"Let's go. I will deal with the zombie inside. You stay here with the child."
After saying this, Lu Wuqi waited for Yun Qingyue to answer and only moved forward when the latter nodded.
She gently held the wooden door of the washroom. Her right hand held the natal dagger and the left hand silently clutched the door handle and gently twisted it downwards.
As the handle lock was pushed downwards, a mechanical click sound sounded in the quite room which was particularly obvious because of the quiteness of the surroundings. Lu Wuqi felt the lock opening and she slightly pushed the door open to reveal a gap which was enough for them to see what was inside.
Thankfully, the washroom's one way glass window was open wide which allowed the moonlight to illuminate the whole area and Lu Wuqi could see the inside of the washroom carefully.
She saw that no zombie was near the door and immediately pushed it open and the whole view of the Washroom came into their eyes.
Lu Wuqi immediately spotted the zombie which was standing on the opposite end of the wall of the washroom. They could only see it's back but the zombie was banging it's head hard on the wall and blood stains could also be seen there which seemed particularly eerie and terrifying.
Lu Wuqi stepped inside the washroom and the door was wide open as Yun Qingyue stood there with the child in her arms.
Perhaps because it heard the sound of door opening, the zombie which was facing opposite of them immediately turned around and faced Lu Wuqi with its horrific appearance.
The zombie immediately became excited after seeing a human and started walking slowly towards her.
And just when Lu Wuqi was about to prepare herself, one of the bathroom cubicle's door was swung open inside the washroom as another zombie walked out from there. It probably also heard their sound and immediately came out of it's dormant state after hearing the sound of a human being.
Lu Wuqi now faced two zombies right infront of her and there was about a meter distance between them. A tall male zombie was in the lead and this was the zombie which was banging it's head on the wall.
The two zombies also noticed Lu Wuqi's movements and the smell of living human and became particularly excited. The tall male zombie in the lead seemed to be a little faster and more excited than the other zombie and rushed straight towards Lu Wuqi.
The zombie had a horrible face. One of his eyeballs had burst out, and his eye sockets were oozing something that was not sure whether it was the white of the eye or blood. It was sticky and looked more disgusting than a slug. His shoulder seemed to have been bitten by another zombie, and black blood was still oozing out. A hoarse roar that was not human came out of his throat.
Lu Wuqi was obviously high in alert and didn't dare to neglect it at all. She reacted quickly, took two steps forward and raised her right foot and kicked the tall male zombie hard on it's chest. The male zombie was immediately knocked back by the force of her kick but didn't fall down because he directly hit the other shorter male zombie behind him. The two zombies were already unsteady on their feets and were trying hard to regain balance.
Lu Wuqi immediately spotted her opportunity and held the natal dagger tightly with both her hands and swung it directly on the neck of the taller male zombie. As a previous mercenary who had decades of experience, Lu Wuqi executed the perfect chopping and the natal dagger went in the exact spot that she wanted it to.
At first, Lu Wuqi thought that she would definitely feel some obstruction when the cutting the neck but the moment the natal dagger chopped down on the neck of the zombie, it directly severed it's neck and the spine without a single obstruction! So much so that she was unprepared and almost lost her balance and was about to fall to the other side!
But she reacted quickly and immediately regained her balance. Unfortunately because of this unexpected surprise, she couldn't get away in time and the disgusting dark blood of the zombie directly splattered on her whole body.
But at the moment her attention was attracted by the natal dagger in her hand and she couldn't help but feel the difference after this fight. This dagger was unusually sharper and she could feel that when she swung it, the power behind the force of the strike was definitely many times more than before when she used the kitchen knife!
The human spine is extremely hard and generally speaking, even when she was at her peak form when she was a mercenary in her previous life, she still faced some obstruction when she used to cut the neck of an enemy and that too with the best knife available in the world. However after the previous chop, Lu Wuqi was much more confident in encountering zombies and was sure that she wouldn't need to find any other weapon as this natal dagger was the best weapon that she could ever get.
At this moment, Lu Wuqi noticed the blood on her body and couldn't help but frown as the extremely nasty fishy smell was too overbearing, it even stronger than the smell of rotten fish. If Lu Wuqi hadn't been an experienced mercenary, she probably would have already vomitted from the disgusting scent of the blood.
But Lu Wuqi didn't dare to be distracted as the other short male zombie was still coming towards her with a groaning scream.
She immediately stepped forward and came closer towards the zombie and the zombie also swung it's arms towards her as it wanted to bite her to death but Lu Wuqi side stepped to avoid it and directly slashed at its neck with the natal dagger. And just like before, the natal dagger severed the head of the zombie quite easily.
This time she was prepared and immediately stepped away from the zombies so that the blood doesn't spill on her.
"Congratulations , host! For obtaining two level 1 zombie crystal cores."
Lu Wuqi heard the enthusiastic voice of the system in her mind and was a little satisfied after seeing the number of zombie crystal cores changing from 0 to 2.
At this time, Yun Qingyue has already come closer towards her but maintained a distance away from her and it could be seen from her frowing eyebrows that the smell of blood on her body was too unbearable.
Little Yunyue also seems to have woken up at some point as she stared at Lu Wuqi with her round big eyes and said with a little hesitation in her childish voice,
"I-is m-mommy okay??"
After hearing the little child's question, Lu Wuqi felt a little warm in her heart and said in a very coaxing tone,
"It's okay. It's not my blood. Mommy is strong right. Look, mommy has already dealt with those two bad guys and they will not be able to harm our little Yunyue anymore."
Little Yunyue was obviously happier after hearing her mommy's response as well as the doting tone in her voice made her much more approachable than before.
Then, little Yunyue suddenly seems to have smelled the bad smell on Lu Wuqi's body and immediately turned around to bury her whole face in Yun Qingyue's arms and said in a muffled tone,
"Mommy smells bad!!"
Hearing her childish voice, Lu Wuqi couldn't help but feel funny as she laughed out with a little sound and said,
"Haha.. yes. I do smell bad right."
At this point, Yun Qingyue suddenly said in her same cold voice but the obvious worry in them was very evident,
"It's good that you are okay. But be more careful. I just saw how you suddenly lost your balance after dealing with the first zombie."
At the mention of that incident, Lu Wuqi immediately felt embarassed. After all, she was a mercenary with decades of experience but she actually lost balance in such a critical moment. It was a stain in her pride as a mercenary boss and she obviously wanted to just forget that but Yun Qingyue remembered it and even told her to be more careful.
"Ahem.... Yes- yes.. i will be.....
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After dealing with the two zombies, Lu Wuqi was told by Yun Qingyue to be more careful and even her embarrassing moment was remembered by her which made Lu Wuqi feel embarrassed.
Fortunately, Yun Qingyue didn't say anything anymore and Lu Wuqi also replied to show her understanding of the matter.
At this time, Lu Wuqi and Yun Qingyue went to turn on the faucet to see if there was still water available and thankfully the moment the faucet was turned on, cold water started coming out from there.
Yun Qingyue looked towards Lu Wuqi and said,
"Fortunately there's still water. Even though the water line has already been cut off just a week after the apocalypse but maybe the water tank of the supermarket still has water in it."
Lu Wuqi heard her and nodded. Yun Qingyue was about to put one of her hand on the flowing water when suddenly her wrist was held tightly by Lu Wuqi beside her.
"Wait."
Yun Qingyue was a bit confused about her sudden behaviour when Lu Wuqi said,
"There's something wrong with the water."
After hearing her words, Both Lu Wuqi and Yun Qingyue tried to carefully see what was wrong with the water but the dark environment made it seem as if everything was normal. Without the help of light, it was impossible to tell what was wrong with the water but Lu Wuqi clearly felt a slight fishy smell emenating from the water.
For a second she was confused as to whether the smell was from the two dead zombies behind them but Lu Wuqi didn't want to take any risk that would endanger their lives.
She immediately turned towards Yun Qingyue and asked,
"Do you also smell the slight fishy smell? "
Yun Qingyue was a little confused after hearing her words but she also tried to smell the surroundings but couldn't smell anything and said,
"No. Maybe it's the smell of the other two zombies."
Lu Wuqi thought that maybe she smelled wrong but her intuition as a previous mercenary made her not ignore any dangerous signs at all.
She immediately asked Yun Qingyue again,
"Do you have your old smartphone with you? Does it have any power?"
After hearing her question, Yun Qingyue replied while she took out her smartphone from her pocket which had a broken screen and seemed to be dead.
"I do still have this one. I kept it's power off to preserve the battery as long as possible. Maybe it still has some power. But the screen got broken sometimes ago."
Yun Qingyue handed the smartphone to Lu Wuqi and she took it and immediately tried to power on the smartphone. Fortunately it still has some power and the phone was on.
Lu Wuqi immediately started the flashlight on and the bright light of the smartphone shone down on the flowing water from the faucet.
But the moment, Lu Wuqi and Yun Qingyue saw the state of the water, they couldn't help but feel a cold chill running down their spine!
The water was not okay at all. In fact, the water not only had turned a light green in color but they could see that a few very small pieces of rotten human flesh would sometimes flow down along the water! It seems that a zombie has somehow gotten into the water tank which made the water like this.
If they hadn't seen the state of water and had tried to take a shower with it, that would have been a terrible disaster.
Yun Qingyue immediately felt like vomiting after seeing the water and couldn't help but turn to the side to avoid seeing it.
Fortunately, Lu Wuqi didn't let her touch the water. Otherwise, she wouldn't be able to bear it.
After seeing the state of water, Lu Wuqi knew that they couldn't use it to wash themselves anymore and It seems that they still had to go to the fourth floor now.
Lu Wuqi could only sigh that they have wasted quite some time in this floor and didn't get anything at all. Though, it wasn't a total loss. Lu Wuqi did get the highest level gift package as well as experienced the natal dagger's powers.
Overall, no need to think about the wasted time. Lu Wuqi turned to face Yun Qingyue and said,
"Let's go to the fourth floor. There's nothing worth to spend any more time on this floor."
"Okay." Yun Qingyue immediately nodded after hearing her and the two of them with the child quickly walked out of the staff room and came into the long corridor.
They walked towards the stairs in the same way they came before. Lu Wuqi handed the smartphone in her hands to Yun Qingyue and told her to keep it powered off for now as it may come handy later. It still had about 50 % power left in the battery.
Lu Wuqi and Yun Qingyue with her child walked quickly towards the stairs leading to the fourth floor. While walking, Lu Wuqi also saw a new shirt and lether jacket in one of the independent shops.
It was a very big brand before the end of the world and normally every single set would cost over 10,000 yuan. Lu Wuqi didn't waste much time and immediately chose the two clothes that seemed to about her size. She didn't even see how they looked at just threw them into her space with a single thought.
Of course, this act was done infront of Yun Qingyue and she couldn't help but widen her eyes but at the end, she didn't say anything.
Lu Wuqi didn't want to hide anything from Yun Qingyue. After all, they would be together for a long time and she was her only acquaintance in this world now. Subconsciously, Lu Wuqi placed a lot of importance on Yun Qingyue that she herself hadn't noticed.
After taking these two, Lu Wuqi asked Yun Qingyue if she also wanted to take any but she denied as the conditions of her clothes were much better and she also didn't have any zombies blood on her which saved her the trouble.
After taking these, Lu Wuqi and Yun Qingyue again came infront of the large glass door and passed through the open gap in there and immediately took the stairs leading upto the fourth floor.
Fortunately, this time they didn't encounter any zombies and came into the fourth floor without any obstacles.
After coming into the fourth floor, they immediately saw the large glass door just like in the third floor. It seemed that the layout of the building was similar in every floor.
Lu Wuqi opened the glass door slightly to take a look and didn't find anything wrong. She also didn't see anything moving ahead. It seemed that this was relatively safe for the time being.
After noticing that there didn't seem to be anything wrong, Lu Wuqi motioned for Yun Qingyue to follow. She saw that the fourth floor was a food court. With large rows of shelf extending from one end to the other end. But she could also see that the inside was extremely messy, With most of the shelves right infront of them being empty and looted. Some of the human sized shelves on the side were even overturned. It seems that whoever came here before them were in a hurry and seeing the overturned shelf, Lu Wuqi had a feeling that this was done by thugs, most probably by Ling Long's gang.
The whole place looked very dangerous in the dark. Fortunately there were large glass windows on the walls and the moonlight poured in through them and illuminated the whole surroundings, making it easier to see the surroundings. But walking in long aisles was still not safe as their area of movement gets restricted a lot and if a zombie suddenly comes, it would be a mess.
After walking into the fourth floor, Lu Wuqi and Yun Qingyue stopped infront of a shelf that still had quite a few things in it. There were many imported chocolates, as well as snacks bars, protein bars etc..
Lu Wuqi turned to face Yun Qingyue and said,
"I will go further in and take a look. You two wait here and eat the snacks to fill up your stomach. I will be back soon."
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