Chapter 845: Competing for Valor and Ferocity
Meal time had arrived.
This time, the people from the stowaway gang came out a little later than usual.
However, none of the others dared to make a move; instead, they quietly observed the end of the corridor.
After a while, Zagu strolled over slowly, with a coat draped over his shoulder and a grass root held between his teeth.
Behind him, as usual, followed a large group of stowaway gang members.
Seeing everyone’s submissive demeanor, Zagu was very satisfied.
His men, just like before, stepped forward and took the two best portions of food.
The others didn’t even have the courage to approach them and waited until they left before scrambling for the largest bucket of food.
Once someone broke the order first, everyone else lost their collective morality.
This was the broken window effect.
Once someone could profit by breaking the rules, those rules only restrained the weak and the incompetent.
The weak followed the rules, while the strong made new ones.
After Zagu and his gang left, Lu Dahai exchanged a look with his two brothers.
They pulled out slender objects from their pockets.
They were daggers made by sharpening the tips of their toothbrushes.
Toothbrushes, as cleaning tools, had not been strictly inspected before.
After all, if someone really wanted to kill, even a sock could be used as a weapon.
Lu Dahai had spent time in a prison cell before, so he knew well how powerful such makeshift weapons could be.
The three of them took the lead and headed towards the remaining buckets of food.
Seeing this, others around rushed over to snatch food from them.
Lu Dahai grabbed a man in his mid-thirties by the arm and, turning his hand around, stabbed the toothbrush into the man’s cheek!
The sharp tip of the toothbrush pierced into his mouth. Although sharp, it was no match for a knife, so Lu Dahai had to exert more force.
The middle-aged man suffered greater injury.
He screamed loudly in pain.
But Lu Dahai’s face was filled with murderous intent. He grabbed the man’s neck and punched his throat twice with great force!
The man’s neck turned red instantly, and he collapsed onto the ground.
The others nearby were stunned.
Because in the past, Lu Dahai and these fishermen had gotten along fairly well with them.
They even seemed like very loyal and righteous big guys.
When everyone had previously decided to seek justice from Zhang Yi, it was led by Lu Dahai.
But now, this very man suddenly became vicious and attacked others, catching everyone completely off guard.
“Lu Dahai, what are you doing? Are you crazy?”
A merchant in the same room angrily reprimanded him.
Lu Dahai turned his head. The toothbrush in his hand was dripping wet with blood, and blood splattered all over his arm and cheek, making him look especially ferocious.
“From now on, once those people take food, I will be in charge of all this food!”
Lu Dahai slowly swept the blood-dripping toothbrush over everyone.
His two brothers, Rong Lei and Yu Gang, also clenched toothbrushes. Though the tips were not very sharp, no one doubted that if stabbed into a neck, it could still take a life.
“Lu Dahai, what are you doing? We are all compatriots here. What you’re doing is no different from those stowaways.”
A man shouted in distress.
Lu Dahai cursed roughly, “Cut the crap! You bastards are all cheap scum who deserve a beating! When I was getting beaten, you just stood there watching. Now I see clearly—you’re not even human to me anymore!”
“If anyone doesn’t obey, I’ll be the first to kill them!”
The tips of their toothbrushes aggressively pointed at one angry person after another.
But these guys had no courage to resist Zagu and his gang when Lu Dahai first stood up.
Where would they find the guts to fight Lu Dahai and his two brothers now?
Everyone instinctively stepped back.
They secretly looked at Xi Zhou, desperately hoping a hero would stand up and help them take down Lu Dahai and his group.
But not a single person stood up to be the hero; all chose to hide like scared turtles.
These people had certain status.
There were experts in scientific fields, big company bosses, university professors, and even minor royalty.
Their status was lofty, and they valued their lives more than ordinary people.
They were very smart and never volunteered to be the one to stand out.
But when a group gathers, the end result is that everyone suffers in silence.
At that time, the only ones who could stand up and lead them were three fishermen with little education but full of passionate spirit.
Lu Dahai laughed loudly at how cowardly these bastards were.
“See that? These damn dogs are all cowards!”
“Hmph, then you better listen to me obediently. From now on, I get to pick food first!”
Inside the stowaway gang’s room, Zagu was eating and heard the commotion outside.
He only sneered mockingly, “They’re already fighting among themselves so soon? Well, that’s good. Even better if they kill a few more.”
After all, Zhang Yi didn’t care who among them lived or died.
He only provided the set amount of food.
The more people died, the easier it would be to manage food supplies.
Seeing these cowards unwilling to resist at all, Lu Dahai felt extremely proud, but also a deep sadness.
There were only three of them, and if everyone rushed at once, they could kill at most two people before dying themselves.
But these people were too smart, so no one was willing to take the risk.
This allowed Lu Dahai and his brothers to dominate them completely, with no resistance, choosing instead to be silent lambs.
Lu Dahai sneered and then walked over, lifting the two largest remaining buckets of food.
He had planned to leave , but still felt unsatisfied.
So he turned back and spat heavily into the other buckets of food.
This action made everyone’s skin crawl, their faces turning green.
If they ate that food, wouldn’t it be like eating Lu Dahai’s filthy spit?
Lu Dahai didn’t care what they thought. Carrying the two large buckets, he and his brothers proudly returned to their cabin.
But now, the food in the entire lower deck was completely insufficient.
There were originally eight cabins; now half the food was gone in one swoop.
And about a hundred people still hadn’t eaten.
The worst part was that Lu Dahai deliberately spat into the remaining buckets to retaliate.
Hesitation would lead to defeat.
Some people were still hesitating whether to eat food with Lu Dahai’s dirty spit, while others decisively rushed forward to grab the food.
What did spit matter? It was still food!
People had to eat to survive, or they would starve to death.
Between survival and cleanliness, they decisively chose the former.