Playing the Good Guy for Once

Wang Jianbin did not hesitate. He tossed out a bag and used his wind ability to carry it over to Bai Yaoyao.

He suspected this woman was ruthless. He had a strong feeling that if they fought, he would come off worse.

Fat Brother was about to use a skill to block it, but Bai Yaoyao said quietly, "It's fine. It should be crystal cores. I can sense energy fluctuations."

"There are over two hundred crystal cores in there. You came looking for these things, right?

"You can have them all. Stay out of this. We're all on the same path-practically in the same line of work, aren't we?" Wang Jianbin said.

Little Crook helpfully hooked the bag. Bai Yaoyao took a look. Sure enough, it contained crystal cores, including a few level-one ones.

Wang Jianbin was certainly showing some sincerity, but...

"We'll take the crystal cores. Sorry, though-we'll be taking your life too," Bai Yaoyao said calmly.

"What do you mean? You want to stand up for them? Haven't you killed people yourselves? Why act all high and mighty, pretending to be saviors?"

Wang Jianbin had not expected this woman to be so shameless. When Bai Yaoyao accepted the crystal cores, he thought the matter was settled. Who knew she still wanted his life?

Unable to hold back, he shouted again, "I can give you another two hundred crystal cores! Don't push your luck!"

"Once you're dead, all your crystal cores will be ours."

Bai Yaoyao was far more interested in the crystal cores than in killing him. But Stone would never tolerate someone torturing children to death. They were going to kill him anyway, so making a profit in the process was a win-win.

Bai Yaoyao glanced at A-Dai and Xiaomi, gave them a look, and immediately teleported inside.

Lulu unleashed lightning, Monkey unleashed water, Dada Juan unleashed fire, and Xiao Shiliu whipped up the wind...

The lackeys outside were practically useless. The four with guns could not even aim, much less hit anyone. All they could do was bully ordinary people.

Fat Brother and Stone had both raised their earth abilities to level three. Once they put up an Earth Shield, practically no one could break through it.

Wang Jianbin had been on guard ever since Bai Yaoyao refused him. When he saw the three rush toward him, he immediately retreated while unleashing Wind Blades. Unfortunately, he failed to hit a single one.

The three were too fast. In the blink of an eye, they were right in front of him. Bai Yaoyao and Xiaomi stabbed at him from either side, only to discover that Wang Jianbin also had Skin Hardening.

Well, well-dual abilities. No wonder he was so arrogant. Official statistics showed that very few people had awakened two abilities in the early days of the apocalypse.

If this bastard did not die today, he would most likely become a difficult opponent down the road.

Seeing that knives were not working, A-Dai fired a Black Mist Bomb straight at Wang Jianbin's eyes. It was a new skill unlocked by a level-three dark ability.

"Aah! Die, all of you!" Blood instantly poured from Wang Jianbin's eyes, covering his face.

Bai Yaoyao seized the opening and drove her blade hard into Wang Jianbin's eye. Once his ability faded, she slit his throat.

With Wang Jianbin dead, the lackeys behind him gave up resisting. They crouched down, covered their heads, and shouted for mercy.

Xiaomi searched Wang Jianbin but found no crystal cores on him.

"Where are the crystal cores?" Xiaomi demanded loudly.

"I... I know! I know! Don't kill me! They're all backstage. The zombie's backstage too," a young man said fearfully.

"A zombie?" Bai Yaoyao suddenly had a very bad feeling.

When she went backstage and saw what was there, Bai Yaoyao suddenly felt that killing Wang Jianbin so quickly had let him off far too easily.

A level-zero zombie was bound tightly to a pillar. Twenty or thirty people lay on the floor, tied together with a long hemp rope. All bore obvious scratches or bite marks from a zombie.

They had been deliberately turning people into zombies, then killing them for their crystal cores. Several female students were not even wearing clothes. Their chests had been gnawed into bloody masses of torn flesh...

Bai Yaoyao remembered people doing this in her previous life too. People rotten to the core could always come up with endless easy ways to benefit themselves.

Everyone fell silent at the sight. There were at least three or four hundred crystal cores in the bags. Who knew how many students Wang Jianbin had killed using this method?

Lulu glared at the people crouching outside, wanting to wipe out the whole bunch with a bolt of lightning.

"These scumbags. Yaoyao, let's just kill them all." A-Dai also stared at them with a hostile expression.

"No, it wasn't us! Brother Wang... Wang Jianbin made us do it! Please spare us..."

"We were forced too! If we didn't work, he'd feed us to the zombie!"

"Please spare me! I have an eight-month-old daughter! Her mother's gone. I only did it to get her something to eat!"

"Shut up," Bai Yaoyao said quietly.

Silence fell instantly.

Hearing the commotion, the students upstairs slowly came down too. When they saw that Wang Jianbin was dead, excitement spread across their faces.

"Are... are you..."

A young man at the front gathered his courage and started to ask who Bai Yaoyao and the others were. They were all wearing black combat uniforms and looked rather like the Special Operations Forces, making them easy to mistake for soldiers.

Bai Yaoyao understood what he was about to say and cut him off. "Unfortunately, we're not."

"Oh. Well, thank you anyway for saving me... us."

"Yes, thank you for killing Wang Jianbin! He was an animal!"

"Thank you. Thank you for everything you've done..."

The members of the Dark Night Squad all felt somewhat awkward.

They had never experienced being the good guys and receiving thanks from so many people. For a moment, they stood there stunned. On closer inspection, a few of the younger members were even blushing.

Bai Yaoyao gave a disdainful laugh. "No one can save you. If you want to survive, you can only rely on yourselves. There are so many of you, and you couldn't beat one man? Didn't a single one of you awaken an ability? Are you all idiots?

"Even the meekest person has some fight in them. Your classmates and teachers were dragged away, raped, and tortured to death, and you just hid back there and watched?"

"We fought back! But they had guns!"

"Cowards always have all kinds of excuses. I'm no champion of justice either, so I have no right to lecture you. I'll waste my breath one last time.

"If you don't dare pick up a knife and fight back, you might as well kill yourselves now. Trash." With that, Bai Yaoyao collected the crystal cores and left.

Bai Yaoyao felt a little weighed down.

But after thinking it over, she let it go. These were all people used to wielding pens. Suddenly discovering that the people around them had turned into monsters that bit others really did take some getting used to.

Why should I bother sticking my nose into this?

After collecting the crystal cores, Bai Yaoyao called for her companions to leave, no longer paying attention to the students behind them, who were still shouting and blaming one another.

By leading the Dark Night Squad to clear out the zombies among the university students at the very beginning of the apocalypse, Bai Yaoyao directly helped H City achieve the highest university student survival rate in the country. In the years that followed, quite a few powerful fighters emerged from their ranks.