Movement of the Troops

The next day, Lin Shi still went to the bank with a glimmer of hope.

After spending most of the day breaking through several bank door locks, he arrived at the vault entrance.

Lin Shi once again experienced the feeling of being hit hard on the head, feeling dizzy and nauseous.

This time, he was completely disheartened.

The bank's vault was not only thick but also divided into many layers, with a complex structure that could not be opened by ordinary force.

Just the lock on the vault door was extremely complex, and even if the lock was destroyed, it was impossible to open the door.

Helpless, he could only go to gold shops one by one to collect gold.

That day, Lin Shi swept through all the remaining gold shops in the city, collecting only a few tens of kilograms of gold and other types of jewelry.

It was less than he thought.

After exchanging all of these for wealth points to upgrade the space:

[Aladdin's Lamp]

[Storage Space: 1456*1456*1456]

[Continue to accumulate 153,673 wealth points to obtain full storage space.]

[Function: Item Duplication*381]

[Upgrade required wealth points: 1.24 million]

He was still short of more than 15 kilograms of gold to upgrade the storage space to the maximum level!

Lin Shi couldn't help but feel excited.

...

The third day after the snowstorm.

After practicing the health formula early in the morning, Lin Shi found that it had started to snow heavily outside the house.

Although the heavy snow affected the visibility of travel, fortunately, the wind was not strong, and it was still possible to go out to search for gold.

The demon king's injury had not yet fully recovered, and Lin Shi did not take it out yesterday, and today he still left it at home.

Considering that the snow might get heavier, in case of being trapped somewhere and unable to return in a snowstorm, Lin Shi left enough food for the demon king to eat for several days before going out.

Today, Lin Shi's goal was the suburbs.

As soon as he arrived in the suburbs, Lin Shi noticed the difference in the atmosphere.

Perhaps it was not just the suburbs, but the atmosphere of the entire Sha City had changed.

There were obviously fewer people outside looking for supplies today than in the previous two days.

In the past two days, occasionally a person carrying supplies alone on the street would be rushed over by someone to rob.

During the robbery, incidents of white knives going in and red knives coming out often happened in front of Lin Shi.

On the snow-covered ground, in addition to the messy footprints, it was often possible to see the striking blood spreading a large area on the pure white snow.

Lin Shi saw two young women yesterday who seemed to be looking for supplies together, but were dragged into a dark, deserted shop by three big men.

The struggling and desperate screams only lasted for a while before they disappeared.

Lin Shi, dressed in a "luxurious" outfit, was inevitably targeted by people, and those who wanted to take advantage of him and those with ill intentions were endless.

With his current physical quality of having activated the second stage of the genetic lock and the experience of killing accumulated over eight years of the apocalypse, all those who dared to come in front of him were easily solved one by one.

Knowing that life and death can stimulate humans to activate the genetic lock, Lin Shi's actions became more decisive.

He would not give an extra knife if he could kill in an instant.

The whole world turned pure white, and people's hearts had turned pitch black.

After killing the fifth guy who came up today, Lin Shi was a bit annoyed and directly put the blood-coagulated Nepalese military knife on his waist.

Sure enough, there were fewer people with eyes coming up to make trouble.

But at noon, when Lin Shi was having lunch, an unwise person still showed up.

"Young man, please be kind, can you spare some food? I haven't eaten for two days."

A kind-looking middle-aged woman, around fifty years old, wearing a ragged cotton-padded jacket, walked into the print shop where Lin Shi was resting.

Lin Shi glanced coldly at the approaching woman and said in a chilling tone:

"If you take one more step, you die."

The woman's steps halted, and she wiped the corners of her eyes:

"Heaven doesn't give me a way to live.

My children are all in other places, leaving me, an old woman, to suffer here."

"Young man, I don't ask for much, just a bite is enough.

I'll trade you this padded jacket for it."

The woman stood at the door without giving up.

A bite of food for a still warm cotton-padded jacket, it sounds quite a deal, perhaps someone would grit their teeth and eat one less bite to make the exchange.

Lin Shi's gaze turned even colder, and he stood up and walked towards the woman.

The woman thought Lin Shi had agreed, and her face showed joy.

Just as Lin Shi approached, a fierce look flashed in the woman's eyes, and a sharp steel awl was revealed in her hand hidden under the jacket.

However, before she could raise her hand, a cold light flashed in the corner of her eye.

Her vision suddenly spun, and the last image she saw was Lin Shi standing in front of a familiar headless corpse with a sharp, bloodied knife.

That's...

my body?

This was the woman's last thought.

...

Lin Shi sheathed his knife, kicked the woman's body out of the door, and with a cold glance at several prying eyes nearby, returned to the shop to eat.

In the afternoon, while Lin Shi was collecting gold, he suddenly heard a commotion.

The noise did not come from nearby but from some high-rise residential areas and apartments.

"Soldiers!! I'm here!"

"The troops are here, we're saved!!"

"Brother soldier! Save me, I haven't eaten for three days!"

...

These past two days, people have been desperately shouting in the apartment complexes, questioning why the troops have not appeared and why the country has not come to save them.

Lin Shi had long guessed that the troops would soon take action.

Because yesterday he had another chance to go to another port and found that most of the containers had been opened, and the useful supplies had been moved away.

Thinking of the situation he encountered with the troops that day, Lin Shi had no doubt that the soldiers of the troops should have been ordered to rush to gather supplies in recent days.

This is wise.

Without supplies to appease, even if the troops barely maintained order in the city, the survivors who were about to starve and freeze to death would still be dissatisfied.

Driven by cold and hunger, they might even confront the troops, causing riots and unrest.

This also indicates that the highest commander of the Sha City troops is not a pedantic person.

Sure enough, the troops finally took action.

Soldiers equipped with real knives and guns, fully armed, appeared everywhere in Sha City.

To the disappointment of the survivors, these soldiers did not hold the supplies they had been dreaming of, but a piece of paper that looked like a leaflet.

These soldiers ignored the corpses visible everywhere on the street and did the same work as posting small advertisements before the end of the world.

They pasted pieces of paper in conspicuous places all over the city.

Some soldiers saw people and directly stuffed leaflets into their hands.

Lin Shi also received a leaflet that looked like it was handwritten, or rather, a notice.

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"No motivation, can't write anymore... feeling sad (´;ω;｀)"