Chapter 32.2

Zou Hong quickly completed the transformation process into a zombie, staggered to his feet, and instinctively began to pursue the breath of living people.

He walked towards A-Yang, who was lying on the ground and moaning softly.

A-Yang, who was already half-conscious from the pain, was unable to avoid the attack and was viciously pounced on and bitten by him.

A-Yang, who was awakened by the pain, opened his eyes and saw Zou Hong’s face. He shouted in fear: “There are zombies… Ugh!”

His neck was also cut by the zombie brother.

The shout traveled into the building, attracting the attention of several people inside.

There were four members of the Yishi Gang in the building, and one of them was shot in the head shortly after Brother Gang entered the building.

This cooled his boiling anger and made him cautious.

He brought the remaining two brothers with him, not giving Wen Jiuze the chance to separate and defeat them. At the same time, he swept every place where he could hide and would shoot at any sign of movement.

He was calm and cautious, but his enemy was even calmer and more cautious than him. He did not show up and hid in the dark.

Wen Jiuze used this method in the past to confront and deal with enemies that were several times larger than him and eventually defeated them all.

Brother Gang scanned the empty room with his sharp eyes to confirm that there was no one hiding there. It was at this moment that he heard the voice downstairs saying, “There are zombies.”

Thinking of Zou Hong downstairs, his face changed, and he turned and left the room.

The two people following him were also attracted and followed him.

At this moment, when he relaxed his vigilance, a bullet hit someone in the back.

Brother Gang’s ears twitched slightly, and he fell to the ground in the corridor.

As he fell to the ground to hide, another brother also screamed, fell to the ground holding his abdomen, and was dragged behind the wall by him.

The brother lying on the ground had a pool of blood under him.

Wen Jiuze hung from the window with one hand. The ground below him was several floors down, with only a raised balcony edge to support his body.

If Brother Gang had been more careful earlier and walked to the window to look down, he would have seen him.

However, they didn’t dare approach the window casually, as the first person who died was near it. Wen Jiuze had seized the opportunity and shot him dead from across the room.

Wen Jiuze put the gun in his mouth, turned over, stepped onto the narrow window sill, and jumped to the next door.

The next second, the glass of the window shattered from the gunshot, and glass fragments fell.

Brother Gang looked at the figure that flashed by outside the window. When he stood up and kicked open the door to the next room, he didn’t see anyone inside.

Wen Jiuze had already climbed to the next floor and jumped through the open window.

He quickly stepped out of the door and looked down through the glass window at the end of the corridor. He didn’t see Xue Ling, only Zou Hong, who had turned into a zombie, and another man who was also a zombie, slowly crawling up.

They had followed the smell and sounds into the building.

Wen Jiuze heard Brother Gang’s footsteps coming down the stairs and quickly hid in the next room.

The building had long been abandoned. Every room was empty, and there was little space to hide.

So Wen Jiuze didn’t hide. He simply leaned against the wall.

Hiding was a skill he had developed since childhood.

If he didn’t know how to dodge, he would have been beaten to death long ago.

As long as he was careful, courageous, and patient, he would always have the last laugh.

Brother Gang was furious. He had never encountered someone as difficult to deal with as Wen Jiuze. He had a gun in his hand but couldn’t find the person. Every time he fired, he missed, and instead, his brothers were shot by their own side.

Another incident downstairs made him suspect that Wen Jiuze had accomplices, which further unsettled him.

Dragging footsteps were heard on the stairs. Brother Gang raised his gun to shoot but was stunned when he saw the person clearly.

“A-Yang?” He had turned into a zombie.

“Bang.” Brother Gang shot him in the head without hesitation and watched him roll down the stairs.

At that moment, another scream and gunshots were heard from upstairs.

His thick, messy eyebrows furrowed, and he immediately rushed back upstairs.

A-Feng, who had just been shot in the abdomen, was pinned to the ground and bitten by someone. His gun had fallen to the side.

Seeing his cousin Zou Hong’s pale face, Brother Gang could no longer hold back his tears. Zou Hong was his only remaining relative.

But gritting his teeth, he raised his hand and shot the zombie in the head.

Wen Jiuze’s figure appeared silently at the end of the corridor. He raised his hand to shoot at Brother Gang at the same time.

The two gunshots overlapped, and both Brother Gang and the zombie Zou Hong fell to the ground.

There were two more popping sounds—the sound of bullets entering flesh.

After confirming that no one—whether human or zombie—could get up again, Wen Jiuze walked downstairs.

There were six people in total, all of whom remained in the building. Only blood remained on the open ground of the camp.

“…Xue Ling.” Wen Jiuze called.

No one responded, so he quickened his pace, walked to his car, and saw Xue Ling standing in the dark.

There was a lamp in the corner of the camp, so it wasn’t completely dark. Wen Jiuze could clearly see the blood on her face and collar.

She stood there expressionlessly, staring at him.

Maybe it was an illusion, but Wen Jiuze felt her expression look a bit more ferocious in the dim light, as if she wanted to pounce on him and bite him.

He paused slightly but still moved closer and tentatively shook her shoulder. “Wake up, are you still conscious?”

Xue Ling: “…” Nervous.

How could she possibly lose her mind after biting someone? It’s not like she had bitten anyone before.

Using the back of his hand to push her arm away, Wen Jiuze felt relieved. As long as she was still rational.

He reached out to wipe the blood off Xue Ling’s mouth but ended up smearing dust on her face, so he had to give up for now.

Without raising any objections to her appearance, which looked more like something from a horror movie, Wen Jiuze spoke first: “It’s all solved. I told you it would be quick, right?”

Xue Ling was angry. He dared to show off?

Wen Jiuze didn’t explain in detail, and Xue Ling just regarded this as another case of thieves robbing each other.

The haul this time was much richer than last time. There were several boxes of food, plenty of weapons, and a lot of gasoline in the two cars left behind.

Wen Jiuze moved all the looted items to their cars, even draining the fuel tanks of the two cars.

He was busy until near dawn, then took Xue Ling and drove away from the camp.

“Do we need to find a camp to rest for the night?” Wen Jiuze asked.

Xue Ling shook her head heavily.

She didn’t want to go to the camp anymore. It was too chaotic.

The two found a clear stream and washed the blood and dust off their bodies.

Wen Jiuze helped Xue Ling wipe her face and neck briefly, then took a toothbrush to help her brush her teeth.

If it were in the past, Xue Ling would have touched her writing board and asked questions, but she had been silent since arriving at the camp.

When he asked if she wanted to brush her teeth, she simply nodded slightly.

Wen Jiuze and Xue Ling sat face to face. Wen Jiuze held her chin with his palms, forcing her to open her mouth, and used one hand to maneuver the toothbrush in her mouth.

“If you look closely, your teeth are much sharper than before. Don’t you think so?”

“…”

“Hey, can you bite bones now?”

“…”

Xue Ling stared at him and suddenly bit off the toothbrush in her mouth.

Wen Jiuze held half the toothbrush handle: “…”

His finger had almost gone in just now.

“Pah.” Xue Ling glared at him and spat out half the toothbrush from her mouth.

Wen Jiuze swallowed back the words “like dog teeth” that he hadn’t yet said and went to fetch a new toothbrush, silently helping her brush her teeth.

When he washed her face again, Wen Jiuze asked, “Do you want to put on some face cream? You still have a lot of cosmetics lying around.”

Xue Ling, already in a bad mood, suddenly remembered that he had used makeup remover as a toner and had applied it to her face forcefully.

In a moment of frustration, she reached out and pushed him into the creek.

Wen Jiuze wasn’t prepared for this and fell directly into the river. After a while, he raised his hand and grabbed his wet hair.

…What had he done to offend her?