"Where's Bai Xiao?"
Zhang Xiaoqiang asked the second man darkly. The man beside him, who had been cut into pieces, was howling in pain. He seemed to be out of breath.
"I … I don't know … I don't know anything …"
Zhang Xiaoqiang looked innocently at the man who had lost control of his bowels due to fear and said, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry …"
The two team members walked forward and pulled the man who was paralyzed on the ground toward the fire in the middle.
"Ow … Ow … Ow …" The man kept rolling in the fire. Countless burning sparks and pieces of charcoal were flicked out of the fire by him. Finally, the bustling fire died down.
"Where's Bai Xiao?" Zhang Xiaoqiang asked the third man unhurriedly.
"I … I'm just a pawn. I really don't know. Spare … spare me …" The third man cried in pain. He knelt down and kowtowed to Zhang Xiaoqiang. Blood dripped from his head and covered his eyes. He kept kowtowing in a sea of blood.
"Sigh … You can't blame me for this. You can only blame your incompetence. You've been around for so long, but you're still a pawn. Remember, in your next life, you have to be diligent. En, you over there, he's yours. Pay attention to your image. Look at you, you've made yourself so bloody. Aren't you afraid of attracting mosquitoes?"
The woman covered in blood walked forward silently. She grabbed the man's throat with one hand, and with a flash of the knife, the man's nose fell off …
"I know where he is. I'll tell you, you have to give me a quick death." The fourth man stared at Zhang Xiaoqiang with bloodshot eyes and roared.
"Of course, I like people who know their limits. I'm usually very lenient towards people who cooperate with me. Tell me …"
Hearing the man's words, Zhang Xiaoqiang's face darkened. He turned around and roared, "Gather …"
"You promised … You promised … You said you would give me a quick death …"
The rest of the men had their limbs chopped off. They lay in a row by the fire, waiting for the blood to drain from their bodies. The man who told Zhang Xiaoqiang about Bai Xiao's whereabouts struggled and howled on the ground.
"I said 'to those who cooperate with me'. Unfortunately, in my eyes, you are not a human."
Zhang Xiaoqiang turned around and walked out of the village. The two teams carried guns on their backs and supported dozens of emaciated women who were on their last breaths. Behind them, the roofs of a few loess houses were ablaze. That was the human flesh workshop …
Under the ink-dyed night sky, seven or eight long lampposts tore through the thick darkness and sped into the distance. Zhang Xiaoqiang, who was sitting in the car, looked at the pitch-black wilderness and pondered. He had received information that Bai Xiao and his subordinates might have mixed into the group of survivors. He wasn't worried about Bai Xiao, as Bai Xiao only had seventy to eighty people under his command. For Zhang Xiaoqiang's team of more than one hundred and fifty people, it really wasn't much.
Zhang Xiaoqiang was thinking about why Bai Xiao suddenly wanted to mix into his team. Didn't Bai Xiao know that doing so was equivalent to delivering food to him?
A light flashed in his mind. He remembered that the rifles that he had seized had at most a dozen bullets, and the ones that had the least had only four or five bullets. If the rifles didn't have bullets, they could only be used as wooden sticks. Could it be for ammunition?
But would they do so after seeing Zhang Xiaoqiang's nearly two hundred team members?
Zhang Xiaoqiang swapped his position with Bai Xiao and thought about what he would do. In the end, there was only one way, and that was to attack at night and incite the survivors to cause trouble.
As long as the four hundred survivors caused trouble, Zhang Xiaoqiang's team members would go and suppress them. Relatively speaking, the security of the ammunition vehicle would be reduced. At that time, they could launch a surprise attack and steal the vehicle. This way, the risk wasn't high, and the rewards weren't small. Who wouldn't think of such a plan?
Thinking of this, Zhang Xiaoqiang felt relieved. If they wanted to cause trouble, they wouldn't wait until now. The biggest possibility was that they would wait until midnight. One of them would casually fire a few shots in the middle of the survivors, and the survivors would definitely be in chaos. At that time, they would launch a surprise attack, and Zhang Xiaoqiang would definitely be able to rush back before then.
The dim headlights shined on the road in front of them, and the various buildings and withered fields on the side of the road appeared indistinct under the flashing lights. In a glimpse, they showed the silence of the night. The sound of the car engine turning broke the silence, and as the convoy drove into the distance, the silence once again filled the night.
A faint gunshot woke Zhang Xiaoqiang from his thoughts. He pricked up his ears to listen carefully, but the gunshot seemed to have stopped. He didn't know if it was just his imagination. He turned to look at the woman beside him and asked, "Did you hear anything?"
The woman had already painted her face black, and in the dim light of the car, it was even more difficult to see her expression. Before Zhang Xiaoqiang asked her, she was secretly vexed. It wasn't easy for her to get her revenge, but who would have thought that before she could complete her mission, that damned Bai Xiao would actually bring the majority of his men to Zhang Xiaoqiang's territory. She didn't know what he was planning.
The woman was far less relaxed than Zhang Xiaoqiang. She didn't know how many soldiers Zhang Xiaoqiang had, but in her opinion, the 30 men that Zhang Xiaoqiang had brought with him were more than half of his forces. Generally speaking, when the leader was in danger, most of his men would be dispatched to report to him. When she thought of how Zhang Xiaoqiang had brought the majority of his forces with him, she was worried about her sisters. Her sisters were in the same camp as Bai Xiao and those dozens of bastards.
"Wh … What … What did you say?" The woman was worried about her sisters and didn't hear Zhang Xiaoqiang's question for a moment.
Zhang Xiaoqiang asked her again, but the woman shook her head. She was distracted and didn't hear any gunshots.
"Reporting …"
"Shut up. In the future, if you have something to say, just say it. You have to make a report every time. Even if you don't find it annoying, I am. Say, what's the matter?"
Zhang Xiaoqiang stopped Huang Quan, who was sitting in front of him, from saying the report. As a commoner, occasionally listening to the report of some leader was enough to satisfy his vanity, but listening to Zhang Xiaoqiang all the time was annoying.
"Yes, I heard a gunshot just now. It came from right in front of us. It's estimated to be about 10 kilometers away."
Zhang Xiaoqiang was shocked and asked loudly, "How far are we from the village?"
"About 10 kilometers away, we will be at …"
"Speed up … Speed up …"