They'll All Die

Damn!

Jiang Zhaosu, who had been pressed against the wall listening with great interest, nearly jumped out of her skin at Qi Xing's shout.

She hurriedly pulled away from the wall, widened her eyes, and glared at Qi Xing in embarrassed indignation.

This guy could watch someone being dismembered with his eyes shining, yet now he was pretending to be some kind of gentleman.

Fine if he didn't want to listen—why did he have to interrupt her?

Qi Xing smiled at the puffed-up Jiang Zhaosu glaring at him. He found a zombie making such a lively expression far more interesting than eavesdropping.

There was only one wall between them. If they could hear the people next door, then the people next door could naturally hear them talking as well.

After briefly stopping, the muffled panting that made one's face flush suddenly rose even higher.

There was even conversation mixed in.

"Qin Feng, no, there's a child next door!"

"What child? She's just an idiot. She won't understand."

"No, don't do this!"

"What are you pretending for? Aren't you even more excited when someone can hear us?"

"Hubby, I'm so tired. Let's call it a day..."

Duan Yuanyuan pleaded with Qin Feng in a soft, humble voice.

Apparently angered by Duan Yuanyuan's lack of cooperation, Qin Feng cursed roughly, "You gold-digging bitch. Now you know to call me hubby?"

Slap! Slap!

After two sharp slaps, a woman's grief-stricken sobs came from next door.

Jiang Zhaosu could no longer bear listening.

She knew that this kind of thing between men and women was common in the apocalypse, and even in modern times, but that did not mean she could calmly accept it.

She was simply lucky. She had become a zombie as soon as she transmigrated, so she did not have to suffer such things.

Jiang Zhaosu looked at Qi Xing, and Qi Xing was looking at her too.

For some reason, seeing that there was no longer any amusement in Qi Xing's eyes, and that he even looked somewhat disgusted, Jiang Zhaosu felt relieved.

Qi Xing silently mouthed, "Want to go?"

Jiang Zhaosu nodded.

Qi Xing walked over and held out his hand, intending to lift her off the bed.

Jiang Zhaosu instinctively avoided Qi Xing's hand.

Both human and zombie froze.

Qi Xing had actually carried her many times before. Jiang Zhaosu could tell that he simply regarded her as his possession. There was no lust in his actions; he carried her like a child.

But perhaps because she had just heard what was happening next door, Jiang Zhaosu inexplicably found it strange this time and did not want Qi Xing touching her.

Qi Xing's beautiful Fox Eyes widened slightly. He silently watched Jiang Zhaosu for a while before suddenly turning his head and raising his voice toward the next room. "Brother Qin, my little sister is still young. She got a little scared. I'm taking her to sleep in another house."

Then he bent down, reached out, and picked her up.

They left the room and went into another family's house.

After changing houses, Qin Feng's insults and Duan Yuanyuan's cries could no longer be heard.

Qi Xing placed Jiang Zhaosu on the bed where the family slept and asked, "Was Fortune scared just now?"

"..."

Jiang Zhaosu did not know how to answer.

She had not shown fear after seeing so many bloody scenes. Saying she was scared now felt a little melodramatic and ridiculous.

After thinking for several seconds, Jiang Zhaosu stammered, "Hate... it..."

She hated this kind of thing.

Qin Feng's humiliation of Duan Yuanyuan reminded her of when she had worked a summer job as a telephone customer service representative. Some customers would deliberately say all sorts of obscene, unbearable filth to her over the phone to vent their emotions.

And for the sake of her positive review rate, she had to pretend not to hear those maliciously humiliating words and keep humbly asking whether they were dissatisfied with her service.

Compared to physical pain, this kind of mental humiliation was even harder to endure. Even Jiang Zhaosu, who had been desperately short of money at the time, could not bear that torment and soon quit.

At Jiang Zhaosu's answer, a trace of viciousness flashed through Qi Xing's ink-black eyes.

He placed a hand on Jiang Zhaosu's shoulder and said gently, "It's okay. They'll all die soon."

Jiang Zhaosu: "..."

Don't say something so terrifying in such a gentle tone.

She knew it. Someone like Qi Xing, who never did anything without profit, would not befriend Qin Feng and the others for no reason.

Qi Xing said to her, "Qin Feng told me that a man and a woman will pass through here in a couple of days. The woman has Space Ability and has stockpiled countless supplies in her space. As long as we kill her and dig out her Crystal Core, we can turn it into a Space Ring, become its owner, and freely store and retrieve goods from it."

"Once Qin Feng and the others kill that pair, I'll kill Qin Feng and the others to take the ring. Then we'll never have to worry about food or drink again."

Qi Xing had calculated things well.

The mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind it.

There seemed to be nothing wrong with the plan.

But as soon as Jiang Zhaosu heard him out, she sucked in a sharp breath.

She remembered that there was only one person with Space Ability in the novel she had read. That was the Female Lead!

And the man traveling with the Female Lead—wouldn't that be the Male Lead?

The Female Lead and Male Lead of this novel were the typical Mary Sue and Gary Stu types. Before the apocalypse, one had been a fallen Young Miss whose father was investigated for corruption and who had been forcibly taken by the Male Lead, while the other was the youngest son of a wealthy, powerful family.

They had both been born above others and had never tasted life's hardships except in love.

After the apocalypse, both of them awakened abilities.

The Female Lead was a Space Ability User, while the Male Lead was a Fire Ability User.

Unlike the useless guy they had encountered before who could only burn himself with fireballs, this novel's Male Lead was a genuine Rank S Fire Ability User.

Other than the final BOSS, almost no one in the entire story could stand against him.

Even if he worked with Qin Feng, Qi Xing, as a Wood Ability User, had absolutely no chance of defeating him!

If they encountered those two, they would be nothing but Cannon Fodder delivering experience points.

No, she could not let Qi Xing go and throw his life away like this!

Jiang Zhaosu anxiously spoke and gestured at once. "Don't... go..."

"Why?"

One of a zombie's greatest instincts was eating. Jiang Zhaosu was usually like a little glutton; once she heard there was food, she would disregard everything else. Yet this time, she was being so cautious that Qi Xing was genuinely confused.

"This is Space Ability. Fortune, do you know what Space Ability means? Time inside is frozen. Nothing put in there will spoil, including your food."

It was not that Jiang Zhaosu was not tempted. She just did not dare to be.

She swallowed and said with difficulty, "Can't... beat... them..."

Although Jiang Zhaosu had not heard the ending of this novel, based on the novels she had read, protagonists in apocalypse stories all had plot armor!

Even if they truly killed the protagonists, the protagonists could return through all kinds of means to take revenge.

Cannon Fodder villains like them only had a chance of surviving if they stayed far, far away from the protagonists.

"Oh?" Qi Xing raised an eyebrow. "Fortune, you seem to know them well. Did you know them before?"

"Uh..."

Jiang Zhaosu froze for a moment. Facing Qi Xing's sharp, scrutinizing gaze, she stammered, "Met... them..."

Qi Xing suddenly became inexplicably interested in her past. "Did you know them before Zombification?"

"Yeah..."

She knew them through the novel. That should count, right?

"Were they good friends?"

"No..."

"Not friends? Then how did a stupid little zombie like you avoid being killed by them?"

"...Hate... it..."

Jiang Zhaosu's mind had already become somewhat sluggish after turning into a zombie. The more Qi Xing questioned her, the more chaotic her thoughts became. In the end, she could not answer anything at all, so she simply rolled onto the bed in frustration and covered her head with the blanket.

Seeing that he had angered her again, Qi Xing chuckled happily before lying down beside her.

Qi Xing lay flat on the bed, staring at the thin cobwebs on the ceiling of the simply furnished house.

He blinked, and the cobwebs in his vision gradually overlapped with the cobwebs in the corner of a dilapidated house from his memories, stirring up some long-buried memories he did not wish to recall.

That man had once cursed him and his sister in the same way. "You gold-digging bitch, giving birth to two little bitches! Eating my food and drinking my liquor all day! Worthless burdens!"

Back then, there had been more than slaps. There had been belts, even broken liquor bottles.

He held his trembling little sister in his arms and curled up in a corner, enduring the pain of belt lashes and verbal humiliation by staring at the cobwebs in the corner.

Qi Xing slowly closed his eyes. The cobwebs vanished, leaving only a spreading sea of blood before his eyes.

He turned over and gently placed his hand on Jiang Zhaosu, whose entire body was curled up beneath the blanket. He said it to Jiang Zhaosu beside him, and to himself as well. "It's okay. Even if we can't beat them for now, we'll be able to sooner or later."

"They'll all die."