BC Chapter 13
by Volare“Who are you!” Lu Ziming had never really cared what the man in front of her was called or what he wanted to do. She just felt impatient. Being interrupted by irrelevant people while trying to do something really gave her the urge to beat the man in front of her up first and then talk. She hated it when others disrupted her plans. So at this moment, she showed no politeness in her words or actions.
“My name is Wang Dong, and I’m here to ask if you’re interested in joining our team!” Although Wang Dong’s eyes were fixed on the knife in front of him, his ears immediately caught Lu Ziming’s question. As soon as Lu Ziming finished asking, he immediately spilled out all his intentions like pouring beans.
‘Team up’? Lu Ziming didn’t speak, but silently sized up Wang Dong in front of her. Messy, semi-long hair, a pair of rimless glasses perched on his nose, wearing a gray tracksuit that looked like it had been worn for years, and a pair of unbranded sneakers with half of the laces dragging on the side.
Judging by Wang Dong’s image at this moment, everything about him was shouting the words “useless.” Not to mention that Lu Ziming had no intention of taking on any burdens.
“You can go, we’re not considering teaming up.” Before Lu Ziming could speak, the girl standing beside her crossed her arms, looked at Lu Ziming’s expression, and then looked at Wang Dong’s sloppy appearance, directly ordering him to leave.
Lu Ziming raised an eyebrow in slight surprise when she heard the girl speak, but didn’t object, just pursed her lips in tacit agreement, her eyes calmly looking at Wang Dong in front of her.
“Okay, okay, okay… I’ll leave now.” The last syllable of the sentence hadn’t even faded away before he ran off. Neither Lu Ziming nor the girl had expected to get rid of Wang Dong so easily.
“Can’t tell, he runs pretty fast! Ugh, it’s so cold.” The girl glanced into the distance and sighed, and the next second, a small night breeze blew over, freezing her so that she hopped her feet, hugging herself even tighter.
As if understanding the girl’s feelings, Lu Ziming quickened her pace again, and soon bypassed to the street where the Walmart supermarket was located.
Lu Ziming led the girl to hide on the street corner diagonally opposite the supermarket, taking in the entire scene around the supermarket, but found that at least forty or fifty zombies were wandering around the supermarket.
Crap, there are at least half again as many as when I came last time. Lu Ziming’s face turned quite pale.
The last time was when Lu Ziming was almost surrounded. There were less than twenty zombies that time, but she wasn’t careful enough and accidentally touched the car parked on the side of the supermarket, which triggered the car’s anti-theft alarm, attracting more than a dozen zombies to her side. In the end, she managed to escape at the cost of losing her coat, and she was almost caught by these zombies because her weapon was too short.
Thinking of this, Lu Ziming tightened her grip on the modified long knife in her hand, took a deep breath, and exhaled the turbid air from her chest.
“I’ll lure those things away, you go into the supermarket to find food for the next few days.” Lu Ziming said and was about to set off, but didn’t expect to be stopped by the girl.
“I’ll go, my house is nearby, I’m more familiar with this place than you.” The girl looked at Lu Ziming and, after speaking, began to imitate Lu Ziming, about to leave without saying a word.
“Take this.” Lu Ziming handed over the long knife in her hand, still without any unnecessary words or explanations, just like before.
“You should keep it! It’s useless to me.” After the girl turned her head to refuse Lu Ziming, she resolutely ran towards the group of zombies. Perhaps Lu Ziming’s repeated rescues had filled her with gratitude, or perhaps Lu Ziming’s fearless actions had aroused the hidden passion in her body. In short, she, who had always adhered to the spirit of ‘better a dead friend than me’, had made a noble act of self-sacrifice for the first time in her life.
“…” Lu Ziming could only silently watch the girl rushing out. She knew that the time the other party could buy was definitely not much, so she had to seize the time to solve the remaining sporadic zombies at the supermarket entrance.
“Come on! I’m over here!!!” While Lu Ziming was thinking, the girl had already rushed to a place about two or three hundred meters away from the zombie group, jumping and shouting like a shrew. Unexpectedly, a zombie with quick reflexes rushed out of the zombie crowd. While most of the zombies were still slowly walking towards the girl, this zombie had already run more than twenty meters, rushing towards the girl. Looking at its speed, it was no different from a normal person!
“Oh my god! Don’t come over! Don’t chase me!!” The girl, who had just looked so awe-inspiring, was immediately terrified when she saw a zombie running quickly towards her, and turned around to run. As for the task of being bait, it was probably thrown to the back of her mind long ago. Her primary task now was probably not to be chased by the zombies behind her. Fortunately, she had already thrown away her messy coat because it was stained with blood, so running in just her vest and boxers was unimpeded, allowing her to maintain a safe distance from the zombies behind her in the initial chase.
That idiot. Lu Ziming knew something was wrong when she heard her shout, but if it was just this group of slow-moving zombies chasing her, Lu Ziming wouldn’t be as panicked as she was now. Now that a zombie with quick movements and no less than a normal person had actually appeared from the zombie crowd, Lu Ziming once again experienced the difficulty of snatching food from the zombies’ mouths.
But at this moment, Lu Ziming was no longer in the mood to consider whether it was because there were too many zombies that caused her to be struggling now. After all, there was an idiot outside waiting for her to save her, so she could only rush out subconsciously.
There was no time to think, no countermeasures, only the courage to face the situation head-on when lives were at stake.
Very close, just ahead.
Lu Ziming diagonally met the zombie, aimed at the speed-type zombie that was chasing the girl relentlessly, and swung the long knife in her hand in a full circle towards the zombie’s face. The zombie seemed to only have the girl running away in front of it in its eyes, completely not seeing Lu Ziming rushing from the side, so it took Lu Ziming’s knife head-on.
The force of the two directions colliding directly caused the blade of the long knife in Lu Ziming’s hand to curl up, and the impact from the long handle numbed Lu Ziming’s tiger’s mouth and was accompanied by severe pain. Fortunately, this directly knocked down the unusual zombie.
Speaking of which, zombies are ultimately transformed from fragile humans. Apart from the reckless brute force and the animalistic desire for food, the remaining flesh and blood are still fragile after all. So the speed-type zombie that was knocked to the ground by Lu Ziming did not get up unscathed like in those exaggerated movies, but instead fell directly to the ground and didn’t move for a long time.
Of course, Lu Ziming at this time was not stupid enough to stand still and wait for the zombies behind her to catch up in twos and threes, or for the zombie on the ground to get up and counterattack her. Instead, she chose to turn around and run away after a successful hit. After all, she had done a lot of exercise, so her running speed was still quite impressive.
But the girl in front, who was frightened out of her wits, was different. Running around in panic, she actually forgot to find a place where she could temporarily hide from the zombies’ pursuit. Seeing that her speed was getting slower and slower, if she continued to run aimlessly like this, the final result would only be to be caught up by the zombie crowd behind her or to encounter zombies on the road ahead and be surrounded from both sides.
There were also several buildings nearby, but without careful investigation, no one could guarantee whether they would encounter more zombies if they rushed in headlessly. But if they continued to hesitate like this and couldn’t make a choice in the end, there would only be one consequence, which was to be eaten by zombies after exhausting their strength.
Just then, a turning point appeared. A person appeared in front of the diagonally opposite business office building, waving his hands and shouting at the two people running away: “Here! Here!”
Lu Ziming took a closer look and it was actually Wang Dong, whom she had just disliked!
Seeing that Lu Ziming had finally noticed him, he shouted even harder: “Hurry! Hurry! You’re going to be caught up!”
But the girl in front, because she was too flustered, still didn’t seem to hear Wang Dong’s shouts, and continued to run straight ahead. But because she hadn’t exercised her body regularly, she couldn’t keep up with her strength at this moment, so naturally her speed slowed down a lot, so that Lu Ziming easily caught up with her.
If it were normal, according to Lu Ziming’s personality, she would definitely not pay attention to Wang Dong, but would find her own way out. But the situation was different now. Even if she could get out of this dangerous situation herself, the stupid girl in front would definitely die if she didn’t accept Wang Dong’s olive branch.
The idea flashed through her mind in an instant, and Lu Ziming could only grit her teeth and run two steps faster, grabbing the girl’s arm and dragging her towards Wang Dong.
Seeing that the two had run towards him, Wang Dong retreated towards the door while anxiously waiting for the two, while his eyes kept looking at the zombie crowd chasing closely behind the two.
When Lu Ziming finally led the girl into the building, Wang Dong immediately used the iron lock he found in the security room to lock the door. Then, the next second, he was caught off guard by the hideous zombies outside the door and sat down on the ground.
“Damn it!” Cold sweat instantly covered Wang Dong’s back.
But Lu Ziming, who was in the lead, didn’t care what Wang Dong’s reaction was, but led the girl cautiously while looking around, running towards the stairs.