Chapter 43: This Is a Conspiracy!
"Sister Ruoqing, what do we do now? All the food and drinks in the mall were already cleared out by us before. If we stay here, we can only wait for death."
Si Ruoqing and the others, who had been driven to the fourth floor of the mall, sat together in a circle, completely at a loss.
"Then we'll fight our way out of here and find a new shelter!" Si Ruoqing said with a firm expression. "This time, we will never help those ungrateful wretches again!"
"But the first and second floors of the mall are swarming with zombies! There's no way we can get out!" a female team member said dejectedly.
"Sigh!" The group sighed in unison.
"I knew it! We shouldn't have saved those people in the first place!" the indignant young girl, Xiao Liu, cursed resentfully. "A bunch of ungrateful wretches!"
Just as everyone was dejected and at a loss.
Xiao Yi, who had seemed detached and uninvolved this whole time, finally spoke up. "I do have a shelter. I can also take you all there, but I have one condition. Once I help you establish a new shelter near mine, you must obey my arrangements from now on."
"You have a shelter?" Si Ruoqing stood up in disbelief, looking at Xiao Yi in astonishment.
"Can you really save us?" another female team member also stood up excitedly, grabbing Xiao Yi and asking.
"Did you think I just wandered in here by chance?" Xiao Yi said with a faint smile.
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Meanwhile, Zhou Zhengyu, Scarface, and the others, who believed they had completely taken control of the shelter, could no longer contain themselves after driving Si Ruoqing's group out. They eagerly pounced on the few women huddled together.
These past two months had been pure torture for them!
They were desperate to unleash their desires!
But they had overlooked one person!
The woman who had shouted the loudest for Si Ruoqing to leave had disappeared at some point!
And the two elders were also nowhere to be seen!
Zhou Zhengyu grabbed a beautiful young woman, trying to drag her into a storeroom to vent his frustrations...
He had thought this young woman would try to curry favor with him, or at the very least, put up a symbolic struggle.
But he suddenly discovered that not only was she not resisting, but a smile of relief was playing on her lips.
*Snap!* A crisp snapping sound came from the storeroom.
Zhou Zhengyu seemed to recall something terrifying and abruptly looked up towards the storeroom!
He saw that the middle-aged woman and the two elders were now holding hydraulic cutters in their hands.
And the iron chain binding the iron gate had been severed!
The faces of the middle-aged woman and the two elders were all wearing the same smile of relief as the young woman.
This smile felt utterly insane.
At this moment!
He finally understood!
This was all a conspiracy, hatched by this group of seemingly weak old, frail, and female people!!!
These old, weak, and vulnerable people had learned of his and Scarface's plot to harm Si Ruoqing. They wanted to stop them but knew they didn't have the power.
So they devised this plan!
A plan to sacrifice themselves!
To perish along with them!
Only now did he understand why these people had suddenly become so meek!
Why they had suddenly chosen to betray their beloved Si Ruoqing and side with him!
All of this!
It had just been a conspiracy!
But it was all too late!
The iron door of the emergency escape route was pulled open!
Hordes of zombies swarmed in madly!!
The two elders and the middle-aged woman were the first to be hit, instantly submerged by the tide of zombies!
"It's over! Everything's over!" Zhou Zhengyu howled in agony, violently throwing the young woman to the ground.
The young woman, however, let out a peal of triumphant laughter. "This is the retribution you ungrateful people deserve! Retribution!"
Seeing the massive horde of zombies charging in from the escape route, everyone knew they were doomed to die today!
But just then, a figure suddenly burst forth as if falling from the heavens.
A dominant and sharp Mo Dao blade danced in his hand.
As mighty and invincible as a god of war!
A great swathe of zombies was cut down under his blade.
In just a moment, all the zombies that had charged in were slain. But the man did not retreat; instead, he advanced, charging back down the escape route.
Si Ruoqing and the other team members followed closely behind the man with the Mo Dao. Seizing the opportunity while he cleared the zombies at the entrance, they slammed the iron gate shut again, desperately piling heavy objects against it.
They were safe!
The people in the rooftop shelter were finally safe again.
"Officer Si! Why did you come back?!" the young woman who had been thrown to the ground wailed in anguish.
Zhou Zhengyu and the others, who had just survived a brush with death, stared dumbfounded at everything that had just happened.
It was all too sudden.
Everyone was stunned.
Zhou Zhengyu wiped the fine cold sweat from his forehead, the corners of his mouth turning up into a sneer as he said sarcastically, "How touching. For you bitches to save Officer Si, you were actually willing to die with us."
"What a pity, though." Zhou Zhengyu sneered. "The great Officer Si and that new idiot came back, not only saving us but also sacrificing themselves. So noble! I'm so fucking moved!!"
"Hahahaha!" Scarface also laughed maniacally, his expression suddenly turning cold and vicious as he pulled an axe from his waist and said savagely, "You bitches! You wanted to kill me, didn't you? Well, now I'm going to chop your hands off first!"
With that, Scarface raised his axe and brought it down viciously on the arm of a young woman beside him!
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