Care to learn a little?

Nearby stood a young man in designer clothes, wearing a Green Submariner watch and accompanied by several people. Seeming to have recovered his wits, he shamelessly offered them cigarettes. "Guys, you'll make sure we get home safely, right? You're wearing combat uniforms, so the government must have sent you to protect us. When are you taking us home?"

He said his name was Yang Cong and that his dad owned a big company and was loaded. As long as they took him home first, he would reward them handsomely.

He even lowered his voice and said something utterly disgusting. "Hey, listen, those girls all came out with me to have some fun. Get me home safely, and you can do whatever you want with them. Anything at all!"

He finished with a sleazy grin, his tone dripping with lust.

Qin Luo glanced at him and asked with a cold smile, "Where do you live?"

Yang Cong thought he had tempted the soldier and immediately gave him an ingratiating smile. "K City! You've heard of Sanyang Trade, right? That's my old man's company. It's famous! Everyone in K City knows it!"

Qin Luo smiled. "Oh? Sure, I know it. But buddy, K City has already fallen. The last batch of survivors was evacuated yesterday. It's an empty city now. And buddy, care to learn a little about soliciting prostitution?"

"Enticing, harboring, procuring, or using other benefits to induce someone into prostitution-what you've done is enough to constitute organizing soliciting prostitution. That carries a prison sentence of five to ten years. Understand?"

He looked ridiculously cool delivering that little legal lesson.

Yang Cong looked constipated, his face turning green, then pale.

Bai Shu and Wang Weihu both laughed. Chen Xiaofei finally managed to shake off the girl and hurried back to put some distance between them. She had given him quite a fright.

Once Qin Luo finished his lesson, his expression turned fierce. Holding his tablet, he pointed at the six or seven irresponsible young men and women and barked at them to sit down properly.

His own air of unwavering righteousness only made the group look even more worthless.

"Listen up. The world outside is no longer the world you remember. This isn't a movie shoot, and nobody's joking. Every one of you needs to take this seriously. Your own safety is at stake. Understood?"

Qin Luo told them, "We're not the search-and-rescue team assigned to this area. We still have a mission to carry out. Right now, we can give you two options."

"One: stay at the service area. We'll contact Headquarters and see whether a team has accepted a mission here. Even if no one has, we can ask Headquarters to send people to take you to the nearest survivor base."

The survivors were immediately tempted and eagerly voiced their agreement.

Qin Luo ignored them and continued explaining. "The downside is that we're in the apocalypse. Even though we've cleared out the zombies here, other mutated creatures could still threaten your safety."

The survivors' faces fell again.

"Two: find someone among you who can drive and has enough nerve, then come with us. If we encounter another combat squad that's finished its mission and is heading back, you can go with them to the nearest survivor base."

"The advantage is that we'll be protecting you, but there's no telling what we'll encounter on the road."

"Still, I can promise we'll do everything we can to keep you safe. Our squad can even spare two people to ride in the same vehicle as you."

Qin Luo demanded that if they came along, they had to behave themselves on the road. Otherwise, he would kill them before any zombie or monster got the chance!

His fierce demeanor was so intimidating that the survivors began to hesitate.

There was no helping it.

The first principle of Headquarters and every base was this-never surrender to the apocalypse, and never abandon a single human being.

They hadn't come specifically to search for survivors. They had only wanted somewhere to rest and regroup, but now that they'd run into these people, they couldn't ignore them. Of course they had to help.

If someone insisted on getting themselves killed, though...

Qin Luo had no intention of helping. Rotten people had no reason to exist in this world.

Xu Duoduo watched them agonize over their choices, the atmosphere growing tense. In the end, Wang Weihu had to step in and hand out paper copies of the Doomsday Survival Manual. Ordinary electronic devices were completely unusable now.

Qin Luo simply left the matter to Wang Weihu. Dealing with this kind of nonsense was what he hated most.

With the Survival Handbook, they could at least gain a clearer understanding of the apocalypse. After all, they had been shut inside since it began. The service area was brightly lit, and with the doors closed and no internet access, these people genuinely had no idea what was happening outside.

They had been pretty lucky, really, and much of that was thanks to the middle-aged couple's quick thinking.

Qin Luo was quite polite to the couple and asked them for a few more details. They were originally from L City and had come here to make a living running the cafeteria under contract. They had never expected to get caught up in the apocalypse. It really was a shame.

The man was named Zhao Gang, and his wife was Liu Chunhui. Both were honest, decent, warmhearted people, and they said they would much rather go with the squad.

"I can drive! So can my wife. We used to drive big trucks hauling freight! If a vehicle breaks down, I can fix it too. All we ask is that you're willing to take the three of us along. That's our daughter over there, Xiaoya. She just turned eight this year. We don't have any other family left."

Zhao Gang said all that mattered was keeping their family of three together. Staying here was too dangerous, and there was no telling when a team would arrive to pick them up.

Liu Chunhui nodded too. "I can cook, and I can do any kind of work! I'm not afraid to fight those crazy people, either! A while ago, we ran out of medicine. The weather was good then, and through a crack in the main doors, I noticed those biting lunatics were slower during the day. I went out once to get medicine."

She said she had guts and wasn't afraid to fight them. Finally, she added that she had slaughtered pigs before.

The couple was so earnest.

Qin Luo and the others all laughed, while Xu Duoduo watched discreetly from the side.

Liu Chunhui noticed Xu Duoduo too. Worried that they might refuse to take just their family of three, she hurriedly added, "Is that young lady not feeling well? She doesn't look too good. My daughter could keep her company! She's young, but she's very good at looking after people!"

After she said that, how could they have the heart to leave the family of three behind?

Even Bai Shu smiled and said, "Don't worry. As long as you want to come, we'll take you along for part of the journey."

Hearing that, Qin Luo smiled and glanced at Xu Duoduo. Rather embarrassed, she shook her head at him in protest. She didn't need anyone looking after her. She could manage perfectly well on her own.

"She doesn't need anyone looking after her, either. Just take care of yourselves."

After saying that, Qin Luo took Zhao Gang aside to ask a couple more questions. With an experienced driver like him, the family's chances of staying safe would improve considerably. The couple's spirit was excellent, too.

They were full of life, and that was what gave them hope of survival. In the apocalypse, people with fragile minds were the most vulnerable.