People Are More Terrifying Than Zombies

After Qi Xing interrupted her like that, the sadness Jiang Zhaosu had felt over turning from human to zombie vanished in an instant.

A zombie was a zombie, then.

At least she had arrived in this world as a zombie. She had not turned into something pitted and mangled like Muscle Man, with a ruined throat that could still let out heart-rending howls.

Jiang Zhaosu did not even dare imagine how much pain he had been in.

Still, that guy had brought it on himself.

At a time like this, he was still thinking about what was in his pants.

He had dawdled and insisted on saying disgusting things instead of letting Qi Xing finish him off.

And now? His head had fallen off. Feeling better now?

After giving herself a thorough mental pep talk, Jiang Zhaosu quickly accepted her identity as a zombie.

A country had its laws, and zombies had their rules.

Now that she was a zombie, she had to eat human flesh.

If she did not eat human flesh, she would die!

Between her dying and other people dying, other people could die instead.

Besides, although she was a zombie, she was also a law-abiding little zombie. The people she killed were all wicked villains who deserved it.

Letting those two men fill the belly of such a kind and adorable little zombie as her could count as them doing a good deed, could it not?

As for the future?

She did not even know whether she would survive until tomorrow. She would worry about the future later.

Dragging her stiff legs, Jiang Zhaosu followed Qi Xing out of the supermarket and returned to the street where she had awakened earlier.

The rain outside had stopped, but the sky remained gloomy.

Dark clouds hung low overhead, and the oppressive gray made everything feel desolate.

Looking around again, Jiang Zhaosu realized that although the city seemed at first glance to be full of skyscrapers, prosperous and sophisticated, a closer look revealed not a trace of life.

Vehicles were parked haphazardly along the streets. Most of the storefronts had their stainless-steel shutters pulled down. The occasional glass doors that were locked had all been smashed open, and the ground was covered in shattered glass and rubbish.

The skyscrapers towering into the clouds in the distance held not a single light. Their cracked glass curtain walls reflected the dim gray sky, like grand yet mournful tombstones.

This was an abandoned city.

Jiang Zhaosu had once especially envied the white-collar workers employed in skyscrapers like these. She had thought they were all successful people, winners in life, and had dreamed of becoming one of them herself.

But when a catastrophe of the century came, that little bit of success seemed utterly insignificant beneath the tide of the times.

Surviving was what mattered most.

With that thought, Jiang Zhaosu stopped, opened her mouth toward the magnificent skyscraper, and let out a howl.

"Awooo! Awooo! Awooo!"

"What now?"

Qi Xing, who had been walking behind her, saw her stop and asked helplessly.

"Awooo! Awooo! Awooo! Awooo! Awooo!"

Jiang Zhaosu tilted her head up at the sky, flailing her arms wildly as she screamed for help.

Help! She had held her neck up too long, and it was stuck!

An ordinary zombie's body was not much different from that of someone who had been dead too long. The flesh decayed, the joints stiffened, and the slightest carelessness could make a chunk of rotten flesh fall off here or a bone drop out there.

Qi Xing walked over to her side and looked at her for several seconds. Once he spotted the problem, he raised his hand and smacked the back of her head.

The man looked thin and weak, but his grip strength was terrifying. No wonder he could snap a Physical Enhancement User's wrist in an instant.

"Blegh..."

Qi Xing's slap left Jiang Zhaosu dizzy. Her neck was fixed, but she nearly vomited her brains out through her mouth.

She retched for a long time and spewed out a huge puddle of filth. Then she was disgusted by her own vomit and started dry-heaving all over again.

"Fortune, you managed to twist your neck just from looking at the sky. You're so stupid."

Qi Xing stood beside her with his arms folded, mocking her mercilessly.

"A little zombie like you could have her head smashed off by an ordinary person with a wooden stick. You should be secretly delighted that such a kindhearted good man as me picked you up."

A kindhearted good man? Then what was in that bulging bag on his back?

The two of them had just killed someone—one was a kind and adorable little zombie, while the other was a kindhearted good man.

Wonderful. Simply wonderful!

Jiang Zhaosu was too busy vomiting to refute Qi Xing's shameless remarks. She could only express her contempt through her eyes.

But this man was truly thick-skinned.

The more she glared at him, the happier Qi Xing smiled, until his Fox Eyes curved into crescents.

Once Jiang Zhaosu finished vomiting, Qi Xing took two chunks of meat from his bag and handed them to her, pretending to be concerned. "You threw up everything you just ate. Hurry and replenish yourself."

Jiang Zhaosu angrily slapped the meat from his hand. "Awooo! Awooo! Awooo!"

Her stomach was not hungry anymore! She did not want any!

Qi Xing did not get angry. Instead, he found this little zombie truly humanlike.

She felt fear like a human, had a temper, and even found raw meat disgusting enough to make her vomit.

Did she still retain human consciousness?

Interesting.

The more Qi Xing spent time with this little zombie, the more interested he became in Jiang Zhaosu.

Actually, he had just been hesitating over whether to bring Jiang Zhaosu along.

After all, zombies, no matter how humanlike they were, still had to eat human flesh.

Who knew whether Jiang Zhaosu might suddenly lose control of her zombie instincts and take a bite out of him?

But now, an idea suddenly occurred to him.

He could pull out this little zombie's nails and teeth!

A zombie without fangs or claws would be weaker than an ordinary human. He could keep her by his side like a pet.

Would that not perfectly solve the problem that had been troubling him?

After Jiang Zhaosu slapped away the meat in Qi Xing's hand, she suddenly regretted it a little.

What a waste.

She swallowed reluctantly at the meat now covered in dust on the ground. When she looked up, Qi Xing's gaze nearly scared the soul out of her.

Damn.

This man was clearly quite handsome, but for some reason, he always gave her the creeps.

He was even scarier than the grotesque zombies in horror movies.

Qi Xing met her eyes and smiled at her again. His voice was gentle and soft, as though he were whispering words of love to a lover. "Little zombie, bare your teeth and throw a tantrum at me again, and I'll snap out every tooth in your mouth one by one and press them into your eye sockets."

Jiang Zhaosu: "."

She would never dare again.

Knowing that this beautiful-faced yet venom-hearted man was truly capable of such inhuman cruelty, Jiang Zhaosu immediately gave in.

Seeing Jiang Zhaosu shrink her neck, Qi Xing smiled and patted her little head as if it were a watermelon. "It's okay, it's okay. As long as Fortune behaves, I won't pull out Fortune's teeth and nails. I'll even give Fortune meat every day, okay?"

Jiang Zhaosu's legs were so weak that she could barely stand.

If she were not a zombie without bodily functions, she probably would have wet herself from fright already.

This man was truly more terrifying than a zombie.

Qi Xing was exceptionally skilled at giving someone a slap before tossing them a sweet date. After gently and kindly threatening her, he pulled more meat from his bag for her to eat.

Jiang Zhaosu suspected he simply did not want to carry such a heavy bag.

Qi Xing did not say what he planned to do next, and Jiang Zhaosu did not know where she should go. The two of them simply wandered aimlessly along the streets.

It was not until he spotted a storefront that Qi Xing suddenly called out to her. "Fortune!"

Jiang Zhaosu, who had been blankly watching a crow lingering beneath a distant eave, stiffly turned around. She saw Qi Xing standing at the entrance of a pet supply store, waving at her. "Come over. Let's go in and see if there's anything useful."