BC Chapter 10
by VolareOriginally, Lu Ziming thought that since she didn’t know how far she would have to walk to leave Qingshui City, her weapon should be as light and portable as possible. That’s why she chose the long knife she had. Although Lu Ziming had been using it as a dagger, it was more suitable to be called a long knife because the blade was longer than the handle. This made Lu Ziming feel strained when she gripped the handle. Lu Ziming looked around the warehouse she was in, trying to find something to lengthen the handle. She then noticed that the items in the warehouse were very messy, with many styles, but most of them were daily necessities, such as buckets, kettles, towels, and rags. It seemed that this warehouse had been used to store goods for the supermarket downstairs. This was convenient for Lu Ziming. She walked through two rows of shelves and found a pile of parts for assembling mops, including hollow stainless steel mop rods. As soon as Lu Ziming saw the steel rod, her eyes lit up – hey, I’ve got accessories for modifying my weapon!
The mop rod was indeed very useful. Xiao Li used a wooden rod to knock away the little zombies, and the mop rods that were broken into two sections were also used to block the building door when everyone escaped into the building. In comparison, the unassembled hollow steel rod that Lu Ziming found now was more practical.
She first tied the long knife and the steel rod together, then used the tape she brought from home to fix them tightly. She held it in her hand and swung it hard, creating whistling sounds.
Dai Qianya had already woken up when Lu Ziming got up and started moving around. However, out of caution, she only tightened her arms around Jin Shengzhe and didn’t make any other movements. She just watched Lu Ziming busy herself, guessing Lu Ziming’s intentions.
Lu Ziming wielded the long knife she had assembled a few times, and when she turned around, she saw that Dai Qianya, who had already woken up, was staring at her.
“… Morning.” Lu Ziming wasn’t a talkative person to begin with. Although Dai Qianya had taken care of her for a few hours, and she knew she should express her gratitude, she couldn’t bring herself to say the words in her heart. She had always been a practical person, unable to say everything that was on her mind, but she was clearer than anyone else in her heart. But after struggling for a long time, she felt that it was impolite not to greet her, so she squeezed out a “Morning.”
“Morning. Are you going out again?” Although it was already evening, it was no different from morning for the two who had just woken up. Moreover, Lu Ziming had been living a life of day and night for the past week, and the boundaries between day and night were not so clear to her. In short, all her actions were based on the wandering situation of the zombies outside.
“… Yes, now the movements of the zombies outside are much slower than during the day, and the safety is greatly improved in comparison.” Lu Ziming was silent for a while, but still answered Dai Qianya’s question. Lu Ziming had only concluded the zombies’ habits through observation in the past two days. It was probably because night action was more difficult for survivors like Lu Ziming and Dai Qianya. Therefore, in the night when there were no living people, the zombies were only wandering aimlessly, and did not actively gather in one direction in search of sounds or special smells like during the day. It was as if the reaction speed of the zombies was also much slower at night.
“Then… be careful.” With Dai Qianya’s personality, she was not a shy person. ‘A debt of hatred must be repaid, and a debt of gratitude must be returned’ was also her motto in life. However, she was not alone at this time, and she had to consider the child in her arms in everything she did. So she could only swallow the ‘Is there anything I can help you with?’ that she was about to blurt out. In her arms, little Jin Shengzhe was sleeping soundly, and the conversation between Dai Qianya and Lu Ziming did not disturb him.
Lu Ziming heard Dai Qianya’s answer and saw her hesitant expression. Her eyes also followed her gaze to the face of the child in her arms. Her mind raced, and she immediately understood Dai Qianya’s thoughts.
“…” Lu Ziming wanted to say ‘I will’, but then she remembered the scene where she was almost besieged by zombies. If she didn’t have the good luck of that day, then the consequences would be hard to say. So she thought about it and said nothing. She turned around and walked back to her position, stuffed the empty handbag into her backpack, zipped it up, put on her backpack, opened the warehouse door, looked left and right, and then walked out.
Dai Qianya, who was watching her go out behind her, wanted to say something, but seemed to feel that it was unnecessary. She just opened her mouth, and then remained silent, only tightening her arms around little Jin Shengzhe as she watched the fire door gradually close.
Lu Ziming, descending the stairs, tried to maintain a light pace so that her speed was particularly slow. It took her five minutes to go down one floor. The floor was littered with things after yesterday’s riot. Most of them were garbage, and the trash can in the corner was also lying on the ground. Lu Ziming, who had just gone out seven or eight minutes ago, was not very adapted to the darkness in the corridor. It was only after her eyes gradually adapted that she began to slowly move downstairs.
Lu Ziming, descending the stairs, carefully walked close to the wall, avoiding the garbage in the corridor, trying not to make any loud noises. From time to time, she would lean towards the railing and carefully look downstairs for a long time. After confirming that there was nothing unusual, she continued to move downstairs.
After going down two floors, a very slight noise suddenly came from the floor where Lu Ziming was. Normally, Lu Ziming might have thought it was a little mouse passing by, but now it was an extraordinary period, and even a little bit of noise could make Lu Ziming’s nerves tense. She frowned in the dark corridor and thought for a while, and finally decided not to care. At this time, it was better to have one less thing to worry about than one more thing.
But unexpectedly, a scream rang out in the next second. The iron door in front of her was suddenly knocked open by a black shadow. The black shadow rushed straight to the stairs after knocking open the iron door. Seeing that the black shadow was about to run to the stairs, Lu Ziming, who was standing on the side of the stairs railing, subconsciously grabbed it, and happened to grab the black shadow’s clothes. It was precisely because of Lu Ziming’s miraculous move that the black shadow was prevented from falling downstairs. The black shadow was slender, and after being pulled by Lu Ziming’s clothes, it stopped its forward momentum. Only then did it belatedly discover Lu Ziming behind it. Before its heartbeat had calmed down, it was startled by Lu Ziming and took a cold breath, about to scream loudly, but it was preemptively covered by Lu Ziming’s small mouth. Taking advantage of the situation, Lu Ziming pulled the black shadow into her arms, and the two retreated two steps and hid behind the fire door. In less than two seconds, a menacing black shadow rushed out of the door. This black shadow behind it was not so lucky. It slipped and fell headfirst before it could rush to the stairs.
But Lu Ziming did not wait for the person in her arms to breathe a sigh of relief before opening the fire door and returning to the floor with the black shadow. The layout of the shopping malls in this area was basically the same. The stairs that Lu Ziming had taken before were the fire escape on the west side, so there should be a corresponding staircase on the east side. Lu Ziming grabbed the black shadow and started running without saying a word.
Because Lu Ziming knew that a mere fall could not kill a zombie. On the contrary, once a zombie was targeted, it would be very difficult to get rid of it. The reason why Lu Ziming did not chase after the zombie that fell down the stairs was also to avoid unnecessary complications.
The night was an obstacle for living people. In addition, the space in the stairwell was too narrow. If there was an emergency, it might be impossible to hide. Naturally, it was necessary to avoid fighting zombies in the stairwell. Furthermore, Lu Ziming had just modified her long knife into a real horse knife like the one used by Guan Yu. It could not be used at all in a narrow place like a stairwell. Now that there was an extra loud-voiced burden by her side, it was even more impossible to gain any advantage. So if she didn’t run now, when would she?
But the person who was being dragged by Lu Ziming was miserable. In fact, she was anxious to curse, but she also knew that the situation was urgent and did not allow for much thought. She could only run as far as she could with Lu Ziming. As for whether she could catch her breath? – Haha, she would be burning incense to live. This little thing was nothing at all!!
Originally, the visible distance of human eyes would be closer in the dark. Even if the human body lacked vitamin A, it would cause night blindness – let alone the visual range, the whole thing would be a blind person!
But Lu Ziming’s strong physical fitness saved her. Because she had not seen the light, she was not hindered at all in her actions in the dark. The reason why she had been slow to go downstairs before was because she had to be careful to avoid touching the garbage that might make a sound. Now that she knew that the zombies behind her might catch up at any time, she didn’t care about anything when she ran. She didn’t care what was in front of her, she just dragged the person behind her and ran all the way – anyway, the worst thing that could happen was that there would be zombies blocking the way ahead.
But for Lu Ziming at this time, she was an atheist, but she had already prayed to all the gods and Buddhas in the sky – praying that all the good luck in her life would be used now – hoping that she wouldn’t see anything she didn’t want to see ahead.