That Makes Sense

Li Wei crouched down beside the woman and realized she was Mrs. Turman, who had been with Grandma Repla. Her eyes were still open in the darkness, and a look of relief seemed to linger in them.

He sighed slightly; her mental fortitude was lacking. To commit suicide by taking pills just like that—it was truly worth a sigh.

He picked up the cola from the floor and, while he was at it, grabbed Mrs. Turman by the back of her collar, preparing to take her to the storage room to find a large bag to put her in.

As he passed Aisle 3, he was blocked by Brent.

"What are you doing? You're carrying a person? Is she unconscious?" Seeing Li Wei actually dragging someone toward the storage room, Brent immediately associated it with some kind of twisted game and hurriedly blocked Li Wei's path to ask.

Although the current situation was desperate, it hadn't reached that point yet!

This was against the law!

Taking a sip of his cola, Li Wei replied unhurriedly, "This person, she committed suicide by taking pills, and I'm... hiccup, preparing to take her to be bagged up."

Upon hearing this, Brent shocked, stroked his chin with his hand, reached out, and took Mrs. Turman from Li Wei's grasp.

After a careful inspection, he realized it was true!

With eyes wide open and no breath left, Mrs. Turman had become a corpse.

Supporting Mrs. Turman's body, Brent was momentarily speechless. His expression shifted several times, he seemed to want to say something but held back, and finally, he just nodded, "I'll go with you."

The two carried Mrs. Turman to the storage room and placed her inside a large plastic bag.

After they put the body aside together, Li Wei prepared to leave, but Brent called out to him again, using a rather formal address.

"Mr. Li Wei!"

Li Wei turned back, puzzled, "Anything else?"

Standing in the darkness, Brent made use of his racial trait, making it nearly impossible for Li Wei to see his face clearly.

Only after Li Wei asked that question did Brent look at him, open his mouth, and organize his words before asking, "Can you really solve the white mist outside?"

Having said that, he stared intently into Li Wei's eyes.

There was only a small lamp between them emitting a dim light, and both could only see the other's profile; the atmosphere looked strange no matter how one viewed it.

Li Wei shook his head, not to deny the matter, but to deny this strange atmosphere, "I certainly can."

Faced with Li Wei's odd reply, Brent simply nodded. He looked into Li Wei's eyes, took a deep breath, and said, "Alright... you can end all of this early, right? Or rather, you know how to close that damn 'window', right?"

"You're only half right." Li Wei replied with a smile, "I can end all of this early."

Brent didn't look surprised; he just asked very calmly, "Why?"

This question made Li Wei think for a moment, and then he gave a serious answer, "Because I plan to deal with it tomorrow, though I suppose I should say 'today' now."

"Fine, I should have expected that..." Even after hearing such an answer, Brent still didn't show his previous irritability. He just stepped forward naturally and extended his hand to Li Wei, "On behalf of those people, thank you."

With a strange expression, Li Wei also reached out and shook hands with Brent, then revealed a playful smile, "I'm becoming a bit interested in your brain."

"That thing doesn't taste good~!"

"Fair point."

Leaving the storage room, the two entered the supermarket and saw several people crouching behind the wall of dog food.

Li Wei didn't head over there, but after Brent spoke with David and the others for a while, he walked over.

He invited Li Wei to a corner to discuss something, and Li Wei agreed.

Arriving at the corner, David and the others voiced their idea: to go to the pharmacy next to the supermarket to find painkillers and burn treatment medicine for Joe.

Li Wei had also glanced at Joe, who had accidentally set himself on fire; he had extensive burns, and his clothes had already fused to his skin. Even if they got the medicine and temporarily saved his life, all that awaited him was disfigurement and a miserable life lived in the shadows forever.

Therefore, he couldn't quite understand David's thinking. It wasn't that life wasn't worth saving; he just couldn't understand why he had to drag others into it.

"Why not just give Joe a gun and let him kill himself?"

Li Wei's elementary school teacher once said that if you encounter a problem you don't understand, you should ask, so he asked it out loud.

David, who was mentally preparing himself, turned his head at the sound and looked at the mysterious Li Wei.

"He can still be saved, we can't let that happen..." Faced with such a question, David replied as if it were a matter of course.

Li Wei wore a confused expression, "Oh? Can little Billy let his father die a miserable death in the mouth of a monster happen?"

As soon as these words were spoken, the somewhat irrational David felt as if a bucket of cold water had been poured over his head, bursting the bubble of his fantasy.

Ollie, Jim, and the others also turned their gazes toward him upon hearing this.

David realized it to some extent: leaving would indeed carry corresponding risks, and in order to save Joe, he might die.

Not just himself, but those who followed him might also die!

He would have to bear that responsibility!

But thinking of Joe lying in the employee breakroom, and remembering the sound of him begging to be killed, he couldn't bring himself to say they shouldn't go.

Seeing this, Ollie stepped forward and said earnestly, "Joe is our friend; we can't just watch him die."

"Right!" Gaining support from Ollie, David reaffirmed his thoughts, "I'm thinking further ahead than that—we need to get out of here!"

Tap, tap. At this moment, footsteps sounded. Amanda, who had been taking care of little Billy, walked to their side and said nervously, "Hattie... she's gone!"

Upon hearing this, the others also wore nervous expressions, and just as they were about to go searching, Brent revealed the whereabouts of Hattie Turman.

When they learned that Turman had committed suicide and her body was in the storage room, they walked into the storage room in disbelief to examine Turman's corpse.

Li Wei did not go in; he prepared to return to the small stove he had set up earlier, only to find that it had already been occupied, with the rambling Carmody fanatically preaching her doctrine after gaining a group of followers.

The few women standing before her were praying devoutly as if they had been injected with adrenaline, the content consisting of nothing more than words of praise, repeated over and over again.

To Li Wei, an atheist, this seemed incredibly strange; as someone who did not believe in religion, he could not understand why this group of people would be so obsessed with self-indoctrination, and in his eyes, these people were no different from those who had lost their minds.

Faced with a group of lunatics, Li Wei lost the desire to reclaim his spot, so he went to find another bottle of cola and gulped it down.

He ran into Isha and Anna, carefully instructing both of them to stay away from the crowd after he left and to remain in the storage room, waiting until everything was over.

Both the older and the younger one had an inexplicable trust in Li Wei, especially Anna, who was dragging the half-dead Little Bear; having seen Li Wei's transformation with her own eyes, she firmly believed that Mr. Devil could solve anything.

After seeing Turman's body, David and the others took the opportunity to finalize their escape plan; they intended to leave by car tomorrow morning after retrieving the medicine, and David approached Li Wei again, wanting him to join them, after all, Li Wei was very strong!