Chapter 120 Zombie Siege (13) - Catching the Mastermind
Ning Shu had an idea of the store's special location and gestured to Cheng Chuan to go in this direction.
The two walked for a while and found that after turning a corner, they were back at the noodle shop they had just been at, so they had gone in circles?
In that case, did that person also go in circles?
Standing in front of the noodle shop, Ning Shu suddenly asked Cheng Chuan, "Did you only hear the sound once, or twice?"
Her question was abrupt, and Cheng Chuan didn't react for a moment. He quickly realized that she was asking whether he had heard two "click" sounds.
He recalled that when Ning Shu transformed into a sandstorm, the noise she made while killing zombies was quite loud, but... he seemed to have heard a second "click" sound.
He seemed to realize something, his eyes sharpening as he looked at the lock in the noodle shop, his face darkening. He nodded to Ning Shu.
Upon seeing this, Ning Shu raised her voice: "Since there's no one in this shop, let's break down the door and see what's inside."
After she finished speaking, she waited for a while, but there was still no response from inside the noodle shop.
It seems she won't give up until she's completely convinced. Fine, then she won't hold back.
Ning Shu took out a sharp knife and turned it into a fruit knife. She remembered that even tempered glass has its weak points at the four corners.
Of course, she wouldn't do this herself; she simply handed the knife to Cheng Chuan.
Cheng Chuan readily accepted the knife and used the tip to poke at a corner of one of the glass panes.
The glass shattered instantly, making a loud cracking sound, and then they saw a head pop out from behind the counter.
Hehe, Ning Shu watched as the head first peeked out and then withdrew, hesitating for a while before finally standing up.
He glared at the two of them and scolded, "How dare you vandalize other people's property?"
Ning Shu shone the flashlight beam on the other person's face and smiled:
"We knocked on the door for a while but no one answered. We thought no one was home, so we broke it. What's the problem?"
The other person first shielded their eyes from the glaring light and said, "Don't shine the light on my face. Can't you speak properly?"
Ning Shu lowered the flashlight beam so the other person could open their eyes and speak to them.
After the other person put down their hand, they thought about what she had just said and their expression turned a little ugly: "Does the fact that no one is responding give you the right to damage someone else's property?"
Ning Shu shrugged, feigning indifference: "In this day and age, so what if you have connections? Can you beat me?"
The last sentence contained both teasing and threats; the other party hadn't expected a young girl to speak so rudely.
His expression changed slightly before he said, "Come out, someone's here to cause trouble."
Ning Shu and Cheng Chuan saw that as soon as the other person finished speaking, the door behind the counter leading to the kitchen was opened, and several burly men walked out.
Ning Shu's glasses didn't show any points above those people's heads, so she concluded they were just NPCs. If they were NPCs, she wasn't afraid.
The other party thought that since only a few people had come out, Ning Shu and the others would be scared and leave, but to their surprise, they didn't react at all.
They had just hidden themselves, and because it was too dark around them, they didn't see how Ning Shu and the others eliminated the zombies, so they thought that even if they killed so many zombies, it was nothing special.
After all, zombies only know how to charge around blindly, and they can't compare to cunning normal people.
Ning Shu then spoke up: "Did you deliberately release the zombies just now and then hide here?"
This was Ning Shu's guess. She suspected that they hadn't been in this location earlier, but had found her and Cheng Chuan somewhere else and deliberately led them to the vicinity of this noodle shop.
They released the zombies trapped in the noodle shop, and while they were dealing with the zombies, they hid in the noodle shop and pretended that no one was there.
That explains everything; they were used as bait.
Ning Shu simply didn't understand why they insisted on going into this noodle shop. What was there? Food? Didn't other shops have that?
The other party definitely wouldn't answer her; they only said one sentence: "Go! Kill them."
This is absolutely unreasonable. Just as Ning Shu was about to make a move, Cheng Chuan darted out before her, leaving behind the words, "You stay put, I'll handle this."
With someone else doing the work, Ning Shu naturally waited patiently until Cheng Chuan had finished dealing with those people before stepping forward to interrogate them.
"Tell me, what did you just do? Confess and you'll be treated leniently; resist and you'll be punished severely."
Those NPCs, who were beaten black and blue and trembling like cowards, readily confessed what they had done.
It wasn't that they were cowards; it was that when they saw Cheng Chuan cleave a person in two with a few swift strokes, they were terrified.
Even if they had a few more audacious dogs, they wouldn't dare lie, for fear that they would be the next ones to be split in two.
According to their account, things were pretty much as Ning Shu had guessed.
Taking the opportunity, Ning Shu asked, "Why did you specifically choose to hide in this shop? Couldn't you have stayed in another shop?"
The NPC who had previously negotiated with them replied, "There is food here. Because it's a noodle shop, it has a lot of flour stored up. The water supply in this mall hasn't been cut off yet, so we can make our own noodles."
Ning Shu asked, puzzled, "Don't other restaurants also have food?"
Besides, is it even edible to make noodles like this?
NPC: "Most other stores serve pre-made dishes. The packaged ones have already been eaten, and the unpackaged ones have already spoiled."
Ning Shu thought about it and realized that food would indeed spoil easily without electricity. It seemed that this dungeon had driven everyone to the brink of despair.
"So you have the nerve to take advantage of others?"
Ning Shu couldn't help but kick the other person, who grimaced in pain and had no choice but to beg for mercy.
Cheng Chuan, seeing that Ning Shu's interrogation was almost over, asked, "Do you know what's going on on the upper two floors?"
NPC: "There are a lot of zombies up there. Are you looking for people or food?"
Cheng Chuan: "Looking for someone? If you say that, then there must be no one alive up there?"
The NPC nodded: "There shouldn't be any more. We originally wanted to go up, but there were too many zombies."
As soon as we got up there and made a noise, they rushed over, scaring us to death.
Cheng Chuan glanced at Ning Shu, pointed upwards, indicating whether she wanted to go up. Ning Shu nodded; they had to do mission 2.
I used to think there was no rush to do it, but now I think it's best to do it as soon as possible, otherwise the task will become more and more difficult as time goes on.
Now that they've confirmed the top two floors are full of zombies, they can go all out and just go for it.
Since these NPCs had no way out, Ning Shu and Cheng Chuan didn't want to get their hands dirty, so they let them go.
Cheng Chuan: "You guys hide well, we're going up there."
The NPCs were confused. After saying so much, the other party still wanted to go up. It seemed that the person they were looking for was very important to them. For a moment, they were quite envious of that person.
If they had family or friends like that, they could die without regrets.
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