With Zhao Tianlei's move complete, the gunman suddenly collapsed to the ground, screaming nonstop. The arm that had been holding the gun was nowhere to be seen, and bright-red blood kept spraying out.
"What happened?"
After the man's screams rang out, the couple in the car froze. They hurriedly crawled out, wanting to see what had happened. The woman had just stepped out through the passenger-side door, with half her body still inside, when Zhao Tianlei strode forward and kicked the door. It slammed into her, and she let out a scream.
"You little bastard, you****** actually dared to hurt my wife! You must be tired of living." Hearing the woman's scream, the last man drew a dagger and angrily circled around the car, charging toward Zhao Tianlei.
Before he could reach Zhao Tianlei, however, Zhao Tianlei simply raised a hand. The man saw a flash of cold light before something struck him hard in the chin. His entire body was sent flying several meters backward. As he flew through the air, a large mouthful of blood sprayed from his lips, mixed with several of his teeth.
"Cheng Yao, get in the car and lock the doors and windows. Don't look at anything." After crippling three vicious drug dealers with three moves, Zhao Tianlei suddenly spoke to Cheng Yao.
Faced with Zhao Tianlei's order, Cheng Yao didn't dare delay. She hurried into the car, shut the door, and sat motionless with both hands clutching the steering wheel. Meanwhile, Zhao Tianlei carried the fire ax in one hand and walked straight toward the man who had previously pointed a gun at him. He said coldly, "You pointed a gun at me just now and said that if I didn't hand over my food and girlfriend, you'd break my arm or my leg, right? Then I'll grant your wish now."
The moment Zhao Tianlei finished speaking, he raised his foot and stomped hard on the man's left knee. With a crack of breaking bone, the man's body convulsed in agony, yet he couldn't even scream. The pain had clearly left him on the verge of suffocation. After crushing the man's leg beneath his foot, Zhao Tianlei turned toward the woman nearby. She was still writhing in excruciating pain.
When Zhao Tianlei swung his arm and slammed the car door shut, it struck the woman squarely in the face. The heavy door crushed the expensive nose she had surgically enhanced, while her forehead and shoulder were also not spared. The woman screamed nonstop, perhaps from the pain, or perhaps because Zhao Tianlei had smashed her expensively augmented nose askew, leaving her furious as well.
Zhao Tianlei placed the ax against the woman's neck and said in a tone that made it clear he was almost ready to kill, "I kindly saved you, but you repaid me with betrayal. Not only did you try to take my food and car, you even wanted to take my woman. You've got some nerve. I almost admire you. Since you're so vicious and so ungrateful, there's no need for me to show you any more courtesy, much less mercy."
Seeing Zhao Tianlei enraged, the woman immediately panicked. She begged him repeatedly, "Handsome, I know I was wrong. Mm... please let me go. You can do whatever you want with me. I can sleep with you. As long as you like it, you can do whatever you want. I guarantee I'll know how to serve you better than that little girlfriend of yours."
"With trash like you, why would I want you? Just look at yourself—what part of you is even real?" As he spoke, Zhao Tianlei kicked the woman in the thigh, sending her sprawling to the ground. He then shut the rear door, picked up the gun lying on the ground, opened the front passenger door, and sat inside.
"Cheng Yao, drive. We're leaving." When Zhao Tianlei got into the car, Cheng Yao was still in a state of terror. Only after he spoke did she regain her composure. She hurriedly started the car and drove away.
The three people left behind were in miserable shape. One had lost an arm and had his leg crushed, while the woman's face had been smashed by the door and her thigh injured by the kick. Neither of them could walk. The only one with all four limbs intact had been sent flying when Zhao Tianlei struck him in the chin with the side of the ax. Nearly half his teeth had fallen out, and his entire jaw was shattered. He lay unconscious on the ground. The blood covering the ground spread through the surrounding area on the wind, enough to attract nearby zombies.
Although the zombies moved slowly, they began converging from all directions after catching the scent of the fresh blood. As the terrifying zombies drew closer, the people lying on the ground let out miserable howls one after another. The woman, in particular, actually gave up trying to escape and sat there wailing loudly. No matter how sorrowfully she cried, however, it did not awaken any pity in the zombies. In the end, the three were surrounded by the horde, and after letting out a few screams, they became prey for the zombies.
The three men probably never imagined that, after being so vicious and domineering in the past and even having several lives on their hands, they would end up falling into the hands of an unremarkable-looking student. Perhaps it was only when the horde surrounded them that they finally felt fear and understood just how terrifying and helpless death could be when it arrived.
After Zhao Tianlei had driven a short distance, he saw that Cheng Yao was still crying and said, "What's wrong? Are you still scared? If you are, let me drive instead. It's dangerous for you to drive like this. We're safe now. Don't overturn the car because you're frightened, or we'll really be in trouble."
Hearing Zhao Tianlei, Cheng Yao quickly stopped crying and wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes. She said repeatedly, "No, I'm fine now. I'm just shaken by what happened earlier."
"Scared? What were you afraid of just now? Were you afraid I'd abandon you and hand you over to those drug dealers so I could escape?"
After saying that, Zhao Tianlei looked at Cheng Yao's silent expression and chuckled softly. "If this had happened in the past, perhaps I really would have done that to save my own life. But ever since you got together with me and gave yourself to me, I won't do that anymore, because you're my woman. Anyone can take my money or even trample on my dignity, and I won't care. But anyone who wants to touch my woman or my brothers must stake his life. Even if I have to fight to the death, I won't abandon my woman or my brothers."
Zhao Tianlei's words sounded crude, but they were direct. Hearing them, Cheng Yao was deeply moved. "Yes, I believe you. I'm willing to be your woman."
Although the drug-dealer incident had nearly caused the two of them to suffer an accident, Zhao Tianlei's intervention ultimately resolved everything. In fact, there was one thing none of the three drug dealers—or even Cheng Yao—knew: the moment Zhao Tianlei realized they were drug dealers, he had already secretly decided to kill them. Especially in this chaotic era, if those three drug dealers were allowed to continue roaming free, they would be an existence even more terrifying than zombies to the survivors.
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