77: Chapter 77 I gave you the cold storage, but you couldn't move it yourselves.
Lin Yuan walked out of the Sports Stadium.
He lit a cigarette and looked up at the dust clouds rising toward the school gate.
Qin Yumo stood half a step to his left.
Her red hair was blown messy by the wind, and her fingers were slightly curled.
Two police jeeps rushed into the campus.
The sound of emergency braking was ear-piercing.
The car paint was covered in bullet holes, one rearview mirror was broken, and there were several spiderweb-like cracks on the edge of the windshield.
Seven or eight police officers got out of the cars, holding guns and spreading out.
Their movements were considered professional.
But their footsteps were clearly chaotic.
Several officers had dark circles under their eyes, cracked lips, and their hands holding the guns were covered in tiny bloody cuts.
The person at the very back had a bloody cloth wrapped around their abdomen, and blood had already seeped through the outer gauze.
Captain Han Xue walked at the front.
She swept her gaze over the george patton and over the zombie remains on the ground.
Finally, her gaze stopped on Lin Yuan's face.
She didn't have time to ask why Lin Yuan was here right now.
The squad assigned to her by the authorities had a more important mission.
Scattered intercepted intelligence indicated that Ston School still had supplies.
That was why Captain Han Xue risked a detour to come here.
She raised her hand to signal her team members to lower their gun barrels.
"Authorized by the Wartime Emergency Requisition Act."
"All supplies here are subject to official allocation."
"Everyone cooperate."
The people in the Sports Stadium quieted down.
Seeing the police uniforms, Xia Qingqiu's tense shoulders relaxed a little.
She hurried around to stand in front of Captain Han Xue.
"Officer, there are still students and parents inside."
"They need rescue."
After saying this, she turned to look at Lin Yuan.
"Mr. Lin, perhaps they can take some people away."
As these words fell.
The few people who had just been kneeling and begging Lin Yuan for their lives quietly shifted their knees back half an inch.
Police.
Guns.
Uniforms.
A male parent spoke first.
"Officer, it's him."
"He occupied the things in the cold storage and wouldn't let us touch them!"
Zhou Zihao's lackey immediately followed up.
"That's right! He even broke President Zhou's leg!"
"They also know strange sorcery; they might be a cult."
A few students opened their mouths as if to say something, but then lowered their heads in shame.
The majority of the rest just stayed silent and pretended to be dead.
Tang Qiqi looked at this group of people, her cheeks puffing up in anger.
"That's called magic!"
"You bunch of ingrates!"
"If it weren't for Sister Yumo and the Great Demon King just now, you would have been a buffet for the monsters long ago!"
The two young officers behind Captain Han Xue heard the words "Great Demon King" and immediately raised their guns and stepped forward.
Tang Qiqi shrank behind Qin Yumo in a second, revealing only half her head.
"Do you know how many people died outside?"
The young officer's expression turned ugly.
"What kind of behavior is it to occupy supplies here?"
"You'd better behave yourself."
Qin Yumo took half a step forward.
Lin Yuan reached out, blocking in front of her waist.
The movement was very light.
Qin Yumo stopped.
Lin Yuan put his hand, which had been rubbing against his trouser seam, into his pocket.
He wasn't angry.
He was even a little interested.
Listening to those accusations, Xia Qingqiu's face turned pale bit by bit.
She saw that school uniform covering the corpse in the corner.
From under the sleeve, half a finger was still exposed.
The fingernails were full of dirt dug out while scratching the ground.
When that girl was pushed out by Zhou Zihao, she didn't even have time to finish saying "Teacher".
"Wait a moment."
Xia Qingqiu stood between Captain Han Xue and the crowd, and everyone looked at her.
"It was Mr. Lin who dealt with the monsters."
"He saved everyone here."
"Zhou Zihao robbed students of their food and pushed a female student out to block the zombies."
She pointed again to the corpse in the corner covered by the school uniform.
"That girl was killed by him."
Captain Han Xue frowned.
She looked at the corpse, then at Zhou Zihao.
Zhou Zihao immediately wailed.
"She is speaking for Lin Yuan!"
"She has been brainwashed by Lin Yuan!"
"Officer, you have to save me!"
Captain Han Xue looked at Lin Yuan.
She had seen cunning people.
She had also seen tough guys.
The one in front of her was like both, and yet like neither.
He was too calm.
Lin Yuan spread his hands.
"Officer, the cold storage is in the back."
"We obey the administration."
"Take as much as you want, move it yourself."
It was too smooth.
So smooth that it made Captain Han Xue's back go cold.
But she had no retreat.
Her team members hadn't eaten properly for a day and a night.
The wounded were still bleeding.
On the radio, urban rescue points were losing contact one after another.
She had to resupply quickly and then rush to the next evacuation point.
"Xiao Li, Xiao Chen."
"Go to the cold storage."
The two officers immediately rushed to the cafeteria at the back.
The cold storage door was pushed open.
Cold air gushed out.
The smell was right.
The temperature was right.
But the shelves were empty.
There were only a few bottles of mineral water left.
There were two empty cardboard boxes in the corner.
There was a little oil stain on the floor.
The two officers stood at the door, not moving for a long time.
The students who followed behind exploded first.
"Impossible!"
"It was a full warehouse just now!"
"I saw it with my own eyes!"
The parents also started shouting.
"He must have hidden it!"
"Search the cars!"
"Search the Sports Stadium!"
"So many things, it's impossible for them to disappear into thin air!"
Captain Han Xue's expression darkened.
She looked at the empty cold storage.
Then she looked at Lin Yuan.
No matter how big the george patton was, it couldn't fit a whole cold storage.
It couldn't be hidden in the Sports Stadium either.
Lin Yuan took a bottle of mineral water from the backpack Tang Qiqi was carrying.
He unscrewed it.
He took a sip.
Then he walked to Captain Han Xue and handed the remaining half-bottle to her.
"Impulsive law enforcement easily leads to getting heated."
"Officer Han, do some intelligence work before requisitioning next time."
"If you don't have food, I can spare you a few compressed biscuits."
"Don't let your brothers run for nothing."
Captain Han Xue didn't take it.
She had her hands on her belt, breathing evenly.
It wasn't that she wasn't angry.
She was suppressing it.
Lin Yuan threw the water to Tang Qiqi and turned to leave.
That most aggressive young officer jumped out again.
"How are you talking?!"
"Do you know what the situation is now?"
"As a citizen, you have an obligation to assist the authorities!"
Lin Yuan stopped.
He didn't look back.
His voice was not loud.
"I gave you the cold storage."
"You went."
"What else do you want from me?"
The young officer was stuck.
Captain Han Xue knew that Lin Yuan must have some secret.
But she didn't have time to waste on him.
Finding the next supply point was the top priority.
"Retreat."
"Captain Han!"
The young officer was unwilling.
Captain Han Xue's voice was even colder.
"This is an order."
Captain Han Xue turned and got into the car.
The officers were unwilling, but they still obeyed.
The two jeeps started.
The people in the Sports Stadium rushed out.
"Comrade police! You can't leave!"
"You should save us! We are taxpayers!"
"Take me with you! I have money!"
Captain Han Xue did not roll down the car window.
The jeep's taillights disappeared into the fog.
Those expectant eyes first turned into despair.
And then turned into resentment.
The police were gone, and they dared not clamor at Lin Yuan and Qin Yumo again.
In the end, it all fell back on Xia Qingqiu.
"It's all because of you! If you hadn't refused to speak for us just now, the police would definitely have taken us away!"
"Speak! Where did you hide that food!"
Xia Qingqiu looked at these people she had just wanted to save, unable to speak.
She suddenly felt something blocking her throat.
It was sour.
And cold.
Lin Yuan stood at the entrance of the Sports Stadium, scanning everyone.
Qin Yumo handed him the L-shaped iron rod from the side.
Lin Yuan took it and pointed it at the crowd.
"The three who shouted the loudest just now."
"Step out."
No one moved.
Lin Yuan looked at Jiang Hao.
Jiang Hao was silent for half a second, then raised his finger and pointed at three people.
A middle-aged man.
A woman.
And a fat man who had just been chasing the police car door shouting "I am a taxpayer".
The three people's legs were shaking.
The middle-aged man was stubborn.
"What I said is the truth—"
The iron rod fell.
Crack.
His right wrist collapsed.
A scream exploded.
The second blow.
The woman's left arm broke.
The third blow.
The fat man's right arm deformed.
Three sounds of bone cracking.
Three screams.
The Sports Stadium was quiet again.
Lin Yuan threw the iron rod to Liu Bin.
Liu Bin caught it with both hands, shaking violently.
But this time he didn't drop it.
Lin Yuan walked into the empty cold storage.
Qin Yumo left the crowd in the Sports Stadium.
She only let Liu Bin and Jiang Hao stand in the cafeteria.
The next second.
Inside the cold storage, there was a sound of heavy objects hitting the floor—bang, bang, bang.
After Lin Yuan came out, he glanced at the two of them.
"Go in."
Liu Bin and Jiang Hao walked into the cold storage.
Then, both of them opened their mouths wide at the same time.
Food appeared on the shelves out of thin air.
Several boxes of mineral water.
Two bags of frozen chicken legs.
A box of compressed biscuits.
Several bags of frozen dumplings.
The quantity was not much.
Only one-tenth of the original amount.
Liu Bin wanted to ask.
But the next second, a few thin Water Blades were hovering in front of him.
The blade was less than an inch away from his eyeball.
Liu Bin immediately shut his mouth.
Jiang Hao also shifted his gaze from the shelves.
He was very smart.
He knew that some things, even if seen, had to be treated as if they hadn't been seen.
Lin Yuan stood with his back to them.
"This is enough for you to last a week."
"Be honest and obedient, and develop this place."
"Collect crystal cores."
"I will have people come to collect them regularly and feed you food."
"If you perform well, I will bestow Superpower upon you."
Lin Yuan knew that these two would most likely follow the trajectory of their previous life and awaken in a month.
Using a stick and a carrot is always the best way to manage people.
Liu Bin swallowed a mouthful of saliva.
"Mr. Lin, can we also... have this kind of magic? And what is a crystal core?"
Lin Yuan pointed to the center of the distant Sports Stadium.
Tank was taking out a dark red crystal from the cracked head of a C-Class Mutant.
In Shadow's hand, there were also a few small gray crystal cores.
"Things inside a zombie's head."
"As for Superpower, it depends on your loyalty to me."
Jiang Hao squatted down and touched the gray crystal core handed over by Shadow with his fingertips.
He looked up.
"Understood."
Lin Yuan looked at Xia Qingqiu.
"Do you see clearly now?"
"If you save them, they will thank the police."
"If you fail to save them, they will hate you."
"If I give them food, they will want to steal my pot."
Xia Qingqiu stood at the door of the cold storage.
Behind her lenses, her eyes were a little red.
She didn't refute.
Lin Yuan continued:
"Teacher Xia."
"In the apocalypse, kindness is not wrong."
"Giving kindness to beasts, is."
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Xia Qingqiu pushed her glasses with her middle finger.
This time, she lowered her head.
Tank and Shadow began to take over the Sports Stadium.
Liu Bin registered the food.
Jiang Hao counted the number of people.
The three people with broken arms were dragged to the corner.
No one dared to shout anymore.
Just as Lin Yuan was preparing to leave.
An explosion came from the distance.
Shadow pressed his earpiece, his expression changed.
"Boss."
"The Jiang Family has intercepted a distress signal via radio."
"From the direction of Jinjiang No. 1."
"Jiang Xiaowan's convoy is blocked."
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