The young man called Xiao Chen hurriedly stepped in front of Xie Ning and her mother, his eyes flickering as he tried to reassure them. “Accountant Song, we all know very well what’s happening outside. These monsters are not something we can fight against.”
“I advise you to wait here a bit longer. The government definitely won’t abandon us. They’ll surely send the military to help us escape.”
“If we rashly run out now, it’s nothing but a dead end. If we wait for government rescue, we can definitely survive.”
Xie Ning gave him a cold look. “Step aside.”
She understood the specific situation better than anyone else.
Indeed, this country had always prioritized saving lives. From the beginning of the apocalypse, they organized rescue operations, striving to save as many people as possible.
Their principle was not to abandon any living person, providing a certain degree of assistance to every victim on this basis.
But situations where help couldn’t reach in time certainly existed.
After the great chaos erupted, even if the authorities reacted swiftly, rescue always required time to organize manpower and resources—it wasn’t something that could be accomplished just by talking.
Moreover, the zombie hordes broke out simultaneously everywhere, giving no one sufficient time to prepare.
So… those trapped who couldn’t wait for rescue and perished were everywhere.
In her previous life, Xie Ning had been just as naive, wanting only to wait for rescue, sitting around and waiting, waiting, waiting!
Crying to heaven and earth about why rescue hadn’t arrived yet, but never considering that in the face of disaster, everyone must first learn to save themselves.
Only by saving yourself can you carve out a path to survival!
Doing nothing and waiting for death leads to nothing but death.
When the great disaster struck, some people died at the mouths of zombies, but even more perished from starvation and thirst while trapped with severely insufficient resources, or even committed suicide in emotional collapse, one batch after another.
Xie Ning turned and looked deeply at the young man. “It’s the fear of the unknown that makes people afraid.”
“In fact, if you don’t go out, you’ll never know what the world has become.”
“If you don’t adapt to this world, you’ll eventually be eliminated by it.” That was the harsh reality.
According to the trajectory of her previous life, waiting for the military to come rescue the Aijia Supermarket would require holding out for about seven days.
Seven days—seven days without water, electricity, or food. By the time rescue arrived, people would already be broken.
Her mother had actually been dragged to death by these colleagues!
Back then, there had clearly been an opportunity to escape the supermarket area before the rotting corpses gathered, but they insisted on keeping her mother holed up here waiting for rescue.
So Xie Ning had absolutely no good impression of these people.
Wait, wait, wait, wait—was their entire lives just about waiting?
She didn’t want to waste any more words on that young man Xiao Chen. Clutching her mother’s hand tightly, she strode toward the door.
“Then, then I’ll go with you!” Xiao Chen quickly followed them.
For some reason, his intuition told him that following behind Accountant Song’s daughter seemed quite safe.
Accountant Song’s daughter must have trained, right? Her skill at killing zombies earlier was especially clean and efficient.
Xie Ning faced him with a cold expression. “A big fellow like you would be better off acting on your own. Don’t let us two women and children hold you back.”
She knew very well that with her current mediocre abilities, protecting herself and her mother was already quite an achievement.
Taking along a shifty-eyed young man?
Sorry, not even a peak champion could carry that…
“Hey, you—don’t go!” Xiao Chen called out, then hurriedly covered his mouth.
He could only watch helplessly as the girl walked out the door, pulling Accountant Song along without looking back.
Xie Ning pulled her mother away from the office, only to run into a limping zombie as soon as they turned the corner.
“Old Wang?” Song You’ai covered her mouth.