The next day, after waking up in the morning, washing up and having a simple breakfast, Shen Lanzhou planned to take some people out to clean up the zombies and collect some supplies.
Although many people had complaints about her, no one dared to say anything strange after seeing her use two machetes to chop the zombies into pieces like chopping melons and vegetables yesterday.
"Wait! Wait a minute!"
Suddenly someone called her from behind.
It was Lu Shiqi, the owner of this villa. This playful rich girl was very smart. When she encountered problems, she neither threw a tantrum nor tried to seize the right to speak because the house was hers.
Instead, he cooperated meekly in allocating rooms to the people in the villa, commanding the girls to prepare food, and commanding the boys to check and strengthen the security of the villa.
Being stared at by eyes as deep as the abyss, Lu Shiqi was a little frightened. But she still mustered up the courage to say: "Someone is missing in the villa!"
Shen Lanzhou's expression became serious. She had been monitoring the outside of the villa last night and could guarantee that no monster had sneaked in, let alone anyone had left the villa.
"When was it discovered?"
"Just today, when I was taking roll call, I discovered Zhu Chaoying was missing and couldn't be found anywhere!"
"It seems that today's trip will have to be postponed." Shen Lanzhou felt heavy in his heart.
Xu Yan asked: "Could it be that he was in a bad mood and went out to relax?"
"No, Chaoying is very timid and won't go out alone at a time like this." As the central figure in the girls' circle in the class, Lu Shiqi, who knows every girl in the class, directly overturned Xu Yan's guess.
Shen Lanzhou's brain raced.
I'm absolutely certain that no zombies have invaded the villa from last night to today, and I'm also absolutely certain that no one has left the villa. So how did Zhu Chaoying disappear?
Although reluctant, the probability that Zhu Chaoying is still alive is less than one percent.
Was it a man-made murder?
Besides myself, is there anyone else in the class who has a grudge against her?
"ah!!!"
A girl's scream came from upstairs. Shen Lanzhou took a few big steps and climbed directly to the second floor through the outer wall of the villa.
As soon as she entered the room where the scream came from, she saw Liang Shimeng screaming at a high decibel while riding on a pale zombie, and the knife in her hand was stabbing into the zombie's skull frantically, quickly and at a high frequency.
Next to her was Huang Haiyan, who was pale and trembling.
"It's...it's Li Junwei...how could it be..."
Although the zombie's face was stabbed to a bloody mess, Lu Shiqi still recognized his identity. Her voice was hoarse: "I just greeted him an hour ago..."
Shen Lanzhou held Liang Shimeng's hand, which was raised high to stab again, and gently hugged her from behind: "It's okay, Shimeng, it's okay now."
Liang Shimeng threw away the knife in her hand, turned around and threw herself into Shen Lanzhou's arms: "Lanzhou, zombies are so scary!"
She almost thought she was going to die here!
"It's okay, it's okay. You're doing great."
"Poetry, chess... and Lanzhou."
A tall boy came over, his face livid and looking shaky. "We found Zhu Chaoying. She's in Li Junwei's room. She's been gnawed to pieces, leaving only her head... Ugh..."
As if recalling the scene he had just seen, the tall and strong boy couldn't help but bend down and vomit.
It was so bloody and disgusting! The sight of his former classmate being eaten to the point of only his head remaining, his lifeless eyes staring straight at him, was a scene that would haunt him for the rest of his life.
"So, it was the mutated Li Junwei who attacked and devoured Zhu Chaoying?" Xu Yan frowned, trying to remain calm as she pondered, "Didn't they say we already have preliminary antibodies and won't be infected by the virus in the air and turn into a zombie? Speaking of which, Li Junwei seemed to have been caught in a bloody rain yesterday. Could he have been infected then?!"
"In the final analysis, these things are just Shen Lanzhou's one-sided statement. There is neither scientific certification nor official endorsement. How could she, an economics student, possibly understand these things? I don't know which apocalyptic novel she learned the settings from." A sarcastic voice came from behind.
"Hey, Youjie, stop making sarcastic remarks at this time! If you want to have the right to speak, you'd better go out and kill a zombie first and then jump out and shout." Xu Yan said coldly, with a warning in her eyes.
"Tsk, Xu Yan, don't think you're so great just because you're a squad leader. This is Shiqi's home, you're just a temporary guest staying there, don't act like the owner and order things around! Besides, if you follow Shen Lanzhou out to kill zombies, what if you get injured or die? Can she pay for your life? In my opinion, it's better to stay in the villa and wait for rescue. Look, if you mess around with Shen Lanzhou now, someone will die."
"You're truly short-sighted! You know how widespread that bloody rain was. Now that the phone isn't working, who's going to come and save us? Even if the army came to rescue us, they'd prioritize those in the densely populated areas of the city. By that time, you'd be wiped out!"
…
Ignoring the two arguing, Shen Lanzhou comforted the frightened Liang Shimeng, gazing grimly at the lifeless corpse of Li Junwei on the ground. She turned the body over, removing the bloodied head, and finally found a small needle prick beneath the clothing on the right arm, oozing foul-smelling black pus.
Zombies are man-made.
There are also doubts about Zhu Chaoying being eaten. People are not dumb, so how can they scream and wail when being bitten by a zombie? Unless the zombie is very smart and takes advantage of the person's sleep to kill them.
But it’s only the beginning of the apocalypse, it’s impossible for such smart zombies to appear.
The final conclusion is that there is a zombie in the villa, not Li Junwei, but another one hiding. And, it has a helper, a human helper.
Moreover, she already had the answer to the murderer in her mind.
Big Brother...
"Excuse me for a moment, Shimeng. Please wait for me for a moment. Lu Shiqi, you and Ayan, be on guard. Don't worry, I've cleared out the zombies nearby, so there won't be any monsters to disturb us for the time being."
After saying that, she walked straight to the room where her eldest brother and sister-in-law were. As expected, the room was already empty.
She jumped out of the upstairs window to the small garden outside the villa and soon found a trail of footprints leading down the mountain.
There was only one way down the mountain, so she hurried.
The previous series of events dragged on for quite some time, but with Shen Lanzhou's speed, he quickly caught up with his eldest brother Shen Changqing and... the zombie who used to be his "sister-in-law".
"Lan Zhou, I... I'm really sorry. But your sister-in-law... she can still be saved! She hasn't completely turned into a monster yet, she still has her sanity! Look! I was close to her, and she didn't hurt me!"
Shen Changqing protected his "sister-in-law" behind him, took a few steps back, and said with an apologetic and wry smile on his face: "For the sake of us being a family, please let us go!"
"Brother, an apology can't bring the dead back to life." Shen Lanzhou's face was calm, but he showed a weapon in his hand.
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