Monster Girlfriend(Apocalypse) 10

Chapter 10

Xia Weishuang supported Xia Qingxue’s head, her back to the window, and gave her some water. After a moment’s pause, she whispered in her ear, “Don’t open your eyes yet. Little Xue, you’re an esper. You can use your ability, you can control it, so don’t rush, take it slow… try to put this bandage away.”

The bandage Xia Weishuang had placed in Xia Qingxue’s hand disappeared a moment later.

Xia Qingxue was both surprised and delighted, whispering, “Am I really an esper?”

“Yes, congratulations,” Xia Weishuang said. “Where did those things go?”

Xia Qingxue closed her eyes and frowned as if in thought. “It seems like there’s another small world in my palm. They’re all there.”

“Can you take them out?”

“Yes!”

After a few tests, the two confirmed Xia Qingxue’s ability. She could easily take out and put away small objects, but larger things were more difficult. Something as large and heavy as a car would almost drain all her energy.

Xia Weishuang thought for a moment and whispered in her ear, “Little Xue, we might have to leave tonight.”

“Huh?”

“This is a good opportunity. That car is in your space.” Xia Weishuang held Xia Qingxue’s hand, a coldness in her eyes. “They’ll definitely call you over later to persuade you to join them. There’s no better opportunity than this. And… we can’t delay.”

“Why?” Xia Qingxue could understand the first part, but she didn’t quite get the second.

Xia Weishuang said cryptically, “The longer we delay, the more people will get hurt. And, I suspect there’s something hidden here, something definitely more terrifying than ordinary zombies.”

There were no insects, no zombies here. Even though they were in the suburbs, and there was a willow tree and grass in the courtyard, the summer night, which should have been filled with the chirping of insects and the croaking of frogs, was eerily silent.

Xia Weishuang couldn’t ignore this anomaly. The sense of crisis this anomaly gave her was even more severe than the one brought by the yellow-haired and red-haired men.

In some aspects, Xia Qingxue had always relied on Xia Weishuang, so she agreed directly. She would follow all of Xia Weishuang’s instructions.

**

At nine in the evening, based on the information she had seen online earlier, Xia Weishuang calculated that it was about time for the injured person to turn into a zombie. She had Xia Qingxue pretend to have just woken up.

When the hooligan saw this, he was about to take her to see the boss.

Xia Weishuang was left behind, watched by another hooligan. This way, even if Xia Qingxue wanted to pull any tricks, she would have to consider Xia Weishuang’s safety.

Xia Weishuang smiled at her, telling her not to worry about herself and to focus on dealing with the yellow-haired man and the others to buy time.

About twenty minutes later, a commotion suddenly broke out outside. The soundproofing here was poor, and soon the hooligan guarding the door heard what had happened.

It turned out that one of the members of the second team had been scratched by the zombie that the little girl’s mother had turned into on his way back. He was scared and didn’t dare to say anything, so he hid quietly. Now, he had turned into a zombie and was causing trouble.

Xia Weishuang pretended to be scared and said, “It’s so dark here. If a zombie comes, we won’t be able to see it. Let’s go to a brighter place.”

The hooligan guarding the door hesitated.

Xia Weishuang said, “Look, you don’t even have your weapon with you. What will you do if you encounter a zombie? If we go over and stay with everyone, I can’t run away, and you’ll be safer too. Isn’t that better?”

The factory had a backup generator, but there wasn’t much coal stored, and the wiring was all set up, so it only provided light to the largest processing workshop, where everyone usually gathered.

The hooligan guarding the door was persuaded. He opened the door and let Xia Weishuang out. But Xia Weishuang’s foot was injured and she couldn’t run fast, so she needed to be supported.

Xia Weishuang smiled at him, then suddenly raised her hand and threw a pungent, irritating liquid into the hooligan’s eyes. He immediately covered his eyes and screamed, staggering back.

Xia Weishuang put away the safflower oil and, enduring the pain, ran to the brightly lit hall, shouting, “Bad news! Someone outside has been bitten!”

It was already chaotic here. The yellow-haired and red-haired men were shouting loudly, trying to calm everyone down. Even though they had abilities and could easily kill zombies, they couldn’t stop the zombie from coming from within their own ranks. With just a moment of carelessness, the brother who had turned into a zombie had already injured several more people.

Now, everyone was in a panic. Even the leader couldn’t control the situation for a moment.

Everyone was afraid that the person next to them would turn into a zombie, and everyone was afraid that they themselves had been injured and would turn into a zombie. As soon as Xia Weishuang’s news came out, it became even more chaotic.

Xia Qingxue was standing next to the red-haired man. After meeting Xia Weishuang’s eyes, she immediately turned and ran.

When the red-haired man saw this, he subconsciously gave chase. He was a strength-type esper, but his other aspects were unchanged. Xia Qingxue was very agile, so he couldn’t catch her for a while.

The yellow-haired man shouted, “Enough!”

He raised his hand, and his palm began to heat up. Xia Weishuang stood by the door and said coldly, “Get out of the way!”

Xia Qingxue didn’t hesitate to dodge to the side. The next second, Xia Weishuang raised her hand and, with a crack, the safflower oil bottle shattered on the ground, splashing the flammable liquid all over the red-haired man.

At this moment, the yellow-haired man’s flames shot out, and a raging fire erupted, spreading to the red-haired man and making him scream in agony.

The screams rang in her ears. Xia Qingxue couldn’t help but shudder, but she still turned around and acted according to Xia Weishuang’s plan.

The yellow-haired man, who had accidentally injured his own brother, was also at a loss. He could start fires, but he wasn’t good at putting them out!

And Xia Qingxue took this opportunity to rush towards him. Suddenly, she stretched out her hand, and a heavy car suddenly appeared in the air. BANG! It pinned the yellow-haired man down.

A stream of bright red blood flowed out from under the car. Xia Qingxue, whose head was throbbing and her mind a blank, fell to the ground, trembling uncontrollably as she looked at the flowing blood.

K-killed someone… is he really dead?

Xia Weishuang calmly pulled up the exhausted Xia Qingxue, pushed her into the car, and fastened her seatbelt. Then she got into the driver’s seat herself, turned the ignition, and started ramming her way through.

Later, Xia Qingxue asked her how she felt at that time.

Xia Weishuang said she felt nothing, because if you don’t hurt the trash, the trash will hurt more people, including ourselves.

The blood-stained car rushed out of the workshop gate. At this moment, Xia Weishuang was like a robot programmed to follow a set procedure. She had no distracting thoughts, her eyes locked on her target. Anyone who stood in her way would fall under her wheels.

BANG!

Xia Weishuang forced herself to ignore the pain in her right foot. After a sprint, she braked hard, then jumped out of the car and snatched the keys from the target’s belt.

Then she got back in the car and continued to look for the next target.

The people outside were in a mess. They shouted, they cried, they raged… but they had brought all this on themselves.

Xia Weishuang felt her head starting to ache again, and her chest felt tight. She gripped the steering wheel, turned the car, and turned on the blinding high beams. Amidst the loud noise, she crashed into the door of the room where the girls were locked.

When the chaos first started outside, they had been watching everything from the window, but the door and window were locked, and they could do nothing.

Now, they were huddled in the corner of the room, watching in terror as the car broke through the door and entered halfway.

Xia Weishuang rolled down the car window, opened her mouth, her voice a little hoarse, “You’re free. Some of the people on the ground have car keys. Find a car and go.”

Then she began to slowly reverse the car.

In the corner, a small figure suddenly stood up and ran towards her, stumbling.

Xia Weishuang looked at the little girl and asked seriously, “Do you want to come with me?”

The little girl nodded, so she opened the car door.

The little girl bit her lower lip and jumped in, neatly closing the door and fastening her seatbelt.

Xia Weishuang reversed the car out, then turned it around and drove towards the factory gate. All their actions had been effective because they had seized the initiative and caught them by surprise.

But now, some of the hooligans had reacted. The ones who were lucky enough not to be injured also started to go to the parking area to get cars to fight back against Xia Weishuang.

But Xia Weishuang had no intention of getting entangled with them. Without their esper leader, this mob would sooner or later destroy themselves.

Xia Weishuang charged towards the factory gate. The road to survival was right ahead.

Something unexpected happened.

The ground beneath her feet suddenly trembled violently. Xia Weishuang gripped the steering wheel tightly, feeling the car sway unsteadily.

She looked out of the car in astonishment and saw that something seemed to be drilling up from underground!

A dull rumbling sound came from below, as if there was thunder underground. Suddenly, the entire car tilted to the right, and then slowly rose into the air.

Xia Qingxue said weakly, “Where did that snake come from…”

A huge, gnarled snake was coiling around the car, pulling them upwards. But when Xia Weishuang looked closely, she realized it wasn’t a snake at all, but a thick tree root!

And at this moment, equally terrifying tree roots were drilling out of the ground one by one, like a frenzied dance of snakes, sweeping away the living things on the ground.

Creak, creak—

The tree root squeezed the steel with force, making a piercing sound. The car’s body was deforming bit by bit. Soon, they would be crushed to death along with the car.

“Jump out of the car!”

Xia Weishuang said sharply. Because the car was particularly heavy, the height the tree root had lifted it to was not yet too high. Jumping out of the car now was still possible. A little later, it might not be!

Xia Qingxue bit her lip, opened the car door, unbuckled her seatbelt, and climbed out, letting herself fall to the ground.

But the car door on the right was facing down and was tightly entangled by the tree root, unable to be opened. Xia Weishuang calmly unbuckled the seatbelt of the little girl next to her, put the gate key in her hand, opened the door, leaned out, and lowered her down before letting go.

On the ground, one big and one small girl rolled into a ball. Xia Qingxue lay on the ground and looked up, her heart pounding wildly from the terrifying sight:

“Sis!”

The gate was not far.

But now the car was being lifted very high.

“Hide first!” Xia Weishuang shouted.

Her right foot was burning with pain, and her entire ankle was already swollen and hot.

Xia Weishuang looked at the distance to the ground, closed her eyes, took a deep breath, and jumped down.

The wind whistled in her ears. She suddenly landed on something solid.

Unlike the pain she had expected, she fell into something cool and soft. The fresh scent of sea salt refreshed her spirits, and strands of long hair wrapped around her with the night wind.

Xia Weishuang couldn’t think, couldn’t understand, couldn’t react. She could only feel it all. She slowly raised her head and saw the face she had longed for day and night under the starry sky suddenly appear before her, seeing the unattainable wish of a thousand nights come true.

“Sang Lu.” Xia Weishuang reached out and cupped her face. She was like someone immersed in an ecstatic dream, smiling as she said, “Welcome back.”