Chapter 194: Zombies and Outing.
Bai Li met it head on, swinging from low to high and cutting through the space before the zombie could fully extend its arms. Her body turned with the strike, and the blade landed clean enough that the zombie dropped before its grab could matter. Then Bai Li’s eyes moved immediately to the next possible threat. That was the thing about her now. She did not just kill what was directly in front of her. She already looked past it, already planning where the next body might come from and how quickly she could clear it if needed. That was how fighters survived longer. Not just by winning the moment, but by never letting their attention get trapped inside a single hit.
The survivors in Building 9 continued watching from afar, and their fear slowly mixed with another feeling too. Hope, maybe. Or at least a rough version of it. Watching someone cut down zombies this efficiently gave them the sense that maybe the apocalypse was not a full stop after all. Maybe there were still people who could force a path forward. Maybe there were still ways to get supplies, to clear buildings, to survive another day. Bai Li herself would not have called it hope. She would have called it survival work. But to the people trapped inside their rooms, the difference did not really matter. What mattered was that she was out there and still moving.
Bai Li adjusted her grip and stepped toward the supermarket entrance again. The fight was not finished, but the immediate pressure had finally been pushed back enough for them to move forward. She could feel the last pulse of adrenaline in her arms, the steady weight of her knife, and Yan Cijin’s presence close behind her like a second line of defense. The open area ahead was still dangerous, still full of unknowns, but they had already cut through enough of the front line to make the next move possible. Bai Li lifted her chin slightly, eyes scanning the open space one more time. If another wave came, she was ready for it.
Bai Li raised her knife and charged ahead, with Yan Cijin close behind. Meanwhile, some of the survivors in Building 9 had also witnessed Bai Li’s fight with the zombies.
Meanwhile, some of the survivors in Building 9 had also witnessed Bai Li’s fight with the zombies.
Even after Bai Li had already gone, the people in Building 9 were still buzzing about what they had seen. The whole building had not calmed down at all. If anything, the group chat was getting louder and messier by the second. Xu Haoran from Room 816 was still standing at the window like he had lost his soul, his finger shaking as he pointed toward the spot where Bai Li had just killed the zombies. He kept staring at the bodies on the ground as if he could not quite believe his own eyes. His girlfriend, Chen Yao, frowned at him with obvious annoyance and said, "What are you looking at? Instead of standing there like an idiot, why don’t you hurry up and get some supplies? We have already run out of vegetables and meat. If this keeps going, we will not even have rice or flour for more than a few days." Xu Haoran finally turned back toward her, still looking dazed, and said, "No, no, I think I really saw Bai Li on the tenth floor. She had a long knife and killed four zombies in one go. Look at the zombie corpses lying there, they are all the ones Bai Li just killed." Chen Yao still looked doubtful and gave a faint scoff. "Bai Li is crazy enough to go out, I admit that, but can she really beat zombies? You must have seen wrong." But the problem was that he had not seen wrong. Bai Li really had done it. Not only he had seen it, but several people in the resident chat had also seen it, and the entire building was slowly shifting from mockery to shock.
The residents’ group of Building 9 was in complete chaos. The building itself had two elevators and four households on each floor, which made for 84 households in total, but now only 11 households were still alive. The numbers should have made the building feel almost dead and silent, but instead the chat was still full of noise, gossip, panic, and shameless requests. People who had laughed at Bai Li before were now tagging her like nothing had ever happened, as if they had not said a single bad word about her. Shen Yu from Room 402 was one of the first to speak. "Did anyone else see it? Bai Li went downstairs right in the open space in front of the building entrance. I saw her kill four zombies in one go." Xu Haoran from Room 816 immediately replied, "I saw it too! At first I thought I was hallucinating, but it is real." Qiu Zhen from Room 203 added, "I saw it too, and close up. Bai Li cut the zombies down like it was nothing. She did not even need a minute before all those zombies were dead. And it seemed like she had her doctor neighbor with her." Then Pei Ziming jumped in with the kind of comment that made everyone roll their eyes. "I told you a long time ago that Dr. Yan and Bai Li were working together, but nobody believed me. Now you understand, right? These two are both dangerous." Shen Yu from Room 402 quickly replied, "@Pei Ziming, you cannot talk like that. She has a grudge against you, but she does not have one against the rest of us. Since Bai Li dares to go out, should we ask her to help deliver some supplies?" That message was enough to start the whole group splitting into greed, fear, and common sense all at once. Gao Wenyuan from Room...
.
.
.
TO BE CONTINUED.
