Hearing Gavin's words, the little girl froze for a moment, then abruptly lifted her leg.
Keeping her eyes on the road ahead, she shouted at Gavin without turning her head.
"How high? Over my head?"
"What?"
Gavin was caught between laughter and tears, but quickly continued, "Don't lift it that high unless you're a cheerleader!"
"Then what? What do I do? Which button do I press, or which lever do I pull?"
"None of that. Just look ahead and count to thirty!"
As Gavin reminded her, the girl's foot obediently left the gas pedal, and the RV began to slow down.
Madison slowed along with it. In less than ten seconds, the RV's speed had dropped to around a hundred miles per hour.
Behind the RV, the Old Ford immediately changed lanes and sped up, overtaking it before pulling in front and beginning to slow down.
As all three vehicles gradually decelerated, William leaned his upper body out of the Old Ford's passenger-side window and screamed toward the RV's bumper.
"Dad!!!"
"Quit fucking yelling, kid!"
Eugene punched William in the butt, nearly knocking him out of the car.
William grabbed the roof of the Ford, shut his mouth, and kept his eyes fixed on his dad.
Trapped between the other vehicles, the RV slowed even further. After another dozen seconds or so, it finally dropped below ten kilometers per hour.
Since the girl didn't know how to stop, the RV kept rolling slowly in gear, even without her foot on the gas.
Seeing this, Gavin shoved the door open and jumped off the crawling Tyrannosaurus.
At the same time, the Old Ford slowed down further, trying to stop and block the RV as it continued to roll forward.
But William quickly told Eugene to stop, worried he might hurt the half-bodied dad stuck on the bumper.
Meanwhile, Gavin had already sprinted a couple of steps and grabbed the side door of the Ford E450 RV.
He would've had to run another six or seven steps to reach the driver's door, so he grabbed the closest one. As long as he could get inside, that was all that mattered.
Sure enough, the RV's side door was unlocked. Gavin opened it and darted inside, leaping aboard in a single stride.
"Beautiful!"
Madison shouted excitedly, then kept slowing the vehicle until it went from crawling to inching along.
As for Gavin, the moment he got inside, he saw a woman lying motionless in the aisle, blood trickling from her head.
He stepped around her and was about to rush toward the driver's cabin when a roar rang in his ears!
His pupils contracted. He immediately changed direction and charged straight toward the bathroom at the back of the RV!
The snarling behind the bathroom door grew more frantic, but after listening carefully, Gavin narrowed his eyes in understanding.
There was snarling, but no banging. The zombie inside the bathroom was probably restrained.
Sure that the zombie wouldn't break out anytime soon, Gavin turned and rushed toward the driver's seat.
The little girl saw him coming and excitedly tried to say something, but before she could get a word out, Gavin grabbed her by the collar, lifted her up, and tossed her onto the passenger seat.
He climbed into the driver's seat, stopped the RV, and pulled up the handbrake. Only then did he let out a breath, shove the door open, and jump down.
The little girl stared at Gavin's back in astonishment from the passenger seat. Then she wiped the sweat from her face and climbed out too.
At the same time, the Ford and the Tyrannosaurus stopped as well.
William was the first out, bouncing toward the bumper.
Seeing William rush at the half a zombie stuck on the bumper, Eugene hurried after him and kicked him flying.
"Ah!!!"
William cried out in pain and fell to the ground. He rolled over to look at the zombie, tears streaming from his eyes.
"Quit fucking crying, kid. At least you can still see your dad. I haven't even found a trace of my sister!"
Eugene cursed irritably, then went around to the front of the zombie and looked down at its face.
"Raaagh!!!"
The zombie instinctively tried to bite Eugene, but he dodged with ease.
After avoiding its attack, Eugene rubbed the bridge of his nose and cursed viciously.
"Fuck you, Barin! This is what you get for stealing my nail gun. This is the price!"
"You fucking died easy. You just up and died, leaving all your fucking problems for me to deal with!"
"Fuck this! The world's changed. It's the apocalypse now, and this is fucking hell!"
"Come on, weren't you still trying to hit me? Now get your ass back to hell and let me clean up your mess!"
After cursing like a madman, Eugene reached for the small of his back, intending to pull out his gun and shoot the zombie.
But when he felt around, all he found was his own solid butt...
Eugene froze, glanced at the Tyrannosaurus, and instinctively opened his mouth.
He wanted to say something, but didn't. Taking a deep breath, he kicked the half-bodied zombie hard in the neck.
"Fuck you, Barin! This is all your fault!"
One kick, two kicks, three kicks...
Crack...
Eugene kicked the zombie clean off the bumper.
Seeing his dad fall to the ground and crawl along, dragging his shattered half-body, William's throat began to tremble.
"No!!!"
He shouted and scrambled toward his dad on all fours.
But before he could reach him, Eugene had already used his foot to flip the zombie over, leaving it on its back as it snarled.
"Look closely. You fucking look closely. This is your dead dad, all right. Dead and gone! Your dad!"
Eugene planted his foot on the half-bodied zombie's chest and shouted to Madison, "Hey, you black dude, put a bullet in this thing! You took my gun, for fuck's sake!"
"Fuck you, midget! Call me that again and I'll rip your head off and shove it up your ass so you can get a good look at the folds of your own intestines!"
Madison yelled back. The little girl nearby gaped in astonishment at his words.
"Wow!"
As the little girl exclaimed, Gavin held out his hand to Madison.
"Knife. There's another zombie in the RV."
"What?"
Madison paused. Then he watched Eugene pull out a tactical knife and silently handed it to Gavin.
Gavin took the knife and walked back into the RV without a word. He stepped around the unconscious woman and went to the bathroom door.
He pushed the door open a crack and looked inside. The zombie in the bathroom was only seventeen or eighteen, a handsome young man with thick blond hair.
Probably the little girl's family.
But so what if he was family? Was Gavin supposed to have the girl pose with a zombie for a movie called My Zombie Brother?
No way.
Once he confirmed that the zombie had been tied up for a while, Gavin pushed the door open and drove the knife up through its eye socket, twisting it hard twice.
The zombie went still. Gavin moved behind it, untied the rope securing it to a hook, and lifted the body.
He left the RV and carried the corpse to the front of the vehicle.
By the time he arrived, Eugene was still standing on William's waist, pinning the kid to the ground.
Madison, meanwhile, held the military knife and mercilessly stabbed William's dad in the back of the head, twisting it hard again and again.
"Ugh!"
The little girl suddenly rushed to the front of the vehicle and vomited.
Gavin tossed the young zombie beside William's dad, crouched down, and wiped his tactical knife on the zombie's clothes.
Noticing this, Eugene grinned and muttered, "You famous son of a bitch. How do you like my knife? It's killed people, you know!"
"Fuck you, Redhead midget! Watch your fucking mouth!"
As soon as Eugene finished speaking, Madison straightened up as if triggered, gripping the military knife and glaring as he walked toward Eugene.
Seeing the towering Madison, all six feet nine inches of him, approaching, Eugene quickly backed up two steps and raised both hands placatingly.
"Hey, hey, calm down. Calm down. I didn't mean anything by it!"
"So what? If I hear you say that tough-guy bullshit to Gavin again, I guarantee you won't see tomorrow's sunrise. You'd better show some respect!"
Madison strode right up to Eugene and pressed his chest against him, forcing him backward.
"Got that? Huh? You got that, fucker?"
Cursing and shoving him the whole way, Madison actually drove Eugene all the way into the Ford, crushing him against it.
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