Everyone followed Cao Mei and walked into the building. The situation in the building was not as good as everyone expected. The Marcus sand blown in from the broken windows covered almost every corner inside. A large number of tables, chairs and benches fell to the ground, and even only one corner of the buried generals was exposed. Everyone sighed in disappointment. It seemed that it was a Marcus sand world with no grass growing on it, both inside and outside.
"Everyone go to the restaurant on the second floor to gather together and collect food while ensuring safety." Jack stopped and looked around. After confirming that there was not much danger, he stepped forward and knocked the gun tightly in Cao Mei's hand. In the latter's puzzled eyes, he pointed outside and said loudly, "Those who hold guns should pay attention and try not to fire guns unless necessary. Although they have temporarily lost their sense of smell, their hearing is still not weak."
After speaking, Jack pointed to his ear and glanced at Cao Mei with a deep look. The latter bit her lower lip and nodded, her somewhat domineering expression turning pale in an instant.
Facing the few living corpses left in the building, Boss Hu showed his macho side again. He took a Gurkha knife that he accidentally found and chopped off the heads of several living corpses with ease. He proudly raised his eyebrows at his lover Ruianli, who immediately came up with a coquettish face, wiping sweat and handing him water.
"Lao Hu, change your knife with Bai Ru's. That knife is not suitable for you," Jack said calmly while sipping a bottle of mineral water.
"No way, this knife is quite sharp!" Boss Hu looked at the exquisite black curved knife in his hand, and his expression seemed a bit reluctant.
"The dog-leg knife is more suitable for shorter and less strong South Asians. At nearly 1.8 meters tall, you should use the long chopping knife in Bai Ru's hand to unleash greater power!" Jack took the curved knife from Hu Laoda, glanced at it, and said with a smile, "It's a knockoff from Cold Steel, barely passable!"
"Damn, there are knockoff knives too?" Hu Laoda grimaced, hesitating as he looked at Bai Ru beside him, but he still walked over and handed the knife to her. After receiving the spring steel chopping knife from Bai Ru, he weighed it in his hand and finally nodded in satisfaction.
Under Michael's search, everyone quickly cleared out all the active corpses in the building. The girls immediately rushed to the backyard with their clothes to enjoy an outdoor bath, while Jack and Hu Laoda consciously went outside the main door, not mixing with the girls. They also wanted to quickly wash their bodies inside and out; such a rare heavy rain might not come again for a long time!
"This rain is really something; I haven't seen it rain for this long in ages!" Hu Laoda said, scratching the foam on his head while mumbling and looking at the rolling dark clouds in the sky. A half bottle of Head & Shoulders was sitting at his feet, a trophy he had obtained from a corpse.
"Hurry up and wash, while the rain is still falling. We need to block the main door quickly; there are quite a few active corpses in the square!" Jack turned to look at the scattered active corpses in the parking lot. In the pouring rain, these tireless zombies were looking up at the sky with blank expressions, their faces seemingly showing a rare piety, but Jack knew it was just an illusion. Once the rain stopped, their true ferocity would be revealed!
Jack had no intention of dealing with these active corpses. As long as they were properly contained, they posed no threat and could even serve as a warning against some ill-intentioned humans. So, after rinsing the foam off his head and washing his body, he turned and re-entered the building.
"Wait for me a moment; I need to take a dump!" Hu Laoda also rinsed off the foam from his head, picked up a copy of the "Traffic Guide" from the ground, and hurriedly ran to one side of the eaves to take care of business.
"Bang~"
Just as Jack returned to the hall and put on his pants, he heard a dull gunshot coming from the backyard of the building. He was startled and immediately recognized it as the sound of the Type 81 rifle he had given to Bai Ru. To maximize the use of the weapon, after Jack's instruction, Bai Ru had handed the shotgun to the eager Jiao Jiao that morning while she took up the well-maintained Type 81 rifle herself.
Hearing the gunshot, Jack didn't have time to put on his clothes. He quickly drew his handgun and rushed toward the backyard. He had just warned them that unless necessary, they should not fire the gun casually. Now that a shot had been fired, something serious must have happened!
Jack burst out of the backyard door like a whirlwind and immediately saw Bai Ru, who was only wearing underwear, standing under the eaves of the yard, steadily holding her Type 81 rifle. The other women were still naked, hiding behind her, while Cao Mei was only wearing a pair of black panties, her full and alluring upper body exposed, unabashedly aiming her shotgun at the three unfamiliar men not far away.
The backyard of the service area wasn't very large, but because it was by the river, it was designed with some taste, featuring stone benches, artificial hills, and fountains. Beside the tall Taihu stone artificial hill in the yard, three weary-looking unfamiliar men were staring in terror at Bai Ru and the others, one of them had been shot and was lying on the ground, clutching his thigh soaked in hot blood, howling in pain.
"What's going on?" Jack furrowed his brows and slowly walked to the women's side, but he did not relax his grip on the gun.
"Those three men suddenly appeared out of nowhere and tried to assault us. I gave them a shot!" When Bai Ru saw Jack arrive, she put down her Type 81 rifle, keeping a vigilant eye on the movements of the men while quickly getting dressed with the other women. Their bodies were completely exposed in front of Jack; not just anyone could look at them indiscriminately!
"Big brother, please... please don't misunderstand, we just wanted to joke around with a few girls, we really had no other intentions!"
A middle-aged man on the right, wearing mismatched camouflage pants and a greasy deep red T-shirt, saw Jack approaching with the gun and immediately knelt down with another companion, continuously pleading.
"Are you survivors from the settlement?" Jack glanced at the homemade spears and shields thrown on the ground by the three men. Although they were cold weapons, they had been finely welded and processed, and given their relatively good condition, this situation could only occur in a relatively comfortable settlement.
"Big brother, we came out to look for food. We have to go out once a week, and today we just happened to search here. We really just wanted to joke around!" The younger man on the left, while helping his injured companion who was rolling on the ground in pain, looked at Jack nervously, showing none of the lewdness from before.
"Bullshit! Holding onto our sisters and touching them is called joking? You clearly just wanted to bully us!" Cao Mei, having put on her clothes, walked up with a face full of anger, her black shotgun aimed directly at the young man's head. After cutting down quite a few zombies on the way these past few days, she had developed a tangible killing intent!
"Sister, we... we wouldn't dare! We really just wanted to joke with you!" The young man trembled violently like a leaf in the wind at the sight of Cao Mei's gun, completely ignoring his injured companion as he desperately tried to back away.
Jack gently pressed his hand on Cao Mei's gun, urging her to lower the muzzle. He glanced at the three men for a moment, then asked after a slight pause, "How long have you been out?"
"Three... it's been three days, big brother!" The young man urged Thomas to stop, swallowing hard as he replied.
"How far is your gathering place from here? How many people are there?"
"If we walk, it will take two days to get there. We have about five or six thousand people..."
"Five or six thousand people? That's quite a scale!" Jack nodded thoughtfully, then tilted his head to look at the three men's sagging backpacks behind them, suddenly sneering, "You guys must be out here for more than just food. The more you search for food, the less you seem to have!"
As soon as Jack's words fell, except for the guy who had been shot and was gradually losing consciousness, the other two changed their expressions and exchanged awkward glances. After a moment, the middle-aged man honestly replied, "We are indeed not out here looking for food; we... we are here to find someone!"
"Find someone? Who are you looking for?" Jack frowned again, his intuition telling him that these people could not possibly be here to rescue survivors.
"There... there's a kid who killed our boss's son, and we are here to find him!" The middle-aged man stammered, and the young man beside him quickly nodded in agreement. However, just as he wanted to add something, his eyes suddenly lit up with excitement as he looked eagerly behind Jack, a look of ecstatic relief on his face, which made Jack's heart instinctively skip a beat.