Chapter 6: "What Did You Just Say?"
Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
The girl stared at Shen Chen in disbelief, then cried out in joy. She jumped out of the car trunk like a rabbit and wormed herself into the front passenger seat.
She glanced at the connected ignition wires and couldn't help being astonished. "Are you a secret agent or something? You know a technique like this that only appears on TV?"
Shen Chen couldn't help shaking his head. "Sit tight. Put on your seat belt."
The girl pouted her lips. "I know. This is my car."
The car started advancing on the road. The girl looked at Shen Chen, rejoicing in the fact that she was able to escape her ill fate. She had been tailing her stepmother to catch her in the act of cheating, but she never would have expected that her stepmother would be pounced to the ground by the man who had just intimately whispered to her in front of everyone. By the time Ye Xiaoyu reacted, the entire hotel had become a living hell. The corpses that fell from the sky at the door further provoked her desire to survive. The only idea she thought of was to lock herself in the car. Then she crawled into the trunk. She knew it was the only way she could survive. She initially thought she would be trapped in the trunk until she died. She hadn't expected that someone would drive the car. The vibration of the car had nearly made her cry. It meant that she could continue to live!
The girl gritted her teeth, combing out her hair to appear less disorderly, then said, "My name is Ye Xiaoyu. What about you?"
"Shen Chen."
'Shen Chen...' Ye Xiaoyu thought to herself. She saw his firm face clearly in the car mirror outside. He looked to be at most nineteen years old, around the same age as herself. He was probably a student nearby as well, but she had never heard of such a fierce person on the J University campus.
Ye Xiaoyu thought to herself that although she had been hiding in the trunk, she had clearly felt how skilled the driver was. Now that she saw all the bloodstains on his body and the steel knife in his hand, she was even more certain that this guy named Shen Chen must have killed a lot of zombies. He was a true master!
Suddenly, a few cars appeared in the middle of the road. There was clearly a multiple-vehicle collision. The crooked cars on the street made Shen Chen frown. He was about to drive around them when, suddenly, a dozen zombies appeared next to the cars, showing their ghastly faces. The moment they saw Shen Chen's car, they immediately ran over screaming, their arms swinging. They scratched at the windows with their nails, making a jarring noise.
"Ahh!" Ye Xiaoyu jumped in her seat. The zombies that had appeared out of the darkness violently pounded on the windows. They pressed their faces against the glass, eyes locked on the "food" in the car. Ye Xiaoyu's entire body shrunk toward Shen Chen, but she covered her mouth tightly so she wouldn't make a sound.
This made Shen Chen have a better impression of her. 'It seems like this kid's not stupid. The dissemination of sound in the night would have attracted more zombies.' Shen Chen smiled, then said in a low voice, "Sit tight! Don't be afraid!"
He spoke in a cool tone, but it unexpectedly made Ye Xiaoyu feel at ease. She quickly held tightly onto the handle and said in a somewhat tearful voice, "What are we going to do?"
"What are we going to do? It'll depend on how good your car is!"
Shen Chen narrowed his eyes, accelerating the car. The four wheels turned wildly simultaneously. Clouds of smoke rose from the ground. The entire car shot out like an arrow from a bow, sending several zombies flying in its path. Shen Chen kept a straight face in the sturdy German car, charging through the crowd of zombies.
Suddenly, a small car parked horizontally in the middle of the road appeared in their sight. Ye Xiaoyu immediately panicked. "Oh, no! There's a…"
Thump.
After savagely shoving the car out of their way, they crashed into two more zombies that jumped on the car. The zombies went flying with a boom.
Shen Chen turned around. "What did you just say?"
"It's fine... my car... Oh, no! Zombies!" Ye Xiaoyu turned pale and shouted while pointing at the window.
A zombie had rolled over the engine hood and was now lying on the windshield. It grabbed the windshield wipers in one hand and pounded on the glass with another. Its mouth was wide open, and its hideous pale white face blocked the view ahead.
"Roar..." The living humans before it made the zombie let out a growl of excitement. Even though its lower body was paralyzed by the car, it still pounded on the glass. Shen Chen furrowed his brows and pulled out Black Blade.
"What are you going to do?" Ye Xiaoyu asked anxiously.
"Finish off this zombie. Otherwise, with its strength, the windshield will be shattered soon."
Ye Xiaoyu's face was white as a sheet of paper. She said frantically, "You're crazy! How is that possible?! How about we stop the car and…" She couldn't even finish her sentence. In the rearview mirror, she could see a dozen zombies were still chasing them persistently. Once they stopped the car, the consequences would be unimaginable.
"Hold onto the steering wheel!"
"Huh? Oh!"
Ye Xiaoyu hastily leaned over, grabbing onto the steering wheel tightly with shaking hands. Shen Chen opened the car door, hooked himself onto the seat with one foot, and stuck half his body out of the car.
The winter wind howled past. The violent chill quickly rushed into the car. Ye Xiaoyu couldn't help shivering. She looked out the car window. Shen Chen's entire body was leaning outside the car. The aroma of human flesh made the zombie immediately decide to abandon the windshield and turn toward Shen Chen. It opened its large rotten mouth, straightened its torso, and violently jumped toward Shen Chen, but Shen Chen swung his left hand heavily and chopped toward the zombie's head with Black Blade with full composure.
Shunk! A pungent gush of blood shot several yards into the air. The zombie fell off the car. Its arm didn't even touch Shen Chen's clothes before it was caught under the car wheels and ground into bits.
Shen Chen returned to the car. A soft body hugged him tightly, accompanied by a scent unique to girls. "Shen Chen! Shen Chen! You were amazing!"
Her overjoyed exclamations made Shen Chen feel somewhat awkward. Because she was hugging him too tightly, the car started snaking on the road.
"All right, all right…" Shen Chen lightly patted Ye Xiaoyu's back. The girl's thin back made him ponder, but he quickly adjusted himself. "Get back in your seat. I'm still driving!"
After a short while, Ye Xiaoyu finally withdrew her arms slowly and sat back in her seat. She had an expression of disbelief and surprise on her face after such a dangerous situation. "Goodness, you're even more amazing than I thought!"
Shen Chen also glanced at her with surprise. "Yeah, you're also braver than I imagined."
Ye Xiaoyu instantly smiled. Indeed, during the whole trip, Ye Xiaoyu hadn't seemed delicate like ordinary girls. She had also showed her strength early on, which impressed Shen Chen. Of course, a girl who could escape from the hotel back into her car and hide in a trunk was definitely not some weak woman.
Luckily, there were no more zombies gathered ahead. They drove to a gas station, and the car slowed down to a halt. The bright car lights instantly attracted the attention of a few wandering gas station employee zombies. Watching the zombies approach, Ye Xiaoyu asked with confusion, "There's still gas in the tank. Why are we stopping here?"
"We can't drive anymore up ahead. Otherwise, we'd be like a target in the night and get engulfed by zombies."
"But aren't you going to rescue someone? If you don't have a car, how will you rescue them?"
Shen Chen pointed to the zombies outside the window. "That's why we have to rely on them!"
"Rely on them?" Ye Xiaoyu was a little confused, but after seeing Shen Chen open the door and kill one zombie after another, she gritted her teeth and followed him. Staring at Shen Chen, who was crouching on the floor and examining something, she seemed to realize Shen Chen's intentions.
"It's going to be a little bloody. You can turn around," Shen Chen said, then he raised Black Blade up high and slammed it down on the zombie's corpse. Instantly, blood spewed everywhere, covering the ground. Soon after, the zombie was chopped up into ground meat. Only then did Shen Chen stand up and cautiously rub the decayed zombie blood and minced meat onto his body.
His experience from the previous life told him that in the preliminary stages of the apocalypse, zombies could only distinguish their prey based on scent and sound. Therefore, as long as he reeked of the smell of zombies, he wouldn't be in any danger, even if he walked among a crowd of zombies. This was also the method he had thought of earlier to rescue Boss.
"Shen Chen, I want some too!"
Ye Xiaoyu's words made Shen Chen raise his head. He frowned slightly. "You? You won't need it. This gas station is very safe. In a bit, I'll kill all the zombies in the supermarket. You stay here... and wait for me to come pick you up."
His last sentence made Ye Xiaoyu smile, but she squatted down stubbornly and scooped blood and flesh out of the zombie's tattered body with her hands, rubbing it onto her down jacket.
Shen Chen stood up. He watched Ye Xiaoyu continuously scoop out all sorts of organs from the zombie's body with a straight face, then throw them behind her. He couldn't help being surprised. "Ye Xiaoyu, aren't you afraid?"
"I'm a medical student. I've dissected corpses before... this…" Ye Xiaoyu paused, then smiled in embarrassment.
Only then did Shen Chen feel relieved. In the preliminary period of the apocalypse, a girl who had just gone through a huge shock was not only not panicking, but also had a will that was comparable to that of a man's. He was impressed, but also suspicious. But she was a person who was used to seeing life and death and corpses, so it wasn't so hard to accept.
Shen Chen knew very well how valuable people who had learned medicine were in the later stages. If Shen Chen only felt pity for Ye Xiaoyu at first, he now was seriously considering taking her into the team.
Shen Chen leaned against the car as he watched Ye Xiaoyu calmly spread the zombie blood all over herself, then asked her, "If I gave you a weapon, would you dare to kill zombies?"
"I would!" A spark lit up in Ye Xiaoyu's eyes. She knew that her performance had finally been recognized. If she stayed by Shen Chen's side, she believed she could definitely live on!
"All right." A smile appeared on Shen Chen's face. "Then stay with me."
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