Doomsday Savior (7): Suffer the consequences

The female ability user hurriedly sent a text message back saying “I’m fine, but it’s not convenient for me to make a phone call now” and went to check on her parents.

The content was similar to that of her good friend, both of them said that they suddenly encountered zombies at home/at work, and they followed the instructions of the TV media and hid at home/office without coming out to cause trouble.

By noon the next day, the zombies in the city were taken away one after another. The authorities sent people to pick up her father and take him home. Then everyone stayed at home to be quarantined. Food and water were delivered to them by special people. Even if the gas ran out, it could be replaced at home, so the daughter didn’t have to worry.

Lin Yi: No, I was really worried these past few days, okay? I really thought it was the end of the world, okay!

This was completely different from the end of the world she imagined. Why was it so horrible described in novels and movies, but when zombies really come, how come the country solved the problem in no time?

Lin Yi took a quick look at the atmosphere around him. Everyone was wholeheartedly supporting that psychopath Li Si, who didn’t see anything wrong with murder and robbery.

After thinking about it, she didn’t dare to speak at this time to avoid saying anything that might bring trouble to herself.

If they concentrated their fire on her, she would be the first one to suffer.

Lin Yi searched online for emergency numbers for special periods of time. Among them, there was a contact number specially prepared for people who were in an emergency and unable to make a sound. After copying the number, Lin Yi composed a text message, concisely describing what she had experienced during this period, and specially noted the brutality of this group of people and their style of killing without blinking an eye.

The next thing to worry about was how to stop these people when they continued to kill people, and how to get rid of the suspicion of crime…

Thinking about the troubles she had during this period, Lin Yi held her forehead in her hand speechlessly and let out a long sigh.

What should she do next?

After the text message was sent, the rescue center forwarded Lin Yi’s message to the C City Guard. The captain of the guard stared at the words “Twenty-seven ability users” in amazement.

When he passed the notice, the team members around him suddenly quieted down. They knew what an ability user was and how much damage a superpower could do. The incident was so shocking that it made people speechless.

Everyone lowered their eyes to organize their weapons and put on their equipment carefully. Even though these equipment might be as useless as paper to those guys who couldn’t use common sense to figure it out, it was their last line of defense to defend their dignity.

“Can I write a suicide note?” someone asked casually.

“Didn’t you write it down when you were on the previous mission?” another person answered.

“Back then, we were facing zombies, which is completely different from the situation now. It’s okay to die at the hands of zombies, but what’s the matter with dying at the hands of the people you’re supposed to be protecting?”

“Can’t we shoot?” someone else said.

“It depends on the situation. After all, we cannot blindly trust the words of those who ask for help and accidentally hurt innocent people.”

“But by the time we realize that something is wrong, doesn’t that mean that someone among us has already died?”

“Okay, stop saying such sad things. Think about what will happen to the people in the city if the mission fails. And you still have the mind to think about whether you can survive…”

They packed their gear, carried their weapons, and walked out of the base.

The captain was standing outside the house waiting for them, ready to tell them how to stop the group of ability users from invading the entire city.

Suddenly, there was a huge noise in the distance, as if some machine was hanging overhead. The huge wind pressure messed up the nearby treetops, and everyone raised their heads to look up.

Helicopters arrived one after another, hovered in the air, and landed fully equipped people one by one.

A tall and capable man walked over after landing, found the captain directly, and said to him loudly: “I got the news that there is a team of ability users here.”

The guards were stunned. They had never expected the response to be so quick. They had just received the notification and put on their equipment when reinforcements were sent over. They quickly said, “Yes! Are you here to support us?!”

Lei Feng: “Yes, we are reinforcements. You have been defending the entire city these days. Thank you for your hard work.”

The guards were delighted, saluted collectively, and shouted: “Serve the people!!”

Lei Feng returned their standard salute.

The future was always changing—this was what Si Qi told Lei Feng.

After arriving at City C by helicopter, he met with the guards. Lei Feng followed Si Qi’s instructions and called Si Qi to report the situation and see if the future that Si Qi saw before departure had changed.

Si Qi: “There are some unexpected situations.”

Lei Feng asked seriously, “What happened?”

Si Qi: “In the suburbs of C City, there is a place called ‘Peace Avenue’. There grows a special plant. It is purple-red and looks like grapes. It can be helpful for vaccine research. Please bring it back to me when you come back.”

In other words, Lei Feng would definitely be able to return safely…

Although these words were not comforting, they were more reassuring than any other comfort.

Lei Feng chuckled and said, “Okay, I will definitely bring it back to you. Anything else?”

Si Qi groaned: “Not at the moment.”

Lei Feng’s voice was indescribably gentle and pleasant: “I mean, do you want something?.”

Si Qi was quiet for a while, and then he said hesitantly, “Pudding.”

Lei Feng obviously didn’t expect Si Qi to answer like this, and couldn’t help but repeat: “Pudding?”

Although he was good at cooking, this was his first time making desserts. He immediately agreed and said, “Okay, no problem.”

After returning home, he would ask the pastry chef how to make pudding.

Si Qi was quiet for a while, then coughed a few times and said, “Add a little more protection to your chest, lower abdomen and right arm, or you’ll get hurt.”

Lei Feng’s expression became softer.

“good.”

This was a prophecy that Si Qi made specifically for him, so he always felt that Si Qi treated him specially.

“You should rest well and don’t work too hard. I see your cough hasn’t gotten better at all. Did the doctor remind you to take your medicine on time?”

Si Qi: “Yes, it’s not hard.”

At the side, the deputy, who was wearing matte black equipment and holding heavy weapons, couldn’t help but look sideways again and again. He and Lei Feng had worked together for more than eight years, but today was the first time he saw Lei Feng smile so gently, which gave him goosebumps all over his body.

When Lei Feng hung up the phone, his assistant came over with a frown on his face. “Are you talking to Mr. Si or your girlfriend? You’re smiling so brightly…”

Lei Feng’s expression changed very quickly after he hung up the phone, and he said coldly: “Can’t I smile?”

The deputy muttered, “…That’s not what I meant.”

Lei Feng glared at him and said, “Why are you still standing there? Have you counted the number of people? Have you sorted out the equipment? Do you have a plan of action?”

He kicked his assistant on the buttocks and said, “Go do your job!”

The deputy let out an “ouch” and walked away feeling aggrieved.

When he reached a place where Lei Feng couldn’t see him, he said to his teammates in a very clear tone: “Our boss must be in love, and it’s unrequited love!”

“Unrequited love is good!” The teammates said slyly, “With the boss’s personality, it will take at least a few years to pursue before he can win his heart!”

“That’s right. We are all single. How can the boss be the first to leave the group?” The group of people looked at each other and smiled tacitly.

The captain of the guard team didn’t know what was going on. He came over with a map and said, “The target of the mission is now here.”

He spread out the map and pointed his finger at a house in the villa area of ​​City C.

Inside the house, a man wearing designer clothes and a watch worth millions of dollars was looking at the crowd with flickering eyes.

The group of people were dusty and weather-beaten. When he walked into the living room, a disgusting smell that he couldn’t tell whether it was sweat or fishy smell hit him in the face, and he almost vomited.

Li Si sat on the sofa, his hands resting on his head, his heels resting on the tea table, and said to the rich man, “As agreed, I brought the people here within a week of the doomsday. How are you handling it? Have you investigated the situation of the guards? Where is the food and water stored?”

The corner of the rich man’s mouth twitched. Now he just wanted to travel back to the time before the end of the world and give his then-whimsical self a slap in the face.

Investigate the guards? What do we do after we find out? Was it really like this guy said, kill all the soldiers, steal all the food and water, and then occupy the city?

It would be fine if the end of the world was as horrible as this guy described, but now the end of the world was no different from the past. So what was their behavior called? It’s called a terrorist attack! It’s called disturbing social order! It’s illegal!

But in this situation, if he regretted it, he would be the one who would suffer. Facing a group of bandits holding knives and guns, the rich man swallowed his saliva and asked, “Is it true as you said, that you have more than 20 ability users here?”

A hot-tempered young man slapped the wall with his palm, burning a big hole in the exquisite wallpaper and burning a large piece of the brick.

“Stop talking so much! Brother Li is asking you a question!”

The rich man’s expression changed slightly. After weighing the pros and cons for a moment, he smiled and said, “It is of course my honor to cooperate with you… But you must have come so far and it must be hard. Why don’t you take a bath and eat something delicious first…”

A group of people looked at the rich man’s neat appearance, and then looked at their own group’s current panic. After a moment of silence, they said, “Yes, Brother Li, there is no need to rush.”

“We have so many ability users, isn’t it easy to occupy a city?”

YuanyYuan said coquettishly: “Brother Li, I want to take a bath~”

Seeing that everyone said so, Li Si agreed: “Okay! No problem!”

“marvelous!”

“Long live Brother Li!”

“We are probably the only ones in the world who can take a relaxing bath in the apocalyptic world!”

The rich man looked strange after hearing this, and thought: “Could it be that Li Si deliberately deceived these people? Not letting them know the situation outside?”

He smiled and said to the group of people: “The bathroom is here, and there is also a sauna…”

He led the group of people to a place where Li Si couldn’t see them, and said in a chat, “Hey, the end of the world has come, and it’s inconvenient. No one can go out! They can only stay at home and watch TV and send video chats with relatives and friends… It’s not easy for you to come here from so far away.”

A group of people were puzzled as they listened: “Ah? Can we still watch TV and send videos now?”

The rich man pretended to be puzzled and said, “Of course it can? Even though the doomsday has come and zombies have appeared, the infrastructure is the same as before, without any changes. Don’t you know that?”

He took out his cell phone, handed it to everyone, and said, “I see. You were on the road, so you didn’t have time to check your cell phones, did you? In fact, on the day of the apocalypse, the domestic situation was stable, and the zombies were sent to a special place for custody. Just in case, everyone didn’t go to school or work, but otherwise it was no different from before.”

The group of people looked more and more upset as they listened, and stammered, “W-what?”

Someone snatched the phone and searched for news, only to find that forums, news, and even video entertainment websites were exactly the same as before. In fact, they were even more lively because everyone had more free time instead of going to work or school.

He opened a short video that a user shot when he was bored at home. In the video, a middle-aged man was fishing for goldfish in a fish tank. He complained in a smiling tone that there were no zombies outside but he still couldn’t go out, and the dog at home was about to destroy the house.

The hearty tone reached everyone’s ears, but it made everyone feel as if they had fallen into an icy cave, and their whole bodies were chilled.

An ability user who followed Li Si and killed many people with him was stunned. He shook his head in disbelief and said, “Impossible… How is it possible… It’s the end of the world?! Zombies have appeared! The animals and plants in the wild have begun to mutate. How can they be the same as before?! Isn’t it said that the world is in chaos now, and order and law have collapsed? Isn’t it said that it is difficult to survive now, and many people have started to eat humans?!”

Seeing the other party’s reaction, the rich man thought that it was true and explained, “Even if the end of the world comes, even if human nature cannot stand the test, don’t we still have the country to support us?”

“Co, country?” A group of people were dumbfounded.

“Yes, we have a country to manage us, so there will be no chaos in the country even if the end of the world comes. Food and water are delivered to every household on time. Except that we have to stay at home and cannot go out, there is no difference from before. I also use the computer to command my subordinates to work remotely…”

The rich man said: “You can also use your mobile phone to check the Internet. It is the same all over the country. Everyone is staying at home and waiting for the disaster to pass.”

The more the ability user listened, the paler his face became. When he thought about what he had done in the past few days, he almost went crazy.

What did he do?

Breaking into private houses, raping women, killing people for fun… In the past, any one of these things would have ruined his reputation and made him unable to hold his head up for the rest of his life. He obviously didn’t dare to do those things, but thinking that the end of the world was coming and the constraints on his head were gone, he was infected by Li Si’s self-righteous attitude and imitated his behavior without any bottom line.

The ability user said in despair: “That is to say, the order has not collapsed, the country is fine, and the army is even better…”

The rich man looked at him with pity, and became more and more certain that this group of people were deceived by Li Si. During this period of time, he was concentrating on rushing on the highway and did not pay attention to the situation outside. He said earnestly: “Yes, everything is the same as before…”

As soon as these words came out, everyone present went completely crazy.

The ability user trembled all over and raised his head with red eyes.

He looked at the group of “witnesses” around him who had witnessed his murder. Flames surrounded him, rising and falling like their breathing, ready to move.

It’s not that all the people in the team were bad. At least most of them were not as crazy as him to kill people. Their hands were clean, so the way they looked at him was very subtle.

The ability user couldn’t accept this look of sympathy and schadenfreude. He said angrily with red eyes: “What do you mean by your eyes… Do you think I’m pitiful? Do you think I’m stupid!!”

The ability user could not accept this absurd reality, and suddenly roared at the rich man: “Why! Why! Why! Why can you stay at home safely without any danger, why should I foolishly cross the city to kill those monster plants and zombies at this time… Why can’t I even have a hot meal or a bath, but you mortals can live a good life like before! Why! “

The more the ability user person thought about it, the more he collapsed. He didn’t know why he should have made the best choice, but ended up at the bottom of the world. Now he was a robber, rapist, and murderer. He could never live an ordinary life again. Even if he became an ability user, he couldn’t become a superior person. He was almost going crazy with regret!!

“Damn it, damn it, damn it, I’m going to kill you! I can’t go back anyway, so even if I kill a few more people -“

The father of the ability user suddenly came over, as if he could not see the flames. He opened his arms and hugged his child tightly, choking with sobs and saying sadly, “That’s enough, son. That’s enough.”

The ability user hurriedly retracted the flame, looked at his father with red eyes, and said in a trembling voice: “Dad…”

The middle-aged man was in great pain: “Son, it’s Dad’s fault. Dad didn’t support you in time… At that time, Li Si accurately predicted the coming of the end of the world, and Dad misunderstood his words, which caused you to become like this…”

He clearly saw his son commit murder and many illegal crimes, but he did not stop it.

This was the retribution that both father and son deserved.

Tears flowed from the eyes of the ability user, and he clenched his fists and said angrily: “No, it’s not your fault! It’s Li Si! It’s all Li Si’s fault! He deceived us! He brought us to this place and asked us to kill people! Before, he used the excuse of making us brave and asking each of us to actively kill people, but in fact he was deliberately dragging us into the water!”

After learning the truth, those who were eager to prove their innocence immediately agreed with this statement, saying one after another: “That’s right! It’s all his fault! He is the one who hurt us!”

The rich man reminded: “In this case, how about we tell more people about this and let them catch Li Si together?”

Everyone’s eyes suddenly lit up, and they all said in agreement: “Good idea!”