The little girl was extremely excited. She felt that now she finally had the ability to protect her mother too!
Not far away, Yan Qing continued swinging her Tang blade, but the corner of her eye remained fixed on the little girl the entire time.
She noticed that whenever the woman was about to be grabbed by zombies, the little girl would use her ability to kill them at critical moments. From time to time, she even helped support others nearby.
Yan Qing’s fondness toward the little girl rose rapidly.
The surrounding zombies grew more numerous and more densely packed.
The space they had left to move around in was rapidly shrinking, forcing everyone closer and closer together.
The area around Yan Qing also gradually became crowded.
Out of the corner of her eye, she glanced to her left.
The people approaching her were actually the bald man and the sharp tongued woman who had spoken against her earlier.
Looking at the weapons in their hands, which she had no idea where they had gotten from, Yan Qing did not pay much attention.
The bald man and sharp tongued woman naturally saw Yan Qing too.
Watching her slaughter zombies so fiercely, they exchanged glances.
Both of them flashed a trace of regret in their eyes.
Then they exchanged another look, as if silently reaching some sort of agreement.
Yan Qing did not notice their little exchange.
Even if she had, she would not have cared.
All of her attention was focused on the movements of the surrounding zombies. She simply had no time to think about anything else.
“AHHH!!”
A painful scream came from the right.
Yan Qing turned and saw a man trapped within a cluster of zombies.
The surrounding zombies desperately stretched out their hands, grabbing him, pulling him, tearing at him, wanting to rip him apart piece by piece before stuffing the flesh into their mouths.
A zombie’s hands suddenly latched onto the man’s face and pulled hard.
A large gash instantly split across his face, and blood poured down.
The scent of fresh blood made the zombies even more excited.
If the zombie pulling at his face exerted just a little more force, the man’s face would split in half immediately.
“S… save… me… please… save… save… me!”
The man forced his mouth open just enough to speak.
His trembling voice was filled with pain and terror.
Even though he knew no one could save him, he still instinctively cried for help.
At that moment, Yan Qing made her move.
Crackle!
A streak of lightning flashed through the zombie crowd.
The zombies tearing at the man were instantly electrocuted into charcoal and collapsed onto the ground.
The man immediately fell to the ground.
He had no time to think about who had saved him.
Shaking violently, he scrambled to pick up his weapon and crawled and stumbled back toward the safety circle.
His parents immediately rushed over to check his injuries.
Seeing his parents crying nonstop in front of him, he repeatedly reassured them that he was fine.
Then his eyes rolled back and he fainted.
The movement caused by Yan Qing using her lightning ability attracted many people’s attention.
Before she could even say anything, several more people suddenly ran out of strength and nearly got caught and bitten by zombies.
“Thunderstorm!”
With an angry shout, countless lightning particles surged from Yan Qing’s hands and scattered into the zombie horde.
The particles linked together from one zombie to another and rapidly spread across a three hundred meter radius.
Crackle!
The zombies enveloped by the lightning particles instantly turned into charred corpses and collapsed lifelessly onto the ground.
The people who finally gained a chance to breathe immediately sat down where they were.
Closing their eyes, they breathed heavily.
No one even had the energy to speak.
When they opened their eyes and saw the zombie horde gradually approaching again, they could only hope that time would pass more slowly.
That the zombies would walk more slowly.
But neither time nor the zombies granted their wishes.
Minute after minute passed.
The zombie army still continued advancing toward them.
Yan Qing, who had been sitting on the ground recovering her stamina, forced herself back to her feet.
Her physical strength was heavily depleted, and her abilities were nearly exhausted as well.
Looking at the approaching zombies, she took a sip from the bottle of water someone behind her had handed over.
Then she gripped her Tang blade and charged back into the zombie horde, frantically harvesting heads.
After Yan Qing rushed into the zombies, the others also followed one after another with their weapons and joined the battle.
Every face was filled with exhaustion.
But every person shared one goal.
Survive.
Not far away, the bald man and sharp tongued woman had continued watching Yan Qing.
The moment they saw her charge into the zombies, they exchanged another glance.
This time, both of them had viciousness in their eyes.
The sharp tongued woman pretended to charge into the zombies as well.
In reality, she slowly moved closer to Yan Qing.
Yan Qing knew nothing about any of it.
She was still focused entirely on fighting the zombies around her.
The sharp tongued woman quietly moved behind Yan Qing.
Taking advantage of Yan Qing being occupied with killing zombies and not paying attention, she curled her lips into a cruel and malicious smile.
Then she stretched out both hands and shoved hard, intending to push Yan Qing directly into the zombie horde ahead.
The people in the safety circle saw it and were just about to shout a warning.
Then in the next instant, the sharp tongued woman’s body heavily collapsed onto the ground.
Her head flew directly into the zombie horde and instantly disappeared.
Blood sprayed wildly from the severed neck of her headless corpse, attracting large numbers of surrounding zombies.
Yan Qing turned around and looked at the sharp tongued woman’s corpse being continuously torn apart by zombies.
Even in death, the corpse’s hands remained frozen in the motion of trying to push her.
She opened her mouth, but ultimately said nothing.
She had only instinctively sensed danger behind her and swung her blade backward.
Yan Qing thought that since the sharp tongued woman had wanted to kill her, then her death could only be considered fitting.
Just as she was about to continue killing zombies, shocked cries suddenly erupted behind her.
“Miss Yan! Watch out behind you!”
Before Yan Qing could even raise her Tang blade, a slash landed across her back.
Immediately afterward, someone kicked her hard toward the zombie horde.
By instinct, at the very moment she was shoved into the zombies, she used the last remaining bit of her ability to activate a lightning shield.
Every zombie that touched the lightning shield was instantly electrocuted into charcoal and collapsed to the ground.
Yan Qing turned around.
She saw the bald man.
The sinister grin on his face had frozen completely.
He stared at her in shock.
The scene he had expected had not happened.
Yan Qing had not died within the zombie horde.
The bald man immediately panicked.
Taking advantage of Yan Qing being temporarily trapped, he hurriedly hid among the crowd and pretended nothing had happened.
But Yan Qing had no time to settle accounts with him now.
Her ability had already been completely drained.
The lightning shield only lasted three seconds before vanishing entirely.
Otherwise, she would have directly thrown a lightning sphere at the bald man and electrocuted him to death.
Quite a few people inside the safety circle had witnessed everything.
Furious, they began searching the crowd for the bald man’s whereabouts.
The bald man’s daughter tried to secretly sneak away, but someone spotted her and immediately dragged her back, refusing to let her leave.
The girl raised her head and glared hatefully at the person holding her.
Then she cast that same hateful gaze toward Yan Qing, who was still desperately fighting among the zombies.
“Ah…! Save me!”
“Help!”
“Please save me…”
“Mom! Save my mom!”
“Dad! No! Dad!”