BC Chapter 103

“If you two don’t want to die, listen to me and tie me up quickly!!” He Linglong suddenly felt her arm heating up, and the heat seemed to be conscious, winding its way up her arm’s blood vessels, slowly flowing towards her back, and then radiating down from her shoulders. Where the heat flowed, not only did her muscles ache, but even her bones seemed to be wrapped in a ball of fire, causing a burning pain.

Ever since she felt the heat flow diverting from her back to her limbs, He Linglong’s mind instantly became muddled. The scenery in front of her began to blur, and the scene slowly swayed. To describe it, it was like He Linglong and the others were riding a speedboat during water training at the beach, her body uncontrollably rising and falling, and the scenery in front of her swaying within her field of vision.

“You…hurry!!” He Linglong tried her best to control her consciousness to stay awake a little longer. When she looked at Jiang Zhou and the others, her body uncontrollably tilted to one side. Almost instantly, a thin layer of sweat seeped out from her fair forehead and delicate neck. Seeing that the two of them were still unmoved, as if only she was anxious, He Linglong couldn’t bother saying anything else. Summoning her strength, she fumbled in her bag with trembling hands for two white plastic ties. Relying on the muscle memory from countless training sessions, she managed to thread the ties and put them around her wrists, even in her muddled state. Then, she used her silver teeth to bite the protruding end of the two ties and pulled hard, binding her hands. At the same time, a dizzying sensation came crashing down on her. He Linglong finally couldn’t hold on any longer, and she lost consciousness and fell to the side of the door.

“…”. It wasn’t that Jiang Juncheng didn’t want to help; she was just overwhelmed by the sudden event and didn’t know how to react. She stood there like a helpless child, and it seemed that if she took another step forward, she would fall to the ground. She never thought things would develop like this. Normally, He Linglong was the most capable and quickest to act among the three of them, not to mention her skills. So, in a group of three, He Linglong shouldn’t have been the first one to be ruined by the zombies—the truth was, if He Linglong hadn’t had the thought of saving them, she could have hid in the garage long ago. In that case, only she and Zhou Yuanyuan would have fallen into the hands of the zombies.

Also, Jiang Juncheng’s delay in acting was a manifestation of her unwillingness to accept the reality before her eyes. She didn’t want to believe that He Linglong, who had just saved her and Zhou Yuanyuan, would be so unlucky as to die at the hands of the zombies.

“Sister Jiang, dangerous! Come over here! Get behind me!!” Zhou Yuanyuan had already picked up the only thing she could use as a weapon, a flashlight, and the scissors in her bag, while striking a defensive pose and calling out to the stunned Jiang Juncheng.

She had just been admiring how beautiful this girl was, and in less than half an hour, she was already lying there, her life hanging in the balance. Jiang Juncheng’s slightly trembling fingertips slowly curled up, then clenched into a fist.

How could this be? How could she just die like this? No, no way, she was so powerful, how could she die from such a small injury? When she and Zhou Yuanyuan rushed into the zombie encirclement, she was holding a gun, her posture heroic, her eyes sharp, as if she would never be defeated. But now, she lay there so lonely, so pitiful, and so valiant, still thinking of herself and Zhou Yuanyuan in the second before she fell, unwilling to harm them after she turned into a zombie. Jiang Juncheng took a step forward, then another.

I can’t let her die like this. Finally, Jiang Juncheng, having made up her mind, ignored Zhou Yuanyuan’s calls for her to retreat and walked towards He Linglong, her eyes firm, fearless.

By the time she bent down and picked up He Linglong’s upper body from the ground, He Linglong’s teeth were clenched, her eyes tightly closed, completely devoid of any external sensation.

Only then did Jiang Juncheng slowly reach out and touch He Linglong’s forehead—her skin was so hot that just placing her hand nearby, she could feel the other woman’s rising temperature.

She needs to cool down! This was the first thought that popped into Jiang Juncheng’s mind. The second thought was—she smells so good. Completely different from the fragrance of ordinary girls, which is permeated with cosmetics or daily necessities, it was a faint and elusive, almost fresh oceanic scent.

Jiang Juncheng was stunned for a moment, then quickly shook her head, throwing these inexplicable thoughts out of her head. She took off her coat, folded it twice, and padded it under He Linglong’s head, slowly laying He Linglong down so she could lie flat on the ground. Then, she rummaged through He Linglong’s backpack beside her.

Her hand reached inside and felt a short, round, heavy object. Jiang Juncheng took it out and identified it in the light—wow, isn’t this a hand grenade!

He Linglong’s backpack was full of weapons and tools. Fortunately, she finally found a bottle of water at the bottom of the bag. Jiang Juncheng quickly unscrewed it, poured some onto a gauze pad, wet it, and gently wiped it around He Linglong’s face, then wiped it on her exposed skin.

For about half an hour, Jiang Juncheng carefully took care of the unconscious He Linglong. Later, Zhou Yuanyuan, who had kept her distance, also saw that He Linglong showed no signs of turning into a zombie, so she put down her defensive items, took the water, and went to Jiang Juncheng’s side to help take care of He Linglong, who seemed to be in a high fever and delirious.

At first, He Linglong only showed obvious signs of unconsciousness, but later she even started having muscle spasms. Jiang Juncheng and Zhou Yuanyuan were afraid that He Linglong would bite her tongue unconsciously, so they cut off a section of the sleeve of Jiang Juncheng’s white T-shirt, rolled it into a small ball, and stuffed it into He Linglong’s mouth. At this critical moment, they couldn’t care about whether it was clean or not, after all, the resources at hand were limited. Jiang Juncheng initially wanted to do what was shown on TV, putting a section of her finger between He Linglong’s teeth, which was indeed somewhat self-sacrificing, but then she thought, He Linglong was already infected with the virus, and if she did that, it was a small matter to have her finger bitten off, but it was a big deal that she might also be infected with the zombie virus. In such a small space, where could Zhou Yuanyuan run? They might as well just die together!

“I’ll hold down her hands, you control her legs!” Prying open He Linglong’s tightly clenched teeth had already exhausted the two of them. Now, He Linglong, whose whole body was spasming like a reanimated corpse, required Jiang Zhou and the others to use all their strength to restrain her.