BC Chapter 91

Yao Jinglin was also startled by the arrow coming from behind. It was unlikely, given her skills and experience, that she would completely ignore a threat from behind. Even though most of her energy was focused on Lu Ziming, who was dealing with the zombies in front of her, she still kept a small part of her attention behind her—after all, she had to protect Lin Xiang, who had just woken up and was still shaken.

However, the arrows were shot accurately, discreetly, and decisively, like assassins who had been lurking nearby, waiting for a chance to strike a fatal blow.

Yao Jinglin was taken aback. After confirming Lu Ziming’s surroundings, she realized that the arrows had indeed turned the dangerous situation around. Only then did she curiously turn her head to look behind her. To her surprise, she saw a girl in a red and white tracksuit sitting on the wall not far behind her in a posture as if riding a horse. The girl held a brown compound bow straight out in one hand, while the fingers of the other hand were hooked on the bowstring, and a feathered arrow was ready to be released between her fingers.

Black hair was tied up behind her head, and strands of dark, shiny hair were blown by the breeze. The girl holding the bow and arrow looked serious, closed one eye, and held her breath to aim. Although she had a backpack on her shoulders, it did not affect her ability to release an arrow and take away another frenzied zombie.

Yao Jinglin took in all of the girl’s movements, and even quickly shook her head as the arrow was shot, finally not missing the perfect shot.

That strike also happened to attract Lu Ziming’s attention. At first, when the zombies’ attacks weakened, she thought that the zombies were gradually becoming weaker, which gave her a chance to turn the tables. It wasn’t until she saw a zombie near her headshot by an arrow that she realized it wasn’t her luck, but that she had encountered a combat-type survivor with extraordinary combat power who had helped her.

With the help of the arrows in the girl’s hand, Lu Ziming used all her strength and finally managed to solve this tricky wave of zombies without any real danger. The tracksuit girl waited for a while to confirm that there were no other zombies gathering nearby, then slowly put the bow and arrow on her back, and slowly climbed down from the wall she was sitting on.

Lu Ziming, who was panting heavily from exhaustion, collapsed on the ground after solving the last zombie. It seemed that all her strength had been used up, and she had no energy to stand in place and ease the feeling of weakness in her body.

Seeing Lu Ziming fall to the ground and the crisis temporarily resolved, Yao Jinglin couldn’t continue to protect the now-awake Lin Xiang, and immediately ran towards Lu Ziming. Approaching her, she looked at her body with some concern and asked, “How are you? Are you hurt?”

“I’m fine, but… I need to rest for a bit…” Lu Ziming wiped the sweat from her neck with her sleeve, answering intermittently while panting.

“Okay, then I’ll go thank the girl who helped us.”

“Yeah… we should thank her properly. If it weren’t for her help, I would have died in the hands of those zombies just now.” Lu Ziming echoed Yao Jinglin’s words, supporting herself to try to stand up again, but she didn’t succeed.

“Just wait here for a moment, I’ll go check the situation.” Yao Jinglin was about to turn around and walk back, but seeing that Lu Ziming still wanted to push herself, she reminded her again and walked towards the girl.

“…Okay.” Lu Ziming tried to get up and failed, so she could only helplessly respond and watch Yao Jinglin walk back towards the alley entrance.

“Zi, Ziming-jie-jie!” Just after Yao Jinglin left, a familiar voice suddenly sounded behind Lu Ziming. Lu Ziming, who was lowering her head to recover her strength, turned her head in surprise and saw Zhang Yan and the other three running towards her.

“It’s you…” Lu Ziming saw the few people quickly gather around her, but she didn’t feel any joy at the reunion. Instead, she immediately asked her question with a cold face, “Before I left, didn’t I tell you to stay in the store and not come out? Why didn’t you listen to me?!”

Zhang Yan, who was about to approach familiarly, was frightened by Lu Ziming’s questioning and immediately stopped. Standing two or three steps away from Lu Ziming, she said apologetically, “We… we tried to persuade Zihao, but he just wouldn’t listen. He insisted on going out to find the rescue team… We couldn’t stop him…” Zhang Yan’s voice became smaller and smaller, and her head was lowered more and more. In the end, it was almost a whisper.

How could they not know that Lu Ziming’s last words were for their own good? It was just that among the young people, there were bound to be troublemakers who were willing to stir things up. Even though they had just witnessed the horrifying scene of zombies biting people, they had quickly forgotten the fear they had experienced after being kindly rescued by Lu Ziming.

Li Zihao, who had just been killed by the arrow-wielding girl and had become a member of the zombie horde, was that typical brainless young man.

Even though Zhang Yan and the others had tried their best to persuade him not to act rashly and to ensure his own safety before talking about anything else, he just wouldn’t listen, and even said that Zhang Yan and the others were too timid and overreacted.

Therefore, Li Zihao, who did not listen to the advice, very “luckily” encountered a group of hungry zombies in the few minutes after leaving the convenience store. With almost no chance to resist, Li Zihao, who had been bitten, was assimilated into a member of the zombie squad.

It wasn’t until Lu Ziming and the others appeared here that the four people trapped in the convenience store saw an opportunity.

But during the time when Lu Ziming was physically exhausted, the few people who were attracted by the commotion outside were really sweating for her.

Zhang Yan, who was a bit emotional, had already planned to take the plastic basket in the convenience store and go out to help Lu Ziming, but she was stopped by the other three who were still relatively calm.

They persuaded her that even if she went out to help at this time, she would only be adding to Lu Ziming’s burden. But Zhang Yan still wouldn’t listen. She was convinced that at the critical moment when several of them were about to die in the hands of the zombies, Lu Ziming had stepped forward and helped them, saving their lives, regardless of her own safety. Now that Lu Ziming was also in a life-or-death situation, how could she stand by and watch because of the danger?

But Sun Tianyu and Fan Yiwen, the other two boys who were equally clear about the situation, still didn’t give way at the door for Zhang Yan. After all, Li Zihao’s incident had just happened before their eyes. They couldn’t just watch a second person go out to their death, so even though Zhang Yan excitedly hit them a few times with the basket, the two still didn’t let Zhang Yan succeed.

Later, Yuan Na pulled Zhang Yan and comforted her for a while before Zhang Yan gradually calmed down.

Just as the situation outside the door was critical and chaos reigned inside, things finally took a turn for the better due to the appearance of the arrow-wielding girl.

The few people inside who had finally calmed down naturally quickly noticed the signs of the situation improving. They all held their breath and watched the situation outside, until Lu Ziming and the arrow-wielding girl joined forces to solve the tricky group of zombies in front of them, and the four people inside who had calmed down opened the door of the convenience store and ran out from inside.