When Zhang Su saw everyone being suspicious, he had already scanned the area within sight. It was indeed as Zhao Dezhu said, no one had been here!

“But… it’s understandable that there are no survivors, but why aren’t there any zombies? This furniture city is huge, yet there’s not even a night guard.”

Zhang Su looked puzzled as he scanned the visible floor areas; indeed, there were no signs of activity, it was eerily quiet.

Zhang Ya said, “Brother Su, security in places like this doesn’t necessarily patrol inside the store. I used to work at Xuri Furniture City, and a security brother told me they basically gather in the surveillance room at night to play cards…”

“The security might not have turned into zombies, and they escaped.”

Zhong Xiaoshan suggested another possibility.

Zhang Su nodded: “Alright, anyway, let’s be careful. Xiaochen, Teacher Xiaoyu, you two stand guard here and keep an eye on the car. Just at the Jinyuan Mall entrance, there was a thug trying to get on the RV to steal something, but I caught him red-handed!”

“Huh?”

Everyone was shocked, completely unaware of such an incident.

“So, when you jumped off the car then, it was to chase that person?” Zheng Xinyu suddenly realized.

Zhang Su nodded: “Exactly, the person later went into the mall building B, and I didn’t bother with him. Anyway, stay vigilant, survivors are getting more dangerous.”

As time goes by, the food survivors have is running low, supplies are depleting. In the eyes of some, the risk of scavenging supplies from zombies is far greater than fighting their own kind!

“Alright, I understand, Brother Su, don’t worry!”

Chen Hanzhou agreed, touching the USP in his arms with his left hand.

“Let’s go sit over at Tianliang Redwood and solve the things that need solving.”

After speaking, Zhang Su shone his flashlight at the shop sign and walked over first.

Leaving two people to continue standing guard at the door, everyone entered one after another, lighting a camping lamp to illuminate the whole store.

“Redwood sofa, hehe, first time in my life sitting on this! Ah… it’s comfortable.”

Zhao Dezhu patted the hard sofa arm and sat down, feeling a stabbing pain in his back, yet still grinned and exclaimed comfort.

“Old Tan, is your daughter doing better? Ask her about what happened before and quickly deal with those three!”

Zhang Su jumped directly onto a long sofa and sat on its back with an air of superiority.

Upon hearing they should deal with three people, Tang Xiaoxiao and Tang Xiu immediately became uneasy because they were certainly included.

“Brother, big brother, we have nothing to do with Xiang Wei, we were just escaping together, everything was his doing, blame lies where it belongs, just find him, go find him and that’s enough.”

“Exactly, Captain Jia, you probably don’t know, Xiang Wei didn’t injure his leg, he’s pretending, wrapping it with gauze and smearing a bit of blood, just to avoid work. The worst part is… the blood was smeared from a sanitary pad!”

The two women talked like machine guns, hastily clearing themselves from Xiang Wei and slipping in a jab.

People from Zhang Su’s team looked at each other, what kind of person is this, truly bizarre!

“What?” Jia Shiqin looked at Xiang Wei who was half-unconscious on the floor, with anger brewing inside: “I trusted him so much, yet he turned out to be this kind of person!”

“Alright, alright, everyone shut up, I don’t believe your words, let Old Tan ask his daughter!”

After getting onboard the car, Tan Huajun gradually calmed down. Hearing the conversation, he felt a jolt in his heart, looked at his daughter in his arms, and softly asked, “Lanlan, can you tell mom what happened in the mall? How did grandpa get hurt?”

Mo Qianlan’s state was stable, somewhat blank yet calm, but upon hearing about the mall and grandpa, her emotions immediately changed, tears fell, her lips moved but she couldn’t speak.

Some people become stronger after facing daily hardships in the apocalypse; everyone in Zhang Su’s team belongs to that group.

But it doesn’t rule out that some people collapse completely after facing ongoing mental trauma…

Mo Qianlan is just a 15 or 16-year-old girl, more than half a month ago, she was happily going to school, maybe secretly had a boy she whispered to, the life now is worlds apart, and after seeing her grandpa being bitten by zombies, she’s on the brink of collapse.

Faced with such a situation, nobody knew what to do, Tan Huajun held his daughter with pain and gently comforted her.

“Hmm.” Zheng Xinyu suddenly walked up, tugged on Mo Qianlan’s backpack, and speaking without context said, “Sister, do you like Nezuko? I’m also a Demon Slayer fan, hey, which one do you think is more handsome, Purgatory Anshou Lang or Ushijima Tenyuan?”

Among everyone present, only Liu Tianji at the door understood Zheng Xinyu’s words, almost spurting out; talking anime at such a serious moment, isn’t that wrong?

Yet, it was precisely this sentence that made Mo Qianlan’s dazed eyes suddenly clearer. Through her tears, she looked at the unfamiliar sister in front with a kind smile, then at her concerned mom, and her lips puckered as she burst into tears.

“It’s better to cry out than hold it in, let her cry.” Yuwen solemnly said.

Tan Huajun wiped her daughter’s tears from her cheeks, softly saying, “Lanlan, don’t be scared, mom’s here, and there are many uncles and aunties here, don’t be scared, don’t be scared.”

“Mom!” Mo Qianlan finally spoke, then pointed at Xiang Wei on the floor: “It was him, mom, it’s because of him, everything is because of him, he started fire, he killed Uncle Ma, and then pushed grandpa to block zombies, grandpa’s leg was bitten then!”

“Dad…”

Tan Huajun closed her eyes in pain, even imagining her father’s struggle, the pain in her heart was piercing.

“What?!” Jia Shiqin was incredibly shocked: “Xiang Wei did such a thing? How, how could it be…”

“How couldn’t it…” Tang Xiu spoke: “Xiang Wei is a scumbag, he forced Tang Xiaoxiao and I to be his women, promised to let him play with us for letting him escape, and even wanted to molest Lanlan, it was Uncle Tan protecting her with all his might that stopped this beast!”

Tang Xiaoxiao also said tearfully: “Exactly, the mall’s fire was started intentionally by Xiang Wei, we were all scared to death, he wanted to create chaos and have Uncle Tan and Brother Ma block the zombies, buying time to escape.”

“Xiang! Wei!”

Tan Huajun gritted her teeth and spat out two words. Having killed many zombies and people since the disaster, at this moment, the killing intent in her gaze erupted, she drew out a short dagger and headed towards Xiang Wei.

Zhong Xiaoshan thoughtfully took Tan Huajun’s place, holding Mo Qianlan and comforting her.

Zheng Xinyu sneakily leaned over to Mo Qianlan’s side and whispered, “I think my wife is handsome…”

“Old Tan, you’re impulsive.” Zhang Su lit a cigarette and jumped to the ground to stop Tan Huajun, slowly saying.

“What… do you mean, Brother Su, are you telling me not to kill him? He killed my dad and also tried to defile Lanlan, I, I must kill him today!”

Tan Huajun gritted her teeth, from the start of the disaster until now, she has never been so angry. Before, her killings were mostly out of necessity, but this time is different!

“Of course not!”

Zhang Su shook his head: “Xiang Wei definitely deserves to die, but shouldn’t die without knowing why, and do you really believe the words of these two women? Shouldn’t you ask Lanlan again, or Xiang Wei, about what the two women might have done?”

People felt a chill hearing Zhang Su’s words, not knowing why Xiang Wei shouldn’t die ignorantly, implying he should die clearly, bearing all the fear before death, as for whatever issue these two women have, it’s unknown.

Precisely because it’s unknown, we must find out, avoid killing an innocent and make sure not to let a bad person off!

Source: Webnovel.com, updated by NovelKeep