"Seven?! What's wrong with you?!"
As Qi's figure was overwhelmed by zombies, Fan Ming's screams were heard.
Eve was stunned for a moment, but came to her senses the next second. While Fan Ming and Ling Ning's attention was all on Qi, she took a few steps forward, picked out a lone zombie, bit her finger, and shot blood into its forehead.
The zombies that Eve originally controlled were probably dismembered and split apart by the previous group of zombies in order to stop them. Now, except for Seven, she has no zombie servants that she can control.
"Go." She whispered to the zombie.
The zombie that was about to attack her paused, suddenly turned, and rushed towards the other zombies.
It rushed out unexpectedly, knocking several zombies that were approaching it to the ground. Eve took the opportunity to shout, "Hurry!"
Fan Ming understood and quickly grabbed Qi who was lying on the ground and pulled him back with all his might. Ling Ning hesitated for a moment and also went over to lend a hand. The two of them dragged Qi with great effort, as if they were dragging a heavy bag of potatoes, and retreated quickly.
Seven was their main force, and now that he had fallen, everyone had to retreat back to the original shop. Eve stood guard at the door and waited for the two men to drag Seven back, then immediately closed the door.
She quickly fastened the door with the security chain, but just as she had wrapped it around the door handle, there was a sudden loud bang from behind the door - a zombie was banging on the door. Eve was naturally not as strong as the zombie, and the door was almost knocked open. Fortunately, Ling Ning was quick-witted and used a chair to hold the door. Fan Ming also rushed over to help. The three of them hurriedly piled up a bunch of obstacles and finally blocked the door.
"Bang! Bang! Bang!"
There were continuous knocks outside the door, which struck the three people's hearts heavily, like the bells of hell.
Fan Ming's face was pale, Ling Ning bit his lip, his eyes almost glued to the constantly shaking door. Only Eve didn't care much. She walked aside and squatted beside Qi.
Qi's eyes were tightly closed, his long eyebrows were wrinkled into a mess of lines, his slender back was almost bent into a crescent shape, and crystal sweat slid down his cold white jaw, forming a fragile arc.
Eve put her hand on it, and it was like touching a ball of fire through ice.
This doesn't make sense. She withdrew her hand and frowned slightly. Qi is a dead man, how could he have temperature?
"Get out of the way."
Suddenly, a stiff voice sounded above her head. Eve raised her head and met Ling Ning's eyes.
Her face was like a mask that didn't fit her properly, making it impossible to tell whether she was expressing fear or resistance. But the woman swallowed and when she spoke again, her voice was much harder: "I want to check his body."
At this time, the sound behind the security door stopped, and the zombies seemed to have left. Eve's gaze paused on the door and fell on Fan Ming beside her. He didn't react at first, but after a few seconds, he seemed to suddenly understand something, and suddenly lowered his eyes, avoiding Eve's gaze.
"Why?" Eve asked.
"He fell into a pile of zombies," Ling Ning said, "I want to check if he was bitten by any zombies."
Eve blinked.
The house was silent.
The other two looked at her nervously, afraid that she would refuse or get angry.
For some reason, although Eve had never displayed her special abilities, she gave people a stronger feeling than the strong and powerful Qi - when they looked into her green eyes, it was as if they were confronting an unknown beast.
To their surprise, Eve readily said, "Sure."
Fan Ming's prepared words of persuasion were all choked in his throat. He said in a daze, "...Ah?"
"Seven seems to have a cold," Eve said, pushing back her hair, revealing her slightly red face. "Why don't you take off all your clothes?"
Fan Ming looked at Ling Ning inquiringly, and the latter's eyes flashed: "Leave one."
Eve smiled and took the initiative to help Seven take off her outer clothes until the last thin shirt. She stopped and seemingly unintentionally placed her hand on Seven's chest, blocking the witch's heart.
"How?" she asked Ling Ning.
Ling Ning's gaze swept over Qi's body inch by inch like a searchlight. He paused, a little surprised: "...No wounds?"
"Wow," Eve said with a smile, "How lucky."
This is natural - Seven is a zombie himself, and in the presence of humans, he will definitely not be their priority target.
Moreover, Qi's body temperature and height are now almost the same as those of a normal person, so Eve feels at ease to check Ling Ning.
Ling Ning checked twice more, confirming that Qi had no wounds, and then said, "It's OK."
Eve said "hmm" and lowered her head to help Qi put on her clothes.
She looked calm, but the other two looked a little embarrassed - after all, it was thanks to Qi that they managed to escape from the zombies' mouths. Now they were still suspicious of others, which made them look a bit ungrateful.
There was a strange atmosphere in the air, but Eve didn't care. She dragged Qi behind the counter with great effort, just enough to block Fan Ming and the others' sight, and then said, "Let's rest today and figure out how to get out tomorrow."
Fan Ming was stunned: "Still going out?" There are zombies everywhere outside!
Eve: "That pharmacy you mentioned earlier...does it have anything that can cure fever?"
"There should be, right?" Fan Ming said uncertainly, "There must have been one before the end of the world, but I don't know if anyone has been here..."
He looked at Ling Ning, who said, "My teammates are going to the West District. They didn't go to the pharmacy at all."
"West District?" Fan Ming was surprised. "Isn't that the building across the street?"
The entire shopping mall is divided into four independent buildings. They are currently in the East District. To go to the West District mentioned by Ling Ning, they must cross the overpass to another building.
Ling Ning shrugged. "I don't know. They were looking for a person with night vision and offered five core crystals, so I went."
"Five nuclear crystals..." Fan Ming sighed.
Ling Ning turned to Eve and said seriously, "But I advise you not to go. There are so many zombies out there, you can't handle them all by yourself. Your brother is a psychic, so his physique is better than an ordinary person. He will definitely get over this minor illness."
Eve glanced at her and said nothing.
Ling Ning thought she had compromised, so he breathed a sigh of relief and lay down on the ground. Fan Ming had already curled up in a corner, intending to rest.
The room suddenly became quiet.
In the darkness, only Eve's green eyes were quietly open.
She touched Seven and whispered, "What do you think?"
Qi felt her breath, his long eyelashes trembled slightly, but he couldn't open his eyes.
He curled up unconsciously, his soft black hair sticking to the back of Eve's hand, like a big dog waiting to be petted by its owner.
Eve stared at his transparent white face for a few seconds, then pulled her hand away. Qi felt a void on his forehead and subconsciously reached forward, but touched nothing.
But the next second, a drop of warm liquid fell between his lips.
——Eve cut her finger and squeezed the blood into his lips.
Her blood still had a great attraction to Qi. Even with his eyes closed, he raised his head as if by instinct and caught the falling drops of blood.
While feeding blood, Eve paid attention to the changes in Qi's body.
Sure enough, after touching the other person's arm, Eve's eyes darkened - it was useless.
She had just fed Qi blood once, but his body temperature not only did not drop, but rose even higher. Eve, sitting next to Qi, could feel his breath exhaling hot air like magma.
That's why she asked about the pharmacy.
Her witch heart is still in Qi's body, and Eve doesn't know whether Qi's fever will affect it.
Eve was thinking when she suddenly heard a rustling sound in the distance. She paused and lay down calmly, her eyes fixed on the source of the sound.
After a while, Ling Ning's voice sounded softly: "Eve, are you asleep?"
Eve didn't move. The other party seemed to hesitate and placed a light object beside her.
The moment Ling Ning was about to pull her hand away, a pair of icy jade-like hands suddenly grabbed her wrists: "What is this?"
“!”
Ling Ning was startled. Eve, who he thought was fast asleep, suddenly sat up and pointed at a piece of paper that had fallen on her lap. "Is it for me?"
"This..." Ling Ning was caught red-handed. He looked a little embarrassed, but he stiffened his neck and said, "Yes! This is a map."
Eve: “?”
She did not let go of Ling Ning, but picked up the map with her left hand. Looking at it in the moonlight, she found that it was a simple map of the interior layout of the shopping mall.
Ling Ning: "This... is a gift in return for saving me just now."
Eve blinked before realizing she was referring to the incident in the safe passage.
"...Also," Ling Ning looked as if someone was pinching her lips and forcing each word out, "I wrongly blamed your brother just now... I'm sorry."
Eve looked at her and suddenly let out a chuckle.
Ling Ning was furious: "What are you doing?!"
"Do you mind this?" Eve smiled and slowly stood up. "It's okay, I don't mind."
Ling Ning stared at her suspiciously.
Eve shrugged. "Everyone wants to live—I can't blame someone for wanting to live."
The expression on her face when she said this was very strange. For a moment, Ling Ning seemed to feel that Eve's gaze passed through him and fell on some unknown place in the distance.
But that hazy expression faded from her face like a tide, and Eve curled her lips: "Go to bed, it's getting late."
"……good."
Although Ling Ning still had some doubts, she nodded and moved back to her seat. She had just laid down when she remembered something, turned over, and gently called out to Eve, "Hey."
Eve turned her head, and the cat's eyes flashed with fluorescence in the darkness.
"You..." Ling Ning hesitated, "Your brother will be fine."
This was clearly just an ordinary sentence, but Eve suddenly opened her eyes, her round eyes like a startled cat.
Ling Ning felt a little uncomfortable being looked at by her and couldn't help asking, "What are you doing?"
"...It's okay," Eve paused for a long time before saying softly, "...Thank you."
Hearing this, Ling Ning touched her nose to cover up and muttered something, as if to say "it's no big deal". She stopped talking, turned her back to Eve and closed her eyes.
But what Ling Ning didn't know was that after she lay down, Eve's gaze seemed to be frozen and glued to her back. It was not until Ling Ning's snoring sounded softly that the slender statue moved slightly, and her seaweed-like red hair slid down the side of her face.
Eve stood up and walked quietly towards the safe door.
When she blocked the door, she deliberately left some gaps, just enough for her to squeeze through. She deftly passed through the obstacles, walked to the door, and gently turned the doorknob -
The door opened.
In the darkness, two eyes like red lanterns lit up.
A dark shadow was hiding behind the door. When he saw Eve, he bowed his head respectfully and murmured softly.
"Take this," Eve lowered her voice and handed over a piece of paper, "Go get something for me."
The paper seemed to be a map with some shops densely drawn on it. The black shadow listened quietly until Eve finished her instructions. It blinked and its figure sank into the surging darkness again.
And Eve closed the door again.
***
early morning.
Fan Ming was still asleep when a scream suddenly rang in his ears: "What's going on?! What are these?!"
He subconsciously thought it was a zombie invasion and jumped up from the ground: "What's wrong?!"
As soon as he opened his eyes, he saw Ling Ning with a look of astonishment on his face, pointing forcefully at the other side: "Where...where did you get these from?!"
Fan Ming: “?”
"Don't make such a fuss," Eve said, standing opposite Ling Ning, "This is not a difficult thing."
Ling Ning glared at her with an expression that said, "You're fucking farting."
Fan Ming: "What are you doing..."
"Ah, you're awake," Eve noticed him and smiled softly, "Just in time, come and help me take a look."
"Look... at what?"
"These." Eve kicked her feet, and Fan Ming noticed that there was a pile of cardboard boxes like a small mountain under her feet. With Eve's movement, several cardboard boxes rolled down and landed in front of Fan Ming.
Fan Ming suddenly opened his eyes wide.
——There are a few big words printed on the paper box: "Yinhua Brand Cough Syrup".
"Cold medicine?!"
He realized something, raised his head suddenly, and looked at the hill under Eve's feet in shock.
Cold medicine, anti-inflammatory drugs, bandages, iodine...even some prescription drugs!
He was so surprised that he couldn't close his mouth: "What are these...?!"
"I got it from the pharmacy on the second floor," Eve said, "but I don't know which one is the anti-inflammatory..."
She smiled at Fan Ming, with an innocent light shining in her green eyes.
"So I just moved all the medicines in the store here."
The author has something to say:
Eve: Drug freedom from now on.
Fan Ming & Ling Ning: ...Holy crap.
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