“Ah…” A sharp scream rang out.
“How is it you?”
The voice from the other side sounded at the same time as Yan Jin’s.
She had not expected to encounter Yue Feiyao’s group here. The scream just now had been made by Chen Xiao’ai.
“Why are you here?”
Why did she run into the female lead everywhere? It was truly troublesome.
The tense bodies of the group immediately relaxed.
“You know them?” Ji Yanting’s deep voice sounded.
Yan Jin did not want to admit that she knew Yue Feiyao. Moreover, Yue Feiyao was staring at Ji Yanting with the gaze of someone eyeing prey. For some reason, Yan Jin felt a dull discomfort in her heart.
“Hmph, of course we know them. They even cheated us out of quite a few crystal cores!” Chen Xiao’ai said with a face full of disdain.
“Is that so?” Ji Yanting looked toward Yan Jin and smiled faintly. Only then did he realize that she was actually a little money grubber.
“They provoked us first,” Yan Jin whispered quietly.
Ji Yanting’s eyes flashed with a strange glint as he silently memorized the faces of several people.
“Cheng Yi.” Yue Feiyao shouted when she saw Cheng Yi tied up by the group.
Yan Jin had not expected Yue Feiyao to have such extensive connections. She even knew the villain.
“Why are you tying him up?” Yue Feiyao looked at them with an angry expression.
A vicious look flashed briefly across her eyes, which was caught by the observant Ji Yanting.
When Yan Jin saw Ji Yanting staring at Yue Feiyao without blinking, she thought he might be interested in her.
The female lead really was the female lead. However, Yan Jin did not remember a character named Ji Yanting appearing in the original novel. Could it be that, like her, he was just cannon fodder?
At that moment, she even felt a strange sense of sympathy for him.
“Did you take the supplies?” Chen Xiao’ai pointed at Yan Jin and asked angrily.
“Why should I tell you?” Yan Jin replied impatiently.
“Qin Yu and the others are injured. We urgently need those supplies to treat them.” Yue Feiyao’s eyes reddened as she spoke, her voice trembling with sobs.
Seeing this, the members of Yan Jin’s team wavered slightly. However, their supplies were currently with Ah Bin, who was still unconscious. There was nothing they could do.
“I… I beg you. Please save them.”
Yue Feiyao swayed and collapsed like a pitiful little white flower, falling toward Ji Yanting.
He stepped back. Yue Feiyao stumbled and almost fell to the ground. A trace of embarrassment flashed across her eyes as she looked at Ji Yanting with tearful eyes.
“Is something wrong with your brain?” Ji Yanting said in a tone that made it impossible to tell whether he was angry or simply annoyed.
Yue Feiyao had not expected that her ability would be useless not only against Yan Jin, but also against this man in front of her. She began to doubt herself.
“Pfft.”
Yan Jin could not help laughing out loud. She had thought Ji Yanting might be interested in Yue Feiyao, but she had never expected him to say something like that.
She did not remember the female lead appearing here in the original story. Could her memory be mistaken?
“Roar… roar…”
The furious roars of zombies echoed from the distance, breaking the temporary calm.
“We need to leave quickly. If we delay any longer, we won’t be able to get away,” Yu Chen urged when he saw them still standing there.
“You can’t leave unless you hand over the supplies!” Chen Xiao’ai stepped forward and blocked their path.
“What? Do you want to take them by force?”
Seeing that Yan Jin’s group had many people while Yue Feiyao only had herself on her side, Chen Xiao’ai retreated a few steps reluctantly.
“Miss Yan?” A clear voice suddenly sounded from the darkness.
“Qin Fei?” Yan Jin looked carefully and saw that the person walking out of the shadows was indeed Qin Fei.
Yan Jin remembered her clearly and felt that she was a good girl.
“If Miss Yan has medical supplies, I am willing to buy them with crystal cores,” Qin Fei said through clenched teeth.
“Qin Fei!” Chen Xiao’ai immediately tried to stop her when she heard this.
“Hmph. If it weren’t for you, would my brother have ended up like this? If you’re unwilling, then don’t stay here,” Qin Fei said coldly.
Chen Xiao’ai was rendered speechless and fell silent.
Yan Jin was a businesswoman. She was not some saint. If someone was willing to buy from her with crystal cores, she naturally had no reason to refuse.
“I don’t have the supplies from the warehouse, but I can sell you some of my own.”
She knew very well that the warehouse supplies had to be settled with Cheng Yi first before they could be distributed.
Qin Fei was overjoyed. Her only remaining family member was Qin Yu.
As long as her brother could be saved, she was willing to pay any price.
“Thank you.”
Yan Jin took several bandages, painkillers, and antibiotics out of her backpack.
She knew she needed to avoid suspicion, so she only took out small amounts, just enough for one person.
Qin Fei handed over the crystal cores to Yan Jin and then disappeared into the night.
Before leaving, she said one more thing to them.
“There are two mutated zombies ahead. You’d better not go that way.”
Ji Yanting pursed his lips and took Yan Jin’s backpack from her hands, placing it on his own back. The backpack was completely empty and had no weight at all.
“Yue Feiyao, she has already left. Why are you still here?” Yan Jin asked.
Yue Feiyao’s eyes flickered as if she were thinking about something.
She said weakly, “Can I leave with you? Qin Yu is injured, and many people in our team were torn to pieces by those two mutated zombies.”
She paused and continued, “Right now, I just want to return to the base alive.”
“No,” Ji Yanting was the first to object.
A dark look flashed across Yue Feiyao’s eyes. She bit her lip, her face filled with resentment. Why could Yan Jin live so freely while she herself was reduced to such a miserable state?
That huge “gift” she had prepared last time had still failed to kill Yan Jin. Heaven truly had no eyes.
“Those wolves at the inn last time were brought by you, weren’t they? I haven’t settled that account with you yet. Do you think I don’t know?” Yan Jin said, deliberately trying to provoke her.
Her voice was completely flat, giving no clue about what she was thinking.
Yu Chen, however, was shocked. He asked in disbelief, “You mean she was the one who caused the wolf attack on us?”
He had never imagined that the seemingly harmless woman in front of them could have such vicious intentions.
“You… there must be some misunderstanding. How could I possibly do something like that?” Yue Feiyao was startled.
However, she quickly reviewed the situation in her mind and confirmed that she had not left any traces behind.
When Yan Jin saw her uncertain gaze, she became even more convinced.
However, the ability users behind Yan Jin were not very familiar with her. Seeing Yue Feiyao looking so pitiful, they began speaking one after another.
“Boss Yan, I think that without evidence, you shouldn’t make such accusations.”
“Do you even need evidence for this? The wolf attack on us is the evidence,” Yu Chen said angrily. The more he thought about it, the more alarmed he felt.
He had stayed at the inn for many days and had never encountered a single mutated beast nearby. Yet right after they left, a pack appeared the very next day.
“In the apocalypse, encountering mutated beasts is normal, isn’t it?”
“She’s just a weak woman. We should be protecting her.”
Everyone spoke as if it were the most natural thing in the world. They even stepped forward to shield Yue Feiyao behind them, afraid that Yan Jin’s group might do something to her.