Chapter 758: Chapter 758 The Ambitious Andrew
When Chu Yunsheng’s group arrived at Kelvin city, the city was already a mess. Ashe was about to lose Warehouse No. 59, which stored most of their supplies.
Vampires were not immortals, since the invention of guns, vampires were no longer unkillable. They would also bleed when they were shot, and they would also die.
As time went on, human weapons became more and more advanced, and always stood at the cutting edge of technology. No matter how strong the bodies of vampires were, and no matter how fast they were, once they were surrounded by people holding modern weapons, they would still be killed.
In the United States, almost everyone had a gun. Although civilians rarely had large-caliber weapons and heavy weapons, those small arms could also be extremely deadly once they acc.u.mulated to a certain amount.
Vampires generally would not be surrounded by a large number of people holding guns. Although their glorious era had become history, they still had speed and strength that humans couldn’t match. As long as they were cautious enough during the fight, they would be able to break out from the encirclement and clear all their enemies one by one.
But Ashe couldn’t abandon warehouse No. 59 and break through the encirclement. She must guard the warehouse until the arrival of reinforcements.
The warehouse was filled with all kinds of daily supplies. The last batch was sealed cans delivered five days ago. After that, the road was completely cut off and all the rest of the supplies could not be delivered using normal methods.
If it was Buterne, she may consider retreating, because Buterne did not need to use blood to prove her loyalty to the undead king. After all, they had bled too much for the undead king in the past thousand years. But Ashe was a member of the vampire family who had betrayed the oath. To prove her true loyalty, she must use her blood. Therefore, she must stay behind to guard the warehouse.
The number of thugs outside the warehouse had surged to four to five hundred people last night, and there were still more people on the way. The news that warehouse No. 59 stored a large amount of food and supplies was spreading fast in this panic-stricken city that would soon be flooded.
The people that were gathering outside the warehouse were not hungry refugees. Because of the high terrain, Kelvin City had not been completely flooded at the moment. There was enough time for the citizens to h.o.a.rd enough food, and it would definitely be able to help them survive at least a month or two.
They were a group of thugs who had been instigated. As the world began to decline toward chaos, the once beautiful and civilized city of Kelvin also could not avoid violence. The pent-up resentment caused by the huge gap between rich and poor, the fear of the uncertainty of their future, the anger towards the incompetent government, all kinds of negatives emotions erupted from people’s minds like a flood.
Some people were simply venting, some hated the wealthy and powerful cla.s.s, some wanted to take advantage of a crisis for personal gain, and some simply wanted to see the world go down…
But there were also some people that were doing it for their emotions.
Andrew John was one such person. He was originally an unemployed person who lived on public welfare. He occasionally partic.i.p.ated in robbery and theft for marijuana and left a pile of criminal records in the police station.
Heavy rains continued and floods swept across the globe. The News came one after another within a few days. One river after another river burst its banks, and one city after another was flooded. He keenly felt that the original social system was about to collapse, and the troubled times were about to come!
He who had been living at the bottom of society before the troubled time knew better than the mayor that in the near future, if there was no food, no one would care about him and all his welfare benefits would be gone.
Therefore, he only did two things. One was to gather people who had guns together to form a so-called self-protection team. The other was to rob and acc.u.mulate a large amount of food and various necessities.
He believed that as long as he had guns and food, in the future, he would have other things, such as status and power.
Starting from three days ago, while the police were targeting those mobs that were trying to steal goods from large department stores and supermarkets, he and his partners started to break into warehouses that had been used to acc.u.mulate materials.
He used to work as a temporary worker in a logistics company, so he knew the distribution of warehouses in this city. Except for the large warehouses protected by the government, which he didn’t have the ability to loot, the small warehouses had all been looted by him. He even occupied a warehouse that was on higher ground and temporarily used it to store the looted materials.
In his plan, he wanted to get a large cruise s.h.i.+p and then moved all the looted goods onto the s.h.i.+p. When the world was submerged in water, he could build a kingdom of his own on the cruise s.h.i.+p, and he would be the first king.
This was what Andrew thought and did, and he unabashedly spread his plans for the future to his partners, describing the great kingdom they would build in the future… He wanted to do great things, so he naturally had to distinguish himself from other thugs. He knew that without goals, he would not be able to survive long in desperate and troubled times. If weapons and food were the first necessary foundation in desperate and troubled times, then a promising goal was the real banner. Only under this banner would more people be willing to follow him and build his kingdom.
As more and more people heard his plan, the number of people that were willing to follow him also began to grow. But just like lucky Chris that were still struggling in the low-lying areas, having more people joining them meant having troubles, his basic supplies were far from enough. At least he lacked a lot of vacuum-packed food, which would not usually be purchased by many people, and had very little in the warehouse. Moreover, he was not the only one in Kelvin who was looting, so what he had was not a lot.
At this time, he received a piece of information that a large amount of similar food and supplies were stored in Warehouse No. 59. Although they didn’t have enough time to find out whose warehouse it was, from the information he gathered from other people that had tried to loot this warehouse before, it was definitely not related to the government. So with this piece of information, he didn’t have any worries.
At first, he thought that with more than a hundred gunmen, even if the guards inside were a bit strong, he should be able to seize the warehouse in the afternoon, but soon he found that he was wrong. The resistance from inside the warehouse was incredibly strong.
Obviously, he had seen someone get shot and they were clearly seriously injured, but after an hour, the person would appear again and carry on fighting like he was not injured at all.
Such strange things did not happen just once or twice, but happened one after another, damaging the morale of his partners.
If it weren’t for his partners that attacked a power distribution room and killed three opponents, he might even wonder if the opponent was a human, and would they be killed?
Since they could also be killed by a bullet, he was no longer suspicious and ordered a full attack on the warehouse without rest.
Relying on a large number of people on his side, he could take turns to attack the warehouse, as long as the guards in the warehouse were still human, they would definitely be exhausted.
After both sides suffered heavy casualties, Andrew still refused to retreat.
His thinking was different from ordinary people. He subconsciously felt that the stronger the opponent’s resistance was, it meant that the more valuable the things indie the warehouse was. Since he paid a heavy price, then he must get it.
For this reason, he and his men attacked the warehouse non-stop all the way to the evening. When the dim light gradually appeared from the thick dark cloud the next day, he still could not enter the main warehouse, but it was not without achievements. From the side door they captured, they could see a mountain of sealed cans and all kinds of sealed daily necessities. After a brief moment of shock, all their morale was boosted.
With these things, they wouldn’t have to worry for at least a year!
However, when everyone became excited, Andrew became worried. Looking at the materials, which would be much more important than life in troubled times, piling up like mountains in the warehouse, he keenly felt a huge and terrifying force behind this warehouse.
To be able to store this much food before the flood on this scale in Kelvin City secretly, how powerful would this secret organization be?
The more he thought about it, the more anxious he was. He quickly told his partners to speed up the attack. He needed to end the fight as soon as possible and then move everything out of this place before more enemies showed up.