Chapter 25 : C25
Chi Ying thought for a moment, then weakly raised her hand, “I, I want to go.”
“…”
The corner of Gu Chi’s mouth twitched. Why did this girl want to join in the fun?
“No.”
Chi Ying stared at him without blinking, not afraid of his disagreement at all. She knew the secret he didn’t want to reveal.
If she was left there, there was no guarantee that she would not tell the truth to others. At that time, his teammates would definitely run out because they would get worried about him.
Gu Chi looked at her for a few seconds, understood the threat in her eyes, and almost laughed out of anger.
He gritted his teeth lightly, and then said, “Yunfei, give her a gun.”
“Brother Gu, you want to take her with you? Why?”
“She has a use.”
“What’s the use?” Song Shi asked.
Gu Chi glanced at her, but didn’t answer.
How would he know her use? Maybe it was adding to the chaos?
Lu Yunfei quite agreed, and he said, “It’s fine to take Chi Ying with you. Captain could protect her anyway, and this girl’s luck value is super high. She will definitely bring the captain back safely if she goes with him.”
“Superstition,” Mu Yu laughed, but didn’t disagree.
After all, since Chi Ying came to their team, the image of her mascot had been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
First, they found supplies in the supermarket where she was discovered, and then Gu Chi’s ability broke through. Later, when Base 36 was besieged by zombies, she was the first to discover Professor Lin and Zhang Bin.
Song Shi gritted her teeth and could only swallow the unwillingness in her heart.
*
Chi Ying sat listlessly in the back seat of the car, watching Gu Chi finish off the zombies one by one.
Gu Chi took the time to look at the rearview mirror inside the car, and he couldn’t help but find it funny.
“You weren’t so cowardly when you threatened me just now.”
Chi Ying: “…”
“Why do you want to follow me out?”
Why?
“Just… I want to follow you. What if you were not prepared and got attacked from behind by zombies?”
Gu Chi said with a half-smile, “Then what’s the use of you following me? Can you help me kill zombies if I’m attacked?”
Chi Ying: “…”
She really could.
Gu Chi opened the car door, looked at Zhang Bin in the co-driver, and said, “Can you tell if they had secondary mutation symptoms?”
Zhang Bin shook his head, “No, there was no obvious difference from the zombies I encountered before.”
“Hmm… That’s weird. What do you think could be causing them to behave strangely?”
“…I-I don’t know.”
“As a laboratory researcher, you must have heard the theory about the evolution of zombies that the professor published, right?”
Zhang Bin let out a “ho” roar from his throat, but it was quickly covered up by his coughing.
Gu Chi had already stepped out of the car, looked back at him, and said unhurriedly, “We didn’t find any trace of the zombie leader in Base No. 36 before. I think that these zombies attacked us so purposefully, it should be the leader’s order.”
“Yes, yes.”
Gu Chi seemed to be really exploring the reason with him, with a focused expression.
“If this assumption is true, then we can’t deal with thousands of zombies at all… The only way out is to find the leader. Will you accompany me down to see the situation?”
Zhang Bin nodded with a dry smile.
Gu Chi turned back to Chi Ying and said, “I’ll go out with him to see the situation, you stay in the car.”
“……Okay.”
Chi Ying sat in the car, exchanging information about the zombie leader with the system.
“How strong is the leader?”
[Not sure. Like Ye Wuhan, in the novel he is already an eighth-level ability holder, but it took a lot of effort to deal with a zombie leader of Gu Chi’s level.]
Chi Ying blinked. Gu Chi’s current ability level had just passed seventh-level, so he would definitely not be able to fight.
“What about the lowest and weakest leader?”
[Even the weakest, a fourth-level ability holder like Lu Yunfei was no match for him, even a fifth-level ability holder could barely fight.]
Chi Ying frowned.
It sounded like Gu Chi didn’t have a 100% chance of winning.
After a while, as if she had made up her mind, she stretched out her hand and opened the car door.
“I’ll go to have a look.”
*
In the deserted urban area, apart from hordes of zombie corpses and garbage scattered everywhere on the streets, there was no prosperity in the past.
The zombies that surrounded them before seemed to have disappeared suddenly.
Chi Ying followed the most dense “ho ho” sound of the zombie group. Along the way, there were zombies who had fallen to the ground and had their heads shot everywhere. Occasionally, she could meet a few still alive, so she casually killed them.
The further she went, the more uneasy she felt. Along the way, there were at least hundreds or even thousands of zombies pierced by ice blades.
In the past few days, Gu Chi hadn’t recovered his ability properly, but he was wasting so much…
“Ho! Ho!”
The excited screams of zombies came from around the corner.
Chi Ying pursed her lips uneasily and quickened her pace.
…
When Chi Ying arrived, Gu Chi at the corner knelt on the ground on one knee, as if exhausted. The blood of the zombie stained his entire leg, and only a few parts of his arms and face could be called clean.
Zhang Bin was guarding at the back, while Gu Chi faced the hordes of zombies ahead.
Behind him, Zhang Bin stretched out his hand slowly. His fingertips were different from what Chi Ying usually saw, the same gray-green color as ordinary zombies.
He was about to touch the back of Gu Chi’s neck.