Still hoarding supplies in the apocalypse? I'll just go on a killing spree and looting!

"You'll get used to it." Lin You didn't refuse, taking the drink and taking a sip. She then handed it to the back of the table, asking, "Want some?"

"Is this for us?" Xiao Yuan's voice rang out.

"Okay, Mu Xue, take a few more."

Mu Xue flipped her hand and produced three more cans, handing them directly to the three people behind her, saying, "Sister Lin, you keep them for yourself."

Lin You didn't insist, looked away, and finished the Red Bull in just a few gulps.

The atmosphere inside the car eased considerably, and Mu Xue smacked her lips.

"Shunzi said last time that the canned braised pork in the cafeteria was about to expire."

Lin You leaned back in the driver's seat, gripping the steering wheel, her gaze sweeping across the rain-soaked wasteland outside the car window. "He always says that. Every time he wants everyone to have more meat, he says the canned food is about to expire."

"Because if we expose it, we won't get any meat." Mu Xue's lips curled up slightly, her tone relaxed like that of someone chatting casually. "An An secretly told me last time that Brother Shun's braised pork is even better than his grandma's."

Lin You paused for a moment, then said, "Really?"

A brief silence fell over the car again.

"Those are four wolf cubs. You're raising them like dogs." Mu Xue shook her head, her tone helpless. "I wonder if they'll grow up to look like wolf beasts."

"No. They grew up with An'an and never saw how their mother wolf taught them to hunt. The only hunting skill they know now is to wait by the kitchen door for Shunzi to throw them bones."

As Lin You spoke, her gaze fell on the winding mountain road ahead, illuminated by the morning light. Occasionally, one or two lonely fruit trees would appear in the barren fields on both sides of the road, with a few wild fruits hanging on their branches that had not been eaten by the strange beasts.

Then suddenly I stepped on the brake, my fingers still on the steering wheel, and the engine didn't turn off.

Mu Xue followed Lin You's gaze and looked over there—a pickup truck was overturned on the side of the road ahead, and a young woman was squatting next to the pickup truck, holding a three or four-year-old child in her arms.

The child's face was pale, and his eyes were tightly closed.

As the SUV approached, the woman stood up and waved frantically, her face covered in tears.

"Please, please—my husband went ahead to scout the way and hasn't returned yet. Our child has a fever, and we don't have any fever reducers. Please lead us a short distance, anywhere will do, as long as we can find medicine."

Mu Xue turned to look at Lin You.

Lin You did not answer immediately, her expression cold as she scanned the woman's face outside the car window—her expression, tears, and voice all matched the characteristics of a desperate mother.

Just one glance is enough to make you feel sorry for them.

Then her gaze shifted to the woman's hand holding the child.

The fingers are clean, and there is no dirt under the nails.

A mother who has been walking through the apocalypse with her child for a long time shouldn't have such clean hands.

Lin You glanced at the overturned pickup truck again.

There were claw marks on the side of the vehicle, but the tire tracks were very shallow—if it had really been attacked and overturned by a monster, the tire tracks should have been deeper and more irregular.

Mu Xue reached for the car door, but then heard...

"Turn off the engine. Don't get out of the car," Lin You said, then tapped the window control button.

The car window was opened a small gap, just wide enough for an arm to pass through.

"How long has the child had a fever?" Her voice wasn't loud, but it was urgent.

"We've been walking all night since last night, we're just too exhausted to walk anymore." The woman pulled the child closer to her and took a step closer to Lin You.

Lin You showed no intention of getting out of the car. "Mu Xue, give her some medicine and food."

Mu Xue took out a box of fever reducers and a 500g loaf of bread.

Looking at the narrow gap in the car window, barely the size of an arm, it was clear that throwing the bread out would be difficult.

Lin You's lips twitched, and she widened the gap a little more.

The woman, carrying the child, ran towards the car, when Lin You's warning voice rang out, "Stand there and don't move!"

Mu Xue paused slightly as she handed something out, looking at Lin You with a puzzled expression.

Lin You pulled out a pistol and aimed it at the woman outside the car.

The woman also saw Lin You's movements through the windshield of the car in front, and suddenly stopped, looking at her in horror.

Lin You certainly wouldn't fire like that; the bullet would shatter the windshield.

This is just a warning.

"Throw those things out." Lin You's voice was almost devoid of emotion.

Mu Xue hesitated for a moment, then stuffed the bread and medicine out of the car window, where they fell to the ground.

Looking at the panicked woman, Lin You said coldly, "Wait until we leave, or I will really shoot."

The woman dared not go any further and just stood there blankly.

Lin You stepped on the gas, and the car veered to the left, narrowly missing the pickup truck as it squeezed past.

The car body made a scraping sound.

The woman in the rearview mirror is getting further and further away.

A silence immediately fell over the car. Mu Xue asked, somewhat puzzled, "Sister Lin, why didn't you help her just now?"

"Help her?" Lin You sneered. "Mu Xue, be more careful next time."

Mu Xue was slightly taken aback, clearly not understanding Lin You's meaning.

Did I just do something wrong again?

Xiao Yuan, who had been silent all along, suddenly spoke up, "If you're planning to get out of the car, her accomplices will come around from behind the ditches on either side of the road."

"Huh?!" Mu Xue exclaimed in surprise, "You mean she's lying to us?"

The off-road vehicle continued north along the winding mountain road.

The woman on the highway stood there, watching them leave.

She didn't bend down to pick up the things on the ground; she just stood there, holding the child who was no longer pretending to be asleep.

In the drainage ditch on the side of the road, three men stood up from the weeds. A cigarette butt flashed between his fingers before he threw it on the ground and stomped it out.

Then it was trampled out by leather shoes.

The carriage was quiet for a while.

Lin You looked at the three people in the back seat and explained to Mu Xue, "Her hands were very clean. Someone who has been carrying a child for so long shouldn't have such clean hands. Also, the pickup truck's location is too strange. It doesn't look like it was overturned by a monster; it looks like someone deliberately pushed it into that position... We probably weren't in the first batch."

Mu Xue remained silent for a long time; she hadn't expected things to turn out this way.

Lin You looked at Mu Xue's dazed expression and said, "It's okay, you'll get used to it after seeing it more often."

"Why don't we just go and take them out?"

Lin You looked at Mu Xue in surprise, not expecting Mu Xue to think that way.

"Kill them?" Lin You was a little confused by Mu Xue. She had just thrown out food, a pound of bread, so why was she thinking of killing them now?

Mu Xue replied, "Yes, these kinds of people will also steal from others. Since we've encountered them, why don't we get rid of these bad guys?"

"A bad guy?" Lin You's expression was a little strange. "Maybe, but there's no need for that."

Yes, it's not necessary.

Lin You leaned back in the driver's seat, her expression indifferent, and said, "What will you gain by killing them?"

Mu Xue was taken aback by the question. "They won't steal from others anymore..."

"What does it have to do with you if they steal from others?" Lin You's tone was calm; she wasn't questioning, but stating a fact.