Rise Of The Wasteland Chapter 99 - Forced

Chapter 99        Forced

Low-value? What kind of supplies are considered low-value?

Zhou Qingfeng grabbed his computer and with his common sense, he knew that complex industrial products were definitely not in the category of low-value supplies. He then went to grab himself a bottle of water. Water in 2016 was still considered a low-value supply, but, there was no need for him to bring water as in 2030, Manhattan has not reached a point where it was particularly short in the water.

Then what is short in 2030? The world of 2030 had a shortage of clean food and drinking water. There was also a shortage of the necessary social security, medicine, and medical personnel. The flow of information in 2030 was very bad too, and most importantly, the transportation has caused quite an inconvenience. However, all these facts could not be altered easily.

In the past, Zhou Qingfeng was worried about the food supply in the Wasteland and reality turned out to be exactly the same as what he had thought - he could only find rations such as biscuits, bread, and sausages. The supply of fresh vegetables and fruits had long been gone since the early days of the cataclysm.

Zhou Qingfeng suddenly thought of the oranges when he thought about fresh fruit. He felt that the oranges that the young woman sold were truly good in quality. Their skins were thin and their pulps were sweet. With an extremely big appet.i.te, he finished eating thirty to forty pounds in just a single day.

Zhou Qingfeng grabbed the few bags of oranges and he was fairly confident that these oranges would be listed as low-value supplies. He tied up the remaining bags of oranges, but, he felt that these oranges were simply not enough. As NTZ-49 had given him more strength, he can carry up to half a ton at once. Hence, he felt that he needed to bring more oranges to the Wasteland.

He went out of his house and knocked on his neighbor’s door. Instead of coming out to greet Zhou Qingfeng, Guo Jiaming came out from the back door. He stuttered, “What’s the matter?”

“Where’s your wife? I’m looking for her.”

Guo Jiaming instantly felt like something was not right when he heard that. He replied unhappily, “She’s my wife, not someone you can simply be looking for.”

Zhou Qingfeng was too lazy to continue the conversation with Guo Jiaming. He pushed Guo Jiaming away. There were only a television and a dining table in the shabby living room. A takeaway box was on the dining table. There were also a few broken chairs scattered across the room.

Zhou Qingfeng turned around and left when he found out that Yuan Mei was not in the house. He felt that the young woman might be selling oranges by the roadside.

Meanwhile, Guo Jiaming felt excruciating pain as he was pushed by Zhou Qingfeng. He could not help but yell at Zhou Qingfeng, “Hey Zhou, don’t you think your behavior is out of line? Can’t you just talk to me if you have anything on your mind? What’s the meaning of this?”

“What’s the point of talking to you, you useless piece of sh*t?” Zhou Qingfeng groaned. In just two to three steps, he disappeared without a trace.

He walked out of the residential building and found out that the young woman was indeed standing under the streetlamp, setting up her stall, and selling her oranges. However, next to her, there were also four to five hooligans surrounding and hara.s.sing her.

“Hey, girl. We’ll buy all the oranges from your stall and you sleep with us for a night. What do you think?”

“Exactly, our boss is rich. He can even pay over thousands of yuan for a lady behind the counter. Why don’t you just sleep with him? You no longer need to sell oranges anymore.”

“Boss, you have good taste. This woman indeed has large, l.u.s.trous eyes. Her face and figure will cost at least two thousand for a single night.”

Tianyang city was having an economic recession. There was a lot of dally going on in the city. Jobless teenagers often wandered around seeking for pleasure, making the alleys extremely dangerous at night.

There were five hooligans standing in front her and they were all muscular and fierce-looking. One of them even tried to stretch his hand to touch the young woman’s face, while the others surrounded the young woman. They kept pus.h.i.+ng her to prevent her from escaping.

Occasionally, one can find some pedestrians walking past this intersection. However, they would not even bother. Instead, they would walk quicker. The young woman was surrounded in the middle by five hooligans. She had no other choice but to yell in tears after finding herself in a most awkward predicament, “Just take these oranges, stop bullying me.”

However, the hooligans never came for the oranges. They were just there to make trouble out of nothing.

Zhou Qingfeng’s heart was inflamed with anger as he yelled, “What kind of men are you? Fight me if you can.”

The gang leader turned around and he strode towards Zhou Qingfeng and said dismissively, “What the h.e.l.l is going on today? Is he trying to act heroically to defend justice? Kid, you’re really annoying!”

In just the blink of an eye, a dagger appeared in the hand of the gang leader. The others turned around too, they stared at Zhou Qingfeng fiercely. They had been unreasonable for way too long, hence, they were not afraid of anything at all.

The hooligans were not afraid of Zhou Qingfeng, but Zhou Qingfeng was not afraid of them. Zhou Qingfeng decided to fight with them directly. With a few steps, he swiftly dashed forwards and kicked the gang leader in his nuts. Looks like the gang leader’s blasting off again!

It was not known whether the leader was still alive, but his nuts were crushed for sure!

The other hooligans were still lost in their thoughts after they saw their leader collapse on the ground. They soon felt a gust of wind and their limbs were instantly crushed not long after. All of them were lying on the ground and tears came out of their eyes like the rain of a storm cloud.

At first, the young woman was only using her hands to protect her body and she did not cry. However, when she saw Zhou Qingfeng attacking the hooligans, she instantly burst into tears.

“Everything's fine now, why are you still crying?” Zhou Qingfeng walked to the stall unsatisfactorily and looked at the pile of oranges. The oranges were all as fresh as the previous batch. He then said, “I’ll buy all your oranges.”

The young woman sobbed and she said stubbornly, “I will not sell my oranges to you.”

“Why?” Zhou Qingfeng did not understand.

“There’s plenty of people selling oranges on the street, but why do you insist on buying my oranges? You bought all my oranges yesterday and you came again today. I have more than two hundred pounds of oranges over here. Are you really going to buy all of them and just wait for them to rot?”

“I’m a married woman and I don’t need you to pity me. Even if you don’t care about the idle gossip, I still want to live with dignity. That’s why I’m not selling you my oranges.”

The young woman seemed to have finally spit out the words which had been hiding in her heart for quite some time. Her words, however, had infuriated Zhou Qingfeng. “Really? You still care about ‘living with dignity’? I’ll see if you can still live with dignity after being gang-raped by these men.”

The young woman expressed her thoughts, but in return, she only got scolded by Zhou Qingfeng. She became timid again and she instantly lost all grandeur. She then continued hiding behind her stall and occasionally threw a few glances at the five hooligans who were lying on the ground. She was scared too.

However, when she saw that Zhou Qingfeng only cared about her oranges, the young woman muttered, “You’re too fierce. I’m scared to just look at you. You forced me to sell them to you even though I didn’t want to.”

“Then do what I told you to if you’re really scared of me. Put all these oranges into the bags, I want them all.” The young woman’s stall was full of oranges and they probably weighed two hundred pounds in total. Zhou Qingfeng was finally satisfied. The number of oranges would be enough for him to eat for ten days.

After all the oranges were put into the bags, Zhou Qingfeng fished out his wallet only to find out that he had no money with him! He then searched the bodies of the five hooligans and got himself several wallets. There were lots of hundred dollar bills in their wallets.

“Sister Yuan, the money’s all yours. I’ll take the oranges with me.” Zhou Qingfeng was indeed an overbearing, ill-tempered brute.

However, the young woman was shocked when she was handed the money which Zhou Qingfeng got from the hooligans, “You gave me the hooligans’ money. What if they give me a hard time later on?”

Zhou Qingfeng actually had a simple solution to deal with her problem. He walked forwards and stepped on their palms. Their palms were all crushed on the spot. Zhou Qingfeng then tapped his chest as a gesture of rea.s.surance, “Relax, their hands are now completely wrecked. They won’t be able to give you a hard time in the future even if they’re able to recover from it.”

Whaaaaa…… once again, the young woman burst into tears.