Published: February 5, 2025
"What do you want?" Guan Changchun tried to stay calm, avoiding looking at the bloody corpses of zombies outside the broken door, their magic crystals dug out.
Ye Zhongming gestured, and Little Tiger and Liang Chuyin immediately crossed over the people to start checking the building. It was a habit of theirs to detect danger early and prepare for it to avoid unexpected incidents.
Looking at the direction of Le Da Yuan's gaze, Ye Zhongming quickly locked onto a robust man in the crowd who was trying to dodge. He walked over, and as he got closer, someone attempted to stop him but was kicked aside, falling to the ground, clutching their ribs and gasping for breath, likely with several broken bones.
Ye Zhongming’s actions silenced many who were previously restless; even Guan Changchun gritted his teeth, hesitating whether to stop this man.
"W-What do you want?" The dockworker stammered as he saw Ye Zhongming approaching him. The situation was intimidating; it was clear these people were not to be trifled with, especially with several armed with guns and knives.
Ye Zhongming was too lazy to waste words; he directly grabbed the dockworker's collar and pulled him in front of Le Da Yuan.
"Ah!" The dockworker was about to say something when suddenly a sharp pain struck his leg, causing him to tilt and kneel on the ground. If he weren't being held by the collar, he would have been rolling on the floor in agony.
Ye Zhongming had broken his right leg with a single kick.
He reached out, gripping the man’s shoulders tightly; an evolver’s strength was sufficient to crush an ordinary person's bones. This made the dockworker scream again, but the next moment, the butt of a gun struck his jaw, silencing his cries.
The dockworker rolled on the ground, trying to hold his leg and touch his mouth but found his hands immobile. Crimson liquid flowed from his mouth, mixed with several teeth, and the excruciating pain along with the blood made him lose consciousness after two seconds.
Such a scene caused the others present to instinctively start retreating, but they had barely taken a few steps back when they noticed a fierce-looking bald dog squatting at the staircase, watching them intently and occasionally baring its teeth.
"Mutated dog!" Someone recognized the earth yellow pill; in the cities of the apocalypse, the numbers of mutated cats and dogs were not comparable to mutated ants, rats, and flies, but they were still numerous.
"It's up to you," Ye Zhongming pointed at the dockworker and said to Le Da Yuan, "Knife or gun?"
Le Da Yuan shook his head and walked over to the door that had been smashed open, picking up a brick that had fallen from the wall. He approached the unconscious dockworker and softly said, "Can you help me wake him up?"
Ye Zhongming simply kicked him in the undamaged left leg.
"Crack!" "Crack!" "Crack!"
In the lobby of the engineering building, the once kind and timid senior engineer Le Da Yuan smashed a person's head with a brick.
Park Soo-young turned away, unable to watch such a scene. Although she didn't know what grievances Le Da Yuan had with this man, the hatred in his eyes indicated that it was likely a deep-seated vendetta.
Mo Ye frowned as well; it wasn’t that she couldn't handle the bloody scene, but she was puzzled as to why Ye Zhongming was so 'indulgent' towards this middle-aged man.
Though she had been with Ye Zhongming for a short time, Mo Ye understood that while Ye Zhongming couldn't be considered a good person by traditional moral standards, he wasn't a random killer and wouldn't harm ordinary people unless it involved his interests.
But this time, with this man named Le Da Yuan, Mo Ye could clearly sense Ye Zhongming's different attitude towards him. She couldn't understand why he was so special, even going so far as to create trouble for these ordinary people.
Xia Lei couldn't bear it any longer and walked over to grab Le Da Yuan, angrily saying, "Killing someone for a mere grudge is over the top, enough already."
Le Da Yuan, held back, suddenly looked up with blood-red eyes, resembling a man-eating beast. "Let go!"