Wen Qiao was dressed very much like a university student today. It was a very sweet outfit. A light blue tight-fitting top highlighted her figure, and below she wore a versatile white pleated skirt.
【Youth Pleated Skirt】superpower: mental system
Level: max level (level ten)
White hair tie: recovery power max (reduced consumption, full recovery boost)
Defense power: max
With every step Wen Qiao took, her mental power field expanded and strengthened. The two mutated cats kept retreating backward.
Their animal instincts told them that this human was very powerful. It seemed like they were not her opponents.
But such a large group of prey was rare, this…
The mutated cats chose to attack. Qi Hu was only at level two of the mental system and was already that strong, let alone Wen Qiao at max level.
She had seen too much bloodshed these past few days and did not want any more trouble. She wrapped the two mutated cats in her mental power and threw them far away, then controlled her superpower to crush their crystal nuclei.
Tsk, it seemed even more bloody. Fortunately, no one paid attention.
She looked behind her. Wang Ze and the others were looking at their noses and hearts, deliberately not looking at her.
Mm, perfect. She was still a cute girl. Xue Qi saw she had finished and handed her a bottle of AD sour yogurt.
Wen Jiuya naturally had one too. Xue Qi was afraid she would disturb their interaction, using it to seal her mouth. Wen Jiuya obediently accepted it. Well, fine—she who ate others’ food had to soften her speech.
Then the group left the school gate. Xue Qi drove a small car to lead the way, followed by six school buses behind (each could carry about 50 people).
Wang Ze’s group and Li Tingting’s group were in one bus. The rest were from the canteen and the people they had rescued.
Because they left late, nightfall came quickly. They did not plan to travel at night. It was dangerous, and there were too many people in the convoy, making accidents more likely. Zombies were also more active at night. Zombies did not need rest, but they did.
So as soon as night fell, they stopped to set up camp. There was no village ahead and no shop behind—they could only rely on themselves.
They split a convenience store with Wang Ze’s group. That store, surprisingly, was quite well stocked; it even had sleeping bags and tents.
More people meant more safety. Wang Ze’s group set up two large tents, one sleeping six people and one sleeping seven. Wang Yuhan’s position was between the tent edge and her brother, which made her feel very safe.
Wen Qiao’s group had two sisters in one tent, while Xue Qi slept alone.
The rest, except for a few Physical Education teachers who had sleeping bags, chose to sleep in the vehicles.
After everyone finished eating and briefly washing up, they all went to sleep.
Of course, only the team with water-type abilities dared to use water for washing up like this. Others barely had enough to drink, how could they dare waste it.
At night, Wen Qiao got up to go to the bathroom and saw a figure sitting by the campfire. It was the girl named Li Yuli.
“What is going on? Why aren’t you sleeping?”
“Big Sister Wen Qiao, I can’t sleep.”
“Is it because of that boy?”
Li Yuli gave a bitter smile. “It seems Big Sister already told you.”
“Not exactly. She only briefly mentioned it, saying there was an unknown creature and then someone died…”
“He was called Xiao Yu, Big Sister.” Li Yuli cut in. Her tone sounded like an explanation, yet also like she was pouring out her feelings.
“We agreed to get together after graduation and not date early. Then the apocalypse came. He said, don’t be afraid, I will protect you—and he did. That day, the one who should have died was me…”
……
“We’ve almost cleared the fifth floor. Let’s go to the fourth floor,” Wang Tao said as he walked down. Li Tingting followed, and Li Yuli and Xiao Yu walked at the back.
“I think this food is enough for us to eat for a while.”
“Although what you said makes sense, we still need to stay alert,” they chatted casually behind them, and soon everyone entered the first classroom on the fourth floor.
She bent down and searched through the desks, checking for food or other supplies. At that moment, a dark shadow quickly rushed in. Its target was me.
Maybe because my superpower was low, it did not hide at all.
None of us reacted in time. It was already dim, making things hard to see, and we did not dare turn on the lights. So only when I was scratched and cried out in pain did we notice it.
Xiao Yu immediately pulled me behind him and fought it with a book he grabbed at random.
But in our team, only Big Sister had a superpower (strength enhancement ability, ignored by zombies). The rest of us were ordinary people and could not fight it at all.
Wang Tao and Big Sister immediately came to help. He pushed me directly into Big Sister’s arms, while Wang Tao fought alongside him. After seeing that I was protected by Big Sister, he fought even more fiercely.
Big Sister both protected me and attacked.
When we realized the four of us still could not defeat it, he made a decision. He pushed Wang Tao away and told Big Sister to take me and Wang Tao away, because he was the closest to the shadow and could buy us escape time.
When we reached the classroom door, we looked back and saw him already lying on the ground, tightly holding the shadow and refusing to let go.
I begged Big Sister to go back and save him. Big Sister refused and sealed the staircase connecting the third and fourth floors.
Wen Qiao: “Is that the reason you argued with Big Sister?”
“I… I know I can’t blame her, but I can’t help thinking—if we went back to save him, would he still be alive…”
“Is that why you’ve been giving me such a cold attitude, Li Yuli? You’re really something. I saved you and I’m the one at fault now!”
Li Tingting’s voice came from nearby. Her face looked very ugly under the firelight.
“Big Sister…”
Li Tingting ignored her and returned directly to the car. She had originally come out because she was worried Li Yuli had been gone too long at night.
But in the end—heh, what an ungrateful person. It was wasted concern.
Wen Qiao sighed and patted her shoulder before returning to the tent.
“Why did you take so long?” Wen Jiuya asked groggily.
Wen Qiao did not disturb her sleep, briefly explained, and then let her rest.
The next day, they got up early as usual, washed up, and ate breakfast.
To avoid causing public resentment, they could only act low-key and eat bread and milk.
While they were eating peacefully—
“Big Sister, can you give me some food?” A child ran over, hugging Wen Qiao’s leg and asking carefully, while frequently glancing back.
Wen Qiao followed her gaze and saw a middle-aged man. He was dressed neatly, but his eyes were evasive and avoided meeting hers—or rather, he looked guilty.
Wen Qiao also noticed the bag he was hiding. He was afraid of using up his own food, so he wanted to freeload off hers.
Her food came from her superpower, and some from Wang Ze’s convenience store. But once she set this precedent, everyone would ask her for food. What then? Saving people was due to moral bottom lines, not to support a group of “bloodsuckers.”
Wen Qiao crumpled her bread and stuffed it into her mouth in one bite.
“Big Sister doesn’t have food either,” she replied innocently.
Seeing that she could not get food, the little girl ran back to the middle-aged man with small, hurried steps.
The man, seeing that Wen Qiao clearly had food but refused to share, became furious.
“Nowadays young people really have no kindness. Even when they can help, they refuse to do so.”
“ε=(′ο｀*))) sigh,” he exaggeratedly sighed.
Wen Jiuya was completely speechless =_=
Wen Qiao directly spoke up.
“Uncle, this is the apocalypse, not normal times. Food is extremely precious. I’m not your father or mother—why should I raise you?”
“Honestly, I’ve never seen someone so grown yet still acting like they haven’t been weaned. No shame at all.”
After speaking, she asked Xue Qi to take out a bottle of soda and drank it loudly in front of him, looking very satisfied.
The middle-aged man’s face immediately turned black, but he still stubbornly said, “You’re completely disrespecting the elderly!”
“Heh, what kind of elder are you? Who are you? So embarrassing, coming out to beg.”
She had originally come out for some air, but now she calmly drank her cola and went back.
The little girl tugged at the man’s sleeve. “Dad, I also want cola.”
The man had already been rendered speechless by Wen Qiao and then saw everyone looking at him, some even whispering and laughing.
Humiliated and angry, he shouted at the child, “Drink what drink! We can barely even get enough food—useless!”
The little girl shrank back in fear, her eyes turning red as tears quickly formed. She began crying softly.
“Why are you crying…”
The man’s voice faded away because Wen Jiuya had rolled up the car window. She was in a bad mood and did not look outside.
“They are always like this. The anger they suffer outside gets vented onto weaker children. Maybe it’s because they’ve never had this much power before.”
Wen Qiao knew she had a terrible family, but she never wanted to talk about it. She could only pull her into her arms and hold her.
Wen Jiuya did not speak anymore and quietly leaned against her shoulder.