บท 49: Turning the Tables
Even hard-shelled creatures like Crawlers could be split in two by Henry, let alone ordinary humans. Those exceptionally strong were still only human after all!
"Please... please don't kill me..." The remaining Japanese woman with a round face turned pale with fear at the scene before her. Her voice trembled slightly as she pleaded in Mandarin.
"Hmm? You speak English?" Henry was taken aback.
"Yes... yes, I do... I'm a Japanese exchange student..."
"My name is Minako... my English name is Danielle!"
"Actually, I'm not really familiar with those three... I just met them along the way!"
"They said they couldn't understand the content of the chat in this area and asked me to translate!"
"They wanted to forcefully take me to another area, but I didn't want to go..." "Please believe me, I'm not with them!" Minako's voice was tearful as she pleaded.
"Area? What do you mean by that?" Henry, keenly picking up on critical information from Minako's statements, asked.
"It's like this, currently, the chat in this area is in English, indicating that the people nearby are also English speakers."
"But according to those three men, they came from across the river!"
"People on that side, and they assumed it would be the same here!"
"They didn't expect the language barrier..."
Minako fell silent, thoroughly answering Henry's inquiries.
"Why did they come from across the river?" Henry pressed on.
"That... they didn't tell me..."
"But I overheard their conversation!"
"It seems like the other side of the river is mostly residential areas with fewer hiding places and supplies," Minako explained. "Some of them looked at a map of Sun City and found out that this side of the river is the commercial center."
"They thought there would be more food and places to hide here, so they came over to scout the area."
"I'm telling the truth, please let me go!"
Minako pleaded with tearful eyes.
"I can let you go, but you need to hand over anything valuable you have, then you can leave," Henry said calmly.
"Ah? I... really don't have much on me..." Minako looked innocently.
"No worries, I can kill you and take whatever is in your storage ring!"
"Then I'll know if you were telling the truth," Henry said with a cold expression.
"No... no..." Hearing Henry threaten to kill her, Minako panicked immediately. She hurriedly began pulling items out of her storage ring, pleading as she did so: "Please... please don't kill me... You can have everything I own!"
"This is all I have, please... please accept it..."
Henry glanced down at the items on the ground: [Sailor Uniform]*1, [Cute Cat Ear Girl COS Outfit]*1, [Frying Pan]*1, [Unknown Vibrating Sphere]*1, [Unknown Cylindrical Object]*1, [Bucket Instant Noodles]*3, [Carbonated Drinks]*5, [Energy Cores]*1, [Mutant Fertilizer]*5.
"Is this it?" Henry frowned deeply. Was this woman foolish? It's the apocalypse, why collect a bunch of clothes? Who are they for? Moreover... The system is not very intelligent, is it? It still has unidentified items? What's with this unknown vibrating sphere and the cylindrical object... Can't it identify these?! Seriously?!
Henry reached out and collected the [Bucket Instant Noodles]*3, [Carbonated Drinks]*5, and [Energy Cores]*1. "I'll take these three items, you can keep the rest," he said. "You can go now."
Minako looked troubled. Without food and water, how was she supposed to survive? But seeing the blood-dripping katana in Henry's hand, she didn't dare to argue. After storing the remaining items in her storage space, she bowed several times to Henry and then ran off without looking back.
Henry turned and placed his hand on the bodies of the three Japanese men on the ground. Harvest! Ding! Congratulations, you have obtained:
[Energy Cores]*125+25, [Mutant Fertilizer]*890, [Clean Fabric]*432, [Sharp Katana]*3, [Unknown Vibrating Object]*3, [Red Candle]*35, [Sturdy Rope]*7, [Bucket Instant Noodles]*35, [Bottled Sake]*24, [Indecent Video]*32, [Storage Ring Fragments]*73.
After collecting the resources, Henry didn't immediately drive away. Instead, he quietly followed in the direction Minako had escaped. Henry's decision to let her go wasn't out of mercy; it was a strategic move to see if she was telling the truth. People lie, and in a world where everyone is for themselves during an apocalypse, blindly trusting someone else's words is foolish.
Despite Minako's sincere demeanor, Henry never truly believed her. Now an Awakener, Henry's abilities far surpassed those of ordinary people like Minako. He could easily detect Minako's heavy breathing and the scuffle of her footsteps. But Minako was unaware that Henry was just a few dozen meters behind her.
Minako ran about three to four hundred meters before stopping and looking back to make sure Henry hadn't followed. Confident that she had escaped, she rested briefly under a streetlamp by the roadside. After a moment, her expression suddenly froze, and she paused for about ten to fifteen seconds.
Henry knew that the blank expression was because Minako was communicating with someone through the chat interface. Since the system interface appears directly on the retina, when a person focuses on the retinal display, they appear zoned out to an onlooker.
Minako rested a bit longer, and then her expression suddenly changed. Previously frightened and nervous like a startled deer, she now switched to a calm, composed demeanor, her eyes filled with cunning and arrogance.
"This woman is definitely up to something!"
"Everything just now was an act!"
Minako waited by the roadside for a while. 10 minutes later, an SUV roared up the road, a zombie pinned against the front bumper, pressed tightly against the hood due to the vehicle's speed.
Screech— The SUV had just stopped when the zombie was flung forward. At the same time, two men who dressed similarly to the earlier trio got out of the vehicle.
One of them picked up Minako and helped her into the car. The other man got out, cleanly pierced the zombie's head with a katana, and then reached out. The zombie's body instantly vanished.
Henry knew that it had been harvested and collected.
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