Chapter 30: You’ve Hidden Well
“One, two, three, four… five? Almost forgot, Hu An is still an evolver.”
Su Huan counted while carefully picking several fruits.
If the water purifier transaction went smoothly, he wouldn’t mind giving Hu An a way to live.
But if the transaction fell through, he really couldn’t find a reason to let Hu An live.
As for the supplies at the water plant and the women, he wasn’t interested. Only the benefits that ended up in his pocket were real benefits. Right now, the quickest gain was Hu An’s flesh and blood.
Feeding it to the bloodthirsty vine could also produce more bloodthirsty fruits.
After picking the fruits, Su Huan walked toward the train.
Liang Kuan was leading some passengers in zombie cleanup work. In groups of a few, they held weapons like long sticks, knocking down zombies and then surrounding them for a beating.
These zombies that hadn’t even reached Tier 1 posed no threat to organized humans as long as they didn’t form a large-scale zombie tide. They were even inferior to some large carnivorous animals.
“Pull all the zombie corpses to Carriage 2.” As he passed by, Su Huan indifferently gave the order.
“Understood.”
After boarding the train, Su Huan looked around and found Wan Xing in the dining car.
She was holding a potted plant and sitting on the sofa, her delicate face calmly gazing out the window.
The crowd outside the car window killing zombies was like an oil painting full of mockery, where civilization and barbarism intersected, and death and hope intertwined.
Yu Yue was wiping bottles and jars in the kitchen. The occasional crisp clinking brought a rhythm of life, pulling people back to reality.
Ever since Su Huan had no time to cook, the dining car kitchen had become her territory.
When Su Huan’s figure appeared, both of them instinctively turned their gazes toward him, their expressions tightening.
Su Huan walked straight up to Wan Xing, took out five bloodthirsty fruits, and asked, “Try extracting this stuff today.”
Wan Xing sat up straight and asked curiously, “What is this?”
“Bloodthirsty fruit, a fruit formed by a mutated plant absorbing flesh and blood. It can promote biological evolution, but it can’t be eaten raw or you’ll die violently.”
“Okay, I’ll give it a try right now.”
Wan Xing took the fruits, stood up, and walked to Carriage 2. The originally prepared weapon carriage had now become a garage and large tool room.
The air still carried a faint bloody smell. Even with the air conditioner on maximum, it couldn’t dispel the metallic stench.
“They’ll bring the zombie corpses over later. Extract them too, and pay extra attention to things besides general energy crystals. Call me once you’ve finished extracting.”
After giving the instructions, Su Huan went straight up to the second floor. His body was still dripping wet, but now wasn’t the time to care about that.
His gaze passed through the glass and explosion-proof net, over the densely packed buildings, and landed on the tall water tower. Thinking of Gao Zhe hiding in some shadow waiting for him, Su Huan couldn’t help licking his lips.
“You’d better hide well. Don’t show your face.”
He took out a Tier 1 general energy crystal obtained from the night demon from his pocket, sat on the ground, and quietly extracted the general energy within it.
……
The outer wall of the water storage tank in the water plant was covered in dark green moss, and broken pipes snaked across the ground like shadowy serpents.
Gao Zhe held a blood-dripping steel bar in one hand, tapping intermittent trembling sounds on the metal stairs.
Oppressing the nerves of the guards inside.
Three people in security uniforms stared nervously at the iron door of the monitoring room when they suddenly heard a faint noise from behind.
“Who!”
The tense guard shouted loudly.
In the instant he turned his head, he only saw half a bloodstained steel bar flying straight at him.
“Bang—”
The steel bar pierced into his eye socket, pinning the guard directly to the wall.
Spreading a large patch of crimson.
The other two turned around and saw a one-armed figure in a hoodie jumping down from the window.
He landed on one foot like a crouching tiger springing up, crashing into the two men. Tooth-grinding sounds of breaking bones rang out one after another.
“Boom!”
Gao Zhe slammed the two against the wall, supported himself with one hand on the ground, twisted his sturdy waist, and stood up. He pulled the steel bar from the wall and swung it at the two guards moaning lowly.
After crisp sounds like cracking cucumbers, the room fell silent.
Only rustling noises came from the bedroom.
Gao Zhe pressed against the wall and moved to the inner room. He placed his hand on the door, took a deep breath, and suddenly pushed it open.
But for a long time, there was no further action. His tall body stiffened there, his pupils contracting to the extreme.
A stench of rotten stewed meat rushed out from the room.
The 30-square-meter space was piled full of moldy food packaging bags. More than twenty women had their hands bound and were hung from the ceiling, standing on tiptoe, constantly struggling to maintain body balance.
Four more hung from the ceiling fan in the middle, forced to walk as it rotated. Two of them were breathing out more than in, their arms black and purple, being dragged alive in circles, grinding bloodstains one after another on the floor.
Seeing Gao Zhe enter, there was still no fluctuation in these women’s eyes. They were quiet like mutes.
Even the armored train that Gao Zhe considered hell was far inferior to this small 30-square-meter room.
People hung like cured meat drying in the room, stark naked.
“You…”
The hoarse voice startled Gao Zhe himself. He could hardly imagine it came from him. After a pause, he hurriedly found the fan switch on the wall.
He turned off the rotating fan.
Then he went forward and took down the nearest woman, “You, they… forget it, I’ll save you down first.”
He realized for the first time how lacking his words were.
He could only move quickly to let them suffer less.
Just as he got everyone down, he heard the sound of something being pulled open. Puzzled, he turned his head and saw a woman leaping down from the window.
“Don’t—”
Gao Zhe’s heart skipped a beat.
This was the sixth floor!
Feeling the struggle in his arms, he hurriedly looked down.
The woman crawled out of his arms, knelt on the ground, kowtowed to him heavily three times, then crawled toward the window.
Gao Zhe reached out to grab her and gritted his teeth, “There’s a train outside with food. Come with me, you can live!”
But he saw the woman turn her head and open her mouth, revealing an empty cavity inside.
No tongue, not even teeth.
The woman showed an extremely ugly smile, kowtowed while retreating, and finally crawled to the window edge, jumping down just like the first woman.
Gao Zhe stiffly withdrew his hand, clenched his fist, and smashed it heavily on the ground. His steel teeth bit tight, his complexion dark as if water could drip from it.
“Bang bang bang…”
Kowtowing sounds rose one after another.
After a while, in the entire room, besides a few women who had long been dead, only Gao Zhe remained.
The sky finally cleared. Dim yellow sunlight streamed in from outside the window, cutting a block of yellow light on the wall.
Gao Zhe slumped at the boundary of light and shadow, his expression gloomy.
“I… did wrong… No, I didn’t do wrong! Those who exploit and toy with others deserve to die all the same!”
“Su Huan!”
