The air in the basement was thick with the stench of blood.
Based on the conversation between the two in the basement, Li Jianguo and Shen Zhou had already guessed what kind of meat they had just eaten. They forced themselves to stay nauseous and not vomit.
Once the footsteps upstairs disappeared and the two people in the basement were engrossed in their conversation, they secretly opened their eyes to peek into the basement. They saw that the basement floor was covered in thick bloodstains, which, judging from their thickness and color, had been accumulating for a long time.
In the very center of the basement was a table nearly two meters long. On one side of the table was a whetstone, and several knives hung beside it, covered in even more bloodstains. On the corner of the table, bits of rotten flesh were still faintly visible, and the flesh was swarming with flies.
The basement was empty, except for the table and several large freezers against the wall.
Although Li Jianguo and Shen Zhou couldn't see what was inside the freezer from their angle, they could roughly guess.
While the two men sharpening knives were lifting Wu Yong onto the table, Li Jianguo and Shen Zhou quietly approached from behind them.
The people upstairs, drinking and eating, did not notice anything unusual downstairs.
Someone, while drinking, said to Wu Jun, "Why hasn't the guy who took that woman up come down yet? Did he lose control and check the goods before you did?"
Wu Jun was the leader of this group, and his authority was undeniable. Naturally, he couldn't allow his underlings to inspect the goods before him. He gave a wink to another person next to him.
The person understood immediately and went upstairs.
The man who carried Qiao An'an upstairs did initially intend to do something indecent to her. He thought Qiao An'an was under the influence of drugs and didn't take her seriously at all. After throwing Qiao An'an onto the bed, he started taking off his clothes.
When Qiao An'an passed through the village, she noticed that the fields around the village were all abandoned. Normally, without food, there would be no way to feed livestock. Moreover, they did not hear any chickens crowing or pigs squealing as they walked into the village.
But there was so much meat on their table.
Wu Jun said it was roe deer meat.
But this isn't some remote mountain forest, so where did all these deer come from?
From the details of how Wu Jun instructed those people to carry Wu Yong and the others to the basement, Qiao An'an had a rough idea of what kind of meat they were. She also understood that these people could not be called human at all; they were demons even more disgusting than the masked men. There was no need to be merciful to demons.
So when the man took off his shirt, Qiao An'an pulled out the knife he had tucked into his waistband and slit his throat.
With his throat broken, he could only make gurgling sounds.
Qiao An'an kicked him onto the bed and chopped his head off with each blow.
She had just chopped the man's head off when she heard people downstairs saying they wanted to come up and see if the man had inspected the goods first, otherwise why hadn't he come down yet?
She quickly got up and hid behind the door.
When the person outside pushed the door open, she immediately slashed at the man's neck with a knife. However, this knife was no match for her longsword, which could cut through iron like mud. Although she severed the man's carotid artery, she failed to decapitate him. The man clutched his neck in terror, trying to call for help.
Qiao An'an was not going to give the person who came the chance to call for help.
She glanced at the stairs behind the person who had come in, then raised her foot and kicked the person hard.
The man's carotid artery had been severed, leaving him barely alive and completely defenseless. He was kicked down by Qiao An'an and rolled down the stairs, dying instantly.
The people downstairs, drinking and eating meat, hadn't yet realized what was happening.
The person who had been kicked down the stairs had gotten up from the ground in a strange and contorted shape and bit the person closest to him.
Only then did the people downstairs realize that the person who went upstairs had died and turned into a zombie.
The bitten person screamed, "Help me!!!"
The man closest to the bitten person grabbed a knife from the table and tried to chop off the zombie's head. Before his knife could fall, a knife flying down from upstairs slashed his arm, and his hand holding the knife fell off.
When everyone looked up, they realized that the knife had been thrown down by Qiao An'an.
Wu Jun hadn't expected Qiao An'an to wake up so quickly, but as the boss here, he reacted swiftly. He slashed the biting zombie with a single blow, then pulled out his gun and fired directly at Qiao An'an upstairs: "Bitch!!!"
As Wu Jun grabbed his gun, Qiao An'an slipped into the room.
Wu Jun's gun missed Qiao An'an and hit the door instead. Furious, he shot the person who had been bitten and then stormed upstairs, gun in hand, yelling, "Damn it, you're asking for it!!!"
Seeing Wu Jun storm upstairs in a rage, the others followed.
Because of this unexpected turn of events, everyone's attention was focused upstairs, and no one noticed the two people who came out of the basement.
After killing the two people in the basement, Shen Zhou and Li Jianguo vomited everything in their stomachs before they felt a little better.
The danger in the basement was over. Seeing that Wu Yong couldn't be woken up no matter how much they kicked him, they stopped paying attention to him and quietly climbed the stairs. However, they didn't go directly to the first floor. Instead, they lay in ambush at the entrance to the staircase connecting the first floor to the basement, quietly watching everything inside. After the room became chaotic, they took advantage of the chaos to retrieve their weapons. As everyone went upstairs, they raised their guns and fired at them.
No matter how ruthless Wu Jun and his gang were, they were just a bunch of thugs. The two unexpected incidents threw them into complete chaos.
Chen Zhou's marksmanship is professional; he basically gets headshots every time.
Li Jianguo was a bit lacking.
Several people turned into zombies after being shot by Li Jianguo.
The first thing a zombie does when it stands up is to bite its companion standing next to it.
These people were crammed onto the stairs, unable to go up or down. They were either bitten to death or shot dead, and dozens of people were wiped out in an instant.
At this moment, Wu Jun kicked open the door on the second floor. He originally wanted to shoot Qiao An'an, but Chen Zhou shot him in the arm, and the gun in his hand fell to the ground. He wanted to endure the pain and pick up the gun, but Qiao An'an picked up the gun first and pointed the muzzle at his head: "You eat people, you are disgusting!"
Although Wu Jun was a ruthless killer, he was also afraid of death. Facing the dark muzzle of a gun, he knelt down and said, "We didn't eat people. We were just afraid that Wu Yong would retaliate against us in the future, so we wanted to teach you a lesson. We didn't want to kill you. We just wanted to scare you."
Li Jianguo, fearing Qiao An'an would be deceived, said, "Don't listen to his nonsense. There are several large freezers in the basement, filled with human flesh!"
Even if Li Jianguo hadn't reminded her, Qiao An'an wouldn't have believed Wu Jun's words. This village had at least several hundred households, but now there were only a few dozen people, and they were all adult men. Even though more than half a year had passed since the apocalypse, these people could still eat meat and drink alcohol to their hearts' content. One can imagine where the old, weak, women and children in the village had gone.
Qiao An'an glanced at Wu Jun with disgust, then pulled the trigger: "People like you don't deserve to live!!!"
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