Chapter 628 Passing on a Message
I then asked, "Tell me about the situation on your side, and about your boss. I hope you can tell me everything you know."
Upon hearing my words, Chen Yuanlin's face turned panicked, and he asked, "If I tell you everything, will you just kill me?"
I shook my head and said, "No, I will let you go."
He asked, somewhat incredulously, "Really?"
I said, "Really."
He said, "But I don't quite believe it. If you let me go now, I'll definitely tell you..."
As he said this, he suddenly felt a contradiction in his words and stopped talking. If I let him leave now, how would he tell me about what happened over there? So, it was a bit of a pipe dream.
But I never intended to kill him.
I put down my gun, pulled up a chair and sat down opposite him, saying, "Look at the people outside the window."
Chen Yuanlin looked out the window, then turned to look at me, clearly not understanding why I had asked him to do that.
I said, "The people outside want you dead. The reason is simple: you killed a lot of their people when you attacked this place before, and now they want revenge. Do you understand?"
Chen Yuanlin nodded, "But, but I don't want to die. At that time, we... we didn't mean to."
I said, "Even if you didn't do it on purpose, you still killed someone. You can't escape this fact even if you want to."
Chen Yuanlin lowered his head, looking somewhat regretful.
I said, "But it's not absolute. They want to kill you, but I don't. Otherwise, I would have let you fend for yourself before. I wouldn't have bothered to save you, understand?"
He looked up at me, who was standing between us, and asked in confusion, "But why? Why did you save me? I have nothing to do with you!"
I said, “I’m saving you because you’re still useful. If you weren’t, I wouldn’t be saving you. Don’t worry, as long as I’m here, these people outside won’t kill you. But there’s one thing you need to understand: your life is in my hands now. If the questions I ask next don’t satisfy me, then you should know what I’ll do.”
Chen Yuanlin nodded hurriedly, "I understand, I understand. Ask away, and I'll tell you anything I know."
I asked, "Tell me about your situation first. How many weapons do you have, and who is your leader?"
Chen Yuanlin said, "We don't have many weapons. After we came to raid them that day, we only took a few guns from inside, but we didn't take any bullets. So now we basically don't have many usable guns. As for our leader, I don't know his name. I only know that everyone calls him Boss Zhou. But he's really amazing. We were almost starving to death, but after Boss Zhou gave us an idea, the food problem was solved."
I asked in surprise, "What idea?"
Chen Yuanlin thought for a moment and said, "That's right, that's right, I don't know either. This matter is being handled by Boss Zhou and some other people. They haven't revealed anything to anyone else, but ever since Boss Zhou started giving the idea, everyone has been able to eat something every day, and sometimes there's even meat. I don't know where they get it from."
Meat? That surprised me a bit; these days, it's rare to be able to eat meat.
I haven't eaten fresh meat in ages.
I subconsciously swallowed.
Chen Yuanlin continued, "I only know these things. At first, Boss Zhou was just a member of the village, but after we finished eating, he started to lead everyone. Now everyone basically listens to him, and we don't have any objections. After all, we have food if we follow him, so everyone is against anything."
"Oh, right, and about your people showing up near the village yesterday. After Boss Zhou found out about that, he ordered us to follow you and then come here to monitor you. I don't know what Boss Zhou's purpose was in doing that, but he's probably afraid."
I thought for a moment and said, "This Boss Zhou has now become the boss of all of you?"
Chen Yuanlin said, "Yeah, pretty much. Anyway, no one objected to him, so I had nothing to object to either, and I just went along with them."
It seems that Chen Yuanlin is not a person with his own opinions.
I said, "Anything else? What else do you know?"
Chen Yuanlin shook his head and said, "That's all. That's all I know. I don't know anything else. Boss Zhou and the others have kept it very well hidden. Not many people know. But nobody cares. As long as we can eat, we don't care. As long as we're not hungry, that's a good thing."
When I heard this, I thought about it and it was true. As long as they weren't hungry, it didn't matter what happened to them.
Thinking about it, their lives are indeed quite difficult.
Compared to them, I'm incredibly lucky. Since the zombie outbreak, I only went hungry on the first day. In the days that followed, I hardly went hungry at all. Although there was a period of great suffering, that's all in the past now.
I said, "Wait here for a moment, I'll go and talk to the people outside, otherwise, I'm really afraid they'll rush in and kill you right now."
"Mmm." Chen Yuanlin nodded fearfully.
As soon as I stepped outside and closed the door, Zhu Zhenhao asked me, "How did it go? Did you get anything out of them?"
I said, "He's said almost everything he could. But I have something to make next, and I hope you'll agree to it."
Zhu Zhenhao asked curiously, "What arrangements?"
I said, "Let him go, and have him take a message back to his boss, telling him to meet at the reservoir at nine o'clock the day after tomorrow. What do you think?"
Zhu Zhenhao asked, "Why did you do that?"
I said, "It's simple. Let's find out what they're really up to and make some contact with them. After all, they're neighbors and not too far away. Making contact is better than not making contact at all."
Zhu Zhenhao thought about it and finally agreed.
"Okay, I agree, but will you be coming too?"
I nodded and said, "Yes, I'll go too, and see what kind of people they are."
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Zhu Zhenhao agreed to this. After I went back inside and explained things to him, I wrote him a note so he wouldn't forget. Then I blindfolded him and sent him out of the school, letting him go back to his village alone.
As for whether he will encounter any trouble on the way, that's not our concern. If he does, it doesn't matter; it's just a message, and if he can't deliver it, someone else will surely appear.
(End of this chapter)
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