"No, no, no, it's all a misunderstanding. We're just new here and not familiar with the area yet," Li Chao tried to salvage the situation. "We've only just acquired our superpowers and have only been here for a week, so we haven't gotten used to it yet, and we haven't even collected any supplies from different places."
"Really, I hope you can consider it. To be honest, we've already obtained the crystal core. We've tried it, and it can be absorbed!" Li Chao said, taking out a purple crystal core the size of a grain of rice.
“I suspect the zombies have evolved. We’ve received news these past few days that the city has experienced several zombie hordes and was almost overrun.” Li Chao lowered his voice, as if plotting something: “This fully proves that the government and the people handling this matter are unreliable. Why don’t we join them and give it a try?”
"Unreliable" Shi Yin: "..."
"The people who handled these things are probably secretly happy. They're unharmed, but we're going to be working ourselves to death," Li Chao continued.
Shi Yin, who was secretly delighted and completely unharmed: "..."
“You have no idea how many heartless people are up there. They probably think we’re stupid as we charge forward,” Li Chao continued. “In the end, all that hard work is just to benefit others.”
"Heartless" Shi Yin: "..."
Tokine: "…………………"
Are you talking about me?
“Miss, to be honest, we are all superhumans. Once we are familiar with our abilities, we can dominate the area…” Li Chao made no attempt to hide the pride in his eyes, and his words flowed more and more smoothly as he spoke.
He might have sounded a bit bureaucratic at first, but by the end you could tell he was absolutely sincere.
"Brother Chao, stop talking, this guy is from the military." A thin man suddenly spoke up.
Li Chao's rambling speech abruptly stopped, his old face turning bright red.
He stared blankly at Shi Yin, who had a mocking expression inside the car, completely surprised that the person in the car was actually a member of the country, after he had just launched into a long tirade against the nation.
"This...no way?" Li Chao refused to accept reality: "Li Yun, you must be mistaken."
“Brother Chao, I just checked the camouflage paint on this car. It’s military grade, and the modifications are very professional. How could this be possible without support from above?” Li Yun said indignantly. “Moreover, the badge on this woman’s chest is an identity badge from the Yanlong Kingdom. And the identity badges we’ve seen from the beginning are all different. She must be a high-ranking official.”
silence.
Still silence.
Looking at Shi Yin's calm smile, everyone knew that Li Yun was probably right.
"Stay? Easier said than done. Why would I stay?" Shi Yin's smile was tinged with sarcasm. "To die with you all?"
These people, who are only in the early stages of awakening, dare to swagger out like this. Don't they realize they're like a delicious roast suckling pig strutting around in front of wolves and tigers?
This group of people kept facing her, focusing all their attention on her, and no one paid attention to what was going on around them. With such a lack of vigilance, their deaths were inevitable.
“What are you talking about? There are so few people here, and there’s a city. There must be more than one supermarket, and there’s still food in the fields. How could we possibly go and die?” someone couldn’t help but retort. “No wonder you refuse to join us. So you’re just a cold-blooded member of the military.”
"Huh?" Shi Yin leaned back in her seat with her arms crossed, looking somewhat doubtful.
It wasn't that she questioned these people's claim that she was cold-blooded, but Shi Yin simply couldn't imagine how not joining them could be associated with the military's cold-bloodedness.
These two things are completely unrelated, aren't they? What kind of logic is that?
Shi Yin didn't think she was stupid enough to not understand what they were saying.
"You are all people with superpowers here, but you must have families with you, and many of your families are ordinary people, right?" Shi Yin shrugged.
In the apocalypse, very few orphans are truly fighting alone. Most have wives, children, parents, or siblings. Even if they don't relocate, they will at least bring one or two people with them to form a family.
"Yes, you're right, so you look down on us?" Li Yun's face turned bright red. "After the apocalypse, some people became zombies and some gained superpowers, but there are more ordinary people. Just because they don't have fighting power, does that mean they should die? My family just wants to live."
“That’s right, shouldn’t those who have awakened superpowers be more responsible for protecting the weak…” Tang Wei struggled to get up from the ground at this moment: “I protect them, and they are willing to give back to me, but your military so easily drove us out. You don’t even let us go back. If we try to go back, you will kill us on the spot.”
"You selfish bunch!" Li Yun roared from the side.
The crowd was immediately outraged.
They were already struggling financially, and after Li Yun and Tang Wei said that, and seeing Shi Yin's glamorous appearance, they couldn't suppress their anger.
"Huh—?" Shi Yin leaned against the car window.
She had some suspicion that after these ordinary people successfully adapted to the zombie virus, they might still have some aftereffects, to the point that the zombie virus ate up part of their brains.
Are they speaking human language? She can understand each word individually, but she doesn't recognize the combination of words.
That doesn't sound like human speech. Listen again.
"If you're not selfish, why didn't anyone try to contribute when the country offered amnesty? Instead, you all went out and started your own factions." Shi Yin found it a bit funny: "You just said a lot of bad things about the country, but I didn't hear any of you come out to refute it."
"The country is protecting so many ordinary people right now, why don't you go and instead choose to leave?"
"As far as I know, getting out isn't so easy. You have to sign something and get a warning from the military. How could you miss out on such a strict screening?" Shi Yin scoffed. "What's the difference between staying here and sending yourself to your death?"
"Your superpowers are so weak. Although the crops are growing well, how many of you can share them? What are your plans for harvesting the crops? What if zombies come during the harvest? How much of the crops will the zombies destroy?"
"Most of you have families to support. When the zombies arrive, you'll barely be able to protect yourselves, let alone bring supplies back. Do you expect me to feed all of your traitorous families? What a joke."
Shi Yin glanced at the car's navigation system. She was getting impatient. Couldn't that guy Agarai speed things up? If he didn't come soon, she was about to give in and just kill them all.
She has a bad temper.
Moreover, she hates dealing with strangers.
"Calling us traitors is an exaggeration," Li Chao said, his face flushed. "We acted impulsively back then, we didn't expect this, and we regret it now, we want to go back..."
"Aren't you all overthinking this? Not everything can be regretted." A sentence in English suddenly came from behind. Half of the people didn't understand it and could only look blankly at another car driving by.
This vehicle looked much more rudimentary. Compared to the off-road vehicle in front of it, it was just a half-finished product. It creaked and groaned as it drove here, looking like it was about to fall apart.
"It's a pleasure to see the scoundrels of both countries meet at the border of the two nations. It's a beautiful sight, and I think I've found some new inspiration here."
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