That foolish thought vanished the moment Bai Xiaoling caught sight of the blood and brains on Jiang Zhaosu's hands.
Even though Jiang Zhaosu looked like a gust of wind could blow her away and was shorter than she was, Bai Xiaoling had never even killed a chicken. There was no way she could beat a little girl who dared carry a dead person's head while wielding only a fruit knife.
Besides, this little girl seemed to have an ability.
Bai Xiaoling quickly gave up struggling and continued lying on the floor, her light amber eyes studying Jiang Zhaosu.
Jiang Zhaosu seemed to sense her gaze and looked back at her.
One look at her eye color was enough to tell that this girl clearly wasn't Qi Xing's sister.
So what should they do with her?
Leave her here?
The girl didn't have an ability. Once she lost her supplies, she probably wouldn't survive for long.
That felt a little wasteful.
It would be better to keep her around as reserve food.
But bringing her along would be troublesome.
Should they just kill her here and take her away?
That would be too brutal.
Jiang Zhaosu wasn't hungry at the moment, so she had no need to gather food through such extreme means.
As she pondered, the girl spoke first, cautiously asking, "Are you Ability Users?"
Jiang Zhaosu: "..."
Why did that familiar way of probing for information sound exactly like Qi Xing?
Jiang Zhaosu knew she wasn't as clever as Qi Xing.
Afraid the girl might be setting a trap for her, she chose to remain silent.
Perhaps Jiang Zhaosu looked honest enough. Seeing that she didn't speak, Bai Xiaoling grew bolder and more talkative. "I saw you use your ability just now. It was so cool! I want an ability too!"
Then go eat corpses.
Jiang Zhaosu silently mocked her in her heart.
"Why has everyone awakened abilities except me? I'm so unlucky! I'm the unluckiest person in the world!"
You weren't.
Truly unlucky people wouldn't be born into such wealthy families.
"Every day, I'm stuck in this huge house with no internet, no electricity, nobody to talk to, and nobody to play with. I'm bored to death."
From the paintings on the walls and the various-sized easels throughout the living room, Jiang Zhaosu could tell that this girl might have studied art.
Most art students were sensitive and melancholic.
In short, they were nuts.
Bai Xiaoling got more and more worked up as she spoke, suddenly howling excitedly.
"I'm going crazy from loneliness! It's perfect that you've come—hurry up and kill me! I don't want to live in this earthly hell anymore. Even hell is warmer than this!!!"
Jiang Zhaosu endured and endured, but when she heard that, she could no longer hold back.
"Fortune, there's too much food here. I can't carry it all by myself. Come help me."
Qi Xing came out of the kitchen just then and happened to hear Bai Xiaoling's roar. Frowning, he asked, "Why are you being so noisy?"
"If you don't want to live, that's easy. I'll help you."
Qi Xing was nowhere near as patient as Jiang Zhaosu. As he spoke, he pulled a short dagger from the strap around his thigh. "Let's cut out your tongue first."
When Bai Xiaoling saw Qi Xing flash the sharp silver-white blade, with not the slightest hint that he was joking,
the Bai Xiaoling who had just been crying and shouting about wanting to die sprang nimbly off the floor and fled screaming around the living room.
"Ahhhhhhh!!!"
"No, no, no!!! Bro! Bro, I was joking! I was just talking big!! I don't want to die!!!"
The nearly one-hundred-square-meter living room suddenly felt especially cramped.
Chased at a brisk pace by Qi Xing, who looked like a murderer, Bai Xiaoling was terrified and had no idea where to run. Somehow, she actually ducked behind Jiang Zhaosu.
Stunned by Bai Xiaoling's intelligence, Qi Xing stopped.
Jiang Zhaosu was also taken aback when the girl grabbed the hem of her dress.
She felt that she had wasted her effort being wary of this girl.
She was just an idiot!
Jiang Zhaosu turned around and looked at Bai Xiaoling, who was trembling like a baby chick behind her.
Qi Xing silently looked at her too.
Bai Xiaoling, who had stopped screaming and suddenly felt that the world had gone quiet: "..."
She looked at Jiang Zhaosu, then at Qi Xing. Under their pitying gazes, she asked in confusion and fear, "You... aren't going to kill me?"
Only then did Jiang Zhaosu speak. Slowly and distinctly, she answered Bai Xiaoling's first question. "I am not an Ability User."
"Huh?"
Bai Xiaoling was still confused.
Jiang Zhaosu continued, "I am a zombie."
After saying that, she abruptly opened her mouth, revealing her sharp fangs, and bit toward Bai Xiaoling.
"Ah—"
Bai Xiaoling screamed, released Jiang Zhaosu's dress, and finally fainted from fright, collapsing to the floor.
Of course, Jiang Zhaosu hadn't really bitten her. She was only trying to scare the girl.
Seeing Bai Xiaoling lying on the ground, Jiang Zhaosu curiously nudged her with her foot. Bai Xiaoling's body swayed limply a few times, but she didn't open her eyes.
"Scared to death?"
"Even better if she was scared to death. We can throw her directly out the seventeenth-floor window, so we won't have to carry her down the stairs. We still have a lot of things to move."
Qi Xing remained where he was and merely said, "Come on, Fortune. Let's lift her up and throw her down together."
"No!"
Bai Xiaoling, who had just seemed unconscious, suddenly sprang upright like a carp. Raising one hand, she said, "I can help you move things. Big brother, big sister, please don't eat me..."
There was far more food and bottled water in Bai Xiaoling's home than Qi Xing and Jiang Zhaosu had imagined. If they could fit it all into the car, Qi Xing wouldn't have to worry about food for the next half year.
One more slave would always save them some effort.
Thus, Bai Xiaoling temporarily preserved her little life.
Under the oppression of Qi Xing and Jiang Zhaosu, the two slave masters, she diligently began moving supplies.
Though she didn't have to walk far—she only moved things from the kitchen and storage room to beside the living room window.
There were too many supplies for the three of them to carry in one trip, and taking the stairs would be too exhausting. Qi Xing still used his ability, sending vines to transport everything downstairs.
Besides food and water, Bai Xiaoling's home contained many other stockpiled supplies: all kinds of Vegetable Seeds, sugar, salt, water purification tablets, medicine, baijiu, and even gasoline.
It was nothing like what someone who couldn't even tell grains apart would buy.
Qi Xing gladly took it all.
After clearing out everything useful from Bai Xiaoling's home, Qi Xing magnanimously told Bai Xiaoling that he would "spare her life," then picked up Jiang Zhaosu and prepared to jump down from the seventeenth floor.
Bai Xiaoling had moved so many things that her back could barely straighten. Crying bitterly, she threw herself forward and hugged Qi Xing's thigh, just short of kneeling before the two of them.
"Bro, if you just leave like this, how am I supposed to live alone? You might as well eat me!"
Jiang Zhaosu had been thinking the same thing just now and gave an agreeing "Roar."
"Make her Fortune's reserve food?"
Holding Jiang Zhaosu in one arm, Qi Xing thoughtfully looked down at Bai Xiaoling clinging to his thigh. "That works."
He suddenly raised his leg and forcefully flung Bai Xiaoling out the window. "Then you go down first."
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