BC Chapter 39

In the pitch-black night, only the large crescent moon in the sky cast a hazy glow. However, the streets, which should have been silent, echoed with the cries of a woman.

Having already run three blocks, Hu Ying really didn’t have much energy left to maintain her lead over the zombie horde. She could only run forward while crying in fear, because she knew that the distance between her and the zombies chasing behind was getting closer and closer. But the road stretched forward endlessly, and there was nowhere to hide on either side. Helpless, she could only run and cry.

At the next intersection, one street away from her, the woman in black and Fang Jun and the others, who were almost at the base, had certainly heard Hu Ying’s cries.

But what was behind those cries? They almost didn’t need to guess. So, the answer was obvious – no one could save her. Fang Jun and the other two would only run far away at the sight of zombies. Not to mention that the woman running toward them had no connection to them, even if the woman was their wife or any close relative, they would still choose to run away as fast as possible!

As for the woman in black, she knew very well that she didn’t have the ability, so she simply gave up.

In the end, humans are no different from the various animals in the food chain, just animals forced to survive under the law of the jungle. So the weak deserve to be abandoned. Especially in this special situation, so-called kindness is just the useless thing that people forget first.

“Quick! Back to the base!” Fang Jun and the others couldn’t care less about the threat of the gun in the black-clothed woman’s hand. Without waiting for the black-clothed woman to speak, they quickened their pace and passed the last intersection.

The large sign of the new base, the Oral Hospital, finally appeared in front of them. In order to save bullets, the black-clothed woman didn’t shoot to stop the three men who were running away in a panic, but followed behind them at a steady pace. At this time, she naturally saw the whole picture of the Oral Hospital. From the outside, she could see that the hospital had three floors – a reception area on the first floor and patient treatment rooms on the other two. It was certain that no one would stay in the Oral Hospital for long on ordinary days, and there weren’t many dentists and nurses responsible for reception. Thinking about it this way, this was indeed a good place to hide.

“Wang Kun! Open the door! Open the door quickly!!” Fang Jun arrived at the entrance of the Oral Hospital and pounded on the glass door, shouting for Wang Kun, who was responsible for opening the door, to open it.

Wang Kun, who hadn’t completely fallen asleep on the waiting chair, quickly jumped up when he heard the noise at the door. At first, he thought the new base was surrounded by zombies. After regaining his composure, he realized that the people outside the door were actually Fang Jun and the others.

So he hurriedly ran to the door, unlocked the anti-theft lock, and let them in.

“Quick! Close the door quickly! Block all the light!” Fang Jun and the others helped, frantically locking the door and then blocking it with everything they could find.

The woman’s cries outside the door were clearly getting closer and closer to the new base, but everyone in the room tacitly acted like they were mute, and no one made any noise.

Until the woman’s screams and the chaotic noise of the zombie horde gradually surrounding them came from outside the door, everyone knew, just by listening, that on the street directly in front of their door, the zombies were enjoying a life that was still fresh just moments ago.

The woman’s screams didn’t last long before they stopped abruptly, but they still woke up the people who were sleeping upstairs. Everyone came out of their rooms with terrified faces, but they all tacitly remained silent.

The woman in black had already picked out the police uniform that the women had folded from the pile of clothes…

Zhang Biao came down from the second floor and gave Fang Jun a look, wanting to know who this woman with the backpack, black clothes, and baseball cap was.

Fang Jun immediately looked at him for help, made a gesture of drawing a knife across his throat, and then glanced sharply at the woman in black’s back, also indicating that he should look at the pistol in the woman’s hand.

Zhang Biao immediately understood that they had run into a tough customer. A woman against three men, and she was still able to snatch the gun from Fang Jun and the others. Zhang Biao obviously didn’t believe that this woman had nothing to do with the military and police system.

“The owner of this police uniform should be the police brother you were talking about, right? Where is he?” The woman in black turned around, ignored the twenty or so people in the room, and only asked Fang Jun.

The groans of the zombies outside were still echoing in the street, even drowning out the woman’s question in the room.

The woman was wearing a baseball cap, and half of her face was covered with a black cloth like a cycling mask. A pair of bright black eyes were hidden under the shadow of the brim. In the current situation, where the room was barely lit by the moonlight shining through the cracks in the high windows, no one could clearly see what the woman looked like. However, judging from her voice, she was likely a cold and resolute woman.

“Um… he…” Fang Jun certainly couldn’t answer, because that police officer had already been ambushed and killed by their people while protecting several young women from being harmed.

“Oh, him? He just led a team out to search for supplies after Fang Jun and the others,” Zhang Biao, who was quicker on the uptake, immediately realized what Fang Jun was stammering about after seeing his small movements and hearing the conversation between the two. So he quickly made up a temporary excuse.

However, no matter how many clumsy excuses there were, the atmosphere and the state of the women present had already betrayed them.

But the woman in black didn’t immediately expose them. Instead, she pretended to be fooled and said, “Oh, I see.”

“Are these all the people you’ve gathered and rescued?” The woman in black surveyed the twenty or so men and women in the room. She didn’t need to put in much effort to see the hierarchy and opposing relationships between them.

“Are you… from the military and police? Has the higher-up leadership already organized a rescue team to come to Qingshui City?” Meng Qinghua, who was originally standing at the back of the crowd, pushed aside the people in front of him, his face filled with smiles as he cautiously stepped forward and asked.

For them, a rescue team sent from above was both a good thing and a bad thing. The good thing was that they could escape the threat of the zombies and go to a safe area. The bad thing was that if people from an organization came to take charge, then all the dirty things they had done these days would have to be exposed. If that were the case, even if everyone was safe afterward, he, Meng Qinghua, and his men would all have to go to jail.