After The Fall Of The Earth, My Hotel Became Popular - Chapter 83

Chapter 83 – Merciless Kitten

　　The village was very quiet at night. The street lights had long been out of order and no house had its lights on. The only light was the faint moonlight.

　　Fortunately, his five senses were enhanced when he took the hot spring bath last time, so Wen Bei was not affected at all when walking in the village.

　　Qiu Tin, who still wanted to lead someone away, showed a look of disappointment and let out a faint sigh.

　　Wen Bei lowered his voice: “Let’s go quickly.”

　　Merciless kitten.

　　Qiu Tin raised his eyebrows: “Under the yard.”

　　Wen Bei looked at the shabby yard in front of him, his eyes showing doubt: “There’s a basement?”

　　Although the sound was small, it still attracted the attention of the guard.

　　The guard was one of the people who had participated in the robbery. It was apparent that he was more nervous than usual. He picked up the bone-chopping knife like a frightened bird: “Who!? Who’s there?”

　　Qiu Tin lowered his head: “Do you want to imitate the meow of a cat?”

　　Wen Bei responded with his eyes: That is the kind of confusing plot that only appears in old-fashioned TV dramas.

　　‘Moreover, in this broken world, who would believe that ordinary cats really exist?’

　　While the two people were exchanging eye contact, the suspicious guard on the other side had already walked over with a knife in hand.

　　Neither of them panicked. The man pushed open the door and looked, and before he could even open his eyes, he suddenly lost control of his body.

　　Wen Bei activated his special ability [Equivalent Transaction] the moment he was discovered, and the man froze in place, his eyes rolling up and down in fear.

　　Then he was knocked unconscious by Wen Bei’s slashing hand.

　　With a thud, the man fell to the ground and hit the wooden door.

　　Wen Bei stepped over his body without even glancing at him: “So what’s hidden in the village?”

　　Qiu Tin pointed at the entrance of a cellar with a lack of interest. Wen Bei’s eyes fell on the renovated cellar and he looked surprised: “Is there anyone in there?”

　　It was not difficult to see that the cellar was once used to store sweet potatoes and vegetables, but now it had been modified and a breathing hole had been left at the entrance.

　　Wen Bei removed the debris from above, revealing a pitch-black hole.

　　His heart sank; there really was someone inside.

　　Feeling the fresh air pouring in, several people inside began to tremble with fear.

　　”Get out of here!”

　　He didn’t know who made the first sound, it was very weak and was quickly covered by someone else.

　　The hole was dug quite deep, so Wen Bei couldn’t see the people inside. He could only look at the hole and ask, “Who are you and why are you locked up in there?”

　　He originally thought that the secret of the village might be that there were monsters that could be kept in captivity and eaten repeatedly, but he didn’t expect that there would be live people.

　　He was not a kind and innocent person to begin with, and in such a food-scarce village, the “purpose” of these people made him think more.

　　His voice was clear and crisp, and the people in the cave immediately recognized that it was not the voice of anyone in the village.

　　So the people who had just been frightened like a group of quails became a little braver.

　　“Save us.”

　　”Please take us out.”

　　Wen Bei looked at Qiu Ding and said, “Can you help me?”

　　The man was not interested in these noisy and weak humans. He had been using his supernatural powers to secretly hook Wen Bei’s fingers and play with them. Hearing this, he only reluctantly released a little tentacle-like part of his pollution towards the cave entrance.

　　Casually, as if treating an inanimate object, he quickly rolled up a person and threw him upwards.

　　The man was strangled in the stomach and almost vomited, but he didn’t dare to complain. After falling to the ground, his first reaction was to lie down and breathe heavily: “I…I’m out.”

　　The others suppressed their sudden fear of seeing the dark tentacles, and were all thrown out in the same way.

　　Because of the rough action, everyone unsurprisingly suffered minor scratches.

　　Qiu Tin’s special ability continued to wrap around the young man’s fingers, as if there was something extremely attractive about it.

　　Wen Bei let him play with his fingers, squatted down and looked at the person who seemed the calmest: “Why did they lock you in the cellar?”

　　The person being questioned seemed to be relatively well-dressed and sane. Most importantly, Wen Bei noticed that he had a detection ring on his hand, which was completely different from other people in the village.

　　The man’s first reaction was to express his gratitude: “Thank you, thank you.”

　　He was so grateful that he looked like he had seen a living angel.

　　Then he began to explain that he was not from the village, but had just passed by half a month ago. The caravan he was in was robbed, and the leader of the robbery had caused all the filthy creatures around to go berserk. Those people watched their group in their caravan struggle under the protection of the silver fork.

　　They gave two options: either leave behind all the supplies including the car, or leave behind 80 percent of the supplies in the car plus two people as travel expenses.

　　If all the cars and supplies were stolen, they would undoubtedly die in the contaminated area. After a psychological struggle, the people in the convoy finally chose the latter.

　　The man said with a bitter face: “I am the unlucky guy who was abandoned. My name is Guang Lian, and I am from Yiguang Base.”

　　”What about the other one who was with you?”

　　”…was eaten the week before last.”

　　This sentence was like a bombshell. Although Wen Bei had guessed it, he still showed an uncomfortable look on his face.

　　As expected, these people were not simply imprisoned, but were kept in captivity in a worse way, like livestock, to be slaughtered at will.

　　Guang Lian gritted his teeth and said, “Her pollution level is higher than mine. Those people were worried that she would seek revenge in the future, so they just insulted her and then divided the food among them.”

　　When he said this, everyone around him showed a look of fear.

　　They were trembling, as if they would be killed by the people who may rush in the next moment. Some even squatted down with their heads in their hands, muttering: “It’s not my turn, it’s not my turn…”

　　Wen Bei looked around and found that there were a total of fifteen people here, young and old, and there was no woman except an old woman.

　　The people around Guang Lian seemed to have guessed his doubts and said numbly: “In the beginning, the women who were still alive in the village were also kept in captivity, but those beasts, who were worse than animals, actually tried every way to insult them, and finally made them pregnant and ate the babies they gave birth to.”

　　The man pulled the corner of his mouth, revealing an expression that was uglier than crying: “My sister is in there.”

　　”My sister went crazy the next year. When they captured her and forced her to serve them, she committed suicide by stabbing her throats with tiles she had hidden for a long time.”

　　Those corpses were not spared. He was a coward. He didn’t dare to avenge his sister. He could only continue to numb himself. Until now, he left the stinking cellar again, but he found that he was not happy.

　　There is only deep fear.

　　He is scared.

　　He even felt that he might as well go back to the cellar and continue hiding, waiting for an unknown death.

　　This was the fate of most women in the village. There were also women in the village who were deformed and became polluters, but those women all had conscience and chose to help ordinary people resist. Only one woman chose to join the group of beasts and become an executioner.

　　It was a pity that the ability of the Gold and Silver Fork was too special. In the early stage, everyone’s ability had not developed well and it was difficult to resist. Those female polluters who dared to resist were killed in the early stage of the apocalypse.

　　Guang Lian crawled and rolled to the front of Wen Bei: “Are you here to save us?”

　　”They are just a bunch of lunatics. They treat us like animals. They only give us one meal a day and let us go out to defecate twice during the day. They come to kill one of us every once in a while.”

　　At the beginning, some people would resist, and some would even betray their companions in order to avoid being eaten.

　　Every time they would pick out those who were willing to resist first, and gradually, the only ones left were those who were so afraid of death that they dared not resist at all.

　　Most people in the village did not die from pollution, but from the betrayal of their companions.

　　Guang Lian was locked up there for half a month, and learned that every “meat animal” like him who was robbed would be eaten within a month.

　　Because they thought that local “meat livestock” were easier to keep in captivity than foreign “meat livestock”.

　　At the beginning he was angry and wanted to find a way to escape, but he was no match for that many people, not to mention the cornfield from which he could not return.

　　He tried to encourage the people in the cellar to join him in resisting, but naturally got no response.

　　Those who knew how to resist were already dead, leaving behind only empty shells without independent souls.

　　In this purgatory-like place, they would not be happy to live one more day, but they still did not want to die.

　　Guang Lian covered his face and said, “They are lunatics and demons. Please, take me away from this village.”

　　Everyone in this village had gone crazy, whether they were the ones who ate or those who were the ones being eaten.

　　It was a small village with only a few hundred people, and most of them were related to each other. However, even the old friendships could not arouse the conscience of these man-eating demons.

　　Wen Bei was silent for a long time this time: “I can help you drive them away.”

　　The method was actually very simple. They could just kill the leader and drive those people out. They could no longer cross the cornfield. Without any supplies in hand, facing the dangerous contaminated area, the possibility of their survival was almost zero.

　　This village did grow chicory, and if these dozen people were well fed, they could still barely stay alive.

　　In addition, the terrain was so unique that it was actually safer than most safe zones.

　　As soon as Wen Bei finished speaking, everyone looked at him.

　　No one knew when dawn came, the sky gradually brightened, and the faces of these people covered in dirt and mud gradually became clearer.

　　But most of the sight is numb.

　　They had been trapped for five years and it was hard for them to trust an outsider.

　　It was not until Wen Bei dragged the knocked-out guard over that they dared to discuss it bit by bit.

　　”Can you really help us?”

　　They began to become excited, and their souls, which had been suppressed for so long, would become distorted like crazy at the slightest crack.

　　Everyone gathered around and prayed to Guang Lian together. Some people even kowtowed continuously, but Wen Bei avoided them in time.

　　He looked at these people, feeling an indescribable feeling in his heart: “I will help you, and I hope you can help me when the time comes.”

　　”What? We can do it if you just tell us!”

　　Wen Bei: “I want to keep Fang Huahua here.”

　　When the name Fang Huahua came out, they were all obviously stunned.

　　Wen Bei: “You two should know each other.”

　　”Of course I know her. This little girl was picked up by a man named Chen Jin not long ago.” A man spoke in a local accent, “She was originally supposed to be placed with us, but she seemed to have a mental disability, so Chen Jin kept her with him.”

　　”Chen Jin is only in his twenties. Maybe he hadn’t seen a woman for a long time. He had fallen in love with her. How rare it is that such a damned guy would fall in love with someone.”

　　But retribution came soon. The green haired man and others wanted to treat Fang Huahua as a meat animal. It would be best if they made her pregnant like those poor women in the past. Anyway, she didn’t know what humiliation was, so she wouldn’t think of committing suicide.

　　Chen Jin had killed and eaten people before, so it was hard for him to accept that such a thing would happen to the person he loved.

　　He actually took advantage of the situation when he was out to rob people and ran away with Fang Huahua.

　　Wen Bei: “Chen Jin is dead. I met Fang Huahua on the road. If I had taken her along, she might not have survived.”

　　Even in the base, the law of the jungle prevails, so it was better to put it in a safe zone.

　　”Okay.” The only woman present stood up, “I promise to take good care of her.”

　　It can be seen that the old woman had the final say among these people. As soon as she opened her mouth, everyone looked at her.

　　”She used to be the head of our village.”

　　Someone whispered an explanation to Wen Bei.

　　Wen Bei nodded in understanding: “Give me some time.”

　　Perhaps there was finally a glimmer of hope, the group of people who were originally frightened and stunned began to curse that group of people in a low voice.

　　”Beasts, those beasts deserve to die!”

　　”What if he fails? We’d better not follow him…” The person who said this felt guilty and didn’t dare to look up at Wen Bei.

　　But he also expressed what most people here were thinking.

　　After all, they had been trapped for five years, and Wen Bei didn’t expect them to completely trust two strangers. He was not angry, but very calm: “I’ll come to you after I’ve dealt with it.”

　　Guang Lian: “Wait, wait, do you want to hear what special abilities those people have?”

　　His teeth were chattering slightly. He didn’t dare to follow, but felt guilty inside, so he could only help with these details.

　　Wen Bei wanted to say that they had fought before, and that group of people were no match for him and Qiu Tin, but looking at the fear in the eyes of these people, he stopped and said, “Well, go ahead.”

　　If this child gives them any psychological comfort.

　　So they rushed to describe everyone’s special abilities in detail, as if just one thing could help them in their revenge.

　　”Finally, there’s Chen Jin. He has water-related abilities.”

　　Guang Lian: “Isn’t this person already dead? His abilities are of no reference value.”

　　The man was stunned for a moment: “Oh, I was too nervous to remember.”

　　Wen Bei, who had been standing aside with a calm expression, suddenly said in a serious tone: “What did you just say?”

　　He took a step forward, with a look of oppression in his eyes.

　　Guang Lian was shocked: “I said Chen Jin is dead.”

　　Wen Bei: “No, what kind of ability do you think he has?”

　　”Water system.”

　　Wen Bei’s heart sank suddenly. He looked at Qiu Tin and saw a rare bit of surprise in his eyes.

　　How could a person with water-related abilities die of thirst in a polluted area?!