Lin Lang touched Bai Yan's head, tilted his head, and exuded a murderous aura.
"The formula...we...we don't know the formula!" Someone answered stutteringly, obviously frightened by Lin Lang's aura.
"I don't know?" Lin Lang repeated these three words.
The surviving villagers were trembling with fear under the oppression of this powerful aura.
"I... I know, in... in the village chief's room." A middle-aged man couldn't stand the pressure anymore and told the truth in a trembling voice.
"Take me there!" Lin Lang pressed the man with his sword.
The man took Lin Lang to the village chief's room tremblingly.
The remaining villagers were stared at by Bai Yan. The murderous aura emanating from Bai Yan's golden eyes made them dare not move.
After walking for a few minutes, the man took Lin Lang into the room. The smell of an old man hit him. There was a cabinet at the head of the bed. The man opened the cabinet and took out a small box from inside and handed it to Lin Lang.
Inside the box lay two small jars and a yellowed piece of paper. The color and feel of the paper showed its age. The two jars contained a drug and an antidote, respectively.
"Where did this thing come from?" Lin Lang was very curious.
"I don't know. Wu Yi from our village suddenly took it out about ten days ago. The village chief was afraid that he would misuse it, so he kept it for safekeeping." The man answered truthfully.
"Then why do you live underground?" Lin Lang was still a little curious about why they lived underground.
"Actually, every household here still had plenty of food stored during the Lunar New Year. But the temperature kept dropping, and many people froze to death.
The village chief discovered that the sweet potato cellar was relatively warm, so he led us to dig many holes under the ancestral hall.
Later, the digging became bigger and bigger, and it reached the bottom of the unfinished building behind the village.
Linhua Avenue is not far from the unfinished building, so we didn't dig any more. We just built a manual elevator inside the unfinished building to make it more convenient for us to get around."
"In that case, you should be living a decent life. Why do you set traps to harm people?" Lin Lang was puzzled by their confusing behavior.
"Everyone was fine at first, but I don't know when it started, but women and children in our village started disappearing one after another. We searched everywhere but couldn't find them, so we gave up.
Wu Yi and Wu Dao didn't know how to convince the village chief, so they said they would use the drug to trick some people in.
Everyone was already feeling very uneasy and depressed, and after living underground for a long time, the villagers' temperaments began to change drastically, becoming brutal and bloodthirsty.
At first, they only tricked a few women in, but later they tricked both men and women in. After stealing their supplies, they locked them up for their amusement. They either used them as targets or watched them duel in a small cage.
Lin Lang listened carefully. The extremely oppressive environment and the power they had over the life and death of the deceived people made these villagers lost in this environment, making their humanity ugly and distorted, and gradually losing the bottom line of being a human being.
After returning, we must also provide some normal entertainment activities for the people in the base.
Lin Lang thought to himself.
The man gave a brief account of what happened in his village, hoping that Lin Lang would spare his life.
"I have never participated. They think I am timid and never take me with them. They just let me cook for them. Please spare my life."
The man knelt on the ground, crying bitterly.
Lin Lang realized that the man was not lying and let him go. The man knelt on the ground in gratitude, then packed up his bag and left.
Lin Lang carefully poured the antidote into Mark Wen and the others' mouths, quietly waiting for the effect to kick in. Gradually, their eyes regained clarity, and the paleness on their faces gradually faded.
Lin Langlang's figure suddenly appeared in front of them. Mark Wen and others couldn't help but blink their eyes, and each of them showed a happy expression.
"Boss, I knew you would come to save us." Mark Wen said excitedly.
"Why are you so careless?" Lin Lang wanted to teach them a lesson.
"Boss, we were about to go back when we reached the end, but we heard a baby crying, so we went in to check, and the result was..." Mark Wen touched his head, knowing that he was in the wrong. The other team members also lowered their heads, feeling a little ashamed.
"I understand that you were just trying to save people, and in your haste you forgot to be careful and vigilant.
However, now is the end of the world, and you should be vigilant at all times.
Remember, it's not natural disasters that are scary, it's people! Next time you go out, be careful to judge whether the people you meet are still human.
Your captain Wang Qiang was also infected while trying to save you.
Next time, you won’t be so lucky.
The little wolves are gone, remember to apologize to Bai Yan."
Lin Lang's serious criticism made Mark Wen and others blush and turn pale.
"Go wake up your boss."
Seeing Mark Wen's awkward look, Lin Lang spoke at the right time.
Mark Wen felt as if he had been pardoned, and immediately ran out to give the antidote to Wang Qiang.
The remaining villagers huddled together in a corner.
After Wang Qiang woke up, he crawled to Lin Lang.
"Boss, I..." Wang Qiang felt that he was so useless. The first time he went out alone, he made things turn out like this, and even had to trouble Lin Lang to come and rescue him personally. He felt extremely ashamed for a moment.
"Let's talk about it when we get back." Lin Lang said lightly when he saw that his face was full of self-blame and he looked ashamed and angry.
"Okay, boss. There are some other people locked in the cage where we are, and two of them are wearing that clothes!" Mark Wen said to Lin Lang after remembering something.
"Which clothes?" Lin Lang asked with a frown.
"Army green," said Mark Wen.
Army green? Could it be?
Lin Lang was excited, but his face remained calm.
When Mark Wen and Wang Qiang carried the people over, Lin Lang recognized them at a glance: Pudding's father Ouyang Jingmin and the little soldier Le Qian'an!
The two people's coats, pants and shoes that were extremely warm were stripped off.
If the temperature in the cave hadn't been good enough, these two people would have frozen to death.
Ouyang Jingmin and Le Qian'an had pale lips, which showed that they were dehydrated due to not drinking any water for a long time.
"How dare you even lie to them and treat them like this?"
Lin Lang couldn't help but feel angry when he saw the two people being abused horribly.
"It wasn't us who did it. It was Wu Dao who took everything from the two men."
Someone in the village said fearfully.
"Do you know what they are here for?" Lin Lang became even angrier when he thought of Ouyang Jingmin and Le Qian'an's mission.
"Wang Qiang, carefully carry them both to my car." Lin Lang instructed.
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