(As I told you yesterday, there will be two updates for the next two days, and five updates after that. Don't worry, I won't let you down.)
Zhang Zhihao gave a wry smile and said, "Brother Lu, to be honest, it was just a coincidence at the time."
"Tell me about it."
“That night, after I escaped, I was too scared to go back to my safe house, and I was too scared to save you guys, so I kept running and ended up in this area,” Zhang Zhihao said. “After that, I stayed in this area. At first, I didn’t know there was a Jiangbei residential area here. Later, I saw a dozen people surrounded by a horde of zombies, and then I saved them.”
"After that, they brought me back here. I didn't intend to stay here at the time, but then something happened that made it hard for me to get away."
"What is it?" I asked curiously.
Zhang Zhihao said, "It was something that happened within this community. It was quite serious at the time, and I played a key role in it, so I became their captain."
This makes me a little curious. What exactly did Zhang Zhihao do?
He was so amazing that he became the captain because of this incident.
Zhang Zhihao continued, "Before I tell you about this, I need to explain the situation of this place before and now, so you can understand."
"Okay, go ahead, I'm listening."
My stomach rumbled.
Zhang Zhihao said, "That's right. When I first came here, the situation was very chaotic. The main problem was that there were too many people! There are a total of 136 people here! Half of them were people who originally lived here, and the other half were people who fled from outside."
One hundred and thirty-six people! I was quite surprised when I heard that number.
That's a lot of people. Think about it, we only had a dozen or so people before, but this group has ten times as many as us!
It looks like this place is really safe now.
Zhang Zhihao continued, "Brother Lu, you've heard that so many people live here, do you feel that this place is very safe?"
I nodded without denying it.
Zhang Zhihao chuckled, "Actually, it's not like that. When I first came here, it was a chaotic place with no rules whatsoever. Many people formed cliques and small groups. Everyone was looking out for themselves when it came to food, and nobody cared about anyone else. So, people were starving to death here every day, but nobody cared. What's worse, many people had extra food but were unwilling to share it; they even traded it! It was outrageous!"
That's society for you; this kind of phenomenon exists all the time. So I smiled and asked, "What happened after that?"
Zhang Zhihao scratched his head. "How could I possibly manage this? I just wanted to stay here for a couple of days and then leave to find you guys. But then something happened that scared everyone in the whole neighborhood."
It terrified everyone in the neighborhood. I paused, then asked, "Are they zombies?"
Zhang Zhihao nodded seriously and said, "Yes, it's zombies."
"It happened on my fourth night here. I couldn't sleep that night and was chatting outside with the previous team leader when we saw a lot of zombies appear in the neighborhood! We panicked. Nobody could understand why there were zombies when there were guards at both the front and back exits?"
"That night, someone was bitten and screamed loudly, which woke up everyone in the neighborhood. What happened next was brutal. Many people were bitten, but no one was willing to fight back. Only the previous captain and I dared to kill the zombies."
As he said this, I raised my hand to stop him and asked, "Wait a minute, you said you and the previous captain, which means your team existed when the community was in chaos?"
Zhang Zhihao explained, "Actually, it wasn't a small team, but just an independent group, just like any other group. The captain at the time was just like everyone else; he only needed to maintain his own small group and didn't care about the others."
I nodded, signaling Zhang Zhihao to continue.
Zhang Zhihao said, "That night, only the captain and I dared to kill the zombies. As for the others, they hid whenever possible and were unwilling to come out. Then, because there were too many zombies, the captain was bitten to death. I had no choice but to bite the bullet and kill all the zombies!"
"Then what?"
"Then, then they panicked. They couldn't figure out how the zombies got in. They were all terrified." Zhang Zhihao said, then chuckled. "At the time, I was wondering why they were still so scared after the zombie outbreak had been going on for so long. Later I realized that they had probably stayed in this neighborhood since the outbreak started and rarely went out to come into contact with the zombies, which is why they were so afraid."
"So, I just took advantage of their fear and told them directly, 'If you want to live, you'd better listen to me!'" Zhang Zhihao said, glaring at Fei Lichao.
I smiled and didn't interrupt him.
Zhang Zhihao said, "At that time, I was mainly angry. Why didn't they come to help? If they had come to help earlier, so many people wouldn't have been bitten by zombies, and the captain wouldn't have died! So I was very angry at that time and scolded them all. Some people were not convinced by me and scolded me for meddling. I just beat them to a pulp."
"And then, starting that night, almost everyone in the neighborhood was afraid of me, and no one dared to say anything bad about me."
"Later, I didn't think about regulating the community, so for the next few days, the community remained the same. But at that time, some people wanted to regulate the community, but no one was willing to stand up and speak up."
It makes sense. There are over a hundred people in this community, and a few of them could easily form a small group. It's very difficult to manage a place like this. Once someone stands up, they'll become the scapegoat and will definitely get beaten up.
However, Zhang Zhihao's appearance disrupted this balance, which is quite remarkable.
I don't know if he did it unintentionally or intentionally, but judging from his expression, I guess he broke it unintentionally.
Zhang Zhihao continued, "Later, everyone in our team respected me, so I started leading them around looking for supplies. Then one time, after I killed a zombie wearing a police uniform, I found he had a gun. I wondered if there were guns in the police station, so I went there..."
I was completely dumbfounded when I heard that!
Damn it, I knew it! It really was Zhang Zhihao who raided the entire police station! I didn't find anything!
(End of this chapter)
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