Wu Heng, Lini, and the other two had walked barely a hundred meters through the night when they heard something fall behind them.
"Father!"
Lini abruptly turned around and cried out in panic. Donny and Vishnu also immediately looked back.
"It seems your father has already found his answer," Wu Heng said softly.
"Rahmat!" Lini looked at Wu Heng.
"He should be fine and will be here soon. But for now, perhaps we should deal with the trouble in front of us first."
Wu Heng pointed ahead. A large horde of walking corpses slowly emerged from the dark forest before them.
Their faces were expressionless, their bodies stiff, and they gave off a heavy stench of rot. Maggots still clung to many of them.
Some even had venomous snakes draped around their necks, while centipedes and spiders crawled through others' eye sockets. It was like a savage exhibition of evil.
Everyone instinctively took a step back.
"We only have the one portion of bananas in Vishnu's hands left. What do we do?" Tali asked, gripping a wooden stick. The thin little stick in her hand gave her no sense of security whatsoever.
She regretted not bringing a kitchen knife when she had left. At least then, she might have been able to chop down one or two of them.
Just as she thought that, she suddenly heard a baby crying beside her.
The crying seemed to come from her abdomen, then shifted into the forest on the left. That pull from blood and kinship made a thought surface uncontrollably in her mind.
A powerful premonition rose within her.
It was the child she had once aborted. It was calling for her, crying miserably and afraid.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I really didn't want this, but I had no