Luring Zombies

After arranging the evacuation plan, Qin Feng raised a hand, gathered a Lightning Ball in his palm, and hurled it at the zombie horde, instantly blasting several zombies charred black.

Sensing danger, the zombie horde let out restless, agitated growls and attacked the gate of their residence even more fiercely.

Seeing the gate about to collapse, Qin Feng jumped down from the roof of the single-story house and threw several more Lightning Balls into the zombie horde, forcibly blasting open a path through them.

Qi Xing saw the opening and jumped down after him.

Unlike Qin Feng's powerful, brutal style, Qi Xing moved like a feline. With a light leap, his feet landed one after the other without making a sound.

Since he needed to get close to the zombie horde and could not use his Wood Ability, Qi Xing did not use his usual dagger this time. Instead, he held a steel pipe over a meter long for protection and followed closely behind Qin Feng, rushing out through the path Qin Feng had opened with the Lightning Balls.

From the rooftop, Jiang Zhaosu watched Qi Xing flexibly swing his arm like he was playing baseball, easily smashing the heads of the zombies lunging at him one after another. She was left speechless.

Could he still pretend to be weak like this?

"Wow, Fortune, your brother is so handsome!"

After Qin Feng left, Duan Yuanyuan visibly relaxed and finally dared to say such things aloud.

"He can use Healing Art and he's this good at fighting too! No wonder he's been able to protect you all this time."

Jiang Zhaosu continued dutifully maintaining her persona as a mentally disabled girl and did not react at all.

Cao Yuan, standing behind them, snorted coldly and mocked, "Hmph, he's just some pretty boy. What's so impressive about a Healing Ability? When danger comes, doesn't he still need attack-type Ability Users like us to charge ahead?"

Duan Yuanyuan turned back at Cao Yuan in displeasure. "If a Healing Ability were useless, why would Qin Feng keep him around? I think you're just jealous because he's handsome."

Those words struck Cao Yuan where it hurt.

Though Qin Feng was older, his nearly six-foot-three height, burly build, and masculine appearance made him quite popular with some of the women at the electronics factory.

Cao Yuan, on the other hand, was thin and short, with dark skin. From a distance, he looked like a monkey. He was nearly thirty and still did not have a girlfriend.

After the apocalypse, although he had also awakened an ability, those snobbish, hypocritical women were all like Duan Yuanyuan. They were more eager to cling to Qin Feng, who looked tall, imposing, and dependable.

Little did they know that Qin Feng was only righteous on the surface. In reality, he treated women like clothes—discarding them once he was done with them, or simply killing them outright. He never allowed such women to join the team and waste resources.

Occasionally, a few women showed interest in Cao Yuan, but Qin Feng rejected them outright as well.

Cao Yuan's ability was not as powerful as Qin Feng's, so he could only obey him.

Long-term repression made Cao Yuan's already insecure and gloomy heart grow increasingly twisted.

In fact, even before the apocalypse, when the three of them played games together, he had developed feelings for Duan Yuanyuan.

But back then, that woman only flirted with Qin Feng and would not even spare Cao Yuan a proper glance.

When Qin Feng became obsessed with her and repeatedly hinted about whether they should get together, Duan Yuanyuan began giving vague, evasive answers.

At the time, Cao Yuan thought Duan Yuanyuan was materialistic and vain.

To put it bluntly, she just thought Qin Feng was poor. She looked down on them for not having cars or houses and being unable to afford a bride price.

He told Qin Feng all this and advised him to stop pursuing that cheap woman, but Qin Feng was completely swept up at the time. He would not listen and remained determined to chase Duan Yuanyuan.

Later, when the Zombie Virus broke out and Qin Feng awakened his ability, the first thing he did was go find Duan Yuanyuan. He finally won the goddess's heart, only to stop cherishing her after getting her.

The words Cao Yuan had said to Qin Feng had ultimately taken root in his heart.

Whenever Qin Feng saw Duan Yuanyuan's face, he remembered those days when he had groveled after her. Anger filled with humiliation surged through him.

Anyway, Duan Yuanyuan no longer dared to leave him. He could humiliate and torment her however he pleased.

Cao Yuan had heard countless versions of what Jiang Zhaosu and Qi Xing heard last night, and he had even witnessed it himself.

He now thought Duan Yuanyuan was truly stupid and cheap, utterly devoid of self-respect. She could endure anything just to stay alive.

A lowly slut who survived by spreading her legs beneath men actually still dared to look down on him.

Rage rose in Cao Yuan's heart. He grabbed Duan Yuanyuan by the throat, and his already unattractive features became even more hideously twisted with fury. In a sinister voice, he said, "I'm jealous of that pretty boy? What a joke. I think you're the one dying to climb into his bed."

"You changed his little sister's skirt and gave her hair clips. You've been sucking up to him so obviously—did that pretty boy ever even look at you properly? What do you think Qin Feng would do if I told him what you just said? Would he think you cheated on him, break your legs, and throw you into a zombie den?"

After Ability Users activated their abilities, their bodies were strengthened to varying degrees.

As an ordinary person, Duan Yuanyuan had no strength to resist Cao Yuan at all.

With Cao Yuan's hand around her throat, her face quickly turned red, and her eyes rolled upward. Hoarsely and with difficulty, she said, "Cao Yuan, let go. I'm going to die..."

She could say any degrading words in front of Qin Feng, yet she still acted so high and mighty toward him.

Cao Yuan suddenly changed his mind.

Grabbing Duan Yuanyuan by the neck, he dragged her to the edge of the single-story house like he was carrying a chicken. Then he stretched out his arm and suspended her entire body outside the rooftop.

Most of the zombies below had already been lured away by Qin Feng and Qi Xing. Only five or six stubborn zombies remained, still slamming into the gate with loud bangs.

Most single-story houses were not very tall. Duan Yuanyuan was five foot five, and the moment she was pushed out, a drooling zombie below eagerly leaped up, opening its mouth wide to bite her.

Cao Yuan's grip loosened slightly. Duan Yuanyuan screamed in terror, and two streams of tears immediately flowed from her red, swollen eyes. "No! No!"

"Want to live?" Cao Yuan asked, a vicious smile hanging on his pockmarked dark face.

Duan Yuanyuan nodded desperately.

"Then I'll let you back up. Strip naked and kneel on the ground to kowtow to me three times."

Cao Yuan narrowed his triangular eyes and watched the weeping Duan Yuanyuan with a lecherous, sinister expression. His tone softened slightly. "Don't worry. I won't tell Qin Feng about this."

Duan Yuanyuan choked out through sobs, "I'll do it... I'll kowtow..."

Sure enough, she was a cheap woman willing to do anything to stay alive.

Only then did Cao Yuan pull her back.

He threw Duan Yuanyuan onto the ground like garbage. She clutched her throat and coughed for a long while, tears streaming endlessly as she trembled and reached to undo the buttons of her clothes.

Cao Yuan thought she was too slow. He stepped forward, bent down, and reached for Duan Yuanyuan's chest.

Jiang Zhaosu, who had remained silent while watching the abuse from the side, suddenly rushed forward. She grabbed the back of Cao Yuan's clothes with both hands, lifted him, and threw him off the single-story house.

"Ah—"

Duan Yuanyuan, who had already accepted the impending molestation in despair, screamed again at the sudden turn of events.

Cao Yuan was an Ability User after all. The moment Jiang Zhaosu threw him off the roof, he rapidly formed Water Arrows in his palms and fired them at the zombies lunging toward him.

After clumsily dealing with the remaining zombies, Cao Yuan painfully climbed up from the ground, covered in dust. He raised his head and looked venomously at Jiang Zhaosu, who was still standing on the roof.

The petite Jiang Zhaosu was being held by the crying Duan Yuanyuan. Looking down at him from above, her pitch-black eyes held no emotion, as though she were looking at a dead man.

Cao Yuan hated that kind of gaze most.

His small triangular eyes fixed on Jiang Zhaosu. After spitting onto the ground and cursing her as a little slut, he raised his hand, and a faint glimmer of water appeared between his fingers.

The Water Arrow had taken shape, poised to launch from his palm.

Yet Cao Yuan could not see even the slightest fear on Jiang Zhaosu's face, which only enraged him further.

She was just an outsider's younger sister, and that outsider only had a Healing Ability. Neither of them posed any threat to him or Qin Feng.

Cao Yuan steeled himself and raised his hand, about to fire at Jiang Zhaosu.

Whoosh—

A second before his Water Arrow launched, a badly deformed steel pipe flew in from afar and grazed past Cao Yuan's face.

Intense pain instantly flooded Cao Yuan's brain.

He dropped to his knees, his features twisting in agony. Screaming, he covered his right ear, but his ear was no longer there—only a bloody, mangled mess remained.

That hollow steel pipe had actually sliced off one of his ears alive!

Then, his remaining ear heard a man's voice—cool and gentle, yet chilling to the bone. "Who are you calling a little slut?"