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

At 23:50 late in the night, in a two-bedroom suite in the fourth unit building about thirty meters away from Liao Yunyun's unit building, a group of "Wild Wolf Mercenaries" were carrying out their late-night entertainment activities as usual after finishing their so-called day's work.

The leader of this mercenary team is a burly man in his thirties. He awakened his superpowers in the second year of the apocalypse. At first, he was only a D-level power user, but after constantly hunting low-level mutant beasts and taking the crystal cores in their bodies, the man gradually improved his body structure and superpowers to the current B-level. Now the man is sprinting for the next stage of A-level. After all, his level is already considered one of the best among B-level users. There are also two B-level users in the team, but they are no match for him at all.

"Brother Hui, are those people in the property management becoming more and more stingy? Just think about how many dirty tricks we have done for that kid Ling Hai? He even secretly piled up a lot of charcoal in the warehouse of Building No. 2 in the community. It seems that he wants to keep it all for himself." One of the men had a cheap cigarette in his mouth and a pair of red kings in his hand. He was quite proud that all the cards he got tonight were good cards and he could win back a lot of money for cigarettes.

The other man opposite shrank his neck and pulled the heater slightly closer to himself, but his face was still frighteningly pale, as if he were a vampire who never saw the sun. The faintly visible blue veins on his skin made people feel creepy.

"I say, Biaozi, why do you always pull the stove towards you? Can't you just wear a few more layers of clothes? You're like this all day long and I thought you'd die in the next second." The smoking man slapped the other man on the shoulder, his tone full of impatience.

"Don't bother with me, I'm really cold. My superpower level is low, of course I can't use your superpowers to maintain body temperature like you. I'm just holding on now, so I say, Brother Xiao Ma, please spare me. I know you are awesome, but here, except for you and Brother Hui who have the highest superpowers, the rest of us are no match for you." The man blew his nose as he spoke, looking really servile.

The man called Brother Hui sneered but didn't say anything.

"Okay, ask someone to keep an eye on Linghai, and find a time to clear out the warehouse. The stuff must be in our hands." Brother Hui flicked the cigarette butt in his hand into the heating stove, a cruel and cold light in his eyes.

Several mercenaries who were playing cards nearby stopped what they were doing involuntarily after hearing this. One of them, a man with a long scar on his lip and philtrum, grinned and said, "I've disliked Ling Hai for a long time. He really thinks he is our leader. When we were fighting in Hongcheng, that kid was blocked in the yard by the enemy and almost had his hand chopped off. If it wasn't for Brother Hui saving him, he wouldn't have achieved what he has now. I am an ungrateful person. If I didn't have any use for him, I would definitely kill him!"

"Okay, now Ling Hai has a backer, he certainly isn't afraid of us. But we can also take advantage of this snowstorm to act according to our plan. We can't just go into the base and then be willing to work for others. Ha, three thousand points a day? There are eight of us, and the money we earn on average is not even enough to buy a pack of cigarettes. Ling Hai thinks he can control us, but I want him to remember who can step on his head in Jiangcheng." Brother Hui rubbed the cold strong tea with his fingertips. Although he loved drinking, he never drank at night because those who died in his hands usually died late at night.

A few people were chatting here, and the blizzard outside made a sound similar to the screams of some animals in the forest, or like a bird that was good at flying at night. The huge snowflakes were hitting the windows, making people feel like they would be caught in the raging snowstorm as soon as they went out.

"I don't know when this damn weather will end. We have to pretend to go on patrol every morning. Damn, it's freezing!" Another person looked at the blizzard outside the window and muttered this, then suddenly frowned: "What's running in the snow?"

The people who were playing cards laughed when they heard the man's words: "You didn't drink much tonight. Are you missing two peanuts? It's already so late, and there are still people running in the snow?"

"I think he was dazzled by the girls he saw during the day. He might have thought that the girl running in the snow was a sexy beauty." Another man in a military coat shrugged and lowered his head to take a sip of rice wine. However, this rice wine is the most common homemade wine in the base. It is brewed with wheat fermentation and has an alcohol content of about 40. But after drinking it, it feels like fire in the throat, burning all the way from the throat to the stomach. However, because this wine is not easy to make you drunk, it is still very popular on snowy days. In addition, the price is cheap, so every time the supply and marketing cooperative opens, it is basically snatched away by a group of drunkards.

Hearing his companion's joke, the man's eyes were still on the position outside. He began to doubt whether he was really seeing things. But at this moment, a white figure flashed by and made the man's pupils shrink again. He even leaned forward and wanted to stick to the glass window.

"No, there seems to be something there, a person? Anyway, there is a shadow passing by the unit next door."

"Seventh Brother, I know you can't drink much. If you're drunk, just go to bed. But let me make it clear first. You really have to wash yourself clean this time. You said you haven't taken a shower in how many days. It's been at least ten days. Even though it's winter and you can not take a shower every day, I've never seen anyone not take a shower for ten days or half a month. You don't mind the stink, but I do." An obviously drunk man next to him had a red face and started teasing his companion before he even put down the wine glass in his hand.

Lao Qi ignored the man's words. He sobered up from being a little drunk immediately and his eyes were fixed on the place he had just been at.

The others thought he really saw something, so they couldn't help but turn their eyes over, only to find that it was very dark outside. Only the staircase lights of the next-door unit building could illuminate a small area on the ground. However, because the blizzard was still very severe, visibility was limited. In addition, in such weather, not to mention humans, even the mutant beasts in the forest would definitely not be able to survive in such an environment. So everyone thought that the man must have been drunk and saw the blizzard as a white shadow.

But the man still felt that he had indeed seen a strange white figure just now, and there was more than one. The white shadow seemed to appear out of thin air in the snow, and then one disappeared in the snow in an instant, and the other seemed to have entered the apartment building next door.

“Sizzle—sizzle—”

All the Wild Wolf mercenaries were attracted by the sound coming from a wireless walkie-talkie placed on the coffee table.

This intercom was originally equipped by the property for their convenience in work. Everyone has one. At night, except for Brother Hui, who will keep the channel open, all others will be turned off.

I've been in this community for a whole week, and the intercom, which usually never rings, makes strange sounds at this time, which really gives me a creepy feeling.

Just when everyone was on edge, the voice of the property manager Ling Hai came from the intercom: "Hello, is this the Wild Wolf Squad? I'm in the manager's office. We just heard a loud noise in unit six. Send someone over to check it out."

Property manager Ling Hai also lived alone, but he used his position to arrange a small apartment of more than 40 square meters in the community, with one bedroom and one living room. In addition, he lived alone, and his previous girlfriend broke up for various reasons. His bachelor life was more enjoyable than before. It took a lot of effort to get the position of property manager in this community. If it weren't for his excellent flattery skills, he would have gotten a lot of good resources from the powerful young master Huang in the base, and finally been arranged to work in this community. His quality of life would be much better than that of ordinary people. Although it can't be called the life of the upper circle, it is at least above the petty bourgeoisie.

As for choosing the "Wild Wolf Mercenaries" this time, it was also part of his plan. In fact, the monthly property fees of the community already include the public security management fees. At present, the property fees of each household in the community are paid at the rate of one point per two square meters. In addition to maintaining some shared equipment in the community, the remaining money basically goes into the pockets of the community managers. Young Master Huang holds the management and development rights of several communities, so this time Ling Hai can be said to have found a good partner.

Ling Hai's eyes fell on the computer screen in front of him, which showed that the property management fee of the community this month was followed by at least four zeros. As a property manager, he could take a 2% commission from it. In fact, don't underestimate this 1%. There are a total of 20 buildings in this "civil servant community", and the monthly property fees add up to at least 40,600,000 points. Even if he took 60% to 70%, Ling Hai could still make a profit of thousands of points without doing anything. And this did not include his monthly salary and income from gray channels. If all were added up, Ling Hai's income would probably be equal to the income of a middle-level manager of a small enterprise in the inner circle for three months.

Ling Hai's life was naturally carefree, but ever since the massacre occurred in the community, the residents had been in constant fear. Ling Hai simply thought of a way and formulated an additional plan, which was that each household would need to pay a security management fee, which would be used to hire security personnel. The fee did not seem outrageous, with each household paying 20 points per month.

Twenty points are nothing to most residents of the civil servant community and are even just half of their average daily income. The impact of the massacre was too great. After all, more than a dozen murders occurred in the two units. So no one objected to this expense, and as a result, an additional income of tens of thousands of yuan was added every month, which happened to be used to cover part of the salary of the "Wild Wolf Mercenaries".

Ling Hai held an unlit cigarette in his mouth and glanced at the air conditioner in the room. It was already turned to the highest setting. But the temperature in the room was still terribly low. Ling Hai had no choice but to light the heater that had not been used for a long time, and with the addition of two electric heaters, the air conditioner in the room was barely maintained at around 20 to 30 degrees above zero.

Ling Hai was calculating his income for the past six months on his computer. This income was just enough to pay the down payment for a two-bedroom house in the underground city.

In the next few decades, humans may use underground cities as their main activity area, so Ling Hai has long included the goal of buying a house in the underground city into his future plans.

Ling Hai was just looking down through the glass window on the balcony when he saw a white object flash by in the snow. He thought of the information he got from Huang Shao, which told him to pay attention to some "things" in the snow in the near future.

Although Mr. Huang didn't explain it in detail on the phone, based on Ling Hai's understanding of Mr. Huang, he knew that something that Mr. Huang took the initiative to bring up must be no small matter, so Ling Hai deliberately asked a few more questions.

"This matter is still confidential, so I can't reveal too much to you right now, but I advise you to go out less recently. It's not safe outside. Even if you want to go out, you have to get a notice from the government, or there must be a Self-Defense Force nearby."

After saying these words, Huang Shao decisively hung up the phone, which made Ling Hai fall into deep thought.

According to Huang Shao, the reason why it was unsafe outside seemed to have nothing to do with the snowstorm, but rather that people were unable to go out due to some special reasons.

The thing that just appeared in the snow couldn't be a human. A normal human would only come out of the snow if there was water in his head. Wouldn't he be frozen to death?

Just when Ling Hai was still in doubt, another white shadow jumped out from the snow. Ling Hai stood up suddenly. Maybe because he was standing closer, he could see more clearly. It was indeed a white shadow.

At this moment, Ling Hai's cell phone vibrated. It was the homeowners group in the community. Several night owls were in the group, saying that they saw something of unknown color emerging from the snow on the balcony.

"I see. I'll ask Bazi to check it out later." Ling Hai's face was still not very good after the Wild Wolf mercenary hung up the phone, especially when he saw that many people in the community who had not slept and were blown out began to discuss the matter, and even pointed the finger at the mercenaries who had been seriously slack at work during this period and caused complaints.

[Sun Online] It is said that when the property management staff saw the message, they immediately asked the security personnel to check it out. They are said to be on patrol 24 hours a day, but I have never seen them patrolling at night. They are not just taking the salary without doing any work, right?

[Liushui Tiaotiao] Haha, the quality of mercenaries can't be that good. An unmarried girl was bullied a few days ago. If you ask me, even a sow can climb a tree if you rely on them.