Lin Yu had spent nearly two months with this group. Naturally, he knew exactly what Huang Mao was like.
Before the apocalypse, he had been a small-time punk.
After it began, he had gotten lucky and become a Beyonder.
And people like him...
cared about their pride more than anything.
Embarrass him, and he could hold a grudge for a month. If anything happened, he might take the opportunity to trip you up.
On the other hand, show him respect, and he would give you a hand when he could.
One piece of bread bought a potential future ally and eliminated a certain enemy.
There were only benefits, no drawbacks.
In the past, a piece of bread might have been an absolutely vital resource to Lin Yu.
Now, it wasn't quite so important.
With his analysis ability, starving to death would be difficult!
Just then, the man in his forties approached him, his face full of gratitude. "Thank you. I was going to choose B too, but then I saw you standing here..."
"You looked like a smart kid, so I followed you."
"If I hadn't... "
"I'd be dead too!"
He glanced at the six corpses on the other side, still shaken by how close he had come to sharing their fate.
"No need to thank me. It had nothing to do with me."
Lin Yu turned and walked back into the crowd.
If he remembered correctly, the man was called Wang Tian.
He was a pitiful soul. As soon as the apocalypse began, his wife and daughter had died horribly at the hands of supernatural horrors. He alone had escaped.
But in the apocalypse...
who wasn't pitiful?
Even those Beyonders...
were no different.
He had barely returned to the crowd when a seductive woman with a stunning figure and thin, revealing clothes approached. Swaying her hips, she leaned forward in front of him, exposing a broad expanse of pale skin. Her eyes shimmered as she spoke in a weak, pleading voice.
"Hey, handsome. Could you spare me half a piece of bread?"
"If you do, tonight I... could keep you very good company."
As she spoke, she deliberately thrust out her chest.
Lin Yu didn't even look up. His voice was hard and ice-cold.
"Get lost."
Her expression turned ugly. She trembled with anger. She hadn't expected him to be so heartless. She was a reasonably attractive woman, after all!
And she was more than confident in her figure!
She had come on to him so openly, only to be told... to get lost?
Her face darkened.
"You..."
With a calm look, Lin Yu drew a dagger from inside his clothes and instantly pressed it against her chest.
"What about me?"
Feeling the metal against her skin, the woman froze in terror. Her face drained of color and her legs weakened. Fear filled her eyes as she stammered, "N-no... Please..."
Lin Yu's expression never changed. Keeping the dagger against her skin, he slowly slid it upward, then...
pressed it against her throat.
One push would be enough to make blood bloom.
Many nearby survivors turned to watch, their eyes filled with shock and wariness.
Who would have thought...
that this young, good-looking man could be so ruthless...?
The woman's face was deathly pale. Despair overwhelmed her, and tears of fear spilled down her cheeks.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry... I only wanted..."
Before she could finish,
Lin Yu put away the dagger and said coldly,
"Get lost!"
Feeling as if she had narrowly escaped death, her legs gave out and she sank to the ground.
For that brief moment...
she had felt...
as though Lin Yu really intended to kill her.
Other survivors with schemes of their own immediately marked him as someone not to provoke. They didn't dare approach him. Instead, they turned their attention to the slender woman and the middle-aged man, who had also just obtained food.
Of course...
because of the Survival Squad's rules, they didn't dare rob them outright. They could only try other methods.
Lin Yu sheathed his dagger, his gaze as calm as ever.
He hadn't been bluffing.
If the woman had kept talking, he would have driven the blade in.
It wouldn't have been his first time killing someone anyway.
The first time was unfamiliar...
the second came easier.
In the apocalypse, if you didn't even dare kill another person, you might as well die sooner rather than later.
The seductive woman who had approached him was named Zhou Mei. Since joining the group, she had participated in only one [Choice], and that had been one they could be one hundred percent certain was harmless.
By all rights...
she shouldn't have had enough supplies.
And yet, she had survived until now. She was even doing fairly well.
She managed it by selling her body.
Half a piece of bread bought a night.
A bottle of water bought a night.
In this brutal apocalypse, a person's body really was a useful thing to trade.
But Lin Yu wasn't interested.
He found it dirty.
Just then...
words flashed across the screen again.
A second [Choice] appeared!
"If you were offered a random vehicle and had to pick one of the following options, which would you choose...?"
"A: Lose one hand."
"B: Race an Arcane Rabbit and win."
The moment they saw the [Choice], everyone's breathing quickened. Their eyes reddened with excitement!
A vehicle!
It was actually a vehicle!
What mattered most when fleeing through the apocalypse?
First, food.
Second, transportation.
For a Survival Squad that constantly had to stay on the run, vehicles were second only to food in importance!
When danger came, you didn't need to be the fastest.
You only needed to be faster than someone else.
Their group had just eight vehicles, and that included bicycles.
The remaining hundred-odd people could only follow on foot whenever they moved.
If danger really struck, they would be the first to die!
Owning a vehicle would put you ahead of more than a hundred people, right at the front of the group!
And now...
they had a chance to get one!
This was an opportunity that might never come again!
The survivors grew excited.
"A vehicle! It's actually a vehicle!"
"If I could get one, even losing a hand... would be worth it. My life matters a lot more than a hand!"
"What kind of rabbit is an Arcane Rabbit? I wonder how fast it is."
"Forget it. Humans can't outrun even an ordinary rabbit!"
"But what if we can? It's just a race. It shouldn't be dangerous, right?"
"Not dangerous? Heh. Why don't you try it?"
"I... Never mind..."
The survivors were thrilled.
Even the few Beyonders narrowed their eyes with interest.
Vehicles didn't just mean ordinary things like jeeps, cars, and electric scooters. Beyonder Vehicles with special abilities also fell into that category.
Rumor had it that someone in Yunzhou had obtained a flying sword as a vehicle. He could ride it through the air and use it to kill, instantly joining the ranks of the strongest Beyonders!
If...
they could obtain a special Beyonder Vehicle...
even the deaths of every ordinary survivor would be worth it!
Interest showed in Chen Sui's eyes. A smile curled his lips as he swept his gaze over the crowd...