Extreme germ phobia

Chapter 186: Strengthening

The sun sets early in winter. It was just past four in the afternoon when the sky had already darkened, and Baifeng Town was covered with a gray filter.

Three thieving figures appeared outside the town and crawled into a snow house that had been prepared in advance.

Ou Yang first placed a small heater on the ground, then stuffed the C4 wrapped in kraft paper into the heater and lit it. The flames devoured the kraft paper, and the gray-white C4 burned in the furnace like firewood.

Zhu Yiming was completely upset: "Isn't this thing explosive? Are you using it as firewood?"

He thought Ou Yang brought this thing with him to use on Lao Mi, but he never expected that it was actually used for heating.

"Aren't you afraid that this thing will suddenly explode and kill us all?"

"Don't worry, it won't explode." Ou Yang closed the furnace door and patted the ash off his hands. "There was a news report about a truck catching fire on the highway. The truck was loaded with explosives, but it didn't explode. The news mentioned safe explosives, so I looked up some information online."

"And you knew this thing could be used as firewood?"

"Not only that, TNT and other things can be used as firewood," said Ou Yang.

"No way?" Zhu Yiming was still a little skeptical. "Why are all the news I see about explosions?"

"What you're looking at is either fireworks or black powder. That stuff is unsafe and will ignite at the slightest touch. Safe explosives are different; they require a detonator to detonate."

"Is this true?" Zhu Yiming still didn't quite believe it.

Ou Yang glanced at the stove, where C4 was burning quietly.

The facts were all there, and Zhu Yiming stopped talking.

Ou Yang glanced at the time. It was not yet five o'clock.

I moved a snow brick away and looked carefully through the telescope. The town was pitch black, with only one house still having a fire.

"Let's start!" said Ou Yang.

Zhu Yiming and Jiang Yuwei immediately covered the stove to prevent the flames from leaking out.

Ou Yang took out the drone, fixed a grenade on it, and flew the drone out of the igloo. He turned in the air and flew into the town. He found an open space that he liked and threw the grenade.

The grenade exploded when it hit the ground, and a muffled sound came from far away in the darkness.

The only fire in the town was immediately extinguished, and the entire town was plunged into darkness.

But all the Lao Mi were alarmed by the explosion. Some immediately grabbed their guns and hid carefully, while others turned a deaf ear and ignored it.

After a while, Ou Yang and Zhu Yiming played rock-paper-scissors. The loser climbed out of the snow house, walked away, raised the gun and fired several shots.

This kind of harassment has been going on for several days. As soon as night falls, all kinds of noises are caused in the town, making Lao Mi panic and unable to sleep well.

Ou Yang's original idea was to eliminate Lao Mi, who was entrenched in the town, with a cold shot.

The enemy is in the open and we are in the dark, and it is not a head-on confrontation. Ou Yang is confident that he can snipe all the Lao Mi.

But there was always a voice in his heart telling him not to do that.

Although all the Lao Mi in the town have their hands stained with blood and there is no innocent person, is it really necessary to eliminate all of them?
However, directly eliminating Lao Mi from the body is not the best option, at least not so appropriate.

But whether it is Ou Yang, Zhu Yiming or Jiang Yuwei, they are all just ordinary people who always adhere to the principle of not offending others unless they offend me.

It seems a bit ridiculous to say this. At this point, what principles are still being discussed? Only by disregarding all odds can one break the blockade and escape the epidemic zone. Along the way, Ou Yang has indeed experienced many moral violations and has indeed killed and injured many enemies. It is not an exaggeration to say that his hands are stained with blood.

But every time Ou Yang killed someone, there was a reason. It was always because the two sides were in opposition and the other party directly threatened the safety of himself or others, so he had to launch a counterattack under special circumstances.

He had never shot at Lao Mi or anyone else for no reason.

Some people may say that the world is in such chaos that one must be decisive and ruthless in order to carve out a niche for oneself.

But decisiveness in killing is itself a false proposition.

Fighting back in self-defense out of necessity and proactively seeking trouble and harming others are two completely different things, and the psychological impact they bring to people is completely different!
To be frank, excluding professional factors, ordinary people may not be able to kill a chicken.

Although chickens are just ordinary poultry, the feeling of a knife cutting their throats and a living creature trembling and struggling in your hands is definitely not enjoyable - except for psychopaths!
Not to mention that after the neck is cut off, the headless poultry can still struggle hard with its bleeding neck, and blood spurts everywhere.

Only by experiencing it yourself can you know what it feels like.

If this is the case with small animals, let alone humans.

In order to protect his own safety, no amount of resistance would be excessive. However, when he himself was not threatened, he took the initiative to cause trouble for Lao Mi purely for the sake of killing. This really crossed Ou Yang's psychological bottom line.

It's not that we don't have the ability or that we can't do it, but the epidemic area is already in chaos and human lives are worthless. We must have a legitimate reason to maintain a normal mental state.

If you let yourself go and indulge in killing, you will gradually become a cruel, cold-blooded and ruthless murderer.

Therefore, Ou Yang always adheres to the bottom line and repeatedly reminds himself that he must maintain the most basic respect for life.

Christina was saved because her life was threatened by other Lao Mi.

The two sides are not on the same page, but the conflict has not yet reached the point of life and death. It can only be said to be a potential threat.

If possible, Ou Yang wouldn't mind staying away from the other party, but the RV couldn't move in the snowy environment, and the other party couldn't leave Baifeng Town on their own initiative.

Moreover, Lao Mi was very cautious. After discovering the warning signs in the three directions, he would no longer approach the south, west, and north. Whether he was logging or hunting, he only dared to go east.

Some Lao Mi even hid in the town like turtles, and would rather demolish their houses and burn fires than leave the town.

This is very troublesome.

Ou Yang wasted a lot of brain cells to come up with this strategy to tire out the enemy. After implementing it for several days, all the old people in the town were sleep-deprived, mentally exhausted, and their mentality was quite broken.

I believe it won't take long.
If the harassment continues, it won't be long before Lao Mi, who is entrenched in Baifeng Town, will leave on his own initiative.

However, the development of the situation was unexpected.

At midnight, just when the trio was planning to make some more noise, there was a burst of gunfire in the town.

Ou Yang held the telescope and looked for a long time, but couldn't see any clues.

Later I found out that not all the people in the town were immune, there were a few infected people in the budding stage!
The continuous harassment caused Lao Mi's immunity to plummet, the infected person's condition worsened, and he suddenly attacked his companions after hallucinations appeared.

Although the infected people were killed immediately, it still caused extremely bad consequences. The old people accused and suspected each other, and even fought each other.

The mob that originally came together for profit has since completely become a loose sand.

(End of this chapter)