NOVEL NEXT Chapter 374: Clash of Two Teams
There were zombies that had been killed lying around while others were standing a distance away as if they were watching a good show.
This told everyone that the zombies had started to get intelligent. They no longer ran towards humans to their deaths and knew how to bid their time and assess the situation.
For instance, at this time, two groups of people were fighting over the contents of the warehouse.
The doors of the warehouse were open and Li Kun and the others could see the inside. There were sacks of food piled up close to the ceiling and more than half of the warehouse was full.
From the type of packaging, one could tell that those were the sacks that usually had a plastic lining on the inside. In that case, it meant that the food in those bags was still intact despite having been submerged in water for weeks.
Moreover there were jerricans of cooking oil lying haphazardly around the warehouse. This should have been a small warehouse for the shops or supermarkets in the nearby malls.
At that moment, however, what attracted Li Kun wasn't the food in the warehouse but the argument between the two groups of people.
One of the groups had over ten men who stood near the door of the warehouse like door gods and refusing to let the others in. They claimed that the supplies in the warehouse belonged to them.
The other group had seven people and we're obviously outnumbered but they weren't backing down.
They were negotiating with the other group so that they could take part of the supplies.
"We obviously found this place first and when you arrived we were killing the zombies near the warehouse.
But now you are saying that we have no right to take anything here, how is that possible?" A middle-aged man who looked like the leader of the seven-man team argued.
"You almost weren't able to kill all the zombies and were the ones who helped you kill them. What right do you have to take anything from here?" A buff-looking man holding a machete asked arrogantly."
"What do you mean you helped us kill the zombies? When your group arrived, we were almost done killing those zombies, you just came to take advantage of the situation. How then did it become you saving us?" A girl about twenty-one years old complained.
She had never seen someone so shameless before. These people arrived when they had already eliminated more than half of the zombies, but here they were claiming credit for their hard work.
How are these even humans?
The men in the other group suddenly laughed perversely. Others whistled and began looking at her from top to bottom as if they were appraising an item for sale.
Their gazes were so disgusting that the girl felt her skin crawl.
"Yo! Lady, why don't you join us brothers and please us then maybe we will let you take some of the supplies?
If you make all of us happy, then you can even take two bags of rice. That is a good bargain, isn't it?" The leader asked with drool almost falling to the ground.
His gaze held so much lust that You Yue felt her skin turn disgusting.
The leader of the seven-man team saw how the group was looking at You Yue and stepped forward to block her from their site.
Two other men in the group followed his example and stood on his right and left, completely blocking You Yue from view.
"You should watch your words. Don't talk to You Yue in that tone. Also, keep your disgusting thoughts to yourself.
We found this warehouse first and killed most of the zombies. We will take a share of the supplies whether you agree or not." The leader seemed to have been ticked by their earlier aggressiveness towards You Yue and no longer had that negotiating tone.
"With only the few of you? How are you going to take anything here with us standing in your way?" A skinny looking man with a monkey face and a sharp chin asked with condensation when he heard what the leader of the other group had said.
Before the leader could reply, a young woman about the same age as You Yue opened her mouth.
"Leader, since they said that they will let us take some supplies as long as You Yue played with them for a while, why not let her do it? It's not like she will lose anything?" She said it so confidently anyone would think that those people had asked You Yue to drink water.
Five of the people in the group, including You Yue who was hidden behind three men, turned to look at her with astonished looks on their faces.
"Xie My, how could you make such a suggestion?" You Yue was horrified to think that the person she had regarded as a friend and even invited to her house when she had nowhere to go would say something like that.
"You Yue, you don't have to look at me like that. Aren't you just doing this for everyone else? Even your parents at home are waiting for food or they will starve to death. If they found out that you failed to bring back food just because of something so trivial, then they will definitely sell you." The woman called Xie My said without any fluctuations in her emotions.
You Yue could not believe what she was hearing. She remembered when the apocalypse began, all the members of Xie Mu's family had turned into zombies.
She had been scared and ran out of her house that was about a block away from hers.
They had grown up together and she had always treated Xie Mu as a close friend. So when she showed up at their house and said that her entire family was gone, You Yue didn't even think twice before inviting her to her house and even shared her bedroom with her.