The young woman’s lips trembled; she opened her mouth a few times but finally shut it obediently.
She lowered her head unwillingly, fear flashing in her eyes.
The look in that madwoman’s eyes made it clear she really would throw her out!
Seeing the atmosphere turn cold and hard, the bespectacled man hesitantly spoke up: “She… it was self-defense. We all saw it just now—there are man-eating monsters out there.”
He forced out a stiff smile.
“Isn’t this exactly what they’ve been saying online… Zombies!”
Though deep down he was also terrified of this girl who looked delicate but could kill without batting an eye.
Still, she was better than man-eating zombie monsters.
“We should think of a plan first. Staying here…”
He glanced hesitantly at the corpse not far away and swallowed. “Staying here isn’t a solution.”
Jiang Shengyue didn’t respond, her expression indifferent as she held the bloodstained dagger.
She let the blood drip, drop by drop, onto the floor at her feet.
After using her Ability, she felt dizzy. She carefully sized up the few survivors before slowly suppressing her killing intent.
A sickly, fragile first-tier Awakener against four healthy adults—
Not worth the cost.
“Um… I-I think what this guy said is right. Maybe we should… should go to the police station first, or go home…”
The shop clerk clasped her trembling hands in front of her chest, looking anxious.
This was terrifying. She wanted to go home!
The middle-aged woman’s tone was stiff: “I want to go home! My son is waiting for me at home!”
“Since everyone wants to leave, and I happen to have a car, I plan to head to the police station first. I can take you all along the way.”
The group exchanged glances in the dimness and reached a consensus, preparing to leave together in the bespectacled man’s car.
The bespectacled man looked at Jiang Shengyue, who said nothing, and after hesitating, asked anyway.
“Do you want to come with us? At the police station, I’ll testify that it was self-defense, not intentional.”
Jiang Shengyue raised an eyebrow, paused for two seconds, then said meaningfully:
“If I were you, I wouldn’t take those two with you.”
The young woman and the middle-aged woman shrieked in fury, terrified that the bespectacled man might suddenly change his mind after hearing her words and leave them behind.
“Murderer! You’re just afraid we’ll report you to the police! Just you wait! You killed my boyfriend—I’ll never let this go!”
“How can you be so vicious, you girl! Do you want us all to die here?!”
Jiang Shengyue’s sharp gaze coldly pierced toward the two of them.
Only then did they realize this was a madwoman who killed without blinking! They quickly shut their mouths.
The young woman lowered her head, her eyes full of venom.
Jiang Shengyue’s gaze swept over the two women and lingered for a few seconds on the young woman’s waist and abdomen.
Sensing her stare, the woman awkwardly tugged her cropped top down a few times, then pressed her arm over it.
No one but Jiang Shengyue noticed this small movement.
Jiang Shengyue gave a scoff but didn’t expose her.
Now she truly wouldn’t need to lift a finger herself.
These people would get themselves killed on their own.
“It’s fine, the police station isn’t far. We’ll be safe once we get there.” The bespectacled man didn’t take it seriously.
Once the group had decided, they peered out through the glass door.
The bespectacled man confirmed that the zombies that had been eating people earlier had left, then silently gave a hand signal and pulled the door open first, striding out into the rain.
The three women behind him, though extremely reluctant, gritted their teeth and followed, disappearing one after another into the dim, misty rain.
Jiang Shengyue silently watched them leave before leaning against the wall and slowly sliding down to sit on the cold floor.
“Cough, cough!”
She covered her mouth with one hand, forcefully swallowing down the metallic sweetness surging up her throat.
After the lights went out, everyone was too consumed by the terror of the monster eating people and Jiang Shengyue killing someone to notice the abnormal flush spreading across her deathly pale face.
Jiang Shengyue’s thoughts stirred, and an unopened bottle of mineral water appeared in her hand.
She twisted off the cap and drank; the bloody taste in her throat slowly faded.
She found fever reducers, cough syrup, and cold medicine on the pharmacy shelves and took them with the water.
She circulated her Plant Ability within her body, wrapping the medicine to break it down quickly and speed its transport through her bloodstream.
This was a little trick Jiang Shengyue had figured out in her previous life.
Medicine that normally took an hour to work would take effect at least twice as fast with this method!
Jiang Shengyue hid behind a waist-high medicine cabinet, staying alert to her surroundings.
After resting for half an hour, Jiang Shengyue felt the medicine kick in.
She stood up and stretched her limbs; even her mind felt much clearer.
Thank goodness this pharmacy had suddenly lost power.
In the dim light, this little shop was inconspicuous, drawing no attention from anyone or any Zombies.
She walked lightly around the store, her fingertips brushing over row after row of medicine cabinets.
The shop wasn’t big, but it wasn’t small either.
Around a hundred square meters, with medicine on almost every wall.
There were also five long shelves in the middle, all packed with medicine.
Jiang Shengyue spared nothing, taking it all!
Like a goose plucked of every feather as it passed!
Ten minutes later, the place was completely emptied.
While collecting the medicine, Jiang Shengyue discovered a staircase in a corner.
Jiang Shengyue went up the stairs.
Her steps were light, her breathing steady, her grip tight on her dagger, ready to strike at any sudden situation.
Thankfully, the second floor held no danger.
Jiang Shengyue could barely make out her surroundings by the faint daylight filtering in from outside.
It was a small flat space, the same size as downstairs.
One side was stacked with piles of brown, unopened cardboard boxes; the other side held shelves.
She approached the boxes in the darkness and turned on her phone screen, using its light to read the labels—
Antibiotics!
Jiang Shengyue’s lips curled up in satisfaction. Antibiotics were extremely scarce in the Apocalypse!
Forget antibiotics—even ordinary medicine was in short supply.
Cephalosporins! Take!
Amoxicillin! Take!
Cold medicine! Take!
…
Wound care medicine! Take!
Condoms? Hmm… take! These things were also in high demand in the Apocalypse—ordinary people might not be able to afford them.
But those wealthy and powerful people who could still roughly maintain their pre-Apocalypse lifestyles definitely needed them. Even if she couldn’t use them, she could sell them later!
Besides, they had plenty of uses—truly essential for wilderness survival.
She also swept up all the family planning products like pregnancy test sticks!
“Hm?”
While Jiang Shengyue was enthusiastically looting the place, she suddenly felt her Space tremble.
Her consciousness carefully surveyed the Space and confirmed her perception was right—the Space had indeed undergone some change.
Her frequent use of the Space ability recently had reached a critical point.
Her connection with the Space had grown closer.
Before, her perception of the Space’s power had been faint, as if separated by a layer. Though she could still store and retrieve items, it always felt like something was missing.
Just now, she could clearly feel that strange barrier had vanished!
Like a bubble spat out by a fish in water, popping with a soft blip.
After some thought, she tried retrieving a box of medicine from a distance.
Through testing, she discovered she could now retrieve items from about two meters away!
This was Gekong Quwu—retrieving objects through the air!
Jiang Shengyue suddenly thought of her plan.
With this trick up her sleeve, as long as she used it well, wouldn’t the rest of the plan be a piece of cake?
She’d been racking her brain for a suitable method, and now here one was, delivered right to her!
Jiang Shengyue opened the map app and searched for the nearest gas station.
Today she was going for something big—stealing gas!