At twelve o'clock, several square tables were set up in front of the gate of Langya City, and they were lined with half-person-high thermos buckets. As the lids of the barrels were opened one after another, the steaming white mist spread to the surroundings with the fragrance of food, which seemed to invisibly increase people's hunger.
People in the long queue raised their heads one after another, looking eagerly at the porridge buckets, porridge spoons and the scooped out clear soup and white porridge, wishing that it would be their turn next. Others were rubbing their growling bellies and looking around, like hyenas looking for suitable targets on the African grasslands.
Most of these people didn't have chopsticks. Some people lined up with various steel bowls, wooden bowls, washbasins, buckets, and even a person holding half a dried coconut shell. But no matter what kind of container it is, the porridge distributed by the management committee is only a spoonful.
After receiving the hot porridge, most people immediately walked to the city wall and drank it all with their hands as spoons. Some of them were gasping for breath from the hot porridge, and in the end they didn't forget to lick their fingers and the rim of the bowl clean.
What you eat into your stomach belongs to you. This is one of the common senses of living in the apocalypse. Only very few people would choose to take the risk of bringing these rare grains back to their homes, unless they have elderly people or babies with limited mobility at home.
The food had been swallowed up by the herbivores, and several "hyenas" curled their lips in disappointment, and then looked away. There are two teams of armed soldiers stationed at the soup kitchen, mainly to maintain order in the team and not allow them to be a little bit arrogant.
"Auntie, this is yours, be careful not to burn it."
"thanks, thanks."
The one who was serving porridge was a delicate little girl with long braids, bright eyes, and a slim body. She looked about 16 years old. She is the girl who built roads and walls for the outer city. Her name is Caiyun. She was marked by Lin Qian not long ago as a follower of the earth ability "Pulse of the Earth".
Caiyun was busy reinforcing the city wall at the construction site in the outer city during the day. After her energy was exhausted, she would come to the soup kitchen to help while resting. Li Liping and the others liked this hard-working and enthusiastic girl.
In the middle of giving porridge that day, Caiyun heard a commotion in the distance. When he looked up, he saw that it was Duan Qing who had tied up a man. The crowd made way for them, and Xing Wutian directly escorted the tied man up the city wall.
"Sister Ying, what's going on?"
Zheng Yueying frowned and waved her hands: "Someone is killed. You should leave as soon as you are done."
Before he finished speaking, he heard the man making noise again.
"You can't do this to me. I am a noble person with abilities. Who gave you the power? Who gave you the power!"
Thinking of the tragic situation of the deceased, Xing Wutian suddenly became so angry that he raised his hand and slapped the other person.
"be honest!"
He lifted the prisoner up the wall and hit the prisoner's legs hard on his knees, causing him to kneel facing outside the city.
As a result of this commotion, there was a lot of discussion under the city wall.
"Who is this? Why is he tied up?"
"Who knows, he must have committed a crime."
"Hey, he said he is a capable person."
"What's wrong with a person with abilities? He committed a crime and was kidnapped. He was coaxed all day long. What's the big deal!"
"Brother, be careful what you say. This man lives in the outer city, his name is Tian Wei. I have seen him beating people, and he was very cruel."
"Bah, those with abilities are just guys who sit on our necks and dominate us. We really deserve what we have today!"
"That's right, why do they have food and drink while we only have one meal of gruel every day?"
"Keep your voice down, keep your voice down. Do you understand that we are from the privileged class?"
…
People are lively creatures, and they like to use other people's disputes and embarrassments as conversation topics after dinner, especially when they have nothing to do. Although Zheng Yueying intended to disperse the crowd and reduce the impact of the incident, no one obeyed.
As the saying goes, it has nothing to do with oneself and hangs on high. Since it has nothing to do with oneself, it is just a good time to relax and watch a big show. Those who had eaten sat on the wall to eat, while those who had not eaten were still insisting on queuing. Some people who were afraid of the world were hoping for a good opportunity to fish in troubled waters.
In this atmosphere, Duan Qing stood in front of the city tower and preached: "Dear citizens of Langya City Base, hello everyone, I am Duan Qing from the Secretariat of the City Lord's Mansion. Today I want everyone to be a witness, Langya City At the beginning of its establishment, there were three simple laws. The first one - murder or rape. This person killed the mother and son in the outer city last night. The method was cruel and vicious, and he should be executed according to the law. Langya City is not illegal. The land will never tolerate such bad behavior!"
For a while, the survivors in the outer city behaved in different ways. Some shouted the slogan "Kill him and punish the scum severely" and got emotional, while others simply kept their mouths shut and refused to cause trouble.
In the chaos, the ability users from the inner city barracks also came outside to watch. When Tian Wei saw these people, it was as if he saw life-saving straws. He stood up in a hurry and shouted, but was pushed back by Xing Wutian.
"Brothers, brothers, have you seen this? The Langya City Management Committee is trying to scare the monkeys. I didn't do anything, but I was accused of unwarranted charges. We capable people came here with good intentions, but they gave us Such a show of force, if you don’t save me, you will be next..."
The ability users are obviously much tougher than the ordinary evolvers in the outer city. Hearing this, they questioned Duan Qing directly.
"May I ask Director Duan, what crime did this man commit?"
"Killing people and dumping their bodies, I'm afraid of verifying the physical evidence." Duan Qing said with a dark face.
"No, don't be fooled by them!" Tian Wei stretched his neck and cried, "I didn't kill anyone at all. Besides, this is on their territory, and it's too easy to frame me. In the end, It's all because I don't want to live in the inner city, so they are suspicious of me. Brothers, I just don't want to be controlled by others, what's wrong with that?"
"Nonsense!" Duan Qing said angrily, "When will the management committee force you to live in the city?"
Affected by his words, the ability users also started whispering and ignored Duan Qing's explanation.
"Really? Will we be controlled if we live in the inner city?"
"That's not true. We have so many capable people. What can they do to us?"
"That's not necessarily true. I haven't heard that the people in the City Lord's Mansion are all very powerful. Isn't it as easy as chopping melons and vegetables to deal with us?"
"What should I do? I regret it. I also want to go to the outer city."
"You're kidding, it's easy to get in but hard to get out. Do you think you are the city lord?"
"Also, if you go outside, you have to support yourself. There is no comfort like here."
"But there is no freedom in the inner city. Ordinary people dare to tell us what to do, so it's really annoying."
"Oh, it would be great if there was an organization that could come forward to protect our rights and interests."
"Who says it's not the case? I'm living under someone else's roof."
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Listening to these voices, Zheng Yueying felt extremely ridiculous. It's as if Fengwei Mountain is a besieged city now. People outside the city want to rush in, and people in the city want to escape. People in the outer city are jealous of the welfare benefits in the inner city, but people in the inner city feel that the supervision of the management committee is too harsh and deprives them of their due rights and freedoms.
"Snapped."
A gunshot ended these noisy discussions.
Duan Qing stood at the top of the city and said with a stern face: "I said, the management committee has never forced people with abilities to live in the inner city. The reason why this person was sentenced to death is because he killed a pair of defenseless women and children!"
There is also a leader with high prestige among the ability users. He asked rhetorically: "What about the evidence? The management committee should not arrest people without evidence."
"Of course there is evidence. When he was arrested, he admitted the murder on the spot. Everyone present at the time was a witness."
"No, I never said that they framed me!"
"Shut up."
"No, let him talk. Director Duan, if there is anything, we'd better explain it clearly on the spot."
Xing Wutian, who was standing aside, couldn't help but become anxious. He had also been in society for several years, so he naturally knew that this leader was now protecting his own people. It doesn't matter whether Tian Wei actually killed someone. What's important is that if a person with abilities is killed by the military today, then the prestige of all ability users in Langya City will be greatly reduced.
Duan Qing was still young and didn't understand that this was no longer a trial for criminals, but a fundamental conflict between the newly promoted ability users and the management committee. Langya City hopes that outside ability users will obey its management and be used for its own purposes. But people with abilities want more privileges and freedom. This is fundamentally unsolvable.
"I want to say it! Unless you kill me now, don't even try to block my mouth!"
Tian Wei shouted, but Xing Wutian frowned secretly. In this way, he didn't dare to stop Tian Wei from defending himself. If Tian Wei's mouth is blocked now, people will suspect that there is something hidden in this matter and that the management committee really has some shady purpose.
"I usually abide by the law, but today I just stayed at home peacefully, but you slandered me for killing someone. It's really unjust! What kind of witnesses and physical evidence are you maliciously framing me?"
The leader asked: "Director Duan, besides your own people, were there any outsiders here at that time?"
Duan Qing was speechless. It was noon, and people came to the city gate to make porridge. Tian Wei lived in a quiet area with few people, so there was really no one else present. Although there is a Wang Po, there is only one person, so the other party can be said to have been bribed in advance.
Zheng Yueying whispered to Duan Qing: "Sister Qing, Cao Liang and the others are here."
The latter looked up, and sure enough he saw the crowd dispersed and someone approaching. It was Cao Liang, Qi Jingmin, Jin Youcai and those few capable people who had been living in the outer city.
"These guys are really good at choosing the right time! They happened to not follow Tian Wei when they were arrested, so they couldn't be used as witnesses, but now they show up again." These are all bosses with profit-oriented intentions, Zheng Yueying does not place any hope on them I will fight hard for the management committee.
"Hey, Miss Duan. We meet again." Jin Youcai smiled.
Cao Liang also asked: "Director Duan, what are you all doing here?"
"I also want to ask you, where did you go when you arrested someone just now?"
Hearing the anger in Duan Qing's words, Qi Jingmin hurriedly explained: "This is not because an informant in our autonomous association provided clues, so I went to check it out with Mayor Cao and Chairman Jin."
"Have you gained anything?"
"Of course there are rewards. We found the body of a boy on a rocky slope outside the city," Cao Liang sighed. "It's a pity that the murderer is still missing."
At this time, he noticed Tian Wei who was tied up with steel wires on the city wall, and asked, "Is this what you captured?"
Xing Wutian responded with a smile: "It's the 'unaccounted for murderer' you mentioned."
"This... can't be true." Cao Liang looked very shocked. "This person is a member of our Autonomous Association. And we just met someone outside the city who said that he vaguely saw someone in military uniform coming in the early morning. Throwing corpses."
"Did you hear that? Did you hear that?" Tian Wei seemed to be no longer afraid since Cao Liang came, "It's you people who are wronging me! Thieves shout to catch thieves, and you confuse right and wrong. Aren't you just for totalitarian rule?"
"Hey, it's so lively."
The crowd separated again, and Yang Xiaoxiao slowly walked to the top of the city. She had just returned to the inner city, and now she was walking back with the little wolf in her arms.
"Does it take so long to try a murderer?"
Jin Youcai greeted warmly: "Captain Yang, we meet again."
Yang Xiaoxiao looked at him sideways: "Do I know you?"
Qi Jingmin took over the conversation at this time: "This case is suspicious. I think Director Duan and the others arrested the wrong person."
"Fuck you." Yang Xiaoxiao was furious immediately, "You want to say that I am blind and saw the wrong person last night?"
"Yes, you are mistaken! I didn't go out at all that night!" Tian Wei vowed. He went to "play" with his head and face covered, and the coat he wore that day had long been thrown away. Now it can be said that he died without any evidence!
Qi Jingmin was also very unhappy when Yang Xiaoxiao spat on him. He said: "That's not what I meant. But people are not machines, and they always make mistakes."
"Okay, that's well said." Yang Xiaoxiao suddenly smiled, "You are right, humans are not machines. But there is one thing I didn't tell you, my aunt, I have a special ability to evolve, and I can live on the living body through the air. Leave a mark. This mark can decay with time. Just try it and you will know if I made a mistake."
Seeing the two people's faces stiffen, Yang Xiaoxiao added: "Even if you don't believe me, Brother Fu has recently connected the Internet to the police information database before the disaster. As long as you collect a little body fluid, hair or fingerprints, you can know the truth. But Do you dare to let me try?"
"Yes!"
"No, no, no," Tian Wei clung to the wall.
"Why don't you pretend?" Zheng Yueying sneered.
"I, I, I...I have been there, but..."
"Don't you say you've never been there!" Yang Xiaoxiao shouted.
"Just because I went there last night, it doesn't mean I killed someone." Tian Wei started talking incoherently again, "Many people went there to play with that bitch, and I wasn't the only one. And I left right after I was done. !”
"Then why did you lie?"
"I'm just afraid of being suspected. But this doesn't prove that I killed someone."
"What a tough-talking duck! But what about those pair of earrings on your body? What if there are only your fingerprints on them?" Duan Qing gritted her teeth and said, "There are so many doubts, I want to see how many you can explain!"
Qi Jingmin spoke at this time: "Director Duan, criminal investigation requires a complete chain of evidence. I think it is better to temporarily detain him."
Jin Youcai, however, acted uncharacteristically against Qi Jingmin: "I don't think it's possible. Ordinary evolvers are also human beings, and they are also living lives. Today we should investigate to the end and give justice to the dead."
Upon hearing this, the crowd immediately became excited under the city wall.
"Yes, get to the bottom of it!"
"Why do people with abilities have privileges? They, like the people in the base management committee, don't treat us as human beings at all."
"If you are worried all day long, you might as well join the Autonomous Association newspaper group to stay warm."
"Everyone, be quiet and listen to me." Cao Liang walked up to the city wall and said to everyone, "I am Cao Liang, the previous deputy mayor of Shashi City. Thanks to your great love, I have also been elected as the people of Fengwei Mountain. The person in charge of the Autonomous Association. This disaster has dealt a very heavy blow to human society, but we are still willing to use our own strength to maintain the original rules and order. The Autonomous Association is willing to assist the Management Committee to investigate this matter clearly, so as to Consistent principles uphold the rights and democracy that represent human dignity. However, this person is now a suspect and deserves to be tried. Even if he has committed a heinous crime, he should be sent to the battlefield to make atonement. I hope everyone can understand that mankind can no longer bear this catastrophe. Any consumption.”
"Yes, yes." Tian Wei said hurriedly, "I can deal with the black corpses, you need me. Without me, how can you fight those black corpses and black beasts? Without enough ability users, what is your base? In the zombie tide In front of me is a bastard shell that can't get out or get in!"
The leader of the ability users also said: "That's it, Director Duan. It's just two ordinary people who died. He was just a suspect. I don't think the crime warrants death. Besides, without ability users like us, how can Langya City deal with the outside world?" Thousands of black corpses?”
"Hahaha, each one of you, are you finally willing to speak your mind?"
Yang Xiaoxiao walked up to Tian Wei, and when the other person was still confused, he suddenly took action and stabbed Tian Wei through the left chest!
"you……"
"Shh, don't make a sound." Yang Xiaoxiao covered the other person's mouth, held the claw knife in his other hand, and instantly cut Tian Wei's throat. It wasn't until the blood spurted out that others realized what she had done.
"What a joke. A person who can only do violence to his compatriots dares to claim to save the world? A guy like you can't survive even half a minute among the corpses!"
"Yang Xiaoxiao, you are crazy!" This was the reaction of Cao Liang and others.
"Xiaoxiao!" This was Duan Qing's reaction.
Yang Xiaoxiao curled her lips and took out her ears that were irritated by the noise: "What? If you don't kill this scumbag, why don't you keep him here to celebrate the New Year?"
"You are lynching! Why do you kill people!" the leader of the ability users said angrily.
"Oh? Of course I have evidence to prove that he is the murderer. But if you ask why, it's because I am better than you!"
Yang Xiaoxiao suddenly kicked out with a whip, and the body rose into the air and fell into the crowd. The onlookers dispersed one after another, but the leader was unable to dodge, and watched the corpse roll under his feet, staring at him with white eyes.
Yang Xiaoxiao flew down the city wall with Xiaolang, and the ability users retreated wherever they went.
This guy has been promoted to the second level peak at some point. Judging from the leaked energy field aura, none of them is Yang Xiaoxiao's opponent!
"Listen to me, you trash. My aunt, I just came back from the city, and I'm still in the mood to kill people. I don't care whether you are from the outer city or the inner city, and I don't care whether you are an ability user or an ordinary evolved person. As long as this kind of thing continues, I will kill one when I see one, and kill a pair when I see two. Those bastards who are playing tricks, you'd better pray not to fall into my hands. Otherwise, my aunt will let you have a taste of what it means. You can’t live but you can’t die!”
At the same time, the little wolf in her arms bared its long fangs and whined at those people, as if it would attack in the next second.
Yang Xiaoxiao touched the little wolf's head to calm it down.
"Keke, you are welcome to try it for free, otherwise I will be very lonely."
With a burst of laughter like silver bells, her afterimage flashed next to the body the next moment.
"Let me see. Huh? As a scum, the body structure is no different from that of ordinary people." As she spoke, she cut off the other person's ears and nose, dug out a pair of eyes, and placed them next to the body. He showed a bloody face.
"Interesting. Just a little disgusting!" Yang Xiaoxiao clapped her hands and stood up, her expression slowly changing from laughter to disgust. She suddenly exploded the head with her kick, and her brains splattered everywhere.
"A quarantine zone is set up here, and no one is allowed to collect the body within three days. If my work is damaged by someone, then I will randomly select a lucky audience member to replace him."
After Yang Xiaoxiao gave his instructions, he looked at each person's face carefully: "Don't be lucky, I remember your looks."
Feeling her gaze, Qi Jingmin shuddered for some reason.
…
"Go to Fu Lianhe and have his fingerprints checked. Tell the people that we will not wrongly accuse any good person, and we will not let any bad person go."
Duan Qing's voice sounded very tired to Zheng Yueying.
Fu Lianhe is Zheng Yueying’s boyfriend. She still knew the situation at the information office. At best, there were only two USB touch readers, which could only verify and compare two ready-made fingerprints. Without access to the national information database, the various genetic tests mentioned by Yang Xiaoxiao are just empty words.
Finally, she caught up and asked secretly: "Xiaoxiao, when did you get your new ability? You're the one who made the mark."
But Yang Xiaoxiao turned his head and looked at her in disbelief.
"What, is it difficult to lie to people?"
