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Chapter 565: Chapter 565: The Death of Mu Mengmeng
"Now is not the time, we’ll talk after they leave tomorrow morning,"
Brother Chen kicked the frail Mu Yunle once more before he left the room with an expression of helplessness and sorrow.
"We thank you all who’ve passed by for understanding the survival methods we’ve reluctantly chosen. We’ll head back to rest now,"
Having said this, Brother Chen walked into the shadows behind a row of wooden cabinets and left.
No one answered him, and though the expressions varied in the dark, the sighs did not cease.
"Damn it, I’m going to have nightmares tonight,"
Xu Mingliang grumbled under his breath. He considered himself brave and resilient, but recalling how he had greedily sniffed that unforgettable scent of meat and salivated, he wished he could slap himself.
Bai Ying stopped talking too. Her mind was filled with the words of those villagers and the sensation of the little boy, Mu Yunle, gripping her clothes tightly.
Qiqi whispered something to Su Jin lying beside her. Su Jin was startled for a moment but then advised Qiqi to go to sleep early.
Deep into the night, a dull thud echoed through the air.
Only Luo Hongyi and Lu Hao, who were on watch, heard it. Lu Hao’s sleep was light, and the unfamiliar environment had heightened his alertness, so he opened his eyes and looked towards the direction of the small room from where the sound had come.
Luo Hongyi stood up with vigilance, but after noticing no further sounds, he sat back down again.
Perhaps it was just snow and ice falling down from a rooftop, thought Luo Hongyi.
Seeing Luo Hongyi diligently keeping watch and hearing no more sounds, Lu Hao fell back asleep.
Until the break of dawn, when a piercing cry rang out from the small room.
Bai Ying sat up abruptly and ran towards the small room. The others who had just woken up exchanged glances and also headed over to see what had happened.
Under the drafty window, the slender body of Mu Mengmeng, the little boy’s sister, lay motionless among the rubbish and weeds, with a pool of fresh blood beside her. She looked very much dead.
"Mengmeng sister, woo woo woo, why are you lying outside?"
Mu Yunle cried and asked Bai Ying. Although he could not tell that Mu Mengmeng was dead, his subconscious understood something.
Mu Mengmeng must have jumped down on her own.
Even the always composed Su Jin couldn’t help but feel her eyes well up at the sight of the little girl outside. Bai Ying began to cry uncontrollably.
The building was only two stories high. Mu Mengmeng was so thin, maybe she hadn’t died immediately after the jump but instead lay quietly in the pile of trash waiting for death to come, which would explain the bruises all over her frozen body.
At that moment, Auntie Zhao and Brother Chen also saw the dead Mu Mengmeng outside the window.
"Quick, go get someone and carry her into the back kitchen,"
Auntie Zhao’s tone was filled with urgency and delight, as if she were about to clap her hands in applause.
"Are you even human? You drove her to it, didn’t you?"
Bai Ying shouted angrily, realizing last night that she intended to plead with Junhao this morning to see if he could take the siblings away with him. She had Crystal Cores saved up in City B, and the expense of the siblings’ journey could be charged to her account. Even if they found a base on the way and left the siblings there, it would be better.
But Mu Mengmeng had gone ahead on her own, without uttering a single plea!
"Young lady, the truth is plain for anyone to see. She clearly jumped down of her own accord. We didn’t lay a hand on her,"
Zhao Hua came forward to argue in defense of his mother, seeing Bai Ying pointing accusations at her.
"You, you,"
Bai Ying was so angry that she didn’t know what to say anymore.
"We’ll take the child with us. How many Crystal Cores do you want? We’ll exchange them for him,"
Junhao stepped out from the crowd and pointed at Mu Yunle as he spoke.
"That won’t do. We don’t want any Crystal Cores. Moreover, although the child has a useless Special Ability, he is still a Special Ability User. We only want supplies,"
Brother Chen stepped forward and said.
"How much for the supplies?"
Su Jin asked, as they had procured the supplies.
"The flour from yesterday, we want 20 pounds,"
Brother Chen held up two fingers attempting to appear calm, ready to let them take Mu Yunle for nothing if they refused to barter with what supplies they had since the boy didn’t have much meat on him.
"We only have 15 pounds left, take it or leave it?"
Su Jin said coldly.
"We’ll take it, we’ll take it! Of course, we’ll trade!"
Brother Chen and his people immediately broke into joyous smiles, 15 pounds of flour, were these passersby idiots?
"Su Jin, thank you, when we get back, I’ll exchange it for Crystal Cores for you,"
Wei Junhao said.
Bai Ying’s tears turned to laughter, she hadn’t expected Wei Junhao to step in to help voluntarily and felt the frustration in her heart dissipate considerably.
At least they had saved their brother.
"Lele, from now on, can you consider me your sister?"
Bai Ying looked at Mu Yunle, who had been rescued. He seemed to have no joy from being saved, perhaps his sister’s death had hit him too hard.
"Sister?"
Upon hearing Bai Ying’s words, a flicker of focus returned to Mu Yunle’s eyes. 𝚗𝚘v𝚙𝚞b.𝚌𝚘m
Outside, Han Yue couldn’t help but ask the gleefully smiling Brother Chen, "You just said the kid has a Special Ability, what is it?"
"Who knows what the hell his Special Ability is, it’s not like he can conjure fire or water, he can only tell where the living are and where the zombies are,"
Brother Chen shook his head. To them, the ability was as useful as a chicken rib—good for nothing but also a pity to discard. If it weren’t for that, Mu Yunle and his sister might have already been devoured by them.
"..."
Han Yue’s face fell immediately, had Wei Junhao gotten a bargain?
Unbelievably, the kid was a rare Mental Element Ability User.
Inside, Wei Junhao heard this and looked at Bai Ying and the young boy with surprise.
It was as if a pillow appeared just as he was about to doze off, no good deed goes unrewarded!
The Mental Element Ability User he had long desired appeared at this time and place!
He had worried about this before, even if he found a new Mental Element Ability User after returning to Base B, he might not trust the background of that Mental Element Ability User.
But Mu Yunle, he could be said to be clean and pure.
"Congratulations,"
Su Jin said to Wei Junhao.
The night before, Qiqi had told him that the young boy was a Special Ability User, but they hadn’t known what his ability was—turns out he was a Mental Element Ability User.
The group didn’t continue to linger in the village committee; they didn’t even take care of their morning wash or breakfast there.
According to Zheng Shu and the others, they simply couldn’t stomach anything in that place and wanted to leave as soon as possible.
Su Jin felt the same. Perhaps she was too sensitive, but she felt like even the air was tainted with a sour, rank odor.
The villagers of the village committee were eager for them to leave too, but after the group left and saw that they had cleaned up their lodging spotlessly, not leaving even a trace of debris behind, Brother Chen couldn’t help but spit out scornfully.
"A bunch of fools, thinking they’re the Goddess of Mercy or something,"
