The middle-aged man named was Wu Li. After the transformation, he became a loner with a dull personality and rarely interacted with other people.
At this time, Wu Li looked confused and looked at the neighbors around him at a loss.
The other people immediately took two steps away for fear of being thought to be in the same group.
Li Yue directed a few people to follow him: "Everyone, please come back here."
The four people immediately turned around and ran away as if they had been granted amnesty. Li Yue followed them.
Wu Li, who was left behind, had a look of fear on his face and knelt down with a plop: "City Lord, I was wronged! I didn't do it!"
At this time, his heart was in a state of frenzy, and he was uttering messy and illogical "How could she know?" "That kid is going to kill me!" "What should I do, what should I do..."
All the panic gradually merged into one picture.
It was a late night with heavy snow.
Wu Li held a broom with sparse slits in his hand, and gently swept away the footprints behind him as he walked. The heavy snow that followed quickly covered up the sweeping traces, and the snow turned into a flat silvery white again. .
Patrols in the outer city are not as frequent as in the inner city.
The main reason is that the entire outer city is too big, everyone lives scatteredly, and there are really not enough manpower.
Not just anyone can join the patrol team. Although Captain Wen has taken the time to select people for training, it is still a drop in the bucket.
The patrol has just left and won't be back for a while.
Wu Li took advantage of this gap to sneak out.
He overheard someone talking a few days ago and learned that the villain imprisoned in the nearby shabby courtyard was called Liu Gang.
At that time, he was stunned. Fortunately, he was always the kind of person with no expression, so even if he was stunned for a moment, others wouldn't notice.
Later, he quietly went to look in the yard and confirmed that this Liu Gang was the Liu Gang he knew!
This is the husband of his daughter-in-law's sister.
I used to visit relatives during the Chinese New Year and met him several times. He was a very cheerful and well-spoken man. He seemed to be in some kind of business and was quite wealthy.
Even when he was rich, he never forgot his poor relatives, and would often send some food to his family. His wife often said that her sister married into a good family, and she could be considered responsible for Izumi's parents.
My daughter-in-law is ten years older than her sister, and her parents have been away since she was a child. She is the father and mother who raised her little sister, almost raising her as a daughter.
In his impression, his younger sister and her husband Liu Gang were very loving, and their son was also very smart.
Everyone knew that Liu Gang doted on his son, but he really couldn't imagine that Liu Gang would actually eat his son's heart alive.
Wu Li was wondering if there might be any misunderstanding, so he decided to secretly meet Liu Gang and ask clearly. If there was any misunderstanding, it would be a good thing to resolve it.
So he took advantage of the snowy night and sneaked into the small shabby courtyard.
There was no one watching around.
Because all the surrounding areas were filled with zombies before, there was no need to monitor them at all.
Xu Qing and the others have been busy with crops recently, thinking that as long as they told everyone to stay away, everything would be fine. Who would have thought that someone would actually know Liu Gang and sneak in secretly.
Shi Lingyao had already guessed what happened next.
When Liu Gang saw his old friend, he was so excited that he immediately began to pretend to be pitiful, saying that he had not eaten his son's heart at all, and that Shi Lingyao had framed him!
"Since the end of the world, my wife has been so weak that she can't even leave the house. I have to bear the burden of supporting the family by myself, and sometimes I have to take my young son with me. It's really hard!"
"I have been diligently begging for a living and taking care of my wife and children. No merit but hard work, right? Why did I offend Shi Lingyao and then be arrested, and then frame me for murdering my youngest son, who is my son! That's the only way to kill people and punish the heart. Wuwuwu..."
At that time, Wu Li had not met Shi Lingyao, and he had an intuition that their city lord would not do such a thing as exposing someone's innocence, but Liu Gang couldn't help it and cried out in tears, complaining about the misfortune, and his heart began to waver.
Especially when Liu Gang knelt down and kowtowed to him, he completely let go of his worries.
"Please, brother-in-law! Let me go. I'll leave secretly. I will never look for trouble or cause any trouble. Just pretend you don't know anything. By the time they find out, I'll have run far away. I won't affect you! For the sake of my family For my wife’s sake, please save me, brother-in-law!”
Wu Li looked at the man crying in front of him and thought to himself, maybe the city lord really misunderstood.
He had seen with his own eyes how much Liu Gang doted on his son, so how could he do something like eat his son's heart alive?
Consoling himself in this way, Wu Li finally unlocked the iron locks that bound Liu Gang and took him out of the house.
Initially, Liu Gang was very worried about being surrounded by zombies, but when he came out, he found that the surroundings were clean and tidy, and he was very suspicious: "You live here now?"
Wu Li subconsciously concealed his change and just spoke vaguely, telling him to leave quickly. The patrol team would soon turn back.
The desire to escape defeated his curiosity, and Liu Gang no longer dwelled on the changes in the outer city. He followed the method Wu Li told him and swept away the footprints as he walked.
"There are still a lot of zombies in the city, please pay attention to your own safety."
Wu Li whispered behind him.
Liu Gang didn't even look back, waved his hand and left quickly.
Shi Lingyao felt speechless for a while.
She looked at the person kneeling in front of her coldly: "Everyone says that women are kind, but in my opinion, it should be the kindness of fools. Are you just putting a head on your neck to look taller?"
Wu Li, who was still begging for mercy and quibbling, was stunned and looked up at her stupidly.
"Do you believe what he says? Have you asked how his wife died?"
"Have you seen how his son died?"
"He was originally an ordinary human being. Do you know how he got the special abilities?"
"He had the ability of clairvoyance. The son who had this ability died. He changed to a new metallization ability, and the person who had this ability also died."
"Now he has come back to take revenge and kidnapped our tribe member Xu Er. His life and death are unknown."
Her tone was cold, and she looked at Wu Li as if he were looking at rubbish: "Liu Gang said that I slandered him, and you just believed it. Don't you have any ability to judge of your own?"
Wu Li was horrified, his face full of shock: "How did you know..."
"How did I know that you let Liu Gang go? It was the same way that I found out the truth about how he killed his own son!"
Shi Lingyao stood up suddenly and walked away, his disgusted words still echoing in the cell.
"I'm so sick of stupidity."
Jing Hexuan followed her away and gave Lin Yan a look.
Lin Yan stayed at the end, rolling his eyes at Wu Li who was slumped on the ground, slamming the cell door shut, the chain wrapped around him, and the lock made a "click" sound.
Wu Li seemed to be alarmed by this sound. He trembled and came to his senses. He rolled and crawled towards the cell door: "City Lord, spare your life! I know I am the wrong City Lord!"
Unfortunately, the whole prison was dark and there was no one else.
