Chapter 192: Chapter 192: Encounter a Test?

“Get out of the way!”

In the midst of alarmed shrieks, that speeding Mercedes-Benz G-Wagon tore through the oppressive darkness of the world like a rose-red streak of light.

Already crowded with people standing, sitting, or lying down, the scene outside the base entrance was chaotic.

Those people, upon seeing the car coming out, had pupils that contracted, but while their minds reacted, their frozen bodies clearly did not.

They panicked, trying to get up to dodge, but there were still those who were too slow; they were hit by the car with a “bang” and sent flying!

“Ow!!”

“My leg!”

“Mommy!”

“…”

In an instant, screams of pain, wails of anguish, and cries filled the air continuously.

On the right bank, which had also been crowded with people, the bloodied scene prompted everyone to hurriedly clear a path.

As the Mercedes turned sleekly around the corner, the window on the passenger side opened slightly, and a hand with delicate fair skin and brightly polished nails “smacked” a ripped bag out of the window.

Then the window rapidly closed.

The contents spilling from the bag appeared to be corn.

Golden kernels of corn mixed with the black dust, garbage on the ground, snot, spit, and other contaminants.

But no one was put off by it.

A crowd surged forward.

And in the scramble for the corn, a flurry of punches and kicks ensued.

After stirring up a cloud of black dust and splashes of blood among the crowd, the car sped off toward the other side of the bank.

It swiftly disappeared from everyone’s sight.

Jiang Yan, witnessing the entire scene, couldn’t help but take a sharp breath.

The warriors at the base entrance and the staff in the containers acted like statues frozen in place, turning a blind eye to everything that had just occurred.

And those who were injured didn’t ask for their help at all.

They were too busy fighting over the contaminated corn on the ground.

“It’s mine! This is my compensation for getting hit! Don’t you dare steal it!”

“It’s mine! My mom’s leg was crushed!”

“Little bitch! Gimme that!”

“…”

Arguments, curses, and the sound of fighting once again erupted.

The first one to reach the corn bag was a young boy, but he was quickly overpowered and knocked down.

The bag then ended up in the hands of a middle-aged man.

But soon, a man and a woman, poking eyes and nostrils, wrestled the corn bag away from him.

The two, grabbing the bag, got up and sprinted away frantically.

The rest pitter-pattered after them in pursuit.

Su Dai stared, speechless for a second: “This—”

Others were also taken aback.

Jiang Yan had only seen such absurd scenes in movies and TV shows before.

Yet she never imagined that one day it would happen right beside her.

“Cough cough cough!” Those without coverings for their mouths and noses, who were already coughing, now coughed even more violently.

“These people—” Song Qian clenched his fist, wanting to chase after the Mercedes, but was held back by Sun Jingtao, “Brother Song, don’t be impulsive.”

After all, no one could outrun a car.

Meanwhile, the child who had been crying and making a fuss had scrambled up from the ground, dodging the rose-red Mercedes in a rush.

The group that had been preparing to accost them was also scared into huddling together by the car.

They seemed to be very afraid of that vehicle.

It wasn’t simply the fear of getting hit.

It was more of a dread and fear you could see in their eyes.

Jiang Yan and Ye Qing had quickly stepped back a few steps the moment the car crazily drove out.

The car was very fast and its side and windshield were tinted dark.

Outsiders simply couldn’t see whether the driver was a man or a woman.

It was mysterious.

However, Jiang Yan managed to make out the license plate, Xiang Base 1-88888.

It wasn’t a standard license plate from before the apocalypse—it looked more like a homemade plate from Xiangcheng First Base.

And that hand that threw out the corn, painted with nail polish, slim and pale white, obviously belonged to a woman.

A woman who, even in such apocalyptic times, could still live a pampered life, unaffected in the least.

She narrowed her eyes and turned to Old Xue, “Old Xue, do you know who’s in that car?”

“I, I don’t know,” Old Xue’s gaze trembled with fear.

“Where are they headed?”

“I, I don’t know.”

Old Xue was reticent, repeating his ignorance.

“Then, what’s in the direction the Mercedes went?” Jiang Yan switched her question, nodding toward the direction the rose-red Mercedes had gone.

Where they stood wasn’t truly a riverbank but more like an area of a city that had been partially submerged after the flooding.

And the direction the Mercedes drove toward appeared to be the outskirts of the base, apart from spiked roadblocks, there was nothing else.

Old Xue’s eyes flinched before he spoke in a low voice, “To the communal bunk B area, or maybe the mine.”

Jiang Yan: “…”

As the dust began to settle, the whispers and chatter of the surrounding people picked up.

“Such a flashy color, it must be a woman, so arrogant!”

“It’s not necessarily a woman; some men like flashy stuff too!”

“Terrifying!”

“Aren’t those warriors going to do anything?!”

“Didn’t you see? They gave corn as compensation…”

“Has your conscience been eaten by a dog?! Hitting people like that, with more than one person injured, and just a bag of corn counts as compensation?!”

“What are you getting so worked up for? Even the people involved aren’t making a fuss. Besides, can those even be considered human? They’re worse than ants!”

“Everyone, the apocalypse takes out the ‘saints’ first…”

“…”

“It’s possible his dad is someone powerful… after all, we can’t even get enough food or clothing, and they can still drive a luxury car…”

“Scared to death, luckily we were far away!”

“This base doesn’t look safe! Maybe we should stay out, honey!”

“If we don’t go in, where else can we go? Outside we’ll just starve or freeze to death; inside, there’s at least a chance at life…”

“…”

The ones bold enough to gossip were mostly refugees newly arrived at the bank.

As for those who had already been in Xiangcheng, their eyes showed nothing but fear.

Even with legs crushed or arms smashed off, with heads bloodied and gashed open, they could only bear the pain in silence.

Nobody dared to utter another word; their wariness toward the car and the person inside it was not ordinary.

Jiang Yan’s gaze lingered on the crowd that had earlier come to con them.

Seeing her look and the blood-stained butcher’s knife in her hand, they quickly took the little girl and headed in the direction where the Mercedes had come from, disappearing into the crowd.

“They did as I suspected; these people likely came to test us,” Sun Jingtao kept a distance from Old Xue as he murmured.

After speaking, he looked around warily, scanning the surroundings and the interior of the base.

But apart from the roadblocks reaching shoulder height and the containers, he saw nothing else.

Su Dai expressed confusion, “Husband, what do you mean?”

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