Rebirth: I Will Win Easily in the Apocalypse-Chapter 23 - 13: Murder

After they crossed the narrow stretch of road, Gu Yanzhi could no longer suppress the murderous intent in his heart.

Under Song Zhao's cover, Gu Yanzhi quietly slipped into the water and approached the leader of the bandit's boat.

Because he was thin and it was dark, the gang of bandits didn't notice him.

As Gu Yanzhi passed a small house, he had already silently approached the gang leader from behind. He grabbed the gang leader's clothes and pulled him off the boat, then slashed his neck with a knife.

Blood gushed out, instantly staining the water red.

Gu Yanzhi pushed the now silent gang leader away and forcefully jumped onto the other's assault boat.

Song Zhao also sprung into action. Standing up, he pulled out the knife he had previously tied to his leg and, with a push from his own assault boat, leaped onto the nearest bandit's boat.

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The remaining bandits finally reacted, picking up weapons by their sides and surrounding the group.

"If you don't want to die, fight," Song Zhao said coldly, immediately joining the fight.

The couple moved quickly and in unison, each swing of their blades taking a life.

Stirred by Song Zhao's cold scoff, others picked up tools and swung at the nearest bandits with all their might.

Apart from Gu Yanzhi and his wife, the others, raised under the national flag, hesitated to kill directly for the first time. All they could do was drive the bandits away from them.

The tougher ones like Uncle Zhang and Uncle Zhuang only managed to make the bandits bleed a bit.

With everyone's concerted efforts, the bandits were quickly thrown into the water. Some defiant ones, still armed, tried to continue fighting but were suppressed by others in the water and swam away in terror.

None of the others were feared, but this man and woman were terrifying, especially the woman, who claimed a life with each slash.

Blood spattered on Gu Yanzhi's face, looking particularly eerie and chilling under the dim lights.

The remaining bandits didn't even dare look back, desperate only to escape this terrifying place.

Gu Yanzhi slowly walked toward his own assault boat, feeling his legs weaken, but thankfully Song Zhao quickly extended his arms and held her steadily.

Song Zhao could feel the person in his arms trembling non-stop. He gently stroked her back and whispered reassuringly that everything was alright now.

Although Gu Yanzhi was still frightened, he didn't dare delay. After calming himself a bit, he restarted the turned-off assault boat and quickly headed home.

The others silently followed behind Gu Yanzhi. Tonight's shocking and fearful experiences rendered silence the best way to express themselves.

Uncle Zhang, being a reliable and meticulous man, though shocked and fearful himself, remembered the five assault boats left by the bandits before departing and made proper arrangements to take them along.

Due to the delay caused by the bandits, the rain gradually intensified. There were no pedestrians on the road. The nine boats zoomed past and soon returned to the base of Building No. 10.

From afar they could hear the sound of the assault boat, as Gu Yanlin and Zhuang Nanyang, the two young men, had already prepared themselves at the window to respond.

Upon climbing the stairs and seeing Gu Yanlin unharmed, Gu Yanzhi finally sighed in relief.

Fortunately, Gu Yanlin was sharp. That afternoon, when they had gone out and seen that the situation was ominous, they found the anti-theft windows reserved during renovations and installed them on the fourth-floor windows. The quality of the building was decent, and although the windows on the fifth and sixth floors showed signs of being struck, they were not actually smashed.

One by one, boats were pulled up, causing the neighbors who were peering out of their windows to watch eagerly. When they had left in the afternoon, they only had four boats, and now it had turned into nine, showing how much they had collected that day.

After all the boats were pulled up, Gu Yanzhi and the others began to sort through the items, categorizing and checking which were necessities and which were dispensable.

In the end, each family took a share according to what they needed, based on their own home's lack of supplies. Some important supplies, such as food and gas, were distributed based on a prior agreement: what you find yourself belongs to you, what was found together would be shared equally.

Xiao Lin also received the share of supplies he had been promised in advance, which was even more abundant than he had imagined, and under the cover of the moonlight, he contentedly returned from building 10 to his home.

When Xiao Lin left, he was also very cautious, not daring to use a flashlight in the pitch-black night, just to avoid being targeted.

Building 10 was so powerful, yet it had been completely robbed; with only a several-month-old daughter and a mother with poor mobility at home, Xiao Lin couldn't stand such a scare.

When the goods were distributed, it was already midnight. Gu Yanzhi's family received two boxes of instant noodles, a bag of flour, a bag of rice snacks, and three gas cylinders they had found themselves and together.

Other items like knives, alcohol for fuel, and various other small objects—Gu Yanzhi, claiming that his home reserves were sufficient, did not partake in the distribution of these.

The others, not being the type to take advantage, came together to contribute another bag of rice as compensation for Gu Yanzhi.

When going through the goods left behind on the five boats of the robbers, everyone was frightened; thankfully, all was still well.

The goods on the robbers' five boats were also plentiful and varied—it was unclear how many people they had robbed to gather so much.

Especially the boat that had belonged to the leader of the robbers, in the deepest part of the supplies, they found a body, a woman's corpse twisted and tortured beyond recognition.

If it hadn't been for Gu Yanzhi and Song Zhao's decisive action, they might not be sitting here contentedly sharing the supplies.

Back home, Gu Yanzhi locked the door, took off her raincoat, and sat silently on the sofa with Song Zhao. Song Zhao held Gu Yanzhi's hand tightly, not looking at her, yet his eyes were filled with tenderness for her.

The couple tacitly didn't mention what had just happened; Gu Yanlin, sensing something might have gone wrong during their outing, felt the strange atmosphere between them and eventually refrained from asking what he wanted to know, out of concern and curiosity.

"Big sis, brother-in-law, why don't you go take a shower first? I'll make some ginger tea, and you can have it when you're done," Gu Yanlin said, breaking the weird atmosphere after less than five minutes with his caring gesture.

"Mhm, thanks, Yan Lin," Song Zhao nodded, semi-embracing Gu Yanzhi as he led her back to the bedroom.

After a hot shower, Gu Yanzhi felt somewhat relieved. In her previous life, she had killed many people in her quest for vengeance and wasn't afraid of doing so, but this was her first time killing someone in this life, and the moment the blood splashed on her face, she instinctively felt a physiological discomfort, as if she were back in the lab from her previous life being incessantly experimented on.

On the other hand, Song Zhao, even though it was his first time killing someone, felt no discomfort at all; it seemed as natural as slicing a watermelon.

Now relaxed, she felt exhausted and hungry, her stomach rumbling, her brain weary.