Chapter 112 Xu Linchuan Knows Qiao Xi Is Still Alive
The abandoned shopping center was filled with a mixture of dust and mold odors.
Chen Peng and his group huddled awkwardly in a dilapidated clothing store on the third floor, blocking the entrance with shelves.
The low growls of zombies could be faintly heard outside.
"Damn it, this godforsaken place, I can't even find a decent cigarette!" A blond-haired thug kicked away a plastic mannequin at his feet in frustration.
Another skinny man with a scar on his face patted him on the shoulder. "You've only just come out, and you're already thinking of finding cigarettes? The ones you can see have already been stolen."
After searching the mall for a while, the skinny guy with a scar on his face leaned close to Chen Peng and whispered with a lewd look in his eyes, "Brother Chen, I think that girl Zhao Wenjing who lives in our building is pretty hot... We've been holding back for so long, when are we going to..." He rubbed his hands together and revealed a lewd smile.
Before he could finish speaking, he was struck on the leg.
"Aww!" the skinny guy yelled dramatically, and started jumping up and down.
"Try something new? Try my ass!" Chen Peng spat, his spittle almost landing on the skinny man's face. "Are you tired of living? If you want to die, don't drag me down with you!"
The skinny man winced in pain, "Brother Chen... Brother Chen, I was wrong, I was just being mean! If... if you really like her, I promise I'll never look at your sister-in-law again."
"You've got your eye on your mother!" Chen Peng was even angrier, grabbing the skinny man by the collar, his eyes blazing with suppressed anger.
This fire has been burning for a long time, but it has been suppressed.
"I was tricked by that little bitch Qiao Xi. I can't touch or hurt Zhao Wenjing. You guys better keep your things in check."
The mere mention of Josh's name sent a chill down Chen Peng's spine, as if a cold dagger might be pressed against him at any moment.
He glanced around at his trembling subordinates, his voice laced with suppressed rage, "Listen up, all of you! From now on, if anyone dares to lay a finger on Zhao Wenjing again, I'll be the first to cripple them! If either of them loses a single hair, when Qiao Xi and her monstrous husband come back, they'll chop us all to pieces and feed us to the zombies. Did you hear me?"
His men were terrified by his ferocious expression and nodded vigorously, "Understood, Brother Chen. We absolutely won't dare to do it again!"
Just then,
"Clang! Crash!"
A loud shattering sound came from the glass window of the jewelry store next door! This was followed by a dull thud as something heavy fell to the ground!
"Zombies?"
Chen Peng's expression changed drastically, and he roared, "Grab your weapons!"
Everyone tensed up instantly, grabbing steel pipes and machetes at hand, holding their breath, and cautiously groping their way toward the source of the sound.
The jewelry store was in a mess, with display cases overturned and broken glass and jewelry scattered all over the floor.
However, standing in the center of the chaos was not a zombie.
He was a tall man wearing a tattered but still recognizable old black trench coat.
He had his back to Chen Peng and the others, as if he had just gone through a fierce battle, his shoulders trembling slightly.
At his feet lay a mutated zombie with its neck snapped.
The man slowly turned around.
His face was covered in black blood and dust, but it couldn't hide his deep and handsome features, especially his eyes, which were now filled with terrifying red blood vessels. His gaze was as sharp as a wounded beast, with a kind of desperate madness and... urgency.
He exuded an invisible, chilling sense of oppression, a hundred times more terrifying than the zombie from before!
The man's gaze, like a cold searchlight, instantly locked onto Chen Peng and his group.
Chen Peng's heart sank!
His intuition told him that this man was not someone to be trifled with.
The man paid no attention to the zombie corpses on the ground. He took a step forward, his voice hoarse like sandpaper scraping, carrying an undeniable, almost obsessive urgency:
"Josie? Where is the Josie you were talking about?"
Chen Peng felt a chill run down his spine. He had just been cursing Qiao Xi, so what was the relationship between this devil and Qiao Xi?
How did he suddenly appear?
He tried to appear calm and deny it: "Wh...what Josh? Bro, you must have misheard me, we were just talking about..."
"brush!"
A flash of cold light!
Before Chen Peng could even see the other party's movements, a short knife gleaming with a cold light was already precisely pressed against his Adam's apple!
The cold blade pressed against his skin, sending chills down his spine.
He could even feel the stinging sensation from the static electricity jumping on the blade!
Fast! Too fast! This is definitely a high-level superhuman!
Chen Peng was terrified, his body stiffened, and he raised his hands, his voice trembling: "B-Big Brother! Spare my life! Let's talk this out!"
Xu Linchuan's bloodshot eyes were fixed on him, his voice forced out through clenched teeth, thick with the metallic tang of blood: "I! Ask! You! About! Qiao Xi, whom you were just talking about..."
His voice became hoarse, "Was she a very young, very beautiful woman with cat-like eyes?"
Chen Peng felt a chill run down his spine from that look and nodded hastily, "Yes, yes, yes! It's her! It's definitely her!"
He dared not hide anything at this point.
“Sisi…Sisi is really still here…she’s still alive…”
Upon hearing the affirmative answer, Xu Linchuan's expression instantly contorted, a mixture of crying and laughing, with his eyes bursting with wild joy.
As if a dying man had grasped at the only straw, even the knife pressed against Chen Peng's neck trembled slightly.
This bizarre mental state made Chen Peng even more terrified.
"Brother... could you... could you move this thing away first? What if you accidentally move it too roughly?" He'd be dead.
Chen Peng leaned back repeatedly, trying to get away from the gleaming blade.
Xu Linchuan abruptly withdrew his short sword, then stepped forward, his large, iron-like hand gripping Chen Peng's neck and lifting him off the ground! Chen Peng kicked wildly, his face instantly turning purplish-red.
"Speak!" Xu Linchuan's voice boomed like it came from hell, his eyes bloodshot. "Where is she now? Tell me!"
"In...in...the safe zone, to the east...the nearest safe zone!"
Chen Peng struggled to squeeze out a sound, pointing wildly eastward, "She...she's there! Living...living with a man named Feng Ye!"
Xu Linchuan suddenly loosened his grip, and Chen Peng fell to the ground like a broken sack, clutching his neck and coughing violently.
Just then, several more figures appeared at the entrance of the jewelry store.
It was Zhou Ye, Gu Yuan, and Su Qianqian, who was hiding at the very back, her face as pale as paper and her body trembling slightly.
They had clearly overheard the conversation.
An incredulous ecstasy erupted in Zhou Ye and Gu Yuan's eyes!
Josie is really alive!
When Su Qianqian heard the name "Qiao Xi" confirmed by Chen Peng, it was as if she had been struck by lightning!
Her eyes widened suddenly, her body trembled slightly uncontrollably, and her nails dug deep into her palms, leaving blood marks without her noticing.
Impossible! This is absolutely impossible! She clearly... clearly saw Josie being swallowed up by the surging tide of corpses with her own eyes!
How could she still be alive?
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