Chapter 4: You dig yourself up~

Footsteps approached hurriedly, and someone slammed the lid of the trash can. Two words flashed through Shu Lan's mind.

Oh no.

She reached out to cover Xiao Qingqing's mouth, but Xiao Qingqing's panicked scream had already burst out as sharp as a boiling kettle.

"ah--"

A dirty, bloody arm suddenly pierced through the plastic lid of the trash can and blew it off.

Shu Lan raised her head in horror and met a pair of bloodshot eyes with dilated pupils.

The zombie, who looked like a young male, had only half of his face intact, with a large piece missing from the other half, revealing coagulated blackened flesh and faintly visible cheekbones.

He bared his teeth and roared at the two people hiding in the box, then reached in with his dirty hands and scratched around randomly.

If a zombie scratches your skin, the virus will spread into the human body through the blood. In less than half an hour, the virus will transform a healthy person into an irrational zombie.

Shu Lan used her free hand to pick up some trash at her feet and threw it at the zombie's face, trying to hinder his attack, then climbed out of the trash can when he wasn't paying attention.

Xiao Qingqing grabbed Shu Lan's clothes and hid in a corner, pushing her hard towards the zombie's hand, crying, "Don't come over here, I don't want to die, I don't want to die..."

Shu Lan was so pissed off by her that she hit Xiao Qingqing behind her with her elbow, but the zombie's hand was already in front of her eyes. She had no way to avoid it and could only close her eyes in despair.

Just wait, after she turns into a zombie, the first thing she will do is bite Xiao Qingqing to death!

The expected pain did not occur, but instead I heard the sound of a heavy object falling.

Shu Lan mustered up her courage and quickly opened her eyes, only to find that the zombies in front of her had disappeared.

If you don’t run now, when will you run?

She twisted around and pushed Xiao Qingqing hard, gritting her teeth and shouting, "Don't grab me! Let go!"

The zombie fell down, and Xiao Qingqing had no reason to hold Shu Lan as a shield anymore. After she let go of her hand, Shu Lan immediately stood up and flipped out using her hands and feet.

Feeling someone under her feet, Shu Lan took a look in the remaining light. The zombie that had just attacked her was lying face down on the ground, with a cold ice cone stuck in the middle of its head.

She breathed a sigh of relief after surviving the disaster, raised her head and looked around, wanting to see which ice-type superpower master had saved her life. It would be great if she could get close to him.

The psychic didn't see anything, but saw a man in a white coat running in front of him being knocked down by three or four zombies. The zombies opened their mouths and bit the throat of the struggling man. When they raised their heads again, the living man's blood spurted out like a small fountain.

Shu Lan's eyebrows and nose wrinkled into a ball, her stomach churning, and she almost vomited on the spot. She quickly looked away and found that the living people were running in the same direction.

There were car lights going away and an open base gate in that direction. There were also fewer zombies along the way than behind, probably because they had been cleared out by the escaping psychics.

Shu Lan was thinking about how to get past the zombies in front of her when hundreds of ice cones fell from the sky like meteors, accurately piercing the heads of all the zombies in her sight.

Xiao Qingqing behind him shouted weakly: "Chu Yi, can you give me a hand? My legs are weak."

"I don't care about you!"

Shu Lan threw down a few words in a bad mood, and taking advantage of the moment when the ice-powered master showed off his magical powers, she spread her legs and quickly ran through the corpses on the ground, joined the fleeing crowd, and ran out of the base together.

As she ran frantically, explosions rang out one after another in the experimental base behind her, shaking the ground and making her eardrums numb.

Knowing that if you want to survive at this time, you have to keep running forward and not look back.

But there was still an inexplicable urge that prompted Shu Lan to cover her ears and look back.

The building that exploded was the Jiangzhou base. The flames were like a bunch of blooming mushroom clouds, partying lively under the night sky.

In the center of this brilliant fire, there was a tiny yet conspicuous figure floating in the air, allowing the flames to illuminate his lonely figure again and again. His expression could not be seen clearly because the distance was too far.

It was that plunderer, and it could only be that plunderer.

He was like a high and mighty god, looking down upon these mortals as they fled in panic under the pursuit of zombies.

The roars of the zombies gradually approached. Shu Lan withdrew her gaze and continued running.

She doesn't have any special powers, and the only things that can save her are her brain and her legs, so she can't stop for a moment, or she will be dragged into the zombies' mouths.

The Jiangzhou Experimental Base is located on the outskirts of Ci'an City. Ci'an once suffered a zombie massacre crisis and was cleaned out by local psychics.

Once a large-scale zombie wave occurs, it means that there is a high probability that there are no survivors left in the surrounding cities.

Shu Lan fled to Ci'an from somewhere else. The virus caused a significant reduction in the population of every city, leaving many ownerless houses. As soon as she arrived, she found an abandoned frozen seafood store as her hiding place.

This store originally had an ice storage, but because the owner died and the electricity supply was cut off, the ice storage lost its original function.

The seafood inside had rotted, emitting an extremely pungent odor that could be smelled throughout the street. Most people would stay away, but Shu Lan was the only one who would go in.

She pinched her nose, stood on tiptoe, stepped over the pile of dead fish at the door, went into the office at the back of the store, locked the door, and fell on the solid wooden sofa beside the door. The familiar stench gave her a great sense of security.

According to experience, the smellier the place, the safer it is.

If Xiao Qingqing hadn't insisted on squeezing in with her, she could have easily hidden in the trash can and waited for the zombie horde to retreat at daybreak! Why bother running so dangerously? She almost broke her legs!

The nurse uniform on her body was full of the smell left in the trash can, but it was the middle of the night and there were zombies outside that could chase her at any time. She had no conditions to change clothes, so she had to give up.

Shu Lan put the thing in her hand on the office chair next to the sofa. For some reason, she kept holding the syringe in her left hand and didn't throw it away while running back from the suburbs.

The night had been a mess, and now she could finally calm down and organize her thoughts, but when she closed her eyes, her mind was full of the predator.

Not only can he use lightning powers, he can also use fire to blast open power grids, float in the air, and make buildings explode.

God was so unfair. The life-saving ability she wanted but couldn't possess, that man actually had more than one. Since his nickname was the Plunderer, it meant that his ability was to plunder others.

After the plunder, will others be gone?

It should be, otherwise why would other psychics have to hide after the plunderer escaped.

Shu Lan remembered that the old white-haired monkey said that his superpower gene could be inherited. They tricked young girls into being volunteers so that they could give birth to the predator's children to continue the research.

Don't couples need to sleep together to give birth? Why did they arrest her and give her an injection? Could she really give birth with just one injection?

That's right, when the predator is released, it looks like it wants to take revenge on the whole world, so how could it be willing to sleep with humans? So the old monkey came up with this way to make the process simpler.

Shu Lan turned over and looked at the location of the needle again. Hesitation appeared in her eyes and she murmured to herself in the dark night.

"You can't believe it. The old monkey is a big liar."

She turned away, closed her eyes and mouth tightly, and told herself not to think about it anymore, not to think about the predators or the needles.

But the memories of escaping death kept flashing before her eyes: zombies pouncing on people and biting them, icicles falling from the sky, buildings collapsing with a loud bang, and that invincible and lonely figure in the gorgeous mushroom cloud and flames.

If she had a child as strong as that predator...

An unknown amount of time had passed before Shu Lan, who couldn't sleep, sat up suddenly, her eyes gleaming in the darkness, and she grabbed the syringe.

"Whatever. Without superpowers, I'll die at the hands of zombies sooner or later. Let's take a gamble and see!"

She touched her lower abdomen. There was a small burnt hole at the place where Dr. Zhao was going to inject the needle. She gritted her teeth, inserted the needle, and slowly pushed the liquid inside.

At first, she felt cold, and a little sore and painful. After lying down for a while, Shu Lan felt like there was a fire burning in her lower abdomen. It was not only hot, but also painful, making her break out in cold sweats and tears flow uncontrollably.

Gradually, Shu Lan's consciousness became blurred.

She wouldn't just...kill herself like this...