Survival in the neighborhood: Give me a piece of bread every day

"Why...why..."

The young man with the buzz cut was riddled with dozens of crossbow bolts and was on his last breath, yet he glared at Li Jia with resentment and unwillingness.

He didn't understand.

Didn't those guys leave?

Why did they suddenly come back?

We have no grudge against each other, so why?!

"Heh, they think we're easy prey? Do they really think we're stupid?"

A pretty, slender girl walked out carrying a crossbow, her face full of sneers.

She was the girl who had been being sarcastic and provocative all along.

"How... is this possible..."

The young man with the buzz cut looked incredulous, seemingly unable to understand how the other person knew his thoughts.

But he breathed his last after saying those words.

Only after confirming that all of them were dead did Chen An step out from the crowd.

He remained vigilant to prevent the enemy from launching a last-ditch counterattack.

Glancing at the blood-soaked corpse on the ground, Chen An instinctively felt a little uncomfortable, but he managed to suppress it. Then he looked at the pretty girl and praised her, "Not bad. If it weren't for your talent, we wouldn't know that we would have been tricked by these guys."

"Boss, it's what I should do!"

The girl smiled, then picked up the spiked club next to the short-haired youth's corpse and pulled out the crossbow bolt from his body.

She felt no aversion or disgust towards the corpse.

That mental state... is really strong.

Chen An sighed inwardly.

As for why they suddenly turned around and launched a counterattack?

It was because she had just walked a few hundred meters away that the girl had used her talent to eavesdrop on the conversation of the short-haired youth and his companions.

When they heard that these people had deliberately tricked them into going to the city center and treated them like easy targets and fools, everyone was furious.

So Chen An, following the will of the people, launched a surprise attack and eliminated them.

After retrieving the crossbow bolts, Li Jia turned around and asked, "Bai Lu, what's the range of your talent for scouting? Could you check how many people are still in the building?"

"I'll give it a try."

After Bai Lu finished speaking, he activated his talent.

A simple 3D map appeared in front of her.

There are several buildings on the map, and many red dots are lit up.

One of the green dots represents Bai Lu herself, and the group of red dots next to her represents Li Jia and others.

There are also several red dots in the building in front.

A rough count reveals there are approximately thirty.

The egret tapped the nearest red dot, and then a sound was heard.

"Quick! I see that six-legged monster! It's up there! Go after it!"

"Damn it! Block the stairwell, don't let those two bastards get away!"

"..."

Bai Lu looked at Li Jia and said, "These red dots are people."

That's her talent.

A reconnaissance talent similar to radar.

Not only can it reveal the surrounding terrain, but it can also detect the enemy's location and eavesdrop on what the other party is saying at any given moment!

Chen An was also very surprised when he first saw it.

Although the map is quite simple, and the red dots on it cannot distinguish between humans and monsters.

But you can tell whether someone is a monster just by their voice.

In this world of eternal night, it's like having a God's-eye view and X-ray vision!

"Boss, what do you say? Should we take them out?"

Li Jia looked at Chen An and asked.

Everyone was eager to get started.

They originally didn't want to kill anyone.

But these bandits saw them as easy prey and wanted to rob them.

Let's do it!

Anyway, the other party isn't a good person, so I don't feel too guilty about doing it.

Chen An's gaze swept over the crowd, and he said, "We have the advantage in numbers and weapons, we have the intelligence advantage, and besides, these people are the robbers who are disrupting the harmony of our community... Let's kill them!"

"Okay! Boss, could you please devise a strategy for us? We'll follow your plan."

Li Jia took the initiative to ask for advice.

Chen An shook his head and said, "I don't know any tactics, so I won't give any orders. Just follow the same strategy as before, use the intelligence that Bai Lu scouted, swarm in, and kill the bandits one by one before they can react."

Upon hearing this, everyone...

That makes sense.

They have long-range weapons and an intelligence advantage.

It can crush them!

"Then I'll lead the team, everyone follow me!"

Li Jia gripped the repeating crossbow tightly and turned to the others, saying, "Those with defensive talents, use them on the front line first. Those with support talents, stand in the back and deal damage. The rest of you, don't shoot arrows indiscriminately, lest you accidentally hit us!"

"Now, go inside!"

After a brief arrangement, Li Jia led everyone into the building.

We need to kill the bandits inside before they can react.

Otherwise, they would definitely be extra vigilant once they find out that the guard at the gate is dead.

It might be a tough battle then.

Most residents have moved into the building.

Only Chen An, Wang Ziyan, Lin Luxi, and a few other residents with no fighting ability did not go in.

Chen An would never personally take such a risk.

Because he didn't know if any of the bandits had an extraordinary talent for investigation like Bai Lu, and could directly find out who he, the leader, was.

Or they might have a talent similar to self-destruction, which would be even more dangerous!

He would wait downstairs, and if he saw anything amiss, he would immediately lead his residents to escape.

"Um, are we going to kill everyone in the building? Aren't there some innocent people among them...?"

Bai Mengjie hesitated for a long time before saying those words.

She always felt that Li Jia's arrangements were too radical.

"Who has time to distinguish between good and bad at a time like this?"

Before Chen An could speak, Wang Ziyan looked at Bai Mengjie and said somewhat unhappily, "Just like just now, if we hadn't killed those people immediately, and if we had given them a chance to fight back, perhaps one of them would have been talented enough to hurt us."

"The same applies now. If we waste time distinguishing between good and bad, then other robbers will be prepared."

"Compared to wrongly accusing one or two potentially innocent people, the safety of our own people is of course more important."

Bai Mengjie thought it made sense.

Although she felt a little reluctant, she knew she couldn't let the people on her floor die for the sake of strangers.

Other residents also voiced their agreement.

"My sister-in-law is right!"

"Besides, are there any good people among these bandits? When they were forcing us residents to hand over gold coins, not a single good person came out to speak up for us."

"Exactly! I got swindled out of a gold coin by those bandits this morning. That was hard-earned money from killing monsters! If I weren't so talented and exhausted, I would have gone up there and killed them right now!"

Most residents deeply resented the robbers.

Chen An looked at Wang Ziyan and nodded to himself in satisfaction.

This girl with glasses is finally starting to adapt to this cruel world.

Just yesterday, the rigid and conservative woman still believed that she would rather die than share a room with a strange man.

In less than two days, her thoughts have become so pure.

They even dare to kill people.