Rise Of The Wasteland Chapter 82 - Aware

Chapter 82        Aware

Zhou Qingfeng cleared the tenth floor and continued to clear the eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth. The death count increased as he went down levels. The whole process was done in silence. His agile and speed were the scariest abilities in the dark, and the enemies did not have the time to react.

As Zhou Qingfeng was clearing floors, he realized the cruelty of the last phase. Everyone would have the freedom to do whatever they want, and without compunction, those gangsters would do things beyond anyone’s imagination.

Other than the tipped over furniture, there were also both dead and alive people remaining within the building. Most survivors were women who had been locked up and abused. It had only been twelve hours, and yet these women had experienced nightmares that they would not have even thought about before actually experiencing them. Some of them had even committed suicide, as they could not withstand the pain.

Most of the people who died were male. Apart from those that were killed by stray bullets, there were corpses on the ground that Zhou Qingfeng could see through a shattered gla.s.s window from the thirteenth floor. Those frenzied gangsters pushed those people out alive from the thirteenth floor.

The wind from outside blew into the building through the shattered gla.s.s window. As Zhou Qingfeng stood there and smelled the bloodstains, he could even imagine the scene from a few hours ago, when the gangsters had pushed those pitiful people out of the building for their entertainment.

“This is ridiculous, terrible!” Under the moonlight, Mobutu saw those smashed corpses on the ground and started to vomit. He mumbled as he cried, “Oh G.o.d, have You abandoned this world, abandoned us? Are we living in h.e.l.l?”

“Cheer up, man.” Zhou Qingfeng patted Mobutu’s back and said, “You’re the first one who was willing to follow me and kill those gangsters. I hope you can hang in there.”

“But I’m regretting it now! More than a hundred people had followed you, yet how many are left? Maybe… I’m the only one. We only killed eleven of the gangsters and the rest of them will be easy to deal with. They’ve probably already realized that their men are gone and are waiting for us upstairs now.”

Mobutu kept on shaking his head and sighing. He would definitely escape if there was a way out. Zhou Qingfeng could not do anything but feel bad about their situation. “The thing is, it’s either those gangsters die, or we die. Only one side could survive. If you’re scared, you can stay here!”

Teammates who have lost morale were useless! Zhou Qingfeng did not want to bring along people who would only make trouble for him. He turned around and took care of the women he saved. He gave them some food and drinks, comforting them and trying to calm them down.

“Listen, what I’m going to say right now is very important. It’s relevant for everyone’s survival.” Zhou Qingfeng cleared four floors and saved more than twenty women. Those women trembled with fear, but they remained obedient.

“First of all, stay calm. Otherwise, I’ll kill you all before the gangsters. Second, don’t try to escape. It’d be harder to survive if you rush yourselves to your deaths. And last but not the least, look for a place to hide at. There’s always hope if you manage to stay alive.”

Zhou Qingfeng finished talking and prepared himself to clear the other floors. At that moment, Mobutu recovered from his fear and said to Zhou Qingfeng, “I think I might be able to help you, so I’ve decided to follow you.”

Zhou Qingfeng laughed in his mind. Isn’t it that you can’t survive on your own and decided to follow me?”

As much as Zhou Qingfeng wanted to complain about it, he did not turn him down. After all, Zhou Qingfeng did not expect anything from him. The most he could do was just be the lookout, which was the easiest job of all.

As Zhou Qingfeng and Mobutu started to clear the fourteenth floor, Yakov, who had been searching Zhou Qingfeng at the lower floors, returned with his men. The burly fellow looked ferocious in that moment with his clothes filled with bloodstains.

The gangsters followed some three to four meters behind him. They were afraid of this frenzied Russian. A few minutes ago, Yakov had killed a dozen of them to release his anger when he could not find Zhou Qingfeng. His way of killing was truly terrifying and outrageous.

Due to the fact that the elevators were not working, they could only take the fire escape stairs. The gangsters were in low spirits as they climbed up from the ground floor. When they arrived at the tenth floor, Yakov suddenly remembered that the women they had caught should be around these floors. He thought he might be able to fulfill his needs.

However, astonishment filled Yakov as he stepped foot onto the floor. It was too quiet—the whole floor was silent! A place occupied by gangsters should be filled with the sounds of screaming and shouting at all times, or the sound of rummaging. Yet, in front of Yakov was a silenced floor.

“Ivan, someone broke into the building.” Yakov searched the floor and found out that his men had all been stabbed and killed. He immediately reported the situation to his older brother through the walkie-talkie.

“Someone invaded the building?” Ivan was still thinking of how he was going to consolidate his position in Manhattan when he heard the bad news. “How many are they?”

“Not a lot, just two or three people. Our floors had been emptied by them from the tenth to the thirteenth floor. The men stationed here were all killed.”

Looking at the dead bodies of his men, Yakov became mad. “I’m on my way to the fourteenth. Bring some men with you and search downward. I think they’re still in the building. Be careful; they were ruthless. It’s not gonna be easy.”

“Still in the building?” Ivan instantly realized and snapped, “It’s that b*stard Victor Hugo! I knew he was still in the building. I’ll bring my men to search for him immediately. We have to get him this time.”

As they received the news, it was not just the Portaschi brothers who were angry; Korgan was also raging. He commanded all of his men and started moving downward from eighteenth floor to search for Zhou Qingfeng. Their crowd moved at the same time.

As a top fighter in the gang, Ivan led the group with a night vision M4A1 while searching for Zhou Qingfeng. At the same time, the voice of his brother, Yakov, sounded from the walkie-talkie, “The people on the fourteenth floor are dead. I’m on my way to the fifteenth.”

“D*mn it!” Ivan cursed. He immediately commanded his men, “Split into three groups. One would follow me to the seventeenth floor, one would follow Mr. Korgan to the sixteenth, and the last team would go to the fifteenth to support Yakov.”

Around seventy of them split into three groups and rushed aggressively after Zhou Qingfeng.