Chapter 83 Lin Xingwan casually shot him in the head while passing by, teaching him the rules of the apocalypse.
The sound of wind brushed past her ears. The dagger in the skinny man's hand, carrying the ferocity of a desperate gamble, stabbed straight down. "Die!" he roared crazily in his heart.
But just as the tip of the blade was less than three centimeters away from that layer of black hazmat suit, Lin Xingwan's body moved. She didn't even turn her head. Leveraging the heaven-defying, abnormal flexibility gained after the spiritual spring marrow cleansing, her upper body slid sharply to the right at an extremely strange angle. Her movement was as fast as a bolt of black lightning.
The skinny man's stab missed, and due to his excessive force, his entire body tipped forward uncontrollably. "This... how is this possible?!" The sinister smile on Zhao Gang's face froze instantly, his pupils constricting violently.
While sliding to the side, Lin Xingwan's right hand reached for the outside of her thigh like a ghost. "Click." The crisp sound of a mechanism rang out. That silver Desert Eagle drew a cold arc in the dimly lit basement, landing firmly in Lin Xingwan's hand. She turned and raised her wrist. Her movements were fluid and natural, without a trace of hesitation. The pitch-black muzzle was pressed directly against the forehead of the skinny man who had lunged over due to momentum.
The skinny man collapsed at Lin Xingwan's feet. He looked up, his face, gaunt from starvation, filled with overwhelming terror. The muzzle was cold. The woman's beautiful fox-like eyes were even colder than the muzzle. "Want to hijack the car?" Lin Xingwan looked down at him, her red lips slightly parted, her tone as light as if she were asking for directions.
"No... Big Sister... this is a misunderstanding..." The skinny man was so scared that his crotch grew warm, and the dagger in his hand fell to the ground with a "clang." He trembled, his lips quivering as he desperately tried to back away. "Too late." Lin Xingwan coldly spat out those two words.
"Bang—!" A deafening gunshot exploded in the enclosed basement, making everyone's eardrums ache! Fire spat from the muzzle. The large-caliber Desert Eagle bullet, carrying terrifying kinetic energy, blew away half of the skinny man's skull. A blinding mass of red and white matter sprayed out in a fan shape, splashing onto the wall behind. The skinny man's body, like a tattered sack, collapsed straight into a pool of blood. It twitched twice, then went still. Dead silence. The basement was deathly quiet, leaving only the pungent smell of gunpowder smoke.
"Ah!! Murder!" The two girls in the corner, who hadn't made a sound until now, finally reacted, covering their ears and letting out blood-curdling screams.
"Drip... drip..." The iron rod in Zhao Gang's hand fell to the ground. His legs shook violently like a sieve, and yellow urine flowed down his pant leg onto his shoes. The robber, who had been fierce and vicious just a moment ago, now had his pleas for mercy stuck in his throat; he couldn't say a single word.
Lin Xingwan blew away the blue smoke from the muzzle. She stepped aside in disgust, avoiding the spreading pool of blood. "Weren't you quite capable just now? Wanting to take me hostage?" Lin Xingwan shifted the muzzle slightly, aiming at the terrified Zhao Gang and another boy holding a fire axe.
"Big Sister! Heroine! Please spare us!" The boy with the fire axe fell to his knees with a thud, kowtowing frantically until his scalp broke. "It was all Zhao Gang who forced us! It was his idea!" Upon hearing this, Zhao Gang screamed, his voice cracking: "Bullshit! It was clearly you who targeted this car first!"
"Dogs biting dogs, how boring." Lin Xingwan sneered. Dealing with ingrates like these, blowing them away with a single shot would be letting them off too easily. "Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!" She flicked her wrist, pulling the trigger repeatedly.
"Ah—! My legs!" "It hurts so much! Help me!" After four gunshots, the knees of Zhao Gang and the other boy instantly exploded in a mist of blood. Their kneecaps were shattered by the close-range bullets. The two of them collapsed on the ground like piles of mud, clutching their mangled legs and letting out piercing, pig-like screams. In The Apocalypse, where medical care was scarce, injuries like these would only rot and fester, leaving them to wait for death in extreme agony.
Lin Xingwan didn't spare them another glance. She turned her head to look at Xu Yan, who was lying on the ground, completely terrified. Xu Yan's face was pale, and a few drops of the skinny man's blood were splattered on his glasses. He had his mouth wide open, staring blankly at the mess, seemingly unable to recover from the shock.
Lin Xingwan walked up to him, her military boots stopping before his eyes. "Did you see clearly?" Lin Xingwan's voice was extremely cold, like a blade tempered in ice, stabbing fiercely into Xu Yan's naive, saintly heart. "These are the 'good classmates' you were willing to die to protect."
"I... I didn't know..." Xu Yan was trembling all over, his face covered in tears and snot. "They clearly shared the last half of a biscuit with me yesterday..." "So what?" Lin Xingwan squatted down, using the gun barrel to lift Xu Yan's chin, forcing him to make eye contact.
"So you think that as long as you are kind, this world will treat you with gentleness?" She sneered, her eyes full of undisguised mockery. "Xu Yan, put away that pure and stupid sympathy of yours." Lin Xingwan stood up, looking down at him. "Remember, in this fucked-up Apocalypse, your kindness is a knife that kills. If I didn't have a gun in my hand today, the ones lying on the ground would be you and me."
After saying this, Lin Xingwan stopped paying attention to this college student whose worldview had been shattered. She walked over to the several huge hydraulic seeders. With a thought, "Swish—!" Several top-tier agricultural machines weighing several tons vanished into thin air, steadily stored away into her spatial warehouse.
This miraculous display of Spatial Ability left the students lying on the ground staring with wide eyes. They finally realized what kind of monster they had tried to rob!
"Let's go, the smell here is too strong." Huo Yuan put away his lighter, walked over, and put his arm around Lin Xingwan's shoulder. He didn't even look at the trash on the ground, leading Lin Xingwan straight toward the armored vehicle at the entrance.
"Wait! You can't leave them here!" Xu Yan suddenly scrambled up like a madman, stumbling to the entrance. He pointed at Zhao Gang and the other man wailing on the ground, as well as the two girls shivering in the corner. "They are seriously injured, and there are Infected outside! If you leave like this, they will die!"
This saintly college student actually wanted to play the savior! Huo Yuan paused, his brows slightly raised. He turned around, a trace of impatience flashing in his deep eyes. "You actually reminded me." A cruel smile curled at the corners of Huo Yuan's mouth. He raised his foot. He kicked the debris of the rolled-up door nearby, which had been kicked open earlier, with a fierce blow!
"Clang—!" The massive sound echoed in the empty underground garage. This sound was like a gong signaling dinner. The Infected roaming aimlessly outside the garage were instantly attracted by the noise. Dozens of madmen with blood-red eyes, like sharks smelling blood, let out "ho-ho" roars in their throats and surged crazily toward the hole in the basement!
"You... what are you doing?!" Xu Yan was so scared he slumped to the ground. Huo Yuan opened the car door, shielding Lin Xingwan as she sat in the passenger seat, then deftly climbed into the driver's seat. He rolled down the window and lit a cigarette. Through the drifting smoke, he looked at the desperate people inside.
"I'll see this through to the end." Huo Yuan exhaled a puff of white smoke, his tone cold to the extreme. "Since you like robbing people so much, go compete with those monsters outside to see whose life lasts longer." The window rolled up. The armored vehicle let out a deafening roar. The eight huge off-road tires crushed the broken glass on the ground, and it sped away before the Infected could rush in.
In the rearview mirror, a few Infected covered in black sores had already squeezed into the hole in the basement. From inside came the blood-curdling screams of Zhao Gang and the others, along with the hair-raising sound of tearing flesh. It was a real, bloody hell on earth.
Inside the armored vehicle, Lin Xingwan leaned back against the seat with her eyes closed. "What? Feeling soft-hearted?" Huo Yuan glanced at her while turning the steering wheel. "Soft-hearted? I'm just thinking about how to use those agricultural machines." Lin Xingwan hummed lightly, not even lifting her eyelids. "Whether those idiots live or die is none of my business."
As the two were talking, the tactical communicator at Huo Yuan's waist suddenly vibrated twice rapidly. This was the highest-level encrypted channel of the Sky Wolf Squad. Huo Yuan pressed the answer button. In the earpiece, the voice of the intelligence chief, Wei Feng, came through, sounding somewhat distorted by excitement.
"Boss! The mission the Sister-in-law assigned has a lead!" "That top-tier expert from the Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Grandma Sun, has been found!" Lin Xingwan opened her eyes abruptly, sitting up straight, a burst of surprised light erupting in her eyes. "Where? Is she alive or dead?"
Wei Feng swallowed on the other end, his voice lowered. "She is alive, but... the situation isn't looking good." "Grandma Sun has been detained by a group of remnant deserters, and she is currently trapped in a large fertilizer and seed plant on the outskirts of the city!"