BC Chapter 120

It wasn’t someone else causing the commotion at the far end of the zombie horde, but He Zhou and her group.

Their original plans and the desire to carefully strategize vanished as the chaos below erupted.

The first to get worked up was Zhou Yuanyuan, whose virus mutation was the least advanced. Thinking of the brief time she spent with Dai Qianya and the other woman’s gentle kindness, and Jin Shengzhe’s shy and adorable appearance, she immediately couldn’t sit still. Before Jiang Juncheng and He Linglong could even express their stance, she turned resolutely, slung her bag over her shoulder, and grabbed the all-black power twister she had been using for self-defense, determined to save the mother and son.

Lu Ziming had saved her life, and so had Dai Qianya and her son. Although many things had happened since leaving the Jiang family, preventing her from finding Lu Ziming as she had hoped, she wasn’t afraid. She knew Lu Ziming was very strong; even if infected by the mutated virus, she would surely be able to rely on her unwavering will to survive to overcome those brutal, man-eating desires and hold onto her original self. So, it didn’t matter if she couldn’t find her right now. Besides this small Qingshui City, where else could she hide? On the contrary, now that she had encountered the Dai Qianya mother and son in trouble again, she couldn’t possibly continue to stand idly by.

Lu Ziming’s actions had saved her, so her life belonged to her. She had to continue Lu Ziming’s will to save people, regardless of whether that was Lu Ziming’s purpose in saving her. At the very least, Zhou Yuanyuan understood that she couldn’t let the people Lu Ziming had saved die in front of her.

In the past, she smoked, drank, went to bars, skipped school, fought, cursed… she did everything a rebellious teenager would do, all to prove her existence in this world, but… it was useless. All that was left was an increasingly empty heart and days that felt like she was an insignificant, wandering ghost.

Her workaholic father never knew how to care for people; otherwise, her mother wouldn’t have died so young from illness. And the woman who entered the Zhou family later wouldn’t have spent even a fraction of her heart on her stepdaughter. All her energy was spent on helping the Zhou family squander its wealth. Fortunately, Zhou Yuanyuan had been strong-willed since she was a child, and her father felt guilty towards her, so in several confrontations with her stepmother, Zhou Yuanyuan always gained the upper hand. Later, the stepmother simply stopped trying to bother Zhou Yuanyuan. Thus, Zhou Yuanyuan spent her rebellious adolescence living a life of reckless abandon, with no one to control her.

The day the virus broke out, she was skipping class with two of her delinquent friends, wandering around a shopping mall, looking at this and touching that, commenting on everything. The mall was already crowded and noisy, so when the chaos started on the first floor, people upstairs were completely unaware. It wasn’t until infections appeared on several floors simultaneously, triggering the disaster, that Zhou Yuanyuan and her two friends realized their danger.

Later, in the chaotic crowd, one friend was unknowingly scratched on the back of her hand. After the three of them ran to the bathroom to hide, symptoms of infection appeared. She grabbed another girl’s face and started biting, and Zhou Yuanyuan, terrified, couldn’t care less about past relationships and immediately ran away in fear.

Later, in her panicked escape from the zombies, she pushed open a fire door and ran into the stairwell, but because she was moving too fast, she almost fell from the stair railing, only to be saved by Lu Ziming’s outstretched hand. Zhou Yuanyuan, not recognizing Lu Ziming, was about to scream when Lu Ziming covered her mouth and pulled her into her arms.

Zhou Yuanyuan suddenly understood that Lu Ziming, who had pulled her, was a living person, and a woman with a cold fragrance – as she leaned back, the soft sensation on her back and the cool, woody fragrance surrounding her made Zhou Yuanyuan understand everything.

Although she had caused Lu Ziming a lot of trouble later due to her arrogance and ignorance, Lu Ziming never really had the heart to abandon her, and even saved her several times. It was during this interaction that Zhou Yuanyuan’s feelings for Lu Ziming changed again and again. At first, it was just childish mischief, insisting on sticking to her. Later, she wanted to prove to her that she was no longer a child and could help. Then, she thought that no matter how many things happened, she wouldn’t be afraid as long as Lu Ziming was there. And now…

She just wanted to be by Lu Ziming’s side – by the side of the person who didn’t talk much but was willing to protect her unconditionally time and time again, no matter what her status was. Her eighteenth birthday had long passed, and she thought she had some of the judgment ability of an adult, so she could choose the path she wanted to take and the things she wanted to do – unlike her previous willfulness, this time, because of Lu Ziming’s appearance, she also wanted to learn to be someone she didn’t hate.

It was precisely because of Lu Ziming’s previous example that Zhou Yuanyuan was now willing to risk her life to save Dai Qianya and her son. She wholeheartedly believed that following Lu Ziming’s path would allow her to get closer to her, so she was determined to save them.

However, what she didn’t expect was that after seeing her pack her bag and leave, Jiang Juncheng and He Linglong also immediately grabbed their things and followed. The two said in unison, “Why didn’t you wait for us?”

Seeing that the three of them had made up their minds to save people, Chen Li thought about the vast difference in numbers between their seven and the zombies, and understood that any plan was basically useless, and they could only play it by ear. So she looked up and exchanged glances with Leng Dongchi. In just a moment, Leng Dongchi understood her meaning, so Leng Dongchi immediately stepped forward and stopped them before they went downstairs.

“Wait, here are a few fruit knives we found earlier. Take them. How are you going to deal with those tricky guys without any decent weapons?”

Zhou Yuanyuan looked at the power twister in her hand, and then at Jiang and He, who were empty-handed behind her – as the saying goes, even the cleverest housewife can’t cook without rice. Even if she and He Linglong were faster than the zombies, they couldn’t solve them with speed alone. Weapons were naturally necessary.

When the three turned to look at Chen Li, Chen Li had already picked up her baseball bat, her expression an unspoken smile, and raised her hand to pat the bag containing the bat.

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In the darkness after the city lost its light, because of A Yan’s whim, the blood slowly flowed from the neck of the balding uncle who died on the street, staining most of his clothes red, and then seeping into the ground crevices along the blood flow.

And the bloody smell, with the movement of molecules, floated in the sky above the street and attracted more zombies. Under the night, the surging black tide gathered in this block as if guided by navigation.

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