Chapter 42

Shen Chen’s words implied something else. Ye Tianlong’s face suddenly froze. He stammered and didn’t know what to say, so he had to make a few awkward laughs to cover it.

This really was a neighborhood of low occupancy. There were only a few zombies along the way, and Shen Chen easily got rid of them. As they passed through the children’s park of the neighborhood, several five-year-old zombies staggered over and roared.

Looking at the little zombies, who used to be pure and lovely kids, Shen Chen shook his head helplessly. If now was the end of the world, what he felt the worst about was the children. They couldn’t protect themselves and were often the first targets to be attacked by zombies. Even if they avoided the initial misfortune, they wouldn’t be able to survive long in the future.

Many people abandoned their children, as, in their eyes, children were the most cumbersome burden when they ran away. Even during the previous miserable famine, children became a kind of food, something to preserve men’s physical strength.

Shen Chen sighed slightly. Ye Tianlong only saw the glint and flash of Shen Chen’s knife, then the heads of the children flew far away. When Shen Chen was just about to leave, he heard Ye Tianlong say, “Wait!”

Shen Chen looked back and saw Ye Tianlong trotting forward. Ye Tianlong ran to the dead children and moved their bodies together. He covered them with dead branches and leaves and even scattered a handful of dust on them, which was his way of saying rest in peace.

After that, Ye Tianlong said with a bitter smile, “I just hope that they can leave peacefully. They won’t suffer anymore there. And there will be no more zombies in heaven!”

Shen Chen’s deep eyes darkened a lot. This Ye Tianlong in front of him was totally different from what he remembered in the past. At this time, the sincerity in Ye Tianlong’s eyes wasn’t fake at all, and Shen Chen was even surprised to see compassion in his eyes. However, in the previous life, Ye Tianlong was a man charged with numerous criminal accusations. So, who was the real him, exactly?

Shen Chen loosened his grip on the black blade. ‘Maybe… Should I give him another chance?’ Shen Chen asked himself.

Soon, they came to the supermarket that Ye Tianlong had spoken of. There was no trace of pilfering in the supermarket. The supermarket shelves were fully occupied by goods. Ye Tianlong proudly opened the supermarket door with his key. The lovely Hello Kitty key ring swung up and down in his hands.

Shen Chen said, “Go get the stuff. I’ll wait for you at the door!”

Ye Tianlong waited for a moment before he asked, “Bro, are you not going in with me?” Then he added with a smile, “I’ve got many things you may need. Take whatever you want, bro.”

“I don’t need it. Go and get it yourself,” Shen Chen said. It was true that Shen Chen also needed food and other necessities, but he was unwilling to take stuff right in front of the owner.

Ye Tianlong looked worried, but he didn’t dare say anything. Finally, he nodded and walked into the supermarket alone. Shen Chen looked at his back, and his eyes narrowed to a thin line. He looked at the knife in his hand, slowly approached Ye Tianlong, and slowly raised the knife.

Ye Tianlong suddenly mumbled, “Ah, Xiao Bao is drinking this brand of powder, and he also needs some diapers…”

Shen Chen’s breath suddenly caught in his throat. He took a few deep breaths, then he put down the knife again. At this time, Ye Tianlong was still a good guy in Shen Chen’s eyes. He couldn’t kill a good person because of what happened in the future.

Shen Chen knew that his rebirth was a strange thing. He had seen too many films in the previous peacetime and knew about some strange butterfly effects that could change history and the future. If he killed Ye Tianlong now and it turned out to be the cause of Ye Tianlong’s later change into a bad man, he would be the unknowing accomplice of Ye Tianlong’s evil activities in the future.

At this time, Ye Tianlong suddenly turned around and saw Shen Chen clinging to his back. He was shocked. He blinked his eyes, clasped his head, and then showed a simple smile. “Bro, can you help me get some things? I suddenly remember that I also need to take some bedding back.”

Shen Chen nodded, and Ye Tianlong’s face showed a loyal and honest smile. He walked in front of him with the key and said, “There is a warehouse up there, and the bedding and other things are stored there. It’s often closed. At present, the air conditioning and heating function well in our house. But if the power goes off one day, all the people in the house will freeze to death.”

Shen Chen nodded silently. Ye Tianlong inserted the key slowly into the door. Looking at Ye Tianlong opening the door, Shen Chen suddenly felt a current pass through his heart, and a very dangerous premonition came over him. His whole body was involuntarily in a defensive posture. He felt like lightning had struck on his scalp, and such a strong sense of danger made him have an unshakable premonition that he would die.

Just as the door was opened, the feeling of danger all of a sudden came to its climax! With a sharp sound, a female zombie in rags suddenly sprang out! Her eyes were not as muddy as those of other zombies, but they were bloodshot. She had long black nails that were extremely sharp.

“She’s evolved!” Shen Chen exclaimed.

Shen Chen couldn’t believe his eyes. With both hands, he got Ye Tianlong behind him in a hurry and gave the female zombie a horizontal strike with the black knife in his hand. His whole body quickly retreated a dozen steps, avoiding the attack of the female zombie. But the zombie was obviously not an ordinary one. A shrill cry came out of her mouth, and her whole body bounced up! Her speed was unbelievable!

She was much more powerful than the unevolved zombies. Her sharp fingernails scratched straight in the air! At this time, the zombie, such a petite lady in her previous life, bounced more than two meters straight up from the ground like the heroine in a Kung fu fiction. She opened her ugly mouth mercilessly, and once again rushed to Shen Chen.

Shen Chen was really surprised by her fierceness. How could evolutionary zombies appear at this time? In his previous life, they had shown up a month later. Shen Chen clearly remembered that zombies could only evolve if they had enough raw meat. At present, this female zombie was about to reach first tier zombie.

Shen Chen’s eyes sank into their sockets. He felt an immediate sense of crisis. As he raised his knife, the female zombie jumped up, and his knife could reach her chest. Now the situation was critical.

Shen Chen saw the female zombie open her mouth exaggeratedly. A stink came out of the mouth. Shen Chen had to discard his black knife so that he could use both of his hands to pull together the upper and lower gums of the zombie.

He made increasing efforts to close the zombie’s mouth. His hands became harder than steel. The teeth of the female zombie, which hadn’t been sharpened from the evolution yet, broke and flew out of her mouth one by one because they began to grind against each other.

Shen Chen shouted out at the female zombie in anger.

Snap!

The skull of the female zombie was separated into two pieces by Shen Chen starting from the gap in its the mouth. The bones and muscles were torn apart violently at the same time. All kinds of things popped out from the zombie’s mouth suddenly. It was all over the place!

In a few minutes, the brains of the female zombie flew out of the skull, then the zombie went limp, rolled onto the ground, and died.