âWhere were you when the children and I were in danger?â
âWhere were you when the children and I were on the brink of death?â
âWhere were you when my children and I lacked food and water and had nothing, about to starve to death???â
The three continuous heavy-weighted questions exploded around Ah-Jin, turning him dizzy and his face pale. He firmly embraced the childrenâs shoulders and shakily looked at his bitter and interrogating wife.
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âWhat right do you have to question me?â The woman finally stood up. She fiercely pounded her chest and screamed hoarsely, âIf I didnât take refuge with the mayor! If I didnât rack my brain and struggle on whilst at deathâs door! Do you think you would still see the children and me standing before you nearly two weeks later?!â
Ah-Jin powerless knelt on the ground with a âDong.â A full-grown adult man actually started bawling on the spot.
âWeâre just normal people!â The woman stepped closer and closer to Qiao Mu and her group. She screamed at the top of her lungs, âWe just wanted to try our hardest to survive! We wanted to live! Live! What did we do wrong?â
Absolute silence descended on the second floor of Fresh Breeze Academy.
Everyone grew silent, speechless at the face of the womanâs inquiries.
The woman sobbed and said with a trembling voice, âWe are not like you experts who have the ability to protect yourselves and hold limitless power! You can survive in this type of frightening world. How could you understand how fragile a normal personâs life is?â
âYouâre right. There isnât anything wrong with struggling to survive.â Xu Shanshan lightly nodded. âHowever, inhuman practices like disregarding your companionsâ lives to stay alive and penning your companions to become the food of a level-three zombie arenât something we can agree with.â
Qiao Mu looked up and intently watched Xu Shanshan through the crowd with a faint smile flitting through her eyes.
Eldest Senior Sister was exceptionally intelligent. She unsurprisingly saw the problem.
Ah-Qing suddenly covered her face and broke into bitter weeping.
Ah-Jin tearfully pounded the ground and looked up at his wife. âIs she right? Is she? Where are your parents? Did you turn your parents into food to give to the zombie???â
âAh! AHHH!â Ah-Qing crumbled onto the floor. She emotionally shook her head repeatedly, tears seeping through her clothes. âI didnât want to! I didnât want to!â
Xu Shanshan coldly fixed her eyes on the sobbing and kneeling Ah-Qing. Her voice was light but every word powerfully reverberated in its listenersâ ears. âFor our lives, we can choose to lose our dignity! However, as humans, we must at least retain our bottom linesâthat is something that we canât lose.â
Her elderly parents silently crying faces flitted in front of Ah-Qingâs eyes. Then, her siblingsâ adorable and vivacious children skipped through her eyes.
To survive, she completely abandoned her morals and utterly forsook her closest familyâŠ
Ah-Qing was beside herself with tears. She cried, âIâm sorry, Iâm sorryâŠâ
However, there was no turning back.
âAfter the initial rush of the zombie outbreak, our group was forced to move here.â Ah-Qing silently cried and lightly said, âHowever, people started dying amongst us. That was when the nightmare began.â
âAfter the mayorâs son and daughter-in-law died, they both mutated. That was the level-three zombie that you spoke of, heâs the mayorâs son.â
âThe mayor said that he had a way to control these two strong zombies, but he demanded that we provide a person to be their food every day.â