Xia Feng was surrounded by lightning. He walked past Zhou Xinran with his machete. A circle of lightning crackled and flashed, and the mutated squirrels that had been surrounding Zhou Xinran lay stiff on the ground.

With a single swing of his machete, lightning flashed, and his powerful lightning-based abilities allowed Xia Feng to take down over a hundred mutated squirrels in just a few rounds.

The bodies of small animals were piled up all over the ground.

The remaining squirrels squeaked and retreated quickly, disappearing into the bushes in a few undulations.

The battle between humans and mutated beasts came and went quickly, leaving behind only the injured and a mess of overturned pots and pans.

"Hiss—this little thing, its claws are really sharp..." Zhou Xinran raised his arm to look at his forearm that had been scratched. The wound was about 15cm long. The bleeding had stopped by now, and his sun protection clothing was stuck to his skin with blood.

"Ah! Ah!—"

Everyone's attention was focused on the mutated squirrel, and that's when Zhang Xiaoqi's scream was heard.

Everyone turned to look at her, and a tragic scene came into view.

Her body was covered in blood and gore, and there was even a smaller mutated squirrel on her leg that hadn't run away with her. It was waving its little paws and scratching at her leg.

Zhou Xinran quickly went over and brandished his knife to drive them away. The mutated squirrel nimbly dodged the knife's attack and darted far away. Looking around, it realized that all its companions had left.

All the two-legged creatures present were focused on it, causing the mutated squirrel's fur to stand on end from its tail to the top of its head. It quickly darted into the bushes and ran away.

"Ah! Ah!..." Zhang Xiaoqi was still screaming at the top of her lungs. Her legs had been clawed so badly that you could see the bones, and blood was trailing on the ground.

The sight of this horrific scene made Zhou Lerui, who had already been scratched several times by the squirrel, forget to scream.

None of the girls hiding behind Zhou Xinran's group were injured. After a moment of hesitation, they were led into action by Ding Xue.

Some people cleaned up the pots and pans, while others picked up the bowls and basins. A few of the bolder ones went over and calmed Zhang Xiaoqi down, who was still waving her arms wildly.

Seeing her horribly mangled legs, her pleading gaze turned to Lin Xuan, who was pulling out gauze and iodine from her spatial storage to bandage the injured.

Lin Xuan glanced over there out of the corner of her eye and tossed a bottle of alcohol over.

Among those girls, there was one short-haired girl who was quite bold; she took the alcohol, unscrewed the cap, and poured it on Zhang Xiaoqi's lap.

"Ah!—" Zhang Xiaoqi, who was already exhausted, suddenly let out a pig-like scream, her whole body convulsed violently a few times, and she fainted.

I hope I'm not dead...

Lin Xuan peeked out and thought, "Don't let her die so easily, Sister Xiaoqi."

Zhou Lerui was having Shen Youan disinfect her wound with iodine when she saw this scene, and her hair stood on end.

With a wide, gaping mouth as if about to cry, his face stiffened, and he stood there, completely forgetting to cry.

There's definitely a grudge. The little girl definitely has a grudge against that disfigured woman. Zhou Lerui looked at Lin Xuan, whose expression was dangerous, and then at Zhang Xiaoqi, who had already fainted. Now she was sure!

As everyone knows, disinfecting wounds with alcohol is akin to torture. Xiao Bao Mei must know this common sense, judging from the fact that she's giving iodine to everyone in the team.

Zhou Lerui wanted to ask Lin Xuan what grudge she had against that woman, but when she met Lin Xuan's eyes, which had turned black to the point of being inorganic, she immediately gave up the idea.

Forget it, let's wait until she returns to normal. A little girl turning evil is too much to handle.

They rebuilt the stove to cook rice, but all the food that was stewing in the pot was spilled on the ground and mixed with the soil. Afraid of being contaminated by the virus, they dared not pick it up and eat it.

I had no choice but to cook the food again. Food is precious these days, and it hurts to waste it.

Lin Xuan stored part of the mutated squirrel carcass on the ground into her spatial storage, leaving the rest to stew with potatoes. Xia Feng controlled his supernatural abilities well this time, preventing the carcasses from turning into charcoal.

Peng Ze's buttocks were bruised and he was completely paralyzed. Peng Yu pulled him aside, and Lin Xuan found him a folding single bed so he could lie down and apply medicine.

Shen Youan was skilled in martial arts and was not injured at all. After bandaging Zhou Lerui's wounds, she took a small knife and dismembered the remaining mutated squirrels one by one.

They separated the edible parts and handed them to Sun Youmei to wash, then asked the aunties to teach Yao Yao some ways to stew meat deliciously.

The girls were all unharmed thanks to the protection of the superhumans in front, except for Zhang Xiaoqi, who lay there half-dead.

The girls didn't know how to treat the horrific wound, so they disinfected it with alcohol and then tore strips of floral fabric they had found in the village to wrap it up simply.

Ding Xue wanted to ask Lin Xuan for some gauze, but Lin Xuan didn't offer any, and she was too embarrassed to ask. Besides, the wound was so big, how much gauze would she need?

Looking at Zhang Xiaoqi, who was barely recognizable, Ding Xue sighed deeply. Everyone else had run away, so why was this person the only one who fell there? It was just her bad luck.

Zhang Xiaoqi's fall was, of course, caused by Lin Xuan. She was just thinking about how to torment this woman when Lin Xuan delivered a perfect opportunity to her.

Those adorable little breasts...

However, it's not good that someone on my team got injured.

Looking at Peng Xiaozhe, who was lying on the single bed and sobbing, Lin Xuan poked his body with a rattan cane with pity.

Peng Xiaozhe turned his head in one direction and continued to grumble.

Lin Xuan took out the bag of roast chicken that had just been opened and had a bite taken out of it and handed it over.

Peng Ze sniffed like a puppy, then turned his head back. When he saw the roast chicken, his eyes lit up, and he grabbed it and started gnawing on it.

With the help of roasted chicken, Peng Xiaozhe was fully recovered and was able to get up and find clothes for Zhou Lerui.

Zhou Xinran, Zhou Lerui, Peng Yu, and Cao Zhiyong's clothes were all torn. They didn't have many clothes with them, and after crawling and rolling all the way, they didn't have many changes of clothes left.

Lin Xuan provided them with a large tent for changing clothes.

Zhou Lerui went in first, and when she came out she was wearing a thin mesh long top and pants with rhinestones, covered with a bunch of small rhinestone decorations, which was so dazzling it was blinding.

Facing the bewildered stares of the crowd, he stubbornly shouted, "What are you looking at? I don't have any long clothes or pants left, this is all I have. Am I supposed to go naked?"

Zhou Lerui only brought a few summer tank tops and three sets of sun-protective clothing this time.

The weather was hot, and although the sun was obscured by gray clouds, ultraviolet rays still pierced through the gaps in the clouds and reached the ground.

The roadside was covered with mutated plants, so wearing just a tank top and hot pants made it impossible to walk outdoors.

She had three sets of sun protection clothing, one of which was ruined in the small town, but Lin Xuan replaced it with a new one.

She alternates between this set and another pink set every day. If they get dirty during the day, Sun Youmei will give them a quick wash at night, and they'll be dry overnight.

Today she's wearing the sun protection outfit Lin Xuan gave her, which is already torn to shreds. The pink one is dirty and hasn't been washed yet, so she doesn't want to wear it and can only wear this one with a lot of decorations.

Actually, she quite liked the outfit, but it was a bit cumbersome to wear and she always seemed to snag things.