Chapter 617: A person

"Big Brother, spare our lives! We are only holding hostages, don't kill us, Big Brother, spare our lives."

"Spare our lives..."

"Spare our lives..."

After Zhang Su's threat, the hostages being held were the first to kneel and beg for mercy. Several women pleaded bitterly, and the two half-grown boys of thirteen or fourteen also followed suit, kowtowing with thuds.

Zhang Su remained unmoved. Regardless of what the children and women did, his gaze was fixed tightly on the few men in the team holding guns.

Through brief contact, he could determine that not everyone on the other side was combat personnel. Only about nine of them had received systematic training—the official combat personnel of the Longtou Camp. The others had some level of skill, but not enough; they should be considered logistics personnel with some self-preservation ability.

"People come and go for profit. If there are benefits in the Longtou Camp, we naturally stay. If there is danger, can't we leave? You stand on the moral high ground to criticize us, what qualifications do you have?"

A man said indignantly.

"Cut the crap! What qualifications do we have? We are all willing to fight to the death for our brothers—that is the qualification, you bunch of cowards!"

Bang! Pfft...

As soon as Zhao Dezhu finished speaking, another gunshot rang out. This time, it wasn't Zhang Su who fired, but Tan Huajun! The man who had spoken saw his gaze rapidly lose focus. The hand holding the gun had only been raised less than twenty degrees before it dropped, and his body fell to the ground with a thud.

"Ghost Brother!"

The Longtou deserters saw Ghost Brother's state of death and then looked at the person who had fired, feeling terrified. What kind of gods and demons were these? A random fat woman, a minor character who at most worked in the kitchen at the Longtou Camp, could blow someone's head off with a casual shot, and hit the center of the forehead at that!

"The Yama King tells you to put down your weapons! Can't you hear?"

The fat sister spoke with great vigor, and coupled with the thunderous strike just now, it was quite intimidating.

She clearly remembered Zhang Su's instructions: if the other side did anything wrong, open fire. Just now, she had felt uneasy watching them wave their weapons around, so she had fired.

Ke Zhiyu and Zhou Haotian, the two temporary members, looked at Tan Huajun with the same gaze as the Longtou deserters. In the daily training before, the fat sister had been at a medium-to-low level; it turned out she was a god of marksmanship! When Tan Huajun shouted "Yama King," the Longtou deserters were clearly stunned for a moment.

"Did that fat woman just say... Yama King?"

"That's right, I heard it. Damn, we are... too unlucky, how did we run into the Yama King!"

"Then what do we do?"

"Plan C!"

The rapid exchange ended, and they saw someone gently place their weapons on the railway tracks.

"Surrender, I surrender!"

"Yes, we surrender."

"Don't shoot, absolutely don't shoot!"

Soon, everyone had placed their weapons on the ground, including light submachine guns, pistols, and shotguns.

Once one side unloaded their weapons, the atmosphere eased.

Zhang Su remained calm and composed, though he had actually heard everything the other side said. He had many doubts in his heart. He beckoned to the Longtou deserters: "Drop all your bags, walk ten steps forward!"

The Longtou deserters were very obedient this time, taking off their backpacks and leaving them in place with a rustle, then walking forward while herding the hostages—of course, they also left behind two warm corpses.

"Looking at your reaction just now, it seems you have heard of the Yama King?"

Zhang Su asked his question directly.

He had only learned today that the camp in the Shanhai District was called Longtou; before that, he only knew there was a large survivor camp there. Why would the people from Longtou know about him? It was necessary to figure this out!

"I, can I speak?"

A thin, small man raised his hand, a fearful and fawning smile on his face.

Zhang Su looked at the man and recognized him at a glance; he was the guy who had just proposed Plan C. Judging by the tone of their discussion, this thin little guy should have some say, and he might even be the leader of this group.

"What is your name?"

"They, they all call me Skinny Monkey."

"Skinny Monkey, speak!" "Eh, eh, a few days ago, the brothers from the reconnaissance squad brought news back to the camp, saying that there was a Yama King between Niujuan Town and Beidong Town in Qingxian. They didn't know if this Yama King was a slogan, a force name, or someone's nickname, but they just said the Yama King was quite powerful, having no pressure dealing with tens of thousands of zombies. And..."

At this point, Skinny Monkey paused tactically, his eyes wandering to observe the situation, stalling for time to think.

"Continue."

Zhang Su urged calmly.

"And they said the Yama King possesses a capability to create a massive explosion. It's a very terrifying explosion that can vaporize things dozens of meters away in an instant!"

Skinny Monkey's expression was exaggerated as he gestured while describing it.

"Damn, someone was spying on us fighting the zombie horde that day!"

Wu Lue thought of it immediately, because he had also been an observer from a certain angle that day, standing on Tianma Island Mountain, watching the grapes bloom in the distance, and he had gotten goosebumps.

"Little Wu is right, Brother Su, those guys were very close, they could even see the grape explosion. I'm afraid they were the ones who led the zombie horde to the camp, right?"

Guo Dachao's expression was serious.

Zhang Su shook his head in denial: "Can't wrongly accuse people. Those zombie hordes have been wandering nearby, we know that, it has nothing to do with the Longtou people."

The hundred-thousand-strong zombie horde that attacked Qincheng was likely the work of the Longtou Camp, but the zombies in Qingxian had come south from the Qinglong Corps long ago; there was no need to splash dirty water on them.

"Big Brother, the guy who brought the raccoon skin to the Qinglong Corps for trading before, was he also from the Longtou Camp? Damn, those guys have been secretly watching us, it's annoying!"

Zhao Dezhu said with a dark face.

Counting the spying group, they had come four times in total, and Qi Xiaoshuai had almost been killed. This didn't even include those who hadn't been discovered, which made Zhang Su feel a burst of annoyance.

"A person's name is like a tree's shadow. You've become famous. Look, as soon as they heard Yama King, they didn't even resist!" Zheng Xinyu felt Zhang Su's anger and quickly spoke to soothe him.

Zhang Su shook his head helplessly and then looked at the opposite side: "Reconnaissance squad, right? What about now? Where is that reconnaissance squad you mentioned?"

Skinny Monkey shrugged and spread his hands: "In the camp. Zombies have been coming into the pass from outside one after another, and the number is increasing. They don't have the energy to come out. Yama King, the Longtou Camp has no malice toward your precious land, just wanting to inquire about the news of missing members. Besides, we wanted to establish contact with more forces. If it weren't for the zombies getting stronger this time, they should have already met with you. We also have no malice. Look, people have been killed and anger has been vented... of course, it's their fault for speaking without restraint, you were not wrong. We still have to rush to Tang Cheng, can you treat us like a fart and let us go?"

"Why go to Tang Cheng?"

Zhang Su didn't take the bait at all, only asking about what he wanted to know.

Skinny Monkey's expression was awkward, looking like he had to submit: "There is a Righteous Path Society in Tang Cheng, they should have contacted you too, right? Their scale is very large, with very complete safe communities, where tens of thousands of people live. It should be more than all the survivors in Qincheng combined. We plan to defect there."

"Didn't they say three or four thousand? How did it become tens of thousands? Are they blowing up a balloon?"

Lu Yubo remembered the news about the Righteous Path Society on the radio very clearly.

"That's right, the Righteous Path Society only has four thousand people, Brother Zhang, these guys are lying!"

Zhou Haotian suddenly spoke up. Seeing someone looking at him with a puzzled expression, he hurriedly explained: "At that time, people from the Righteous Path Society came to the Le Gou Mall, and I met with their people..."

Actually, it was Liao Youzhi who chatted with the Righteous Path Society people, and Zhou Haotian was slacking off nearby, hearing a lot of news.

"Whether it's three, five, eight thousand, or tens of thousands, it doesn't matter."

Zhang Su waved his hand. The number of people in the Righteous Path Society wasn't the key. They could say whatever they wanted; he didn't care. He was just curious why the Righteous Path Society hadn't come to him, so he asked: "When did the Righteous Path Society people go to the Shanhai District?"

"Ah? No, misunderstanding, the Righteous Path Society didn't go to the Shanhai District. We heard the news on the radio." Skinny Monkey answered with a dry laugh.

Zhang Su nodded in understanding. So the Righteous Path Society had only been to the Le Gou Mall once. After understanding what he wanted to know, he said to Skinny Monkey and the others: "Put down all your things, including weapons, and then you can go."

Hearing this, Skinny Monkey said with a mournful face: "Don't, don't, Yama King Big Brother, you are merciful. It's still two hundred kilometers from here to Tang Cheng. Look at us, this, this... this is no different from killing us."

"Don't talk nonsense! It's at most one hundred and thirty kilometers from here to Tang Cheng along the railway. Where the hell did two hundred kilometers come from? Brother Su, this dog thing is not honest, I suggest killing him directly!"

Pan Guoliang exposed Skinny Monkey's lie. (End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 618 =====

Pan Guoliang exposed the skinny monkey's lie.

(End of chapter)