Still not appeased, Ma Mingguang walked over again, grabbed Ye Yao's hair, and lifted her face to face him. "You talk so much, don't you? Why are you so quiet now?"
Ye Yao spat out a mouthful of blood, tears uncontrollably streaming down her face, and she pleaded desperately, "Brother Daming... please let me go... I'll never dare again..."
"Let you go?" Ma Mingguang spat on her face. "Then what about the lives of my two brothers? Who will pay them back?"
"I didn't kill them either..." Ye Yao was truly speechless. It was clearly these three men's own greed and lack of strength that led to their failure, and now they were taking it out on a weak woman.
But now her life was in their hands, and she had no choice but to lower her head. "Brother Daming, let me go, and I will serve you well in the future. I will also try to find water and food outside. In this doomsday, can't we humans stop killing each other?"
"Do you think with your looks, you can still serve me?" Ma Mingguang sneered. "You said it yourself, this is the doomsday, so survival is more important. Keeping you alive would waste my meager reserves of food, so it's better to let you make a final contribution!"
"You... what do you mean?" Ye Yao had a bad feeling in her heart.
"I mean..." As Ma Mingguang spoke, he reached behind him and pulled an axe from his waist. He gave Ye Yao a sinister smile. "So, let's start with your left leg!"
"No!" Ye Yao screamed. But soon, the intense pain overwhelmed her nerves, and she could only let out hoarse gasps.
"Alright, now for the right leg. I have a big refrigerator anyway," Ma Mingguang muttered to himself, and brought the axe down again.
Ye Yao was in so much pain that she had lost her voice and her consciousness was becoming hazy. After being reborn, she had always thought she was the chosen one, destined to achieve great things in this doomsday.
But why had nothing gone smoothly since she woke up in the dormitory? If the end was still like this, then why did heaven give her this chance to be reborn?
Ye Yao couldn't understand, nor did she have the chance to think about it anymore. Her last memory in this world was Ma Mingguang's ferocious smiling face, splattered with her own blood...
After Ma Mingguang finished dealing with everything, he began to clean up. He meticulously cut apart the dismembered body parts, transporting them separately into the refrigerator, happily thinking that he wouldn't have to worry about meat for the next few days!
Just as he was lost in his pleasant dreams, another car drove in from outside.
Through the car window, the people inside saw Ma Mingguang holding what looked like a human leg, with an axe raised, ready to cut. Not far behind him, there was also a hand and a head.
Even though it was the doomsday, such a cruel method of killing was still rare. The man in the passenger seat frowned. Without a word, he directly fired his gun, blowing Ma Mingguang's head off.
Ma Mingguang's eyes were wide open, with a bloody hole in the center of his forehead, from which blood was gushing. As he fell, a smile was still on his lips.
The driver in the driver's seat was startled and gave the man beside him a strange look. "Brother Chong, what are you doing..."
The man who fired the gun finally seemed to come to his senses. He had been feeling particularly irritable for no reason and had shot the other person in the head upon seeing the scene.
However, now that the person was dead, there was nothing more to say, so he said casually, "He looked like a bad guy. I was just carrying out justice."
The driver swallowed and stammered, "Yes... yes."
The man put away his pistol and tucked it back into his waist. He was the first to open the car door. "Alright, get out and search the area. See if there's anything we can take. Everyone be careful, there might be ambushes."
"Okay, Brother Chong." Except for the driver, the others got out of the car one by one to investigate.
If Xiao Wenqiang were here now, she would definitely recognize the man who fired the gun. He was Liang Yunchong, the original male protagonist of the novel "Living a Pastoral Life in the Doomsday."
However, the first encounter between the novel's male protagonist and the female protagonist this time had already led to separation by death.
The subordinates searched the surroundings thoroughly and confirmed that there were no other people. Only then did Liang Yunchong walk over to inspect. When he passed the spot where Ye Yao's head was, that feeling of irritation and pain returned.
But the next moment, Liang Yunchong kicked the head on the ground into a corner. He shook his head and continued to stride forward...
The perspective shifted back to Xiao Wenqiang's five-person team.
On the road, Yang Ning continued to drive. Lu Feiguang sat in the passenger seat, keeping watch and helping Xiao Wu navigate.
In the back row, from left to right, sat the three girls: Xiao Wenqiang, An Xin, and Zhu Yan.
Xiao Wenqiang began to take out the supplies they had scavenged from the gas station from her ring space, itemizing them by category and quantity. It took over half an hour to sort everything out, and then she distributed an equal amount of water and bread to everyone.
"Keep these in your bags for now. I'll hand out self-heating pots to everyone later. When we see a place with water, we'll stop and have a hot meal," Xiao Wenqiang said, taking out boxes of self-heating pots and kindly asking everyone for their preferred flavors.
"Does anyone have any objections to the current distribution of supplies? Speak up if you have any ideas. We are a democratic team, and the minority obeys the majority."
"I have no objections. I'll listen to the boss," Yang Ning, who was driving, said, asking Brother Si in the passenger seat to help him load supplies. He was the first to declare his stance.
"I propose that in normal times, the minority obeys the majority, but Boss Xiao has the right of veto," An Xin also raised her hand and proposed, "Those who agree, please raise your hands."
"Right! I agree too. After all, without Wen Qiang, it would be difficult for me to survive," Zhu Yan's admiration for Xiao Wenqiang had deepened even more since Wang Hu's death.
The others also had no objections and raised their hands in agreement.
"By the way, Boss, can you give our team a name!" Lu Feiguang asked excitedly.
"Then... how about the Sunshine Team?" Xiao Wenqiang wasn't good at naming things and casually suggested.
"Moving towards the direction of sunshine! Good, very meaningful!"
Lu Feiguang murmured, and the others also agreed.
And so, the five-person team, now without Ye Yao, reached an initial consensus and continued to drive north.
After driving for more than five hours, the car finally entered the border area between S City and H City.
This was a riverside beach that normally wouldn't see many people. Yang Ning, exhausted from driving for a long time, was physically unable to continue and finally stopped the car here.
"Boss, it's getting late. How about we eat our self-heating pots here?" Yang Ning asked, turning his head.
"Alright! Then everyone get out of the car and rest for a bit. Be careful," Xiao Wenqiang said, looking at the setting sun and the shimmering water, and nodded in agreement.
Everyone got out of the car and patrolled the surroundings. After confirming there were no immediate threats, they took their self-heating pots of different flavors, filled them with stream water, and began to heat them.
Soon, a rich aroma wafted out, and everyone, who hadn't eaten hot food for several days, couldn't help but swallow.
Just as the members of the "Sunshine Team" were about to eat, Xiao Wenqiang suddenly looked up and shouted, "Who?"