“We all came here in order to survive! For ourselves! For our families! We have to unite and kill all the zombies together! Even if there’s only a sliver of hope, we still have to fight for it!”
“For ourselves! For our families!”
“For ourselves! For our families!”
No one knew who shouted in response first, but the crowd instantly erupted.
The people standing on Yan Qing’s side all raised their right hands and began shouting together.
“Everyone, quickly form a circle! Put the elderly and children inside! Those with weapons, bring your own! Those without weapons, come get one from me!”
Yan Qing walked while shouting into the loudspeaker.
The zombie horde was already getting closer and closer, and they absolutely could not waste even a second.
People with weapons quickly took out what they had.
Those without weapons lined up and queued in front of Yan Qing to receive one.
Meanwhile, among the group that had initially expressed distrust toward Yan Qing, several people noticed that she was handing out weapons for free and quietly began edging toward her side.
The people who had hesitated earlier also lined up after seeing that weapons were being distributed freely.
“Well, well, isn’t this that old bitter hag who looked down on people earlier? You looked down on her, yet now you’re here to take the weapon she’s giving out. Weren’t you the one saying you wouldn’t kill zombies?”
One woman spotted the sharp tongued woman quietly lining up near the back and immediately called her out.
The surrounding people all turned their heads in unison to look.
The sharp tongued woman’s face immediately flushed red.
“Y… you… you…”
She pointed a trembling finger at the woman who had spoken up, but after stammering for a long time, she could not say anything else.
Hearing the surrounding whispers and knowing everyone was discussing what had happened earlier, she instantly grew furious.
“Hmph! Isn’t it just some stupid weapon? What’s so great about it?! Fine! I’ll just stand back and watch you all kill zombies!”
After speaking, she raised her head arrogantly and walked toward the safe circle.
Seeing how shameless she was, everyone shook their heads.
The moment the sharp tongued woman entered the safety circle, someone immediately shoved her back out.
“You’re a perfectly healthy adult and you still have the nerve to come hide with us kids and old people instead of fighting zombies? Shameless! Pah!”
“Pah!”
“Pah!”
“Pah! Pah pah pah pah!”
The sharp tongued woman staggered and nearly fell.
Turning around angrily, she glared at the people inside the circle.
“Which little brat pushed me?! Who was it?! Come out here! See if I don’t beat you to death!”
“I pushed you! What are you going to do about it?”
A little girl shook off the elderly person’s hand holding her and walked right in front of the woman, raising her head and meeting her eyes directly.
“What am I going to do? I’ll beat you to death, you little bitch!”
The sharp tongued woman raised her right hand.
Before it could come down, Yan Qing, who had heard the commotion, grabbed her wrist.
The woman instantly screamed in pain.
“Ah!! That hurts!”
“Hurts? Being torn apart by zombies will hurt even more! You’ve got the energy to bully a child here, but not enough brains to think about how you’re going to survive in a few minutes?”
Yan Qing flung the sharp tongued woman onto the ground.
The woman was just about to get back up.
The next second, the Tang blade rested across her neck.
Its edge instantly sliced through the skin at her throat, and a thin line of blood trickled down.
The woman was so terrified she did not dare move at all.
“I… I was wrong… don’t kill me… don’t kill me…”
She stared at Yan Qing in horror, terrified that her head would roll off in the next moment.
Yan Qing looked at the zombie horde getting closer and closer and no longer had the mood to waste time with her.
“Get lost.”
“O… okay! I’ll go, I’ll go!”
After Yan Qing withdrew the Tang blade, the woman immediately scrambled away on all fours and ran back toward the bald man, occasionally glancing back nervously at Yan Qing.
Yan Qing sensed the woman’s gaze but said nothing and continued distributing weapons.
After the sharp tongued woman returned to the bald man, he also placed his daughter into the safety circle.
Yan Qing and the others said nothing about it.
Her backpack could hold at most thirty specially made iron rods.
After giving them to the strongest looking people in the crowd, the backpack was already empty.
However, without changing her expression, she casually reached into the backpack again and began pulling out short swords one after another to hand to people receiving weapons.
At a moment like this, with life and death hanging in the balance, no one paid attention to how many weapons she was actually giving out.
They only cared whether they themselves had one.
Not long after the weapons had all been distributed, the zombie horde had nearly reached them.
Looking at the endless sea of densely packed zombies, even Yan Qing was not completely confident that they could survive.
Even if…
She had a Level 4 lightning ability.
Suddenly, memories of her previous life surfaced.
She remembered hearing that a zombie tide had erupted in the wilderness grasslands not far from Qingjiang Village, and that it had happened only a few days after the apocalypse began.
But she had not expected that “a few days” actually meant the second day of the apocalypse.
Looking at the zombies now less than ten meters away, Yan Qing gripped her Tang blade and charged into the zombie horde, swinging her blade and harvesting heads.
Seeing Yan Qing’s slender figure fight so ferociously, the zombies seemed almost helpless beneath her blade.
The others were greatly encouraged.
They gathered their courage and rushed forward, raising their weapons and viciously striking the zombies.
One zombie after another fell beneath their attacks.
But as zombies continuously fell, new ones immediately filled the gaps.
It was as though they could never finish killing them…
Before long, several people were already exhausted.
One thin woman was about to be grabbed by a zombie.
Yan Qing was preparing to use her lightning ability to save her when…
“Mom!”
A little girl’s anxious voice came from inside the protective circle.
From the corner of her eye, Yan Qing saw the little girl urgently reaching toward the woman.
Then a powerful stream of water suddenly shot from the little girl’s hands.
Bang!
The zombie’s head was instantly blasted off by the water stream.
Its body and severed head crashed heavily to the ground.
Yan Qing witnessed the entire scene.
Joy immediately surged through her heart.
Finally, she had encountered another ability user.
Although the little girl was still young, she had awakened one of the most sought after abilities in the apocalypse.
Water ability.
The woman who had just been saved by her daughter seized the opportunity and quickly retreated into the safety circle.
Remembering how she had nearly died moments ago beneath a zombie’s jaws, tears welled up in her eyes.
She crouched down and tightly hugged her daughter.
The mother and daughter clung to each other and cried uncontrollably.
After crying for a while, they quickly regained their composure.
There was no extra time for grief.
The woman picked up her weapon again and returned to the front lines.
To protect herself and her daughter and survive, powerful determination supported her as she fiercely fought against the endless zombies.
The little girl lowered her head and looked at her own hands.
Then she looked at the zombies in the distance.
After thinking for several seconds, she closed her eyes and raised both hands, recalling the feeling from earlier.
Bang!
Two streams of water appeared in her palms and shot directly toward her mother’s side, helping her kill two zombies.