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

Yu Liang thought that he and Gu Tongwan would be separated, which would put him, as a girl, in even greater danger. However, he did not expect that as soon as he turned around he saw Gu Tongwan being pushed in.

"Gu..." Yu Liang spoke out loud and suddenly found something pulling under his feet. He looked down and saw a child who looked only seven or eight years old squatting on the ground. His hands were pulling Yu Liang's trouser legs, looking pitiful.

This is a boy, but he is only wearing a thin fleece shirt and washed-out jeans. He has a crew cut, and the hand he stretched out was very thin and dry, not at all like the hand a child of this age should have.

Yu Liang squatted down in astonishment, helped the child up, and asked carefully: "Little boy, why are you here?"

The child showed a look of fear on his face, pointed at the door, and then whispered: "They arrested me."

"You were arrested? What about your parents?"

The child's shoulders were shaking, his head was hanging, and he looked very afraid of strangers. His voice was also filled with fear: "My parents are gone..."

Yu Liang also has his own children. Whenever he sees a homeless or sick child, he feels empathy as a father. Seeing the child trembling, his heart softens and his tone becomes gentle: "Don't be afraid, uncle will take you home in a while. By the way, here are some compressed biscuits, fill your stomach first."

Yu Liang took out a small bag of biscuits from his pocket. This was his lunch. Normally, he was too busy with work to have time for meals, so he developed the habit of keeping some snacks in his pocket at all times.

The child was quite quick, and before Yu Liang could hand over the thing, it was intercepted halfway.

A pair of whiter hands took the compressed biscuits. The fingers were long and slender with delicate and delicate finger bones, which were obviously the well-maintained "hands of a rich person".

"?" Yu Liang looked at Gu Tongwangang with a questioning look.

The child probably didn't expect that his things would be taken away, and he also looked up in confusion.

However, when the child raised his head, he was obviously stunned for a moment, and his eyes were glued to her face and hardly moved away. It seemed that he didn't look carefully just now, but after looking carefully now, he couldn't help but look more.

In fact, if you look closely at the child's eyes at this time, you will find something strange in them. Children of this age are the most innocent. Even if they have suffered, they will at least retain some innocence in their eyes. But what flashed in this child's eyes was some fanatical covetousness and vulgarity.

Yes, that's right, it's vulgar, even the smile on the corner of his mouth makes people feel a little uncomfortable.

But he hid it very well, and his smile disappeared very quickly. Yu Liang even thought he had seen it wrong. After seeing the child raise his head tremblingly, Yu Liang looked at Gu Tongwan holding the compressed biscuit with some embarrassment.

Gu Tongwan's lips curled up slightly, and under Yu Liang's astonished gaze, he tore open the outer packaging of the compressed biscuits and began to eat them in small bites.

Yu Liang's smile was a little more awkward, and he couldn't help asking, "Miss Gu, are you hungry?"

"Yeah, I'm quite hungry. After all, we don't know how long we will stay here, so we still need to eat something to fill our stomachs."

But you are a grown-up, you can’t snatch food from a child, right?

Yu Liang didn't know what to say at the moment. The kid below had a hint of anger on his face, but he didn't show it. He could only clench his fists slightly, then hugged his shoulders and squatted back in the corner, looking pitiful.

"Little friend, let's do this. After we go out, uncle will treat you to delicious food. You can eat whatever you want. Let's bear it for a while. This sister... This sister is probably starving." Yu Liang actually complained about Gu Tongwan's ignorance, but he also felt that she should not be that kind of person. It seems that she did it on purpose. However, he really couldn't guess what Gu Tongwan was thinking.

Gu Tongwan stopped eating half of it and stuffed the remaining compressed biscuits back into his pocket. It was obvious that he couldn't finish it and would not give any to the child.

The child hung his head and looked cold and hungry. Anyone who saw him would probably feel sorry for him.

Gu Tongwan suddenly asked, "You said you were caught here, how long have you been here?" Her tone was neither cold nor hot, more like interrogating a prisoner, even Yu Liang felt a little uncomfortable after hearing it.

"Three days." The child said as he pulled his mouth, looking like he was about to cry. He wrinkled his cheeks for a long time before squeezing out some tears. Then he raised his head and cried, "My mom and dad were killed by them. They said they would feed me to the mutant wolves as food. I wanted to run away but they caught me back." He made a whimpering sound at the end of his speech.

Yu Liang was a little at a loss. Although he wanted to coax the child, he also clearly found that Gu Tongwan seemed to be targeting the child, and even his indifference was strange.

Gu Tongwan heard the sound of a lock being locked downstairs, and Yu Liang immediately walked to the door and tried to turn the doorknob, only to find that the door had been locked from the outside, and the sound just now should have come from the courtyard gate. They even locked the main door, as if to lock them here completely!

"When I first arrived, I noticed that the people living nearby are all individual investors, and most likely people who are operating in a gray area. Even if we shout loudly, no one may come to help, otherwise they would not be so confident in locking us up here." The more Yu Liang thought about it, the more frightened he became. The other party did not tie them up or seal their mouths, which meant that they were not worried at all that their cries for help would be heard.

When they came in just now, their cell phone was snatched away by the tall guy, causing the two of them to temporarily lose contact with the outside world.

"Don't worry, you've already reported it to your unit. When will they take action?"

Yu Liang said helplessly: "It's hard to say. What I told them was that if they didn't return to the unit before four o'clock in the afternoon, they should call me. If the call doesn't go through, they can choose to report to the Self-Defense Forces. But there are still two or three hours before four o'clock. What if something really happens during this period..." Yu Liang couldn't say any more. He was nervous and a little desperate at the moment. In his mind, he had already begun to imagine all kinds of horrific scenes of being "murdered to silence" by someone.

“Even if we call the police, the nearest security station is about two kilometers away from here, and it will take at least twenty minutes. Add the time for reporting the case and investigating, it won’t take more than two minutes to kill someone.” Gu Tongwan chuckled, and his eyes became colder when he fell on the child in the corner.

The child could probably sense the malice directed at him, and he lowered his head even lower, but in fact it was just to hide the viciousness in his eyes. His fingers seemed to be in the pocket of his only shirt, but he felt a little more at ease when his fingers touched something.

The noise outside gradually faded away, and the entire corridor returned to its deathly quiet state.

Yu Liang turned around and tried to break the door open, but unfortunately, although the building looked dilapidated, the main door was a brand new stainless steel door, and it was locked from the outside. Unless one had strength or metal abilities, it would be impossible to break it open.

"Damn it!" Yu Liang rubbed his arm that was hurt and couldn't help cursing.

Gu Tongwan saw that the only window here was also locked from the outside, with a ray of sunlight occasionally shining in through the gap.

The musty smell in the air made Yu Liang sneeze several times. "What was put in this room before? Why does it smell so bad?"

After turning around, Yu Liang found something even stranger. There were some brown spots in the corners of the wall. He hadn't noticed them before, but now he found that these spots spread from the corners to the door, and the brown spots where the child was staying were getting larger.

"What is this? Is it moldy?" Yu Liang stretched out his hand and couldn't help but wipe the wall, but found that the marks could not be wiped off at all.

"It's a bloodstain, and it should dry up in the next two days." Gu Tongwan squatted down to tie his shoelaces and replied casually.

As a result, Yu Liang was so frightened that he fell back several steps, and his fingertips that had just touched the brown mark were rubbing frantically on his trouser legs.

"Blood? How could there be blood?" Yu Liang looked at Gu Tongwan nervously, but found that she just walked to the side of the wall very calmly, touched it with her finger, and then said: "The blood stains here have been wiped, but the mold stains nearby are too serious, so they can't be completely removed."

Yu Liang calmed down a little, and then realized that there was something weird about this place. When he thought about what the two men had said before, he had some vague guesses in his mind.

"They will post some house listings online to attract people to look at the houses, but in fact, this is just a cover. Their main purpose is to rob people of their money and sex, or even kill them to silence them. And judging from how familiar they are with the victims, there is probably more than one. The child's parents may also be one of the victims."

After Yu Liang finished speaking, he lowered his head to comfort the child, and the child responded by crying twice.

Gu Tongwan walked to the window and tried to push it outwards. Not only was the window fixed with wire, but even though the window could be opened, the door was also locked. The whole block here was filled with an uneasy atmosphere. It was at least two or three hundred meters to where Yu Liang parked his car, and there were many densely packed alleys.

I've heard before that the crime rate in this place is very high, and even the base is very troubled by it. Although they once wanted to ban such places, the population density here has exceeded 10,000 people, and the area covered is very large. If they rashly drive them away or ban them, uncontrollable riots will definitely occur.

"Little boy, you have been in the room for so long, do you know how many people are here?" Although Yu Liang was a little confused and nervous at this time, he still tried his best to find out the situation here from the child.

The child shrank his shoulders and nodded timidly, his voice lower than before: "It seems there are only two people."

"Two people? Are you sure?" Yu Liang felt a little surprised. Cases showed that crimes like this were basically committed by gangs, otherwise it would be impossible to kill someone and then dispose of the body so easily.

The child was worried that Yu Liang didn't believe him, so he raised his head and said again in a loud voice: "It's really just two people. I've been here for several days, and it was these two who opened the door and brought me food!"

"Miss Gu, if there are only two of us, maybe we can try to get away. If that doesn't work, I'll be responsible for delaying time, and you try to take the child and run first. As long as we pass through two alleys to a crowded place, it will be convenient for them to attack!"

Seeing Yu Liang's fearless attitude, Gu Tongwan couldn't help but raise his eyebrows and smiled, "Yu Liang, your children are not that old yet. If something really happens, what will happen to your wife and children?"

Yu Liang, who had finally made the decision, was discouraged again all of a sudden, especially when he thought of his children still at home. His mood suddenly fell to the bottom. The corners of his mouth twitched, and he found that he couldn't utter a word.

In fact, he was not sacrificing himself to save others. He just thought that instead of the three of them waiting to die here, it would be better to let Gu Tongwan and the child escape first. In case of luck, the Self-Defense Forces could arrive and perhaps save his life. But he knew very well in his heart that such hope was too slim.

Gu Tongwan noticed Yu Liang's struggle, and then stepped forward and whispered, "It's not that there is no way to escape."

Just as Yu Liang showed a confused look on his face, Gu Tongwan had already walked to the door, turned the doorknob slightly, and after making sure it was locked tightly, her mind moved, and her consciousness immediately connected with the branches of the blood vine, and the blood vine quickly crawled from the back of her hand through the crack in the door to the outside.

If there were someone outside at this moment, they would definitely faint from the shock of the scene before them. Silky red blood vines were densely wrapped around the keyhole, and some branches of the blood vines had already penetrated into the keyhole.

Gu Tongwan exerted a little force and heard a clear "click". The door was opened by her without any warning.

If Yu Liang hadn't seen with his own eyes that he was unwilling to believe that he had just tried to open the door handle for a long time but couldn't, how could she, a girl, open it without any effort?

Not to mention Yu Liang, even the child in the corner was surprised, and some even stood up immediately, with a hint of nervousness in their eyes.

"You...how did you do this?" Yu Liang looked at her in disbelief.

Gu Tongwan smiled and said, "I learned some tricks before, and when I came in, I found that the door handle was loose. I guessed that I could open it using some clever force. Plus, you broke the door lock by twisting it hard before." She could only make up a bunch of nonsense at the moment. It didn't matter whether this statement was credible or not. The most important thing now was to escape from this place.

Just when they were about to escape from this hellish place, the child in the room suddenly let out a painful groan, then fell to the ground, shaking and twitching all over, as if he had suddenly fallen ill.

"What's wrong?" Yu Liang walked forward and hugged the child in his arms. He didn't know what to do for a moment, so he could only look at Gu Tongwan for help.

Gu Tongwan narrowed his eyes, then walked forward and looked at the "kid" from top to bottom with a disdainful look. Then Yu Liang felt as if a cold wind passed in front of him. He was pushed away before he even figured out what was happening, and then he heard a scream of "Ah".

When he looked up again, he happened to see Gu Tongwan kicking the "child" into the corner, with a blood-stained saber in her hand.