The girl looked around, took two steps back, as if she had just realized that she was surrounded by eight people.
The moonlight filtering through the crack in the door faintly illuminated her face, a face filled with despair and sorrow. "I thought you were just enjoying the commotion, but I guess I was too kind after all... I was so stupid..."
“I never expected the main city to set up such a treacherous trap to capture me,” she said, looking at the man with hatred in her eyes. “I am at their mercy; you can do whatever you want with me.”
She turned her head to one side, and large tears slid down her cheeks in one fluid motion.
The girl spoke in rapid succession without pause, giving the eight-person team no time to react.
They were stunned by her posture, as if she were about to die a heroic death, and for a moment they didn't know what to say.
When people are questioned, their first reaction is often to prove themselves.
The team members, who had received the girl's help multiple times, quickly explained, "Girl, we mean no harm. The main city is also our enemy. We are just preparing to fight against them."
The captain was about to stop his teammate from speaking when the latter had already stated the team's identity and stance.
He could only soften his tone and continue, going along with his teammate's words: "Young lady, we are indeed not from the main city, and we will not harm you. So, can you tell me why you are here?"
Chuanliu had now completely confirmed the identities of the group. She stared intently at them, as if trying to determine whether what they were saying was true.
If everyone observed carefully at this moment, they would have noticed that the tears in the girl's eyes had long since been wiped away.
"Is what you're saying true?" The girl's tone returned to its usual calm.
Everyone nodded repeatedly, completely unaware that they had gone from being proactive to being passive.
After a moment's thought, the girl said as if she had made up her mind, "I want to go to the main city."
The man paused for a moment, thinking that Chuanliu had also been misled by those people and intended to go to the main city to avoid the troubles of the corpses.
So he earnestly advised, "Young lady, are you from Plum Blossom City? Haven't you heard? The Corpse People are created by the higher-ups of Plum Blossom City, and they are still creating them continuously. The peaceful life in the main city is not what they claim. If you go there, you may not be able to come back."
No, it's not.
Chuanliu shook his head, interrupting his persuasion.
She suddenly raised her head, her eyes filled with determination, and uttered a shocking statement.
"I'm going to assassinate a high-ranking member of the Plum Blossom Clan!"
After the girl spoke, the remaining eight people present fell silent.
More than shock, I felt disbelief.
No one believed she could achieve the goal she had just mentioned all by herself. Even the captain who had once stood guard day and night by the Plum Blossom's leadership hadn't considered this idea.
The captain coughed twice, trying to dispel the girl's unrealistic idea. "Girl, you've never been to the main city, have you? You can't just go to the upper echelons of society whenever you want. Besides, they have so many bodyguards around them. You can't succeed."
How do you know if you can succeed if you don't try?
The girl's words were both ambitious and naive, which made the captain laugh.
“Girl, that’s not how it works… To be honest, I escaped from there. If you really want to fight against the tyranny of the Plum Blossom’s leadership, why not join us? We can go to other cities, join their ranks, fight against the zombies, and overthrow the Plum Blossom’s main city.”
The girl stubbornly shook her head. "No, they kidnapped my brother. I want to rescue him!"
The man's heart skipped a beat. He looked at his teammates with a sense of foreboding. Could it be that the brother the man in front of him was the one he had arrested?
He swallowed hard and asked, "Could you tell me what happened?"
The girl said with a worried look, "My brother Qiang and I depend on each other for survival on Paradise Island. Suddenly one day, he was captured by the people from the main city. I'm really worried about him... You just said that you escaped from the main city?"
The man nodded, answering her question somewhat guiltily.
"Since you were able to escape, it proves that my brother could escape too, right?" The girl looked at him with hopeful eyes.
The man knew that her brother was likely now a corpse, but he didn't want to shatter her hopes, so he could only nod.
Seeing the man's reaction, Chuanliu's eyes deepened. He stopped pressuring him and firmly repeated, "Brother, please don't try to persuade me. My mind is made up. I must go in. Whether it's to find my brother or to avenge him, I've made up my mind to die!"
The team members were all touched by the girl's words.
After a long silence, the captain slowly spoke: "Since that's the case... I can't say anything more. However, tomorrow is the last day to enter the main city, and you need an identification token to get in. Even if you go, you'll be stopped. Why don't you consider joining our team?"
The girl stubbornly shook her head, her silence revealing an unwavering will.
Seeing this, the captain sighed and made up his mind: "Very well, you have helped us many times today, so let us help you in return tomorrow."
He then turned to his seven teammates and suggested, "Let's make a scene tomorrow and try to create an opportunity for her to sneak in amidst the chaos."
This proposal was quickly met with a positive response from the crowd.
Chuanliu thanked her twice without refusing, because this was exactly the effect she wanted to achieve.
The group spent the night peacefully in the room until sunlight streamed in through the crack in the door, at which point they awoke.
Chuanliu was the first to get up, sticking his head out through the crack in the door to cautiously check the safety situation outside.
After confirming that everything was alright, she gently called to everyone, and the group set off for the main city, following the route they had taken the night before, and returned to the familiar rooftop.
On the rooftop, the corpses that ravaged the area yesterday had vanished without a trace, as if the morning sun had washed away all the gloom.
The team members followed the flow of traffic, nimbly moving between rooftops, choosing the safest and fastest route.
Seeing the girl's skill, the man felt more at ease about her revenge plan.
He always felt that the girl in front of him was not an ordinary person, but he couldn't understand why a perfectly normal girl would want to die.
It wasn't until he returned with the army and saw the girl's figure on the top of that building that he learned her true identity from others.
It was just as the sun was rising, and the sunlight from the east shone on the "golden diamond," but because the clouds were gradually approaching, the light was not as intense as usual.
Just as they were getting closer to the "golden diamond," the girl leading the group stopped and gestured for everyone to crouch down, looking towards the shadowy side of the giant building.
Everyone immediately looked over warily.
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