Chapter 11 The Method

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Slap!

As she realized the blonde woman was about to erupt with malice, the little girl's mother, whose body had been weak and powerless, suddenly seemed to explode with immense strength. She rushed forward swiftly, hugged her child, and looked at the blonde woman with furious, panicked eyes.

Several others nearby tried to step forward and stop the blonde woman, but she brandished the dagger in her hand, keeping everyone at bay.

"You bunch of stupid pigs, brainless idiots… Don't you know that if you don't do as I say right now, everyone will die! Those who are injured, old, sick, and children, their chances of survival are already so low, why waste precious food on them?" The blonde woman was practically deranged. She was close to collapsing from hunger and thirst, striding forward with the dagger in her hand.

There were some elderly people and survivors weakened by illness there. She glared at them, raising her knife to stab one of them.

But her attack failed, because some young men stood in front of her, grabbed her wrist, and pushed her back hard.

"You know I'm right, so why don't you do as I say?" the blonde woman screamed, her eyes bloodshot.

A young man with a gloomy expression said in broken EU language, "Even if the food runs out, we won't allow you to kill at will… because those you want to abandon are our families."

This air-raid shelter was in a special location, beneath temporary housing. When the disaster occurred, most of those who took refuge here were relatives who lived together in the temporary housing above the shelter.

This was also why the food and water resources in this air-raid shelter were severely depleted, but there had been no scenes of mad抢奪厮杀 (qiangduo si sha – frantic looting and killing) like in other doomsday survival spaces, because everyone had family. No one could guarantee that while killing others, their own family wouldn't be killed in return…

Under these circumstances, the entire air-raid shelter maintained a rare peace.

But now, the blonde woman wanted to destroy that peace.

The blonde woman was clearly going mad. She had broken down and was beginning to lose control, slashing out with her knife at those who stood in her way.

Just as a bloody slaughter was about to unfold, a loud "thud" suddenly came from the air-raid shelter door.

Everyone instinctively fell silent.

Because this kind of noise meant that a mutated beast might be wandering outside the door…

Glurp…

Someone swallowed hard, looking in the direction of the sound.

"Thud, thud, thud!" A rhythmic knocking sound continued.

"I don't think that sounds like a mutated beast hitting the door, it sounds like someone is… knocking." The Yan Huang man stammered, "Could there be someone outside the door?"

Sizzle…

In the dim underground air-raid shelter, the signal device displayed a line of letters again.

Translated into Yan Huang language, the meaning of this line of letters should be… "Open the door."

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Tss!

With a hiss of pneumatic hydraulic release, the one-meter-thick steel door slowly opened a crack. After fifteen days, the survivors finally saw the world outside the air-raid shelter.

Bloody, cruel.

In front of the heavy door of the air-raid shelter were a large number of mutated beasts and human corpses. Lu Chi stood in front of the pile of corpses, squinting at the interior.

Darkness, stench, crampedness, despair, oppression. In an instant, Lu Chi looked at the air-raid shelter, and a large number of negative emotions surged in his heart. Even he felt a little tightness in his chest.

Most of the people were as thin as rakes, sitting or lying in the corners like walking corpses.

"Are you from the Yan Huang Nation's rescue team? Thank God, I've finally waited!" The Yan Huang man who opened the door burst into tears when he saw Lu Chi, and the others also struggled to stand up, looking at Lu Chi with hopeful eyes.

Lu Chi glanced at these people, and said after a moment of silence, "Let's go inside and talk."

Two minutes later, the heavy steel door closed again.

Lu Chi and the Yan Huang man sat near the door, and the other survivors, seeing this, also gathered around. Lu Chi was their only hope now.

"Are you the only one who arrived? Are the other large forces outside clearing out the mutated beasts?" The Yan Huang man asked softly, his voice full of joy.

Lu Chi looked at the man, and said after a moment of silence, "I am indeed here to rescue you, but there is no large force. And I am not from the Yan Huang Nation's official forces, I belong to a private organization."

"Private organization…" The Yan Huang man was obviously extremely shocked. He couldn't imagine that in this situation, there would be a private organization venturing into this ruined city. "Then how do you plan to take us away?"

"I have prepared a helicopter, and some special transportation…" The special transportation that Lu Chi spoke of was a huge mechanical blue whale beast king, its mouth could accommodate forty people, and the target was much smaller than a gunboat.

The crowd began to get excited when they heard this.

"My previous plan was very good, but now this plan has encountered some trouble… I may not be able to take all of you away." Lu Chi said, one word at a time.

"…" The Yan Huang man was stunned.

"Besides the crazy mutated beasts on this island, there is also a group of people even more insane than the mutated beasts. They will attack me. Under their pursuit, I cannot protect all of you to leave the city center safely and reach the helicopter landing point," Lu Chi said.

Some people who could understand Yan Huang language became uneasy at this time.

No one wanted to be abandoned, and everyone wanted to seize this only chance to survive, but the final decision was in Lu Chi's hands, and they could only listen to Lu Chi's arrangements.

"I originally wanted to play with them slowly, killing them all one by one before taking you away… But looking at your condition now, many people may not be able to hold on until then," Lu Chi said. "So, I need to speed up this process. I need to lure them out faster, and try to kill them all in a day, or even half a day."

The Yan Huang man was full of worry: "Is… is that so…"

"So, you need to help me." Lu Chi suddenly turned his head and looked directly at the Yan Huang man.

The Yan Huang man was dumbfounded: "How can we help you? We are a group of old, weak, sick, and disabled people… I really can't think of how we can help."

"I need some people to walk out of the air-raid shelter, using themselves as bait to attract those enemies hiding in the dark, who are searching for me, because they are particularly sensitive to humans. As soon as they show up, I can kill them in a short time." Lu Chi said very bluntly, "Using this method, I can increase the speed of eliminating enemies by more than ten times, and I don't have to slowly search for their whereabouts."

"The remaining people can also leave here in a short time, get help, and stay away from death."

"However, the mortality rate of the people who go out as bait at the beginning will be close to 100%, because outside there are not only that group of crazy enemies, but also mutated beasts, cold, collapse and all kinds of dangers. Even normal people will find it difficult to survive." Lu Chi did not hide this terrifying fact, and said, "The choice I give you is to sacrifice some people, and choose to let the other part survive."

The Yan Huang man's mind went blank.

Before, he thought that as long as the rescue arrived, everyone would be saved, but the reality was extremely cruel.

The choice Lu Chi gave at this time was not intentionally trying to make things difficult or test these people, but was really forced by helplessness. The condition of these people was really too bad, and they might not be able to survive until he killed the group of EU evolvers. He could only use this method to attract the enemies to show up, so as to achieve the purpose of quickly killing the enemy and quickly rescuing them.

Lu Chi didn't know how this group of people would choose. In the face of desperation, the selfishness of human nature might be magnified to the greatest extent, and few people would be selfless enough to sacrifice themselves to save others.

The final result is that no one stands up, and everyone dies together in the air-raid shelter… That is also possible.

Lu Chi had this psychological preparation since he walked into the air-raid shelter.

The Yan Huang man stood up and began to convey Lu Chi's meaning to the survivors. Soon, the entire air-raid shelter became silent.

"Wuwuwu…" Someone sobbed softly.

The atmosphere of despair enveloped again.

The method Lu Chi gave now was very similar to the method chosen by the blonde woman before. The blonde woman was rejected by everyone before, so what about Lu Chi's method?

He gave this group of survivors three minutes to consider in his heart.

Time passed quickly.

Three minutes, fleeting.

Everyone remained silent.

Lu Chi stood up and walked towards the steel door. He already knew the choice of the survivors. He would use the previous method to slowly find the EU evolvers and kill them. As for how many survivors could still live after killing them…

It depends on fate.

Just then, someone suddenly shouted.

Lu Chi stopped and glanced back.

It was the woman who had shown kindness to the blonde woman before, a doctor by profession. At this time, she stood up and said in Yan Huang language, "I… I'll go with you."

Lu Chi raised his eyebrows.

"I'll go with you, you take my child away and let her live," the woman said, staring at Lu Chi.

"…" Lu Chi was silent for a moment: "You are very brave."

"I'm not brave." The woman shook her head, squatted down, stared at her daughter, gently stroked her forehead with her hand, and said, "It's just her, I want her to live! She is me, I am her, she is the continuation of my life, the proof that I have existed in this world, my wisdom, my experience, and the things I am best at will be taught to her, nothing is more important than her."

"If it was just me here now, I would definitely squat in the darkest corner, unwilling to speak, but she is here, so I must stand up."

"I want her to live, and for this, I am willing to step into the darkest hell."

The woman's voice was not loud, but it had a soul-shaking power.

As her voice fell, after more than ten seconds, some elderly people and some sick middle-aged men and women stood up again, their eyes no longer fearful, but became extremely firm.

They were also afraid, and they were extremely weak.

But when the blonde woman was about to kill them just now, their families and children stood up to protect them, and now, they made the same choice.

The imagined ugly side of human nature did not appear.

Lu Chi and the blonde woman gave the same method, but the results were completely different.

Lu Chi looked at these men and women who were supporting each other, who were extremely weak, and said after a long silence:

"Amazing."