Separation

It was already one o’clock when Ren Anhua found Chen Shu.

She found the dying man in a wrecked pickup truck by the side of the road.

Chen Shu had already fallen into a coma.

Liu Weimin discovered the zombie bites on Chen Shu’s hands.

The wounds were already festering and swollen.

Looking at the comatose Chen Shu, he felt that this rare man was beyond saving.

Ren Anhua went straight up and dragged Chen Shu out with one hand, completely unconcerned about causing any secondary damage.

As long as Chen Shu’s brain was still active, she could bring him back completely intact.

As a white light began to glow, Liu Weimin looked at the fully recovered Chen Shu, his face filled with astonishment.

“Isn’t your ability flight?”

“It’s a basic operation for a Level Four Awakened.

You’ll understand when you reach that stage.”

Her ability was exposed, but Ren Anhua no longer cared.

She was in no mood to consider such trivial matters now, even too lazy to hide it from the Mutual Aid Society members who had followed them.

Yes, Ren Anhua had not come alone.

Even Liu Weimin was just one of the people who had come to search for Chen Shu.

The main group was the Mutual Aid Society members following behind.

Among the members of the Mutual Aid Society was a man in gray clothes.

He stood out among them because of his timid and cowering appearance, which was out of place with the people around him.

Today was supposed to be the Chen Shu squad’s day off, but they had received a distress call about being trapped by a small horde of zombies.

The person who came for help was a male member of the Mutual Aid Society whom Chen Shu was quite familiar with on a daily basis.

At that time, the only person with Chen Shu was Chen Yi.

But this man was not only cooperating with the Mutual Aid Society.

The tragic incident of the Chen father and daughter was a conspiracy, a scam jointly planned by some members of the Mutual Aid Society and the camp.

The Chen father and daughter were ambushed.

The people from the camp used those foolish members of the Mutual Aid Society to achieve their goal.

The reason they were called foolish was that they didn’t realize that their use value would also disappear after the camp achieved its goal.

All that awaited them was death.

However, not everyone was destined to die.

This man in gray was the one who escaped.

He knew that the people from the camp had tricked them all, and he knew that the current situation of the Chen father and daughter was not optimistic, but he didn’t dare to say it.

He was afraid.

If he told everything, how would the people of the Mutual Aid Society treat him, how would they view him?

He didn’t dare, he was afraid.

But then he thought of the man who went to their rescue without a moment’s hesitation after hearing that they were in danger.

He hesitated again.

In the end, he was discovered by members of the Mutual Aid Society who were out collecting resources.

In his panic, he confessed everything.

Chen Shu was only taken away in the morning, but the news reached Ren Anhua’s ears in the afternoon.

If it had been a little earlier, maybe even Chen Yi could have been saved?

A chilling thought emerged in Ren Anhua’s mind.

The fully recovered Chen Shu woke up from his coma.

He saw Ren Anhua, then Liu Weimin, and the members of the Mutual Aid Society following behind them, but he didn’t see his daughter.

The white light rising from his body felt very comfortable.

He could feel his body recovering rapidly.

What a powerful healing ability, it was simply a gift.

If there was healing of this intensity, then Chen Yi could also…

“I’m sorry, my ability is healing, not resurrection.”

Chen Shu returned to his own hell.

He couldn’t help but think, what if Ren Anhua had arrived a little earlier?

What if the zombies that had gnawed on his hands had been a little more ferocious?

Could he have broken free sooner and saved her?

Chen Shu made countless assumptions in his mind, imagining scenarios where Chen Yi survived, but there was one assumption he never considered from beginning to end: “What if I hadn’t gone to save those people?”

He still didn’t know about the matter of some members of the Mutual Aid Society collaborating with the camp.

He was still worried about those people, worried about whether they had escaped from the zombie horde, hoping they wouldn’t be like him, captured by the people from the camp.

Chen Yi’s body was covered with a few pieces of clothing.

The state of her death was too tragic for Chen Shu to see.

Chen Shu stepped forward and wrapped Chen Yi in the clothes.

This sturdy man held his daughter in his arms, as if holding a sleeping baby.

In the afternoon, the people of the Mutual Aid Society held a simple funeral for Chen Yi.

In this era, it was considered very fortunate for a deceased person to have a funeral.

Many people who died didn’t even have a grave.

However, every person who died in the Mutual Aid Society would have a funeral.

This was a rule set by the old director.

They were all fortunate.

The funeral was very simple, almost omitting all the procedures, so simple that there were only two parts: burial and a moment of silence.

Many people from the Mutual Aid Society went to comfort Chen Shu, but Chen Shu had no reaction at all.

They all expressed their regret and grief for Chen Yi’s death, but Chen Shu said nothing.

He just stood in front of Chen Yi’s grave, just standing there.

After the funeral ended and the crowd dispersed, he was still standing there.

Dusk came, and he was still standing there.

Night fell, and he was still standing there.

None of the members of Chen Shu’s squad were sleeping.

They all stood to the side, watching the silent man from a distance.

It wasn’t until the night was so dark that they couldn’t see anything that they vaguely heard a suppressed cry.

The crying lasted for a long time, so long that it caused insomnia.

‘Chen Yi, my dear daughter, I have to part with you forever.’

‘I have always been teaching you to be an upright person.

I taught you with words, I taught you with actions.

I am very pleased that you took the initiative to go out and save people this time.

You used to be afraid of getting tired and suffering, very lazy, and always wanted me to solve things.

Your initiative this time made me feel that you have grown up.’

‘Although it was a bit dangerous to rescue people surrounded by zombies, I still took you with me because I thought I could protect you, and I couldn’t let down your growth.’

‘Every time I collect resources, I take you with me because I hope you can grow up smoothly under my protection.

I want you to become an independent person, a person who lives with a clear conscience and is upright.

I hope that in this apocalypse, you can become a person who can survive on your own strength.’

‘If that were the case, how good would that be!’

‘I taught you this way because I don’t know when I will die.
This apocalypse is eating people, and I don’t know how long I can live.
I am afraid that I will die, and you will live, and you are a very fragile little girl, as fragile as your mother.
If you are helpless, how terrible would that be.’

‘But I didn’t expect that I wouldn’t die.’

‘Why wasn’t it me who died?
You have obviously grown up, you have already grown up!
You know that even though it is difficult, you must lend a helping hand to those in trouble!
You have learned!’

‘But why!
Why was it you who died!’