Apocalypse: the Most Ruthless Person

”Spare us, Brother, we’re just holding hostages, don’t kill us, spare us, Brother.”

”Spare us...”

”Spare us...”

The hostages, threatened by Zhang Su, knelt down and begged for mercy first. Several women pleaded bitterly, and two teenage boys also kowtowed in fear.

Zhang Su remained unmoved, disregarding what the children and women did. His gaze was fixed firmly on the few men holding guns in the group.

Through brief contact, he could determine that not everyone on the other side were combatants. Only about nine of them had received systematic training, the official combatants of the Dragon Head Camp, while the others had some skills but were not enough, likely self-defense capable logistics personnel.

”Profit and loss, benefits in the Dragon Head Camp, naturally we stay, danger, can’t we leave? You stand on some moral high ground to criticize us, what right do you have?”

One man spoke indignantly.

”Bullshit about rights? We’re willing to fight to death for our brothers, that’s our right, you bunch of cowards!”

Bang! Thud...

Just as Zhao Dezhu finished speaking, another gunshot was heard, this time fired by Tan Huajun, not Zhang Su!

The speaker’s eyes quickly went blank, his gun-holding hand raised less than twenty degrees, then dropped, and his body fell to the ground with a thud.

”Brother Ghost!”

Seeing Brother Ghost’s death, the Dragon Head deserters looked at the shooter, shocked. What kind of ghostly beings are these, a seemingly simple fat woman, at most a minor character busy in the kitchen at the Dragon Head Camp, could casually shoot someone’s head through, hitting the forehead accurately!

”King Yama orders you to drop your weapons! Can’t you hear?”

Sister Pang’s voice was powerful, combined with the previous thunderous strike, it was quite intimidating.

She clearly remembered Zhang Su’s instructions to shoot if anything seemed wrong. Earlier, seeing the other side waving weapons made her uneasy, so she fired.

Ke Zhiyu and Zhou Haotian, two temporary members, looked at Tan Huajun with the same eyes as the Dragon Head deserters. In everyday training, Sister Pang was always average at best, turns out her marksmanship is divine!

When Tan Huajun shouted for King Yama, the Dragon Head deserters were visibly stunned.

”Did the fat one just say... King Yama?”

”That’s right, I heard it. Damn, we’re so out of luck, why did we run into King Yama!”

”What do we do?”

”Plan C!”

The quick exchange ended, and someone carefully placed their weapon on the tracks.

”I surrender, I surrender!”

”Yes, we surrender.”

”Don’t shoot, please don’t shoot!”

Soon, everyone put their weapons on the ground, there were light submachine guns, handguns, and shotguns.

With one side disarming, the atmosphere relaxed.

Zhang Su remained composed, though he heard everything they said, he was puzzled. He gestured to the Dragon Head deserters: ”Drop all your bags, move forward ten steps!”

The deserters obediently took off their backpacks, leaving them behind, and walked forward with the hostages in tow, leaving two warm bodies behind.

”From your reaction earlier, it seems you’ve heard of King Yama?”

Zhang Su directly asked his question.

He only learned today that there was a camp called Dragon Head in the Mountain and Sea District. Before, he only knew it was a big survivor camp there. Why would people from Dragon Head know about him?

This must be clarified!

”Can I speak?”

A skinny and small man raised his hand, a fearful fawning smile on his face.

Zhang Su looked at the man, immediately recognizing him as the guy who suggested Plan C earlier. From the tone of their discussion, this skinny monkey might have some say, perhaps he’s the leader of the group.

”What’s your name?”

”They call me Skinny Monkey.”

”Skinny Monkey, speak up!”

”Uh, uh, a few days ago, the reconnaissance team brothers brought back a message to the camp, saying there’s a King Yama between Niuquanzi Town and Beidong Town in Qing County. They didn’t know whether King Yama was a slogan, a faction name, or someone’s nickname. Anyway, they said King Yama was formidable, dealing with tens of thousands of zombies without stress. And...”

Here, Skinny Monkey paused tactically, his eyes wandering as he assessed the situation and pondered.

”Continue.”

Zhang Su calmly urged.

”And they said King Yama has the ability to cause massive explosions, a terrifying blast that can vaporize things within dozens of meters instantly!”

Skinny Monkey exaggeratedly gestured while explaining.

”Damn, someone was spying on us fighting the zombie horde that day!”

Wu Lue immediately realized, as he was also watching that day from a certain angle, standing on Celestial Horse Island Mountain, he witnessed the grape blooming, giving him goosebumps.

”Xiaowu is right, Brother Su, those people were close enough to even witness the grape explosion, they probably led the zombie horde to our camp!”

Guo Dachao said with a serious expression.

Zhang Su shook his head in denial: ”Let’s not falsely accuse, those zombie hordes were roaming nearby all along, we know about it, it’s unrelated to the Dragon Head people.”

The ten thousand strong zombie horde attacking Qin City was likely the work of the Dragon Head Camp, but the zombies in Qing County came down early from the Cyan Dragon Corps, there’s no need to throw blame around recklessly.

”Big brother, the guy trading raccoon skins with the Cyan Dragon Corps before, wasn’t he also from Dragon Head Camp, damn, those guys are always secretly watching us, really annoying!”

Zhao Dezhu said with a sullen face.

Including this spying group, they’ve come four times in total. Qi Xiaoshuai almost got killed, not to mention those who weren’t discovered, which frustrated Zhang Su greatly.

”When you’re famous, your reputation precedes you. See, once they heard King Yama, they didn’t resist anymore!” Zheng Xinyu sensed Zhang Su’s anger and quickly tried to console him.

Zhang Su shook his head helplessly, then looked at the other side: ”The reconnaissance team, right? Where are they now? The team you mentioned, where are they now?”

Skinny Monkey shrugged and made a helpless gesture: ”In the camp, zombies from Beyond the Pass are constantly coming in, the numbers increasing, there’s no time to come out. King Yama, the Dragon Head Camp has no ill will towards your territory, we just wanted to gather information about missing members and connect with more factions. If it weren’t for these strengthened zombies, they would’ve met you by now.

We also have no ill intentions. See, we’ve vented and killed, it was their fault for being reckless, you did no wrong, we’re also in a hurry to Tang City, can you just treat us like passing gas and let us go?”

”Why are you going to Tang City?”

Zhang Su didn’t engage in small talk, only asked about the matters he wanted to know.

Skinny Monkey acted reluctantly, forced to comply: ”There’s a Righteous Dao Association in Tang City, they should have contacted you too, right? Their scale is massive, with a comprehensive safe community, housing tens of thousands of people, more survivors than all of Qin City. We’re planning to go there.”

”Wasn’t it said to be three or four thousand, how did it become ten thousand, are they blowing balloons?”

Lu Yubo clearly remembered the broadcast about the Righteous Dao Association.

”Indeed, Righteous Dao Association has only over four thousand people, Brother Zhang, these guys are lying!”

Zhou Haotian suddenly spoke, seeing some puzzled expressions, he quickly explained: ”When the Righteous Dao Association came to Lego Mall, I met with their people.”

Actually, it was Liao Youzhi talking to the Righteous Dao Association, while Zhou Haotian was hanging around, overhearing lots of information.

”Let them say three thousand or tens of thousands, I don’t care.”

Zhang Su waved his hand dismissively, the Righteous Dao Association’s numbers weren’t crucial, he wasn’t concerned about that, just curious why they hadn’t come his way, so he asked: ”When did the Righteous Dao Association go to the Mountain and Sea District?”

”Huh? No, it was a misunderstanding, the Righteous Dao Association didn’t come to Mountain and Sea District, we learned this from the broadcast,” Skinny Monkey replied with a sheepish grin.

Zhang Su nodded knowingly, understanding that the Righteous Dao Association only went to Lego Mall. After understanding what he wanted to know, he told Skinny Monkey and others: ”Leave all your belongings, including weapons, then you can go.”

Upon hearing this, Skinny Monkey said with a mournful face: ”Please don’t, King Yama Brother, you’re merciful, it’s over two hundred kilometers to Tang City from here, look at us, this is like condemning us to death.”

”Stop talking nonsense, it’s a maximum of one hundred and thirty kilometers from here to Tang City along the railway, where the hell did two hundred kilometers come from, Brother Su, this dog is lying, I suggest just killing him!”

Pan Guoliang exposed Skinny Monkey’s lies.