Chapter 21 The Goose is Poisonous
The yellow-haired man yelled frantically, "You dare to shoot me? I'll make sure you can't survive in the resettlement site, you..."
"Bang!" Yao Tao pulled the trigger mercilessly.
The steel ball hit Huangmao's throat.
Huangmao covered his bleeding throat in disbelief and made a "chuckle" sound.
Yao Tao turned the muzzle of the gun back and pointed it at the others: "One!"
She began to read the numbers.
Everyone retreated.
"two!"
Everyone retreated again.
No one wants to be the first to do something.
As soon as Huangmao fell, they didn't want to rush forward.
They rob to fill their stomachs, but if they die they will have nothing.
Before Yao Tao could count to three, those people dispersed.
Huangmao struggled to ask his companions to save him, but unfortunately those people didn't care about him at all. He wished he had two more legs and ran away in the blink of an eye.
"Let's go too. It's not advisable to stay here for long." Yao Tao picked up the black iron pot again.
"Let me help you get the pot." Mengbao took the pot diligently.
Yao Tao was happy to have nothing left, so she handed the pot to Meng Bao.
Hagrid and Wen Jiming each carried a mutant goose.
After the mutation, the big white goose is twice as big as before, and when its wings are spread out and swept across, it can blow a person away for a long distance.
They picked up the goose by the neck and half-dragged and half-pulled it out of the farmers' market.
They found a place sheltered from the wind, and everyone picked up wood to make a fire and cook.
A water pipe burst in a low-lying area, and water came out to form a small stream.
Yao Tao grabbed a big goose and went to the water's edge to slaughter it.
She didn't pluck the feathers directly, but first gutted the goose with a knife.
"Do you want to boil water to pluck the hair?" Wen Jiming asked.
"No need." Yao Tao answered as she lowered her head and cut the goose into two halves.
Wen Jiming noticed that there was a red "tumor" on the chest of the mutant goose.
"What is this?" he asked curiously.
"Proof of mutation." Yao Tao cut off the "tumor" and held it in his hand.
Mengbao was washing potatoes and Hagrid was making a fire. When they saw Yao Tao holding something bloody in her hand, they came over to take a look.
"I've also seen this in mutant mice," Meng Bao recalled.
Yao Tao nodded. "Except for plants, all life forms infected by the mutation will experience changes in their surface. In addition to changes in size and habits, a blood-red tumor will form in their heart, a sign of poison."
"Poisonous?" Meng Bao was shocked. "Then... can we not eat this goose meat?"
"It's edible..." Yao Tao had just said half of her words when she heard a burst of chaotic footsteps behind her.
“We found them!”
“Here!”
"Hand over the goose!"
More than twenty people appeared in front of them.
Yao Tao recognized that some of them were the ones who had robbed with Huangmao just now and later escaped.
"It was this woman who killed our leader."
Someone stood up and pointed at Yao Tao.
Wen Jiming showed the knife in his hand and said in a cold tone, "Try pointing it again?"
The man took two steps back in fear and stammered, "No, that's right, it was them... They killed our leader and stole the goose."
The leader of the group was a middle-aged man with a large gold chain around his neck. He was full of confidence: "I can't do anything about the death of the person, but I can help you get back the lost things."
After hearing this, Wen Jiming's heart sank.
If they don't give it to the other party, they will probably rob it openly.
If there are more than 20 opponents, they will get hurt even if they have a chance of winning.
Getting injured at this time is very disadvantageous.
Wen Jiming weighed the pros and cons and looked at Yao Tao.
He doesn't intend to confront it head-on.
Yao Tao was not afraid of the other party having more people. If she was alone and wanted to run away, no one could stop her.
But now there are Wen Jiming and the other three, and using force is very tiring. Besides, she just wants to enjoy a breakfast quietly and doesn't want to fight.
She nodded at Wen Jiming.
Wen Jiming picked up another mutant goose that had not been slaughtered yet and threw it over.
The big gold chain laughed heartily and told his men to pick up the mutant goose. "Since you guys are sensible, I won't pursue the murder."
After saying this, he prepared to retreat with his men.
"Wait a minute." Yao Tao called him.
The big gold chain was stunned, "Why, you still don't accept it?"
"It's better to say something upfront." Yao Tao put down the half-killed goose in her hand, rinsed the blood off her hands with water, and slowly stood up. "First, I didn't kill that yellow-haired guy. Second, these two mutant geese were killed by our team members. Eating anything else will kill you."
The big gold chain said disdainfully, "Are you threatening me?"
"I'm just stating the facts. That person... yes, it's you. I remember you. You ran faster than anyone else just now, not caring at all about your injured leader."
"You, you are talking nonsense. It was obviously you who killed our leader!" Huangmao's men shouted.
"Huang Mao is not dead. I was very measured in my actions." Yao Tao said word by word. "You can go to the market now to find him. He is still alive."
The yellow-haired team members looked at each other, and no one moved.
Go save Huangmao?
If he really wasn't dead, it would be a big trouble.
It's hard for them to walk by themselves, and if they carry another person... No, it's better for them to die as leaders.
"I thought you really cared about your team leader and deliberately spared his life. How could you be so cold-blooded and watch him die without saving him?" Yao Tao half-closed her eyes, as if smiling, but the smile did not reach her eyes, which made people feel uneasy.
"That's right, why don't you go and rescue them? What are you standing here waiting for?" Meng Bao chimed in, "I don't think you really want to avenge your team. You just want to steal the prey we worked so hard to hunt."
The big gold chain had no intention of doing good deeds to avenge anyone. His purpose was just to get a big goose for free.
Even if it's mutated... Well, he heard the woman talking to her companions just now, so it's edible.
As for what she said about eating randomly will kill you... Humph, he has been in the underworld for so many years, and such words are just for the sake of venting his anger at best.
Will he believe it?
He drove away the dozen or so men under Huang Mao, "Alright, go and rescue your leader quickly, or he'll die if you go too late."
More than a dozen people in Huangmao's team watched helplessly as Da Jinlianzi and his men took the big goose away. They got nothing, and if they rescued Huangmao, there would be another burden on their team.
Those people couldn't help but feel a little regretful.
If I had known earlier, they would have just run away. Why would they come back for such a mutant goose?
They left dejectedly, and Wen Jiming and the others breathed a sigh of relief.
"I'm really unwilling to give them a big goose for nothing." Meng Bao pouted.
"If there's a conflict, someone will get hurt," Wen Jiming explained. "I'm not willing to accept that, but there's nothing I can do."
Meng Bao expressed her understanding. "I'm the one holding everyone back. If only I were stronger." Suddenly, she thought, "Oh, by the way, if humans could mutate, would they gain superpowers like in novels, creating zombies and using crystal cores to upgrade?"
Wen Jiming and Hagrid also looked at Yao Tao expectantly.
Yao Tao rolled her eyes. "Don't dream. Humans can only mutate and become infected. They either die or survive. There are no superpowers, no zombies, and no zombie crystal cores."
In fact, she didn't tell the truth.
As far as she knew, there was a person with supernatural powers in the end times.
That was the boy who gave her space, Bai Lin.
And her space can be considered as a kind of supernatural power.
But she couldn't tell anyone this secret.
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