CHAPTER 473: CHAPTER 456: INTERROGATING BLACK SNAKE

Li Yu left the factory building within the base and took a turn around the perimeter wall.

Seeing the zombie tide outside the base, it wasn’t raining much yet, and the number of zombies was still manageable.

The number wasn’t overwhelming enough to cause an inexplicable sense of suffocation.

The rain kept falling.

It was the season of spring rain, and the downpour was flowing into the base’s underground drains, continuously discharging to the outside of the base.

And at that moment, not far from the pig farm building.

In the interrogation room, a severe torture session was underway.

Black Snake, he swore that if given another chance, he would never whimsically come to the Southern region in search of that old man’s food reserves.

Had he not come to the South, he wouldn’t have encountered Luo and the others, nor would Li Yu have caught him by surprise, continuously coming up empty-handed, and he wouldn’t have ended up in his current dire straits.

At the same time, he regretted why he had done what he did in the past.

What he didn’t know was that even if he hadn’t come to the South, Li Yu had already planned to head north to look for them.

"Do you have anything else you’ve forgotten to confess? Speak," Dapao said, holding a whip.

This whip had many barbs, each strike capable of tearing skin and flesh.

Black Snake, now hanging by his limbs from a stick, spoke weakly with his upper body exposed, "I really don’t have anything else, just end it quickly."

Dapao said, "You mentioned originally there were four people, one was you, another surnamed Wang, and the other two are still in prison. Is that correct?

There are still over a hundred people in the prison, with fifteen guns, right?"

Dapao repeated the questions used to interrogate Black Snake, reiterating the answers coerced from him back to Black Snake.

These past few days, deprived of food, Black Snake was extremely weakened; enduring such bodily discomfort was one thing, but not being allowed to sleep imposed dual tortures on his body and spirit.

Hearing Dapao’s repeated questions, he mechanically nodded his head, saying, "Yes, yes, yes."

His cracked lips were full of fissures.

His body bore not a single patch of unblemished skin.

Seeing his state, Dapao refrained from further torture.

He recorded the information obtained from the interrogation of Black Snake over the past two days on paper.

Creak~

The door to the interrogation room was pushed open by Li Yu. Dapao approached and handed over the information gathered from the past two days of interrogation.

Li Yu took the papers, looking at Black Snake, who seemed to have no life left in him, and asked Dapao, "Is he dead?"

Dapao shook his head and said, "Although he’s not dead yet, he’s close to it."

Only then did Li Yu look at the paper Dapao had given him, noting down information about the remaining two individuals and the state of the prison in the outskirts of the provincial capital city.

Upon reading about the hundred plus people and fifteen guns, Li Yu narrowed his eyes, asking, "This information, is it accurate?"

Dapao said, "It should be right. I’ve used all kinds of methods and means these past few days; it always comes back to this.

Moreover, I’ve interrogated another man with a shrill voice who was brought in with him, and he gave me the same answer.

There shouldn’t be any mistake."

Li Yu nodded and looked at the other man, who was also tormented beyond recognition.

He trusted Dapao’s interrogation skills.

Therefore, he said to Dapao, "You’ve worked hard these past two days."

Dapao shook his head, indicating it was nothing; after all, the one doing the torturing was him, not the one being tortured.

Then, Dapao looked at Black Snake and asked, "What should we do with him now?"

Li Yu pondered for a few seconds before directly saying, "Since we know whatever we needed to know, he doesn’t have any value left. Just kill him."

Hearing the outcome Li Yu stated, Dapao showed no surprise.

Killing him was the best outcome.

Thus, he nodded and said, "Okay, Brother Yu, I’ll go take care of it."

Li Yu nodded, then walked out of the interrogation room.

As soon as he stepped out, he could feel a gust of wind and rain, piercing straight to his neck.

The bitter cold of early spring, accompanied by days of spring rain.

Made this spring still carry a trace of the cold remnants from last winter.

After leaving the interrogation room, Li Yu went straight back to his room.

He was scheduled for duty the next day, and as the rain kept pouring, he needed to get some good rest.

After returning to his room, he brewed a cup of hot tea to dispel the chill.

Lying on the balcony of his room, on a chair.

He stared at the stormy weather outside the window, lost in thought, and then sunk into a deep sleep.

When he woke up in the evening and was having dinner, he heard Dapao mention that Black Snake and his people had been dealt with, and their bodies were properly handled.

Li Yu nodded in satisfaction.

After dinner, seeing that it wasn’t late yet.

He remembered the promise he made two days ago to give rewards to the people from the Outer City.

Recalling this matter, Li Yu simply fetched Li Yuan and asked her to find two packs of cigarettes, some liquor, and some clothes that had been collected from outside before.

These clothes were scavenged at the beginning of the apocalypse.

Li Yu would distribute them to the people who entered the Inner City of the Big Camphor Tree Base.

In addition to these items, after some thought, Li Yu went to the warehouse and managed to get half a frozen pig.

This item was a rare commodity in the post-apocalyptic world.

Food was already scarce, and in this apocalypse, many people couldn’t get enough to eat, let alone meat.

Now He Chao and his people were no longer in short supply of food.

Through many efforts, they fought side by side outside, and not to mention that their last venture to Luo Tianyan also contributed significantly.

Even discovering Captain Luo and Black Snake’s group last time was credited to them.

Those who contribute should be rewarded, especially since Li Yu had promised to award them two days before.

He couldn’t break his word.

So Li Yu, carrying these items, made his way to the Outer City in a grand manner.

He Chao had been living well these days; whenever there was a mission in the base, he would join in to tackle it.

Outside, many people knew that he had joined the Big Camphor Tree Base and respected him for being in charge of certain matters.

Meanwhile, inside the base, the brothers had escaped the clutches of hunger. Although they couldn’t say the food was extravagant, they no longer went hungry.

Starvation, a basic need, yet so difficult to achieve in this apocalypse.

Moreover, even though they often had to go outside for missions, returning to the base, the tall walls provided them with a sense of safety.

Even sleeping, they could now rest easy and not fear being disrupted by problems in the middle of the night.

Terrifying and restless nights.

What pleased him the most was that yesterday he entered the Inner City again and spent time with his daughter Xiao Ya.

He wasn’t sure if the base’s good food or her growing body contributed, but he saw that Xiao Ya, who was previously somewhat malnourished, with dry and brittle hair and skin, had grown quite a bit, and even her hair had become glossy and shiny.

Furthermore, hearing that Xiao Ya was learning knowledge made him very happy as a father.

Even in the apocalypse, he didn’t want his daughter to be illiterate.