Extreme Cold Apocalypse: My Shelter is Full of Beautiful Women

Chapter 38 The First Time I Bowed My Head.

Liu the Blind Man narrowed his one eye.

"Fire Eyes? Sticked to the wall?"

"Yes, ten flints per piece. They say it can cover a 10-meter radius, automatically detect cockroaches, and kill them with a flame pulse."

Liu the Blind Man fell silent.

He was so clever that he guessed the true purpose of the "fire eye" as soon as he heard the description.

Automatic detection.

Can it test for everything?

Do you only test for cockroaches?

Stick it on the wall, covering a distance of 10 meters.

Does that mean Ye Yan can see every corner of their building through these fire eyes?

Hear every word they said?

"By buying that, we're essentially living under Ye's nose 24/7."

Liu the Blind gritted his teeth, squeezing out the sound from deep in his throat.

He doesn't want it.

But the cockroaches were still crawling.

His men were still injured, still bleeding, still looking at him with terrified eyes, waiting for him to make a decision.

"Blind Brother————"

One of his men spoke cautiously.

Blind Liu closed his eyes briefly, without answering immediately.

Building 7.

Jiang Yu stood at the corner of the stairs, looking at the cockroach corpses she had frozen into ice cubes on the ground, and took a deep breath.

"Sister Yu, the fire-sensor has already been installed in Building 5, and all the cockroaches are gone. Other buildings are also waiting in line. Let's..."

"I won't buy it."

Jiang Yu interrupted her, her tone cold and hard.

"Do you know what that thing means?"

The subordinate lowered his head and remained silent.

"That's surveillance footage."

Jiang Yu's voice was as sharp as her icicle.

"That guy surnamed Ye sticks that thing on our wall, and he can see our every move. Today he kills cockroaches, tomorrow he can kill people. Today he sees what we're doing, tomorrow he'll know what we're thinking."

"But—" the subordinate hesitated for a moment, "But if we don't buy them, what about the cockroaches? The brothers can't hold on any longer—"

Jiang Yu did not answer.

She just looked out the window at the flickering lights in the direction of Building 4.

Her pride told her not to buy it.

But her reason told her that she had no other choice.

Because cockroaches don't care about her pride.

Her subordinates, however, have begun to waver.

What no one expected was that the first to compromise was not Building 10, which suffered the most casualties, nor Building 6, which was the most timid, but Building 1, where Chen Laobing was located.

Old Chen stood in the stairwell downstairs from his apartment building, blood still seeping from the bandage on his left arm. He held his phone in his right hand, looking at the message Ye Yan posted in the group chat, and remained silent for a long time.

"purchase."

He said one word.

The subordinate hesitated for a moment: "Old Chen, that 'Fire Eye'—"

"I know."

Old Chen put down his phone, looked at the cockroaches still crawling in the stairwell, and at the people bitten on the ground, a trace of weariness flashing in his eyes.

"I know what that thing means. But..."

He paused.

"Three people have already died in my building. All of them were bitten to death by cockroaches. I can't stand seeing any more dead people. So be it, only the living have the right to talk about anything else."

He offered no further explanation.

Because it is not needed.

He is the landlord, and he is responsible for the lives of more than one hundred people in the building.

If buying Fire Eye means being monitored by Ye Yan, then so be it.

It's better than dying.

When the news of purchasing Building 1 spread to the group, Blind Liu was hesitating.

The wild fox in Building 10 is hesitating.

The other posters were also hesitant.

But after Building 1 set this precedent, the survivors in the other buildings objected.

"They've already bought an entire building! Why shouldn't we?"

"Exactly! Two people died in our building last night! Two! Both were bitten to death by cockroaches!"

"Hey OP, if you're not going to buy it, I'll buy it myself! I can afford ten flints!"

"Yes! We'll pool our money and buy a fire-eye patch for our floor!"

The voices rose in waves.

It wasn't a question, it was a plea.

The survivors no longer held any reverence for the poster.

There was only the fear of death and the desire to live.

Wild Fox was cornered by the people in his own building, his face turning ashen.

"Do you even realize that if we follow that plan, we'll be under that guy surnamed Ye's watchful eye 24/7!"

"So what?"

A middle-aged man stepped forward, his voice hoarse and his eyes red-rimmed.

"You are an awakened one, you are not afraid of those cockroaches. But we are just ordinary people!"

His voice was trembling.

"We'll die! We'll be scared! What's the point of being watched if we're going to be bitten to death by cockroaches? Honestly, that Lord Ye doesn't care about ordinary people like us at all. If he really wanted to harm us, would he go to all this trouble?"

"you-"

The wild fox choked, its face turning pale and then flushed.

He wanted to refute, but couldn't find the words.

Because what that person said was true.

Ye Yan doesn't care about ordinary people.

He never cared about a single life, but about the entire game.

These people are probably useful to Ye Yan.

This kind of "usefulness" may not sound pleasant, but in this apocalypse, "usefulness" is a million times better than "pitifulness".

No one wants to be pitied.

But everyone wants to be needed.

Even if that need is only seen as a consumer need.

The wild fox closed its eyes and took a deep breath.

He heard the voices of the survivors in the hallway, the cries of children, the coughs of the elderly, and the whispered prayers of someone in the darkness.

Then, he opened his eyes.

"purchase"

When Liu the Blind heard that the wild fox had also bought it, he remained silent for a long time.

He knew that the situation was hopeless.

It's not that he didn't want to resist.

The people in his building wouldn't let him resist.

If he doesn't buy it today, his men will go to Ye Yan on their own tomorrow.

Ye Yan will send someone to install it the day after tomorrow.

The day after tomorrow, he will no longer be the host.

Because he was preventing them from living.

He cannot bear this charge.

"Buy it."

Liu the Blind's voice was so low that even the person closest to him couldn't hear it.

I said, "Buy it!"

He practically roared it out, his single eye bloodshot, it was hard to tell whether it was from anger or resentment.

But he still took out the flint.

Seven stories, seventy flints.

All his possessions.

In an instant, it was all gone.

When the news reached Building 7, Jiang Yu was on the rooftop.

She stood in the wind and snow, watching the lights in the other buildings light up one by one.

Those were not ordinary lights; they were the beams of fire, an invisible net spread out by Ye Yan.

A network covering the entire community.

"Sister Yu—they've all bought them—"

The subordinates' voices were very soft, almost swallowed up by the wind and snow.

But Jiang Yu heard it.

She didn't turn around.

"Sister Yu, the brothers are also pooling their money—they said that if you don't buy it, they'll pay for it themselves and ask Master Ye to install it."

Jiang Yu closed her eyes.

She can freeze cockroaches, but she can't freeze people's hearts.

She can maintain her pride, but she can't stop others from wanting to live.

"Then let's buy it."

Her voice was very soft, as soft as a snowflake falling on the snow.

This was the first time in her life that she had bowed her head.

On that very day, Old Soldier Zhou from Building 2 died!

He became the first awakened person to die in the community.

At the same time.

Outside the residential compound, a group of people appeared at the entrance.

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