Chapter 45: CH 45

Gu Ning didn’t purposely go and inform Bai Lang because he didn’t drink the broth which proved that he should have also found something unusual. Since he used to be the Mafia Leader, he should have this kind of vigilance.

The night was getting late.

The rain outside of the window was like a lullaby in the dead of night.

After a long time, those people didn’t make any move.

Gu Ning glanced at the time, it was already eleven o’clock in the night.

Jia DaoZhang couldn’t bear it any longer and fell asleep in a daze against the wall, even making a slight snoring sound.

Xiang Xu was about to wake him up but Gu Ning grabbed her hand in the darkness and shook her head.

Gu Ning leaned against the wall, her eyes closed, she heard the breathing of those lying on the floor. They were lying on the floor with their eyes closed as if they had fallen into a deep sleep, yet it was quiet, too quiet.

A sleeping person is not a dead person, even if they fall into a deep sleep, they will move somewhat, and when they move, they will naturally make some noise.

Yet there wasn’t.

There was no sound of people turning their bodies over or friction from the clothes.

Only the disordered breathing from intense excitement and agitation, shallow but unmistakably clear, reached Gu Ning’s ears. She could almost imagine the taut, ready-to-burst muscles beneath the clothes of those people pretending to be in a deep sleep.

The only people in this room who were really asleep apart from Jia DaoZhang, were those on Pei Jing’s group who had the broth during the day.

Other than that, everyone was awake.

Everyone was waiting.

Waiting for a signal.

Finally, an extremely subtle, clothing friction sounded.

Someone carefully stood up among those who were still pretending to be asleep.

Then, one by one, those people carefully got up from the ground silently….. Such careful moments were countless practices after they had started eating human flesh. In order not to wake the sleeping “food” and it was only after countless hours of training and “practice” that they were able to stand up like this without making a single sound. After that, they slaughtered those men in their sleep.

This was a very risky and difficult decision. Both guns and the stern aura emanating from Gu Ning and her men proved that they were a tough bunch to be messed with. If it hadn’t been a month since anyone had broken in, if winter wasn’t just around the corner, and they were finishing up their dried meat reserves, they probably wouldn’t have taken such a big risky move.

On the contrary, they could only risk it now.

Imagine cutting their flesh into chunks or strips to cook and then drying it to become their reserve food while the bones were able to make a delicious soup base. There were more than twenty of the gang, and they were not as thin as those that were slaughtered previously, so much more meat to help them through the long winter that was arriving.

At the thought of this, the worries in their hearts calmed down a little.

There was no smile on the dimpled girl’s face at the moment, a sharp knife in her hand, and some regret as she liked the blonde-haired woman. Only if she didn’t refuse her “good intentions” otherwise she would not want to kill her.

If anyone could see in the darkness, it was a very terrifying image right now, with so many people rising silently in the darkness. It looked as though evil spirits crawling out of hell, their human masks ripped away from their faces, revealing unabashedly their vicious and gruesome faces.

At this moment, Xiang Xu even felt that these people were even more terrifying than the zombie out there.

In such a horrible, silent atmosphere.

“Bang!” A loud sound rang through the darkness!

Those “evil spirits” that were slowly advancing their way all stopped in their tracks, overwhelmed by a great sense of fear. It took a moment for one of the men walking at the front to feel the sharp pain coming from his chest, he looked down in bewilderment, yet he couldn’t see anything. He reached out and touched his sore spot, and felt the sticky and warm liquid along with a hole——

He let out a painful and harsh cry of disbelief before collapsing abruptly to the ground.

Even those who were asleep were all awakened by the unmistakable and dismal screams as well as the gunfire.

A light shone abruptly in the darkness which lighted up the faces of those people that didn’t have the time to hide their expression of excitement and hunger. Their hideous expression was like those evil spirits and was exposed under the beam of light——

Everyone except Gu Ning and Xiang Xu drew in a breath of cold air.

Huang MengYao couldn’t help but shriek in shock.

No one bothered to blame her.

It was because the scene right now was so frightening and horrifying that some others didn’t shriek simply because they were too frozen in fear that they had forgotten to even scream.

Gu Ning was not stunned, she held on to her knife and her gaze pierced through the darkness to Bai Lang who was holding his gun.

Bai Lang also glanced at her, obviously, he could also see her in the darkness.

The silent stalemate between both sides only lasted for about ten seconds.

Then there was chaos.

Gu Ning quickly gathered her men around herself and formed a circle surrounding Xiang Xu in the centre and told them to attack as Xiang Xu commanded. Afterward, she rushed straight into the crowd, the darkness didn’t affect her as she ducked to avoid two knives swung at her randomly. The knife in her hand twirling nimbly before leashed out two bright light slashes in the darkness and stabbed directly into two others’ chests around her. The moment she drew back her knife, she leaped by stepping on the man’s shoulder and kicked the other man that was charging towards her. The dagger in her left hand shot out and straight into the man’s throat! With a flash of the knife in her right hand, she slit the throat of another woman.

The crowd was cramped, but Gu Ning was like a nimble fish, swimming quickly through the crowd, knife flashed as people continued to cry out in pain before falling in the darkness.

Moreover, Gu Ning was not alone in this fight.

Even in the darkness, Yin Sang didn’t have Gu Ning’s night vision skills, but she still showed her great strength. At this point, there was a clear distinction between Yin Sang who had fighting skills versus Gu Ning who would kill based on instinct. Although Gu Ning had killed many people, she felt the strain. Whereas, Yin Sang, on the other hand, was much more at ease, carrying a large knife easily and striking her opponent’s most vulnerable spot with every stroke and unerring accuracy, not even wasting an ounce of excess energy.

Gu Ning was now like killing a group of blind people with her night vision.

While Yin Sang was now a blind man herself, killing no lesser than Gu Ning.

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The differences were very distinctive.

Gu Ning’s lips pursed even tighter as she watched Yin Sang intuitively bend to dodge an attack, before swinging her knife again with precision and sliced another man’s throat.

Yan Yu, who had been hiding behind Pei Jing and couldn’t see anything, sent out two fireballs with a pale face and threw them into the crowd before anyone could react or have time to stop her.  The people who had been hiding in here didn’t know what special abilities were, so they were stunned by the fireballs that appeared out of nowhere. The fear made them instinctively choose to run away, and instead of hitting the people, the two fireballs hit the ground and ignited everything that could burn that was laid on the floor!

The fire spread at once and the darkroom was instantly illuminated by flames! Everyone was shocked for a moment before they were stunned by the instantaneous spread of the fire.

“Get out of here quickly!” Gu Ning was the first to react, exiting from the crowd and away from the fire before shouted to Cheng Ming, Jia DaoZhang, and the rest while casually hacking two people who were blocking the way and were still in a daze. She took the lead and rushed towards the door!

Afterward, everyone reacted and all scrambled towards the door!

The whole room was almost covered with combustible materials such as clothes or newspapers, and the fire spread out very quickly, igniting half of the room at once and spreading rapidly towards the door. Some were a few steps behind and were instantly turned into a flamed man as the tongues of fire licked them. They subconsciously screamed and rushed towards the crowd that was cramming at the door. More and more of them were set alight and they fell to the ground trying to put out the fire on them. Yet there were fires all over the floor, how could they possibly put them out? People covered in fire rushed through the room, screams grew louder and louder, the flames grew fiercer and in a matter of minutes, the room was as inferno on earth!

Those unbearably painful harsh screams rang through the silent night of the city.

Zhang XiaoBai was pushed over and was forced to the very outer rim of the crowd. Suddenly, there was an extra hand grabbed his ankle. As he glanced down, he saw a woman whose lower half of her body was on fire, tugging at his ankles and shouting at him in pain: “Help me! Help me!”

Zhang XiaoBai didn’t know what to do at that moment.

At that moment, a foot came down from the top and stepped vigorously on that hand, crushing it with force. Zhang XiaoBai jerked up in horror and saw a pretty but icy face, it was the young woman who often followed Bai Lang around. Without even glancing at Zhang XiaoBai, Yin Sang stepped directly over that hand and then drew her knife and stabbed towards the back of the man who was pushing forward in front of her, killing and opening up a bloody path with every stab!

Zhang XiaoBai was so horrified that he no longer bothered to look at the woman rolling and screaming on the ground while he hurriedly followed Yin Sang and forced his way out.

Jia DaoZhang rushed out of the door with a long tail of fire trailing behind him, screaming and rolling on the ground at the same time. It turned out that the back of his long robe caught fire and was burning. Cheng Ming and the others helped to put out the fire and in the end, Jia DaoZhang stared at his robe which had turned into a blouse, and wept.

The brightness from the flames was seeping through the door gaps, while the expression from the remaining people was in distraught.

“My son was burned to death in there! You all! Give my son his life back!” A woman in her fifties shouted as she viciously lunged towards them with her knife raised.

Gu Ning directly shoved Jia DaoZhang aside, then dodged the cleaving knife and stabbed into the woman’s chest instead.

The woman stared at Gu Ning incredulously, her eyes full of malice as she covered her chest and fell to the ground while the blood from her chest wound flowed down the steps.

The fire in the room was so strong that it soon burnt the door, with flames crackling out through the gaps.

Gu Ning’s glance swept through the crowd and saw that all the familiar faces were present. Her heart calmed down before she led the way by stepping over the pools of blood on the ground and ran down the stairs.

Cheng Ming, Jia DaoZhang, and the rest all reacted hurriedly and followed Gu Ning down the stairs.

All of them ran downward.

Just as they ran to the next level, all they heard was a loud bang from above! The closed-door was swept open directly by the wave of hot pressured air, smashed against the wall with a thud before the huge wave of heat came crashing down—— those who were slower runners tagging behind them were all hit head-on by the wave, flying straight into mid-air and then crashed to the ground in a hail of woe.

Gu Ning kept running until she reached the fourth floor before she stopped.

Soon, everyone ran down.

However, Gu Ning soon discovered that apart from them and Bai Lang, Pei Jing groups, the dimple girls, and her companions had all taken advantage of the chaos to run away to god knows where.

Zhang XiaoBai switched on his torch and swept through the crowd quickly and exclaiming: “Those people have disappeared?”

Only then did the others realize that all those people had disappeared to nowhere.

After all, they had lived here for a long time, long enough to get a clear picture of the building’s geography.

“Gu Ning, what the hell do those people want? It’s not like we’ve offended them.” Jia DaoZhang asked.

“They are cannibals.”  Gu Ning paused and suddenly said with some malice: “Tonight’s broth was also made from human flesh.”

……

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There was silence in the room for a moment, then someone began to gag out the food.

Jia DaoZhang said with a shaky voice: “Can… Cannibals..?”

Gu Ning’s voice echoed out in the darkness: “What they had in that corner covered by a tarp was a corpse. A skeleton to be exact with all the flesh scraped clean. If my guess is correct, they cut the flesh off the human after killing them. Then they cooked and dried it…”

“Then that jerky I took a bite of—— ouh——“ Before Jia DaoZhang could finish his sentence, he recoiled with a pang, bowed over, and began to vomit.

Those few who had managed to calm down began to dry gagging again as soon as they heard the sound of Jia DaoZhang vomiting.

Yan Yu was gagging so much that even tears came out of her eyes, and when she heard Gu Ning’s statement, she became so furious and shouted angrily with her reddened eyes: “You knew all along! Why didn’t you tell us! How could you be so vicious?!”

Gu Ning stared at her coldly: “I just believe that there is no free meal in the world, and even if there is, it is poisonous. Don’t blame others for your stupidity.” Gu Ning was still angry about the fire Yan Yu had started and at this moment, she still dared to confront her. Thus, Gu Ning didn’t give her any *faces, and directly smashed her pride fiercely.

“You!” Yan Yu conjured another fireball in anger.

Then she saw several guns aimed at her amidst the firelight.

“So what if you have a special ability?” Gu Ning looked at her with a sneer: “Trying to see if your fireball is faster or my bullet is?”

“I’ll kill you! I swear I’ll kill you!” Under the firelight, Yan Yu growled as she viciously glared at Gu Ning filled with spite. Staring at Yan Yu’s spiteful eyes, Gu Ning understood that she would try to kill her if she was defenceless now.

Gu Ning’s eyes narrowed slightly, a murderous aura flashed in her eyes, as she gripped the knife in her hand tightly.

“Yan Yu!” At this very moment, Pei Jing, who had been quiet, chided out then intentionally pulled Yan Yu behind himself and said to Gu Ning: “I’m sorry, I’ll apologize on her behalf.”

“If apologies work, what’s the point of having a knife?” An abrupt voice rang out, and it was from Bai Lang who was leaning against the wall with a smile that wished for the whole world to be in chaos.

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