On the day she arrived at the commercial street, Zhang Li witnessed the cruelty of the world. All the survivors deemed useless by Wu Zhiqun were abandoned there.

Although it was a commercial street, all the merchandise had long been scavenged by Wu Zhiqun and his men, leaving only empty counters and clean shops.

The survivors who had been driven there had nothing but the clothes on their backs. They had protested, but Wu Zhiqun, who had disarmed Liu Jinshan's soldiers, had men with guns, so the survivors' protests were useless.

Especially after Wu Zhiqun directly ordered the shooting of two elderly men who were particularly assertive, no one dared to utter a word!

Fortunately, Wu Zhiqun had only just taken control of Liu Jinshan and didn't want to cause chaos in the base, so after suppressing the survivors, he didn't take any more drastic action.

Moreover, on the advice of one of Wu Zhiqun's men, who said that they didn't know what the situation would be like in the later stages of the apocalypse and that it would be better to keep more people around, Wu Zhiqun decided to temporarily keep these survivors for a few days and then decide whether to drive them away depending on the situation.

Although he was keeping these survivors, Wu Zhiqun had no intention of using his own food to feed them. Coincidentally, the manor had stockpiled a lot of pet food and chicken feed because they had been raising animals.

And all of these things were taken by Wu Zhiqun to be used as food for the survivors…

At first, of course, no one wanted to eat it, but Wu Zhiqun ignored them, simply throwing the chicken feed there, whether they ate it or not!

As time went on, the increasingly hungry survivors finally started crawling over and grabbing handfuls of chicken feed to stuff into their mouths, and the others who found it disgusting were finally controlled by hunger and rushed towards the chicken feed.

As more and more people couldn't resist the hunger, the survivors soon discovered that the chicken feed they had previously resisted was not enough to eat.

So, everyone started fighting over it, and those who came to their senses last naturally couldn't even get any chicken feed…

After fighting over the chicken feed, many survivors began to cry. Among them were many former social elites and successful people. They never dreamed that one day they would be crawling on the ground, fighting with others like dogs to eat chicken feed.

The next day, Wu Zhiqun's men came again and threw some more chicken feed at them. Moreover, they even threw down the bodies of the two survivors they had killed the day before.

"If the chicken feed isn't enough to eat, then eat this!"

The man who threw the bodies down sneered at the survivors and then drove away, leaving behind a group of survivors fighting over chicken feed on the ground.

And among these survivors, the most disadvantaged were naturally the children. The elderly, although physically weaker, were experienced and always had ways to get some chicken feed.

But the children, without the protection of their parents, had no ability to survive at all and could only sit there crying, calling out for their mothers and fathers…

Because Zhang Li had the protection of that small boss, she had a room upstairs that others couldn't get to, and she also had food.

Her younger brother was naturally with Zhang Li, and thanks to his sister, he didn't have to go down and fight with people for chicken feed.

And Zhang Li was always watching from the window, watching the survivors who were willing to fight each other for chicken feed.

The scene before her eyes made Zhang Li feel extremely sad. Seeing those former social elites crawling on the ground, desperately fighting, grabbing the chicken feed on the ground, desperately stuffing it into their mouths along with the dirt, who would have thought that they once had a commanding presence in various fields?

And Zhang Li also noticed the children who couldn't grab anything and could only hide in the back and cry. The children were about three or four years old, and the older ones were only about ten years old. The older ones were already able to rush up and grab a few handfuls of chicken feed for themselves!

Some of these children were separated from their parents, and some had parents who had already died, but there were also some whose fathers or mothers were still alive, but… they no longer had the ability to protect their children, so they had to abandon them.

This was the apocalypse. Even adults couldn't guarantee their own safety, let alone take care of children. If abandoning the child could allow them to live longer, some people could still harden their hearts…

Rather than dying together, it's better for me to live a few more days. Anyway, whether I take him with me or not, he will die eventually!

Many people used this kind of thinking to numb themselves.

Looking at the children, Zhang Li looked at her younger brother again and suddenly wanted to protect these children. So, after that small boss came to spend the night, Zhang Li brought this up to him.

This made the small boss very angry. That was sixty or seventy children. Giving them a place to live wasn't a problem for the small boss, there was plenty of space here, but what about food?

It was no problem for him to provide Zhang Li and her brother with food and drink, but it was impossible to feed sixty or seventy children!

So, the small boss refused Zhang Li without hesitation, but Zhang Li was a very stubborn girl. She didn't give up and continued to beg bitterly, even saying that she was willing to do anything.

Looking at Zhang Li's bitter plea, the small boss suddenly thought of something. So, he agreed to Zhang Li, but he didn't have that much food. However, those pet foods, because Wu Zhiqun and his men didn't care about them, could be taken out.

However, the small boss couldn't control those things, so if he wanted those things, he had to take down the person who managed them!

The capital that Zhang Li used to take down that person was of course her own body, and the small boss also took this opportunity to build a relationship with that guy, and he also got a lot of benefits.

Afterwards, the small boss simply started pimping, finding some people he needed and having Zhang Li accompany them for the night. Since Zhang Li couldn't refuse, she simply used the opportunity to spend the night with these people to bring all the children upstairs and ensure that they wouldn't starve to death.

Of course, they wouldn't starve to death, but the food they ate could only be dog food, cat food, and chicken feed, and the quantity wasn't that much either, just barely enough.

But compared to the people below, this was already quite good. At least these children could survive. During this time, they witnessed firsthand from upstairs that the survivors below were cannibalizing corpses due to hunger, and even the elderly and children who starved to death because they couldn't get anything to eat became their food…