Zombie Apocalypse: Don't be afraid, I'm not a good person.

Seeing his expression, Li Yuetong knew he had misunderstood, so she quickly shook her head and began to explain.

"No! You misunderstood. Zhang Ran and the others are all good people, very responsible, and decisive enough in the face of trouble. It's just that Tang Dashan was bitten by a giant rat and suffered a broken leg, which was a serious injury. If they had stayed, they would have all died in the rat swarm, so I made the decision to let them go."

Zhang Ran even offered to let me go first, saying he wanted to stay and distract the big rats. I didn't agree, but Fatty's injuries were too severe, and there were no doctors around. I didn't know if he could pull through and survive. Sigh..."

Upon hearing this, Shenhe's anger subsided.

Fortunately, Zhang Ran and the others weren't ungrateful wretches who only cared about escaping for their own lives, so it wasn't for nothing that he had just thought of covering them with a blanket.

Upon hearing that Tang Dashan was injured, his gaze fell upon Qiangwei, who was nestled in Li Yuetong's arms, inhaling her fragrance.

Shenhe's heart skipped a beat.

Isn't there a doctor right here?

The restorative power of wood-type abilities must be several times faster than the treatment speed of an ordinary doctor.

"Tongtong, put all these giant rat corpses into your spatial storage. After we're done, we'll go find Zhang Ran and the others."

"Huh? Why are you collecting all this? Are you suggesting we can eat it?"

Shenhe looked at her curious and bewildered expression and smiled. "They're edible. These evolved mutated giant rats look like they have a lot of meat. We can keep them as a food reserve, and if we encounter a large horde of zombies in the future, we can throw them out as bait to lure them away."

Li Yuetong looked at the giant rats on the ground, with blood and flesh still hanging from their mouths, which was a bit disgusting.

"But they've eaten human flesh..."

In a cruel world like this, there's no room for sentimentality.

Shenhe didn't care at all.

"If supplies are completely cut off in the future, you have to choose one: eat human flesh to survive, or eat these mutated beasts that have only eaten human flesh?"

Li Yuetong stared blankly into Shenhe's eyes, gently biting her lip, and finally nodded knowingly.

"I see…"

Holding Shen Qiangwei, he turned around and silently began to gather up the giant rat corpses scattered on the ground. Eating the meat of these mutated rats was indeed far more acceptable than resorting to cannibalism.

Shenhe didn't stand idly by either. He held his gun and scanned the surroundings. Whenever a giant rat approached the roaming creatures, he would raise his hand and fire accurately, clearing a safe area.

At the same time, she took all the nearby rat carcasses into her own space. This area was littered with corpses, with as many as four or five hundred giant rats. Li Yuetong's space was still at level zero and was piled with a lot of miscellaneous items, so it couldn't hold much at all.

Sure enough, she only collected a little over a hundred.

The remaining hundreds of rat carcasses were all collected by Shenhe into his system space.

In just a few minutes, the two finished cleaning and tidying up, and walked side by side towards the Land Rover not far away. This was the car that Li Yuetong had insisted on not going with Zhang Ran and the others.

She remembered it, knowing that Shenhe liked the car and had deliberately left it behind to drive away.

As the two walked along the road, the giant rats roaming around them instinctively gave way. They were somewhat intelligent and knew that these two animals were quite powerful, so they dared not provoke them.

Upon reaching the Land Rover, the two got into the car one after the other, and Shen Qiangwei surprisingly clung to Li Yuetong's arms and refused to get off.

Shenhe took the car keys from Li Yuetong, started the engine, and sped off towards Donghe Park.

Shortly after Shenhe and the others left, a meow with a menacing tone suddenly rang out from the neighborhood.

"Meow!"

Countless giant rats stood up and listened intently, their scarlet eyes filled with fear, and they paused in surprise.

boom!

The giant rats began to riot and fled in disarray.

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The roadside outside Donghe Park was deathly silent.

The refrigerated truck was parked alone on the side of the road, its hazard lights flashing every few seconds.

Zhang Ran and Li Wanning were on edge, their eyes constantly scanning the sides of the road, the bushes, and the shadows of the buildings.

In the passenger seat, Tang Dashan was tightly bound to the seat by Zhang Ran with a thick rope, for fear that he would be infected and turn into a zombie and hurt people. The rope was extremely tight, and the binding method was strange and dense, forcibly constricting his chest muscles.

Tang Dashan's eyes were half-open, his face was deathly pale, cold sweat beaded on his forehead, and his breathing was heavy and weak.

"Ran-ge... your way of tying people up... ugh... where did you learn that? Why is it hurting my chest so much..."

"Haven't I seen my older brother yet...?"

"If you ask me... they should have just thrown me out of the car!"

"Hello... We're going back to pick up my sister-in-law..."

"My legs are broken now, and in this apocalypse, I almost have no chance of surviving."

"It would be better to just give me a quick death and suffer less."

Tang Dashan slowly closed his eyes, his voice hoarse and dry, filled with endless dejection and relief.

The excruciating pain from his broken leg kept his nerves on edge, making him feel drowsy and unable to sleep, and he felt restless.

He had already become indifferent to life and death; dragging his severely injured body along, he figured it would be more comfortable to just die.

Zhang Ran felt irritated and rolled his eyes impatiently, then lowered his voice and scolded.

"Shut up! I'm getting so annoyed by your nagging! If you keep going, I'll tie your mouth shut!"

"hey-hey…"

Tang Dashan managed a weak, silly smile in his dazed state, then obediently fell silent.

He knew in his heart that Zhang Ran was being fierce, but in reality, he wanted him to talk less and save his energy to rest properly.

A heavy silence instantly fell over the carriage.

Zhang Ran looked out at the desolate streets, his expression growing increasingly solemn. Tang Dashan's condition was not ideal. It takes a hundred days to recover from a broken bone. How could a person with a broken leg run around in this world full of zombies and mutated creatures?

Suddenly, several dark figures flashed past in the shadows opposite the woods. Zhang Ran immediately held his breath and quickly turned off the refrigerated truck's hazard lights.

He stared intently at the woods. Several zombies were rushing toward the vehicle. As soon as the hazard lights went out and the lights lost their attraction, their movements slowed down noticeably.

Zhang Ran secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

He was unarmed and couldn't possibly handle a few zombies with his bare hands. He couldn't win!

Just as the atmosphere reached its peak of tension, Li Wanning let out a soft gasp.

"Honey, look! A car is coming from over there!"

Shh! Don't make a sound!

Zhang Ran immediately lowered his voice to stop her, and pulled Li Wanning to lie as low as possible in the car, holding her breath and quietly looking out the window.

A black Land Rover drove steadily along the road and came to a stop directly opposite the refrigerated truck.

Looking through the windshield, Zhang Ran immediately recognized two familiar figures inside the car.

"Brother Shen and Sister-in-law! They're here!"

Zhang Ran and Li Wanning exchanged a glance, their eyes simultaneously filled with the joy and relief of surviving a close call, and they couldn't wait to move towards the car door.

When they saw Shenhe, they felt at ease, but when they saw Li Yuetong, they were genuinely excited from the bottom of their hearts.

Li Yuetong stayed in the community to keep the rats at bay in order to cover their safe evacuation, and this kindness weighed heavily on their hearts.

The two pushed open the driver's side door, jumped out of the car, and ran straight toward Li Yuetong, who had already landed and stood still.

"Feed...feed...and...where's my dad?"

Tang Dashan, who was tied up in the passenger seat, could see everything clearly through the car window, and he was itching with anxiety.

He desperately wanted to peek out and say hello, but he couldn't move and could only anxiously stare outside.

Li Wanning was filled with excitement and wanted to go forward and give Li Yuetong a hug, but when she caught sight of a soft little girl in Li Yuetong's arms, she could only stop and look at Li Yuetong intently, carefully checking whether she was injured or had any bumps or bruises.

After confirming that she was safe and sound, Li Wanning called out with genuine affection, "Sister-in-law."

Zhang Ran glanced at Li Yuetong quickly and, seeing that she was unharmed, immediately felt relieved. Then his gaze fell on the little girl Shen Qiangwei in her arms.