The main gate closed once again, and only then did the people inside have time to dwell on everything that had just happened.
Pang Cancan was the first to glare at Zhao Zhenyu, who was half-dead and collapsed on the ground. “You actually have the face to come back!”
The latter was clutching his arm in pain, where a large chunk of flesh had been viciously torn away by a Tier 3 zombie. Before long, a massive pool of fresh blood had accumulated beneath him.
Upon seeing this, the crowd fell silent.
Even if he was lucky enough to avoid infection, in the absence of medicine, Zhao Zhenyu probably wouldn’t live much longer.
Su Su coldly observed the scene. “When you pushed me out, did you ever consider that you would suffer the consequences yourself?”
Her indifferent voice, her lofty attitude—it made Zhao Zhenyu suddenly shift his gaze. He stared fixedly at this woman who remained completely unharmed.
Scenes from just moments ago flashed through his mind.
He gritted his teeth. “You have an ability! And it’s an ability that can control zombies! How long have you been hiding it?”
These words were heard loud and clear by Lin Weiran’s group, who had rushed over. Their shocked gazes all turned to Su Su.
“You have an ability?” Lin Weiran exclaimed in disbelief. “Impossible! If you had an ability, why have you never used it?”
Su Su remained silent.
Her ability had been too weak in its early stages, and Xiao Hei had not yet grown. Rather than expose her trump card, it was better to keep it hidden and deliver a heavy blow to those filled with malice at a critical moment.
But it was obvious that she wouldn’t be able to hide it for long. Now that it had been exposed, though it wasn’t her intention, it didn’t matter much either.
Since she didn’t answer, Lin Weiran wanted to press further.
But the person beside her, Si Zhe, suddenly spoke. “She probably awakened it when we were in the town.”
Thinking back now, Wu Zhi’s death was caused by that python… Then at the outskirts of C City, when only Zhang Da, Zhang Er, and Su Su were at the scene, did those two brothers really die at the hands of zombies?
Was it possible that they had died at Su Su’s hands? And that the escaped Tier 3 zombie had also been killed by her for its crystal?
The more he speculated, the closer he got to the truth.
Thinking about that Grade 3 crystal, he had fought with the town chief until they were both covered in blood, only for it to end up in the pocket of someone right next to them.
They had been made complete fools of.
Lin Weiran had clearly realized this as well. Her gaze toward Su Su became especially complicated. “No wonder you suddenly insisted on splitting up. So ever since you gained an ability, you’ve been guarding against us!”
This group was always skilled at ignoring their own faults while accusing others of selfishness.
Su Su was already tired of such questioning. She treated their words as mere background noise, neither admitting nor denying anything. Instead, she turned her gaze to the barely breathing Zhao Zhenyu.
“You secretly opened the door, nearly got me killed, and almost doomed everyone in the gymnasium.”
“I won’t let you stay here any longer. Either crawl out on your own, or I’ll throw you out. Your choice.”
No matter which choice he made, his fate would ultimately be to die in the mouths of zombies.
Zhao Zhenyu spat out a large mouthful of blood. At this critical moment, he finally realized that the only ones he could rely on were his former teammates.
Only Lin Weiran and Si Zhe could save his life.
“Si Zhe, Weiran, for the sake of how long we’ve traveled together, save me.”
His posture was extremely humble, and he looked utterly wretched, as if trying to evoke the sympathy of his former teammates and make them forget that betrayal.
Sure enough, Lin Weiran felt a trace of unwillingness in her heart.
But it was just that—only unwillingness.
Lin Weiran took two deep breaths and turned her head away. “Zhenyu, no matter what, you should not have opened the gymnasium doors.”
If an accident had happened and the opened back door had not been closed again, the zombie horde would have surged in continuously, and the entire stadium would have been completely lost! They would have been trapped in a deadly situation, attacked from both front and back! By that point, all their resistance would have been futile.
When it came to such critical matters, Lin Weiran had always been very clear-headed.
But being too clear-headed made her seem especially cold and indifferent.
A shadow instantly spread across Zhao Zhenyu’s face, and his eyes filled with thick resentment.
Yet he still clung to his last sliver of hope and pleaded with Si Zhe, “Si Zhe, for the sake of me being the first to follow you on the road, save me, please, save me!”
Si Zhe looked at him, his response even colder. “We are no longer teammates.”
From the moment Zhao Zhenyu betrayed them, all bonds had already been severed.
Meeting again, the fact that he hadn’t sought revenge was already him showing mercy.
“Good! Good! Good!”
Zhao Zhenyu was completely disappointed in the two before him. He let out a bitter laugh, and when he spoke again, his teeth ground together with hatred. “I ended up like this, isn’t it all thanks to you two?!”
Lin Weiran turned back in astonishment. “What do you mean by that?”
“If you two hadn’t been the first to reject your own cousin, would I have stood on your side?”
“Wu Zhi was killed because of her! If you two hadn’t been just as furious, would I have stepped forward and made enemies for myself?”
“And you, Lin Weiran. We’re both Tier 2 ability users—what makes you think you can call the shots in the team? Isn’t it just because I was willing to let you have your way?! And why was I willing to let you? Because you have a good boyfriend!”
“You ostracized your cousin—wasn’t it because she was prettier than you? Weren’t you afraid that if you spent too much time together, your boyfriend would be stolen away?”
“All of this, everything, if it weren’t for your tacit approval, if it weren’t for your cold indifference, why would I have targeted an ordinary person without an ability?!”
Sentence after sentence, Zhao Zhenyu, realizing that he could not escape his inevitable death, began to push all responsibility onto others, disregarding everything.
Some of his words were exaggerated, while others… were deliberately spoken for Su Su to hear.
He was hoping to shift the conflict away, hoping that this young woman would soften her heart, vent her anger, and leave him a chance to cling to life.
In the end, all he did was infuriate Lin Weiran. “Zhao Zhenyu! What nonsense are you spouting?!”
Si Zhe’s face darkened even further. “Despicable.”
Their internal conflict put on quite a spectacle for everyone else.
Pang Cancan was even more excited as she leaned close to Su Su. “Sister Su Su, is what he said true? Did Lin Weiran really target you because she was afraid you’d steal her boyfriend? Did Zhao Zhenyu really bully you with their approval?”
Su Su: “…What do you think?”
Pang Cancan rubbed her chin. “I think it’s ninety percent false and ten percent true. Those two are so inseparable; they probably don’t think anyone could steal the other away. And as for Zhao Zhenyu, he just looks purely malicious—doesn’t seem like anyone instructed him.”
If even bystanders could see the truth clearly, how could Su Su not?
Lin Weiran and Si Zhe couldn’t have ordered Zhao Zhenyu to bully her—at most, they were aware of it but chose to turn a blind eye. People in the apocalypse were always indifferent; the two of them were merely a reflection of the norm.
“Enough.”
Su Su brusquely cut off Zhao Zhenyu’s dying struggle.
“I’ll ask you one more time. Will you crawl out on your own, or should I throw you out?”
Zhao Zhenyu’s accusations came to an abrupt halt.
As if realizing there was no longer any hope, he lifted his bloodshot eyes and stared at Su Su with unwavering intensity.
Su Su tugged at the corner of her lips. “Looks like you’ve made your decision.”
She turned to the two remaining Tier 1 ability users. They were Pang Cancan’s former teammates and also Zhao Zhenyu’s former teammates—useless and treacherous.
“You two, throw him out. Otherwise, I’ll throw both of you out.”
These words immediately made the two of them weak in the knees.
One of them cautiously said, “There are zombies outside the door. If we open it now…”
“I will control them.”
The two exchanged glances, recalling the scene they had just witnessed—hundreds of zombies, like a reversed clock hand, briefly stopping the horde behind them.
Her words were undoubtedly true.
But… were they really going to do this?
As they hesitated, Pang Cancan suddenly roared, “If they don’t want to do it, forget it! Sister Su Su, I’ll throw all three of them out myself!”
Faced with both threats and intimidation, the two immediately begged for mercy. “We’ll do it, we’ll do it!”
Afraid that delaying any longer would get them thrown out as well, they hurried to Zhao Zhenyu’s side and lifted him together.
Zhao Zhenyu, gravely injured and practically a cripple, had no strength to resist and could only let them do as they pleased.
“Brother, sorry.”
“If you want to blame someone, blame that ruthless woman. We had no choice.”
Pang Cancan bellowed again, “What are you mumbling about?!”
The two dared not delay any longer and, trembling, carried him to the door.
In the few seconds before the iron chains were loosened, Zhao Zhenyu suddenly lifted his head, his bloodshot eyes staring fixedly at everyone inside.
Creak—
The door opened a half-person-wide gap. The zombies blocking the entrance instantly froze in place, showing no signs of attacking.
The two ability users wasted no time. With a simultaneous effort, they hurled Zhao Zhenyu out.
His hysterical laughter seeped through the narrowing crack of the closing door.
“You won’t let me live! I won’t let you have it easy either!”
“Just you wait! I’ll be waiting for you in hell!”
Bang!
Thud!
The first was the sound of the metal door slamming shut, and the second was the dull impact of a body hitting the ground.
Pain spread throughout his body. Thrown into the zombie horde, Zhao Zhenyu could only watch helplessly—the zombies that had been motionless just a second ago began to “come alive” as the door closed.
They twitched their noses, the scent of a living person just within reach. Pairs of milky-white eyes instantly locked onto their fresh “food.”
Zhao Zhenyu saw them baring their fangs at him with his own eyes.
A scream erupted uncontrollably.
No one saw that the Tier 3 zombie that had bitten Zhao Zhenyu earlier was now dragging his body along a neatly cleared path in the zombie horde, disappearing into the very center of the swarm.
“Roar!!!”
A Tier 4 zombie, appearing to be over fifty years old, pushed through the sea of corpses and stepped forward.
Apart from its appearance, its gait and posture were almost no different from those of a normal human.
The Tier 3 zombie respectfully laid Zhao Zhenyu’s body flat on an open space. The latter had been bitten through the neck, his eyes wide open in death, unwilling to accept his fate. Yet, unusually, his body had not been torn apart by the flesh-craving zombies. It remained completely intact, even down to his clothing.
The Tier 4 zombie crouched down in front of the corpse.
A stiffened corpse actually performed a squatting motion. It even reached into Zhao Zhenyu’s clothing pocket.
Its hand probed inside—completely empty.
The Tier 4 zombie froze for two seconds before instantly flying into a rage.
“Roar!!!!!!”
It lifted Zhao Zhenyu’s body and furiously tore it into several large pieces.
Blood, still fresh and unfrozen, splattered as far as two meters away. A nearby zombie was even drenched in it, half its head soaked in red.
After a few heavy breaths, the Tier 4 zombie lifted its head and stared fixedly at the distant gymnasium.
No one knew what this “Zombie King” was thinking.
Seriously that’s your threat you’ll be in hell you can’t do anything in he’ll accept get tortured, lmao!