Inhumanity & An Eye for An Eye

In the doomsday, there was no restraint of law or morals. Humanity was challenged all the time. Arson, homicide, trading children for food and all the other inhuman sins could be triggered by the smallest inducement. Apart from Yun Che, everyone here had been surviving in the doomsday for two months. They'd seen enough of cruelty and maliciousness. It was no longer shocking that someone used to be kind before the doomsday became an evildoer now. To be honest, people like Lu folks were common nowadays but Lu Haixuan's friends were outraged because it was one of their family members got hurt. It was too kind to call them animals, they were a lot worse than animals.

"Don't worry, we can kill them anytime we want to. We wouldn't cut them loose."

Zhou Zeyu stepped forward and put his hand on Lu Haixuan's shoulder. He looked at Lu folks with his emotionless eyes as if they were already dead.

Lu Haixuan didn't reply. Neither did he open his eyes. He was fighting against his impulsion, forcing himself to stay calm. Che was right, the story wasn't over yet. He'd like to know what they did to his sister, mother and grandfather.

"Proceed."

"OK."

Yun Che seemed collected all along. After making sure Lu wouldn't do anything impulsive, he hunkered down next to Xing Feng who nodded at him and resumed the interrogation. "How did Haixuan's sister die?"

"After we got to the Northeast Base, we lived like rats in the sewer because we didn't have supplies or power. A few days later, Yingzi came home with news that a major in the army took fancy to Lu Haidie and if she said yes, the major could get their family a better place to live. We thought, why do they get to live in a better place while we are stuck in the gutter? In order to reassure her mother and grandfather, Lu Haidie lied to them saying she was dating the major and that they were in love. She made it sound like their love was so pure and innocent. I told my sister-in-law the truth in secret and as expected, she was angry and slapped her daughter in the face. Lu Haidie then ran out in tears. We had set her up in advance by asking a bunch of hooligans to catch, kidnap and rape her. Yingzi also took the major to watch Lu Haidie being raped by those men. The major didn't show up again. Lu Haidie later became delirious. She kept muttering that she couldn't die, that she must make sure her mom and grandpa stay safe. But we couldn't keep her alive. What if what we did got discovered someday? Even if there were no laws or the police, we wouldn't be able to stay in the base anymore. So after discussion, we decided to make her disappear. One time, she went out on supply foraging with us, we intentionally told her the wrong assembling time. By the time we arrived at the place, she was already bitten to death by zombies."

The woman narrated without emotions but all the listeners were outraged. Lu Haixuan was only 21 years old, his sister was about 18 years old. They plotted not only his dad's death but also his sister's, a girl who chose a better life for her mom and grandpa over her own happiness. Must they kill her after hiring people to rape her? What kind of monsters were they? Didn't they claim that they were a family? Was this how they would treat their family?

Snap, snap…

Lu Haixuan gnashed his teeth. The joints snapped as he clenched his fists. The thirst for killing ran through his pumping muscle. How could they do this to his sister? How could they?! Men don't cry but it's just because it hasn't touched their weakest point. Although his eyes were dead shut, the tracks of tears on Lu Haixuan's face were visible.

"Why didn't you kill Lu Haixuan's mom and grandpa?"

Even Xing Feng couldn't stay calm. He asked another question after a long pause. These people should be dismembered for the things they'd done.

"Lu's mom is an ordinary woman who doesn't have superfunction but his grandpa has. We planned to kill them, too but later we found out that she blamed the death of her husband and daughter on herself. She thinks if she didn't pass out, her husband wouldn't be eaten by zombies and if she didn't slap her daughter in the face, she wouldn't run out and be raped by hooligans and end up dead in an unstable state of mind. We decided to push the whole thing into this direction. Let them take the blame, let guilt torture them while we stand aside and watch."

It was beyond cruel. They were sick and twisted. This was what Yun Che meant when he said "good people are always victims".

"Do these people here know what you did?"

"They do."

"One last question. Since you hate them so much, why do you come to Southwest Base? Aren't you afraid that Lu Haixuan will get even with you for his father and sister after finding out the truth?"

"We are. Very much, in fact. But we thought Lu Haixuan must have been important now seeing the military was willing to do him a favor and they even flew his family here. We thought no one will know we killed our brother and Lu Haidie if we just keep our mouths shut. We are sick of the starvation and the abject life. Lu Haixuan is a man of high-status now, why can't we live off of him? The thought of him providing the ones that killed his father and sister with food and drink makes us excited. All the fear is gone."

"Wake up now."

All needed to be asked had been asked. Xing Feng dusted off his hands and got up. Yun Che immediately took out a pack of wet wipes to carefully clean his hand in case his man was tainted by this disgusting woman. Other than his enemies before the doomsday, Yun Che didn't really hate anyone, not even Jiang Qi but these people had aroused his hate inside. Even animals wouldn't do what they had done.

"Che, let me and Haixuan handle them. Goddammit, I'll cut them all up."

Now, it was time for these people to pay their prices. Zhou Zeyu couldn't wait to be the executioner already.

"Wait a sec. Get Xiu Jie here."

Yun Che gave him a placid smile. He then walked up to Lu folks and crouched before the girl called Yingzi.

"What-What are you gonna do? Don't touch my girl."

"No. She's still young. Please don't kill me."

The inhuman couple dragged their heavy-injured body toward them. It seemed that they really loved their daughter. Well, since their son had died, all they got left was this daughter.

"Young? Is she younger than Lu Haidie?"

Yun Che scoffed. What? Is their daughter more important than someone else's?

"What the hell do you wanna do?"

Now that the truth had come to light, the middle-aged man asked in a pathetic tone of voice. Yun Che slowly put on a pair of gloves, fondling and eyeballing Yingzi's face as if he was tormenting them on purpose. "She isn't really a good-looker, is she? No one would spare a look at her if it was pre-doomsday but thankfully, the doomsday makes every female useful."

"Are-are you gonna…"

With eyes wide-open, the couple captured what Yun Che insinuated but they were too scared to say it out loud. Yun Che spelled it out for them. "Don't worry, I'll have someone heal her and I'll have someone do the same thing that you did to Lu Haidie to her. But I'm a kind person, I won't let zombies get to her. I'll just turn her into a whore whose constant need is men!"

"Noooo!"

Yun Che sounded increasingly sinister as he spoke. The middle-aged couple screamed their guts out. Yet, no one here would feel sorry for them.

"Xiu Jie, heal her."

Out of the corner of his eyes, Xing Feng saw Zhou Zeyu come back with Xiu Jie, along with Yang Huaien and the others who just came back from a quest. He gave the order, pointing at the woman in a coma on the floor.

"Sure. Will do!"

Ever since what happened with Yun Yao, Xiu Jie didn't have the nerve to disobey. He scurried to the girl to heal her as soon as he heard the order. Meanwhile, Yun Che turned around and said to Lu Haixuan whose eyes were open at this point. "You can do whatever you want to all these people except for this girl. Go. Avenge your dad and sister, claim justice for your mom and grandpa."

"OK."

Lu Haixuan was no longer outraged and impulsive, instead, he was exceptionally calm at the moment. He nodded, walked straight up to them, grabbed two people up with each hand and dragged them out like two dead dogs. He didn't want their blood to stain their home.

"No! No! Sorry, sorry! Please have mercy!"

"No! Don't touch Yingzi!"

"Aaaah! No! Please spare our lives!"

"Noooo!"

Even an imbecile knew what would happen after Lu Haixuan dragged them out of the house. The rest of Lu folks cried for mercy on the floor. They got scared, genuinely scared. If they had known they'd die here, they would stay in Northeast. Yes, life was tough but at least, they got to stay alive.

"So much noise. Jiang Shang, Zeyu, help Haixuan."

"Okey-dokey!"

Zhou Zeyu was eager to help. He dragged another two people out without effort. Jiang Shang was kind of averse to this but did it anyway after Ye Xingchen twisted his arm. All of Lu people got thrown out of the house in no time. After taking a quick look at Xiu Jie who had done his job, Xing Feng turned to Yang Huaien. "You heard Che. You know what to do with this girl, right? Take her away."

"OK."

Yang Huaien took the girl away with a perception of what happened. Chu Haoling waved his hand with a frown, all the dirty furniture was gone. "Captain Che, you assigned the task to me and I didn't see to it. I'll wrap it all up." Said Chu.

For the first time, Chu Linghao didn't do or say something stupid. With a very serious look on the face, Chu strode out of the house before Yun Che said anything in return.

"Sister, you get our dinner ready. We'll clean up the room."

Lu Haixuan, Zhou Zeyu and Jiang Shang didn't come back again. They must be doing the job outside, Yun Che thought. Then he turned around and nodded at his sister.

"OK."

Yun Yao didn't say much. She walked straight to the kitchen after making sure her son was in Ye Xingchen's arms safe and sound. Yun Che asked everyone to move aside. He stood in the center of the room. Soon, several strong spouts of water that came out of thin air washed up the room from the walls to the floor. Yun Che controlled the spurts so well as if he was a water superfunction possessor. But they knew he wasn't because the water wasn't aggregating.

"Yafei, your turn."

After cleaning the walls and floor with water from the rivers from his Space controlled by psychological power, Yun Che took a step back to the stairs. Zhan Yafei tacitly stepped forward and stomped. The floor turned into sand which immediately absorbed all the water. When the floor returned to normal, the walls and the floor were as clean as new. No trace of bloodstain or smudge at all.

In the end, Yun Che took out a new set of couch and tea table from Space. The living room seemed in the same state when they left in the morning. It was like nothing had ever happened.