"I don't mind at all, this is for the best."
Liu Miao was very happy.
It seems these awakened ones are quite sensible.
They're definitely not tough opponents, but the travel expenses might be a bit higher?
I waited for five minutes.
A young man got off his electric scooter.
Fang Ping went over to help hold the umbrella, his face showing just the right amount of respect.
Liu Miao chuckled and said, "This must be Boss Zhang, right? He's quite a handsome man. It's the apocalypse now, and life isn't easy for anyone. We're just trying to make a living, so I hope you won't mind."
"I don't care. How much toll do you want?"
"Not much, canned goods or instant noodles with water are fine, just twenty containers of each will do. The toll fee isn't expensive, is it?"
Zhang Hao glanced at the hostages behind him and said calmly:
"It's not expensive, but I have one condition: I'll give you the toll if you kill the hostage."
"Kill the hostages?"
Upon hearing this, Liu Miao and his brother were a little dumbfounded.
They've seen people rescue hostages, and they've also seen people act recklessly.
I've never seen anyone pay a toll only to kill a hostage.
What the hell is this?!
"Boss Zhang, how are we supposed to ask for tolls after we kill the hostages? That's a bit unreasonable, isn't it?" Liu Miao said with a forced smile.
"Just kill the hostages and then capture them, right? What's so difficult about that for an Awakened One?"
"This...this..."
Liu Miao and Liu Ermao were speechless for a moment.
Is there something wrong with this guy's brain?
Why is it necessary to kill the hostage?
What about the conscience of people living before the end times?
"What, you're unwilling? Or do these two hostages have a close relationship with you?" Zhang Hao narrowed his eyes slightly.
"No, how could that be?"
"How could we possibly have anything to do with the hostages? You're just spouting nonsense..."
The two were explaining when they stopped talking.
The two brothers suddenly realized that they were the "bandits"!
Why must we listen to them?
They let the hostages be killed just because they want to?
Isn't this a case of the bad guys and the good guys being reversed?
Growing angrier by the thought, Liu Ermao snapped, "Damn it! You almost got away with this! What does it matter to you whether I kill the hostage or not?"
"That's right! Pay the toll right now! Or I'll kill you right now!" Liu Miao said angrily.
"Hehe, okay!"
"You wait here, I'll get you the toll..."
Zhang Hao was too lazy to waste words with them.
He sneered, turned around and told Fang Ping to listen to them stand aside.
Then it turned off the street behind and disappeared from everyone's sight.
"Someone ran away?"
"This guy is such a coward! Haha!"
Liu Miao and Liu Ermao couldn't help but burst out laughing.
The next second, a heavy truck suddenly sped towards the corner of the road, seemingly about to smash the vehicle open.
Fang Ping revealed a knowing smile.
Liu Miao and Liu Ermao stood in the middle of the road and were shocked when they saw the heavy truck appear.
"Holy crap! Why are there heavy trucks here?"
"Was this done by that guy surnamed Zhang? Damn it, he tried to ram the car open!"
Liu Miao's expression changed.
Hey! They're holding hostages!
Even if you can fake driving, you'll still run over and kill ordinary people.
Isn't this incredibly inhumane?
They wouldn't be so foolish as to crash into a car; they'd better dodge it.
With a series of loud crashes, the vehicles blocking the road were forcibly rammed aside, and Zhang Hao's voice reached everyone's ears.
"Get in the car, let's go!"
"Okay, boss!"
After everyone boarded the car, they couldn't help but feel a bit emotional.
It still depends on the boss.
They just rammed it open with a truck, not bothering to say a word.
However, apart from Fang Ping, Hu Xiaonan and the others did not notice that Zhang Hao was missing the raven on his shoulder.
Watching the truck drive away, Liu Miao was furious: "Damn it! We've been tricked!"
Liu Ermao was also very angry: "Brother, what do we do now?"
"How would I know? Don't let me find out their hideout next time, or I'll kill them. What the hell are you pretending for? Let my father and son go."
The other two awakened individuals released the hostages.
The so-called hostages were obviously fake; they were all relatives of the Liu brothers.
After the apocalypse broke out, all the surrounding resources were looted, and they had no way to obtain food.
The only way to steal things is by blocking the road, but I'm afraid of encountering powerful awakened ones, so I use fake hostages to gain their sympathy.
At least, the other side was afraid of harming the hostages and dared not resort to a desperate measure.
Most of the time, they just eat whatever food they can find.
This situation is rare; most people obediently paid the toll, since this amount of supplies is nothing to the Awakened Squad.
They did the same thing as always.
Who would have thought that he was driving a heavy truck?
And they just crashed into the road without any regard for the consequences. How could I not be angry?
While they were still angry...
Suddenly, a crow landed in front of them and perched on the roof of the car.
Liu Ermao pointed at the crow and said, "Brother, there's a crow here."
"Oh my? It really is! This crow is quite big, and it seems to be a different breed from the usual ones. Should we catch it and eat it?"
Liu Miao and her younger brother exchanged a glance.
After deciding on their plan, the two intended to use their supernatural abilities to capture the crow alive.
But as soon as they took a step, with a bang, Liu Ermao's head exploded.
The sudden turn of events left Liu Miao completely stunned.
And then...
Bang! Bang!
Liu Miao and the other four people's heads also exploded.
The body fell to the ground with a thud, and the scene looked quite gruesome.
They never realized until their deaths that Zhang Hao had already seen through their clumsy fake hostage act.
On a heavy truck.
Fang Ping and Zhang Hao were sitting in the passenger seat and the driver's seat, respectively.
There was a small bed in the back, where Hu Xiaonan, Xu Mo, and Xu Mengyan were sitting.
Xu Mo exclaimed, "As expected of the boss, he saw through their fake hostages immediately."
Hu Xiaonan chuckled and said, "The boss is indeed amazing!"
Xu Mengyan thought for a moment and said, "Boss, what if these people really take hostages? Will you still run over them?"
Yes, it will.
Aren't you afraid of hurting ordinary people?
"I'm not afraid. If I die, I die. It has nothing to do with me."
Zhang Hao's nonchalant attitude made the atmosphere in the car slightly quieter.
“But even so, didn’t the boss still let them off the hook? That shows that the boss is very magnanimous and doesn’t hold grudges against these people,” Xu Mo said with a smile.
Zhang Hao shook his head, his expression completely unchanged, and said, "I never said I would let them go. Haven't you all noticed that Raven has actually been gone for a while now?"
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