EOTWR Chapter 17

Chapter 17

“You’re too kind, come, there are many rooms here, see which one you want to stay in?” Han Lu pulled Wang Min to choose a room. The two women were about the same age and had more to talk about.

Ai Wei returned to his room and told Xia Junchi about Wang Min. Finally, he said, “I think there might be something wrong with this Wang Min. She’s a woman, and she looks so weak. She doesn’t seem like she’d dare drive alone to find a safe zone. Tonight, we need to be extra careful of her.”

Xia Junchi nodded, thinking they should install more surveillance cameras.

However, Wang Min behaved very well that night. She only asked Han Lu about the people in the villa and stayed in her room without coming out.

The next morning, Han Lu was in charge of cooking. Wang Min saw that Han Lu had cooked lean meat porridge and started preparing side dishes. She couldn’t help swallowing and said, “You guys eat really well here.”

“The villa has a vegetable garden, so we can be self-sufficient.” Han Lu said, putting a dish on a plate, “Help me take the dishes to the living room.”

“Okay.” Wang Min responded, picked up the plate, and took it to the table in the living room.

When she came back, she smiled and said, “I’ve been a housewife for a few years, so I’m confident in my cooking skills. Let me make a signature home-style dish for you to try.”

“This…” Han Lu hesitated.

Wang Min thought she was afraid of troubling herself, so she smiled and pushed her aside, saying, “I’ve stayed here for a night, so I can’t do nothing. You just rest on the side, and leave the rest to me.”

“Alright then.” Seeing her insist, Han Lu didn’t refuse.

Wang Min put on an apron, picked up a washed cucumber, and started slicing. Her movements were skilled, slicing the cucumber thinly and evenly, looking like she was used to doing it.

Seeing her skill in slicing vegetables, Han Lu couldn’t help but praise, “You slice so fast.”

Wang Min smiled and said, “I’ve been doing this since I was a kid, and I know how to make a lot of delicious dishes. Later, I’ll make eggplant with minced meat, that’s my specialty.”

As she spoke, she skillfully prepared a plate of cold cucumber salad and said to Han Lu, “Take this plate over there.”

“Okay.” Han Lu picked up the plate and left the kitchen.

Seeing Han Lu go out, Wang Min looked around nervously and took out a lipstick from her pocket. She opened the lipstick cap and poured some white powder into the pot of porridge that was cooking on the electric stove.

In the dining room, everyone in the villa was watching this scene on the mobile phone monitor.

Ai Wei took a deep breath. Although he felt that there was something wrong with Wang Min, he didn’t expect her to actually poison them.

“That’s terrible, and we even let her stay here for a night.” Han Lu gritted her teeth.

“I wonder what kind of poison she put in, and what she wants to do by poisoning us?” Ai Wei said.

“Do you think she has accomplices? After she drugs us, she’ll work with her accomplices to rob us?” Han Lu said, “And take over our villa?” Or even kill them all.

Although most people were concentrated in the safe zones established by the government, a small number of people were still scattered outside. Because of the lack of control, these people were usually very dangerous.

Youran Mountain Villa was far away from human settlements, with few zombies. The area of the villa was large enough for people to plant and live there. It wasn’t impossible for someone to want to seize Youran Mountain Villa.

Ai Wei frowned and said, “If that’s the case, then we’re in trouble.”

“But if she has accomplices, they should be hiding outside the villa now, but I don’t see anyone outside on the surveillance.” Han Lu said.

The surveillance equipment at Youran Mountain Villa was very complete, and the situation around the gate could be clearly monitored. But everyone didn’t see anyone outside to meet with Wang Min on the surveillance.

“That might be because they know the surveillance in the villa can see outside, so they’re hiding further away.” Ai Wei frowned.

Speaking of this, he couldn’t help but have a bad feeling—how did those people know that Youran Mountain Villa had surveillance?

Indeed, many people would install surveillance inside and outside their homes, and it wasn’t strange that Youran Mountain Villa, being so rich, would install surveillance. But if Wang Min really had accomplices, and those accomplices happened to avoid the surveillance range, it meant that those people had some understanding of the surveillance in the villa. Where did they learn about Youran Mountain Villa?

Thinking of Wang Zhi who had left two days ago, Ai Wei couldn’t help but frown.

“If there really are accomplices, they should send a message to their accomplices after Wang Min successfully poisons us.” Xia Junchi said.

“I wonder how many people there are.” Han Lu frowned and said with some hesitation, “They’re clearly ill-intentioned, but if they break in, we might not be able to bring ourselves to kill them, but if we don’t kill them, there’s no guarantee they won’t kill us.”

Of course, it was also possible that Wang Min had no companions at all. She poisoned them just to knock them unconscious and steal their supplies.

“Let’s pretend to have taken the medicine first and see what her intentions are.” Doctor Li frowned and said, “That way, if she really wants to contact people outside, we can catch her off guard.”

Han Lu gritted her teeth and said, “Okay, I’ll go get that pot of poisoned porridge.”

Wang Min in the kitchen didn’t know that her every move was being monitored. She made another dish and put it on a plate. At this time, Han Lu came in and took the pot of porridge out.

Wang Min faintly heard voices from the dining room: “Try it, this is the first time I’ve made mushroom and lean meat porridge, this is eggplant with minced meat made by Sister Wang Min… How is it? Is it delicious?”

“Not bad, not bad.”

Wang Min put the last dish on a plate and personally carried it to the dining room.

Most of the side dishes on the table in the dining room had been eaten, and most of the pot of spiced mushroom and lean meat porridge had also been consumed. Seeing this scene, Wang Min couldn’t help but smile.

“Sister Wang, I’ve ladled you a bowl of porridge. If you come later, there won’t be any porridge left.” Han Lu said.

“I’m fine, just eat well.” Wang Min sat down at the dining table and started eating the food on the table, saying as she ate, “The food in this villa is really good.”

“Is it?”

Suddenly, a voice sounded behind her. Wang Min’s whole body froze, and the dish she was putting into her mouth “clattered” and fell back into the bowl.

A layer of cold sweat broke out on her back. She turned around stiffly and saw Ai Wei standing a few meters behind her with a cold expression.

“You, how…” Wang Min said in disbelief.

Ai Wei walked up to her, grabbed her mobile phone, and looked at her as if he wanted to kill her, “Who are you contacting?”

Although he had never killed anyone, he had killed nearly a hundred zombies, and the hostility on his body was enough to make Wang Min shudder.

“No, no…” Wang Min wanted to force a smile and brush it off, but Ai Wei grabbed her neck.

Wang Min’s beautiful face gradually turned red as he choked her. Looking at Ai Wei’s cold expression, she couldn’t help but feel the fear that she would be strangled to death.

Just when she felt like she was about to suffocate, Ai Wei finally let her go.

She immediately took big breaths, feeling for the first time that being able to breathe air freely was a wonderful thing.

She looked at Han Lu, only to see that Han Lu, who had just been unconscious, was now sitting upright, looking at her with hostility, without any intention of helping her.

“Who told you to drug us? What does that boss want to do at Youran Mountain Villa?!” Ai Wei asked again.

Wang Min was frightened by him and didn’t dare to try to fool him again. She cried and said, “I’ll tell you, I’ll tell you everything… but I was forced to do it. They threatened me with my son. If I don’t do this, they’ll kill my son… Wuwu…”

Wang Min broke down and cried. It turned out that she had not only a daughter but also a son. After her daughter and husband turned into zombies, she had been taking her son away from the hospital and hiding at home. Later, she and several neighbors heard that the government had established safe zones, so they drove to the safe zone together. Who knew that they would be robbed by a group of people when they passed Sanhe Town?

Those people robbed the women, killed two men who resisted, used the remaining cowardly man as a slave, and took away their mobile phones, not allowing them to ask for help from the outside. If she hadn’t been pretty and knew how to adapt, her son would probably have been killed as well.

In recent days, Wang Min had been doing well by pleasing the boss of the group. But seeing how those people treated those they controlled, she couldn’t help but feel trembling. So, when the boss of the group asked her to enter the villa and cooperate with them, she agreed without hesitation.

According to their plan, the people outside would rush in after receiving the news that Wang Min had drugged the people in the villa. Although they didn’t say what they would do, according to their past practices, they would usually kill the strong men in the villa, leaving only the thin, weak men and women, and let those people find food and other chores for them, and occupy all the items in the villa.

After Ai Wei learned and inferred those people’s plans from Wang Min’s mouth, he couldn’t help but break out in a cold sweat.

If they hadn’t been cautious, they might have lost their lives today.

He took a deep breath and said, “There’s one more question, how did you think of robbing Youran Mountain Villa? It’s been more than half a month since the zombie outbreak, why did you come to rob Youran Mountain Villa now?”

Youran Mountain Villa hadn’t been disturbed by anyone these days. After all, it was too remote. But Wang Zhi had only left for two days, and someone came to rob them. Moreover, that group of people knew to avoid the surveillance at the gate, which made him have to wonder if Wang Zhi had leaked the news about Youran Mountain Villa.

Wang Min said, “Two days ago, someone was robbed while passing through Sanhe Town. That person was very observant and immediately kowtowed and begged for mercy, and said that there was a Youran Mountain Villa with a lot of supplies stored there. The boss heard his words and wanted to come over and rob it.”

Han Lu heard this and asked, “Was that person named Wang Zhi?”

Wang Min said, “Yes, his name was Wang Zhi.”

“I knew he wasn’t a good person!” Han Lu gritted her teeth.

Doctor Li pushed the glasses on the bridge of his nose and said, “Let’s take out all the things we prepared to deal with the mutated wolf first, and solve these people first.”

Ai Wei naturally had no objection. As the man with the highest combat power in the villa, he was going to be killed by that group of people. Rather than being killed himself, he should kill that group of people first.

Moreover, he not only had himself but also Xia Junchi. Xia Junchi’s leg hadn’t healed yet, and he was a strong adult man. How could they leave Xia Junchi behind?

Only five minutes later, that group of people’s car arrived at the villa gate.

“Listen to me obediently, otherwise, if we can’t survive, you won’t be able to survive either. If you die, your son will also die.” Ai Wei pointed his gun at Wang Min’s head and said, “I’ll go out with you. Once I find out that you’re acting strangely, I’ll blow your head off.”

As he said this, he showed a grim smile and said, “I killed hundreds of zombies in this villa, and my gun skills are very accurate. If I want to hit your head, I’ll never hit your body.”

“I, I know.” Wang Min’s fear of being strangled by him earlier still remained in her heart. Seeing his murderous look at this time, she couldn’t help but shrink her neck.

She had lived with that group of people for several days and had naturally seen those people kill people. Ai Wei’s murderous aura was somewhat similar to those people’s. She had no doubt that Ai Wei could really kill him.

“You lead them to the lobby.” Ai Wei said, and then said to Han Lu and the others, “Hide the children and Xia Junchi, and you also take your guns and be careful. If they break in, shoot directly.”

Han Lu’s expression was tense, and she said, “I know.”

Doctor Li’s face was also a little bad, and he nodded to show that he knew.

The two immediately went to transfer the children and the wounded, while Wang Min took the key to the villa gate and went out of the villa gate with some trepidation. Ai Wei followed her tens of meters away, using the cover of the bushes.

She could feel Ai Wei’s cold gaze always falling on her, as well as the dark muzzle of the gun. Even if she didn’t see the gun, she could feel the deadly threat it brought.

Her whole body was trembling nervously, and she tried to stabilize her emotions so that she could keep walking.

Ai Wei carefully followed her not far away. Although he threatened Wang Min with a gun, he couldn’t be sure that Wang Min wouldn’t go back on her word, so his vigilance was almost at its highest point.

Finally, Wang Min walked to the gate.

She used the key to open the gate, and then, with a flash, hid behind the luxurious and heavy gate.

Seeing this, Ai Wei couldn’t help but curse in his heart and quickly hide behind a big tree.

Only about a minute later, a few gunshots came from behind the gate. Bullets were shot at him one by one.

Obviously, Wang Min betrayed him and told the group of people his location.

Ai Wei covered the gate with his ability. Within the range of his ability, he could feel three cars parked outside the gate, but he couldn’t be sure if there were more cars and people further away. More than a dozen men with guns had gotten out of the car, and three of them had climbed onto the wall and were shooting at him.

After a few gunshots, they stopped. A tall man’s voice shouted at Ai Wei, “Don’t hide, we know where you’re hiding! Come out obediently, and we won’t hurt you. We just want the supplies in this villa, and we’re not interested in your lives. As long as you hand over the supplies obediently, we’ll let you go.”

If Ai Wei hadn’t learned what these people had done from Wang Min, he might have hesitated whether to exchange supplies for peace. But after knowing that these people would kill the strong men when they robbed, he didn’t hesitate at all.

“You heard from Wang Zhi that there are supplies here, right? You should have also heard him say that we killed all the hundreds of zombies in this villa.” Ai Wei said loudly, “We won’t give you the supplies. If you want to rob them, just come in. I’ll kill one if you come, and I’ll kill a pair if you come.”

“He’s quite arrogant!” A man jumped up when he heard him say this and said, “Show him how powerful we are!”

“Since you don’t appreciate our kindness, then we won’t be polite!” The tall man said, “Kill him! Rob the supplies, rob the women!”

His subordinates immediately shouted, “Rob the supplies! Rob the women!” and started shooting at Ai Wei’s direction.

Ai Wei noticed that a few of them had separated and were driving along the wall of the villa. It seemed that they wanted to go around to the other side of the villa and climb the wall to get in.

Although he knew that the surveillance in the villa could see this scene, Ai Wei immediately sent a message to the villa group, saying that a few people had gone around to the back wall and were about to come in.

In addition to these people, a few people also entered the gate while Ai Wei was being forced by the bullets not to show his head.

If it were an ordinary person, when being pinned down by gunfire, it would probably be difficult to notice their infiltration. But Ai Wei’s ability was equivalent to a small-range sky eye, which could detect all movements within his ability range. As soon as these people entered the gate, Ai Wei’s ability noticed them.

He gritted his teeth. He didn’t want to kill people, but he couldn’t let these people enter the villa. When these people entered his shooting range, he shot the person walking in the front.

“Ah—” that person immediately cried out in pain and fell to the ground.

The few people who came in with him were a little flustered and all lay on the ground.

Along the road from the villa gate to the villa, there was a lawn planted with low bushes. After these people rolled behind the lawn, their figures could no longer be seen.

These people were confident that Ai Wei couldn’t see them with the cover of the bushes, and that Ai Wei’s bullets wouldn’t hit them either. But they could see Ai Wei through the direct gaps in the bushes, and they had the advantage.

However, before their bullets could be fired, Ai Wei “bang bang bang” solved them all with a few shots.

Since Ai Wei had the ability, his vision, physical strength, and mental strength had increased several times, and it was easier for him to learn many things than ordinary people. What’s more, he practiced gun skills and accuracy every day these days, and his gun skills naturally improved rapidly. In addition, the distance between the two sides was not very far, only about twenty meters.

At this distance, it wasn’t easy for ordinary people who hadn’t practiced guns to hit the target, but he was sensitive and had specifically practiced gun skills, so it wasn’t difficult to hit the target.

Those people cried out in pain after being shot. Ai Wei’s ability sensed that some of them had been shot in a vital spot and died on the spot. There were also a few who hadn’t been shot in a vital spot and were wailing on the ground.

The people outside the gate cursed a few words after hearing the screams of their own people. Someone said, “This is a tough guy. Leave two people to hold him back, and the others go to attack the villa!”

After saying that, that person pointed to two people and told them to stay, and took the others to drive to the back of the villa.

Ai Wei couldn’t help but feel a little anxious. He was about to risk peeking out to shoot the two people outside the wall when he suddenly heard a dog-like barking from far away.

No, it wasn’t a dog barking. There were also wolf howls mixed in.

It was a wolf pack!

Ai Wei’s heart skipped a beat. Could it be that the mutated wolf had brought the wolf pack to seek revenge?

“Ah… It’s a wolf! The wolves are coming!!” Wang Min’s screams came from outside the gate. The two men who were standing on the roof of the car and lying on the wall, shooting at Ai Wei, were also taken aback. They quickly jumped off the roof of the car and wanted to drive away.

If only a few wolves came, they could use their guns to kill the wolves, but there were too many wolves, and obviously, the two of them couldn’t kill so many wolves, so they had to choose to escape.

At this time, there were also gunshots from the villa. Ai Wei’s heart tightened. The enemy had already started fighting with the people in the villa.

Taking advantage of the fact that no one was shooting at him, he wanted to return to the villa as soon as possible. However, as soon as he ran out a few steps, a sharp pain came from his back.

“Bang!”

The bullet passed through his shoulder, and the huge impact made his internal organs uncomfortable. He couldn’t help but spit out a mouthful of blood and fell to the ground.

He looked in the direction from which the bullet was fired and vaguely saw one of the people who had just been shot by his bullets pointing a gun at him, his eyes full of ferocity and hatred.

Ai Wei’s vision was blackening, and cold sweat quickly soaked his clothes. He had lived in a stable environment since he was a child and had never suffered any serious injuries. Such pain made him unable to bear it for a while. He suddenly deeply regretted that after shooting these people and finding that they hadn’t died, he hadn’t given them another shot.

It seemed that he was still not ruthless enough! Ai Wei couldn’t help but think. Listening to the howling of the wolves coming from outside the gate, he thought, was he going to die here today?

No! He can’t die!! He’s still so young. He was still fantasizing about his future last night, and he was still thinking about how he would live with Xia Junchi in the future. He hadn’t even ended his virgin life, and he had finally become a couple with someone he had been in love with for several years. How could he just die like this?!

The bullet didn’t hit his vital spot, and now his physique has improved a lot, and he still has the ability, maybe he won’t die.

Thinking like this, Ai Wei tried to cheer himself up. Maybe it was really because his physique had improved a lot. Even though he was shot this time, he still got up. He turned back and shot at the person who had just shot him. This time he didn’t show any mercy, and not only did he give that person another shot, but he also gave the person next to him another shot.

After solving these two people, he ran towards the door. Wolves have a keen sense of smell and will definitely smell the blood on his body. Even if he hides behind a tree, they will be able to find him, so he wants to get into the car left by those people outside the gate before the wolf pack arrives.

Although those people drove away their car when they left, the car of the person who was killed by Ai Wei was still outside the door. Ai Wei quickened his pace and rushed to the only car parked outside the door as fast as possible. He opened the car door and got into the car, and then breathed a sigh of relief.

The mutated wolf howled at his direction a few times, and then rushed towards him.

Ai Wei twisted the car key, stepped on the accelerator, and drove into the villa.

The wolf pack followed closely behind, howling as they chased. The sound was very similar to a dog. Hearing this sound, Ai Wei was a little distracted for a moment.

No wonder it’s said that dogs are domesticated from wolves, it turns out that even the howls of wolves are almost the same as dogs.

They set up many traps in the villa to deal with the wolf pack that might appear. I wonder how many enemies Doctor Li and the others have solved with those traps, and how many traps are left that can be used?

The car drove into the villa and drove directly through the open gate of the villa. As soon as he entered the gate, Ai Wei noticed that the water on the ground had spread all over the floor, and there were several corpses lying in it, not his own people.

He closed his blackening eyes, drove the car to the base of the wall, and then stretched his hand out of the car window, grabbed a section of separated wire that was placed on the side of the wall, and inserted it into the socket.

“Awoo~” The wolf pack that followed him had already chased into the villa hall. Immediately, a strong current passed through the wire and entered the water, electrocuting the dozen or so wolves that came in first and making their bodies stiff. The wolves following behind didn’t know what was going on, and because of inertia, they also ran into the water and were electrocuted.

The last few wolves noticed something was wrong and stopped in time, and were not electrocuted.

The mutated wolf was also electrocuted. It stiffened in the water for a moment, then jumped onto the roof of Ai Wei’s car. Ai Wei fired a few shots at the roof of the car, and then heard the mutated wolf cry out in pain a few times, as if it had been hit. It jumped onto a sofa again, and its eerie eyes were filled with murderous intent and cruelty as it looked at Ai Wei, making Ai Wei feel flustered.

He had run out of bullets in his gun and could only let go of the wire in his hand to load bullets into the clip.

The sharp pain in his back and shoulders made his hand tremble a little. The mutated wolf seemed to have noticed that he was losing strength, and with a spring in its hind legs, it pounced towards him.

“Bang!”

After a gunshot, the mutated wolf fell to the ground. And Ai Wei’s bullet hadn’t entered the chamber yet.

Xia Junchi was holding a crutch and standing at a doorway not far away, holding a black handgun in his hand.

He fired two more shots at the mutated wolf. However, this time the bullet didn’t hit the mutated wolf, but hit the floor.

Seeing this, Ai Wei quickly grabbed the wire and reinserted it into the water on the ground.

“Awoo~” Immediately, the mutated wolf wailed a few more times, struggling a few times on the ground. Probably injured and feeling that there was no hope of revenge today, it got up and ran towards the door. The remaining few wolves followed it when they saw it run.

Ai Wei breathed a sigh of relief, put down the wire in his hand, and got out of the car.

He had lost a lot of blood, and his vision was blackening. He almost fell to the ground. Xia Junchi was holding a crutch and walking faster than him.

Xia Junchi was afraid of pulling his wound, so he didn’t support his shoulders, but put his arm around his waist and picked him up.

“Your leg…” Ai Wei was shocked, but he was afraid that he would hurt his leg by doing this. After all, Doctor Li said that his leg had to be in bed for a month. And there are still a few days left before a month.

“My leg is fine.” Xia Junchi said, “There are still four people left in the villa. Doctor Li and Han Lu are surrounded by them in the room on the second floor and probably won’t be able to hold out for long.”

It turned out that those people climbed over the wall from the other side of the villa. After approaching the villa, two people broke the window glass of the room and climbed in through the window, but most people came in from the gate.

Xia Junchi had been watching the surveillance and hid in advance. After those people entered the hall, he inserted the wire into the water, electrocuting several of them.

This was a killing move they had prepared to deal with the mutated wolf, but they didn’t expect to use it on humans first.

This killed most of the invaders in one fell swoop, but the distance between the foremost and rearmost people in this group was too great, so the three people at the end stopped in time after seeing their companions in front being electrocuted and didn’t step in.

Seeing so many companions electrocuted in an instant, those three people were also dumbfounded. Then, Xia Junchi fired a shot at them, hit one person, and the other two ran away.

However, there were still some people who jumped in from the window. Han Lu and Doctor Li led them to the trap, and Xia Junchi watched the surveillance and reminded them where the enemy was. Han Lu used a heavy object they had set up in the air to knock a person unconscious. Doctor Li shot a person when they passed by, and also covered them with an iron net, but he didn’t want to shoot them after seeing that those people were trapped. As a result, those people broke free from the iron net and almost gave him a shot. Now, after a thrilling experience, Han Lu and Doctor Li have been blocked in a room by those people.

Now those people are smashing the door. If Xia Junchi hadn’t seen Ai Wei in danger from the mobile phone surveillance, he would have gone to shoot those people in the dark.

“You stay here first, I’ll be back in a while.” Xia Junchi put him in a cabinet in a room and hid him, then went to the second floor holding a crutch.

Ai Wei watched him close the door and go out, feeling unusually uneasy in his heart. This feeling of not knowing whether an important person would never come back after leaving made him feel fear and ominousness. Black spots appeared in front of him, and the severe pain in his shoulders and back was a little unbearable. Finally, his eyes went black and he passed out completely.

He opened his eyes in a burst of severe pain in his back.

The somewhat blurred vision gradually became clear. He closed his eyes again before seeing the person in front of him clearly.

“You’re awake, how do you feel?” Xia Junchi looked a little haggard, with short stubble on his face. Seeing Ai Wei woke up, he came over and asked with concern.

Ai Wei was lying on the bed, his face pale. The severe pain in his back and shoulders made him groan. It took him two seconds to remember what happened before he passed out.

Seeing that Xia Junchi was okay, he breathed a sigh of relief. “My back hurts…” Ai Wei hissed in pain, feeling like he had never been in so much pain in his life.

The bullet in his back had been taken out, and it was still wrapped in bandages. It seemed that Doctor Li used anesthesia when he took the bullet out for him, and now that the effect of the anesthesia has passed, the pain has returned.

“I’ll call Doctor Li over.” Xia Junchi said, and went to call Doctor Li.