That Makes Sense

Li Wei crouched beside the woman and found that she seemed to be Mrs. Turman, who had been with Grandma Repla. Even in the darkness, her eyes remained open, and they seemed to retain a look of relieved release.

He sighed softly. Her mental resilience had been too weak. She had simply taken pills and killed herself. It was truly lamentable.

He picked up the cola from the floor and grabbed Mrs. Turman by the back of her collar with one hand, intending to take her to the storage room and find a large bag to put her in.

As he passed Aisle Three, Brent stopped him.

"What are you doing? You're carrying someone? Is she unconscious?" Seeing Li Wei carrying a person toward the storage room, Brent instantly thought of a certain kind of special play and hurriedly stepped in front of him to ask.

Even if the situation was desperate, it had not reached that point yet, had it?

This was against the law!

After taking a sip of cola, Li Wei answered unhurriedly, "This person took pills and killed herself. I'm... burp... about to take her away and put her in a bag."

Hearing that, Brent stroked his chin in shock, then reached out and took Mrs. Turman from Li Wei's hands.

After examining her carefully, he found that it was true!

Her eyes were wide open, and she was no longer breathing. Mrs. Turman had become a corpse.

Holding Mrs. Turman's body, Brent was momentarily speechless. His expression changed several times, as if he wanted to say something but held back. In the end, he merely nodded. "I'll come with you."

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

After setting the body aside together, Li Wei prepared to leave. However, Brent called out to him again, this time using a rather formal address.

"Mr. Li Wei!"

Li Wei turned back and asked doubtfully, "Is there something else?"

Standing in the darkness, Brent made full use of his racial talent, nearly making Li Wei unable to see his face.

Only after Li Wei asked that did Brent look at him. He opened his mouth, arranged his words, and then asked, "Can you really deal with the white mist outside?"

After saying that, he stared seriously into Li Wei's eyes.

There was only a small lamp between them, casting weak light. They could each see only the other's profile. No matter how one looked at it, the atmosphere was strange.

Li Wei shook his head, not to deny it, but to reject the strange atmosphere. "I really can."

Faced with Li Wei's odd reply, Brent merely nodded. Looking into Li Wei's eyes, he took a deep breath and said, "All right... you can end this early, can't you? Or rather, you know how to close that damned 'window,' don't you?"

"You're only half right." Li Wei smiled. "I can end this early."

Brent did not look surprised. He simply asked calmly, "Why?"

That question made Li Wei think for a moment. Then he gave a serious answer. "Because I was planning to deal with it tomorrow, though I suppose I should say 'today' now."

"All right, I should've known..." Even after hearing that answer, Brent did not display his previous irritability. He simply stepped forward naturally and held out his hand to Li Wei. "I thank you on behalf of those people."

With a strange expression, Li Wei also extended his hand and shook Brent's. Then he gave an amused smile. "I'm a little interested in your brain."

"That thing doesn't taste good~!"

"That makes sense."

After leaving the storage room, the two entered the supermarket and saw several people half-crouching beneath the wall of dog food.

Li Wei did not walk over, but after Brent spoke with David and the others for a while, he came over instead.

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

Once they reached the corner, David and the others explained their idea: they wanted to go to the pharmacy next door to find painkillers and burn medicine for Joe.

Li Wei had also taken a look at Joe, who had accidentally set himself on fire. Large areas of his body were burned, and his clothes had fused to his skin. Even if they obtained medicine and temporarily saved his life, what awaited him would only be disfigurement and a miserable life spent in the shadows.

So Li Wei could not really understand David's idea. It was not that he believed life was not worth saving; he simply could not understand why David wanted to bring other people along.

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

Li Wei's elementary school teacher had once told him that if he did not understand something, he should ask. So he asked.

David, who had been mentally preparing himself, turned at the sound and looked at Li Wei, who had always seemed mysterious.

"He can still be saved. We can't let something like this happen..." David answered the question as if it were only natural.

Li Wei wore a baffled expression. "Oh? Can Little Billy allow something like his father being brutally killed in a monster's jaws to happen?"

The moment those words came out, it was as though someone had dumped a bucket of cold water over the irrational David's head, bursting the bubble of his fantasy.

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

David more or less came to his senses. Leaving did indeed mean taking corresponding risks. In order to save Joe, he might die.

Not only him; those who followed him might die too!

He had to bear that responsibility!

But when he thought of Joe lying in the employee break room and remembered his voice begging David to kill him, he could not bring himself to say they should not go.

Seeing this, Ollie stepped forward and said seriously, "Joe is our friend. We can't just stand by and watch him die."

"That's right!" With Ollie voicing his support, David became firm in his decision again. "I'm thinking further ahead than that. We need to leave this place!"

Footsteps sounded just then. Amanda, who had been taking care of Little Billy, came over to them and said nervously, "Hattie... she's gone!"

The others also looked tense upon hearing this and wanted to search for her, but Brent told them where Hattie Turman had gone.

When they learned that Mrs. Turman had committed suicide and that her body was in the storage room, they entered the storage room in disbelief to check Mrs. Turman's corpse.

Li Wei did not go in. He intended to return to the little cooking area he had set up earlier, only to find that it had already been occupied. After gaining a group of followers, the crazed Carmody had begun preaching her doctrine even more fanatically.

The women standing before her prayed devoutly as if they had been pumped full of stimulants. Their words were nothing more than praise, repeated over and over.

To Li Wei, an atheist, it all seemed extremely strange. Having no faith himself, he could not understand why these people were so intoxicated with brainwashing themselves. In his eyes, there was no difference between them and people whose brains had short-circuited.

Faced with a group of lunatics, Li Wei lost any desire to reclaim his exclusive spot. He found another bottle of cola and began gulping it down.

He ran into Isha and Anna, carefully instructing them to stay away from the crowd and remain in the storage room after he left, then wait for everything to end.

Both the older and younger girl had an inexplicable trust in Li Wei. Anna in particular, dragging along the half-dead Little Bear, had personally witnessed Li Wei's transformation and thus firmly believed that Mr. Demon could solve anything.

After examining Mrs. Turman's body, David and the others finalized their escape plan. They planned to leave tomorrow morning after getting the medicine, and David sought out Li Wei again, hoping Li Wei would drive away with them as well, because Li Wei was very strong!