A zombie tried to bite her face but Li Jiefan quickly put her knife across its mouth and pushed it back. The zombie"s mouth started to split open revealing the creature's sharp yellow teeth and grotesque mouth.
Li Jiefan found herself falling past the mall levels with the zombie after Clover pulled her out of the past. Li Jiefan was lost for a minute but quickly regained her sense of direction and refocused on the threat at hand.
The short haired girl pushed the zombie back and brought her elbows up and over the zombie's arms its sharp claws were dug into her shoulders, trying to keep a grip on her as it struggled to close the distance between them. The creature's cheeks were cut open all the way to the cheek bone giving it a deranged clown look.
With her elbows up and over its arms and continued pressure to its mouth, Li Jiefan swiftly brought her feet up and kicked the zombie away while pushing her elbows down, breaking out of its hold. The zombie got pushed a few meters away from her before falling, her powers had finally kicked in it seemed.
Good, she was free but was also falling. She was getting dangerously close to the floor of this 20 floor mall and she could see the eager glowing eyes of creatures lurking under her. She looked around for any kind of perch or ledge to grab and stop her fall but she couldn't find anything and with each minute she took the closer and closer to those eyes she got. It seemed like she was going to have to prepare for a fight so Li Jiefan got herself ready to fight.
But, just in time, she didn't have to as a vine wrapped around her waist, her feet were dangling a few centimeters from the eye's out stretched hands.
With a jerk she was pulled up 20 floors fast, maybe a bit too fast. The closer she got to the top floor Li Jiefan expected to slow down but she didn't. She kept gaining speed until she flew all the to the last floor... and past it. The next thing she knew she was flying up and felt her back hit the ceiling. And then she was falling all over again. Li Jiefan tried to figure out what just happened before she held her breath, closed her eyes and waited to hit the ground floor. But she most definitely did not land splattered on the ground floor, her fall had been stopped.
Li Jiefan opened her eyes catching Chi Muyang staring back at her. For a moment she stared at him and he stared back. Chen Liechu spoke making Li Jiefan realise she was sitting in his arms hanging over the edge. Chi Muyang seemed to realise this too and pulled her back, and putting her down.
" I can't believe I did that!" Chen Leichu exclaimed looking at her hands in wonder, she was too disctracted to see the weird moment that passed between Li Jiefan and Chi Muyang.
" Li Jiefan! I literally just shot a vine out of my hand, that was so cool! But how did I do that?" Chen Liechu said excitedly.
Li Jiefan laughed and walked closer to her friend and away from the Chi Muyang," I don't know, but this is an apocalypse, weirder stuff has happened."
" But maybe you shouldn't pull that hard next time." The man said picking up his bat off the floor.
Chen Liechu rolled her eyes," First of all who asked you, actually who even are you?" She looked at her friend," Why is he even with us?"
Li Jiefan looked over at the annoyed man with crossed arms," He was with me when we saw the zombies come in and he followed me when I came to get you."
" Oh, so he is here for no reason." Chen Liechu said.
" No Reason? Did I not save your friend, who you were most definitely killing." Chi Muyang retorted.
Chen Liechu glared at him," I was saving my friend just fine."
"Oh, is that what was happening?" He scoffed.
" Yes, It was." She said, her voice starting to raise.
At this point Li Jiefan stepped in, they were starting to get loud and they were out in the open at night.
" Okay, How about we take this conversation to the security room." The short haired girl said.
The two glared at each other for a moment before reluctantly nodding. The group walked to the security room, a few of them with some grumbles, with Chen Liechu in the front. Chen Liechu tried to open the door so it was locked.
" Just tug it." Li Jiefan told her.
" Seriously?" Chen Liechu asked before shrugging, leaning back and tuged the door open, " Wow."
Li Jiefan shrugs at her friends questioning stare and entered the room. The room was clean but messy, like someone rushed out the room,and a door across from her. Chi Muyang stepped past her and and motioned for the two girls to stand back as he approached the door.
Li Jiefan stood in the entrance as she saw him dissapear into the room. After a few minutes Chi Muyang walked out and said," It's a bathroom and there is nothing inside."
Li Jiefan nodded and walking into the room. The room had two swivel chairs infront of a wall of screens, the screens where still on surprisingly and displayed different locations in the mall.
"Cool." Chen Liechu said, plopping her bag next to the door and sitting on one of the swivel chairs. " Actually not cool." she continued grimacing at the sight of the zombies wondering in out stores across the screen. She pushed herself across the room and faced the other wall which was stacked with filling cabinets.
Li Jiefan closed the door behind her and dropped her bag," Can you help me put some of those cabinets infront of the door."
Chen Liechu and Chen Muyang helped fortify the room and the group got ready for bed.
-------------------------------------------
Li Jiefan tossed and turned but could not fall asleep. Tomorrow she would need to get her car and start moving out of the city and she didn't think Chen Leichu would leave with her. The girl gave up on sleep and sat up in her sleeping bag. They were sleeping on the floor in their sleeping bags. Chen Liechu and Li Jiefan slept next to each other and Chi Muyang sleeping across from them.
Li Jiefan sat in silence thinking about the prospect of traveling alone, which she had never really done but she was resilient and determined.
"What's keeping you up?" Li Jiefan looked across from her at Chi Muyang who was also sitting up in his bean bag.
"Thoughts on tomorrow, you?" She answered.
" The same," Chen Muyang ran his hands through his hair," Worrying about my sister."
" In this world how can you not." Li Jiefan brought her knees to her chest and laid her head on them." Is she younger or older than you?"
" She's younger,she was at school when all of this started," Chi Muyang said leaning back onto the wall," I'm heading C-city for her now."
Li Jiefan felt the small hope of her and Chi Muyang traveling together drop, C-city was the opposite way of D-city.
" That's good, I am sure she will be happy to see you."
Chi Muyang said," Are you heading to someone?"
Li Jiefan shook her head and put it back on her knees," No I am heading to D-city, I have no one waiting."
" There is always someone waiting." Chi Muyang replied.