Chapter 38
In front was Sang Lu, who had broken out of the water. Behind were the relentlessly pursuing zombies. Xia Weishuang didn’t have time to think and, pulling Wei Yunlang, continued forward. As she ran, she asked, “What do you mean? You know her?”
Wei Yunlang stammered, “Not really. I just saw her once when I was on the road.”
At that time, Wei Yunlang was following the guidance of his stargazing and had accidentally fallen into the encirclement of a group of zombies. He had hidden himself, thinking that he would have to suffer some hardship to escape, but suddenly, the sound of bodies falling to the ground came from outside.
Wei Yunlang quietly peeked out from behind his cover and saw the scene of Sang Lu’s massacre.
This scene had left a deep impression on Wei Yunlang’s young and pitiful heart, making it unforgettable. At that time, he even had the idea that the disaster star he was looking for was her.
But Sang Lu’s act of slaughtering zombies made him unable to be sure of his guess. In addition, not long after, the location of the disaster star he had calculated had changed, so Wei Yunlang had forgotten about Sang Lu.
But who knew that this time, it was her again…
Xia Weishuang didn’t think much of it. When she reached the front of the pool, she let go of Wei Yunlang. She turned around with the long-handled pickaxe and squatted down, neatly smashing a zombie’s ankle.
The zombie fell to the ground with a thud, struggled slightly, and then fell silent.
The cause of death was not Xia Weishuang’s pickaxe, but Sang Lu’s move.
Xia Weishuang was about to continue forward when Wei Yunlang finally couldn’t help but call out to her, “Don’t go over!”
Xia Weishuang turned her head and looked at him in surprise. “What’s wrong?”
With Sang Lu in front and zombies behind, Wei Yunlang’s tongue felt bitter. He felt that his life was about to end. “The location of the disaster star I calculated is on this mountain.”
The deep meaning of his words needed no further explanation. Xia Weishuang understood as soon as she heard it. Her eyes immediately darkened. “Wei Yunlang, adults have to be responsible for what they say.”
Wei Yunlang licked his lips nervously. “I’m not lying to you, and there’s no need for me to lie to you.”
Behind them, a zombie suddenly rushed up, its chest splitting open, and a third hand actually drilled out!
This was a terrifying mutated zombie, hidden among the ordinary zombies, and it had only just made its move.
“Be careful!”
Xia Weishuang directly kicked Wei Yunlang away, sending him rolling on the ground. Wei Yunlang smoothly got up, and just as he was about to say thank you, he suddenly realized—that’s not right. That zombie wasn’t even coming for him. It was far away from him. There was no need to dodge like that!
This woman was clearly taking personal revenge. She was too petty!
And the three-handed mutated zombie’s target was neither Wei Yunlang, Xia Weishuang, nor Xia Qingxue and the others, but Sang Lu!
The ambitious mutated zombie’s muscles bulged, and it went from an ordinary weakling to a bodybuilder in an instant. It directly burst out of its shirt and, majestically… howled at Sang Lu, imitating a gorilla and beating its chest, with all three hands.
This magical scene not only dumbfounded Xia Weishuang and the others, but even Sang Lu seemed to be so scared that she stared at him blankly.
But while those with comprehension were shocked and amused by this scene, the brainless ordinary zombies did not stop their pursuit because of this.
Fortunately, Sang Lu quickly reacted. She supported herself on the rock with both hands and, with a light push, she nimbly sat on the round, moss-covered boulder. Then, her right hand suddenly transformed, and like a flash of lightning, she poked the mutated zombie’s third hand back in.
Finally, she took the mutated zombie’s crystal.
Sang Lu killed the mutated zombie with extreme speed, turned her body, and began to slaughter the other zombies that were chasing her.
Xia Weishuang’s pressure suddenly dropped. She couldn’t help but raise an eyebrow at Wei Yunlang. “How does it feel to be saved by a disaster star?”
Wei Yunlang had a cute, fair face. To this, he said with a thick skin, “Didn’t I say that the accuracy of my calculations is only seventy or eighty percent?”
So Xia Weishuang withdrew her gaze with satisfaction and turned to run to Little Xue’s side to help them deal with the zombies.
There was no choice. After all, Sang Lu only cared about herself. Wherever she was, she would beat up the zombies there.
But Xia Weishuang didn’t see that when she turned and ran towards Xia Qingxue, Wei Yunlang showed a grave expression behind her.
Yes, that’s right. His calculations were not 100% accurate, but to determine the location of the disaster star, he basically had to calculate it once every day. The day before yesterday, yesterday, today… for three days in a row, they all told him that the disaster star would appear here.
The time could not be accurate, he only knew that it was recently. Who it was specifically could not be determined, so he wanted to hide and wait…
Could it be Sang Lu?
Could it be this terrifying woman who had helped them eliminate the zombies and could be said to have saved them?
Wei Yunlang couldn’t be sure. He could only tell himself to be patient, observe more, not to talk nonsense, but also not to let his guard down.
By this time, there were only a few zombies that could still move on the mountain. The female demon sitting on the rock had slaughtered the zombies that had chased her up with the force of a whirlwind. Everyone couldn’t help but show a happy expression.
Sang Lu’s zombie-fighting looked casual, but in fact, she had been careful not to let the zombies contaminate this water source that she liked. The zombies’ bodies were all thrown far away by her.
The last zombie was brought down by everyone’s combined efforts.
Xia Weishuang was so tired that she was panting, leaning on the long handle of her pickaxe. She noticed that Sang Lu seemed to be particularly silent today.
Of course, Sang Lu didn’t like to talk in the first place, but this silence was based on feeling. She had been looking at her, but it was as if she was thinking about some particularly tangled and important problem, which made her look like she was in a daze while looking at her.
Xia Weishuang turned her head to Wei Yunlang and said, “Do you want to calculate again?”
Wei Yunlang said, “Once a day is enough. More won’t be more accurate.”
Xia Weishuang thought for a moment and felt that a risky trip couldn’t have no results. She saw more than twenty zombie corpses scattered by the side of the pool. After they had completely stopped moving, they had begun to rot again, which was particularly disgusting. She said, “Then let’s burn the bodies. They’re too close to the water source. If we leave them, they’ll pollute the stream.”
And it would also pollute the small pool that Sang Lu liked to bathe in.
Of course, the others had no problem with it, so they immediately began to act. Xia Weishuang, on the other hand, walked to Sang Lu and washed her hands.
There was not much flesh left on the fish monster at the outlet of the pool. The part that was exposed to the water had also been gnawed away by the turtles and small shrimps in the pool, leaving only a huge, snow-white fish skeleton, which looked quite clean.
Sang Lu probably didn’t mind this fish skeleton, so Xia Weishuang didn’t bother with it. She washed the sweat and dirt from her hands, stood up, and gently brushed Sang Lu’s long hair aside. “What are you thinking about?”
She had wanted to say to her, Do you want to come back with me tonight? But when she saw those eyes, Xia Weishuang realized that Sang Lu was thinking, so she asked.
And this time, Sang Lu gave an answer.
“I’m thinking about, Ashuang.”
Xia Weishuang was a little surprised.
In the past, after they became lovers, Sang Lu would often call Xia Weishuang affectionately “Shuangshuang.” But when Sang Lu wanted to talk about something relatively serious, or when she was a little serious or angry, she would call her “Ashuang.” If it was more serious, she would call her by her full name.
And Xia Weishuang was more used to calling her by her full name. Only when they were intimate would she call her “Lulu.” When she was with Sang Lu, she would always be easily shy. In this relationship, Sang Lu was the more proactive one.
But after Sang Lu left, Xia Weishuang often regretted this. She was always regretting, why didn’t she express her heart more when Sang Lu was still alive? Why didn’t she let Sang Lu feel more love?
People are always so ridiculous. Only after losing everything do they begin to regret that they didn’t do well enough.
So Sang Lu came back. Xia Weishuang thought, I will never let Sang Lu be wronged again, and I will never hide my love and be shy to express it again.
So Xia Weishuang asked her, “You’re thinking about me. What are you thinking about me?”
Sang Lu’s eyes were blank, and for once, there was a complex emotion in them. She said truthfully, “Ashuang… how can I make you, only belong to me, only like me, only look at me?”
Xia Weishuang chuckled, a little helpless and a little sweet. “Isn’t what I’m doing now not enough?”
This time, Sang Lu was very firm. “Not enough, not enough, not enough.”
She repeated it three times. Although she might not know the meme “important things must be repeated three times,” she was undoubtedly expressing her attitude solemnly.
In this regard, facing the single-minded Sang Lu, Xia Weishuang had no better way.
She had thought it through. After she had dealt with these recent messy things, she would move out with Sang Lu alone. Perhaps this would give Sang Lu more of a sense of security.
However, she definitely couldn’t ignore Little Xue. And Lele. Lele’s future was also a problem. She needed to think about it more.
“I like you enough already.” Always being suspected of her feelings, Xia Weishuang was also a little annoyed. She pinched Sang Lu’s cheek and said reproachfully, “I like you, I like you very, very much. And you’re still not satisfied. You’re so greedy.”
Sang Lu closed her mouth, her lips not curved. She looked at Xia Weishuang with wide eyes, as if she had fallen into a new round of thought.
Xia Weishuang was helpless and could only say, “You can think about it slowly. I’ll go and help them first.”
She helped pile up the firewood, then cleared the firebreak to prevent a forest fire from starting after the fire was lit.
Not far away, Ke Xiaoxiao was picking up firewood, leaning against a cracked mountain wall. Suddenly, she seemed to see something in the mountain crevice that was about a person’s width and was startled. Ke Xiaoxiao cried out in surprise and took a few steps back, then tripped on a tree branch and fell backward.
Xia Weishuang was close, so she went up and helped her up.
“Be careful. What’s wrong with you?”
Ke Xiaoxiao, still in shock, grabbed Xia Weishuang’s arm and slowly stood up. “I think I just saw something moving in that crack—”
Her voice stopped abruptly. A chill suddenly ran down Ke Xiaoxiao’s back.
Because a pale tentacle had suddenly inserted itself between Ke Xiaoxiao and Xia Weishuang.
It brushed past Ke Xiaoxiao’s neck, quiet, and firm.
“Sang Lu…?” Xia Weishuang was a little puzzled and turned to look at Sang Lu.
Sang Lu slowly stood up from the moss-covered boulder. She seemed to have figured something out. Her eyes went from blank to firm, and her crimson lips curved high again. She gave Xia Weishuang a smile.
Sang Lu said, “No, next time.”
The next second, Ke Xiaoxiao was thrown out by the pale tentacle with no resistance at all. She was like a leaf in the wind, incredibly light. In an instant, she left Xia Weishuang’s side and then fell heavily to the side.
The huge force made Ke Xiaoxiao’s body unable to stop. She let out a hoarse cry of pain, vomited a few mouthfuls of blood, and rolled to the front of the cracked rock wall.
Ke Xiaoxiao was almost broken in half by Sang Lu. But even if she didn’t die on the spot, her injuries were probably not light.
The sudden and drastic change stunned everyone present. No one had expected Sang Lu to act so suddenly, without any warning, as if in her eyes, there was no difference between a living person and a zombie.
If there had to be a difference, the difference was Xia Weishuang.
At that moment, Xia Weishuang didn’t know what she was feeling. She only knew that at this moment, she had gone from a hot summer day to a cold winter month.
She didn’t have time to think, to think. She saw Ke Xiaoxiao trembling and making a weak sound, as if she was about to die in the next second. She said, Sister Shuangshuang, save me, save me… Xia Weishuang actually felt a fear and despair that almost drowned her.
No, it shouldn’t be like this, it shouldn’t be…
Xia Weishuang took a step forward, wanting to save Ke Xiaoxiao, but a thumb-sized white silk thread suddenly shot out from the rock crevice and stuck to Ke Xiaoxiao’s shoulder. A huge, half-human-sized spider flashed by and dragged Ke Xiaoxiao in forcefully. Its knife-like sharp feet pierced through Ke Xiaoxiao’s chest.
In the end, Ke Xiaoxiao let out a desolate laugh. She hung her hands down and was dragged into the depths of the rock crevice by the spider and disappeared.
No one had time to save Ke Xiaoxiao. It was too fast. All of this happened too fast.
Xia Weishuang had saved Ke Xiaoxiao once, but she couldn’t save her a second time.
She stood there, suddenly feeling that everything in front of her was very unreal. She even let out a laugh, feeling that everything was just a dream.
How could zombies suddenly appear in this perfectly good world? Absurd. How could the dead Sang Lu come back? Ridiculous. How could the lover who had pulled her out from under the dark clouds do such a thing? Impossible.
Impossible.
Impossible.
Xia Weishuang looked back at Sang Lu as if for help. At this time, she was still hoping that Sang Lu would tell her that all of this was fake.
But Sang Lu just nimbly came to Xia Weishuang in a few moves. She cupped Xia Weishuang’s cheeks, looking down at her, her eyes full of a strong possessiveness and a cruel “love.”