentful faces, but they dared not speak out.

In front of the tent, a group of people were beating up Huo Yu, who was huddled in a ball, cursing at him. They thought that it was because he stabbed Lin Yi last night that Lin Yi was so irritable this morning.

Shu Lan sincerely felt that Huo Yu was a miserable person.

It’s unclear whether being invincible is a good thing or a bad thing for him.

However, she was also involved in the assassination last night, so Shu Lan still went over.

"Brother, what happened? Why are you all so angry?"

Because she spoke up, everyone finally stopped venting their violence and answered her question: "I don't know when this kid hid a nail in his stomach. He almost killed Brother Lin last night."

Shu Lan covered her mouth in surprise. "The nail was hidden inside the body all this time? That must have been painful."

Every time at this time, Shu Maomao would glance at Shu Lan's face, wondering if she had the ability to lose her memory.

Didn't she ask for it to be released?

"That's right, to be able to do something so cruel, it seems that I didn't punish him enough."

After saying that, she was about to start again. Shu Lan said, "Have you eaten yet? I'm really starving. Brother Lin hasn't given me the rice he promised me yet."

This remark resonated with many people: "Nothing to eat. We come to Brother Lin every morning to get supplies, but Brother Lin was very angry today and we didn't get anything."

"Ah, not even you guys? Then my trip would be in vain. Maybe everyone will starve all day today. Save your energy and stop fighting. Go back and rest and replenish your energy. There might be even more zombies tonight."

The psychics hesitated and stopped: "That's true."

"Fortunately, I still have some stock in my team."

"Do you have any more? Give me some, I'll pay you back tomorrow when Brother Lin gets rich."

"It's not much. It's not enough for us."

The crowd dispersed in twos and threes, but some people still reluctantly gave in and retaliated a few times before leaving. When Zhao Hong was about to drag Huo Yu away, Shu Lan reminded him, "Just tie him to a tree. If Brother Lin gets angry and wants to beat him up again, you'll have to make another trip."

Zhao Hong slapped his head and said, "Yes, but I'm the one responsible for watching him. What if he unties the rope and runs away?"

"He heals quickly?"

"Not really. If he's beaten half to death and not given any food, it'll take at least ten days to recover."

Shu Lan pointed at Huo Yu and said, "Does he look like he can get up today?"

Huo Yu's leg and hand bones on the ground were twisted at strange angles, and blood was flowing from the top of his head all over his face. He looked more like a zombie than a zombie.

She has always been very good at persuading people, so Zhao Hong had nothing to say. He tied the rope to a high branch and went back to sleep.

Huo Yu closed his eyes, not knowing whether he had fainted from the pain.

Shu Lan squatted in front of him and said softly, "I gave you the nail to use you to achieve my goal, but it seems that it made your situation worse. I'm sorry."

She stood up, glanced in Lin Yi's direction, and turned to leave.

After being hungry on the first day, even the most honest people would start to wonder why the commander who had been providing food suddenly ignored them.

The next day, people came one after another to ask the commander when he would calm down, but they were scolded by Lin Yi.

On the third day, even the psychics were running out of food. They were so hungry that they dug up all the edible things nearby. Those who were almost unable to hold on began to get restless, and their confusion turned into anger. They asked Lin Yi if he was planning to starve them to death.

"What does it have to do with me whether you starve to death or not? Do I owe you anything? If I hadn't been feeding you useless blood-sucking worms all these years, you would all be dead. I give when I want to, and I don't give when I don't want to. Get lost and don't bother me anymore!"

His usual dictatorship and dominance did not intimidate this group of people who had lost their minds due to hunger. The psychics who were supposed to protect him were now watching coldly as the crowd drowned him.

"Give me back what I handed in."

"You've hoarded all your supplies in your own space, living the best life possible and yet you're still unsatisfied. You don't even provide the basics of survival. Are you worthy of being a commander?"

"He doesn't deserve to be a human being!"

Lin Yi, who had always been violent towards others, felt the pain of being beaten under the anger of the crowd. He didn't even last three minutes before he started begging for mercy.

"It's not that I don't want to give it, I have nothing. My space disappeared inexplicably! Stop it, stop it, Bai Wenrui! Come and save me..."

"Space disappears?"

"That's an excuse. I saw his two wives drinking milk yesterday."

Huo Yu, who was in so much pain that he was unconscious, was awakened by the noise. He opened his swollen eyelids and saw through the narrow slit-like vision that the person being dragged and beaten and begging for mercy was Lin Yi, who was like a devil in front of him.

Was it... a deathbed hallucination? Could he finally end his life?

Someone yelled, "The people in District 9 said if you follow their commander to dig a new base, they'll provide food and lodging. Sign up and you'll get a compressed biscuit. Hurry and get it!"

"Didn't the commander of District 9 die a long time ago?"

"It's that woman named Qin Xiaoshuang. She wants to be the new commander. Whether it's true or not, I'm going to sign up first."

Along with the name Qin Xiaoshuang, Huo Yu recalled that soft and gentle voice, like an angel. He seemed to hear her say to him, "I'm sorry."

She never touched him, but she was the only one who said sorry to him.

Huo Yu used his only intact left leg to rub the ground and sit up, looking at the direction where the crowd was rushing.

Qin Xiaoshuang, he silently repeated this name in his heart, as if a person who had been in darkness for many years saw a faint morning light on the horizon.