Chapter 167: Apocalypse: Zombie Era (6)
Even though Ji Jiaqi was eager to go downstairs and check the situation, she still maintained her usual caution while rushing down.
She had clearly cleared this building, except for the lack of response when knocking on the door of the third floor and only one child on the second floor. There shouldn’t be anyone else, logically speaking.
But unexpectedly, a man appeared. Not only did he appear, but he also seemed to have harmed the child on the second floor. According to the information given by Gu Chengbei, that person should be alive.
Ji Jiaqi had killed many zombies, but this was the first time she encountered a living person. She tightly gripped the weapon in her hand, her face dark, and descended the stairs step by step.
On the opposite side, Gu Chengbei remained tense as he continuously used binoculars to observe the second floor. His expression had never been so grim.
Because he could see clearly through the binoculars. At first, the child was lying on the ground, covered in blood, with her mouth taped shut. The man was rummaging around in the house, clearly searching for food. After making a mess of the place and finding only a little food, he was no longer satisfied.
The child seemed to be only a few years old, no older than 7. The blood on her body was most likely caused by the man grabbing her hair and smashing her against the wall earlier. While the man was searching for food in her home, the child laid on the ground, covered in blood, with her eyes closed, unknown if she was alive or not.
Gu Chengbei helplessly watched as the man effortlessly threw the limp child onto the bed and began undoing his belt.
“F*ck!"
Gu Chengbei wished he could fly over and shoot him dead with one shot.Fortunately, at that moment, Ji Jiaqi directly used a saw to cut open the door.
She had thoroughly cleaned all the zombies in this building, and the main entrance was securely closed. The man couldn’t have suddenly appeared. It was very likely that she had missed someone on the fourth floor during her previous search.
But this shouldn’t be the case. An elderly couple lived on the fourth floor, and they were very kind. They always smiled when they saw their neighbors. Perhaps it was because they had a pension and their children had good jobs. They had always maintained a peaceful mentality and enjoyed their lives. Every early morning, they would support each other and go to the park for a walk.
Therefore, when there was no response after knocking on the door of the fourth floor, Ji Jiaqi assumed that the elderly couple had gone out for a morning walk.
But then, a man appeared out of thin air. Could he be the son of the elderly couple? But he was also a very nice person. She remembered him encountering the little girl from the second floor when he came to visit his parents downstairs and patting her head affectionately.
When Ji Jiaqi finally managed to unlock the door and kick it open, she saw a disheveled middle-aged man, his face filled with horror as he looked at her holding a broom. Finally, Ji Jiaqi found the answer.
This person lived on the third floor and had always cast a leering glance at her. Because of his gaze and his deliberate proximity whenever they went downstairs, Ji Jiaqi had always avoided him.
While she was clearing the building, there were zombies in this person’s house. It was his wife. After Ji Jiaqi personally dealt with her, seeing that there was no movement inside the house, she assumed that this person wasn’t there. But now, he suddenly appeared here.
Moreover, he wasn’t even wearing pants.
Ji Jiaqi glanced at the bed, where a child with blood all over, pale face, closed eyes, and mouth taped shut, laid. She then looked at the man standing in front of her and slowly raised the weapon in her hand.
“What are you doing! Let me tell you, killing is a crime! Don’t think I’m afraid of you. If we really fight, it’s uncertain who will win and who will lose!!’
Although the man spoke harshly, anyone could see from his trembling legs that he was scared.
Indeed, he was scared. In his plan, he never intended to provoke Ji Jiaqi, who could kill so many zombies.
Just like Ji Jiaqi’s impression of him, this man was lecherous and had no real skills. He only dared to prey on vulnerable, lone women. Before the apocalypse, he found the key to the fourth-floor apartment where the elderly couple lived. He thought that since this couple was wealthy, didn’t use bank cards, had obedient children, and probably had a lot of cash at home, he could benefit from it.
So he took the key and made a copy, then placed the original key back where it was. The next day, when the couple went for their morning walk in the park and there was no one around, he entered the apartment with the copied key.
Little did he know that at that very moment, the monsters arrived. He was peering through the window, watching people below being chased and bitten by the monsters, witnessing the gruesome act of flesh being devoured, and he was too terrified to step outside the house.
When Ji Jiaqi knocked on the door and asked if anyone was inside, he saw the saw and kitchen knife in her hand through the peephole and didn’t dare to respond.
Previously, he had offended her, and now he didn’t have any weapons, so he didn’t dare to show himself.
Afterward, he witnessed Ji Jiaqi sawing open the door opposite the room and killing the zombies inside one by one. This made him even more reluctant to make a sound.
After that, this person stayed hidden in the elderly couple’s house, eating the food they left behind. However, food would eventually run out. Fortunately, the sound insulation in the building wasn’t great. When Ji Jiaqi went to get the key from the second floor, he would eavesdrop by the door, knowing that there was only a little girl in that apartment.
Ji Jiaqi could kill zombies, but he didn’t dare to provoke her. Although he heard Ji Jiaqi telling the child that all the zombies were killed, what if there were any stragglers? What would happen if he got bitten by a zombie in those apartments? But why worry about a little child? So, he quietly sneaked to the second floor, knocked on the door, and told the little girl that her parents were calling and asked her to open the door to answer the phone.
After all, she was just a child, and she obediently opened the door when he coaxed her like that.
After that, it was what was seen from the telescope. He didn’t find much food and thought since monsters were everywhere now and no one cared about him, he might as well have some fun when he saw the little girl lying on the ground with blood on her face but otherwise looking innocent and delicate. She was just a child and couldn’t resist him anyway. Starving to death was death too, so he might as well have some pleasure before dying.
Who would have expected that just as he took off his pants and was about to enjoy himself, Ji Jiaqi actually showed up at the door?
He trembled, clearly terrified, but he swallowed his saliva and tried to persuade Ji Jiaqi to not oppose him, “I just wanted to find something to eat. I didn’t steal anything from your house. If you continue like this, I might not be the one to suffer in a fight. How about this? I’ll consider it a favor to you and let go of these food items. Can we agree on that?”
Ji Jiaqi showed no emotion and continued to tightly grip her weapon, aiming it at the man. She asked coldly, “What were you about to do to her just now?”
“I, I wasn’t going to do anything..."
While he tried to defend himself, he slowly retreated, “Listen, Miss, we’re neighbors after all, living in the same building. I don’t want to do anything to you. If you leave now, we can pretend this never happened. Otherwise, don’t blame me for being heartless.”
“I’m still a man, you know. You kill those monsters by outsmarting them, don’t you? Do you really think you can beat me?"
Ji Jiaqi wasn’t confident at all. She had never fought against a living person before, especially not a fairly strong-looking man standing across from her.
But there was no way she would ignore the little girl on the bed and let this beast go free. Absolutely not.
Ji Jiaqi refused to back down, and the expression on the man’s face gradually turned sinister.
He had been paying close attention to Ji Jiaqi’s situation these past few days. He knew she killed zombies, knew she locked the main door downstairs, and knew she had formed a rope connection with someone in the building across from hers.
She definitely wasn’t lacking food. Previously, he didn’t want to take the risk, but now that she had come to him, he wouldn’t hesitate in acting cruel...
He completely failed to notice a beautiful Ragdoll cat behind Ji Jiaqi, swishing its tail as it stared at him with an unfriendly gaze.
In the post-apocalyptic world, due to the scarcity of clothing and food, and the loss of legal restraints, to some extent, people would abandon their humanity.
But there were those who had lost their humanity even before the apocalypse arrived.
Ji Jiaqi had some fighting ability, but she couldn’t match the shamelessness of the man. He realized she was being gradually cornered, so he gritted his teeth and lifted the girl from the bed, shielding himself with her body to reduce the harm.
Ji Jiaqi was cautious and couldn’t use force. She could only watch helplessly as the man, taking advantage of the presence of the little girl, smugly walked toward the door.
“I’m telling you, this child will be with me from now on. If you dare to do anything to me, don’t blame me for strangling her!!”
“Ouch!!!”
With a cat’s cry, the man let out a pained shout and released his grip on the child. Before he could react, the Ragdoll cat stopped meowing and silently pounced on him with several consecutive strikes.
The cat had mutated, and its claws were far from ordinary cat claws. With a few swipes, deep wounds visible to the bone appeared on the man’s body, causing him to writhe in pain on the ground, wailing.
Lin Shiheng’s movements were too fast, even Ji Jiaqi didn’t react in time, let alone Gu Chengbei, who had been anxiously observing the battle through binoculars.
What he saw was this man about to leave the room when he suddenly fell to the ground, clutching his wound and screaming in pain.
Gu Chengbei, with a bewildered expression, looked at Ji Jiaqi, who was holding a weapon, and then at the Ragdoll cat, who was proudly tilting its head and wagging its tail on the side.
He wasn't sure if the little girl was still alive or not, and it certainly couldn’t have been the cat’s doing-
After realizing that, although he still didn’t clearly understand what had just happened, Gu Chengbei continued to look at Ji Jiaqi with admiration.
Indeed, she was a boss!!
Cling to her! Definitely cling to her!!
Ji Jiaqi was unaware that Gu Chengbei from the opposite building was observing from a distance. Although she couldn’t see clearly, she speculated from the presence of her cat, Shiheng.
It seems that Shiheng not only had the ability to transform into a human but also had considerable combat power.
Ji Jiaqi trusted Shiheng completely and didn’t even consider the possibility of him harming her. Temporarily unsure how to deal with the man, she decided to tie him up first.
Once the man was bound, Ji Jiaqi felt relieved and picked up the little girl to check her injuries.
The most severe injury was on her forehead. It was where this man had grabbed her by the hair and violently slammed her head against the wall while she was screaming with her mouth covered. Blood streamed down her face, so in Gu Chengbei’s eyes, she was covered in blood.
Ji Jiaqi remembered that this child’s mother had called her Yue Yue before. She carefully held her and sat on the sofa. “Yue Yue? Yue Yue?”
The little girl’s eyelashes trembled, and she slowly opened her eyes.
As soon as she saw Ji Jiaqi, the older sister who had given her the key, tears streamed down her face, and she sobbed as she leaned into her embrace.
“Sister, the bad man wanted to hit me...”
“Sister knows, Yue Yue, don’t be afraid. The bad man is tied up, he won’t hurt you anymore.”
Gu Chengbei’s face was almost contorted with anger. Holding binoculars as he watched Ji Jiaqi comforting the little girl, he also breathed a sigh of relief.
He had learned some basic first aid before, and now he couldn’t help but examine the wound on Yue Yue’s face. Fortunately, it looked horrifying but shouldn’t be life-threatening. It was just that the way this child cried was too heart-wrenching.
So gentle and fragile, so obedient and adorable. How could anyone bear to hurt such a cute child?
Ugh! Scum!
As Gu Chengbei cursed, he suddenly saw the obedient little girl sitting up in Ji Jiaqi’s arms, extending her tiny finger towards the man on the ground. Then, she tilted her little face to look at Ji Jiaqi, as if asking her what to do with this man.
Gu Chengbei became furious again, if it were up to him, he would just throw him down to feed the zombies!
Unfortunately, both the grown-up and the little girl were girls. It was unlikely they would do such a thing. That guy got off too easily.
As he was seething with anger, he saw the little girl sitting in Ji Jiaqi’s embrace pointing her finger at the man, and a visible lightning bolt suddenly struck him.
He convulsed visibly, charred all over, and it seemed like he had already lost his breath.
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