BC Chapter 48

Chapter 47

Taking advantage of the two men going downstairs to retrieve their backpacks, the woman in black walked to the window at the innermost side of the room. She opened the window nimbly, climbed onto the windowsill, and looked to the side along the outer wall. Fortunately, the height of the exterior wall’s layer board provided a foothold. Climbing from the window on this side to the window of the decoration company next door meant she could step on the lower edge and grip the upper edge. The vertical distance was about 1.6 meters, but to avoid accidents, it was best for the person going first to string a safety rope between the two windows. Although the height of one floor was only three meters or so, falling wouldn’t necessarily kill someone. But at this time, the bottom was full of man-eating zombies. If one were to fall, the ending might be worse than death.

The woman in black grabbed Qi Xin and pointed out the spots she saw from that angle. She then coldly asked, “Can you climb over there first?”

Although Qi Xin was skinny and looked somewhat frail, he had good athletic ability since childhood and had even been on the school track and field team for high jump. So, climbing wasn’t difficult for him. He looked at the distance between the two windows, visually estimated the spacing between the foothold below and the gripping point above, and nodded, saying, “No problem.”

He had a mild temperament since childhood and didn’t like hanging out with those who constantly used phrases like “fucking” or “son of a bitch.” So, he was often alone at school. In the past, because he had a height advantage among his peers, he hadn’t suffered much.

Until the virus outbreak, he relied on his physical advantage to avoid danger several times. Finally, he was discovered when Fang Jun led people to search for supplies, and then he was brought to this so-called base. Here, he had the opportunity to witness what human evil was and why humans needed a country, laws, and administrators.

But there was no way around it. They had too many people. As long as you didn’t obey, you would be beaten. If you dared to resist, you would either be taken out as human bait when searching for supplies, or you would be tied up alone in the empty old base to be dried up when everyone evacuated. So, compared to that, getting beaten once or twice became the lightest punishment.

Under these circumstances, none of the weak men who wanted to protect themselves had the courage to challenge Zhang Biao and others’ bottom line. Even if they couldn’t psychologically accept their behavior of bullying a young girl like beasts from the wilderness, they couldn’t stop it from happening.

After all, everyone only has one life, and this time, they were closest to death. Because they cherished their lives, they were afraid, lied, and turned a blind eye. Because it wasn’t them being violated, they were numb, avoided, and didn’t care.

The guys who were used to making verbal promises couldn’t even muster the spirit for empty boasts when their own lives were threatened. They could only pretend to be mutes and hide aside because they couldn’t bear the consequences of telling the truth.

Anyway, as long as the pain wasn’t on them, other people’s abyss was just a well to them. As long as people went around it, they could pretend it didn’t exist.

Humans are inherently selfish animals. The appearance of zombies only catalyzed the dark side of many people’s hearts.

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The group tore apart the bedsheets in the room and twisted them into a rope of considerable length. They tied one end to the window handle on the other side and had Qi Xin, who climbed over first, secure the other end inside after breaking the window of the decoration company. They successfully made a safety rope. Relying on this lifeline, the men and women in the room all climbed smoothly into the second-floor office of the decoration company next door with their respective backpacks.

Meanwhile, Mei Ting was still unconscious on the ground. In this situation, there was no way for the group to transport an unconscious person from a height. Moreover, based on the existing supplies, no one could provide her with medical treatment. So, even though this choice made everyone feel extremely depressed, the woman in black still left her in the corner of the room.

Downstairs, in a state of panic, the men tore up their T-shirts to bandage Zhang Biao. Although this temporarily slowed the bleeding, everyone present knew that this was only a temporary solution.

Without removing the bullet, bleeding was just one of the less fatal parts. The presence of a foreign object would cause the wound to become inflamed and infected. As things stood, no one present could take the role of a doctor or nurse to treat Zhang Biao’s wound.

Moreover, with zombies besieging the main entrance of the dental hospital, there was no possibility of a miracle that could save Zhang Biao.

So, the woman in black’s shot seemed to have left Zhang Biao a chance to live, without directly killing him. In reality, it was imposing a more vicious punishment on Zhang Biao—letting him slowly experience the feeling of death, letting him despair but having no way to change it.

“Damn it! I… I’ve never been afraid of anything in my life, but I didn’t expect… I’d end up falling into the hands of a bitch!” Zhang Biao gritted his teeth and endured the pain in his body. Cold sweat seeped from his cheeks, but he was still cursing stubbornly. Because of the pain, his words were fragmented, but his pale face was still filled with fierceness.

“Hua-ge, we have almost twice as many people as them. Are we really just going to let them bully us like this?” Bian Chunxue wrapped her arms around Meng Qinghua’s arm like a snake and asked in a coquettish voice. Among all the women abducted by Zhang Biao and others, only Bian Chunxue didn’t side with the woman in black.

Actually, her being fortunate enough to be by Meng Qinghua’s side wasn’t mainly because of her figure or appearance. In reality, it was all because she was a complete schemer. She not only used her beauty to seduce Meng Qinghua, but also used clever words to please him and performed a full set on the bed for Meng Qinghua, making him believe that she had already surrendered to his male prowess, greatly satisfying the male self-esteem that Meng Qinghua had never experienced in his many years of marriage.

So, Meng Qinghua used his status as a reason to protect her from the hands of other men.

As for her, she was also calculating rapidly in her mind when the two groups confronted each other. In the end, she came to the conclusion that the other party was just a woman with some skills. When facing the dozen or so men in front of and behind her, she was definitely unreliable. So, when those people walked towards the woman in black’s side, she instead retreated and hid behind the dozen men.

This could be regarded as indirectly expressing her loyalty to Meng Qinghua, so at this moment she dared to interfere with Meng Qinghua’s decision even more boldly.