Monster Girlfriend(Apocalypse) 57

Chapter 57

In the conventional way of thinking, after a zombie outbreak, hospitals would become the most terrifying gathering places for the living dead.

This was not wrong. In the early stages of the zombie outbreak, hospitals were indeed one of the most dangerous places. But most things are not eternal, and the same goes for hospitals, which the living avoid.

Since the birth of zombies, they have regarded preying on the living as their highest pursuit. When everyone chose to flee the hospital, the zombies would choose to “flee” with them, and they would go out to find flesh and blood according to their instincts.

In a certain stage, the number of zombies that could move freely in the hospital would actually decrease, waiting for someone to come to the hospital to find medicine and then gather back again, or randomly return because they could not sense the presence of living things anywhere.

It had been a long time since the zombie outbreak. Xia Weishuang thought that unless there were still living people hiding in the hospital, it should have already entered the stage of zombie dispersal.

She told Bai Qian her deduction, and Bai Qian was enlightened. “What you said really makes some sense. That Sang Lu seems to be afraid of alcohol. Should we go to the hospital to find alcohol?”

Xia Weishuang said, “This is one purpose. In addition, we need more airtight equipment to hide our scent. The hospital has protective suits. I can’t think of anything else suitable for now.”

“Let’s go then,” Bai Qian said in a low voice. “Anyway, if she catches up, it will be the same wherever we go.”

It was not the same wherever they went. A City was very large, and there were several hospitals in this urban area alone. Xia Weishuang said, “Let’s go to Ankang Chinese Medicine Hospital.”

Ankang Chinese Medicine Hospital was a private hospital with good service and high fees. It was small in scale and had few patients. It was mainly for recuperation, and the environment was quiet and far away from the city. There was also a turbulent river next to it that flowed to the sea, which directly blocked the zombies on the other side of the river, minimizing the danger.

Both physically and mentally, Xia Weishuang was exhausted to the extreme, but she still analyzed bit by bit, “When I came back, I met a rescue team. They not only had to save people, but also to rescue supplies. The larger hospitals should have been swept clean. Ankang’s location is a bit remote, so it may not have been visited yet.”

Bai Qian sighed. “But there are only the two of us. How much can we take?”

At this time, the two of them thought in unison, if only Coal Ball could come back.

Who knew that as soon as they thought of Cao Cao, Cao Cao would arrive? A black shadow the size of a leopard suddenly chased after the car from outside. With a meow, a look of pleasant surprise appeared on their faces.

Xia Weishuang quickly rolled down the car window. Coal Ball became smaller with a poof, and with a speed that was invisible to the naked eye, it jumped into the car.

It was so tired that it was panting. It lay on Xia Weishuang’s lap and refused to raise its head. Bai Qian was concentrating on driving and couldn’t take care of Coal Ball, so she let Xia Weishuang do it. Because from time to time, crazy zombies would rush out from all directions, she had to concentrate on dodging to avoid an accident.

Xia Weishuang’s heart ached. She poured some water into her palm and let Coal Ball lick a few sips, then took out a crystal and stuffed it into its mouth.

Although Coal Ball’s body had become smaller, its bite force was not inferior to when it was bigger. It easily crushed the crystal and swallowed it. After eating and drinking, Coal Ball’s spirits were much better, and it meowed softly twice.

Xia Weishuang was rummaging through its fur to find the place where it had been injured before, when she heard Bai Qian’s voice suddenly filled with fear. “Crap!”

“What’s wrong?”

“Coal Ball said that it was chasing my scent, and that woman is about to catch up. It’s just that her speed is a little slower than its, and she was just lured away, so she didn’t chase after us immediately.”

How could she be so fast?

But it was also true. Coal Ball had caught up. Sang Lu was not stupid. She looked from afar and saw that there were no cars and no living people in the direction she was lured to, so she would naturally turn around immediately.

Bai Qian said anxiously, “What do we do? Are we still going to the hospital?”

She had thought that the previous measures would give them plenty of time, but she didn’t expect it to be so urgent.

“Let’s go to the hospital.”

Xia Weishuang patted the Coal Ball on her lap, disinfected its wound, and said, “I suddenly have a plan, but it’s a bit risky. If it succeeds, it might buy us more time, but if it fails…”

“This world is already in chaos,” Bai Qian said. “There’s nothing that’s not risky. Since there’s a chance of success, it’s worth a try. Tell me, what’s the plan?”

“There’s a river near Ankang Hospital.”

Bai Qian let out a “hmm,” not quite understanding what would happen with a river. “What’s wrong with the river?”

Xia Weishuang took out a phone with no SIM card from her pocket. This was originally left by Bai Qian. Because it had only been used for the alarm function these few days, there was still 30% of the battery left.

“We can use that river to make Sang Lu leave, but…”

Xia Weishuang lowered her head and smiled at Coal Ball. “But to complete this plan, we need Coal Ball’s help.”

“Coal Ball is very smart. Believe it.”

So Xia Weishuang said, “Then Sister Qian, you teach Coal Ball how to drive.”

Bai Qian: “?”

Coal Ball: “??”

The weak, pitiful, and helpless Coal Ball trembled as it raised its drooping tail, revealing its bald tail tip. The pitiful tail tip had no black fur, revealing the white skin, and it was injured and oozing blood.

Xia Weishuang sympathetically applied some iodophor on it, which made Coal Ball whimper and quickly swing its tail behind its butt.

Unfortunately, no matter how pitiful it was, Xia Weishuang still had to force a cat to learn how to drive.

**

Under Bai Qian’s full speed, the car directly rushed to the front of Ankang Chinese Medicine Hospital.

Xia Weishuang and Bai Qian each carried a prepared bag with the things they needed. Xia Weishuang was also carrying a small bucket of gasoline.

Coal Ball showed its might and killed the zombies that were chasing the car, then turned small again and lay on Bai Qian’s neck to rest.

Bai Qian fed it a crystal with a backhand, but she couldn’t feed it too much, as it would not be able to digest it.

Ankang Chinese Medicine Hospital was not large. The door was open. As Xia Weishuang had said, there were not many zombies that could move freely.

The two of them went straight to the pharmacy and saw a duty nurse sitting on a chair inside, who had committed suicide in despair with her eyes open.

The railings of the pharmacy, and the entrance and exit, were all covered in blood. Xia Weishuang seemed to see a dense crowd of zombies clinging to the windows and doors, roaring. Perhaps she knew that she could not last long in this situation, so she chose to end her life in advance.

The two of them pried open the door and went in to find alcohol. They only filled two plastic bags, which were heavy. This was all. After all, there were few patients here, and the stock was also small. When she was filling the alcohol, Xia Weishuang saw the cabinet of Chinese medicinal materials, and her gaze once again stopped on the label of a transparent cabinet.

“I don’t know if it’s useful, after all, the amount is too small,” Xia Weishuang explained on her own initiative, then took out a bag of □□ and put it in her pocket. This kind of thing, which was less useful and more toxic, was also in short supply.

Before she left, Xia Weishuang closed the female nurse’s eyes.

There were many departments on both sides of the corridor. Some of them had their doors open, and some had their doors closed. When they passed by the departments with open doors, they would go in to see if there was any alcohol.

Not all the zombies had left the hospital. There were still traces of zombies in some of the locked departments, but most of them were trapped. And the place with the most zombies was actually on the third floor of the inpatient department and in the closed elevator. Therefore, Xia Weishuang and Bai Qian’s actions were relatively smooth.

“Where are the protective suits?” Bai Qian asked. “Will a Chinese medicine hospital have this kind of thing?”

“The current Chinese medicine hospitals, although they are mainly based on Chinese medicine, most of them have a combination of Chinese and Western medicine.” When Xia Weishuang came in, she had looked at the guide map at the entrance of the lobby, so she remembered where the different functional areas of the hospital were.

Xia Weishuang said, “The operating room is on the third floor. Let’s go to the third floor and look.”

The two of them were now at the end of the corridor, but there was a staircase here, so they just had to climb up.

When they reached the second floor, a strange sound suddenly came from a distance. Coal Ball, which was lying on Bai Qian’s neck, immediately bristled and hissed at the window at the end of the second-floor corridor.

Xia Weishuang went to the window and took a look, and her face immediately changed.

How could Sang Lu be so fast!

In the night, a woman in a red dress was standing in front of their car, bending down to look inside. She was tall and thin, as if she could be blown away by a gust of wind. But when she walked forward and out of the car’s cover, she revealed the deformed body under her tattered red dress.

The terrifying tentacles that were spreading wantonly had already replaced the slender human legs, as if they were impatiently writhing to tear something apart, making the night under her feet even darker.

Suddenly, Sang Lu turned her head and looked at the second floor of the hospital. From a distance, Xia Weishuang could not see her expression.

But Xia Weishuang’s heart still skipped a beat. A strong sense of grief almost burned her heart like a raging fire. She bit her tongue hard, pursed her lips, and continued to run up to the third floor.

“Is she coming?” As if being chased by the god of death, Bai Qian anxiously stroked Coal Ball.

“Yes, she’s coming.”

As soon as they reached the third floor, Xia Weishuang pushed Bai Qian to the opposite side. The operating room was on the opposite side. This was the location of the high-end single patient rooms. “Hurry up and find the place where the protective suits are kept!”

“What about you?”

“I’ll stop her here.”

Xia Weishuang pushed Bai Qian again. Bai Qian hardened her heart, turned around, and did not look back. She left Coal Ball and the alcohol to help Xia Weishuang. As for herself, she had to find the place where the protective suits were kept as quickly as possible. This was her mission.

“Coal Ball, go and get the fire extinguisher on the wall!”

“Meow!” Coal Ball smashed the cabinet where the fire extinguisher was kept and dragged it out.

Xia Weishuang put down the gasoline can in her hand, unscrewed it, and mixed a bottle of alcohol into it. It was really too bad, too bad.

Xia Weishuang’s hands were trembling. At a time like this, she even found the speed at which the alcohol was flowing out of the bottle too slow.

She had only mixed one bottle, and she was already impatient, or rather, there was no time for her to continue mixing.

She glanced at the fire extinguisher and, while doing her own thing, she commanded Coal Ball to drag a chair out of the single patient room next to it.

Xia Weishuang removed the safety pin of the fire extinguisher, placed it in the middle of the corridor, and used a chair to support the nozzle of the fire extinguisher, so that it was aimed at the window of the third-floor corridor.

Sang Lu likes to climb through windows, Xia Weishuang quickly judged.

“Coal Ball, press here later. I’ll leave it to you.” Xia Weishuang scooped up Coal Ball’s small head and whispered a few words in its ear. Coal Ball meowed dizzily. Fortunately, its intelligence was extraordinary now, otherwise it would not have been able to complete the mission.

Coal Ball was on high alert. Xia Weishuang, on the other hand, found a plastic basin from the bathroom of the single patient room, unscrewed the alcohol, and poured it in. These were all plastic packaging and could not be broken with a single knock like a wine bottle.

But this was too slow. Xia Weishuang had just poured two bottles when she heard the sound of the corridor’s glass window shattering. With a piercing meow from Coal Ball, it pressed down on the fire extinguisher.

A strong stream of cold air sprayed towards the window. But having made a mistake once, how could Sang Lu make the same mistake a second time? With an extremely fast reaction speed, she hooked onto the window sill and flipped up to dodge the carbon dioxide stream.

Only after the fire extinguisher’s short spraying time had ended did she flip back. Coal Ball had already meowed and jumped onto the gasoline can.

“There’s no time.”

Xia Weishuang, carrying her things and holding the basin, walked to the middle of the corridor.

In the dimly lit corridor, Xia Weishuang and Sang Lu looked at each other. When they saw each other, it was as if only they were left in the world.

“Shuangshuang…” Sang Lu looked at Xia Weishuang and let out a vague call. Her urgent and greedy gaze seemed to be impatient for the delicious food in front of her, but there was still something that made her suppress her desire.

Xia Weishuang trembled and took a step back. She thought her determination was very strong, but when she saw this face, the pain still threatened to drown and suffocate her.

Sang Lu’s tentacles slid along the cold corridor and walls. Her beautiful face turned slightly, and her eyes, with the cold and stubborn color of a beast, looked at Xia Weishuang, with a rare hint of confusion.

“I don’t understand.”

“What don’t you understand?” Xia Weishuang asked back in a hoarse voice, unable to help but take a deep breath.

“I don’t understand…” Sang Lu asked, “why do you like the past?”

“You really don’t understand at all?”

“That was fake. Why, can’t you, follow your heart?”

Xia Weishuang immediately covered her mouth. The excessive breathing made her hands and feet numb. “How can you deny her?! That was not fake, that was real! People are not always willful. People have self-control and pursue virtue. Because they love others and care about others, they restrain themselves. This is because people have souls!”

The bewitching and strange woman came under the sign. She opened her mouth slightly, and a hoarse voice came from her throat due to her injury. “These things, are not necessary. Why do you care? I don’t understand. I only have—”

Xia Weishuang shouted, “Coal Ball!”

Coal Ball swiped with its paw, and the gasoline can broke. It splashed down and drenched Sang Lu.

“…I like Shuangshuang.”