Shen Hegui patted his shoulder, knowing this wasn't the time to haggle. There were still supplies upstairs they hadn't taken.
"If anything happens, give us a signal, and we'll come down as soon as we can."
"Mm." Jiang Yufeng adjusted his glasses and nodded.
By now, the two cars had their respective watchers. But Lin Xuan and the other two remained silent.
Shen Hegui glanced at Lin Xuan and asked directly, "Any of you want to stay?"
Lin Xuan sounded reluctant. "We have two women on our side. If I stay, I wouldn't feel comfortable leaving them alone."
Shen Hegui caught his implication and simply said, "Arrange it among yourselves."
If someone tried to tamper with their cars tonight, Xue Zhao and Jiang Yufeng would definitely prioritize protecting their own supplies. As for Lin Xuan and his group, they'd be on their own.
Seeing that Shen Hegui wasn't offering, Lin Xuan swallowed the words asking Xue Zhao and Jiang Yufeng to look after them and instead said, "If anything really happens, once Yufeng and the others alert us, we'll definitely come down right away."
Shen Hegui hummed in acknowledgment and said no more.
After they got out, Xue Zhao and Jiang Yufeng locked the car doors, and black curtains rose over the windshield and windows, hiding the interior from outside view.
The car had rammed many zombies and been on the road for days, so now it really looked like an abandoned vehicle in the apocalypse.
Seeing this, Lin Xuan also followed suit with their car.
Jiang Yuntan walked together with Qi Ruoshui, consciously keeping a distance from Lin Tingxue.
The trip back to the hotel wasn't peaceful. With so many of them together, the scent of the living was too strong; zombies changed direction and headed toward them.
Once they finally got into the hotel, there were far fewer zombies.
They climbed the stairs to the sixteenth floor, but found the hallway carpet askew.
It had been perfectly straight when they left.
Shen Hegui gestured for everyone to be careful.
Jiang Yuntan looked at the different footprints on the ground and guessed that someone had come up while they were gone.
Approaching the door of their suite, they saw two men standing guard.
Before he even fully appeared, Shen Hegui killed them with a blade formed from his ability.
Jiang Yuntan glanced at him at that.
One stab, instant death. He sure knew where the vital spots were.
The group tiptoed to the door and overheard boastful voices inside.
"I told you, before the apocalypse, those CEOs and heiresses had bought a ton of ingredients. Otherwise, where would we find such expensive steak and foie gras now?"
"Exactly. I saw them collecting a lot of supplies earlier. Sure enough, they've got enough to feed us for days, and all top-notch stuff."
"So what if they have ability users? Brother Lie is also an ability user, and his is way stronger."
Jiang Yuntan looked up and accidentally met Shen Hegui's eyes.
An ability user stronger than Shen Hegui? Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, Earth—probably that guy awakened a Fire-type ability.
More words came from inside.
"But why aren't they back yet? Did they just leave?"
"Can't be. They've still got so many supplies here, even their suitcases. They wouldn't just abandon all this."
"I remember there are a few heiresses in their group. Once they're back, we'll be in for a treat. Before the apocalypse, those were top-grade girls. We had to bow and scrape to them. Now it's their turn to suck up to us men."
"That arrogant woman—the one who looked down on everyone, but also the prettiest—she must be reserved for Brother Lie. Let him teach her a lesson. When they first checked in, Brother Lie kindly offered to carry her luggage, but she scorned him and even cursed him."
"Right, right, right. This time Brother Lie must teach her a lesson and make her know that men are superior."
Then a voice gritted its teeth and said, "That bitch—I'm going to make her pay."
At this, Jiang Yuntan searched her memory for this person. This so-called Brother Lie was reasonably good-looking, with a somewhat effeminate air.
When helping the original owner with her luggage, he had been hitting on her, saying things to please a young girl. In short, he wanted to latch onto a rich woman.
The original owner felt his sleazy expression sullied her eyes and wanted to curse him out, but with Shen Hegui around, she just called the manager to have someone else carry her luggage.
Now that Brother Lie had come into power, he held a grudge.
Lin Tingxue, behind them, sneered inwardly at these words. She'd said Jiang Yuntan would get herself killed by offending people for no reason.
A strong urge suddenly rose in her heart: she wanted to make a noise here, let the people inside know Jiang Yuntan was outside. Ideally, push Jiang Yuntan out for them to see.
But the thought was immediately quashed. Too obvious. She couldn't make a move on Jiang Yuntan in front of Shen Hegui.
Shen Hegui silently mouthed a single word to Jiang Yuntan.
Jiang Yuntan reached into her sun-protection jacket, pulled a gun from the small waist pack. Normally she didn't keep it there; she'd prepared it specially to avoid exposing her secret to Lin Tingxue and the others.
Before anyone could react,
Jiang Yuntan aimed the gun and fired six shots into the room, toward where the group was clustered.
Screams rang out; Jiang Yuntan knew she'd hit someone.
While the people inside were still stunned, Shen Hegui and the two other men charged in with weapons, striking the thugs with fists and clubs.
Lin Tingxue gritted her teeth, picked a random person, bound his hands and feet with vines, then grabbed an iron pipe and joined in beating.
Damn it. She wished Jiang Yuntan would get into trouble, but now she had to pretend to help Jiang Yuntan teach these creeps a lesson.
Because Jiang Yuntan held a gun, no one dared to approach her.
Suddenly, small fireballs appeared inside. Everyone fought while dodging.
Jiang Yuntan worried the place would catch fire—they still needed to stay the night. So she handed her gun to Qi Ruoshui. She remembered there was a fire extinguisher in the hallway and went to get it.
Qi Ruoshui looked at the fray and didn't dare fire recklessly, afraid of hitting their own people.
But then the man called Brother Lie conjured many small fireballs and hurled them at Yu Ke.
Yu Ke's hair and clothes caught fire. When Qi Ruoshui saw this, the only thing in her vision seemed to be red flames.
Especially when she saw Yu Ke couldn't put out the fire, his palms burned red, and the flames kept spreading. In her panic, she felt a surge of energy inside her body.