Abnormal survival in the end times

Chapter 264 Injustice
"It's about to rain, there's no time to leave."

The man put down his binoculars, closed the window which was trembling slightly in the wind, pulled down the security bars, tugged at them to make sure they were sturdy enough, and then turned and walked to the sofa in the living room.

He said to the bespectacled man who was sitting calmly making tea, "Even if healing-type healing is rare, you shouldn't have come in person. I think Jiang Minglang has already sensed something is wrong. If it weren't for this heavy rain, he might have come looking for you. You should leave as soon as the rain stops, okay?"

Judging from the recent developments in Pengcheng, they clearly sensed the approaching heavy rain and thus urgently set up shelters to protect the fields, while people inside and outside the city are searching for mutated animals that could cause trouble.

Jiang Minglang seemed to be busy with these matters as well, so apart from coming out a few days ago to arrest a few of them, he didn't do anything else afterward.

It must be said that Shenzhen truly lives up to its reputation as an agricultural city; it really values ​​its land.

No wonder those survivors who lacked food and clothing risked their lives to travel a long distance to this place. After all, there is an unchanging truth from ancient times to the present: food is the most important thing for people!
Alas, what a pity. Why didn't they discover such a treasure trove at the beginning of the apocalypse? Otherwise, they could have seized it first and turned Pengcheng into their own small base.

To be honest, after observing for a few days, I'm very satisfied with this place.

You Junyan pushed a cup of brewed tea toward the man and, seemingly unrelated to the question, asked, "Is there any way to lure Xi Yu out?"

The man gave him a deep look, picked up his teacup, took a sip, and said, "Do you want to capture him and use him to exchange for Zeng Mei? Or do you want to kill him directly? This won't be easy. Jiang Minglang has no weak soldiers under his command, and Xi Yu is one of the best. Old You, don't forget our purpose. Before the experiment is completed, it's best not to directly confront Jiang Minglang and Zeng Xi. We already took a risk once to capture Zeng Mei, exposing your identity. We can't act rashly again now."

You Junyan frowned. "So you came all this way just to find Ankar's child?"

“Yes, that child is insignificant to Pengcheng. I am confident that I can find him and take him away quietly.”

You Junyan looked up at the man, his eyes behind his glasses flashing slightly. He suddenly chuckled, "You guys are really something. Since Ankar and her child are so important, why didn't you keep her by your side from the beginning? Instead, you let those idiots like Ward sell her out. You wait until she's gone before you go looking for her. What? Playing cat and mouse?"

I just didn't expect things to go so wrong.

Wendion was also furious about this. When the apocalypse first arrived, he wasn't with Ward and Ankar, and due to the signal interruption, they couldn't be contacted. By the time he found them, Ankar had already vanished.

The laboratory that he and You Junyan had instigated to open actually contained one of their own people, and they were completely unaware of it.

That's not really a big deal. Apart from his dual-elemental abilities being somewhat useful in their experiments, Ankar's identity is insignificant.

But her husband, Monrig, was of utmost importance to her. However, she never expected him to lose his life so soon after the apocalypse began. Therefore, Wendion must find Monrig's child.

"what"

As the two were talking, a scream suddenly came from the next bedroom, followed by the cursing and swearing of their men—
"If you keep crying and whining, I'll throw you out to feed the rats right now."

"Instead of shed a few drops of cat pee, you should pray that your family can get Pengcheng to send people to rescue you."

"Tch, I doubt it. These spineless cowards, who would run out of town for them at this time?"

"By the way, didn't you say your sister works in the management office?"

A moment later, a timid voice rang out, "Yes, yes, my sister is at the management office. She will never give up on me and will definitely send someone out to find me."

Several mocking laughs rang out, followed by someone saying, "How about this, let's make a bet. If someone comes out of the city looking for you before nightfall tomorrow, we'll release you immediately. If not, if you want to live, you have to do something for us."

Meanwhile, not far from the gate of Pengcheng, at the entrance of the duty room, He Ningzhu and a middle-aged couple stood before Shi Jiashu, the duty captain for the day, pleading incessantly—
“My son went out of town this morning to help clear out the mutated animals, and he hasn’t come back yet. You can’t just ignore him; you have to go and look for him.”

"That's right, he's trying to help you. It's about to rain, you can't just leave him outside like this."

Shi Jiashu remained calm, looking at He Ningzhu with a detached expression, and asked, "Your brother helped clear out the mutated animals? Who did he go out with? Was it the management office's patrol team, or some other combat team?"

He Ningzhu's eyes darted away, and she couldn't speak because she felt guilty.

Mother He turned to look at her, and with a look of exasperation, slapped her on the shoulder. "They're asking you, and you still won't tell them? It's just your management office's patrol team. Everyone else has already returned, but your brother is still missing. It's only right and proper for them to go and find him."

Shi Jiashu glanced at He's mother and said directly to He Ningzhu, "Since it's the management office's patrol team, you should go find the captain in charge of today's patrol. You're from the management office, you can't possibly not know who it is, right? Also, your management office should have a record of any teams that go out of the city to exterminate animals. That's your responsibility, not ours. You should be aware of that, right?"

Before He Ningzhu could even speak, Shi Jiashu's mother anxiously interrupted, "What do you mean it's none of your business? We are all citizens of Pengcheng, and you are soldiers. Shouldn't you be responsible for our safety?"

"Captain Shi, there's a large, unidentified object approaching Pengcheng in the sky."

A strong wind was blowing, and a soldier ran down from his post and shouted a report to Shi Jiashu.

A sniper rifle was placed at the very top of the sentry post; it was prepared for Shi Jiashu so that he could use it to shoot.

He ignored the family of three and made them move aside; he had to get to the top floor of his post.

But He's mother and father became even more anxious when they heard about the large, unidentified object.

They blocked the door, preventing Shi Jiashu from leaving, and insisted that he agree to send someone out of the city to find his son.

Shi Jiashu, who usually had a good temper, suddenly turned cold. He looked at He Ningzhu and said in a icy tone, "You are from the management office, you should know what you should and shouldn't do. If you let your parents stop me again, I don't mind throwing your whole family out."

He Ningzhu's heart skipped a beat, and she finally realized she was scared. She quickly pulled her parents away, one in each hand.

Before He's parents could react, Shi Jiashu had already left and quickly climbed the guard tower. "You brat, are you trying to kill your brother?"

Seeing that Shi Jiashu had disappeared from sight, Mother He angrily turned around and slapped He Ningzhu, complaining as she did so, "You're useless! You couldn't even let your management office's patrol team go out to rescue your brother, and you came here to beg for help but refused. If you knew this would happen, why did you let your brother leave the city today? He's your own brother, and you wouldn't even save him. How can you be so heartless?"

"Me, heartless? Did I let him leave the city? I told him it was going to rain these next couple of days, not to go out, not to go out, did he listen? Did you listen?"

Perhaps tired of being scolded and beaten, He Ningzhu couldn't help but yell at her mother, "I wouldn't register him or let him go, and you still scolded me, saying I wasn't giving my brother a chance to improve himself, that I wouldn't even help with this little thing. I helped, and now that something's happened, you scold me again. Nothing I do is right. What do you want me to do? Are you only satisfied when I'm dead?"

She practically yelled the last sentence, her voice so loud it made her split up, and it also successfully made her parents feel a little ashamed, stopping their complaints about her.

But that slight sense of shame vanished immediately when she looked up and saw the dark, heavy clouds.

Her father frowned and said, "What's the use of saying all this now? It's going to rain soon, you need to find someone to go out and bring your brother back quickly."

"That's right. Didn't that person just say there was a large object? What if it hits your brother who's on his way here and he gets attacked? Stop talking nonsense. The most important thing right now is to find your brother."

He Ningzhu closed her eyes wearily. They'd already gone to such lengths, and they still wanted her to go out of town to find her brother. Did they think she was so capable and influential?

Who would listen to her? Who would care about her?

The key point is that the city gates are all closed, and it's absolutely impossible for them to be opened again at this point.

Even if it were open, no one would risk their life to leave the city to find an insignificant teenager.

"Go home immediately, don't stay here."

The soldier standing guard at the gate not far away shouted at the family of three again, "Don't you know no one is allowed outside? Go back inside right now!"

Honestly, who knows how many animals will attack in a moment? What are these ordinary people doing here?
Because He Ningzhu often registers people here, almost all the soldiers on duty are familiar with her and know she works for the management office. Otherwise, they would have been chased away when they arrived at the duty room door.

He Ningzhu calmed herself down and said to her parents, "Maybe Xiao Yan saw the weather was changing and found a place to hide. He's not alone. If a group of people hide in a sturdy house and close the doors and windows, they might be fine. So let's go home first and wait for the rain to pass."

Her mother wouldn't listen to her advice and analysis at all, and wanted to keep pressuring He Ningzhu to come up with a solution, but her father stopped her.

He seemed to remember something, and said to He Ningzhu as they walked home, "If you still can't persuade your management office's patrol team after the rain stops, go find Liu Xu. Didn't he pursue you for more than half a year? Tell him that if you find Xiao Yan, you will agree to marry him."

"Yes, yes, isn't Liu Xu their team captain? Didn't they say he and his sister are both very capable? Oh dear, you should have asked him to go out of town and run a errand. Maybe he would have already brought your brother back by now."

He Ningzhu stopped in her tracks, looking at her parents with shock and disbelief.

Did they really sell herself for their son?

"you."

She managed to utter only two words before closing her mouth weakly.

She had always thought that her parents loved her very much. Although they sometimes favored her younger brother, she didn't care much because of the age difference between them, since she also loved her brother very much.

But ever since her brother failed to get into military school, the three of them have been mocking her every day, thinking she was useless, that she was in the administration office and couldn't even get her own brother admitted.

The salary isn't high, and you only get a few points each month, which isn't enough to exchange for anything good.

As a result, her ambitious younger brother, after hearing from others that there were many good things to be found in Ancheng, was immediately tempted. He and a few other young people he had met somewhere came to her to register, asking her to give them a back door so that they could leave the city legitimately under the pretext of eradicating mutated rats.

At first, she definitely disagreed. They had already been notified that it would rain in the next two days. Why should a bunch of ordinary people with no special abilities, no skills, and no combat power go out and join in the fun?
The teams that go to exterminate the mutated rats are all well-known and successful. They do have their share of successes, but they also face the possibility of danger. It's a case of fortune and misfortune being intertwined.

But no one listened to her. Yesterday, she insisted on not registering them. When she got home in the evening, she heard her younger brother complaining to her parents, saying that he had boasted to his friends that his sister was in charge of registration at the entrance and could definitely get them out.

But the result was different.
He felt that his sister had embarrassed him and made him lose face in front of his friends.

Then she told her parents that she had originally planned to go out of town to find them some clean clothes and some daily necessities that were not easy to change, as a way to show her filial piety.
In the end, He Ningzhu was scolded by her younger brother and parents all night, forcing her to find a way to let them leave the city legitimately in the name of the team.

She remembered that when they informed her of the rain, they only said it was possible, and since the weather had been sunny, it probably wouldn't rain today. So, when Deng Bo wasn't looking, she secretly registered them in a relatively unknown team, letting them slip away unnoticed.

Who would have thought that, as fate would have it, a heavy rain would come today.

"Did you hear what I said? What's with your head hanging low and not saying a word? Don't you want to save your brother?"

As she spoke, He's mother pushed He Ningzhu, causing her to stumble and almost fall.

He Ningzhu turned around and looked at her parents with a cold gaze.

Her father was taken aback when he saw her gaze, then exclaimed in surprise, "What kind of look is that? What? You don't really want your brother to come back, like your mother said? He Ningzhu, let me tell you, your brother and the others are locked out, and you bear the greatest responsibility. Don't tell me we let you use connections. Your management office knows more than we do, right? You knew it was dangerous outside, so you should have stood up for him and stopped him from going. Don't you have that much decisiveness and decision-making ability? What was the point of your mother and me working so hard to send you to university and graduate school?"

He Ningzhu didn't want to say anything more. She turned around and quickened her pace, numbly walking home.