Apocalypse — Chapter 41: Betrayal!

“Thank you for the kindness. I don’t need these supplies,” Xiao Yi said indifferently, without even looking at what was in the shopping cart.

He needed their pity and their charity?

What a joke!

The things in that cart were treasure to people like them. To Xiao Yi, they were nothing but garbage.

Food, water, all kinds of daily supplies—he could have as much as he wanted!

The entire city of Jiangcheng was nothing but a warehouse he could take from as he pleased!

Si Ruoqing heard the meaning in the warehouse keeper’s words as well. Quite unhappy, she said, “Old Zhang, what is that supposed to mean? If you can’t bear to part with it, put it on my account! Half the supplies in here were brought back by my team, weren’t they?!”

“Officer Si, I know you led people to find these supplies. I know you saved all of us too. But these supplies belong to the public now. Giving them away to an outsider just like that—don’t you think that’s going a bit too far?” the warehouse keeper said.

“We’re already having a hard time. If you keep handing things out like this, I’m afraid we won’t last three months before we starve!”

Si Ruoqing’s brows drew tight. There was some anger in her voice. “When the food and water run out, we can go somewhere else and build a new shelter! We can go somewhere else and look for supplies! As long as we all stick together, things will definitely get better!”

“But there are zombies on every side of this place. Fighting our way out of here and finding a new camp will be very hard.”

Zhou Zhengyu walked up from behind again. Smiling, he said to Si Ruoqing and the others, “Which is why we can’t keep feeding idle people now! From this moment on, everyone in this camp follows my command and takes turns going out to look for food!”

With Zhou Zhengyu’s appearance, Scarface and several other men, all holding weapons, slowly closed in.

Zhou Zhengyu pointed at the two old people and three girls cooking by the warehouse.

“As for these two old folks and the children, I’m sorry to say it, but from now on they have to learn to fend for themselves!”

Hearing Zhou Zhengyu’s words, the two old people looked as if they had known this was coming. They only watched what was happening with hollow eyes, sat on the ground in resignation, and did not say a word.

The older of them, a white-haired man, stood up, dropped to his knees in front of Zhou Zhengyu with a thud, and said, “Boss Zhou, if we two old things die, we die. Alive we are only a burden on everyone. But these three children are innocent. They are the hope of our future! Can you at least keep them?”

“Fuck! We can barely keep ourselves alive, and you’re talking to me about hope for the future! At this rate, are we even living past three months?” Scarface stepped in, kicked the white-haired old man hard, and swore as he spoke. “Want kids? That’s easy. Look at all the women here. The brothers have a good time, and hope takes care of itself! Hahahaha!”

The several men who had walked up behind Scarface all burst out laughing. There was something beastlike in the desire in those smiles.

Xiao Yi could see it. These men were pent up to the breaking point.

No wonder. Because of Si Ruoqing’s protection, these men had been looking at so many tempting young wives right in front of them, and they could only look, not touch.

After more than two months, of course they were pent up.

In the old society of laws, that would not have meant much.

But this was a dark apocalypse with no law and no restraint.

The evil in everyone’s heart was going to be magnified without limit.

Xiao Yi did not need to use his brain to know it. These men were joining forces against Si Ruoqing.

And the main reason they were joining forces was that they wanted to vent their desire.

After Scarface’s words, the women who had been whispering off to the side all went blank-faced and shrank together.

Not one of them dared stand up and say a single sentence.

Because the atmosphere had already filled with danger. The air was thick with the smell of gunpowder, as if it would blow at a touch.

Behind Zhou Zhengyu and Scarface came eight men with weapons, staring like tigers. Every blade-edge pointed at Si Ruoqing and her people.

On Si Ruoqing’s side, counting Xiao Yi, there was only one armed man and six armed women.

Si Ruoqing looked at the old people and the women huddled to the side without a word, and she could roughly guess how the whole thing had started.

Zhou Zhengyu’s people and Scarface’s people had reached an agreement in secret while she was out leading a search for supplies.

Now the two sides had already joined together.

The goal was to force her to submit and seize complete control of the power in the camp.

And this matter—the old people and the women present had actually known about it for a long time!

Si Ruoqing forced down her fury and her disappointment and watched everything in front of her with cold eyes.