The Strongest Way to Survive in the Apocalypse - Chapter 3：The Cult Sacrifice

The next day, Li Qiang got up and slept through school as usual.

To his annoyance, he couldn’t do so, however, because of the noisy atmosphere in his class. When, he finally bothered to tune into his classmate’s discussion, he was shocked.

“Did you see the news last night? Apparently, there was a huge cult sacrifice in Mongolia! When the government finally stormed in, they found over 5,000 dead bodies!”

“Dude, that’s old news. They’ve found 7 huge cult sacrifices across the globe each with more than 5,000 deaths! There’s one in Mongolia, Germany, Italy, Canada, Mexico, Brazil and even India!””D*mn! That’s over 35,000 deaths!”

“Do you think it’s done by the same people?”

“Obviously, otherwise there’s no way that 7 different groups would do something like that in the exact same way and same day.”

Li Qiang was shocked by the news.

‘F*ck me, 35000 people dead.’

His mouth went dry as he imagined the mountains of bodies. He pulled out his phone and searched it up. As he was scrolling through news, he caught sight of a video a little different from the rest.

Instead of a reporter in the thumbnail, a man with a black-hooded gown stood with his arms raised. He clicked the video, curious as to why it had received so many views, despite being posted less than 2 hours ago.

The man screamed in a guttural voice in English, but Chinese, Spanish and French subtitles flashed on the screen.

“The sacrifice has been completed. God has re-established his connection to this world! His messengers will arrive in 7 days and raze the world to ground! The reckoning is coming!”

Li Qiang normally would have dismissed this video as gibberish, but the recent news and his guttural tone of voice gave him chills. As soon as the school day ended, he went home. He entered his sister’s room, meaning to show her the video.

However, he chanced upon a weird scene. His sister had rolled herself up in a blanket and was rolling on the floor, muttering something. Their eyes locked and they both froze.

“Is that… my blanket?”

Li An’s face instantly flushed deep crimson.

“I-I-I was cold and my blanket was too thin.”

He glanced at her thick blanket on her bed but didn’t say anything. He leaned over and picked her up with the blanket under one arm, her slight frame being no challenge to hold. Her face flushed even deeper.

“P-p-put me down, I’m not a baby.”

Li Qiang glanced at her puzzled, as he was always intimate with her like this since childhood. He thought back to yesterday’s dinner.

‘She might be put off by me, now that she found out that we aren’t siblings.’

Putting her abnormal behaviour down to finding out they weren’t siblings, he placed her on her bed and got out his phone.

“That’s weird.”

Li Qiang mumbled to himself as he wasn’t able to find the video, despite having saved it. He sat down next to her anyway wanting to talk to her about the cult incident. He was cut short by Li An.

“Let’s talk at dinner.”

She stuffed his blanket into his arms and attempted to push him out of the room. He didn’t budge. Looking at her, he sighed and then lumbered out of the room. He lay in bed, searching for the missing video.

After not being able to find it, he realised that all the sites had taken it down. At that moment, he got a text from Wang Lei.

‘Need to talk about a job. More than 50,000 this time. Nightclub at 6:30?’

Li Qiang texted back.

‘Sure.’

As Li Qiang walked up to the club, he noticed that no sound came from the nightclub. This was very unusual, as it normally was bustling with activity at this time, getting ready for opening.

As he walked into the club, he also realised that the bouncers weren’t in front of the entrance like usual. He became wary and entered the building slowly, heightening his senses.In the middle of the lower club hall, Wang Lei was tied up, along with several other of his people.Standing next to him was Luo Feng.

He was accompanied by at least 30 men who surrounded them, who were armed with metal pipes and bats. One of these men stood apart from the rest and was dressed in ancient clothing, similar to the main character in Ip Man.

“Hehe. Li Qiang, how do you like my surprise?”

“You dumb f*aggot, this is clearly against gang rules! You’re done! After this every gang in Hainan will be out for your head!”

Wang Lei roared at Luo Feng.

“Kick him again. This little sh*t can’t fucking keep quiet.”

A henchman of Luo Feng drove his foot deep into the bruised and battered Wang Lei’s stomach.

“Li Qiang. I used Wang Lei to call you over because I want to work with you. I will pay you 100,000 Yuan a month to be my right-hand man. We can set aside our differences and together with me and Mr. Long, we will conquer Shenyang.”

Luo Feng and Wang Lei stared at Li Qiang, awaiting his decision in trepidation.Li Qiang thought about his offer. Li Qiang wasn’t a part of Wang Lei’s gang nor was he particular close with him. He merely worked with him a few times. 100,000 was very attractive, as normally he got about 50,000 to 60,000 a month from being hired by many different gangs.

“I want 120,000. And I will only fight once a week.”

“Done.”

Luo Feng immediately agreed.

“Hahaha, great, great!”

Luo Feng was jubilant.

“With Dragon Long and Monster Qiang, I will soon unify the gangs of Shenyang!”

On the other hand, Wang Lei’s face turned grey.

“Li Qiang, you dog! Changing your colours so quickly, you’re a f*cking chameleon!”

Luo Feng cut in.

“Shut the little shit up. Don’t worry Mr. Qiang, I will deal with our dear Wang Lei.”

He signalled to his men.

“Give Mr. Qiang our contact details.”

Li Qiang looked at the miserable Wang Lei but could be bothered to defend himself. He never saw Wang Lei as a friend, just a business partner. He naturally wouldn’t fight over 30 armed men to save him. He turned and walked away.