Chapter 146 People in the Theater
Mu Qingyu wasn't afraid of this at all; a swift strike would only take a few minutes.
Tongyin looked at Mu Qingyu and said, "So, Miss, your malice towards that kind of person is only five?"
Mu Qingyu merely glanced at Xiong Jiang, showing no significant emotional fluctuation. So, this level of malice already reached 5.
"Are all the people living here very low in terms of malice?" Mu Qingyu asked Tong Yin.
The child tilted his head and thought for a moment before saying, "Yes and no. How should I put it..."
She bit her finger and thought for a long time before saying to Mu Qingyu, "Most of the people we take in here are ordinary people with no ability to protect themselves. Some were picked up by Brother Xiao when he went out, and some came to us for help after discovering this place..."
“Basically, when we first take them in, if their malice level doesn’t exceed 50, they’ll be kept. This rule was set by Brother Xiao.” Tong Yin said this with some dissatisfaction.
"What does a malice value of 50 represent? Is it the dividing line between good and evil?" Mu Qingyu asked.
Tong Yin gently shook her head: "Basically, if your malice towards someone exceeds 80, it means you want to kill that person. However, this doesn't necessarily mean you're a bad person, because the person you want to kill might be your enemy."
“Sometimes the malice value cannot determine good or evil, but sometimes it can.” Tong Yin gestured as she explained, afraid that Mu Qingyu would not understand: “For example, if you are just looking at a stranger, a complete stranger, and it is your first time meeting them, even if you don’t like this person, under normal circumstances, a normal person’s malice value towards a stranger will not exceed 20.”
"So a value below 20 basically means you dislike the person, while a value of 50 indicates extreme disgust. When a stranger you've just met looks at you with a malice level exceeding 50, it generally means they want to hurt you or steal your things."
"It's not your behavior that caused his disgust, but rather that he inherently harbored malice towards you." This kind of thing felt a bit mysterious, and Tong Yin always felt that she couldn't explain it clearly.
Mu Qingyu nodded: "I think I understand now."
What it's really saying is that normal people don't hate without a reason, but if someone hates you the first time you meet them, it means that their hatred might not be directed at you personally, but rather that they inherently harbor malice towards everyone and everything.
Not knowing whether Mu Qingyu really understood, Tong Yin still had to continue: "So generally, a malice value of over 50 means that you have extremely high malice towards someone. For example, a 'green tea' girl who wants to steal your boyfriend has a malice value of over 50 towards you."
It's the kind of feeling that you wish you were dead, but doesn't actually want to kill you yourself!
"So you won't take in anyone whose malice level exceeds 50 on the first meeting," Mu Qingyu summarized.
The child nodded: "Yes. But actually, if it were me, I would absolutely not take them in if their malice level exceeded 20! But Brother Xiao..."
At this point, Tong Yin slowly began to recount the origins of their group.
Tong Yin was originally a sophomore at a university in the university town.
On the night before the apocalypse, it was a birthday party for someone in their dorm, and they had planned to have hot pot that evening. However, someone was delayed and it wasn't until 8 or 9 pm that everyone set off for the student street.
The most famous hot pot restaurant on Student Street is a husband-and-wife operation. Their specialty is slicing lamb first and then cooking it over charcoal, thus preserving the most authentic hot pot flavor.
Modern college students often drink alcohol after a meal, making merry until after 11 p.m., long after the school gates and dormitory doors are closed, and the temperature outside has dropped unusually.
The shop owners, a couple who have dealt with students for many years, knew that the girls wouldn't be able to go back to their dorms that night. With the sudden drop in temperature outside and the girls having been drinking, they simply closed the shop and took the girls in, at least ensuring their safety.
The shop is located behind the residence of the shop owners, a husband and wife.
Later, when the temperature dropped to a certain level, the city started to lose power, and there were no lights or heating equipment available.
The shop owners sensed that something was wrong.
Fortunately, their restaurant served charcoal hot pot, and the kitchen had plenty of smokeless charcoal. The owner made a quick decision: he cleared a space in the center of the restaurant, and everyone lit charcoal fires to keep warm.
So on the night the apocalypse came, they survived by burning charcoal and huddling together for warmth.
He thought everything would be over by the next day, and the crisis would be resolved. But who knew that the moment he opened the shop door the next day, a zombie pounced and bit his throat…
The wife rushed to her husband's aid, but was pounced on by another zombie...
The six girls who had barely survived were terrified. At that moment, everyone had only one thought: to run away!
“My only thought at the time was to escape… I had never seen a man-eating monster before. You don’t know, I was closest to the boss at the time, and I watched helplessly as blood gushed from his throat…”
When she recalled that time, Tong's voice still trembled uncontrollably.
"I admit I was a coward. I didn't dare to go up and help, and I didn't dare to help others. I only had one thought at the time, which was to run away..."
But Tongyin didn't expect that there were even more man-eating monsters on the street!
That's where she started to get separated from her roommates.
She dodged the man-eating monsters, diving into buildings whenever she saw them and running away whenever she spotted one. By then, she was barely able to think; her head was spinning.
She crashed into a car and fell to the ground.
When Tongyin woke up, she found herself in a van, rescued by two men.
The two men were Xiao Shiyang and Huang Jie. The child's voice was also hit by their car.
Actually, they were braking at the time, and Tong Yin crashed into them on her own and then passed out. They couldn't just leave her to die, so they lifted her into the car.
It turned out that after getting on the bus, they discovered that Tong Yin had developed a high fever. She had fainted not because she was hit by the car, but because she had a fever, was emotionally stressed, and was too tired.
The car belonged to Huang Jie, and he always kept common medications in it. So Huang Jie and Xiao Shiyang gave Tong Yin fever-reducing medicine and water.
That's how the three of them met.
“Brother Xiao is a soldier, an active-duty soldier. He was on leave visiting his family. Brother Huang and Brother Xiao are high school classmates and good brothers. That day, Brother Xiao stayed overnight at Brother Huang's house, so they happened to be together,” Tong Yin said.
Tong Yin did not mention how Xiao Shiyang and Huang Jie survived the extremely cold night.
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