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Respect The Strong (14)
The man who had been to the city stepped forward and begged, “Xiao Jin, Xiao Cheng, I’m sorry for what happened yesterday. It’s my fault for being stupid and for lacking assertiveness. I just obeyed Wu Gang without question. Can you guys not leave? Or how about letting us follow you? Let’s go together. Look, the remaining few people are incapable of fighting zombies at all. I can’t protect them all by myself. I can’t go to collect supplies either. If you leave, we can only wait to die.”
Xiao Cheng replied impatiently, “What does it matter to us what happens to you? Get out of the way. Don’t get in our way.”
The man glanced at Chu Xiang next: “You, look at us. We have an old man and three girls. They are all terrified. You must not have the heart to watch them die, right? Yes, they’re powerless to kill zombies, but they can do laundry, cook, and do all the things you don’t want to do, so let’s stay together, okay?”
In his perception, girls were generally soft-hearted, and Chu Xiang’s appearance was really as harmless as an angel. He subconsciously forgot that Chu Xiang didn’t care about life.
Xiao Jin laughed as soon as he heard him begging Chu Xiang. He made a gesture to Xiao Cheng, and the two got into the car together.
Chu Xiang lowered the car window, put her arm on the car door, glanced at the few people nearby with a smile, and shook her head in boredom. “Pinning your hope for survival on others is putting yourself one step closer to death. If you have time, better practice how to kill zombies.”
When the Madonna saw that Xiao Jin was about to leave, she blew her top. She stepped forward and raged, “Why are you so cold-blooded? Xiao Jin and Xiao Cheng, we have been together for more than half a month. Don’t you have any feelings at all? If you hadn’t killed Wu Gang yesterday, and then beat Xiao Dong and the others like that, the others wouldn’t have been bitten to death by zombies. We wouldn’t be so helpless. These are all your fault. It’s your responsibility. You can’t just walk away like this.”
Xiao Jin adjusted the seat to be more comfortable, and replied casually, “Go and sue us and see if anyone cares.”
As soon as he finished speaking, Chu Xiang turned the ignition and drove the car out. The two people in front of the car were so frightened that they scrambled sideways. From Chu Xiang’s speed alone, there was no question that they would have been knocked off if they didn’t dodge. The bunch of people in the camp yelled behind the car, but it quickly disappeared from their sight.
At doomsday when nobody could guarantee their safety, they still practiced moral kidnapping. They accused others of not helping, but they forgot that they left their companions out of the car to die out of fear when they should have saved them. With this extent of selfishness, whoever took them along was a fool. They were not here to observe other people’s humanity, nor were they philanthropists. Thus, just three people started their post-apocalyptic journey.
There was a map in the car. Xiao Cheng was sleeping in the back seat, while Xiao Jin was studying the map in the shotgun seat, guiding Chu Xiang. They drove past countless zombies on the road, but they didn’t see a single living person.
Xiao Jin looked at the purgatory of the world outside, shook his head and sighed: “We have been living too comfortably for more than half a month, and have no idea that the outside world has morphed into this. If we hadn’t gone to the city to collect supplies yesterday, everyone would still have been waiting for the rescue army.”
“No wonder those people are still so naive.” Chu Xiang observed the surrounding environment while driving, paying attention to whether there was anything that could be used.
Thinking of those people, Xiao Jin sneered: “They haven’t even seen zombies twice in the camp. Xiao Cheng and I initially wanted to take them to the woods to find food, to also teach them to dig sweet potatoes and fish, but everyone ended up refusing to go. They’ll stay there and die, I’m afraid.”
Chu Xiang glanced at him, and then looked back at Xiao Cheng, who was sleeping soundly. “Their life and death is none of our business. You two shouldn’t be too eager to help people at all times. If that’s the case, we’ll split up.”
“What are you thinking? Who wants to help people? How come nobody came to help me?” Xiao Jin looked at her in amusement. Out of the blue, he asked curiously, “Hey, what’s your previous occupation? Why are you so powerful? You snapped Wu Gang’s neck just like that. You’re too neat. Don’t tell me you’re an assassin before, are you?”
Chu Xiang mulled over her various modern professions and said calmly, “International mercenary. I get paid to do things.”
“Oh.” Xiao Jin’s intuition told him that Chu Xiang was lying, but he has no evidence. An international mercenary seemed to fit Chu Xiang’s skill and indifference perfectly. Anyway, it didn’t matter what she did in the past. What the captain said was all it counted.
Xiao Jin rubbed the back of his neck and sat up straight. When he suddenly spotted a woman waving her clothes on the road in the distance for help, he took out the binoculars and looked into the woods on both sides. “It’s abnormal. There seems to be something on the ground.”