Apocalypse: Transmigrated General's Daughter Uses Space to Survive-Chapter 517: Surviving Human Greed

The man screamed as metal shards tore into his arms, the shear force sending him rolling on the ground.

No one saw Ye Xuan move, but a man was already on the ground.

Fear spread like wildfire among the survivors.

Several survivors immediately dropped their weapons. Others fell to their knees.

Chu Miao took several steps forward slowly.

"Those who leave now," She said coolly, "will live."

Her eyes swept over the children again. Lingering on the weapons they were holding.

She looked at the women shaking in fear and the men who had either fallen to their knees or trembling with their weapons dropped to the ground.

"But if anyone dares to aim a weapon at us again, I will not show mercy." She warned them because she could tell they weren’t bad people.

They were just too desperate. Otherwise, they wouldn’t have thought they could attack them when clearly they weren’t capable.

The woman clutching a machete burst into tears and shoved the weapon away, pulling the children behind her.

"We...we didn’t know!" she cried. "We thought you were just a rich convoy...."

"You knew," Grandpa Chu interrupted coldly. "You knew exactly what you were doing."

Even though he felt sorry for them, he didn’t like the idea of them leading children to do something as dangerous and immoral as robbing.

If they were leading them to train in killing zombies, he wouldn’t have a problem. But survivors killing other survivors, although it had become the norm, wasn’t something he was willing to accept.

The leader collapsed to his knees, his gun slipping from his hands and falling to the ground with a thud.

"Please, we haven’t eaten in days. It’s okay if we don’t eat, but the children can’t starve any longer. We had no choice." He sobbed loudly as he pleaded.

"Starvation is tragic," she said. "But it does not give you the right to rob, threaten, or kill."

She had a mission to end the apocalypse. But if the apocalypse ended yet humanity had been completely eradicated turning humans into unfeeling beasts with no moral bottom line, what was the use?

While ending the apocalypse was important, humans had to retain their humanity first.

She gestured lightly.

Gu Fan appeared beside her in a blur, seemingly stepping out of thin air. The bandits screamed in terror.

Several fainted on the spot.

Chu Miao could have acted personally, but she wanted a more shocking effect. So, she called Gu Fan.

"You have two choices," Chu Miao continued. "Leave everything behind and walk away. Or...." She didn’t finish the sentence. But everyone understood what she meant.

The leader slammed his head to the ground a few times as he cried.

"We’ll leave! We’ll leave right now!"

Weapons clattered onto the road.

The survivors scattered, dragging the injured with them, disappearing back into the vegetation they had emerged from.

Within a minute, the road was empty again.

Ye Xuan turned to look at Chu Miao and asked, "Why didn’t you help?"

She exhaled softly and said, "They lack a moral bottom line."

Even though their hands were still clean, no one knew what they would do when driven to a desperate situation.

Grandpa Li snorted. "If this were ten years ago, I would’ve beaten some sense into them."

Grandpa Chu nodded. "Human greed hasn’t changed. Only the environment has."

Chu Miao looked down the road where the survivors had fled.

"This is why we don’t distribute food freely," she said quietly. "Kindness without boundaries breeds entitlement."

It was the reason they had decided not to distribute food for free even during the upcoming battle.

Ye Xuan reached out and squeezed her hand.

"Let’s go. We will leave them alone for now. If we meet again, then it will be fate. We can recruit them then."

They got back into the vehicles and drove off.

As the convoy moved forward once more, Chu Miao’s expression remained calm, but a chill at the bottom of her eyes deep in her eyes became sharper.

This incident had reminded her that the apocalypse wasn’t about just zombies, it also involved surviving human greed.

And she refused to let it threaten her mission, or those she intended to protect.

The convoy arrived at the safe base before noon.

This made it seem as if Ye Xuan and Chu Miao had only gone to meet up with the rest of the convoy.

No one suspected where they came from.

The moment the modified military truck and the three RVs appeared at the checkpoint, the soldiers on duty stiffened. Vehicles like those didn’t come and go casually anymore, especially not ones that looked so intact and well-maintained.

Luckily, Ye Xuan and Chu Miao had become very popular faces, so when the soldiers at the checkpoint saw them, they let the convoy pass.

However, they still informed those at the main gate and the people at the gate informed Liang Wei, who had been given the duty of supervising those on duty.

Actually, this was an opportunity given by Commander Shen to allow Liang Wei recruit more soldiers for Ye Xuan.

By the time Ye Xuan parked the truck and stepped down, several high-ranking officers and base leaders had already hurried over.

This was because the RVs were a rare sight. It could be imagined that anyone who used them must hold some amount of power.

The eyes of the leaders instinctively swept past Ye Xuan and Chu Miao, who they had already gotten used to then froze when they saw the elders stepping out of the RVs.

There was a pressure flowing from the people stepping out of the vehicles that felt overwhelming.

This pressure was different from what they felt from Ye Xuan and the others.

Ye Xuan and Chu Miao were the strongest in their sect, but they were experienced and knew how to conceal their natural suppression.

However, the others were new cultivators except Grandpa Chu. So, they were still learning.

This pressure wasn’t hostility, but it made one’s scalp tingle, as if standing before veterans who had crawled out of mountains of corpses.