Apocalypse: Last Traveler

Lu Xi'an couldn't understand how ordinary people could get this strong in today's world.

But that wasn't the main point.

The main point was that the two strongmen, carrying the child, were almost at the end of the corridor.

Once they turned the corner, they would have to exert more effort to chase them.

"Yao Wei!"

Lu Xi'an hurriedly gave a reminder.

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

Two gunshots rang out.

Yao Wei's bullets were like Xiao Li's Flying Knife, never missing. Those two were instantly taken down, their bodies slumping forward, and the child on one strongman's shoulder rolled off.

"Amazing!"

Lu Xi'an praised, asking, "How did you practice your shooting?"

He genuinely wanted to learn from Yao Wei.

"No practice, just used frequently."

Yao Wei replied.

This essentially meant it was all thanks to real combat experience, which Lu Xi'an could understand.

But what he couldn't understand was, he too had plenty of real combat experience. During his time at the Mozhou City police station, he'd wasted many bullets. Just now, he wasted four shots but to no avail, his shooting never qualitatively improved.

The child who rolled to the ground was so dizzy that they couldn't get up initially. Lu Xi'an and Yao Wei quickly caught up.

While catching up, Lu Xi'an asked again, "How can use be effective? You see, I shoot too but it's not effective."

Yao Wei glanced at the submachine gun in Lu Xi'an's hand, saying: "Cherish every bullet."

Lu Xi'an: "..."

That look definitely had a hint of disdain! Lu Xi'an was sure he didn't see it wrong.

This woman was disdaining him for wasting!

Do you think I want to waste?!

Lu Xi'an complained silently.

Cherishing bullets requires confidence; you need to cherish your life first to cherish bullets. If a person dies and the bullets are not fired, wouldn't that be the greatest sorrow?

The submachine gun had a firing mode switch, allowing for single and burst modes, but Lu Xi'an didn't dare choose single-fire; he feared that using single-fire would lead to the greatest sorrow a person could experience in life.

But these words couldn't be said to Yao Wei. Yao Wei seemed very easily to cherish life under the premise of cherishing bullets, surely a genius in this aspect.

Geniuses cannot understand mortals.

Quickly catching up to the three, two strongmen, one was already dead, the other still had breath.

Yao Wei drew a dagger from her waist, and before she could make a move to finish them off, Lu Xi'an rushed to ask the strongman a question: "How did you get so strong?"

But the strongman did not answer, merely grunting as he looked towards the child stumbling to get up from the ground.

To prevent the child from running away, while questioning, Lu Xi'an went over and twisted the child's hands behind their back to control them.

The child, shivering and miserable, said: "Uncle! Aunt! Quickly kill him! Everything we eat, they take to eat first, and only after they're full is it our turn! They're terrifying, being this strong!"

"You!"

The strongman's eyes immediately turned blood red, face contorted, struggling to get up and pounce on the child.

The child, panic-stricken, kept backing away, kicking the ground several times with their legs.

Seeing this, Yao Wei was about to finish him off, but heard Lu Xi'an say: "Leave him alive." So she sheathed her knife, bent her waist, and stepped on the strongman.

Compared to the strongman, who looked like an ancient general from a guardian deity painting, broad and sturdy, Yao Wei seemed petite, yet the strongman couldn't move under her foot at all.

The power difference between the Neo-Humans and ordinary people was terrifying.

Lu Xi'an himself was equally terrifying, picking up the child like a chick, handing them over to Yao Wei, saying: "You take him to the car first, I'll ask this guy some questions."

"Okay."

Yao Wei knew Lu Xi'an wanted to separate and question them, so she took the child and turned back.

Lu Xi'an and Yao Wei completed the exchange, stepping on the strongman on the ground.

The child seemed flustered, being held by Yao Wei, quickly said: "Uncle, Aunt, don't ask him, he'll mislead you!

"He and Liang San are very bad; they deceived a Neo-Human brother who came for fuel before, poisoning him with water and robbing his things.

"Just now, they shot arrows at you, with cloth dipped in oil from that Neo-Human brother's oil drum.

"They're the worst here; just now, they even threw me out to test you and gave you poisoned water. He'll definitely deceive you!"

The strongman under Lu Xi'an's foot, veins bulging with anger, strained to lift his head, only to see Yao Wei slap the child's face, shutting him up with a bloody corner of his mouth. This relieved the strongman, who laid his head back down.

Lu Xi'an observed the strongman and the child, and once Yao Wei carried the child back to the gas station's building, he squatted down, pointing at the beside-dead strongman, and asked the one still breathing:

"Is this one Liang San? Who are you, Liang what?"

"Liang Si."

The strongman mumbled.

Lu Xi'an raised an eyebrow, casually asked: "What about Liang Da and Liang Er?"

The strongman said: "Dead."

Death was not unusual; surviving wasn't easy in these times.

Lu Xi'an asked: "What role is that kid?"

"He's the leader."

The strongman said, "We all listen to him."

Lu Xi'an looked at the strongman's round but firm belly, questioned: "I find it hard to understand, you're so strong, why listen to a child?"

The strongman answered: "Because he's ruthless, willing to risk his life."

Lu Xi'an still didn't understand: "In this world now, who isn't ruthless, who wouldn't risk their life?"

The strongman said: "But he's ruthless all the time, in any situation, never caring for his life. Using sly tricks, manipulating, threatening, intimidating, recruiting, he always finds a way to make people obedient.

"Liang San and I are this strong because of the rules he set. Here, all the obtainable food, by his rules, we get it first, he even willingly places himself third."

Lu Xi'an said: "Couldn't tell... That kid's tactics seemed clumsy from the start till now, his words full of loopholes. With this, how does he keep people obedient?"

The strongman said sullenly: "You think they're clumsy, but they're effective."

Lu Xi'an carefully observed the strongman's expression and tone. Although it seemed unbelievable, from the strongman's appearance, he genuinely didn't seem to be lying.

He no longer pursued irrelevant questions, turning to serious matters: "In this city, besides your six people, who else is there?"

The strongman didn't answer directly, instead asked: "What do you intend to do with Fa – as you call the kid?"

Lu Xi'an spoke truthfully: "Neither you nor he will survive."

"That's good."

The strongman had no hope for his life, satisfied with Lu Xi'an's words, "At South Street supermarket, there's a group of four, the boss is a woman, her lover was here, just killed by you.

"At North Street Tongzhou Hotel, there are seven people, Plaza District has five people, the fathers of the leaders of these two places were here, also killed by you."