76: Chapter 76 Feed Your Daughter to the Dogs

“Retreat!”

Ye Tianlong shoved his subordinate aside and turned to run.

The few subordinates behind him also snapped out of their daze, following him as they stumbled toward the outside of the estate.

Brother Hu was paralyzed with fear, collapsing to the ground as he watched a mutant dog pounce on him.

He wanted to scream, but found that his throat had already been torn open.

The mutant dog clamped its jaws onto his neck, tearing through his throat.

He never dreamed that his life would end in such a way.

Just before his consciousness plunged into total darkness, countless images flashed through his mind.

Bone-deep regret spread throughout his entire body.

He shouldn't have listened to that bitch's nonsense and made an enemy of Song Yang!

That man was simply not someone that small-time thugs like them could afford to provoke.

From the day the explosives were taken away, he should have tucked his tail and hidden, instead of coming here to provoke them today and ending up with this fate.

...

At this moment, inside the Villa's mahjong room, the lights were bright.

“Clatter—”

Song Yang was playing mahjong with the three women.

He didn't need to worry about the events outside; those bloodthirsty monsters would handle it for him.

Just then.

“Bzzt— bzzt—”

The radio walkie-talkie next to Song Yang suddenly emitted a harsh crackle of static.

Immediately after, a man's intermittent voice came through, mixed with the static.

“Hello? Can you hear me? Is this Ms. Zhang's place? I am your Neighbors, can you hear me?”

“I know you still have plenty of food at home, and I have lots of gold! Jewelry! Antiques! As long as you can give me food, I'll give you anything! Please, I beg you!!”

Zhang Xinmei knitted her brows, her expression changing slightly:

“This is an old bastard who lives next door to us!”

“An old bastard?”

Song Yang picked up his teacup, becoming interested.

A look of disgust appeared on Zhang Xinmei's face, and her voice turned three degrees colder:

“That guy is a black-hearted businessman! Back in the day, his ‘Sanlu’ brand powdered milk turned so many healthy children into big-headed babies, and some even died directly!”

“The victims' families teamed up to sue him, but what was the result? He bribed his way through connections, not only coming out unscathed himself, but he even turned around and accused those parents of extortion, sending several of them to prison! This kind of person is absolutely devoid of conscience!”

“Such scum deserves to die! And now he wants to beg us to save him? What a delusion!”

The man on the other end of the walkie-talkie clearly heard the conversation here and hurriedly tried to defend himself.

“Ms. Zhang, please listen to me! I was wrong before, but this time, as long as you're willing to share a bite of food with me, I'll have my son, who is the deputy mayor, send people to pick you up!”

“Yes! To the Official Shelter!”

“By then, gold, silver, jewelry, delicacies—you'll have whatever you want! You'll enjoy endless wealth and glory!”

“When dawn breaks, I guarantee I'll have him get each of you a government post, so you can eat and drink like royalty—definitely better than hiding in a safe house right now.”

“Pah!”

Zhang Xinmei's pretty face was full of contempt. “You can't believe a single word from a person like this! Back then he could kill so many children for money; now, to save his own life, what lies wouldn't he make up? And ‘deputy mayor's son’—if his son were really that capable, would he be begging us like a dog because he's starving?”

Song Yang didn't say anything; he had never been interested in the performances of such clowns.

Before the old bastard could continue to defend himself, the walkie-talkie suddenly let out a “Bzzt—” sound, and the static became exceptionally loud and harsh.

Immediately after, a male voice came through along with the current:

“Calling, calling! This is The Authorities rescue team! Repeating, this is The Authorities rescue team! If there are any survivors in this area, please reply immediately! Please reply if you receive this!”

This sudden voice caused the atmosphere in the mahjong room to freeze.

“Should we reply?”

Zhang Xinmei asked in a low voice, pointing to the walkie-talkie next to Song Yang.

Song Yang shook his head.

In the apocalypse, you can't read people's hearts; who knows if the other party is actually offering rescue or has ulterior motives?

Exposing one's location and situation is no different from putting one's neck under someone else's blade.

Seeing Song Yang signal that there was no need, Zhang Xinmei didn't pay any more attention to it.

Inside the walkie-talkie, after a brief repetition, the rescue team from The Authorities' call plunged back into dead silence.

Song Yang's gaze swept over the surveillance tablet to the side, and he discovered something unusual.

Ye Tianlong and his subordinates, who had originally fled, were actually driving back at this moment.

The original fourteen people were now down to only five, and each one looked disheveled and covered in dust.

And what was even more eye-catching was that standing beside these five survivors were a man and a woman.

A thin, short-haired man in his forties had his hands and feet tied, unable to move.

Beside him was a little girl of about six years old, her face full of tear tracks, clutching the man's trousers tightly, looking timidly at this group of fierce-looking people surrounding them.

This group had not only returned but had also brought others with them.

Zhang Xinmei stared intently at the surveillance tablet and blurted out:

“Liu Dahai?!”

She stood up abruptly from the mahjong table, pointing at the man tied up on the screen, her voice trembling slightly:

“That's Liu Dahai! He was my bodyguard before the apocalypse!”

“The day the apocalypse just started, I gave him a sum of money and told him to take his wife and daughter back to their hometown to take Shelter. How could he have been captured by this bunch of people outside?”

In the surveillance footage, Ye Tianlong grabbed Liu Dahai by the throat, brandishing a dagger at the man's neck.

“If you're smart, tell me the password to open the door, otherwise, I'll send your daughter to the afterlife first!”

Beside him, the little girl of about six years old was trembling all over, holding onto Liu Dahai's thigh tightly, her little face deathly pale, not even daring to cry out loud.

Liu Dahai shook his head, indicating he didn't know the password.

“Damn it, still daring to be stubborn!”

Seeing this, one of Ye Tianlong's subordinates struck Liu Dahai in the face with a baseball bat.

Liu Dahai's head was knocked to the side, and blood seeped from the corner of his mouth.

“Waa—”

The little girl finally couldn't hold it in and burst into loud sobs.

“Daddy... Daddy...”

Ye Tianlong was annoyed by the crying, grabbed the little girl by the hair, dragged her in front of him, and sneered:

“I'll give you one last chance! Will you say it or not? You probably don't want to see your daughter die in front of you.”

Liu Dahai's eyes were filled with rage as he cursed Ye Tianlong: “You animals! You bunch of animals! You won't even spare a child!”

The sneer on Ye Tianlong's face deepened as he waved a hand at his subordinates behind him:

“Bring down my treasure and open this tough guy's eyes!”

As soon as he finished speaking, three burly subordinates worked together to lift a huge iron cage down from the vehicle.

The cage was welded from thick steel bars and looked exceptionally sturdy.

And inside the cage, there was, shockingly, a huge wolf dog!

The wolf dog's fur was matted, and its eyes glowed with an eerie green light.

It seemed to have been hungry for a long time, pacing back and forth in the cage anxiously.

“This ‘Black Wind’ is a good brother who has been through life and death with me, it's just been hungry for over ten days, so its temper isn't very good.”

Ye Tianlong patted the iron cage and flashed a cruel smile at the snarling wolf dog inside.

“I'll ask you one more time, what is the password to open the door? If you're still stubborn, don't blame me for being ruthless and throwing your precious daughter in there for ‘Black Wind’ to have a treat!”