Chapter 339 It was very easy to let go.

Jiang Liyue noticed that when Chu Li said this, his dark eyes were filled with intense excitement, as if he had been looking forward to Jiang Liyue discovering his secret.

Then he could justifiably imprison her and make her share all his dark emotions.

I knew that bastard was no good!

Jiang Liyue cursed inwardly, but blinked innocently twice: "What did you find out? I don't know anything about this?"

Then, she looked at the two distorted zombies in front of her with an exaggerated expression and exclaimed in surprise, "Huh, how come there are suddenly two zombies here?"

Jiang Liyue quickly kicked the two zombies that had just managed to get up to the ground, and stomped on one of their heads until it was crushed.

Then she looked innocently at Chu Li: "Alright, Dr. Chu, I've dealt with the zombies, we're safe now."

Chu Li watched her performance quietly.

Then he realized how adorable she was!

Her exaggerated mannerisms are cute, her innocent blinking is cute, even the way she stomps on a zombie's head is cute.

His eyes gleamed with even more excitement as he looked at her.

Jiang Liyue didn't hear his reply, so she waved her hand in front of him: "Dr. Chu?"

Chu Li naturally took the hand she was waving in front of him again, and then chuckled: "Thank you, Yueyue. Luckily you helped me deal with the zombies, otherwise I would have been scared to death."

The way he said it so seriously was strangely funny.

[Dude, you didn't say that when you were kicking the wall earlier.]

[Zombie: ??? Who's scaring whom?]

[And if I remember correctly, he sprinkled something on them that turned them into zombies, right?]

Haha, it's really interesting to watch two acting powerhouses show off their skills here.

[What acting competition? Look at Yueyue's exaggerated and smug look, she wasn't even acting seriously. And Chu Li's monotone delivery was also very perfunctory.]

【Sigh, Chu Li, just spoil her!】

Dr. Chu stated that whatever Yueyue says is right.

Jiang Liyue seemed oblivious to the teasing in Chu Li's tone and nodded earnestly: "Then next time, Dr. Chu, remember to hide behind me again."

Stop taking her jobs.

For example, kicking down walls and doors, shouldn't that be her forte?

"Okay," Chu Li replied, looking somewhat obedient.

Jiang Liyue was about to say something when she heard a faint cry for help coming from inside the dilapidated house.

She immediately forgot what she was saying to Chu Li and shifted her attention to the important matter: "It seems that these two are guarding here for some secret."

"Hmm." Chu Li's answer was somewhat perfunctory this time. He wasn't interested in these things. Apart from Jiang Liyue, only experiments could arouse his interest.

He lowered his eyes, intently playing with Jiang Liyue's fair and beautiful little hand, which he held in his palm.

Since she was already there, Jiang Liyue naturally had to go and see what was going on.

She didn't care whether Chu Li was playing with her hand or not; she was already used to this kind of action.

So they just pulled the person and walked towards the direction of the sound.

This is a small, dilapidated house that the village specifically chose. It looks run-down from the outside, which ensures that even if outsiders pass by, they won't want to come in.

Hearing crying or cries for help, they might suspect it's haunted and run even further away.

Jiang Liyue wasn't afraid of any of that. There were obvious signs that someone had walked through the small, dilapidated house. She went inside and found it to be very run-down and dark, but there was nowhere for anyone to hide.

Jiang Liyue frowned, looked around, and walked precisely to a corner next to a large ditch.

Everything else in the room was covered in dust, and some of it was covered in moss.

Only this water vat looks clean, as if someone cleans it every day.

Jiang Liyue led Chu Li closer and indeed found a wooden plank under the water vat. Lifting the plank revealed a cellar inside.

The sound of the wooden plank being lifted must have alerted those below, as rustling sounds and muffled sobs could be heard from below.

Jiang Liyue took out a flashlight and shone it down, only to find that there were about twenty people sitting or lying down below, including men, women, and children.

Everyone looked disheveled, their eyes dull and lifeless, as if they had lost all hope.

Even when Jiang Liyue was looking at them from above the cellar, they didn't seem willing to look in her direction, as if they were somewhat afraid.

"Were you locked up here by the villagers?" Jiang Liyue asked.

Only when they clearly heard her clear and sweet voice did the others look at her as if waking from a dream.

Only then did everyone realize that the person on top was a fair-skinned and beautiful young girl, someone who could absolutely not be in this village.

"You, are you here to save us?" someone asked in a hoarse voice, filled with hope.

"I wouldn't say I rescued them. I just saw two zombies outside and dealt with them. Then I heard some noises coming from inside. I didn't expect to find so many people," Jiang Liyue explained simply.

She only said there were two zombies above, otherwise it would be hard to explain when these people saw two zombie corpses later.

"Zombies? Could it be that those two people were bitten by zombies before?" someone muttered, but didn't think too much about it.

“Yes, we were locked up. The people in this village are a bunch of devils. They warmly invited us to stay, but then they poisoned our food. When we woke up, we were locked up.” Someone finally answered Jiang Liyue’s initial question.

"They...they also abused the women and locked us up here, probably hoping to starve us to death."

The apocalypse had only been going on for a few days, and the villagers might not dare to kill people directly, but locking them in cellars to starve to death wouldn't be as psychologically stressful.

Jiang Liyue had already figured out that the old village chief and these villagers were no good people, so she wasn't surprised to hear this.

He simply moved the water vat aside and opened the wooden door to the cellar: "Can you come out?"

She wasn't a saint who saved everyone, but she wasn't some devil who wished everyone would die either.

Now that things have come to this point, and the person is downstairs, she won't simply ignore them and turn away.

"We were all tied up."

"Tsk." Jiang Liyue was a little annoyed.

But after thinking for a moment, she still asked Chu Li to let go of her hand, jumped down from the low cellar, took out a small knife, cut the rope binding the nearest person's hands, and then threw the knife on the ground. "Alright, you can do it yourselves."

As she spoke, she raised her hand and reached out to Chu Li above the cellar.

Chu Li glanced at the hand she reached out.

Letting go whenever you want, holding on whenever you want—what kind of person do you take him for?

Or do you only let him hold your hand when you need to?

He felt inexplicably annoyed, but the next moment he still grabbed her outstretched hand.

With a little effort, the person was pulled up directly.

Jiang Liyue nestled into his arms and said sweetly, "Dr. Chu, thank you."

Chu Li glanced at her smiling face, turned and walked out, saying sarcastically, "You let go of my hand just to save others, you're something else."

Jiang Liyue glanced at the reddish tips of his ears peeking out from under his black hair, and at their hands still clasped together even as he turned to walk forward, and skipped after him.

"It was just a small thing to do," she said in response to his sarcastic remark earlier.

"Yes, it was quite easy for you to let go of my hand."

Jiang Liyue: ...

She suddenly tilted her head and smiled: "Dr. Chu, we've only known each other for a day, and we just happened to be in the same car. Holding hands isn't really appropriate, is it?"

Chu Li's face instantly darkened.