Chapter 45: Chapter 45: Brothers to the End

“Just two zombies…”

Zhang Su rubbed his chin. This answer was a bit unexpected, but considering the day when someone used the elevator downstairs to transport the zombies, it seemed quite reasonable, after all, there were only so many people in the entire unit, including those who left from the underground parking lot, roughly speaking.

“I see your weapons are clean, didn’t kill the zombies?” Zhang Su pointed to the fire axe and crowbar thrown aside.

“Oh my, big brother, you guys probably don’t know, those zombies are dangerous, if you get bitten by them, you’ll be infected with a virus and turn into one of them, I saw it with my own eyes, can’t touch them!”

Chongzi seemed to hear something unimaginable, his face filled with panic, waving his hand repeatedly.

Zhang Su remained silent, wasn’t this typical of bullying the weak and fearing the strong, daring to attack people, but afraid of facing zombies.

Zheng Xinyu and Zhong Xiaoshan exchanged glances and then looked at Zhang Su with a strange expression, seemingly saying, only you, this madman, would lead us to kill zombies…

“Cough!” Zhang Su, speechless, suddenly grew angry, pointing to the fire axe and crowbar on the ground, “You bullying coward, meek in front of zombies, but punching hard at women, holding these weapons, what are you doing? You guys are really damn dogs!”

Chongzi awkwardly said, “We didn’t dare to kill zombies, but these weapons can be used to ward off danger…”

“Ward off danger your ass, how did you deal with the zombie on the first floor?”

Zhang Su said angrily, if he wasn’t too lazy to move, he would have slapped Chongzi in the face.

“Well… Brother Xiang and I found that zombies are very sensitive to sound. There’s a household on the first floor without security windows, I climbed in and made noise by knocking on the door, those dumb zombies just kept banging on the door, and Brother Xiang and I slipped into the staircase and ran up.”

Chongzi spoke energetically, thinking he was very clever.

However, in Zhang Su and the others’ eyes, this behavior was almost suicidal, clearly only dealing with the problem at hand, not considering the possibility of wandering zombies upstairs, which would leave them surrounded!

“Leave the stuff, you can go now.”

Zhang Su suddenly lost interest, waving his hand.

Initially, he thought Chongzi’s slick appearance could provide useful information.

It turned out he only had slight cleverness and sneakiness, unable to be of any real help in facing dangers, losing Zhang Su’s interest.

???

Zheng Xinyu, Zhong Xiaoshan, and Chongzi kneeling on the ground were all surprised, was that it?

The two thought with Zhang Su’s personality, he wouldn’t let this guy off easily, but he let Chongzi go so lightly.

Chongzi felt as if luck had descended, unlike the dead Brother Xiang outside, he had purely gotten away with his life.

“Thank you, thank you big bro, may you live a long life!”

Chongzi jumped up as if granted amnesty, and walked towards the door, casting a longing glance at the crowbar and backpack lying on the ground, which contained all his and Brother Xiang’s possessions, but now he didn’t dare take them.

“No way!”

Zheng Xinyu’s voice suddenly rang.

Zhang Su’s lips barely twitched, with a half-smile, sitting quietly aside without speaking.

“Beautiful sister, uh… big bro said I can go, what else do you want me to do?”

Chongzi smiled fawningly.

Zheng Xinyu’s face darkened, unfriendly, “You came for me, trying to rob me, he let you go, but did I allow you to leave?”

“This…” Chongzi turned to look at Zhang Su, who only spread his hands to him, his face instantly sinking.

“Sister, I made a wrong step, with your kind heart, forgive me, I’ll repay you as a beast in the next life.”

Chongzi started begging.

If before the zombie outbreak someone had pleaded with Zheng Xinyu like that, she would have generally compromised, but now…

Whew!

Bam…

A gust of wind swept past, Zheng Xinyu swung the baseball bat, smashing it hard on Chongzi’s left arm.

“Ah… you, you damn, my arm! Ah, hiss… it’s broken, it’s broken!”

Chongzi’s face turned wax-yellow, his body trembling with pain, a layer of sweat seeping from his forehead.

Swearing words stuck in his throat, forcibly swallowed back, various vengeful plans gradually clear in his heart.

“It’s not broken, just a bone fracture, with good care it’ll heal in more than a month, but now without medicine, maybe… two or three months.”

Zhong Xiaoshan explained patiently, actually her recovery time had a crucial condition, which was ample nutrition.

In today’s food and water shortage, even with a stable environment for recovering bone injuries, it’d take at least half a year!

“Now you can go!”

Zheng Xinyu’s chest heaved violently, pointing to the door, her eyes filled with complex emotions, she was indeed furious, but there was also a slight guilt over hurting someone.

Chongzi endured the pain, his left arm completely unusable, suppressing the chill in his eyes, trying to appear miserable and aggrieved, silently nodding as he walked towards the door.

“There’s one thing you still need to take with you.”

As Chongzi’s hand touched the door handle, Zhang Su spoke behind him.

Chongzi stopped, about five seconds later, he turned around, lips trembling, “Big bro… you, you say.”

“Brother Xiang was brought by you, remember to take Brother Xiang with you, good brothers leave together, right?”

Zhang Su pointed towards the door, he’d already checked the gear, Brother Xiang had nothing much on him, most of it was packed in the backpack.

…

“Zhang Su, aren’t we being a bit too much.”

Behind the door, Zheng Xinyu saw through the peephole Chongzi dragging Brother Xiang’s corpse out of the safety door with great difficulty, leaving eerie bloodstains on the ground, emotions churning within her.

“You managed to give him a lesson, if it were before, it’s already quite impressive, probably enough to be the leader among half-street thugs, but now… you’re still too soft-hearted!”

Zhang Su leaned against the wall, speaking slowly.

Zheng Xinyu’s face turned pale, her voice dry, “Are you saying, I should have killed him…”

Hearing this, Zhong Xiaoshan’s heart skipped a beat, she hadn’t expected they’d reach a human-eating state so quickly.

“Asking this indicates your heart already has the answer.”

After saying this, Zhang Su looked at Zhong Xiaoshan, and asked, “Xiaoshan, if it were you, what would you do?”

Zhong Xiaoshan, expressing sympathy, paused in thought and then said, “I… I’d probably do the same as Sister Xinyu, hit him a bit and then let him go.”

Zhang Su shook his head slightly, “From your perspective, this might seem harsh enough, having sufficient deterrence, but you must understand the saying ’strike but not kill, bitten by the snake’, later I’ll show you something interesting.”

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