Lin Cha nodded slightly and didn't say anything, after all he was just a passerby who would leave at dawn.

  Yefei saw that Lin Chao didn't introduce himself, worried that he was uneasy in his heart, and comforted him: "You rest first, you must be exhausted from earlier. Are these two your relatives?"

  Lin Chao nodded.

  Lin Shiyu didn't react, but Fan Xiangyu saw him nodding and her heart skipped a beat inexplicably, because the loved one Ye Fei mentioned also included her...

  "Hmph, who wants to be a relative of this demon? After I evolve, I'll trample him a hundred times a day! Hmph!" Fan Xiang thought viciously in her heart.

  Yefei noticed the thin clothes on the three people and immediately took off her own scarf and put it around Lin Shiyu's neck, asking with concern: "Are you still cold?"

  Lin Shiyu shook her head.

  "Come on, everyone, warm up by the fire." Ye Fei led Lin Chao and three others to the edge of the bonfire, saying to a female student wearing school uniform: "Little Li, you sit there and squeeze in, everyone."

  The girl student looked very unwilling, but still stood up and symbolically moved a little bit.

  "Officer Ye, didn't you find any food today?" At this time, a middle-aged woman looked at Ye Fei with a worried face. Beside her sat an eleven or twelve-year-old girl who leaned her head on the woman's shoulder to warm up by the fire. Judging from their appearance, they should be a mother-daughter pair.

  Yefei shook her head apologetically and said, "Sorry, there were a lot of monsters on the street opposite today, it's a bit difficult to enter that supermarket, I'll try again tomorrow."

  When they heard her words, the people roasting by the fire all looked a bit downcast.

  "Mom, I'm so hungry..." The eleven or twelve year old girl whispered, saying weakly.

  The middle-aged woman patted her back lightly, comforted a few words, and then raised her head, looking at Ye Fei with an entreating gaze, saying: "Officer Ye, do you have any food there? Just a little bit is fine."

  Yefei's face showed a hint of reluctance, she reached into her pocket and pulled out a large white rabbit milk candy, saying: "There's only one left, let the child eat it."

  The middle-aged woman hastily took it over and kept saying thank you with gratitude.

  Lin Shiyu watched this scene, her heart filled with shock, never expecting that these ordinary survivors would live such a difficult and humble life, while she... had fragrant rice every day, candies as snacks, freely available purified water, could take baths, and enjoyed comfortable warm beds.

  All of this was brought to her by Lin Chao.

  If it weren't for this younger brother, she might also be living a humble life like an insect among these people.

  Watching the little girl take over the Da Bai white rabbit candy, almost without even opening the outer wrapping paper, she stuffed it into her mouth. She had a hint of sympathy in her heart and subconsciously reached into her pocket to dig out a few pieces of chocolate that she usually ate as snacks to give to her.

  But her hand was suddenly grasped.

  Lin Chao looked at her and shook his head gently.

  Lin Shiru felt a bit bewildered, although she understood Lin Chao's meaning, but didn't understand why they had to do this. They could gather food very easily, and the rotting corpses lurking in supermarkets and some residential buildings were a nightmare-like existence for ordinary survivors, but in their eyes, it was nothing.

  Now, as long as she sets aside a little food, it can save these people, and it can be said that it is effortless.

  She didn't understand why Lin Chao told her not to do so, but although she couldn't figure it out, she still chose to listen and believe.

  Several others saw the little girl savoring the candy and couldn't help but roll their throats, swallowing saliva.

  Yefei sighed and sat down by the fire pit to warm herself up.

  In the spacious basement, only the sound of the little girl sucking on her candy was exceptionally loud. The middle-aged woman realized something and gently pushed the little girl, hinting that she should finish eating quickly.

  The little girl swallowed it down quickly.

  Everyone sat by the bonfire, too hungry to have the energy to speak, staring blankly at the dancing flames, each thinking about their own future fate... or if they would even have a future.

  In the midst of silence, a sudden change occurred. A young man sitting next to Yefei suddenly stood up. The others were still staring at the flames in a daze and didn't notice until they heard Yefei's angry shout, then they looked up in surprise.

  All he saw was a young man holding a gun, Yefi's gun!

  "What are you doing!" Yefei's chest heaved violently as she stared at him in shock and anger.

  The young man pointed his gun at her, with a somewhat ferocious expression, and said: "Don't come any closer, none of you!"

  Except for Lin Chao, everyone else was stunned and didn't know what he was going crazy about.

  Yefei feared the handgun would go off and repeatedly said: "You first put down the gun, whatever it is let's talk it over calmly, don't be impulsive."

  The young man took a deep breath and said fiercely, "I've figured it out. Staying here any longer is just waiting to starve to death. Now that I have a gun, I can go outside to find food. I will never stay with you all and slowly starve to death, then rot!"

  "Don't be impulsive, give me the gun. I'll bring back food tomorrow." Yefei said, slowly getting closer to him.

  The young man quickly realized this and pointed at her with force, roaring: "Don't come any closer, or I'll shoot if you take another step!"

  "Alright, alright." Yefe immediately stopped and said in a gentle tone of voice she had learned from the police negotiation team: "Don't worry, there will always be a way to solve this. You're all alone, even with a gun, it's hard to survive..."

  "I don't care about any of that, anyway it's all going to end in death, I'm all out! Even if you bring back food tomorrow, how much will there be? Only enough for a few people. Everyone will still go hungry. You're a good person, I don't want to hurt you, don't come over here, or else I really will shoot!" The young man roared menacingly.

  Yefei felt somewhat helpless and didn't know how to persuade her.

  Several other survivors had already been frightened and hid to one side, among them a middle-aged man who was slightly more dressed up spoke: "Little Liu, don't be impulsive, let's all think of a way to solve this together. If you feel that the food is not enough, it's okay to drive these three people away. Calm down, even if you have a gun, it's hard for one person to survive on their own, and there aren't many bullets left inside either."

  Xiao Liu was slightly stunned, and he didn't want to care about the rest of the words, but the last sentence woke him up. With the size of this handgun, the magazine can probably only hold a few bullets, which is indeed not very effective. For a moment, a hint of regret surged in his heart, but now that things have turned around, there's no going back.

  "He took a deep breath and said gloomily, 'Alright, but we have to drive these three people away, as well as this mother and daughter. Otherwise, even if we find food in the future, it won't be enough to go around.'"

  Upon hearing his words, the middle-aged man was overjoyed in his heart. He had long wanted to drive away this mother and daughter pair, but he didn't have the nerve to speak up. With his experience, he could tell that his proposal would not be agreed upon by Ye Fei, and instead would offend this mother and daughter pair even more, so he had been enduring it in his heart without saying anything.

  "It's impossible." Yefei said resolutely: "If you let them leave, it's equivalent to killing them. How can you do such a cruel thing?"

  Xiao Liu didn't expect her to refuse so bluntly, a surge of anger rose in his heart, and he said indignantly: "Is kindness useful? Can kindness fill your stomach? Can kindness keep you from starving? Can kindness prevent death? I just want to kill them, how about that? You're the police, arrest me!"

  Ye Fei's face turned iron-green with rage, and the middle-aged man hastily advised: "Officer Ye, just agree to it, otherwise he'll leave with his gun and we'll all starve to death."

  "You, with the surname Huang, you won't die a good death!" The mother and daughter duo immediately became emotionally agitated upon hearing the two people's conversation, fearing that Ye Fei had really agreed. Just thinking about leaving this place and facing those monstrous creatures outside filled their hearts with fear, stimulating their brains, and their faces twisted in agitation.

  The other four survivors were silent.

  Lin Shiru's face was gloomy as he stared at Little Liu and the middle-aged man surnamed Huang, not saying a word. His eyes were brewing with anger, and if he hadn't been worried that he wouldn't be able to subdue Little Liu before he fired his gun, he would have made his move long ago.

  Fan Xiangyu sat by the fire pit with a calm face, just like Lin Chao, as if the quarrel beside him didn't exist at all.

  ……

  Finished coding, going to sleep, will continue tomorrow. By the way, I'd like to mention that the previous dimensional space was 100 square kilometers, but I accidentally wrote it as kilometers instead of square kilometers, sorry about that.