Apocalypse: I Can See the HP Bar, Killing Monsters Drops Loot

“Hmm.”

After Wang Tao nodded, Gao Hua left.

Han Rui seemed hesitant to speak.

“What’s wrong?”

“No, it’s nothing…”

Han Rui lowered her head and left.

Wang Tao watched Han Rui’s retreating figure with some confusion but did not ask further questions. He went upstairs, where, apart from a few committee members, there were also slaves from the underground marketplace.

In total, there were twelve people, eight men and four women.

“Talk about what your situation was like, don’t worry, you are safe now.”

A woman with light makeup and a soft voice began speaking to them.

These slaves had been tortured, some to the point where their mental states were abnormal. And since Wang Tao, Wei Zhenguo, and the others didn’t exactly give off a friendly vibe, a woman was specifically brought in to talk to them.

Several people were huddled in the corner, too scared to look directly at everyone. Some stared blankly, looking like idiots.

Only two of them appeared somewhat alert, clinging tightly to each other. They were the man and woman previously discovered in a large iron cage.

Wang Tao’s gaze turned to these two.

Perhaps because Wang Tao had rescued them, they looked excited subconsciously and then started to speak in a faltering manner:

“We…”

They were a young couple that had, by luck, avoided the first wave of disaster when the virus broke out. They lived above a vegetable market, which allowed them to risk fetching some food and survive for quite a long time.

But one day, when they went out, they encountered people from Shao Yong’s Base. The couple had hardly come across any other survivors after the apocalypse, so they had no real concept of the depravity of human nature.

Mistaking them for a rescue team, they greeted them openly, only to be brought to the underground marketplace. They thought they’d be safe from then on, but that was where the nightmare began!

Every woman who joined the base had to be inspected by Shao Yong, and the purpose was clear.

Then, Shao Yong took a liking to the wife.

The husband and wife, naturally, were unwilling, so Shao Yong directly threatened the wife with her husband’s life. With no choice, to save her husband, she submitted to Shao Yong.

Though heartbroken, the husband thought that if this meant his wife could live well, he would be glad for her—what else could he do when he was powerless to resist?

But little did they know, Shao Yong was a devil. After his novelty wore off, he threw the wife to his subordinates, and she immediately suffered unspeakable torment…

At that time, Shao Yong had also welded together an iron cage to make people fight each other or the undead inside, for his amusement.

The husband was chosen, and he thought he would die at the hands of the undead, as every fight between man and undead had ended that way before.

But he was naive—Shao Yong made him fight his own wife!

The rule was that only one of them could come out alive. If they refused to fight, they would both perish.

The couple had already resolved to die; dying together, perhaps, was a decent option.

But just then, Shao Yong suddenly left, and did not return. Zombies then began to appear within the base.

Deciding it was part of Shao Yong’s scheduled show, no one dared to act without his orders, so they left the couple locked in the cage and ignored them.

Unexpectedly, a zombie outbreak occurred within the base, and people began to get infected. Being in the iron cage, the couple actually escaped the disaster…

Then, there was Wang Tao opening the door, appearing before them, taking down more than a dozen with his axe.

About Shao Yong, they knew not much, only that he was extremely brutal. Not to mention treating people as slaves and deliberately torturing them, he had even killed several of his own subordinates!

As for Shao Yong’s strength, they weren’t quite sure; they only saw the terrifying scene of Shao Yong smashing the skull of a slave with the palm of his hand…

The small testimony of the couple slowly encouraged the other slaves to speak as well.

What surprised Wang Tao was that among the four women, two had been employees of the old marketplace, meaning they were two of the five female slaves that Cao Xin had given to Shao Yong.

As for the remaining three female slaves, they were reportedly tormented to death by Shao Yong…

After listening to everyone’s descriptions of the underground marketplace and their accusations against Shao Yong, the expressions on Wei Zhenguo and the others weren’t good.

“Alright, let’s take you down. Shuize Base is different from other places. We don’t have slaves here, nor oppression. We work to have enough food to eat…”

The gentle-voiced woman led the pitiable group away along with several soldiers.

“Sigh…”

After everyone had gone, Wei Zhenguo, who had kept a stern face, sighed deeply.

He was deeply pained by such matters, but he was powerless to do anything.

The expressions on the faces of the others were also grim. Although they hadn’t seen such a scene, except for Wei Zhenguo and Xiang Hongbin, just hearing about it was cruel enough.

“Everyone should go get some rest now. We’ll talk about anything else tomorrow.”

“Okay!”

With heavy hearts, everyone nodded and left.

Just as Wang Tao was about to return downstairs, he didn’t expect to find Han Rui by his car.

“Didn’t you go back?”

Wang Tao asked, puzzled.

Han Rui, lost in thought, didn’t even notice Wang Tao approaching, and his voice startled her..