Monster Girlfriend(Apocalypse) 33

Chapter 33

A human who died in his own home undoubtedly aroused everyone’s fear. The zombies were already terrifying enough, but now the living were killing each other. How could it not make people angry?

The crowd gathered around the body and discussed who was most likely to be the murderer.

“That’s not right. I’ve never heard of Zhuzi having a conflict with anyone. Who would want to kill him?”

“I vaguely heard a sound last night. I think it came from his house.”

“This is too scary. Could the murderer be among us?”

“But Zhuzi doesn’t seem to have any wounds. How did he die so suddenly? Could it be a heart attack or something? Aren’t a lot of people dying suddenly now?”

“Zhuzi’s body is quite healthy. Look at his terrifying expression, as if he’s still looking at someone. I think he was smothered to death!”

“…”

However, after much discussion, no one dared to touch Zhuzi’s body. They only observed his appearance and found that the person’s head, neck, and hands had no wounds. It seemed that the possibility of sudden death was the greatest.

But for a perfectly healthy person to suddenly die in a rocking chair at home, with such a terrified and ferocious expression, was too strange.

Xia Weishuang observed the deceased, who was called Zhuzi, and then walked into his house and opened the kitchen to take a look. It was a mess inside. The wall behind the stove was black, and the pot contained a lump of noodles that gave off a burnt smell. The trash can was full of an unknown substance that smelled of burnt food. The bowls and chopsticks were piled in the sink and had already begun to stink. The entire kitchen was so dirty that one didn’t want to step in.

“Wait, what are you doing!” Someone saw Xia Weishuang’s actions and hurried over to ask.

Xia Weishuang barely knew anyone in the village. Everyone was not familiar with her. Even though they had just met at the village party secretary’s place, they were still very unfamiliar.

Xia Weishuang explained, “I want to see if there are any traces left by the murderer here.”

“Then we’ll go together.”

With Xia Weishuang’s reminder, everyone suddenly understood and began to search Zhuzi’s house. Xia Weishuang sighed and said nothing. Everyone knew that it was impossible to call the police or anything now, so if they wanted to catch the murderer, they had to rely on themselves.

Zhuzi’s living room and bedroom were also very messy. After seeing Zhuzi’s kitchen, the villagers couldn’t help but say sympathetically, “Zhuzi’s wife was such a virtuous person. When she was alive, his house was so clean. But as soon as this virus broke out, Zhuzi’s wife turned into a zombie and bit his child to death. Now Zhuzi is also dead. It’s really pitiful.”

“Aigh, maybe their family can be reunited underground. The most important thing now is to catch the murderer and avenge him.”

Xia Weishuang did not continue to search the house with the villagers. She knew that there was no point in searching inside the house anymore. Xia Weishuang came to the body and carefully observed his cloudy eyeballs.

As if she was getting closer, Xia Weishuang suddenly smelled something. She crouched down and lifted Zhuzi’s pant leg.

“Hey, hey, hey, what are you doing!”

The village party secretary, who had been called over by the villagers, was startled by Xia Weishuang’s bold action as soon as he entered the door.

Xia Weishuang looked at him calmly and said, “Don’t you want to know how he died?”

“…”

Indeed, it was possible that the wound was under the clothes. It was better to check. But to check the body of a middle-aged man, shouldn’t a girl avoid it?

Xia Weishuang didn’t think so at all. This was just a piece of dead meat. In fact, she already had her own guess about the cause of death and the murderer, but because it relied on her ability, it was not convenient to say it directly.

The village party secretary had someone strip off Zhuzi’s shirt and pants, but not completely. This was enough. After all, people were generally not so vicious as to kill someone in their private parts.

Zhuzi’s body was a typical farmer’s build, especially after he died, there was no aesthetic value to speak of. It was hot, and it had already begun to emit a stench of decay. His abdomen was slightly bulging, and it probably wouldn’t be long before it turned into a giant’s view.

“Only here is there a wound!” There were several deep scratches on Zhuzi’s right calf. They looked like scratches, and this was the most severely rotted part. The edges of the wound were bluish-purple, and there were several short, deep purple veins extending from the wound and then disappearing into the skin.

“Why does this look like a zombie scratch?” The village party secretary crouched down, feeling very strange.

As soon as they heard this conclusion, everyone took a step back, afraid that Zhuzi would suddenly turn into a zombie and drag a few more people to be buried with him.

Zhuzi’s neighbor, the one who said he had vaguely heard a sound in the middle of the night, said angrily, “Zhuzi was killed before he turned into a zombie. What’s the difference between this and murder? I’ve seen it. The food in his kitchen is all empty. Someone must have come to rob him!”

“You can’t just say that,” the village party secretary knocked on the door frame and said seriously. “We all know each other in our village. Who would do such a thing? Aren’t you just trying to stir up trouble with what you’re saying? At a time like this, we can’t have internal strife. We have to be united!”

Zhuzi’s neighbor quickly explained, “I didn’t say that Zhuzi was killed by someone from the village. We all have our own homes, and we’re not short of this little bit of food. What if an outsider secretly hid in the village and did it?”

“That also makes sense. The people in our village have no reason to harm Zhuzi. It must not have been done by someone from our village.”

“But Zhuzi doesn’t look like he was beaten to death, and he didn’t turn into a zombie. What’s with this strange thing?”

“Who said he must have been beaten to death? It could also be poison… ah, I know! Someone must have secretly come in with a zombie claw, scratched Zhuzi, and then scared him to death!”

“Then do you think he can still turn into a zombie? The zombies are all gone today. Maybe this virus has eliminated itself!”

“I still think it was done by an outsider.”

The crowd gathered around Zhuzi’s body and discussed. More and more people supported the idea that the murderer was an outsider. Coincidentally, there was an outsider here—Ke Xiaoxiao.

When their eyes stared over with hostility, Ke Xiaoxiao couldn’t help but hide behind Xia Weishuang.

Xia Qingxue was a little angry. “What are you looking at? You don’t think we did it, do you?”

“Weren’t you the only outsiders who came to the village yesterday?” a villager with a hot temper said. “You just admitted it yourself at the party secretary’s place!”

“That doesn’t mean we did it, okay? And it’s not even certain how this person died. Why are you wrongly accusing people!”

The villager and Xia Qingxue started to argue. Ke Xiaoxiao grabbed the corner of Xia Weishuang’s clothes and trembled. “Sister Shuangshuang, what do we do…”

Xia Weishuang rubbed her temples, a little headache. She said directly to the village party secretary, “I know who the murderer is.”

As soon as these words were spoken, the scene immediately quieted down. Everyone looked at Xia Weishuang with surprise, as if they didn’t understand why she would know who the murderer was.

There was only one answer. The murderer was someone she knew?

The villager immediately became suspicious. “Could it really be an outsider who came back with you?”

“Fugui’s granddaughter, I remember there was another girl who came back with you. She’s quite tall. She was waiting outside my door before. Where is she now?” The village party secretary narrowed his eyes and scrutinized Xia Weishuang.

“Fugui’s granddaughter…” someone whispered. “Isn’t that the one who likes girls? I heard she was dating a girl in school, which made her grandpa furious.”

“Look at that girl, she’s so close to her. Could she be her girlfriend?”

“No, no, it’s definitely not that one. I saw them on the street. Those two are very close. Oh my, at a time like this, instead of going home to find her parents, she’s going back to someone else’s hometown. Tsk, tsk, tsk… it must be that kind of relationship.”

The village party secretary cleared his throat loudly, interrupting the villagers’ gossip. He said directly, “Fugui’s granddaughter, you said it yourself. That girl knows martial arts and must be very powerful. We won’t randomly slander people without evidence, but do you know where she is now?”

They actually suspect Sang Lu?

Xia Weishuang’s expression immediately turned cold. Although, if they knew more about Sang Lu, her suspicion might be even greater than it was now. And last night, Sang Lu had indeed suddenly returned in the rainy night after Zhuzi’s miserable scream. Logically speaking, Xia Weishuang should also have suspected her.

But Xia Weishuang couldn’t do it. On the one hand, she didn’t want to suspect her emotionally. On the other hand, she rationally judged that it was not Sang Lu.

Sang Lu would not kill such an ordinary human for no reason.

But she couldn’t say this reason to the villagers in front of her.

At the same time, a faint sense of annoyance and anxiety arose from the bottom of her heart.

She hated it when people slandered, framed, and smeared Sang Lu, even if it was just a group of insignificant people, and even if Sang Lu might not care at all. But Sang Lu was perfect in Xia Weishuang’s eyes. It would be one thing if they were scared and suspicious of Sang Lu’s current strange state, but they didn’t know anything. How could they suspect Sang Lu like this?

Xia Weishuang could not tolerate others insulting Sang Lu’s image for no reason.

Xia Weishuang’s voice was a little cold and hard. “Don’t worry, she didn’t do it.”

“With your relationship, you would definitely protect her. What you say doesn’t count. Bring her here!”

“That’s right, that’s right, what you say doesn’t count! Your girlfriend knows kung fu. Besides her, who else could have secretly harmed Zhuzi?”

Xia Weishuang took a deep breath and said, “It was done by an outsider, but not us. First, Sun Zhuzi was scratched by a zombie, not at home, but outside. He didn’t know how to cook, which led to a lot of food being wasted. There was no food at home, so he was forced to go out to find some, and was thus scratched by a zombie.”

“You’re talking nonsense! It rained so heavily yesterday. If he had gone out, his shoe soles would definitely be muddy! Zhuzi’s shoe soles are quite clean. It doesn’t look like he went out,” Zhuzi’s neighbor said indignantly.

“That’s because his house has a concrete floor,” Xia Weishuang continued. “It was still raining when he came back. The mud on his shoe soles was washed away by the flowing rainwater on the concrete floor. But the mud splatters on his pant legs and the mud on the side of his shoes are still there, which is enough to prove my deduction.”

The crowd shook out the pants they had just taken off Zhuzi and saw that it was indeed so. Zhuzi’s neighbor was immediately speechless and couldn’t think of anything else to say after stammering for a while.

The villager with a hot temper asked, “Then why did he die before he turned into a zombie?”

Xia Weishuang said, “This is the key point I want to make. In fact, the murderer was the one who prevented him from turning into a zombie.”

Xia Weishuang lied without batting an eyelid. “You’ve been staying in the village, so you don’t know, right? Actually, espers have already appeared in this world. On my way home, I heard that there’s a person who can directly purify patients who haven’t completely turned into zombies. That is, they use their ability to kill them. After the patient dies, they won’t turn into a zombie, and there will be no wounds on their body.”

Because in the countryside, many old people had those old-fashioned battery-powered radios, which they could use to receive information from the outside world, so everyone knew about the existence of espers.

It was just that because there were none around them, it didn’t feel real. Hearing this so suddenly, the villagers still felt it was a bit absurd.

Xia Weishuang made a final decision. “This person must have come too, but I haven’t seen him. I only heard that this person likes to wear a Sun Wukong mask and also likes to engage in feudal superstitions.”

Zhuzi’s neighbor was suspicious. “Who knows if what you’re saying is true or not? We haven’t seen that person.”

“Then why didn’t this person turn into a zombie?”

Zhuzi’s neighbor couldn’t explain and scratched his head in embarrassment. “What if, what if the zombie virus has just died out?”

Xia Weishuang sneered and said, “It’s your business whether you believe it or not. I’ve already said everything I know. If you continue to suspect Sang Lu, that’s fine too, but I can’t guarantee what will happen next. Besides, you’re always trying to shift the suspicion to someone who has no direct relationship with Zhuzi. Could it be that you’re trying to cover up your own suspicion? To be honest, we were able to fight our way back from the outside. We’re not short of food at all, and we’re not afraid of anything. As for you… you pick on the weak. Maybe you found out that your neighbor was scratched by a zombie, so you secretly harmed him to get his property!”

As soon as these words were spoken, they made a lot of sense. The villagers’ gazes towards Zhuzi’s neighbor changed quietly.

That’s right. The people in our village indeed wouldn’t harm someone for no reason, but what if the person to be harmed is already beyond saving? Then, before he turns into a zombie, we can strike first, take his things, and leave. No one will find out.

Being so blatantly slandered in public, Zhuzi’s neighbor’s face turned red, and his heart was about to explode with anger. He shouted, “Don’t talk nonsense! I’ve been Zhuzi’s neighbor for so long. How could I do such a thing? Do you have any evidence? Stop wrongly accusing people!”

Xia Weishuang said faintly, “Since you can randomly suspect others without evidence, why can’t I?”

The villagers of Green Mountain Village: “…”

The village party secretary anxiously smoked a cigarette. “Alright, let’s not talk about it for now. Fugui’s granddaughter is right. We really can’t randomly suspect people. We have to make sure not to let a single enemy go, and never wrong a good person.”

“Party secretary, what do we do next?”

Just then, the door of Zhuzi’s house was suddenly knocked on. Another small team of people hurried over. It was the young and strong Xia Yu and Zhang Wenhao.

“Uncle Sun! We’ve found zombies!”

“Huh?”

The strange situation at Zhuzi’s house obviously confused the two young men, but now was not the time to explain. The village party secretary lit a cigarette and took a drag to calm himself down.

“You said you found zombies. Where are the zombies?”

“They’re in the small stream in the back mountain!” Zhang Wenhao gestured exaggeratedly to everyone. “They’re all over the place. Oh my god, we didn’t dare to get close. I hurried back to tell you. Everyone, don’t drink raw water.”

“Wow, that sounds so scary,” the village party secretary said quickly. “Let’s go, let’s go. While it’s not yet dark, let’s go and take a look first. By the way, you few don’t follow. Go and inform everyone in the village that a strange person may have come to the village. Be very careful at night. And also, check if there are any other outsiders in the village.”

The group of people split up and acted. Xia Weishuang and the others were not originally under command, but now that they were suspected of harming someone, the village party secretary said, “Why don’t you come and take a look too?”

Xia Weishuang had the idea of observing the zombies, so she nodded, but her expression was always rather cold. After all, she also had a temper.

On the way, Xia Yu quietly asked Xia Qingxue what had happened. Xia Qingxue explained it to him.

After hearing it, Xia Yu felt a little scared. “Little Xue, I’m not suspecting you, I just want to know… that Sang Lu, what kind of ability does she have? I always feel that she’s strange. I’m scared when I see her.”

Xia Qingxue was speechless and looked at him with teary eyes. After a long while, she said, “What a coincidence, me too.”

But she didn’t know how to explain Sang Lu’s ability. In the end, she could only say: she’s very good at fighting, the terrifying kind of very good at fighting.

And on the side, Ke Xiaoxiao seemed to have unintentionally approached Xia Weishuang. She suddenly hugged Xia Weishuang’s arm tightly and looked up at her with an adoring expression. “Sister Shuangshuang, thank you for just now.”

Xia Weishuang once again felt a little baffled. And this time, Ke Xiaoxiao’s distance was a little too close, so close that Xia Weishuang felt really awkward.

Xia Weishuang immediately withdrew her arm and pulled away a little, saying, “You’re too polite. I didn’t do anything.”

Ke Xiaoxiao bit her lip, seeming a little disappointed, but still forced a smile. “Sister Shuangshuang doesn’t like people holding her arm… I’m sorry. It’s so hot and I’m still holding your hand. I wasn’t being considerate.”

Xia Weishuang: “…”

How should she put it? Although she didn’t like to be too close to people in the hot weather, there were other reasons besides that.

Thinking of this, Xia Weishuang suddenly began to suspect that Ke Xiaoxiao was the same kind of person as her.

Xia Weishuang knew that many straight female best friends could be very affectionate with each other, kissing, hugging, and calling each other “husband,” “wife,” and “darling.” That was all too common. But lesbians, on the other hand, couldn’t do that. They often wouldn’t be too intimate with their same-sex friends.

And, after all, this world was dominated by heterosexuals. Xia Weishuang didn’t have any gaydar. Her attraction to the same sex was completely developed by Sang Lu. Besides Sang Lu, she had no interest in love at all.

So, when she met a girl, Xia Weishuang would subconsciously treat her as a straight girl. Unless the other party took the initiative to reveal her orientation, she wouldn’t pay much attention, nor would she take the initiative to ask.

But Ke Xiaoxiao… felt too strange. Even someone as slow as Xia Weishuang was beginning to notice that something was wrong.

So Xia Weishuang slowed down and deliberately lagged behind the crowd with Ke Xiaoxiao.

“Ke Xiaoxiao, I don’t hate you.” Xia Weishuang directly addressed the hidden question in her words, then said, “It’s just that you should know, I’m a lesbian, and a lesbian with a girlfriend.”

Xia Weishuang said, “Besides Little Xue and the children, I’m not used to being too intimate with the same sex. I don’t know if you can understand. It’s not that I hate anyone. It’s just that I need to maintain my own principles.”

Xia Weishuang pursed her lips and still asked, “Xiaoxiao, are you straight?”

Ke Xiaoxiao lowered her head and remained silent.

So Xia Weishuang said, “Whether you are or not, it’s better for us to keep some distance. I don’t want Sang Lu to be unhappy.”