Chapter 185 Mother and Son

"The citizens who followed?" Mu Qingyu asked curiously, "Are there others?"

Gao Yingwei nodded to Mu Qingyu, then thought for a moment before saying to Xiao Wu, "We'll take what we can. As for the rest, if they want it, they can come in and take it themselves. We won't manage it, we won't distribute it."

“However,” Gao Yingwei emphasized, “they are not allowed to fight. If anyone fights, we will intervene. Remember to warn them.”

Xiao Wu accepted the order and left. Gao Yingwei then said to Mu Qingyu, "As we head north, we occasionally encounter some civilians fleeing the disaster. They probably think we are an army and are therefore more reliable, so they keep following us."

Mu Qingyu immediately thought of Xiao Shiyang, "You escorted them away?"

Gao Yingwei immediately laughed and shook his head: "We are just ordinary people, only we have more weapons than ordinary people. We are not escorting anyone, we are only protecting ourselves."

"However, in order to move forward smoothly, we would clear out zombies along the way. Sometimes when we saw robberies, we would intervene if we couldn't stand it. As a result, many people started to follow our group."

“I told them that we are not responsible for their safety and will not rescue them if there is any danger. But they just want to follow us... and more and more people are following us…” Gao Yingwei seemed quite helpless.

Gao Yingwei wouldn't dare say he was a good person, but he certainly wasn't a bad one either. People were just following their convoy; he couldn't very well drive them away or kill them, could he?

"I was worried they would loot the supplies, so I left some people outside to stop them," Gao Yingwei explained.

Mu Qingyu looked at Gao Yingwei with sympathy. Could this be considered a case of him becoming too powerful to control?

"Then you'd better leave them, otherwise they'll cause you trouble sooner or later. That's my advice," Mu Qingyu kindly reminded him.

Mu Qingyu had seen this kind of thing many times in her previous life.

In the apocalypse, the worst thing you can do is be a good person. Gao Yingwei isn't exactly a good person, but perhaps it's his profession that prevents him from easily killing civilians, even if they are being unreasonable.

"You seem quite experienced," Gao Yingwei said, glancing sideways at Mu Qingyu. This girl was much more interesting than the others; at least she wasn't envious of his resources, nor did she need his protection.

She wasn't his soldier, his brother, or a responsibility he needed to shoulder. She was strong enough on her own! She single-handedly took down over a thousand mutated giant rats—though there was an element of luck involved.

He wanted to create a relaxed and equal atmosphere when talking to Mu Qingyu.

“I have a village! There are all kinds of people in the village! Some are reckless, some cause trouble, some are disobedient... each one can cause you a lot of trouble.” Mu Qingyu recalled the situation at the beginning of the village’s reorganization, and she dealt with quite a few people.

Judging from her tone, Gao Yingwei realized she was still in the village's management! Although Mu Qingyu was young, she possessed both strength and speed abilities. Such ability users were not uncommon, but Mu Qingyu clearly had strength exceeding level two.

Gao Yingwei has met many people, and he knows that upgrading both speed and strength seems very difficult. Sometimes, even with two superpowers, one's strength is actually lower than others.

But Mu Qingyu is different. The speed and strength she displayed when chasing the mutated giant rat were significantly higher than those of his single-type speed and strength ability users.

“I will think it over carefully. It will become more and more dangerous along the way. Perhaps they will sense it and give up following us on their own…” Gao Yingwei is still quite optimistic.

Mu Qingyu didn't want to meddle, so she didn't say anything more about it. Instead, she asked about the situation in the neighboring city of B.

Gao Yingwei told Mu Qingyu everything he knew.

In fact, the situation in City B is similar to that in City A. Moreover, Gao Yingwei had been staying in the military camp he was stationed in before he decided to go north, so his understanding of the outside situation might not be as good as Mu Qingyu's.

Gao Yingwei learned many things from the citizens who had followed them north.

Mu Qingyu also took the opportunity to tell him about her experiences in City A.

However, Gao Yingwei's route north did not go through City A; he simply passed through here and then headed directly towards City C.

"Are you going back to the village today?" Gao Yingwei asked Mu Qingyu.

Mu Qingyu shook her head: "I wasn't going back anyway. I still need to go to the next place. The village isn't actually close to here, I need to visit all the destinations before I can go."

Gao Yingwei immediately laughed: "It seems that what you told me earlier about how your village would have come here if it weren't for killing the mutated rats was indeed a lie."

Mu Qingyu wasn't ashamed or angry when she was exposed. She had just made up the story on the spot to bargain, and she didn't expect anyone to believe it.

"You didn't tell me the truth either. You said you were just passing by and heard an explosion, but you clearly came straight here... If I had known someone was coming here, I would have kept the big rat alive for you to kill..." Mu Qingyu retorted without any politeness.

Gao Yingwei laughed: "This is your good deed! You burned them all here! Otherwise, if these things ran out, they would be ferocious, vicious, and reproduce quickly. If there were any survivors nearby, they would all be in trouble."

Mu Qingyu's eyelids twitched when she heard the word "merit"—oh my, merit! Right, killing zombies in the space earns merit points, but what about killing mutated rats? Do you get points for that?

With this thought in mind, Mu Qingyu wished she could rush into the space right now to take a look at the wooden door, but unfortunately, she couldn't now.

"I was worried they'd run outside and cause a rat infestation, that's why I wanted to kill them. You have no idea how disgusting it is to kill those things..."

The two were chatting idly, waiting for dawn so they could set off.

Just then, the sound of a child crying came from not far away.

"Uncle, please, uncle, give us some food! I'm so hungry, my little sister is about to starve to death..."

"Please, please leave us some food! Our child is still so young, he'll starve to death if this continues... Waaaaah... We're just a widow and her child, what are we going to do..."

"Uncle, uncle, please give me some food..."

Mu Qingyu raised an eyebrow. Were some of the citizens who came in unable to grab anything? That's normal. There wasn't much left, and most of it had been soaked in water before.

She looked at Gao Yingwei, only to see his brows furrowed and his face full of displeasure: "Why is it them again?!"

Clearly, judging from Gao Yingwei's behavior and tone, this has happened more than once.

Seeing Mu Qingyu looking at him, Gao Yingwei smiled wryly and said, "It's a mother and her two children. The mother is thin and frail, with two children. The older boy is eight years old, and the younger one is only four years old, a girl..."