Chapter 48 Gathering on the Sixth Floor

"That's truly beastly!"

The corpse Li Meng was examining was nearly naked, draped only in a torn and tattered black nightgown.

The wounds on certain parts of her body made it clear at a single glance what kind of torture she had endured before...

"The primary cause of death should be this bite on her neck. The area around the wound is bruised and purple, and the wound itself has blackened—it's clearly infected!"

Li Meng stood up and walked over to another woman wearing pink lingerie.

This one had the most severe wounds on her body! And she had been tortured for the longest time...

Li Meng sighed and stood up.

Unable to hold back for a moment, he kicked the mattress fiercely...

The group of girls looked at the scene in the room, their hearts filled with complex emotions...

Zhou Yan remained silent. In fact, when he used to work as a hitman abroad, as a form of "political expendable material," Zhou Yan had even been sent to the battlefield to snipe at hostile targets...

In countries where wars occurred, such things were not fresh news; in fact, the methods used were even more brutal than theirs!

"Damn it! Being eaten by a mermaid was way too easy on him!"

Everyone looked in surprise at Su Yanqiu, who had just cursed.

This was the first time everyone had seen "Big Sister-in-law" lose her temper...

At that time, behind the fire door, Su Yanqiu was also present, and Zhou Yan had even used his hand to...

She seemed to vaguely understand why Zhuo You had been tortured for so long back then without dying...

It must have been that the mermaid was intentionally torturing him!

Serves him right!

Deserved it!

Everyone carried the bodies out. Unlike the "scum" in the hallway, everyone in this room was a victim...

But they searched all the way to the top floor and still couldn't find where Zhuo You had hidden his nail gun...

Even when he was being chased and gnawed on by the mermaid, he hadn't managed to pull out the only weapon he had to fight back against the mermaids...

After all, he wasn't Zhou Yan; Zhou Yan had a system and could take things out whenever he needed them.

Zhuo You had to guard against others stealing the gun to revolt; after all, given his leadership style, it was only a matter of time before someone rebelled.

"Tomorrow, Wang Zeyu and Wu Yang, you two go knock on every door. Notify everyone in this building that they can catch fish or cooperate to catch mermaids to exchange for food with me. They can get one meal in advance; after all, they can't work on an empty stomach..."

Just as everyone was talking, a door on the top floor opened...

The man was about forty or fifty years old, with a full beard, wearing a black shirt on his upper body and suit pants on his lower body.

At first glance, he had a very distinct "middle-aged uncle" vibe.

Zhou Yan was a bit stunned.

This guy...

He's quite brave, huh?!

He actually dares to open the door like this?

No, that's not a guy...

It's an uncle...

The uncle looked over Zhou Yan's group with a calm expression, then nodded to himself.

Zhou Yan leaned out slightly, looking into the uncle's room.

Good grief!

This uncle's door was almost no different from his own security door!

Seeing Zhou Yan observing his door, the uncle smiled.

His voice was particularly weathered and magnetic: "The doors provided by developers can only be called doors. When it comes to security, it has to be a professional door!"

That was true; Zhou Yan agreed with both hands!

Along the way up, the doors that had been pried open were almost all the standard ones provided by the developers. Goodness, they were pried open every single time!

The other residents who had replaced their doors with security doors were almost never broken into. Firstly, they were hard to pry, and secondly, prying such doors was extremely exhausting!

In a situation where food was scarce, targeting them wasn't worth the effort!

"You actually dare to open the door? Aren't you afraid we're bad guys?" Zhou Yan gently raised the muzzle of his gun, full of threatening intent.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa! Little brother! You shouldn't point that thing at people!" The uncle laughed and dodged aside.

"I saw through the peephole that the woman in your team could also hold a gun. This shows that you can't be that bad—at least you're much better than that beast named Zhuo..."

The uncle spoke with great confidence.

After all, if this person really had gathered a team through force and coercion, the first thing the team members would do upon getting a gun would be to kill him, their former boss...

Furthermore, the one holding the gun was a woman...

This proved that the man in front of him wasn't the type to commit evil by relying on weapons!

At least he wasn't the kind of trash like Zhuo You who raped women!

If he were, this gun would never have ended up in a woman's hands!

Zhou Yan was speechless.

Why compare him to a beast?!

"You see I have a gun, yet you're not curious?" Zhou Yan suddenly became interested in the uncle in front of him.

"Curiosity killed the cat..."

The uncle rubbed his hands; in truth, he hadn't told the whole truth.

He didn't have much food at home to begin with, and since he had taken in some pitiful people, the food had long since run out...

Starving to death at home, getting killed by Zhuo You outside, or getting shot by the gun in front of him—it seemed there was no difference.

At least, being shot to death wouldn't involve suffering...

Actually, it's quite a good deal!

The uncle invited Zhou Yan into the room to talk. Zhou Yan was fine; after all, the darkness couldn't affect him at all, and he could see everything in the room clearly.

But the group behind him was different; they could only rely on the meager moonlight to see the environment in the hallway...

Hearing the man in front of them invite Zhou Yan, Su Yanyue nervously grabbed Zhou Yan's sleeve.

She didn't want Zhou Yan to do something foolish...

"Something up?" Zhou Yan didn't move, using his actions to decline the man's invitation.

The uncle was a bit embarrassed, his attitude suddenly becoming a bit shy.

After all, food was more precious than gold at this time, and asking rashly would easily offend people!

Seeing the uncle looking like he wanted to say something but hesitated, Zhou Yan asked: "Out of food at home?"

"Yeah..."

"Tomorrow, you can go to the 6th Floor. You can exchange labor for rewards with me—food, medicine, meat, anything works!"

The uncle was stunned listening to this.

"Labor? Exchange for medicine and meat? What kind of doomsday philanthropist is this?"

"Right, labor! Actually, it's just catching fish!" Zhou Yan explained.

The uncle was curious, but he forcibly suppressed the urge to ask, not even questioning the truth of the matter.

After all, with their equipment, there was no need to run a scam!

Since it was their first meeting, it wasn't convenient for Zhou Yan to demonstrate his abilities, so he had to hook his finger at Wu Yang.

Among these people, this guy had the biggest pockets!

Wu Yang exercised all year round. Ever since he started following Zhou Yan and could eat his fill every day, he had picked up his daily standing meditation and training again.

This guy wore a hoodie every day, and his pockets were huge!

Zhou Yan reached into Wu Yang's pocket and pulled out handfuls of protein bars, handing them to the uncle opposite him.

"This is your salary advanced for one day, but there's no such thing as skipping out here..." As he spoke, Zhou Yan shook the shotgun in his hand...

The uncle understood in a second: "Don't worry! Tomorrow at six o'clock, we gather on the 6th Floor!"

"Six o'clock won't work! I can't get up at six... Let's make it eleven!" Zhou Yan added with a serious face.

"Eleven it is! I'll bring... tomorrow..." The uncle hadn't finished speaking.

When they heard bursts of exclamations from girls and boys coming from inside the room.

The uncle hurriedly ducked back into the room...