Chapter 21: Public Opinion Is Fearsome (Third Update)
Li Yu glanced at him but remained silent.
At this moment, the village secretary heard Liu Weimin speaking on their behalf.
He was delighted inside. So he asked, "Comrade police officer, what's the situation in the county town? Will the officials come to rescue us?"
Liu Weimin looked at his hopeful expression and sighed.
He said, "The county town has fallen. Only the two of us are left from our armed police unit. Now we can't find any officials, so probably..."
Upon hearing this, several young men at the front flashed expressions of joy.
But quickly, they put on sad expressions again.
They all sighed.
The uncle quietly asked Li Yu beside him, "Are we really not going to save them?"
Li Yu nodded in response.
The uncle seemed to want to say something, but thought of Little Lue and the relatives at the base.
He wanted to say something, but all words disappeared in a sigh.
Liu Weimin walked a few steps towards Liu Jianwen and said, "Captain! We should let them in."
Liu Jianwen looked helplessly at Liu Weimin, then turned to look at Li Yu.
Seeing this situation, Liu Weimin realized that Li Yu seemed to be in charge of the base.
So he took a few more steps forward, stood in front of Li Yu, and said, "You should let them in. They are all ordinary people, we should promote the virtue of saving lives. We can't be cold-blooded just because of the current situation!"
Seeing Liu Weimin approach, Li Yu raised his submachine gun slightly.
He said, "Not saving them!"
Economical with words, he didn't bother to explain.
He still hadn't decided whether to let Liu Weimin in or not.
In his life principles, he had always believed:
Different perspectives lead to different conclusions,
You don't need to care too much about others' opinions.
Your empathy is actually a very precious quality.
Li Yu certainly knew that kindness was right.
But in this world, kind people always die fast.
So, for him,
Kindness should be based on one's own safety,
If kindness leads to harm to oneself or loved ones,
That would be the biggest mistake.
Moreover,
Why should Liu Weimin be kind,
Why should moral coercion make me kind too?
Li Yu's attitude of not saving them was very firm, flatly rejecting Liu Weimin.
Seeing this, Liu Weimin angrily said, "How can you be so heartless?!"
"I'm not."
Behind them, Liu Huamei heard their conversation and also ran over to say:
"You're cold-blooded!"
"I am cold-blooded."
"You're not kind!"
"Correct."
"Why did you save us but not them?"
"I didn't intend to save you, I was saving my uncle."
Liu Huamei was exasperated and angrily said:
"You're a bad person!" The weapons on her chest seemed to tremble along with their owner's anger.
Li Yu raised his eyebrows, intimidated by the weapons.
He coughed dryly to cover it up
Then said, "I am a bad person!"
Liu Huamei looked at the person in front of her in shock,
In her impression, she had never seen such a shameless person.
Actually admitting openly to being a bad person!
And Li Hang behind Li Yu actually took out a small notebook from his pocket.
The cover of the notebook read: Guide to Showing Off
He opened to the third page and quickly wrote:
Rule 3:
How to attract a beautiful woman's attention?
First make her angry, then argue with her!
After recording this, Li Hang nodded, as if everything was clear.
Satisfied, he put the notebook back in his pocket, patted it to make sure it was secure. This couldn't be lost!
Faced with Liu Huamei's questioning,
Li Yu was very calm. Moral coercion, huh?
Haven't you heard of lying flat?
Haven't you heard of lying flat in social interactions?
He figured Liu Huamei probably hadn't seen it before,
But today, she saw it.
Very angry, but powerless.
Liu Weimin was also very angry beside her.
On the other side, the village secretary and others seemed to have lost patience.
Unable to hold back, he said, "Li Yu, if you don't let us in and we get bitten by zombies, you'll face retribution!"
The village secretary tore off his disguise and threatened.
Li Yu still had an indifferent expression, showing no emotion.
Liu Weimin looked at Li Yu angrily, about to say something.
Several people behind the village secretary began to say:
"Police, look, they won't let us in!"
"Police, they just tried to shoot us with crossbows!"
"Yes, yes, they just shot me, oh, my leg."
"That's right, they killed Ergou from next door, not letting us in!"
"The tourist park is ours, they drove us out and fed us to zombies! Then they shot at us with bows and crossbows"
"This zombie outbreak seems to have been created by them!"
Hearing this, Li Hongyuan and the others' faces turned gloomy. How could they slander them like this?
"Li Yu took advantage of me, and didn't acknowledge it after he was done", suddenly, such a sentence was heard.
After this sentence was spoken, the scene suddenly fell silent.
The speaker was the village secretary's wife, Zhou Shuihua!
Her face full of pockmarks, looking ugly and deformed.
Probably everyone present couldn't imagine that this Zhou Shuihua could say such a thing.
Li Yu is 183 cm tall, with delicate features.
Would he be interested in you?
The village secretary's face turned ashen.
Even Liu Huamei beside them looked at Li Yu with doubt.
Please don't look at me with that kind of gaze, okay?
Damn it.
Public opinion is fearsome, demonstrated thoroughly.
But is this the time to joke around?
"Bang bang bang" Li Yu fired towards the right side of the crowd.
Almost hitting a few people.
Li Yu said, "Continue talking."
The crowd retreated in panic, having escaped death.
Beside them, Liu Weimin's expression became severe. He slightly raised his gun, which was almost out of bullets, wanting to intimidate Li Yu.
Li Yu's gaze sharpened, adjusting the position of his gun. He was sure he could fire faster than Liu Weimin.
Seeing this, Liu Jianwen hurriedly shouted, "Weimin."
Uncle Two upstairs saw Liu Weimin's movement of raising his gun,
Instantly raised his crossbow, aiming at Liu Weimin.
Li Hang beside Li Yu also drew his handgun, while Uncle Four, Uncle Lai, and several others raised their knives.
The situation was on the brink of explosion!
However, hearing Liu Jianwen's words, Liu Weimin lowered his gun again.
Frustrated, he said, "I'm not going to shoot, I just wanted to persuade." There was a sense of being misunderstood in his words.
Then he looked at Li Yu angrily.
Although he didn't believe what the villagers just said,
The fact that Li Yu wouldn't let them in was true, the little girl's pitiful state was true, and Li Yu firing his gun was also true.
The scene fell into an eerie silence.
Li Yu walked calmly to the little girl with his gun raised, his peripheral vision vigilantly watching the movements of people around.
He said gently, "You're Xuanxuan, right? We've met before."
Li Yu had been to Dazhuang's house a few times, this cute little girl was very polite,
When he used to visit their home, little Xuanxuan would even bring him fruit to eat.
Xuanxuan in the center seemed not to hear, staring blankly ahead.
Li Yu crouched down and patted her head.
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