Chapter 52: Missed A Few
Translator: Law Editor: Hitesh_
“Watch out!” The robber leader automatically shouted out when he saw Lin Qiao cover more than a hundred meters within a blink of an eye and come up to the fire-power robber.
But, his shouting changed nothing, because once he finished the two words, he saw her swing her claws again, followed by the fire-power robber’s head flying up as well.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
In panic, the other robbers fired another wave of bullets at Lin Qiao. However, as she was too fast, they had no way to locate her. By the time they fired the bullets, she had already moved to another location.
Seeing this situation, the robbers immediately gave up on attacking and turned around to run right away. The ice-powered robber leader ran the fastest, feeling that Lin Qiao was so terrifyingly dangerous. After warning the fire-powered robber and then watching her cut off his head, this ice-powered robber promptly decided to run.
He swiftly darted into the woods and disappeared at once. The other robbers each ran in a different direction, and none of them thought about the others when they ran. They fled in any path they could without heeding which they chose.
Lin Qiao picked the slowest one, suddenly increasing her running speed to chase after him. In a few seconds, a scream was heard from a short distance away.
Lin Qiao returned a while later, holding some clothes and weapons. Clearly, she had taken the robber’s clothes and weapons after killing him. When she walked out of the woods, the clothes in her hands suddenly disappeared.
She walked to the fire-powered robber, quickly glanced at Xie Dong, who was still retching, then left him alone. Afterward, she lowered her head and began stripping the robber.
Smelling the blood, Lin Qiao felt something in her stomach. The feeling was surging, seeming about to break out of her body; but, she strictly suppressed it.
Xie Dong wasn’t able to suppress hunger, but she was. She wouldn’t let herself eat human beings so easily.
After retching for quite a while and throwing up nothing, Xie Dong finally gave up. After that, he stood up and wiped the blood from his mouth with his sleeve, then turned around and walked back.
He checked the battle situation and found that besides the fat man that he killed at the start, two naked head-less corpses were also lying around. Right now, Lin Qiao was stripping the fat man. Because of the strong blood scent in the air, the hunger that he had just suppressed immediately arose again.
Xie Dong paused for a moment in shock. ‘What happened just now? Is this over already?’
After ripping off the fat man’s clothes with some efforts and putting those into her s.p.a.ce, Lin Qiao stood up and looked at him. His face was still blue, his eyes contained a deep gloominess, and his expression was dark as well.
He had eaten a human heart, but mentally, he couldn’t accept this fact. It seemed that he was disgusted with himself, which was why he showed such a dark expression.
There was no psychological burden for Lin Qiao and Xie Dong in killing those robbers at all. After all, killing used to be their job before the old world ended.
Therefore, she saw herself as getting rid of the evil for the other people. Those robbers had brought themselves to Xie Dong anyway, and she surely wouldn’t show any mercy. But, a few of those robbers had run away.
The few who had run would continue hurting others.
Lin Qiao walked to the car, opened the door, and sat into the driver’s seat, then quietly waited for Xie Dong to come in.
Seeing her get into the car, Xie Dong understood that he couldn’t stay in this place any longer. He followed her to the car and sat into the backseat. His mind was filled with the feeling from earlier on when he ate the heart. On one hand, he was submerged in the incredible taste of the human heart which had given him a physical pleasure; but on the other hand, he trapped himself in the sense of guilt for eating a fresh human heart.
Lin Qiao knew that his mind was now unclear, and his emotions could be unstable. Therefore, she replaced him as the driver for the time being.
She started the car and continued driving forward. The further away from the city they got, the more desolate the environment became. But still, many cars with corpses in them could be seen along the highway.
Not long after Lin Qiao drove the car away, three figures came up fleetingly. These three creatures were incredibly fast, such that they could cover more than tens of meters with one leap. The one in the front was even able to cover a hundred meters with one jump.
Soon, the three figures arrived at the place where Lin Qiao and Xie Dong were stopped by the robbers earlier on, then stopped moving.
It was none other than that level-five ice-powered zombie leader, which had been catching up with its two underlings.
It stopped, standing in the middle of the highway and sniffing around, seeming to be confirming something. The two behind it didn’t have as much worry as it did, directly rus.h.i.+ng at the few warm corpses once they arrived on the scene.
However, they didn’t begin feeding right again, but found the two heads which were cut off by Lin Qiao and served them to the level-five zombie.
After confirming that Lin Qiao’s vibe had once appeared in this place, the level-five zombie glanced at the direction that Xie Dong’s car was moving in, then turned back and looked at the human heads that its underlings handed it.
It seemed to feel that since Lin Qiao and Xie Dong hadn’t gone far, it was alright for it to spend a short while in eating here, as it would catch up with them again anyway later on.
It took over a human head and cut it open with its claws like cutting a melon. Then, it held the head with one claw and inserted its other claw into the broken head, digging out some white brain matter and putting that into its mouth to chew with relish.
It finished one head soon, then cut another one open and continued eating.
Seeing that the level-five zombie leader had eaten two heads, the two level-five zombies turned to the third head which belonged to the fat man simultaneously. In the next second, they pounced at it together.
With that, they started a fight before the fat man’s body. They scratched each other for a while, but never fought with their real strength.
“Roar!” Maybe because the zombie leader was annoyed by this pointless fight, it suddenly turned its head and roared at the two level-three zombies.
The two immediately quieted down, standing by the fat man’s body without moving.
The zombie leader threw away the emptied head in its hand and then walked over. It neatly cut off the fat man’s head and picked it up, then cut it into two and threw at the two level-three zombies.
The two zombies each caught half of the head, holding it with both their hands as they squatted and buried their faces in it to begin wolfing. They didn’t have the ‘elegant table manners’ as the zombie leader did. The zombie leader dug the brain out with claws, but they directly bit into it.
At that moment, the zombie leader turned the fat man’s body over and found that his heart was gone. Then, it straightened its body and glanced at the other two headless heads, then walked over. Next, it dug out the heart of the fire-powered robber with a claw, put it near its nose to sniff, but then gave an expression of dislike.
It bared its teeth, but didn’t throw the heart away. Instead, it put the heart into its mouth and took a bite, then its expression became complicated. Face filled with dislike, it forced itself to eat the heart.
That heart had stopped beating long ago, so its scent and taste couldn’t be compared with the heart that Xie Dong had dug out earlier.