RTIWTLITEOTW Chapter 81

Chapter 81: The Riot

“Honey, let’s snuggle.” Li Lingyu, like a child, blinked his eyes and looked at Jiang Xianchuan with anticipation. This was already the umpteenth time he had asked Jiang Xianchuan for a hug today. Jiang Xianchuan gently put down the pen in his hand, looking at Li Lingyu with a helpless yet indulgent expression, and said softly, “Alright, snuggle if you want to.” As he spoke, he slowly stood up and opened his arms to Li Lingyu.

The two hugged each other tightly, as if time had stopped at that moment. This warmth didn’t last long. Suddenly, a burst of hurried footsteps came, accompanied by Bai Su’s panicked shouts, “Camp leader! Something bad happened, there’s a riot outside! You have to come and take a look!”

Hearing this, Jiang Xianchuan released Li Lingyu and turned to look at Bai Su, who was panting at the door. He frowned slightly and asked, “What’s going on? Speak slowly.” Bai Su took a deep breath, trying to calm himself down, and then quickly said, “Someone leaked the fact that Qi An is a zombie, and now the entire camp is in chaos! Everyone is in a state of extreme panic!”

Hearing this news, Jiang Xianchuan’s heart sank, and a nameless fire surged into his heart. Qi An’s true identity was only known to a very few people, so who was so careless as to leak the information? He suppressed the anger and unease in his heart and said to Bai Su, “Okay, I’ll go take a look right away.”

When they arrived at the camp square, the scene before them shocked Jiang Xianchuan. The square was crowded with people, and the noise and shouts rose and fell. Many campers were frantically packing their luggage, preparing to flee this place that had once been considered a safe haven.

“We absolutely can’t cooperate with zombies! It’s too dangerous!” a burly man shouted loudly, his voice particularly loud in the crowd.

At this moment, someone noticed Jiang Xianchuan’s arrival and shouted, “The camp leader is here!” “Camp leader, is it true that we’re cooperating with zombies?” Faced with the crowd’s questioning and fearful gazes, Jiang Xianchuan felt a pressure he had never felt before, but he nodded helplessly, indicating that it was true.

“Everyone, please listen to me.” Jiang Xianchuan took a deep breath and said, “I’m very aware that everyone has great prejudices and doubts about cooperating with zombies, but please believe me, this was a decision made out of utter desperation. The reason why I didn’t tell everyone the truth before was because I was worried that it would cause unnecessary panic.” He looked at the crowd with a sincere expression.

However, a man in the crowd suddenly roared loudly, “Bah! I’ve never liked you, pretty boy! What you’re doing is simply not taking our lives seriously!” As he spoke, the man’s face was full of anger, his eyes were wide open, and he glared fiercely at Jiang Xianchuan.

Seeing this, Li Lingyu, who was standing to the side, frowned tightly, a trace of displeasure flashing in his eyes. He coldly said, “Try saying that again if you have the guts.” His voice wasn’t loud, but it carried a chilling authority.

The man felt a little apprehensive when he met Li Lingyu’s unkind gaze, but he still refused to show weakness, “Hmph, what’s wrong? Look at you guys, you don’t even let people speak? And you even dare to threaten people!”

Just then, a voice came, “Brother, they all hate me so much.” Everyone looked in the direction of the voice and saw Qi An slowly walking out from behind Jiang Xianchuan. His body was trembling slightly, as if he had been greatly wronged.

At the same time, the people present all smelled a faint zombie aura. Their already tense nerves instantly became even more strained. Everyone unconsciously became more alert, staring intently at this person who seemed weak and harmless, but whose identity was special.

At this moment, several people in the crowd suddenly showed fierce expressions and pounced on Qi An without hesitation, launching a fierce attack. However, before these people’s attacks could touch Qi An at all, they were forcibly blocked by a layer of transparent shield quickly deployed by Shi Yi.

“Jiang Xianchuan, facing the current situation, do you have any ideas in mind?” Jiang Xianchuan, who was standing on the side, hesitated slightly upon hearing this.

He took a deep breath, and then said in a firm voice, “Please trust me! Qi An is completely different from those other vicious zombies, he will never attack us for no reason!”

But who would have thought that as soon as Jiang Xianchuan finished speaking, the man who had been mocking him and looking at him with disdain actually raised the thick and solid baseball bat in his hand without saying a word, and used all his strength to smash it hard at Jiang Xianchuan’s head. A muffled sound was heard, and Jiang Xianchuan instantly saw darkness in front of his eyes. His body lost its balance, and he fell straight backwards, crashing heavily to the ground, unconscious.

He didn’t know how long had passed, but Jiang Xianchuan slowly woke up. He felt that his head was splitting with pain, as if it was about to explode. In a daze, he vaguely heard a low sob in his ear.

“Wuwuwuwu…wuwu…” The sound became clearer and clearer. Jiang Xianchuan tried hard to open his heavy eyelids and found that Ji Tiantian was sitting by the bed, covering her face with her hands and crying softly. Crystalline tears kept falling from her delicate cheeks.

“Brother! You’re finally awake!” Ji Tiantian seemed to have noticed Jiang Xianchuan’s movement and suddenly raised her head. A hint of surprise immediately appeared on her face, which was originally full of sadness and worry.

Jiang Xianchuan endured the throbbing pain in his head and slowly reached out to rub his temples, trying to clear his mind. He looked around and found that he was in an unfamiliar room, so he asked in confusion, “Where am I? Also, what exactly happened, Tiantian?”

“I’m sorry! I’m sorry, brother… I really know I was wrong, I shouldn’t have told others that Brother Qi An is a zombie, wuwuwu… I was so scared at the time, my mind went blank, and I accidentally said it, I’m sorry, brother!” Ji Tiantian cried like a pear blossom in the rain, her face full of remorse and self-blame. She held Jiang Xianchuan’s clothes tightly, as if he would disappear if she let go.

Looking at the sobbing little girl in front of him, Jiang Xianchuan felt a deep sense of helplessness even though he had a thousand reasons to be upset. He sighed softly, reached out and touched Ji Tiantian’s head, trying to make his voice sound as gentle as possible, “Okay, don’t cry, I don’t blame you. But can you calm down first and tell me exactly what happened?”

Hearing that Jiang Xianchuan didn’t blame her, Ji Tiantian stopped crying slightly, took a few deep breaths, and tried to calm her emotions. She began to recount everything that had happened afterwards.

“After you were knocked unconscious, brother, Brother Li suddenly rushed out and killed the uncle who wanted to hurt us, but no one expected that the entire camp would be in chaos all of a sudden! The bad guys who had been snatching ability users all along came over after getting the news from somewhere, and a lot of people came! They killed everyone they saw, and the camp suddenly became a river of blood, full of cries and screams. Many people died, and many others were separated from us like we were. While everyone was running around, Brother Qi An quickly took you away from the camp, and I, on the other hand, ran away with Sister Pianyue. Later, we ran into you and Brother Qi An on the road, and that’s how we were able to get back together.” After saying these words, Ji Tiantian couldn’t help but sob again.

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