Chapter 228:

According to Liang Yu’s estimation, those people should first go to the river to get water around evening.

Then he recalled the reservoir, but the reservoir’s location was still quite far.

Unless they were stationed at the reservoir, otherwise, a round trip of dozens of kilometers would be quite taxing.

As the last hope for these people, Liang Yu would not touch the reservoir unless absolutely necessary.

Immediately, he had Sixteen Type leave the reservoir and scout around various locations in the Small County to get a general understanding of the surrounding distribution.

Time passed quickly, and in a blink of an eye, it was evening.

After Liang Yu and the two sisters finished dinner, the two sisters once again abandoned Liang Yu, leaving him alone in the dining room.

Liang Yu returned to the driver’s cabin, and on the monitoring screen, the number of people going out was constantly increasing.

Just as he estimated, these people, carrying large and small buckets, all walked towards the river.

Only a very small number of people were still searching for food and water in the street shops.

In the river, as the number of people continuously increased, the river water also began to become turbid, but even so, it could not stop the scramble.

Some people even had no containers for water, and they set their sights on others.

Moreover, they spontaneously formed a small group, and the people in this group only robbed those who were alone.

Those who were alone could not resist at all and could only watch their water buckets being snatched away.

So, these people became smarter; when they came for the second time, they carried plastic bottles that they had found from who knows where.

Using these to hold water also meant having to go down personally to fetch water, unlike before when they could tie a rope to a bucket and pull it up when they felt it was full enough.

However, the advantages were also obvious: although the risk increased when fetching water, they could still encounter those who robbed water sources again.

They could carry these bottled waters without hesitation and turn around and run.

This scene was seen by those who also came to fetch water, and they all began to emulate it.

Liang Yu found this scene somewhat amusing.

The camera cut from the river back to the street shops.

Many people had also gathered here, and the bodies on the ground from the daytime had long since been moved away.

Aside from the marks on the ground that proved the bodies indeed existed during the day, no other traces could be found.

This made Liang Yu sigh with emotion that these people were truly fast in their actions; in such situations, being slow-handed meant missing out.

At this moment, he glanced at the situation outside the corrugated iron door of the factory building next to him.

Liang Yu did not count exactly how many bodies there were, but at a glance, most of them were still there; perhaps a few were missing that he could not discern.

But as it stood, the fact that these ’two-legged sheep’ bodies were left here and no one came to take them away was enough to prove that this vicinity was considered a forbidden zone by them.

However, Liang Yu’s thought was quickly disproven by someone.

He then saw a ‘familiar’ figure in a corner of the screen.

Liang Yu had an impression of this person; she was the woman who was with Hou Jun yesterday.

According to Liang Yu’s guess, it was very likely that she was Hou Jun’s partner.

Inferring her thoughts from this guess, she could only be there to steal Hou Jun’s body.

So he curiously stared at the woman in front of him, watching to see what she would do.

But her actions did not follow Liang Yu’s guess.

This woman was not there to collect Hou Jun’s body.

Just now, when she was searching on the outer side, she had already seen Hou Jun’s body, but the woman’s reaction was very calm.

It was as if she was looking at a stranger; she reached out and fumbled on him for a while, found nothing she wanted, and then went to the next body to search.

Liang Yu realized she was looking for something, so what could she be looking for?

Food and water were clearly not something they would carry on them.

Then there could only be one thing: the handgun Ma Sange used to kill Yang Hai yesterday.

At this point, Liang Yu had to admire the woman’s boldness and meticulousness.

She was very smart, knowing that no one would come here for a while, as the deterrence was still present.

So she risked being killed to search for the gun in Ma Sange’s hand.

Ma Sange was killed last night, and the temperature started to rise again today; she believed that no one would risk such a high temperature of seventy degrees to search for the gun.

So when the temperature started to drop after nightfall, the woman came to this vicinity immediately.

Ultimately, her efforts paid off; the woman found the firearm left behind by Ma Sange.

At this moment, the woman was incredibly excited, looking at the handgun in her hand as if she had found a treasure.

With it, she would never be bullied again.

Thinking of this, the woman quickly searched Ma Sange again, wanting to find the remaining bullets.

But the woman stripped Ma Sange naked and searched him thoroughly, inside and out, but found no bullets or magazines.

This inevitably made her somewhat disappointed, but fortunately, she got the handgun; the woman then glanced at the location of the factory building.

Then she shook her head; she was not that foolish. Ma Sange, with so many people, could not defeat them, so it would be suicidal for her to trouble that person.

After getting the handgun, the woman planned to leave, but she turned and had not walked far when she was stopped by three men.

Her eyes were vigilant, her hands gripping the handgun, her right index finger already on the trigger.

However, her movements did not escape the eyes of the three men.

The three men stood as far apart as possible, their eyes fixed on the weapon in the woman’s hand, their hearts filled with greed and desire.

“If we get that handgun, we can become another Ma Sange with it,” one of the men whispered.

The three dispersed men continuously approached the woman, waiting for the right moment to act.

The woman seemed to sense something; her steps quickened, and her heart beat even faster.

Facing the three approaching men, the woman raised her gun and aimed at one of them.

Suddenly, the three men lunged at the woman.

The woman retreated in fear, raising the handgun, trying to threaten them.

“Don’t move! Otherwise, I’ll shoot!” The woman’s voice trembled, but her eyes revealed determination.

The three men were not intimidated by her threat; they continued to approach, trying to snatch the handgun.

Seeing that her warning had no effect, the woman quickly fired a shot.

However, she did not aim at all.

Although it missed, aiming at the person in front, the shot hit the man next to him after firing.

The three men were also startled by the sudden gunshot; they stopped their movements and looked at each other.

Soon, one of the men realized something was wrong; he felt his body becoming heavier.

He quickly realized he had been shot, squatted on the ground, clutching his wound tightly.

The other two, seeing such a scene, immediately stopped their advancing steps.