#201 - Chapter 201 What are you afraid of?

December 30th.

The cold not only didn't ease, but continued to intensify, with today's temperature reaching -35 degrees Celsius!

Survivors from the south had never even seen this kind of temperature.

Green Origin Base completely restricted going outside. Except for essential security patrols, almost no one dared to leave their homes.

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Guangyuan City.

Longmen County.

This county, adjacent to Fenghe County, was also experiencing a terrible cold wave.

Being close to Shenzhen and Guangzhou, many clever survivors had already fled the big cities, hiding in these relatively sparsely populated towns.

At this moment, in an old residential area.

After the initial disasters, not a single one of the original survivors in this residential area remained alive; they had either fled or died.

But recently, a group of uninvited guests had arrived.

This was a survivor group of more than a dozen people.

As the city was being sealed off by snow, they barely managed to find this place and temporarily settled down.

"Brother Long, we've been here for almost two weeks, and the snow shows no sign of stopping. We haven't eaten for two days, and we can't go far at all. If this continues, the brothers are going to starve to death!"

A young man wearing dirty, thick clothes, with sunken cheeks and dark circles under his eyes, said.

As he spoke, he revealed a mouthful of yellowish, rotten teeth, and a foul stench emanated from his mouth.

Opposite him, several people were sitting around on sofas.

Almost all of them were men, except for one in the middle, a man with a huge scar running from the corner of his eye to the corner of his mouth, who was holding the only woman present, who was wearing a mink coat.

The yellow-toothed young man was speaking to this scarred man.

The man leaned back on the sofa, his right arm around the woman in the mink coat. His eyes, shaped like the Chinese character 八 (ba), turned to the man who spoke. As he began to speak, the scar contorted with his face like a centipede, and an aura of ferocity emanated from him.

"You think I'm not hungry!? I haven't eaten for two days either! And I have to 'output' at night! I'm even hungrier than you guys! Damn it!"

After speaking, he squeezed the softness in his right hand hard.

The woman looked to be about twenty years old. She seemed to have been quite pretty, but after the trials of the apocalypse, without makeup to cover her flaws, her hair had become dry and her cheeks gaunt, and she was no longer radiant.

But she still received Brother Long's favor, and even let out a soft moan when she was pinched, shrinking into her man's arms.

The other men in the room didn't speak as they watched this scene, because they were too hungry to think about anything else.

Right now, everyone had only one thought in their minds: find food!

"It's too damn cold outside right now. You'll freeze to death if you stay out for too long! We've searched all the nearby places and there's nothing to eat! Sigh, are we going to starve to death here!? We haven't even reached that so-called Green Origin Base yet."

One of the men, equally gaunt and pale, couldn't help but speak up.

"Don't mention that Green Origin Base! If we hadn't really come to Guangyuan City to find that base, we wouldn't have ended up stuck in this godforsaken place!"

Brother Long, the scarred man, became enraged when he mentioned this, squeezing the woman again and saying to her:

"It's all your fault! You saw the address on the leaflet and said it was the same place as your bestie, which is why we ran over here! And now we're trapped here! Damn you!"

The woman narrowed her eyes in pain, but didn't dare to cry out. She had learned her lesson before; crying out would only make the man in her arms more excited and vigorous.

After a few seconds, she said, aggrieved:

"I didn't know Li Yan's place was so amazing! I used to see her posting photos saying how good and comfortable her life was after the apocalypse, and I thought she was just showing off. Who knew they even had helicopters now!? And extra food to boss people around."

Upon hearing this, the others in the room chimed in.

"It's your fault for not saying so sooner!"

"Yeah! If you had said it earlier, we would have gone to that Green Origin Base to live the high life! You said your bestie is the leader's woman at that base? Then we could have gone over and mooched off them!"

"Exactly! What do we do now? I'm so damn hungry."

Everyone complained weakly, as if the woman had committed some heinous crime.

The woman didn't dare to speak at this point, feeling wronged.

She had been living well with Brother Long before, so why would she want to rely on her 'bestie'?

Wouldn't that just be offering her face to her bestie to step on?

As long as they could survive, women would never admit defeat!

So, some time ago, when it became increasingly difficult to survive in Shenzhen, and one day a large number of zombies violently attacked their residence, scaring them so much that they didn't sleep all night.

Then, a couple of days later, they saw helicopters dropping leaflets.

When the woman saw the contents and the map on the back, she was stunned as if struck by lightning.

She didn't expect that the location was the same place Li Yan had told her about.

Jealousy had immediately distorted her face.

After weighing the situation and struggling for a long time, she finally couldn't help but tell Brother Long, the nominal leader of their survivor group, about it, for a better life.

A 'ruthless person' who had been involved in society before the apocalypse.

She had met this man before the apocalypse, and the two of them were having dinner together when the apocalypse arrived before they could even enter the night. Since then, she had been surviving with him.

Relying on his ruthlessness, Brother Long had recruited many survivors along the way. During this time, there had been some bumps, and other than a few disobedient survivors who were locked in another room, everyone else was in this room.

"We have to think of a solution, or we're really going to starve to death!"

The yellow-toothed youth in the room said weakly.

"Who doesn't know we need to think of a solution!? But is there a solution? We can't find any food nearby, and going far away means death! How is there a solution!? I'm almost starving to death too! I'd be happy to eat a big meal of meat before I die! At least I'd be a well-fed dead man!"

"Sigh, I really want to eat meat! I used to ignore meat, but now I can't afford it. If I had another chance, I would never waste the food I used to throw away! I'd be happy to stuff myself to death!"

In the room, everyone involuntarily expressed their longing for the good life of the peaceful era.

Some things are only cherished after they are lost.

"Meat!? You're dreaming! I'd be happy with a little bit of porridge now! Even if it had shit mixed in, I'd still eat it!"

One of the men said with red eyes, baring his teeth. When people are extremely hungry, they are indeed willing to eat even shit.

Brother Long, the scarred face man holding the woman, felt a burst of irritability listening to everyone's noisy complaints. Coupled with the fact that his stomach was empty, he felt even more agitated.

But when he heard them constantly mentioning eating meat, a thought flashed through his mind!

Since everyone wasn't even afraid of death or shit?

Then what were they afraid of?

(End of Chapter)