Pairs of reddened eyes gleamed with excitement as they stared at Liang Hong, who was tied up on the roasting rack. Drool dripped from the villagers’ mouths as they continuously muttered,
“Two-legged sheep, we’re eating two-legged sheep.”
“Bang!!”
Yan Qing, who had come to participate in the mission to rescue survivors, kicked open the ancestral hall doors with one foot.
When she saw the scene before her, her heart nearly stopped beating for several seconds from fright.
Even though she had already seen hideous and disgusting zombies before, those villagers in front of her were even more terrifying.
Because the sound of her kicking open the door was too loud, the crazed villagers instantly turned around and stared fixedly at her.
Even the villager who had been crouching to start the fire stood up and looked at Yan Qing with drool running down his mouth.
“Catch the two-legged sheep!”
“Don’t let her escape!”
“I want to eat two-legged sheep!”
Looking at the deranged villagers before her, alarm bells instantly rang in Yan Qing’s mind. She was so stunned that she even forgot to react and stood frozen in place.
Only when one of the villagers stepped forward and grabbed her hair did she suddenly snap back to her senses. Looking at Liang Hong, who had been hung upside down on the roasting rack and starved until she was skin and bones, her anger instantly reached its limit!
Crackle!
A flash of lightning passed through the hall, and the crazed villagers instantly collapsed to the ground, their fates unknown.
Liang Hong, who had been hanging upside down and tied to the rack, looked at Yan Qing as though a divine savior had descended from the heavens. Tears of relief streamed down her face after being rescued.
After Yan Qing untied Liang Hong and saved her from the roasting rack, Liang Hong immediately lost her footing and collapsed to the ground, fainting on the spot.
Yan Qing had no choice but to bring the skeletal Liang Hong back to the base, and she had spent quite a large amount of her own points to save Liang Hong’s life.
After waking up, Liang Hong knelt before Yan Qing and repeatedly kowtowed.
She said that Liang Hong would remain loyal to Yan Qing for the rest of her life, and no matter what happened, she would never betray her.
Afterward, whenever Yan Qing took on simpler missions, she not only brought Yan Xia along, but also Liang Hong. Liang Hong had even awakened a speed ability during one mission.
But Liang Hong had very quickly forgotten her vow.
She betrayed her.
She joined Yan Xia, Cheng Yutang, and the others in surrounding and killing her!
“I’m just an ordinary person! Why should I go on such dangerous missions with you? You have abilities, but I don’t! Is my life really that worthless?”
“You gave Yan Xia a crystal core to awaken abilities. Why didn’t you give one to me? Why?!”
“If I hadn’t suddenly awakened my speed ability last time, I would’ve died in that zombie horde! It’s all your fault! It’s all your fault! I hate you!”
“Yan Qing, I’ve gone on so many missions with you already. I’ve repaid your kindness long ago!”
Yan Qing curled her lips.
Heh.
She made it sound as though Yan Qing had monopolized the mission rewards and points.
Hadn’t Liang Hong received all of them herself?
Recalling Liang Hong’s reasons for wanting to kill her in her previous life, Yan Qing found it utterly laughable…
“Bzzzt, bzzzt, bzzzt.”
The phone inside her clothing pocket suddenly began vibrating nonstop, interrupting Yan Qing’s thoughts.
She felt somewhat puzzled. Right after returning through rebirth, she had immediately changed all of her contact information to avoid trouble.
No one should be looking for her, right?
She stopped her motorcycle in a remote wilderness area.
Wild grass grew everywhere nearby, and the place was deserted. Naturally, there were no zombies around yet.
Sitting on the motorcycle, she took out the phone from her bag. The moment she unlocked the screen, a headline instantly caught her attention.
*A Woman Causes Six People’s Tragic Deaths by Zombie Attack: Is This the Collapse of Morality or the Distortion of Human Nature?*
“This title is way too ridiculous.”
“??”
“Don’t tell me this is me?”
With the expression of an elderly man staring at his phone on the subway, Yan Qing clicked into the article. Looking at the massive uproar it had caused online, she scrolled further down and looked at the photos and videos posted by the uploader.
Mm…
Yep, it was her.
Her finger moved as she scrolled through the comments. She had not expected that even at a time like this, people still had the energy to ignore concerns about their own survival and dutifully comment on other people online.
Netizen 1: This woman is way too vicious! She just stood there and watched those people get eaten by zombies without doing anything!
Netizen 2: Zombies are too terrifying!
Netizen 3: Call the police and arrest this woman who watched others die without helping! She’s a danger to society!
Netizen 4: I already called the police! But the emergency line isn’t getting through!
Netizen 5: You’re worrying over nothing. You should be worrying about yourselves first!
Netizen 6: Can someone save me?! The zombies outside are charging and smashing into the door! I’m at 403 Xingfu Street, Yibao City!
Netizen 7: Does anyone remember that “Apocalypse Survival Guide” from before? It talked about zombie weaknesses and stockpiling supplies… I can’t believe it was real!
People beneath that comment quickly chimed in. Quite a few said they were lucky they had listened and bought plenty of food in advance, and that they should be able to hold out until rescue arrived.
Others expressed regret for not following along and buying supplies. With so many zombies outside now, they did not dare leave home casually.
…
Among them, Netizen 6’s comment caught Yan Qing’s attention.
It was only the first day of the zombie outbreak, yet there were already zombies that could sprint and crash into doors?
Yan Qing inwardly cursed.
If that was true, then if she encountered intelligent high-level zombies right now, things would become troublesome.
She continued scrolling through the comments.
Netizen 7: Why haven’t the police and military come to save us yet?!
Yan Qing stared fixedly at the comment and recalled what had happened in her previous life during the apocalypse.
When the apocalypse first broke out in her previous life, if everyone had worked together, most people actually could have survived long enough to hold on until rescue from the bases arrived.
But nobody wanted to go outside and fight zombies.
Nobody wanted to be the first person to leave.
Nobody wanted to die first.
Everyone simply waited for someone else to eliminate the zombies outside first.
During her previous life, internet and electricity had only been cut off three months after the apocalypse began. During the period before that happened, those netizens cursed at heaven and earth alike, using the most vicious language imaginable against police officers and soldiers.
They called them weak and incompetent.
They cursed their inefficiency.
They cursed everything possible…
At that time, people who had escaped to survivor bases posted messages online urging survivors to hurry to the nearest survivor base.
But they refused to listen.
They closed their eyes, covered their ears, and opened their mouths only to curse.
Others who sensed something was wrong quickly packed up, gathered their families, and fought their way toward the nearest survivor base with homemade weapons.
At that time, the zombies were still only ordinary zombies, and the survival rate was still quite high.
But after the entire world lost electricity and internet access, a portion of the zombie population evolved into Level One zombies, Level Two zombies, and special zombies.
By then, most of those still waiting at home for rescue could no longer sit still.
Only then did they finally wake up from their dreams. Overnight, they crafted makeshift weapons and forced themselves to bravely flee toward the nearest survivor bases.
But in the end, less than one-tenth successfully reached a survivor base.
According to the information Yan Qing had obtained in her previous life, zombies had erupted across the globe almost simultaneously on a massive scale.
When the outbreak first began, military forces and police departments everywhere had descended into chaos.
They could only helplessly watch comrades, teammates, and superiors transform into zombies before their eyes…
By the time the zombies inside the military had finally been suppressed, nearly a year had passed before official bases were gradually established.
She clicked into the comment section and left a message:
“If you want to survive, save yourselves.”
Then she closed the app.
Afterward, she turned on her navigation again, took out Bluetooth earphones from her spatial storage, connected them, started playing music, and set off once more.
Listening to the music in her earphones while riding her motorcycle and feeling the scent of fresh grass blowing against her face, while reeds swayed around her in the wind, the scene felt nothing like an apocalyptic world overrun by zombies.
“Roar! Roar!!!”
“Mom!! Dad!! Don’t leave me behind!!”