Late July.
Orange Isle.
It was the third day since Gan Shang ordered to cut off food for Ju Tianrui and the others.
Ju Tianrui came here once, but it was not as Gan Shang imagined. Ju Tianrui did not give in, nor did he tell where Xiao Jun and the others had gone.
This evening.
The room where Gan Shang is located.
He looked at Hai Chao with a gloomy face and asked word by word:
"If you can't handle such a small matter well, what on earth are you doing for food?"
Hai Chao lowered his head and did not dare to answer.
The task assigned to him by his boss was too difficult and he failed to complete it.
Gan Shang saw Hai Chao remain silent and became even more angry. He roared:
"I asked you to find out where they put the food. After searching for so long, I found it, but you haven't taken action yet. What's the use of you?"?
"Boss, they are watching too closely. There are people watching day and night, and our people can't get close at all.
The last time they were discovered, they stepped up their vigilance. In this case, the only option is to break through.
But if you force your way in, there will inevitably be a firefight. "
"Clash of fire? Are you still afraid of them? There are so many of us, what are we afraid of them doing. Damn it, a bunch of bastards!"
Gan Shang was so angry that he picked up the cup on the table and threw it to the ground.
Clang——
The cup was smashed to pieces.
Hai Chao lowered his eyebrows and did not dare to move. When he heard his boss say this, he immediately stopped and returned to his previous state of silence.
Although there are many of them, they have seen the fighting power of Ju Tianrui and others.
If they insist on going up, they will have several times more people, but they won't be able to get a good deal.
Maybe, when the time comes, both sides will suffer, and no one will end well.
Huhu——
After Gan Shang vented his anger, he regained his composure a little.
He naturally knew that in a head-on confrontation with Ju Tianrui and the others, people like him would definitely not get any advantages.
There is only one way now.
Targeting those civilians.
Some of the women sent last time were generally well received in the west, and Gan Shang also used these people in private to exchange for some supplies.
He didn't believe that Ju Tianrui could endure it this time.
He waved his hand and signaled Haidu to come over.
Haichao walked over slowly and pricked up his ears.
Gan Shang's eyes flashed with ruthlessness and he said to Hai Chao:
"Later, you go to the South District, attract some people with food again, and tell the managers to get at least 200 people for me this time."
"So many?" Hai Chao asked with his eyes widened.
"If we don't force them harder, Ju Tianrui and the others won't make any move." Gan Shang said.
At most, they used the principle of freedom before, but this time, they plan to put pressure on the refugee managers to get enough of these 200 people.
What will be the final fate of these two hundred people?
In the west, there is already a market trend for slaves.
Although it has not formed on a large scale, a small number of people have begun to do this.
It only takes a small amount of food to exchange for a living person.
For some people, that's too cheap.
However, it has only been two years since the end of the world, and many survivors still have a very strong sense of independence. Some people can't stand it, and sometimes they will commit murder.
After two such incidents happened in a row, they became even stricter on the management of traffickers.
The inhumane behavior is getting worse.
Haichao was a little hesitant. He didn't know whether doing this would cause riots in the Southern District.
After all, there are many people there who were deceived.
It's a gimmick that as long as you join, you can have food and housing.
But when they joined, they discovered it was a trap.
Now, because of Ju Tianrui's intervention, few people from outside the refugee camp come in anymore.
This is one of the reasons why Gan Shang is dissatisfied with Ju Tianrui.
hinder his interests.
"Hurry up and get it done." Gan Shang looked at Hai Chao who was still standing there and said.
Hai Chao couldn't help but said: "What if this causes a riot?"
Gan Shang thought for a while and said:
"If there is a riot, just give them some food. One is willing to be beaten, the other is willing to suffer. Ju Tianrui and the others can't say anything."
Although Haichao was still a little worried, he didn't know how to persuade his boss after hearing what he said.
After all, he still has some conscience.
He was also a little sad to face this kind of human trafficking.
After all, he had been to the west before and saw the trading market.
What kind of lives did some of the people who were sold there live?
Life is worse than death.
Four words sum up their current situation.
He sometimes thinks that it is a mistake for a person to be evil.
But if a group of people are evil, then what is wrong?
Is this the end of the world?
He also climbed up from the bottom and suffered a lot from childhood.
If Gan Shang hadn't given him a chance, he might have spent his whole life in prison.
He couldn't tell the pain, he just wanted to save an innocent girl.
Injuring a man with money and background.
Is there anything wrong with acting bravely?
Yes, because he couldn't bear that person's anger.
Yes, because this is a world of jungle.
Sad and deplorable.
After being fished out by Gan Shang, he woke up.
Without strength, he is worse than a dog.
There seemed to be a ball of anger in his heart.
The murderous intention is burning.
After turning into a black man, he found that the things he had done in the past were so simple after turning completely black.
But he also suffered from inner condemnation all the time.
Conflict, entanglement.
He did it anyway.
He became more and more cold-blooded, became more and more accustomed to it, and became more and more ruthless.
He has become a knife in the hands of Gan Shang.
An extremely sharp knife.
Without any further hesitation, Haichao nodded and said to Gan Shang:
"Okay, boss, I will do as you say."
Upon hearing this, Gan Shang looked at his most capable subordinate and smiled with satisfaction.
It's just that this smile, with anger on one side and a stiff smile on the other, looks a little weird.
Haichao left the room and went out.
Looking at the scorching sky and staring at the fiery sun.
One minute later.
He was a little dizzy.
It was like having a long dream.
He shook his head, his eyes looking more determined and decisive.
Since you have embarked on this path, since you have chosen this way to live, then don't think about right or wrong.
We found dozens of people, armed with firearms, and arrived at the Southern District Refugee Camp.
The refugee camp in the southern district was filled with insects, flies, waste, and all kinds of mixed odors. The stench formed was so intense that it stung the eyes.
They brought some food with them.
Haichao spoke to some managers selected from the refugees and called them over.
The managers are mainly sperm-like men, and most of them are land hooligans.
In this apocalypse, turn over.
There is a family in a refugee camp.
Although the couple looked haggard, judging from their words and deeds, they must have been high-level intellectuals in the past, and they also had a twelve-year-old daughter.
The family's face was withered and yellow. They had struggled for more than a year in the apocalypse. When they heard that there was a safe base here, they came from afar, but they did not expect that it turned out to be a trap.
After entering here.
Walls trap them.
Some people also made homemade ladders and climbed over the wall.
When they saw someone wanting to leave, neither the manager nor Gan Shang were indifferent, and they even looked like they were watching a show.
as expected.
There were actually zombies in the river.
There was a violent splash of water, accompanied by shrill screams, and the last few people who wanted to escape from here died in the river.
The river was filled with red.
But no body emerged for a long time.
Their bodies are gone.
From then on, no one dared to leave over the wall.
The river outside the wall has become their nightmare.
A shirtless, sperm-like man wearing a hat and holding a stick said to the intellectual:
"Old He, if you ask me, if it doesn't work out, just sell your daughter so that you both have a way to survive."
The man called Lao He cursed with trembling lips:
"A way to survive? Is that a way to survive? I, He Shuguang, would rather die than sell my daughter. What kind of world is this, that such a thing can happen!!!"
"Bah, you are so poor. I think you can still hold on for a few more days. You have only been here for a few days and you don't know the reality yet. Don't worry, time will teach you how to behave.
You also saw the Mediterranean family yesterday, their bodies must be hard now. said the shirtless man carrying a mace.
After saying that, he spat a mouthful of dry saliva towards Old He.
Although they were very close to the river, the wall blocked the zombies and cut off the water source.
Water resources are in the hands of these managers.
At one point in the wall, there is an entrance that brings in water from the river.
But these managers, in order to manage these refugees, will choose whether to give them water based on whether they are obedient or not.
After Ju Tianrui and others intervened, the situation improved a lot, but when they were gone, these managers returned to their original appearance.
This makes the refugees hate these managers who are also refugees.
Lao He wiped his broken eye.
Seeing people around me starting to go that way, I hesitated whether to go there.
Another manager came over from behind and said bitterly: "What are you waiting for? Come over quickly."
Lao He's eyes burst with anger and he wanted to scold him, but his wife beside him weakly pulled his arm.
Lao He had no choice but to scold him. Although it felt good for a while, if he offended these managers, he would definitely be put in the shoes, and it was very likely that he would be beaten.
He closed his mouth and lowered his head.
Looking at his well-behaved daughter behind him.
Her hair is withered and yellow, without the vitality of a girl, and her big eyes are full of traces of suffering.
The lips were covered with dry, dead skin.
Seeing his daughter like this, his heart hurt as if it was being pinched by an iron rod.
The pain was so severe that he couldn't breathe.
He is ashamed of his wife and daughter.
He thought for a while and said to his wife: "Just don't let Xiao Ke pass. I don't know what those people are doing."
The wife looked tired and said weakly from hunger: "Okay, let her hide in this tent."
Then the wife said to Xiao Ke: "Don't go there, just stay here. We will be back soon."
Xiaoke was not a fool. He naturally knew that his parents did this for his own good, so he nodded obediently.
Lao He briefly covered the dilapidated tent and said to Xiao Ke who stuck his head out:
"Don't show up. That Gan Shang is looking for some young girls recently. Don't run out. Do you understand?"
He didn't want to protect the children's inner world and tell them that the world was still beautiful and dark, but in the end, Gan Shang and the others discovered it because of an accident or something.
Although the refugee managers are somewhat bullying, they do not dare to go too far.
Once they go too far, they will be killed without knowing it while they are sleeping at night.
This isn't the first time this has happened.
But soon, new managers will be elected.
The newly elected managers are often the same as their predecessors.
Half an hour later.
Finally the refugees were gathered together.
"Don't make any noise, don't make any noise, be quiet." Haichao shouted to them with a loudspeaker.
The bustling flow of people was so chaotic that they didn’t know what was going on.
For them, they only know that both Gan Shang and Ju Tianrui have been giving them food for a long time.
Their impression of Ju Tianrui was better, after all, they could see something with their eyes.
But what they didn't know was that Ju Tianrui was also controlled by Gan Shang.
Ju Tianrui's men, Dongtai and others also saw the movement here and came over to check the situation.
"I wonder what Gan Shang and his gang are up to. If you ask me, we will go directly to Gan Shang and his gang. We can't stand this kind of arrogance."
"The leader naturally has his own considerations. We should not make rash comments."
Some people also said so.
"I just feel unhappy with Gan Shang and the others. I feel unwilling to watch them cheat people with food."
"It's a way out to survive." He sighed leisurely.
Gan Shang didn't know why he got interested today, so he brought hundreds of people to the South District.
Look at these bustling crowds.
Standing on the high platform, he suddenly felt like a king. Perhaps this was why his father asked him to gather people.
However, Gan Xiong did not expect that Gan merchants would adopt this method. Not only did they not resume planting, but they also recruited people and continued to transport them to the west for sale.
Haichao held the loudspeaker and said:
"It's the same as before, but the price is better than before. One person, under 20 years old, female, can exchange for one pound of millet, last time it was only half a pound. First come, first served, no waiting after the expiration date!"
"You've made up your mind, come to the far right. Form another line."
boom--
As he said this, people in the refugee camp suddenly started talking again.
Ju Tianrui sent someone over, holding guns and looking at Gan Shang and his group.
After Hai Chao finished speaking, dozens of people immediately ran to the right and stood over.
Haichao took several people with him and inspected the people in the team one by one.
Among these refugees is a family of four.
The younger brother is seventeen years old and the older sister is twenty. My parents are university professors.
The year the apocalypse broke out, my sister had just been admitted to college and had just entered college for one semester.
Fortunately, their home is near the university. When the apocalypse broke out, they were lucky to be together and hid at home for a month without being infected.
The wandering people came here.
My father had fallen ill and was too hungry to stand up.
She looked at her mother and said to her:
"I'm going to go, exchange it for a pound of millet, otherwise everyone will starve to death. Mom, don't persuade me. Give me a way to live, and give you a way to live."
His tone was calm, like a cold stone frozen deep under the sea.
Shockingly calm.
Mother's pale face shook like a rattle:
"No, absolutely not. We would rather starve to death than let you go."
His eyes were numb, as if he was muttering, and seemed to be telling himself how he could have fallen to this point.
What is pain.
It's the feeling of a dull knife cutting flesh, bit by bit, cutting off the flesh from the face.
It's the kind of trigeminal nerve that causes the pain of having wisdom teeth removed without anesthesia.
It's the kind of pain that causes all the internal organs to hurt during cancer chemotherapy. It's the kind of pain that keeps you awake all night long and makes your intestines twist together.
And none of these can compare to the pain my mother feels at this moment.
What hurts the most in the world?
Heartache.
th.
The heart is not dead, but it is already powerless.
Let me ask you, the children that I have loved all my life.
The daughter repaid her kindness and wisely wanted to exchange food to save her father.
The more sensible you are, the more heartache you feel.
For a mother, both her daughter and her son are meat that fell from her body.
She loves them all.
The daughter glanced at her mother when she saw her like this. The younger brother who was squatting aside supported his father.
Without tears or expression, he gently walked forward, hugged his mother, and whispered in her ear:
"Mom, just treat me as dead. Don't tell your father, and don't let your brother know."
Sorrow flashed in the mother's eyes.
The next second, the daughter let go of her mother and wanted to walk towards the team.
But she didn't move. Her mother grabbed her sleeve tightly and wouldn't let her leave.
The determination in her eyes caused her daughter, who had not shed tears just now, to shed tears instantly.
Tears the size of beans just fell down.
silent.
My sister pulled hard. After all, she was young and stronger than her mother.
Just when her mother was almost unable to hold her back, her mother shouted to her younger brother behind her: "Azheng, come and hold your sister, she is going to sell herself!"
His brother and sister have a very good relationship. His sister, who is three years older than him, has always loved him since he was a child.
When the younger brother heard this, he rushed over instantly.
He held my sister's arm tightly and said seriously: "Sister, don't go."
Young man, physically thin.
There was no acne on his face, and although he was thin and out of shape, he could still see his brother's handsomeness.
My younger brother is very brave. When he was young, anyone with a bigger butt would dare to hit those who bullied his older sister.
This is her brother.
The elder sister wanted to speak, but the younger brother directly pulled her behind.
He said seriously: "Sister, Dad said that a family must die together."
My father, who was almost unconscious from hunger, could no longer keep his eyes open.
He also saw this scene just now, but he could no longer stand up and even spoke with difficulty.
"Ah, you're right, even if we die, huh huh, we'll be together." My father said this with difficulty and closed his eyes.
Passed out.
My sister burst into tears. Hug a ball with mother.
Ah Zheng looked at the long queue.
There are more than two hundred people.
There was uncontrollable anger in his eyes.
There are many similar situations like his in the South District refugee camp.
Performed.
"Boss, it seems there is no need to force us. There are already more than two hundred people." Hai Chao said to Gan Shang.
Gan Shang chuckled and said:
"Humans, only when they are about to starve to death do they realize how precious life is. Compared with other things, surviving is the most important thing.
You see, it’s okay now, hahaha. "
Hai Chao glanced at Dongtai and the others fearfully.
Dongtai and the others sent by Ju Tianrui held the gun with such force that it turned blue.
They want help, but they don't have much food.
Food for dozens of them was given to thousands of refugees, which would not solve many problems.
Dongtai's eyes were splitting, and he dragged his heavy steps to Ju Tianrui's room and told him all this.
boom--
Ju Tianrui hammered the table hard.
"Son of a bitch!"
For a long time, Ju Tianrui breathed heavily, like a bellows box.
The breathing was rapid and turbulent.
………
After a long time.
"How much food did the team collect recently when they went out?" Ju Tianrui said.
Dongtai said: "We have searched the nearby dozens of kilometers, and basically all are gone. We went out as a team and gained very little, so we could only go to further places to look."
Ju Tianrui rubbed his eyebrows and sat on the stool.
He said weakly: "Leave me alone for a while."
Dongtai walked out.
The river flows.
A turbid and dangerous atmosphere.
The air seemed to smell of despair.
The biting sun burns the human soul.
Trembling, trembling.
The human heart is riddled with holes.
So what if I give up my life.
The murderous intention is burning!
The murderous intention is burning!
The end of the world, but not the end of destruction.
Everything cannot be destroyed, sin cannot be destroyed.
Let it burn.
Let the sun's anger burn as much as you want!
