Reborn in the end of the world, I scavenged in the empty city and bought for free

The smoking man had known for a long time that Zhou Xiaojuan was vain and somewhat selfish, but because of his relationship with Zhou Xiaojuan and the fact that he did have the intention of taking advantage of her, he was always tolerant of her on weekdays, and even when Zhou Xiaojuan was being unreasonable and angry, he still had to patiently coax her back.

But Zhou Xiaojuan's attitude suddenly broke his tense spirit. Anger, fear, disappointment, disgust, and the grievance of having to give in to her when they were together in the past instantly rolled out from his chest.

The smoking man clenched his hands tightly and watched Zhou Xiaojuan pay the bill and leave with an expressionless face at first. Then he waited for half a minute and rushed out again.

The boss who was kneading dough on the chopping board at the door accidentally glanced at him and immediately lowered his head in fear. After the man walked away, he muttered: "Oh my God, why does this man look so fierce? He looks like he wants to kill someone."

Zhou Xiaojuan started out by jogging, and because she was worried that the smoking man would catch up with her, she ran for forty or fifty meters. But the wind outside was too strong, and the cold wind hit her face like a knife. The painful and cold feeling made her very uncomfortable, but because she ran too fast, she got a stitch in the side, so she had to slow down.

Zhou Xiaojuan finally breathed a sigh of relief when she didn't hear the footsteps behind her, but she couldn't help cursing "idiots" in her heart. Even if they wanted to rob the fruit and vegetable store, they should have waited for a while. How could they commit crimes continuously? Moreover, she had told them in advance that there were surveillance cameras outside the store. She didn't know whether these people were showing off or were really stupid. Anyway, if something really happened, it would be better not to implicate her.

She thought that she should not have discussed the matter on the phone, and there should be no direct evidence in the information to show that she was related to this matter. Even if the Security Bureau found out something, it had nothing to do with her. After all, it was not her who did it.

Actually, it wasn't like she didn't gain anything this time. At least she took advantage of this incident to end all ties with the smoking man, so that he wouldn't bother her all the time. It was true that she liked the feeling of being surrounded by men, but she only liked men who matched her in appearance and family background. How could a poor vagrant from the outer shantytown dare to pursue her? If he hadn't been generous and occasionally gave her gifts in the past, she wouldn't bother to pay attention to him!

Zhou Xiaojuan had already walked downstairs to her home. The street lights on both sides were turned on but it was just as good as not on. Moreover, for some reason, a layer of white mist rose up, making the originally dim objects even darker.

Fortunately, he didn't chase after her. He must have realized the gap in status between him and her and gave up.

But just when Zhou Xiaojuan breathed a sigh of relief, a powerful force knocked her away from behind, or rather pushed her away.

The ground was already slippery due to the morning mist. Zhou Xiaojuan was pushed three or four meters away and fell heavily to the ground. Her elbow hit the ground and she grimaced in pain.

But before she could open her mouth to question, her entire hair was pulled up forcefully, forcing her to look up and face a face that was slightly distorted and hideous due to extreme anger.

"Zhou Xiaojuan, I'm telling you, don't think you can get yourself out of this. If I really get caught, I won't let you off easily. I'll be the first one to give you up!" The smoking man grabbed her head and pressed it in front of him. The force of the pull caused Zhou Xiaojuan's fairly pretty face to be slightly deformed.

"You're crazy! Let me go now. Do you hear me?" Zhou Xiaojuan tried to pry the smoker's wrist with both hands, but unfortunately, that hand seemed to be welded. No matter how hard she tried, she couldn't make him let go.

The smoking man sneered, "Let you go? Fine, you find me a place to live, and I tell you, no one can know where I'm going. Don't think you're fine just because you didn't smash the store. Don't forget, even if there's no direct evidence, if things really get out of hand, I can make sure your Zhou family can't live in this area. And your dad, I remember you said you'd evaluate and promote him at the end of the year, right? If he's affected by this incident at this critical juncture, do you think he can still be a leader?"

"You...you threaten me?" Zhou Xiaojuan glared, and then anger filled her eyes.

"Zhou Xiaojuan, you are unkind and unjust. I was too good to you in the past, so you were so arrogant. Do you really think I like you? If your family conditions were not good, would I like you? Take a look at yourself. Without your parents, you are nothing!"

"You, shut up, let me go!" Zhou Xiaojuan's eyes were rolling around, and she glanced at the lights not far away. When she was about to scream, the smoker covered her mouth with his other hand.

"I'm telling you, don't play tricks on me. I'm at my wit's end now anyway. People with bare feet are not afraid of people with shoes. At worst, we can die together!" The smoking man changed his covering hand to pinching her jaw, his tone fierce and rapid.

At this moment, a noise was heard not far away. It was a man who had just finished his night shift riding a bicycle towards this direction.

Zhou Xiaojuan seemed to have seen hope, and used all her strength to push the smoking man away, but she forgot that her hair was still being pulled. In addition, the smoking man also saw the cyclist and was prepared. He pulled Zhou Xiaojuan's head even harder, and suddenly applied force with the palm of his hand that was holding her jaw, which made Zhou Xiaojuan burst into tears in pain.

When the cyclist passed by, he saw some people downstairs of the unit next door, but because the light was too dim, he thought they were a young couple hugging and kissing each other, and even showed a smile on his face. He quickened his pedaling speed and rode past the two people in a flash.

Zhou Xiaojuan looked up at the smoking man, and there was a gleam of success in the other's eyes.

However, Zhou Xiaojuan did not give up. She kicked the smoker's calf with force. This action successfully made the smoker relax the force of pulling her hair because of the pain.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Zhou Xiaojuan pushed the other person away and turned around to run upstairs, but she was pulled back by the smoking man after only two steps. This time, he slapped her to the ground.

"I told you not to play tricks on me, believe it or not, I'm going to kill you right here!"

Zhou Xiaojuan was so dizzy from the slap that she started crying, "I don't have any money either. You asked me to find a place for you to stay. Where can I find one?"

"Oh, can't find it? If you can't find it, I think I'll just stay at your house. Just tell them that I'm your boyfriend and I'm coming to stay at your house for a while." The smoking man sneered, gritting his teeth.

Zhou Xiaojuan shook her head frantically: "No, how can you live in my house?"

"No? If not, I will tell your parents about your plan to smash up the fruit and vegetable store, and by the way, I can also tell them how you deceived other men before."

"You...my parents won't believe you." Zhou Xiaojuan said angrily.

"It's up to you whether you believe it or not. I'll give you two minutes to think about it. If you can't think about it, I'll go upstairs and knock on the door."

"Don't knock, don't... How about this, I'll give you my brand-name card, which has more than a thousand points. I'll find a recharge point that accepts card swipes and give you all these points."

"One thousand points? What can these do? Do you really think I need your money? Let me tell you, Zhou Xiaojuan, all I need now is a place to hide. I identified you before the Security Bureau gave up on this case. We are in the same boat, so don't try to leave me alone." After saying that, he pushed Zhou Xiaojuan to the ground.

Zhou Xiaojuan was angry and hurt, but she didn't dare to continue to annoy the other party at this time. She didn't want to let the smoker live in her house. Isn't that inviting a wolf into the house?

Seeing that Zhou Xiaojuan didn't say anything, the smoking man continued, "What? Are you not convinced? If you are not convinced, just keep it to yourself. Do you think you are really innocent? If you hadn't instigated me, would I have taken the risk to stand up for you? You really hurt me badly. That is not an ordinary fruit and vegetable store. A simple smashing incident actually mobilized so many self-defense forces. This is not right. I should have thought of it a long time ago. The quality of the fruits there is so good, and the person who can get the goods through the channel must be an extraordinary person."

Zhou Xiaojuan lowered her head and said nothing, but in fact she had quietly picked up a stone that she had just picked up. The stone was very small, but extremely sharp. It should be the leftover scraps from the nearby renovation. She could feel the edge was a little prickly when she held it in her palm.

The smoking man thought Zhou Xiaojuan was scared, and was feeling proud as he walked up to her and pulled her hair again. Just when he wanted to see how pitiful Zhou Xiaojuan looked, Zhou Xiaojuan, who had been staying still, suddenly made a scratching gesture towards his face.

The stinging pain on his left cheek made the smoker let go of his hand, and sticky blood continued to flow down his face.

slip.

Zhou Xiaojuan didn't expect that she would be so strong, but her instinct for survival made her step back immediately.

"You bitch!" The smoking man wiped the blood off his face and kicked Zhou Xiaojuan forward. Zhou Xiaojuan fell to the ground immediately. Just as he raised his foot to kick her a second time, he suddenly felt something inside his body moving rapidly.

The smoking man stopped moving all of a sudden. He could even feel something on his back trying to break out of his skin. Scared, he quickly took off his coat and slapped his back frantically with his hands.

Zhou Xiaojuan, who escaped the disaster, retreated cautiously, but because she was kicked just now, she couldn't stand up for a while. She could only sit on the ground and watch the smoker a few meters away slapping herself frantically, first on the back, then on the waist and then on the thighs. His whole movements at this time were like a person possessed by evil spirits, dancing and screaming at the same time.

[The smoking man went to Zhou Xiaojuan but was rejected and ridiculed, so he attacked Zhou Xiaojuan. The blood vines in his body started to flare up. It turned out that the vines in the masked man's body last night had entered his body.]

"Puchi" a sound similar to human skin breaking was heard.

The smoking man was startled, and the anger and panic on his face quickly turned into fear.

The wriggling feeling stopped, but it was accompanied by something crawling out from behind him. The fear delayed his feeling of pain, but accompanied by the feeling of something being sucked out of his body, the smoker suddenly felt his legs kneeling on the ground uncontrollably. Soon after, the organs in his body seemed to be gnawed and sucked bit by bit by something, and his mouth was filled with a strong smell of blood.

“Help, help…”

The smoking man fell to the ground, his eyes were full of red bloodshot, but if you look closely, you will find that they are not bloodshot at all but red threads that can wriggle.

The smoker could no longer say any more words, but his instinct for survival made him crawl towards Zhou Xiaojuan little by little, with his fingers pressed tightly against the floor. He seemed like a completely different person, and his face was as pale as freshly painted putty.

Not only that, Zhou Xiaojuan even discovered that his hands were shrinking rapidly, and the skin on them was visibly becoming dry and losing its normal elasticity.

Blood kept oozing out from the corners of the man's mouth, ears, and nostrils. In less than two minutes, the smoker had lost a lot of weight, or rather, shrunk a lot.

His original height of 1.7 meters was visibly reduced to the size of a child of 11 or 12 years old.

Zhou Xiaojuan had never seen such a horrific thing before. She was so frightened that she even forgot to ask for help. She could only watch the man gradually turn into a pool of blood.

Zhou Xiaojuan covered her mouth, tears streaming down her face because of the scene before her. She hadn't even realized what was happening.

How could a normal person turn into a pool of blood?

If it weren't for the clothes of the smoking man on the ground reminding her that this was not a dream, she would even suspect that there was something wrong with her mental health.

In mid-January, the north wind was so strong that people couldn't open their eyes, but it also helped Zhou Xiaojuan regain some consciousness.

Although she was scared, Zhou Xiaojuan felt at this moment that the disappearance of the smoking man was not a bad thing for her.

Anyway, she didn't kill the person, so she didn't need to feel any guilt. Besides, no one could use or threaten her anymore.

After thinking about this, Zhou Xiaojuan felt a lot more relaxed. Before it got completely light, she suppressed her nausea, wrapped the remaining clothes of the smoker in the leaves next to her and threw them into the trash can.

When Zhou Xiaojuan returned home panting, her mother happened to get up to go to the bathroom. She was startled when she saw Zhou Xiaojuan in a mess.

"Where have you been? Why are you like this?"

Zhou Xiaojuan calmed down a little, and the smile on her face was a little guilty: "Oh, I went out to buy breakfast and fell on the way."

Although Zhou's mother was still suspicious, she didn't notice Zhou Xiaojuan's swollen face in the dark, and she was still sleepy, so she nodded: "Then be careful when you go out next time, and go out before dawn. It's pitch black outside, and your father and I are worried."

Zhou Xiaojuan went back to her room, changed her clothes, and then wrapped herself in the quilt.

Originally, everyone thought that the matter would pass quietly, but unexpectedly, the smoker's escape made the masked man unable to withstand the pressure anymore, and the Security Bureau finally knocked on the Zhou family's door on the morning of the next day.