Chapter 8 Don't die!

"What were you guys chatting about so happily right at my doorstep earlier? Tell me about it, so I can have a laugh too..."

Zhang Limin looked at his lower leg in terror; the amount of blood loss frightened him.

Zhou Yan used a rope to tie a tourniquet three feet above his knee, temporarily stopping the bleeding.

Seeing the bleeding stop, Zhang Limin grimaced and said, "Do you know Yang Shu? We're together. He said Old Zhang delivered packages to you before and knew you had plenty of supplies and were raising a dog. We thought Yang Shu had finished you off and moved into your place..."

"And there are those two sisters living across from you. If we could pry their door open, we were going to go in..."

Seeing Zhou Yan raise his dagger again, Zhang Limin shouted in panic, "Okay, we were going to go in and share some dog meat with them!"

The knife still plunged down.

"I didn't intend to stab you at first, but this is because you were trying to fool me like I'm an idiot..."

Zhang Limin trembled in a breakdown; the power of the electric motor was gradually increasing.

"What the hell do you want to ask?! Just ask! And once you're done, hurry up and shoot me!"

Zhang Limin was on the verge of a breakdown. How could a living Yama be living in this ordinary residential building?

Damn it! That damned Yang Shu! He didn't even know to yell a few times to warn me before he died?

"A while ago, I saw people on the upper floors throwing quite a few people into the water? What happened up there?"

"Hiss... Yang Shu wanted to take us to hide in the shelter floor. There were already people inside, and they wouldn't let us in. We thought about killing the chicken to scare the monkey, but we didn't hold back..."

"You killed them all?"

"No, we kept a few of the women..."

"Aren't you afraid of getting a bullet when rescue arrives?" Zhou Yan asked tentatively.

His information was far too limited. After the water level began to rise, many households had a period of "legal trading," but as the water rose higher and higher, the "trading" gradually became "illegal." Since then, Zhou Yan hadn't gone out.

Unexpectedly, Zhang Limin fell silent.

Then, he grimaced and twisted twice.

"If I hadn't killed them, I would have starved to death long ago... Getting a bullet is death too, but I'm afraid it's much more comfortable than starving to death. Besides, you don't know that the fish in the water can't be eaten, right?"

Zhou Yan frowned. He knew that the fish in the water ate people, but he really didn't know that the fish in the water couldn't be eaten...

"When the water had just submerged the second floor, some people went to catch fish in the water. They hadn't even finished eating the fish before they were gone."

Zhang Limin's eyes were red, though it was unclear if it was from the pain or the memory of that desperate scene.

"They used a landing net to catch a yellow catfish. The person who reached out to grab the fish had his palm pierced by the catfish's fin. In a few seconds, the person was gone. When that person died, his face was purple-black!"

"At first, no one dared to eat that fish, but everyone was just too hungry... Thinking that if they boiled it a bit longer, the poison would be gone. Who would have thought that after eating it, they ended up like him, all poisoned to death. When they died, their faces looked like purple eggplants..."

"How many people are left on the shelter floor?"

Zhang Limin lowered his head and thought for a moment.

"Before, the residents on our lower floors were all killed by those mutated mermen. Now there are nine men left and five women. The others didn't want to stay with me; most of them are hiding in the hallways of different floors, but there are more men. A few women were taken in by residents on various floors..."

"There was a period before where many residents drank the rainwater and mutated. When our people were cleaning them up, quite a few of us were lost too..."

"Now, there should only be fourteen people hiding on the shelter floor."

"Are there many people in the Fire escape?"

Hearing Zhou Yan ask this, Zhang Limin was a bit surprised.

"There really were a lot of people before. Like I told you, many people drank the rainwater and mutated, and those mutated mermen killed most of them... The hallways now are no place for humans; they're damp and wet! Only some of the old, weak, sick, and disabled are whiling away their days in the upper-level corridors. The strong ones either trick others into opening their doors so they can take over their nests, or they group up like I did, but they're all crowded on the upper floors..."

After finishing, he raised his head. He had already given up struggling, his gaze very calm, because he saw the compressed biscuits and canned goods that Zhou Yan had stacked in the kitchen area.

That big box was likely enough for one person to eat for a month...

Since he had dragged him in and let him see his supplies, he surely wouldn't let him leave alive.

Zhang Limin wasn't an idiot; after glancing at it twice, he understood that his life wouldn't last long.

"The water level outside has already surpassed the fifth floor. There are mermen in the water, and even the fish in the water have started to mutate. It's just that I don't know what the reason is. Maybe a nuclear war has already started, and we know nothing about it."

"Or maybe it's an issue with the rainwater... In these times, you simply can't survive unless you're ruthless... But you might be able to live a bit longer..."

"You have a gun! And you're too ruthless; you shoot without saying a word... This isn't your first time killing someone, is it?"

"Occasionally," Zhou Yan said softly, looking at the rainstorm outside the window.

Zhang Limin was shocked by this answer.

"Occasionally!? Occasionally killing people?"

Zhou Yan waved his hand, signaling that this question wasn't important.

"How many supplies do you have on the shelter floor? Food? Medicine?"

Zhang Limin shook his head.

"Gone... They've been gone for a long time... I thought Yang Shu had found supplies downstairs and didn't want to share them with me. Now it seems he was shot by you..."

"So, the people on the shelter floor or in the hallways are very likely to commit extreme acts because of food, right?"

"It's not likely, it's already happening. They're robbing from the top down; it just hasn't reached your floor yet... Even if it did reach your floor, those guys would probably be at their end..."

As he spoke, Zhang Limin laughed himself.

"Those big idiots! Good kill! I said long ago that the sound downstairs sounded like a gun, but no one believed me! This bunch of fools insisted on dragging me here!"

After finishing, Zhang Limin steadied himself, gritted his teeth, and made a final attempt.

"I know something about Building 17 across the way. I don't know if telling you can buy me my life!"

"Whether you tell me or not is up to you, but I generally don't lie to dead people. I never leave any survivors when I do things!"

Looking at Zhou Yan's calm, water-like eyes, Zhang Limin suddenly felt a sense of relief.

If you aren't ruthless, you can't stand firm! He was far worse than him!

He has a gun, he's cautious, ruthless, and decisive... He's no ordinary person!

Looking at the silent Zhang Limin, Zhou Yan understood that he likely wouldn't speak.

It must be something quite important, perhaps even capable of threatening him.

Even with a gun, he wasn't safe? How was their firepower so strong? A Taliban liaison office?

Zhou Yan rubbed his chin, contemplating which interrogation method to use on him.

Thinking of this, Zhou Yan reached out his finger and placed it on his wound, preparing to give him something stimulating!

No one could remain silent under Zhou Yan's interrogation methods!

But when Zhou Yan's finger lightly landed on Zhang Limin's leg.

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"?" Zhou Yan was greatly shocked.

"Don't you die!!" Zhou Yan quickly turned around and looked at Zhang Limin lying on the floor.