Chapter 20
Li Guai Guai stayed with Cheng Du all night yesterday until morning, and this guy started running a fever again.
Looking at the person on the couch with a red face, Li Guai Guai removed her hand from the girl's forehead. Since morning, Cheng Du has become drowsy and even showed signs of talking nonsense.
This situation made Li Guai Guai a little worried, but she searched the entire room and couldn't find any medicine, let alone a band-aid.
Seeing Cheng Du's high fever not going away, she worried that if it continued like this, Cheng Du might be burned out. Out of friendship for her roommate and recognition of Cheng Du's abilities, Li Guai Guai convinced herself that she couldn't just stand by and do nothing, so she had to risk her own life to stay with Cheng Du.
Helped the person up from the sofa, escorted them back to the nearest room, and then covered them with a blanket.
"You're really kind, here I am, a young lady, and yet I have to take care of you," she murmured, mostly complaining. But in the end, she still took the knife and slipped out the window while there were no signs of zombies outside.
The streets were unusually quiet in the early morning. The rain from last night seemed to have not only cleaned the roads but also washed away the zombies.
With her heart in her hands, she walked along the edge of the house, keeping a certain distance from it. After all, who could guarantee that there wouldn't be anything strange and scary coming out suddenly?
Taking in everything around her, she had a sense of calm before the storm. There was an inexplicable uneasiness in her heart. It was too quiet here. But soon, she didn't have the mind to worry anymore.
Looking at the pharmacy in front of her, she could see clearly through the glass door that there was a sign for fever and cold medicine inside.
The only downside was that there were two zombies walking around inside, they seemed to be employees of the pharmacy.
Li Guai Guai watched the zombies wandering inside. One male and one female. Cheng Du was nowhere to be seen. In that moment, she seemed to have lost a lot of courage. She murmured to herself that it might not be easy to deal with two of them.
Even though she was afraid, she had to go up, thinking about the person on the bed who was about to be burned to a crisp.
Her ears felt her own breath and exhalation, and she tried to calm down her body. She walked slowly towards the pharmacy, her eyes fixed on the zombies inside.
Taking advantage of a male zombie passing by a medicine cabinet, she seized the opportunity and rushed in. She pushed the medicine cabinet onto the male zombie, who couldn't move. Then she dealt with the female zombie first, and after that, she turned around and gave the male zombie a slash.
"Ew," looking at the splashes on her hands and sleeves, she quickly grabbed a wet tissue from the counter and wiped it off. Her face was full of disgust.
Thankfully, the heavy rain yesterday washed away the things with a foul smell, so they didn't get on them. But just the precise shot moments ago caused her clothes to be splattered with a lot of disgusting liquid.
After wiping, she simply grabbed a handful of wet tissues and put them directly into her pocket, estimating that she might need them in the future.
After doing all this, she naturally began searching for medicine on the medicine cabinet.
The recent battle had left the pharmacy in a mess, making it a bit difficult to find things.
Thermometer, fever patch, mumbling about the medicine she needed, she even had to bend down and search through the scattered medicines on the floor.
It took a while, but Li Guai Guai finally found a thermometer, fever patch, as well as some cough and phlegm medicine and anti-inflammatory medicine. In short, anything she could find to treat cold and fever, she packed it into the medicine bag.
At the same time, she also found a bottle of healing oil. She thought about how Cheng Du got her leg injured pretty badly yesterday, although it wasn't broken, it was swollen slightly. So she thought maybe this thing could be useful and put the medicine in her pocket.
Outside the pharmacy, while Li Guai Guai was getting the healing oil, there were two men and a woman standing at the entrance. They were holding weapons, the two men had axes in their hands, and the girl had an iron rod.
The person who was packing the medicine in the bag noticed the three people outside the pharmacy when they were about to leave.
Looking at the three suspicious-looking people outside, Li Guai Guai obediently walked towards the exit of the pharmacy. However, when passing by a shelf, she quietly reached out and took a small box, and smoothly stuffed it into her back pocket.
She walked towards the exit, and the three people also walked towards her as if they were in sync.
It wasn't until the few of them met outside the pharmacy that Li Guai Guai didn't want to pay attention to them. She just wanted to leave on her own. But obviously, these people had different intentions than her.
The flat-headed man among the three held his axe horizontally, blocking Li Guai Guai's path.
"Little sister, you can go, but you have to leave your things," the flat-headed man said with a smirk, acting as if Li Guai Guai was the only one in a difficult situation.
"This is a pharmacy, whatever you want is inside. Why bother me?" Li Guai Guai naturally wouldn't give away the medicine she had worked hard to find. She had only obtained it after defeating two zombies, and besides, she had a friend who needed it.
"It's not difficult, but since we found these things, it means they belong to us. We don't want to trouble you too much, so if you leave them behind, you can go," said a man with slightly curly hair. His tone was much gentler than the flat-headed man from earlier, but his intention was the same.
"With so many things, the three of you won't be able to take much. Instead of wasting time arguing with me, why don't you go and get more medicine inside?"
After these few sentences of conversation, both sides somewhat understood each other's attitudes.
Jiang Hao brought people this time to find a place to store medicine. This place happened to be very suitable for him - fewer zombies, relatively safer, and the medicine here was enough for their group. He just didn't expect someone would beat them to it and try to take away the things he had set his eyes on.
So he gave a glance to the flat-headed man beside him, who understood instantly. Although the woman had a knife in her hand, they seemed confident that she wouldn't harm them. After all, it was obvious who would win in a one-on-three situation.
Seeing the flat-headed man reaching out, as if to snatch, Li Guai Guai instinctively stepped back, tightly holding onto the bag in her hands.
But before the man could reach the woman in front of him, his arm was struck by a wooden stick.
Thud! The wooden stick hit the man's hand and quickly fell to the ground, making a sound.
"Ouch!" The pain made the man cover his arm, and he looked at the person who hit him with a resentful gaze.
A short-haired girl wearing a white t-shirt stood not far away, looking at them with cold eyes and a slightly flushed face.
Cheng Du? Li Guai Guai looked at the person who appeared not far away, too afraid to speak but couldn't stop worrying in her heart.
Isn't this person supposed to be sick? How did she come here? And her expression doesn't look very good.
She was supposed to stay calm, but seeing Cheng Du looking so unsteady, she couldn't care too much and ran over to her, standing by her side and supporting her back with one hand.
"How did you come here?" she lowered her voice, clearly angry about Cheng Du going out with a fever.
Cheng Du took a deep breath and looked at the blurry figures in front of her, smiling, "When I woke up and didn't see you, I got worried."
Although Li Guai Guai left a note for Cheng Du, being a young lady with no strength, Cheng Du couldn't stay obediently in the house and wait for someone to come back. And as it turned out, Cheng Du's guess was correct, Li Guai Guai did run into trouble.
As for how she was able to meet Li Guai Guai successfully, that was thanks to yesterday's experience. In the future, she might encounter yesterday's zombie group, so Cheng Du concluded that Li Guai Guai would definitely continue along the road.
While listening to Cheng Du say this, Li Guai Guai felt quite satisfied. It seemed that carrying Cheng Du on her back yesterday wasn't in vain. But in this situation now, since she had fought someone, it seemed even more difficult to peacefully resolve the problem with those three people.
At the same time, the three people were looking at the two girls who had come together, and it was clear that they realized the two people in front of them were a couple.
"You!" When the man who was hit on the arm calmed down, he picked up an axe and tried to walk towards the two of them, but was stopped by the curly-haired person next to him.
"Jiang Hao, what are you doing!" He looked at the person blocking him with dissatisfaction, not happy that his revenge was being hindered.
"Excuse me, why did you randomly attack someone and injure my friend? How do you plan to make it right?" Jiang Hao ignored the man's words. He could tell that the girl with short hair seemed a bit weak, but she was still able to accurately strike, which showed her admirable strength.
"There's nothing much to do. Your people made the first move, I was just defending myself."
Listening to Cheng Du's words, Li Guai Guai felt like this person wasn't completely foolish yet, but feeling the burning heat even through their clothes, all Li Guai Guai wanted to do now was take Cheng Du back. They felt helpless towards this person's show of strength.
"How about this, I'll only take a few boxes and return the rest to you. Let's end this matter here," Li Guai Guai tightened their grip on the bag in their hand and tried to negotiate.
"You idiot~" But before she could get a response from the other person, she was scolded by her teammate.
"If you show weakness now, they will take advantage of it."
"I", Li Guai Guai, couldn't argue with what was said. She didn't think much about it.
"Tell me, how can everyone get along peacefully?" Cheng Du tried hard to see the people not far away and spoke.
Even though she felt very weak, her momentum remained strong, which made Jiang Hao even more interested in this person.
He lacked food, medicine, and help right now.
"Ah!"
"Save me~"
Obviously, before he could even invite the girl, someone had already broken his plan on their own, and it was someone they knew.
As they ran towards them, dragging a injured leg, the limping man made everyone involuntarily gasp.
"Jiang Hao, it's... it's Hu Hua." That originally fierce-looking man who wanted to seek revenge on Cheng Du, had a pale face. Hu Hua was clearly observing the situation outside, but now he was injured all over.
No hope left, this was Jiang Hao's first impression when he saw the people, and Hu Hua shouldn't have come. Looking at the dark crowd of corpses behind him, Jiang Hao felt the urge to kill the person in front of him with his own hands.
"Come on," Cheng Du pulled Li Guai Guai and turned around to run. Now was the best time to escape.
"Follow them," Jiang Hao didn't have time to think much, and in an instant, he made a decision to follow the two girls.
"However... Hu Hua," and the woman next to him, rarely spoke. It was clear that she couldn't ignore the plea for help from her former teammate.
"We can't save him. Look at him, either he gets eaten or we get eaten by them. If you don't leave, then you go keep him company."
After saying that, Jiang Hao didn't pay any attention to the woman anymore. He picked up an axe and ran in the direction Cheng Du had left.
Although the other two hesitated, ultimately the desire to stay alive took over, so they could only follow Jiang Hao.
Behind them, the person with the injured leg had only one hope - that their teammates would come to their aid. However, it was clear that they were expecting too much. As they were tackled down, all they could do was resentfully watch the backs of their companions, filled with deep curses.
