Choice

The crackling firecracker sounds echoed throughout the silent supermarket, and the zombies that could be seen surged toward the entrance like a tide. This scene filled Tang Yunxuan’s heart with despair. He felt that he would have to end things here today. The sight of the swarming horde outside the entrance was practically etched into his mind.

With such a dense concentration of zombies, it was impossible to imagine any chance of escape. If he had to say there was a way to obtain a sliver of hope, then it would only be…

An idea popped into Tang Yunxuan’s head: abandon Liu Shi and Chen Yi at the entrance and find another way to escape.

This was the only plan he could imagine that might offer a way out, and the success rate of this plan was quite high. With the zombies all attracted by the firecracker sounds at the entrance, the number of zombies in other areas would inevitably decrease. In this situation, even making a loud commotion like smashing a window to clear a path wouldn’t necessarily attract a large zombie swarm.

But that was all he could do, just think about it. Perhaps he was infected by Chen Shu’s “goodness.” Tang Yunxuan, who would have done anything to survive in the past, had now become unable to easily abandon his companions. He couldn’t even accept his past self, who had disregarded the lives and deaths of his comrades.

If he had to choose that path, he would at least have to confirm that there was absolutely no possibility of saving Liu Shi and Chen Yi, such as them being completely surrounded by the zombie horde.

If he really encountered that situation, Tang Yunxuan would have no choice but to escape. The only problem now was that Chen Shu might not be able to let go of Chen Yi, but Tang Yunxuan had even prepared himself to knock him unconscious and carry him back.

Reality was so cruel. If they were really completely surrounded by the zombie horde, even if they risked their own three lives, it would only be adding some rations to the horde.

Even if he did that, he might be beaten up by Chen Shu and hated for the rest of his life after they returned, but he would act without hesitation. Chen Shu was a rare good person, and Tang Yunxuan didn’t want to see him die meaninglessly.

Tang Yunxuan could only pray in his heart, praying that Chen Yi and Liu Shi could escape from the entrance as soon as the firecrackers went off, at least to find a relatively safe place. Even if they only gave a sliver of a chance to rescue them, Tang Yunxuan would definitely do his best to save them.

He hoped, hoped that he wouldn’t really face that cruel choice, even though he had made all the mental preparations. But when he thought about Liu Shi and Chen Yi possibly dying, about Chen Shu losing his daughter, he couldn’t help but feel a pang of pain in his heart.

Tang Yunxuan was very clear about how much Chen Shu loved his daughter. He was so clear that if he discovered Chen Yi being surrounded by the zombie horde, he would choose to knock Chen Shu unconscious directly, because there was no other way to take that man away.

Looking at the zombie horde surging forward, Tang Yunxuan couldn’t help but glance backward, after all… that was his only path to survival.

Then he saw Ren Anhua, carrying six bags of rice, running wildly with them.

“Damn, you’re still carrying them!”

“It’s not heavy, might as well carry them back.”

Compared to Tang Yunxuan’s extremely tangled mind, filled with complex emotions such as fear, hope, and worry, Ren Anhua’s state of mind seemed simple and pure. She only had one thought now: it’s finally my turn to show off.

The watermelon knife hanging at her waist was already impatiently thirsty for blood!

Ren Anhua thought she had no chance to perform, but unexpectedly, just as they were about to return, there was this turn of events.

She felt that it was time to show herself.

The entrance was already completely blocked by the zombie horde. If Chen Shu hadn’t used the car to block the entrance from the start, the situation might have been even worse. Because the loud firecracker sounds didn’t just attract the zombies inside the supermarket, the scene outside was even more terrifying. The dense zombie horde was piled up to the point where people couldn’t even see the scene across the street.

Between these two hordes of zombies inside and outside the door, the off-road vehicle was blocked and unable to move an inch. The car doors were tightly closed, and the steel body of the car creaked under the terrible pushing and shoving of the horde.

Liu Shi and Chen Yi were trapped inside the off-road vehicle.

The scene that Tang Yunxuan least wanted to see had finally appeared before his eyes.

“It’s okay, we can lure these zombies away little by little, and then kill them one by one. If we just slowly divide them like this, we can always save Chen Yi and Liu Shi.” Chen Shu calmly stated his plan, but his body was trembling uncontrollably.

He himself knew how low the feasibility of this naive plan was. It was like using a flint to ignite explosives, a slight carelessness would detonate the entire field. At that time, they themselves would also fall into the zombie horde’s siege, becoming the sacrifices for Chen Yi and Liu Shi.

Even they themselves were now hiding behind the side shelves. Most of the zombies in this location had already been attracted to the entrance, and the zombies that followed wouldn’t pass through this side dead corner.

In other words, they couldn’t even protect themselves. If they accidentally attracted the zombie horde’s attention, this dead corner with no way out would be their burial place.

But knowing was knowing, letting go was another matter.

Tang Yunxuan looked at Chen Shu, whose spirit was clearly beginning to become unstable, and fell into silence. He knew that the moment of choice had finally arrived.

But just as he made up his mind and raised the steel rod, he was suppressed by Ren Anhua.

“What are you panicking for? Just watch me perform.”

The watermelon knife in her hand made a few frivolous circles, and this petite figure walked openly toward the hordes of zombies.

Shen Dinghui wanted to stop her, but that seemingly weak little thing showed an unusually strong physical fitness at this moment. She sprinted and appeared in the open space ten meters away, giving her no chance to stop her at all.

Ren Anhua felt like she had come to a performance stage. The various conditions were all too perfect. The large group of zombies had been attracted and concentrated, but the current situation of Chen Shu’s team was very safe, so there was no need to bother protecting them. Most importantly, these zombies weren’t gathered because she had howled. Although she didn’t know who had set off the firecrackers, Ren Anhua still had to thank that person for giving her the stage she wanted.

Of course, if it was finally found out who was so lacking in morals, then she would have to hack them to death.

A zombie that had been attracted by Ren Anhua’s aura became the opening of this performance. Ren Anhua very ceremoniously split it from its forehead to its crotch, dividing it evenly from the middle, just like drawing open a curtain.

The technique of using a knife wasn’t actually that complicated. The blade’s path had to be straight, the swing had to be steady, the delivery and retraction had to be quick, and the cutting line had to be accurate. The rest was the continuity of the movements.

Generally speaking, for an Awakened of Ren Anhua’s level, apart from the ostentatious movements, as long as they practiced more, these wouldn’t be difficult to achieve. And after the end of the world, Ren Anhua had clearly done a lot of practice, although strictly speaking it didn’t count as practice, she was just playing at home.

But even so, her outstanding combat talent still allowed her to show a powerful killing force. Compared to the past high-temperature ability, the current healing ability was very lacking in direct explosive power, but it showed an extremely powerful continuous power.

In terms of strengthening the physical body, it was actually quite excellent, because it could not only provide powerful strength, but also maintain the peak physical state at all times. In other words, the current Ren Anhua wouldn’t feel tired because of fighting at all.

This was also the reason why she dared to go head-on against such a large number of zombies. Ke Xiaoshan’s healing ability showed excellent characteristics in battles that emphasized sustained combat. Ren Anhua now felt like she had an infinite MP cheat, no matter how much she outputted, she wouldn’t feel a trace of fatigue. Limbs flew everywhere she went, she even had the leisure to cut out a few human sticks, letting these zombies who only had torsos left lying on the ground and rolling around.

Such a bloody and bizarre scene stunned Chen Shu’s group.

“This… is this person filming a movie?” Tang Yunxuan realized that he was probably recognizing this pink-haired person named Ren Xiaoan for the first time.

Shen Dinghui didn’t say anything, only feeling a burst of lingering fear.

Chen Shu was stunned in place. He had just been on tenterhooks because of Chen Yi. But the scene before his eyes instantly dispelled all his worries, even giving him a dreamlike illusion.

Ren Anhua didn’t spend much time clearing out the zombies on the inner side of the supermarket. But this wasn’t the end of it, she opened the car door and went to the other side.

Through the supermarket’s floor-to-ceiling glass windows, the members of Chen Shu’s team once again appreciated the scene of flying limbs. Ren Anhua, in the midst of the zombie horde, was like a portable mobile meat grinder.

The crisis that was related to the life and death of Chen Shu’s team was solved by Ren Anhua so lightly.

But for Ren Anhua, the real trouble had just begun.

Liu Shi had been bitten, and her left hand now only had three fingers left. More fatally, she had entered the high fever stage. Even if Liu Weimin appeared immediately, the chance of saving her was less than 30%. If the time it took to send her back was added, then there was basically no hope.

Ren Anhua had now become Liu Shi’s only hope of survival, but no one knew that except for herself.

“Be decisive, I’m afraid of pain.” Liu Shi’s mouth pulled out an ugly smile. She actually wanted to live, she didn’t want to die.

Ren Anhua looked at this woman who had once made her so embarrassed. She had thought that she could abandon her without any burden, but when she really faced such a choice, she found that it wasn’t the case.

She finally walked forward and reached out to hold Liu Shi’s incomplete left hand.

“Last night’s dinner tasted good, but you put a little too much salt in it. Remember to put less in the future.”

Soft white light began to float on Liu Shi’s wound.