Chapter 64 - 61: Femme Fatale Killer
Li Yu paid no more attention to the others and gestured with a wave of his hand, signaling a few people to start descending the stairs.
Li Zhengping still stood there dazed, the scene that had just unfolded somewhat overturning his view of life.
He didn't quite understand why one needed to kill, why even after the man had already answered the questions, he still needed to be killed.
Li Gang, seeing him like this, sighed deeply, patted Li Zhengping's shoulder, and beckoned him to head down together.
Some things, once you see them enough, you get used to them.
Some zombies, if you kill enough of them, you become numb to it.
Some people, if you kill enough of them, your heart becomes calm too.
Malevolence.
Does it drive one mad inside?
Buddha says, saving one life is more meritorious than building a seven-tiered stupa;
Cultivate the Tao in this life, turn to the Buddha in the next.
Li Yu never believed in the afterlife, always keeping gods and ghosts at a respectful distance.
The spiritual world of our people, with its various deities,
is such that if you prove useful, they believe in you; if not, they'll dunk you in a pig cage.
When drought comes, since ancient times people have prayed to the Dragon King for rain,
if the Dragon King doesn't bring rain, then burn down his temple.
The gods of our people's faith all carry a KPI (performance indicator),
seeking marriage, children, career success, and even success in exams, etc.
People go to temples to pray, and if it works out, they return to fulfill their vows.
This isn't that just performance evaluation? If it doesn't work, people will criticize that temple.
Even when Li Yu had his college entrance exams, he went to worship at a temple, extremely devout beforehand.
After the exams, he felt that it was due to his own hard work that he passed.
This mindset isn't just his alone.
Thus, he has no faith, yet he does have faith.
His belief is in family, in living, in books, in an enlightened mind...
A person with faith will not easily fall into a state of losing oneself.
....
Upon meeting Li Tie and others downstairs, Li Tie, knowing that the several people upstairs had been dealt with, showed no great surprise.
The group returned to the original building, and it was already 11:30.
They had been out for several hours already, and Li Yu told everyone to find a room on the second floor
and started to eat.
Everyone had brought some simple food.
They began their lunch.
After lunch, seeing the sunlight fierce, Li Yu waited a few minutes before preparing to set out.
Start the car.
Begin heading to the driving school.
On the road, Li Tie glanced at Li Yu and couldn't help asking, "Big brother, do we have any plans for what comes next?"
Li Yu looked at the Cross-river Bridge, and then at the zombies trailing behind their car, yet unable to catch up.
He spoke slowly, "Just go straight for it. Sick of messing with complicated stuff. This time, make it clean. Under absolute firepower, any resistance is futile."
....
Li Tie, hearing this, offered no objection.
The driving school was situated on the edge of the county, and Li Yu and his group in the car checked their guns and ammunition.
This time, they had brought quite a bit of ammo.
Soon, they arrived outside the driving school.
The school was surrounded by a high wall, with two large iron gates at the entrance.
But the iron gate was open-work, normally capable of stopping gentlemen, but not scoundrels.
On top of the gate, there were two people holding weapons, guarding the entrance.
From a distance, one of them seemed to take something out and began frantically knocking.
Thud~ Thud~ Thud~
Li Yu and his people in the car also heard this sound from afar.
So he told Li Tie to speed up.
The armored car instantly accelerated, and with a bang, it slammed right into the iron gate.
The iron gate, as if made of paper, was smashed flying off its hinges and fell to the ground.
The two people beside the gate, seeing this, hurriedly took to their heels.
Li Yu in the car, didn't use a gun, instead took out his Crossbow and fired repeatedly, killing the two men.
The armored car charged ahead, driving into the driving school.
But because of the knocking sound, many people began to emerge from a row of simple sheds in the driving school.
They were carrying a variety of weapons, looking aggressive.
Li Yu signaled for Li Tie to stop the car.
Seeing a few people coming up angrily, Li Yu shouted from inside the vehicle, "Are you Brother Hao's men?"
One of them answered, "What if we are? You dare crash in here like this, Brother Hao will have your head if he sees you!"
Hearing this, Li Yu nodded. It seems they've come to the right place.
Then there was nothing left to say.
At many times, villains die because they talk too much; Li Yu doesn't consider himself a villain, but that doesn't prevent others from seeing him as one.
From different standpoints, everyone is the villain in someone else's eyes.
Li Yu and his group of seven got out of the vehicle. He looked at Li Tie and Li Hang, instructing them to guard the outer gate and not let a single person escape.
Inside the driving school, many seemed just to have woken up from a nap, yawning and looking on as if watching a show.
There were many people, who were also quite disorganized.
Li Yu originally thought that Hao Ge's gang, with a hundred members, especially after the previous horn-sounding incident,
would be fundamentally different than Zhou Sheng, at least more orderly, with a stronger sense of vigilance and combat ability.
But as it turned out, they just had numbers.
Even after Li Yu and his people entered the driving school, some arrogantly approached with baseball bats in hand.
They had not encountered Li Yu and his people before and assumed they were like the other survivors they had met.
In fact, Hao Ge had sent people to follow Li Yu and the others, but those had all died.
This led to these people having very little understanding of Li Yu and his crew.
After getting out of their vehicles, Li Yu and his people didn't waste words.
They just opened fire!
Those closest to Li Yu's group were instantly turned into sieves from the gunfire.
The people behind fell like harvested wheat.
The crowd was like loose sand, completely lacking any fighting spirit.
No one directed what to do, no one cared when the person next to them fell; everyone was thinking about how to escape.
Under the impact of firearms, they crumbled at a single blow.
Absolute firepower meant absolute say.
In this world, no one rationalizes with the weak.
Justice is relative, depending on the perspective one takes.
History is a young girl, dressing up at the will of the powerful; under such power, nothing else matters.
So, build strength first, then talk about principles.
This truth, Li Yu had understood long ago.
With the gunshots, the more people that fell, the fewer resisted.
Or rather, from the start, this was a struggle of unequal strength.
Blood flowed like rivers.
From the beginning to now, Hao Ge hadn't appeared; Li Yu didn't know who Hao Ge was,
but it wasn't important. What mattered was first to crush the opposing side's will, to destroy their power.
To make the people on the other side dare not resist.
Some tried to escape over the wall, only to be directly shot and killed by Li Tie and others.
Some attempted to leave through the main gate, but were also blocked and killed by Li Yu and his people.
Gunshots rang out,
like pearls large and small falling onto a jade dish,
also like Beethoven's piano piece "Fate" being played,
the scene was bloody, yet simple.
Flesh and blood flew everywhere, limbs torn and severed.
Faces showed panic, schadenfreude, haste, despair...
In the hail of bullets, faces showed all sorts of expressions, each different.
But Li Yu wasn't concerned or interested.
Perhaps there were those who were forced to join Hao Ge,
perhaps some among them were actually good people,
...
But to Li Yu, this was irrelevant.
Recognizing a person's goodness or badness is too difficult; seeing through someone's true nature is also hard.
The sounds of gunfire gradually subsided, with bodies lying all over the ground.
Among them, some were holding their heads, kneeling and begging for mercy.
When the gunfire stopped, Li Yu saw some familiar faces.
Previously, when dealing with Zhou Sheng's group, they had saved a group of women.
Apart from Song Min and about a dozen others seen today, there were also several women in front of Li Yu that he had encountered before.
It seems that everyone has different thoughts...
Some choose to pick up a knife and fight back fiercely, making themselves stronger.
Others find it too hard to survive in the post-apocalyptic world and think lying down is also a good choice.
These women, from Zhou Sheng, and now to Hao Ge, Li Yu didn't know if they,
had mentioned him and his people to Hao Ge.
But it wasn't important, Li Yu's gaze shifted slightly.
Before him was that busty young housewife, showing a face of sorrow and woe.
Seeing Li Yu looking at her, her eyes shifted, deliberately pulling down the neckline of her shirt,
and preparing to rise and walk towards Li Yu.
Bang!
Li Yu fired.
The busty young housewife looked incredulously at Li Yu as she fell.