Apocalypse: the Most Ruthless Person

Liang Xiaocheng grabbed Xiaowu, yelling, “Who? Tell me, who?”

“Near… near Phoenix International, there’s a gas station. Big Brother saw there were no zombies at the station, and there’s a vandalized convenience store there. He said to check it out. Considering there might be nothing, he told me to watch the car. He and Xiaogeng went to the store, but who would have thought there’d be bad guys inside…”

In Xiaowu’s story, he was sitting in the Prado and witnessed the tragedy from afar. Then those people chased out, and he frantically drove away. Due to his nervousness, he crashed and ruined the car. Finally, he escaped on a shared bike.

There are many loopholes in the story, but with the crisis outside, many things are impossible to verify, and even if everyone doubts it, they find it hard to speculate too much.

“Are you sure Big Brother only exchanged a couple of moves with them? I don’t believe it!”

Liang Xiaocheng waved his arms, saying, “I taught Big Brother a lot of fighting moves. How could he get knocked down in one face-off? I don’t believe it, especially with Xiaogeng there, what, is he eating crap?”

“Xiaogeng was controlled first, thrown into a corner where I couldn’t see him… Just two moves. I saw that guy holding a curved machete, kind of like a boomerang, even fearless against Big Brother’s gun and charged right up!”

Xiaowu’s expression was exaggerated to hide his inner panic.

“Yeah, Big Bro took his gun out. Damn, now the gun is taken, those people are really damnable!”

“Without the gun, if someone finds us here, we’ll have no advantage…”

“It’s unexpected, really unexpected! Xiaowu, did Big Bro shoot wildly?”

Xiaowu tried to recall, shaking his head, saying, “It happened too fast, I didn’t see clearly, but didn’t hear any shots either. In an instant, the guy knocked Big Bro’s gun away, Big Bro blocked with a firefighting axe, and the second time…”

As Xiaowu fabricated lies, he cursed inwardly, gun, gun my ass, if there was a real gun wouldn’t we be in this situation?

Everyone was silent, secretly guessing, could it really be a ‘within seven steps, fists are faster’ case?

Liang Xiaocheng felt sick inside. Others didn’t know, but he did; that gun was Liang Dacheng’s son’s toy, couldn’t kill a damn thing.

“Xiaowu, if you see those people again, can you recognize them?” Liang Xiaocheng asked sinisterly.

Everyone’s hearts tensed. Liang Xiaocheng was unlike Liang Dacheng. Liang Dacheng was a businessman while Liang Xiaocheng was a bad guy. Not long ago, he even carried a murder and if not for this disaster, he was about to be caught soon, gifted a pair of Silver Bracelets, with room and board included.

Xiaowu knew of Liang Xiaocheng’s ruthlessness, nodded vigorously: “I don’t dare say I’ll recognize all, but I remember five or six vividly, especially three women. I can recognize them!”

“Really enjoying life, huh, with three women. When I meet them, I’ll skin those bastards alive!”

Liang Xiaocheng clenched his fists until they cracked, his eyes reddened uncontrollably.

He was wicked, but it didn’t mean he lacked feelings, especially sincere towards Liang Dacheng.

From childhood till now, it was always Brother Liang Dacheng protecting him. Later, he learned to fight, gained self-defense skills, while Liang Dacheng went into business, giving him money. Though it made him arrogant and eventually killed someone, Liang Dacheng’s kindness was genuine. Even in the apocalypse, he didn’t let his brother risk himself for gathering supplies.

Liang Xiaocheng silently vowed revenge for his brother, glanced around at the few people, saying, “I’ll definitely avenge my brother and Xiaogeng. I’m going to Yihe Car Shop to take guns, then won’t return to the market. Who’s coming with me?”

“Yes, definitely coming with you, Second Brother. From now on, you’re our Big Brother!”

“Revenge is necessary, Big Brother treated us well…”

The few men were stunned, then chimed in agreement, expressing willingness to follow Liang Xiaocheng. The woman sitting in the corner said nothing, while Xiaowu stuttered with a constipated look.

“Xiaowu, what’s with that face?” Liang Xiaocheng immediately noticed Xiaowu was acting strangely, his hesitant expression lit by dim candlelight.

Xiaowu dared not say he leaked the Yihe Car Shop news, thinking quickly on his feet, “Second Brother, earlier Big Bro also wanted to go to Yihe Car Shop for guns. We wandered there, but couldn’t get close as a horde of zombies blocked the way. It can’t be done!”

He didn’t want to meet Zhang Su again so soon. Fabricating stories to divert hatred, talking about revenge was pointless. As long as he could live safely, what’s the use of revenge!

“Don’t presume I won’t kill you and talk nonsense, zombies blocking the way, so what, kill a way through them. Do you have any opinions?”

Liang Xiaocheng glared at Xiaowu with red eyes.

If not for needing Xiaowu to identify the people who killed Big Brother, Liang Xiaocheng would have really wanted to cut down the alarmist Xiaowu.

“No, no opinions, support Second Brother’s decision!” Xiaowu dared not say more, beginning to consider other plans.

“Stay here for another night, prepare the supplies, set off tomorrow!”

Liang Xiaocheng issued orders imitating his brother, but seemed quite haphazard.

…

Zhang Su didn’t know what happened on Xiaowu’s side, and was discussing the evening’s action with the group.

It was getting late, the second floor of the dry-cleaning store was dimly lit, piled with clothes yet to be cleaned.

Yu Qing lay on the sofa deeply asleep, covered with some clothes. After taking a heavy dose of medication, her condition visibly improved.

Tan Huajun volunteered to stand watch by the window, while the remaining eight sat surrounding the central area, sitting on all sorts of scattered clothes, soft and fluffy.