Zombies aren't scary. What's scary is not being able to get over the barrier in your heart. Thinking back to the first time I killed a zombie, I was forced to do it, but what else could I do? To protect the people, I could only rush forward without hesitation. The first zombie I killed was my neighbor. That family had been very kind to me before, and when they saw me covered in wounds, they would take me in from time to time. But when they turned into zombies, they were the first to rush over and bite me. I didn't want to fight back, but when I saw that I was about to be bitten on the neck, I still took action, picked up the knife in my hand, and plunged it into the zombie's head. My legs were weak and I stared blankly at my neighbor who was dying with his eyes wide open. I will never forget that face that hadn't changed, but those eyes that used to be red because of their pity for me were now without pupils.
Shangguan Wan collected her thoughts and continued walking forward, looking at the men, women, young and old, all of whom looked listless and listless. They were hungry because they had no food. However, all those with special abilities were protected in the base, while ordinary people like them without special abilities could only wait to die here or become food in someone else's stomach.
"Woo woo~" Shangguan Wan and Han Lie looked at a corner of the wall at the same time, a sad and sorrowful sobbing sound that was so heartbreaking in this hot summer.
Shangguan Wan's heart moved slightly, and she slowly moved closer to the place where the sound came from on the garbage pile.
A disheveled woman leaned against the wall, her body covered in bruises and purples. One could imagine the inhumane treatment she had endured. The woman suddenly glanced sideways at Shangguan Wan and Han Lie, a flash of fear in her eyes. She clutched the bundle in her arms and scrambled closer to the wall, clinging tightly to it.
The defensiveness in his eyes was so deep.
"Don't worry, I'm not a bad person." Shangguan Wan tried her best to make her voice lighter, fearing that her harsh tone would scare the woman to death.
The woman trembled and shook her head, but she still held the package tightly in her arms. Shangguan Wan felt it was difficult to say anything more. She looked so defensive, so she decided to forget it.
She was about to leave, but before she had taken three or four steps, she heard a fragile baby's whimper, which stopped Shangguan Wan in her tracks.
Shangguan Wan turned around and saw that the woman lifted up her clothes in front of her chest to feed the baby the moment he started crying, but the baby was still crying after taking two bites. The woman anxiously held the baby and coaxed him with one hand while squeezing milk with the other hand. However, Shangguan Wan could see clearly that she had no milk. The baby was crying because he was hungry, and even his cries were so small and weak.
When Shangguan Wan was about to take two steps forward to help her, she saw the woman wiping her tears and looking for something everywhere. When she saw a piece of broken glass, the woman crawled over without hesitation and used the sharpest end of the glass to cut the blood vessels on her wrist.
Blood flowed from the wound. The woman put her wrist to the baby's mouth. The baby licked the red blood with his tongue as if it were a sweet rain. Perhaps he would never know how great the woman in front of him was.
Shangguan Wan felt that this scene was deeply jarring. Without hesitation, she went up to grab the bleeding hand and directly sealed the bleeding wound with her healing ability.
When the woman saw that her wound had stopped bleeding and that the baby was about to cry again, she didn't know where she got so much strength from to shake off Shangguan Wan's hand, and picked up the glass to cut her again.
"Stop feeding it!" Shangguan Wan grabbed the glass. The sharp edge of the glass cut her hand, leaving a red mark.
Han Lie was furious the moment he saw it, and the air around him turned cold.
Shangguan Wan ignored the wound on her hand and looked at the woman who was looking at her angrily because of what she had said. In her eyes, Shangguan Wan seemed to see herself in her previous life. So helpless yet so stubborn.
"I can support him," Shangguan Wan said lightly, pointing to the child in her arms.
The woman raised her head instantly, staring at Shangguan Wan without saying a word. After thinking about her words, she felt that Shangguan Wan was untrustworthy. She shook her head and hugged the child in her arms even tighter.
"Think carefully about how much blood you have left to feed him. He'll become someone else's food sooner or later." Shangguan Wan knew the woman knew what she meant. In this place, with a child, she would surely die. Even if she sacrificed her body to ensure the child's well-being, it would only be temporary.
The woman thought of her recent experiences, heartbroken, holding the child. She knelt on the ground facing Shangguan Wan, head bowed, her back bent as she held the child. "Please, give him a chance to live. I can die, just give him a chance to live. Please, please," she pleaded softly, "with each request, she kowtowed, so humble, yet so pleading. Just for the child in her arms."
"I can help you support him, but I have a request." Shangguan Wan raised her head and looked down at the woman in front of her.
"You said?" the woman asked tremblingly, mentally prepared to die.
"I can help you support him, but you have to work for me for the rest of your life. I don't keep idle people around me, and the prerequisite for supporting him is you."
"Me? You still want me, don't you want me to just die?"
"Why would I want you to die? I've never had a child and don't know how to raise one, but you do. Besides, some of our members will have children soon, so you can just take care of them. Raise your own children while you work. Okay?"
"Really?" the woman asked in disbelief.
"Really. But the prerequisite is that you have to recognize your own identity," Shangguan Wan deliberately explained her identity, and she must not let her disturb the members' hearts.
"As long as my son can live, you can let me die. I will never make any mistakes." The woman kowtowed again and again in gratitude.
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