Just then, Sun Tiantian suddenly raised her hand to protect Zhang Meihui's body.

Zhang Meihui stiffened, her furious state immediately calming down, and her rough hands unconsciously stroking Sun Tiantian's back.

Lu Sheng gave Sun Tiantian a wink.

Sun Tiantian obediently raised her head and nuzzled against Zhang Meihui's chest in a coquettish manner, "Mom, the doctors are all good people. Please let us out."

"But what if they bully you or deceive you?" Zhang Meihui hesitated, her eyes filled with reluctance for her child.

"The hospitals in small cities have limited treatment capabilities. Mom, you wouldn't want me to be blind for the rest of my life, would you?"

Hearing this, Zhang Meihui suddenly sobbed twice, and stroked Sun Tiantian's head with even more reluctance, "But how can Mommy be at ease letting you go to such a far place alone?"

“Children will eventually have to go out and make their own way in the world when they grow up. Now that an opportunity to restore their eyesight is presented to me, how could I possibly give it up?”

"Mom, let us go. I'll regret it for the rest of my life if we miss this opportunity."

Sun Tiantian spoke with such sincerity that even Lu Sheng and the other bystanders were moved by her emotions.

Zhang Meihui suddenly stared blankly at Sun Tiantian, her rough fingers slowly touching her clear eye sockets, "You...are you really Xiao Hong?"

The hearts of everyone present suddenly sank.

Xiao Yu rushed forward, trying to pull Sun Tiantian back to his side, but his body was as if it were being crushed by a thousand-pound boulder, unable to move.

Lu Sheng aimed the gas canister at Zhang Meihui's neck, a horrifying murderous intent flashing in his eyes.

She wanted to resolve the issue gently because she sympathized with Zhang Meihui, but if a peaceful approach failed, she had no choice but to resort to force.

If you can fool them, then fool them; if you can't fool them, then kill them.

Zhang Meihui stared quietly into Sun Tiantian's eyes, her rough fingers slightly bent.

Finally, she suddenly smiled gently and said, "Little Red has grown up."

"Go on, remember what your mother told you: protect yourself and don't let others deceive you." Zhang Meihui suddenly smiled and then touched Sun Tiantian's face with a sigh of relief.

Just when everyone was on tenterhooks, Zhang Meihui suddenly let go of her hand.

"Go on, remember to take care of yourself."

"Remember to think of your mother."

"Mom will always love you."

As Zhang Meihui's lonely figure gradually disappeared into the mirror space, the environment around Lu Sheng and the others suddenly aged and withered rapidly.

The pristine white walls instantly turned yellow and filthy, and all the NPCs in the cafeteria gradually turned into fragments, like pixels.

The entire environment withered away as quickly as an old black-and-white film.

The steel plant finally revealed its true colors.

At this moment, Zhao Mujia and the others who were trapped at the door were finally able to move their bodies. They immediately got up and rushed to the office building to meet up with Lu Sheng and the others who had just come out.

"Are you alright? We were subdued as soon as we came in." Zhao Mujia rushed over, still shaken.

Finally seeing their own people, the group breathed a sigh of relief.

Lin Xiaobei touched her chest, still shaken. "Do you think Zhang Meihui really believed that Tiantian was her daughter?"

"Of course not, what mother wouldn't recognize her own daughter?" Zhang Xiaojuan collapsed to the ground, panting heavily.

"Then why did she let us go?"

“Sometimes people need to deceive themselves a little, otherwise they can’t get over their own conscience.” Zhang Xiaojuan touched her face sheepishly.

After a few brief words, the group found the warehouse and put everything they had just stored into their spatial storage.

"Where are Xiao Ning and the others? We haven't heard from them since we parted ways," Zhao Mujia asked, panting as she finished carrying the load.

Just as the group was speculating, the K3's wireless battery suddenly started crackling.

"Xiao Ning and the others are trapped in the sports park and need our rescue." After listening to the intermittent radio broadcast, Ma Dongmei looked up at Su Zheng.

Outside the iron gate, countless zombies lay sprawled on the metal plate, their rotting, foul-smelling heads desperately trying to squeeze through the cracks in the door.

The mouth was a bloody mess, rotten to the bone, revealing uneven tooth sockets.

The zombies were gnawing away at the hard iron door, their eyes fixed on the people inside, their mouths watering.

A vast, surging army of zombies surged forward, instantly engulfing the few unlucky souls on the outer edge of the group.

Zhao Mujia and the others immediately took out firearms and began fighting with the zombies.

The stench of rotting corpses and the smell of blood mingled together, plunging the area in front of the steel mill into chaos.

The zombies, who hadn't smelled any living people for a long time, were like they'd been injected with adrenaline, and they frantically pounced on the crowd.

All the nearby zombies swarmed in, quickly blocking all the surrounding intersections.

They were completely trapped.

Just as Lu Sheng was about to take action to deal with the zombie horde, a haggard middle-aged woman suddenly rushed out of the steel plant.

"No one is allowed to harm my daughter!" Zhang Meihui shouted resolutely at the horde of zombies.

"Little Red, run! Mommy's here!"

"Mom will protect you!"

Zhang Meihui's living aura and surging spiritual power were like an enticing delicacy, drawing all the zombies to her side.

"Let's go, don't hesitate."

Lu Sheng made a decisive move, leading everyone out of the zombie siege of the steel factory. At the same time, Su Zheng made contact with Xiao Ning's side via radio.

“There are over thirty of them, and they’re all trapped in the sports park. They need us to rescue them.” Su Zheng hesitated.

Ma Dongmei scoffed, "Save them? Take care of your own people. We're not their mothers."

“But Xiao Ning said he found a large batch of anti-inflammatory drugs.” Zhao Mujia rubbed his hands nervously.

Anti-inflammatory drugs are more valuable than food at this stage.

Bacteria and viruses have mutated more rampantly than before the apocalypse, and even a small cut on the finger can lead to a serious bacterial infection.

Xiao Ning is clearly using anti-inflammatory drugs to control the rest of the people.

If we want anti-inflammatory drugs, we must save him.

Lu Sheng sneered, wondering if Xiao Ning had any anti-inflammatory drugs.

But with this lucrative opportunity keeping them hanging on, the remaining teams have to go and rescue them.

They're all in the same boat now.

After discussing it, the group decided to head towards the sports park together.