As Ling Mo and Ye Lian were carefully searching for traces of the Mutated Zombie in the teaching building, Xia Na and the others were also engaged in a struggle with a Mutated Female Zombie in a dormitory building.
Despite being tall and not as distorted as an ordinary zombie, one could still tell that the blood-stained face belonged to a young woman of attractive appearance due to her features.
However, when she let out a low growl, forcing Xia Na to retreat step by step, there was no beauty to be found.
Xia Na was struggling to resist the frenzied onslaught of the Mutated Female Zombie, and from her movements, it was clear that her arm was injured, and she was now solely depending on her willpower to endure. Not far behind her lay the corpse of another Mutated Zombie.
As for Liu Yuhao, he looked dispirited, although he still followed by Xia Na's side, occasionally stepping in to help relieve some pressure, but it was evident that he was also reaching his limit. Of the three people who had followed them, only two remained. One was Wang Cheng, and the other was the boy who had almost killed Wang Cheng. However, by the look on their faces, they both seemed to have been greatly terrified.
In fact, they had indeed received a severe psychological shock... After splitting from Ling Mo, they headed straight for this dormitory building. When they left before, the remaining teachers and students stayed in this building while Xia Na and Liu Yuhao brought all the food from the school's supermarket inside before leaving. These provisions wouldn't last long, but it also wasn't a solution for a large group of people to be trapped here for a long time, so sending part of the group to look for other ways out was inevitable.
The best outcome would be to find rescue personnel, such as the military, and at worst a safe haven so they wouldn't be trapped alive here.
However, those willing to follow Xia Na weren't truly sacrificing for the group's sake but felt safer by Xia Na's side. To put it bluntly, they did not believe Xia Na would return.
In truth, Xia Na had not entirely kept her promise; she returned several days later than agreed.
There was nothing she could do about it. In order to break out, many capable classmates had died, leaving only burdens. Just with Xia Na and Liu Yuhao, it was impossible to break back in, let alone safely bring out the group that was left behind.
Even so, Xia Na did not give up, so when she realized Ling Mo was quite strong and also took her family's "benefit," she immediately couldn't help asking for help.
But just as Ling Mo had thought, from the moment Xia Na stepped into the school, she had mentally prepared herself. Perhaps those people were already dead…
What she never imagined was the horrific scene that would meet her!
In the dorm, which should've housed more than twenty people, apart from the seven or eight survivors, all the others had been gnawed to skeletons...
Xia Na had seen bloodier scenes, but this tableau of cannibalism gave her an instinctual disgust and a profound chill! Liu Yuhao and the others were thoroughly stunned! Even two of them vomited on the spot.
Zombies eating humans can be called monsters, but the people in front of them were rational, normal people! Rather than risking going out to search for food, they chose to kill their companions and eat their flesh!
What disgusted Xia Na the most was that when they saw Xia Na and the others, they actually greeted them with joy.
When the nearest middle-aged teacher approached Xia Na smiling, she almost unconsciously swung her long knife.
"Gurgle..." Blood spurted wildly from the middle-aged teacher's neck as he clutched it in disbelief, his eyes locked on Xia Na's pale face before he slowly fell down.
The others were instantly dumbstruck, and Xia Na didn't hesitate to turn around and leave. In that moment of looking back, she suddenly recalled the word Ling Mo had mentioned: "parasites."
She had previously thought Ling Mo was somewhat cold-hearted and ruthless, but at that moment, she also felt an overwhelming sense of revulsion towards "parasites."
Being weak and in need of protection is not a sin. But to be complacent and to take such behavior for granted, such people are as harmful in the post-apocalyptic world as the zombies... Let them be left to their own devices...
As soon as Xia Na left, Liu Yuhao and the others, though still stunned, developed a deep disgust and fear for the voracious madmen before them. Almost simultaneously, they turned around and followed Xia Na.
But what Xia Na didn't expect was that, after regaining their senses, these people went mad!
"That bitch!"
"We've been waiting for so long, and she actually..."
"Kill her, kill her!"
Intense hatred swept through their minds, and impulsiveness spread like a contagious virus, causing them to completely lose their last bit of sanity. They charged out crazily, rushing towards Xia Na...
What followed in the dormitory corridor was a horrific massacre. The moment they charged over, Xia Na's mental defenses collapsed completely, and she resisted and slaughtered almost unconsciously. She didn't even notice that when she displayed her overwhelming strength, some who came back to their senses turned to run immediately, but she didn't mean to spare any of them, charging out with a strange smile and cutting them down one by one with rapid attacks.
At that moment in Xia Na's heart, there was only one thought: they all deserved to die; such people were not fit to live in this world.
It wasn't until the sudden appearance of two Mutated Zombies that Xia Na was awakened from her almost trance-like state. Clearly, the two Mutated Zombies were attracted by the strong scent of blood, and with Xia Na's strength, it was impossible to fight two Mutated Zombies at the same time.
It took a great deal of effort to kill one of the Mutated Zombies, leveraging the complexity of the environment, and yet another Mutated Zombie charged at her.
By that time, in that dormitory building, apart from seven or eight fresh corpses, the only living people left were Xia Na and three others. The female student had been torn to fragments when the Mutated Zombies appeared. Her body was likely incomplete by now.
If Xia Na hadn't come back to her senses in time, Liu Yuhao and the others would have been in trouble too. Given Liu Yuhao's fighting ability, he could only protect these people from harm by those madmen, but it was unlikely for him to confront a Mutated Zombie.
Having killed the first Mutated Zombie already exhausted a great deal of Xia Na's strength, and such a tragedy left her feeling mentally fatigued, hence she was almost completely at a disadvantage during the fight with the Mutated Female Zombie.
This Mutated Female Zombie was not just fixated on Xia Na; she took the opportunity to attack others as well. During this process, Wang Cheng and the male student also found themselves in danger. Yet, they dared not stray too far, for fear of being attacked by other zombies.
Observing the Mutated Female Zombie, Wang Cheng's gaze flickered slightly, and finally, in a moment when Xia Na was forced to retreat, he stealthily lifted his leg and fiercely kicked the male student!
"Ah!"
As a scream echoed, the male student was pushed into the space between Xia Na and the Mutated Female Zombie.
"Pff!"
The Mutated Female Zombie's hand pierced right through the male student's abdomen, and Xia Na took advantage of the opening, plunging her blade into the heart of the Mutated Zombie.