"You! Why are you here?" Ye Tianlong stared at Chu Han in shock. Hadn't Lu Wan said he had eaten the food? Then why was Chu Han still standing here? He had added something to it!
Chu Han did not answer. He was not that idiot Chen Shaoye.
"I'm talking to you!" Ye Tianlong's face twisted viciously. If the situation had not been so strange, he would have loved to split Chu Han in half with an axe.
Chu Han glanced at him lightly and shook his head inwardly. Whatever Shang Jiudi's identity was, she still retained the mindset of the civilized age. She had too many reservations and had missed the best chance to wipe out the six people before them in one go.
But it had little to do with him anyway. What did it have to do with him?
"Fine, you're looking to die! Come in with me and slaughter them!" Ye Tianlong was furious. This was his territory; he would not tolerate any accidents here.
The apocalypse had arrived. Massive numbers of zombies and a completely collapsed social order had caused Ye Tianlong's confidence to swell without limit within this tiny rest stop, amplifying the evil in his heart endlessly.
He did not think Shang Jiudi would truly fire. He even believed this was all a bluff. How could a woman with such thin arms and legs possibly know how to use a gun?
"Stop!" Shang Jiudi shouted, and with a click, the gun was already cocked.
The sound immediately made Ye Tianlong and the others stop. Staring at the pitch-black muzzle, they could not help but feel a surge of fear.
Was that a real gun?
"Heh!" Ye Tianlong grinned. Just as he was about to speak, he suddenly noticed Eighteen beside him, her head lowered as she played with something.
A disgusting smile appeared on his face. He crouched down and said, "Ye Ting? Ye Tingting?"
Eighteen raised her eyelids slightly but said nothing. Her nimble fingers fiddled with the magazine, making it click and clack.
A thoughtful look appeared on Chu Han's face. He had noticed from the beginning that this little girl's fingers were extraordinarily nimble, roughly 1.5 times faster than Shang Jiudi's. Her speed was astonishing.
"I'm talking to you, Ye Tingting." Ye Tianlong chuckled as he took a light step forward, exposing a mouthful of yellowed, foul-smelling teeth. "Give me that toy gun in your hand, and I'll give you chocolate, okay? Don't you love chocolate the most?"
"Chocolate?" The corners of Eighteen's mouth curled up in a pure smile.
"Yes, yes! Chocolate. I'll give you a whole box of chocolate if you give me the toy in your hand!" Ye Tianlong's eyes gleamed as he continued to coax her.
Shang Jiudi frowned beside them. She wanted to say something, but ultimately swallowed it. She looked at Chu Han, pondering how to break the current deadlock. She could tell Chu Han was no ordinary person, but she could not figure out exactly where he came from. Danger lurked everywhere outside, while chaos reigned inside. No matter what, joining forces with someone strong was the best course.
"You're the one who likes chocolate! Your whole fucking family likes chocolate!"
Eighteen suddenly let out an earth-shaking roar. She raised the automatic rifle in her hands, her expression utterly unlike that of a twelve-year-old girl, her face full of savage fury. "My name isn't Ye Ting! And I hate chocolate the most!"
Chu Han could not help looking at Eighteen. Her gun-holding posture was very standard. Ignoring everything strange about her, the little girl looked exactly like an irritable gang boss.
"Are you trying to deafen me with that shouting?" Shang Jiudi gritted her teeth.
Ye Tianlong's expression instantly darkened, and towering rage surged from his chest. "I should've thrown you out to feed the zombies! You filthy bitch! You dare curse at me?!"
Bang—
Without warning, a gunshot rang out.
The entire room instantly fell silent. A black hole had appeared in the beam above Ye Tianlong's head. Ye Tianlong and the others were completely stunned, their feet seeming nailed to the floor. None of them dared move an inch.
"Hey! What a waste of bullets!" Shang Jiudi spat.
A wisp of smoke slowly rose from the muzzle of Eighteen's gun.
Chu Han shook his head. This little girl excelled in every way, but her arm strength was insufficient, affecting her aim. She had aimed at Ye Tianlong's brow just now, but missed.
In other words, she had truly intended to kill Ye Tianlong with one shot...
"Ah—ah—" A skinny man behind Ye Tianlong made a string of incoherent noises. He had been frightened out of his wits.
Drip—
Drip—
Two others had even wet themselves in fright.
A gun! It was a real gun!
China had strict gun controls. People like them had previously been ordinary citizens. Even if they had seen guns before, they had never experienced death brushing past them from such close range.
If that shot had been off by even the slightest bit, someone might have died!
And they had never imagined that the two women who appeared to pose no threat at all were holding real guns—and that the first to fire had been the younger one.
She was only twelve!
"Calm down, calm down! I mean, let's calm down first. We can talk this out, talk this out! I'm chocolate. My whole family is chocolate." Ye Tianlong was so frightened that he spoke incoherently, repeating the same few lines as his feet unconsciously backed away.
"Ah—"
At that moment, a scream suddenly rang out in the distance, followed by a chaotic uproar that made the tense atmosphere in the room ready to explode.
Shang Jiudi and Eighteen immediately aimed their guns at Ye Tianlong. Accurate or not, some shots would always hit someone once the bullets started flying.
Chu Han's heart jolted slightly. He had no concern whatsoever for the people in the room and instead looked outside, his expression tightening.
Had something happened?
"Boss! Boss!" A man came tumbling and crawling over, grabbing Ye Tianlong's clothes. Snot, tears, and saliva mixed together across his face as he screamed in collapse, "Zombies! There are so many zombies outside!"
Everyone in the room was startled and hurriedly looked out the window.
At that moment, countless zombies were converging on the open ground outside the rest stop from every direction. More than a hundred had gathered at the main entrance below, packed together as far as the eye could see.
"Everyone, listen to me!" Ye Tianlong hurriedly turned around, his tone anxious as his eyes focused on Shang Jiudi.
Although Shang Jiudi and Eighteen both had guns, Eighteen was far too young, and that previous shot had clearly shown inadequate skill. Shang Jiudi was an adult, so Ye Tianlong instinctively considered her the greater threat. As for Chu Han, who had been quietly minimizing his presence in the corner, Ye Tianlong had completely ignored him.
"Shut the hell up. It's not your turn to talk here!"
Before Ye Tianlong could continue, Eighteen cursed him directly. She was deeply displeased by his instinctive assumption that Shang Jiudi was the leader. Besides, there were so many zombies outside, and she had already been trapped here for two days. She was so irritated she wanted to kill someone.
The veins on Shang Jiudi's forehead bulged. Clearly, she had reached the limit of her patience with this little girl, yet she did not speak up to stop her, indulging Eighteen to an extraordinary degree.
Chu Han raised an eyebrow. Seeing Eighteen's violent temper and Shang Jiudi's deliberate indulgence, he formed a slight suspicion about the identities of the two women.
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