Sun Tiantian was stunned for a few seconds, "Isn't he the deliveryman at our school's Cainiao Station?!"
"ah?"
The remaining three people, including Lu Sheng, were all unsettled.
“Really! I’m not mistaken!” As a VIP customer of the Cainiao Post Station at Peking University, Sun Tiantian knows the staff of the station like the back of her hand. “His name is Song Xiaogang. He’s been working at our school’s post station for the past three years and has helped me send out a lot of returned packages.”
The remaining three: "..."
An ordinary deliveryman becomes the leader of a criminal organization after the apocalypse—isn't that the perfect plot of a wish-fulfillment novel?
"I remember this guy as a nice person, very honest, he would always return any extra money he took." Sun Tiantian leaned on the fence and looked for a long time, afraid she was mistaken. "How could this guy take protection money and abuse girls like that..."
"Many times, honest people are forced to be honest when they have no other choice."
Lu Sheng remained indifferent.
When you have no ability or choice, everyone can be a good person, an honest person. But when you have opportunities and choices, how many people can still stay true to themselves?
Human nature is the most complex thing in the world.
Just like Su Zicheng and Bai Shuangshuang, they were still very much in love in the early days of the apocalypse. But once they really started to starve, one turned to Qin Shou's arms, while the other actually handed over her former love to someone else's bed to be defiled.
“But we have nowhere to spend the money now, what’s the point of them collecting protection money?” Sun Tiantian tilted her head, looking puzzled.
“They don’t charge money, they charge grain.” After the cannery incident, Jiang Lan was much more composed. “It’s not peaceful outside right now. This group claims to protect the area around the university town. They demand two jin of grain from each person every month, or they’ll kick you out of the dormitory.”
"Other schools have long since fallen; Kyoto University is the last one."
In his previous life, Lu Sheng also encountered many people who collected protected grain, most of whom were outside the major bases.
Those who have the ability to enter the base can settle down temporarily. Those who have no special abilities, no professional skills, and no enough crystal cores to pay rent will have to find a place to stay in the city ruins, just like Lu Sheng and Sun Tiantian.
If you want to sleep peacefully every month, you have to pay 2 jin of grain first, otherwise the criminal gang will come with knives and kick you out of your residence in the middle of the night.
In extreme weather, having no shelter from the wind and rain is no different from waiting to die.
The old Beijing Jeep downstairs hadn't driven away. Instead, two tall, burly men got out of the car and walked into Dingxianglou with Song Xiaogang in a grand procession.
Su Zicheng was like a traitor who led the vanguard when the Japanese invaded a village, so obsequious that he was practically wearing a dog leash.
"Let's go back first."
Lu Sheng frowned and beckoned Sun Tiantian and Xiao Yu to come downstairs together.
Jiang Lan watched the three figures leave, hesitant to speak.
Not long after I got back to the dormitory, a commotion broke out in the building.
At the same time, Lu Sheng received a text message from an online number on his phone.
"Be careful, they're targeting you."
Not far away, Su Zicheng, like a chief eunuch relaying a message, instructed everyone to gather on the third-floor platform. Lu Sheng and the others could see the platform through the iron gate.
"Everyone knows the situation now." Su Zicheng cleared his throat in a pretentious manner. "People are dying outside every day. Fortunately, Brother Song is willing to stand up and protect the safety and interests of the entire Peking University."
"But there's no such thing as a free lunch in the world. Since we've enjoyed the protection, we all have to give something in return."
"Each person will receive two jin of grain per month, not a penny more."
Someone in the crowd complained, "Who does he think he is! Pay if you want, I'm not paying!"
Song Xiaogang sneered and whistled.
Huffing and puffing.
Two giant, vicious dogs rushed in through the front door at the sound of the noise, flanking Song Xiaogang on either side.
Lu Sheng glanced at them and saw that both dogs were Chinese rural dogs. After the mutation, the two rural dogs were almost as tall as a person, and all their teeth had mutated into sharp fangs. Their muscles were frighteningly strong.
No wonder the deliveryman was reborn as a gangster boss; he had awakened his beast-taming ability.
Beast taming ability is considered a rare ability, and it's quite popular within the base.
"You're the one who's not convinced?" Song Xiaogang whistled, and two mutated vicious dogs instantly pounced on the boy who was speaking in the crowd.
The screams and cries mingled together instantly, giving people a headache.
Someone stumbled and tried to run upstairs, and immediately saw the sturdy iron door in the fourth-floor corridor.
"What about those people on the fourth floor? Why do we have to pay, but they don't?"
This sparked a huge wave of controversy. Those who already coveted Lu Sheng and his group's stockpiled goods were now desperately trying to drag them down with them.
"Let them pay, we'll pay! They can't just pick on us! If they're so capable, they can snatch it from the fourth floor! They have plenty of food!"
Since they're going to be bullied anyway, they might as well take one person with them. If they're having a hard time, then those people on the fourth floor shouldn't expect to escape unscathed either!
Song Xiaogang stared at Lu Sheng and the others with a forced smile.
His original target was the fourth floor; the rest of the starving people were just side dishes. Now that someone has lured the fire there, he's eager to take advantage of the situation and make a killing.
"Your name is... Sun Tiantian, right?" Song Xiaogang stared at Sun Tiantian with a lecherous look. "I remember you. I've helped you deliver quite a few packages before."
"Get lost, don't try to get close to me." Sun Tiantian rolled her eyes fiercely.
Song Xiaogang was humiliated, and his face turned gloomy and ugly.
"Wangcai, Wangfu, bite them! Especially this bitch, tear her mouth apart!"
Woof woof!
Two mutated country dogs approached the iron gate menacingly.
"Oh, I almost forgot." Song Xiaogang gave the bald man next to him a sinister wink.
The bald man clasped his hands together and made a tearing gesture, and the seemingly indestructible iron gate suddenly deformed out of thin air!
There's a metal-type ability user?! This squad is surprisingly well-equipped; no wonder they were so arrogant in the early days of the apocalypse.
Seeing the iron gate slowly being pulled open, Song Xiaogang smirked triumphantly, looking smug. "If you kneel down now and say 'Good brother, I was wrong,' and then come over and serve me well, I can exempt you two women from three months' worth of protection food."
"Lu Sheng, what time is it? Saving your life is the most important thing." Su Zicheng gloated from the side. "For the sake of our many years of friendship, I will plead with Brother Song on your behalf."
"If you want to say something, then say a few more words." Lu Sheng's lips curled up slightly, forming a cold and beautiful arc. "If you don't speak now, you'll never have the chance to speak again."
The gap in the iron gate widened, and two mutated country dogs excitedly stuck out their foul-smelling tongues, emitting low growls.
Finally, when the iron gate opened a crack just wide enough for one person, the two mutated vicious dogs could no longer suppress their bloodlust and leaped in.
Lu Sheng drew his Tang sword, his phoenix eyes slightly narrowed.
Good luck and prosperity! Tonight we're having dog meat stew!
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