"Speak, what do you want me to do?"
"There's nothing for you to do. I just want to find out about the situation here, the more details the better."
"Ah, that's all?" Dazhu was stunned when he heard Wang Bin's words. He hadn't expected the other party's request to be so simple. He thought the other party's request would be very unreasonable, and he had already prepared to make a sacrifice.
"What did you think? Oh right, I forgot to introduce myself. My name is Wang Bin, and these two are my colleagues, Guan Xiaoyue and Miao Ruyun. She used to be a police officer, so you can also call her Officer Miao." Hearing Dazhu's words, Wang Bin smiled.
"That's easy, I'll tell you everything I know. By the way, my name is Li Dazhu, and this is my sister, Li Xiaolu."
"Have a sip of water first." After saying that, Wang Bin took out a bottle of Coke from his backpack and handed it to Wang Dazhu.
"Ah, you guys actually have Coke!" Li Dazhu exclaimed in surprise upon seeing the Coke.
Seeing this, Wang Bin quickly made a shushing gesture. Li Dazhu also realized that he had just lost his composure, and his face turned slightly red.
Li Dazhu took the cola but couldn't bear to drink it. Instead, he placed it next to his still unconscious sister.
Wang Bin didn't force him, and even admired Li Dazhu very much. It was rare to see someone treat his sister like this even in the apocalypse.
What were you doing before the apocalypse?
"I...I served in the army, and I was discharged not long ago..."
"They can't be ordinary soldiers, can they?"
"Yes, I originally had a chance to become a special forces soldier, but I got injured when I applied, so I could only become a reconnaissance soldier in the end."
"The scouts are really impressive!"
"I can see a certain aura about you. Could you be a former special forces soldier?"
"No, I'm just a college student, but I've learned a little martial arts."
"oh!"
"Could you tell us more about the situation here?"
Li Dazhu agreed and began to explain the situation here.
The city's boss, Master Jin, used to be in real estate. After the apocalypse, he immediately gathered security guards from his company and some unemployed people to form this place. Master Jin currently has two hundred men and seventy or eighty guns. In addition to Master Jin's men, there are more than seven hundred other people here who earn their living by selling their labor in exchange for food from Master Jin.
"You said there are only seven hundred people here?" Upon hearing the number Li Dazhu gave, Wang Bin frowned and asked the question that had been bothering him.
"That's right, there are only a little over seven hundred people left alive!"
"But when I was registering, I secretly counted the names in the register. Each page had about sixty names. I think the register had at least seventy or eighty pages. Logically, there should be four thousand people. Even if there were some deaths, there shouldn't be so few."
"I didn't expect you to notice this detail so soon after you got here. You're quite something!" Li Dazhu exclaimed in admiration upon hearing Wang Bin's analysis.
Guan Xiaoyue and Officer Miao then realized why Wang Bin had asked them to register first—he was counting the number of people. Neither of them expected Wang Bin to be so meticulous, and they admired him greatly. At the same time, they reminded themselves to pay more attention to details in the future.
"Brother Li, can you tell us what the secret is behind this?"
“At first, I didn’t notice this problem, but one time when I found that after I and a few others who came with us went out to find food with Master Jin, we never came back, it caught my attention. Later, after observing, I found that every once in a while, a group of people would mysteriously disappear. After my investigation, I discovered that those missing people were actually killed by Master Jin’s men and then secretly transported back here. Some of the food we eat is the flesh of those dead people.”
"Ah! You knew they were doing this, and you still stayed here?" The three of them were shocked to hear Wang Bin's words.
“Actually, I also want to leave here, but my sister is weak and often gets sick. I want to wait until she’s better before I leave. Besides, after Boss Jin found out I was a reconnaissance soldier, he sent someone to recruit me to work for him. But after I learned about their shady dealings, how could I possibly collude with them? I went to ask them to help my sister get medical treatment. It’s actually a very simple thing, but they’re making things difficult for me in order to force me to join them!” At this point, Li Dazhu lowered his head helplessly, tears welling up in his eyes.
Even knowing that the food he was eating was human flesh, he had to pretend not to know for his sister's sake; he was filled with bitterness.
"Brother, don't be sad, I'll get better soon!"
Just then, Li Xiaolu woke up and reached out a thin little hand to grab Li Dazhu's hand.
"Ah, Xiaolu, you're awake. Are you hungry? I'll go find you something to eat." Li Dazhu was overjoyed to see his sister awake. He wiped away his tears and quickly asked her.
"I'm not hungry!" Wang Xiaolu said with a faint smile.
"It's because my brother is useless!" Li Dazhu couldn't help but complain when he saw Li Xiaolu's pale face and thin body.
"No, my brother is the best in my eyes!" Li Xiaolu said with a smile.
Seeing this, Wang Bin couldn't bear it any longer, so he took out a small bag of millet from his backpack and handed it to Officer Miao, saying, "Officer Miao, why don't you make some millet porridge for them?"
"Okay." Officer Miao took the millet and went out of the room to cook millet porridge.
"Ah, you even have millet?" Li Dazhu and his sister were very surprised to see Wang Bin take out millet.
“These were all found in other cities,” Wang Bin explained with a smile.
"Thank you, my life, Li Dazhu's life, is yours from now on!"
Li Dazhu never expected that there would be people in this world who would give them millet porridge without asking for anything in return, especially since they had just saved his sister's life. Overwhelmed with emotion, he knelt down before Wang Bin.
"Ah, Brother Li, what are you doing? Get up and talk!" Wang Bin and Guan Xiaoyue were startled by Li Dazhu's actions and quickly stood up to help him up.
“I, Li Dazhu, am a grateful person. Today you saved my sister and gave us millet. From now on, my life belongs to you. I will do whatever you ask me to do!”
"You really will do anything?"
"Of course, I would rather die than do something as heinous as what Master Jin did!"
"Haha, good, that's exactly what I wanted to hear. The fact that you can say that shows you haven't lost your humanity. If you hadn't said that, and had said you would do anything, I probably wouldn't have wanted you!"
"Thanks!"
Upon hearing this, Li Dazhu was so excited that he almost burst into tears again. In fact, when Wang Bin asked him earlier if he would go back to do everything, he almost said yes.
Unexpectedly, his kindness saved him at the last moment, giving him the opportunity to join Wang Bin's team.
Years later, when Li Dazhu looks back on what happened today, he always says he was very lucky and has no regrets about his choice. Of course, that's all hindsight.
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