Chapter Fifty-Six: Who Does Heaven Spare?

On her way back, she had thought about it for a long time. Actually, teaming up was not a bad idea at all; both Lei Min and Wen Ling possessed formidable abilities and strength, and their character was good. They were already rare and exceptional teammates.

Lei Min was overjoyed, pulling Lin Qingqing along to chatter on about many things. Lin Qingqing just listened quietly, occasionally responding with a few words.

After a while, Wen Ling finally woke up. She looked at Lin Qingqing in surprise and asked, "Sister Lin, why are you here? Am I dreaming?"

"No, I came back to find you." Lin Qingqing stroked Wen Ling's hair and asked, "How are you feeling now? Is anything still uncomfortable?"

"I'm fine now." Wen Ling shook her head, subconsciously activating her ability to scan the surroundings.

"Where is this?" The unfamiliar environment left her a bit dazed. "What happened to me? Where are the zombies?"

"You passed out earlier. The zombies are outside, and we are temporarily staying in the neighboring residential compound," Lin Qingqing said softly.

"Did Sister Lin save us?"

"I'm sorry, I came late." Lin Qingqing smiled at her, then turned to Lei Min and said, "Since Wen Ling is awake, we should leave as soon as possible."

There were quite a few zombies here, so it was not a place to linger.

She then turned back to Wen Ling: "Can you help us check the situation outside now?"

"Yes, I can." Wen Ling nodded and quickly sat up.

A moment later...

"The zombies, the zombies are all chasing Director Liu and the others!"

"Director Liu has run to the compound gate. They're pounding on the door, but no one is opening it for them!"

Hearing Wen Ling say this, Lin Qingqing suddenly felt that the turn of events was somewhat bizarre. Director Liu was not someone so careless; he would not make such a fatal mistake, and furthermore, Granny Liu and the others were still inside the compound.

"How could this happen?" Lei Min was also astonished.

"Wait, let me look again." Wen Ling continued to project her ability inside the main gate.

"Oh, god!" She let out a low gasp, then said, "It's Auntie Liu. She and Dazhuang's mother have tied Granny Liu up, and Granny Liu's mouth is stuffed with a rag. Chuanzi's grandmother is also blocking the door with a kitchen knife. There are a lot of people in the courtyard; I don't know what they're arguing about, but everyone looks extremely agitated."

Wen Ling's description was somewhat incoherent. For the moment, she could not comprehend what was actually going on, and simply described everything she "saw."

However, from these words, they roughly guessed the cause and effect of the matter.

"This must be Auntie Liu and a few others taking advantage of the time when Director Liu and his large group of loyal followers were absent to seize control of Granny Liu's group left behind, and then lock Director Liu and the others outside," Lin Qingqing analyzed after thinking for a moment.

"Auntie Liu, Dazhuang's mother, Chuanzi's grandmother? What are they trying to do? Could it be for revenge?"

In a flash of insight, Lei Min instantly grasped the crucial point.

"Although we don't know when Auntie Liu united with the others, just looking at the people with her: besides Dazhuang's mother and Chuanzi's grandmother, there are reportedly two other families who lost their sons and daughters. From the identities of these few people alone, we can tell their purpose must be for revenge, to take revenge on Director Liu and his faction."

"Director Liu probably never expected that one day he would fall into the hands of neighbors he once bullied, and by these very women whom they considered weak and useless," Lin Qingqing said with a cold snort. She was not surprised by this outcome.

"This just shows that you should never underestimate a mother's persistence regarding the revenge for a murdered child," Wen Ling also said in a deep voice.

"Heh! Truly the ways of heaven are cyclical; Director Liu and his gang deserve to die in the mouths of zombies!" Although they couldn't exact revenge personally, the result was the same! A trace of gratification appeared on Lei Min's face.

At this moment, Wen Ling discovered a new situation: "They've been caught by the zombies! The zombies are eating people. I—I can't bear to look anymore!"

Perhaps the scene was too bloody, and Wen Ling was somewhat frightened. Lin Qingqing did not force her; she raised a hand to stroke the young girl's head and comforted her softly, "It's okay, you don't have to look. You've already been very brave, and your ability is very powerful."

Having received praise, Wen Ling felt a rare touch of shyness. "It's fine, one always gets used to these things. I'll take another look in a little while."

This little girl was too endearing, and Lei Min could not help reaching out to pull Wen Ling into a hug.

None of them expected that retribution for Director Liu would arrive so swiftly. Wonder if, before his dying breath, he ever recalled that he too was once one of the people inside those gates, and what the people inside were doing right now was precisely what he used to do.

Such a dramatic reversal made Lei Min, who had almost died amidst the zombie horde just moments ago, feel immensely gratified. She held Wen Ling and laughed heartily, sweeping away the panic in her heart.

As time passed, the commotion near the residential compound gradually subsided, leaving only the continuous "thud, thud" sound of zombies slamming against the iron gate.

After a while longer, Wen Ling mustered her courage and once again used her ability to "look" toward the scene of the incident.

However, the next second, she suddenly grabbed Lei Min's arm with a shocked expression, and after a long while, described in a dry voice what she had "seen" this time.

As it turned out, after the zombies wiped out Director Liu and his party, they were still attracted by the living people inside the gates and refused to leave. Meanwhile, the people inside were simultaneously screaming curses at Auntie Liu's group in terror and frantically searching for places to hide.

Later, in a state of panic, someone tried to snatch the kitchen knife from Chuanzi's grandmother's hand, and during the scuffle, accidentally slashed and injured Chuanzi's grandmother. That person snatched the knife and ran off, leaving the poor elderly woman lying unconscious in a pool of blood.

This scene happened to provoke Dazhuang's mother, who was guarding the door on the other side. In a fit of rage, she turned around and directly unlocked the heavy iron gate behind her. The moment the gate opened, the horde of zombies rushed in like a tidal wave, and the massacre was staged once again.

And this courtyard, which had protected everyone for so many days in the apocalypse, was henceforth submerged in a tide of zombies.

Listening to Wen Ling's recount, both Lin Qingqing and Lei Min fell silent for a moment.

Although they had long anticipated that this community filled with oppression and lies would not last long in the apocalypse, they had not expected destruction to arrive so swiftly and effortlessly.

"This is the apocalypse!" Lin Qingqing said softly.

For a time, no one spoke. Although few among those people were good people, such an ending still made the remaining three feel a chill in their hearts.

The apocalypse had arrived too suddenly. While bringing disaster, it also infinitely magnified the malicious thoughts in people's hearts. In this era lacking law and order, if these malicious thoughts were not restrained by moral bottom lines, then that beast of malice would constantly harm others and ultimately destroy oneself.

"It's getting late, let's leave as soon as possible!"

Director Liu no longer needed them to exact revenge, and this was not a place to linger. Lin Qingqing gathered her resolve. Taking advantage of the fact that most of the zombies had just gathered in one place, she led Lei Min and Wen Ling in a wide detour around the corpse horde, climbed over the wall from the other side of the compound, and returned to where they had first arrived.

Her vehicle was still parked in its original spot. Lin Qingqing stepped forward to clear away a few stray zombies, and after confirming everything was safe, she called for everyone to get in the car.

"Let's go, we're setting off!"

"Sister Lin, where are we going?" The day was growing late, and Lei Min couldn't help asking.

"I met a good team earlier. Now we'll go find them and then follow them to the base."

Lin Qingqing briefly recounted to the two of them the people and events she had encountered over the past two days.

"Chen Gang and his son are both good people, and the two girls are very brave as well. They even learned how to kill zombies from me."

"Are they all ordinary people?"

"There is a little boy who is a fire-attribute ability user, and he's the same age as Wen Ling."

"Ah? Does he kill zombies too? Is he powerful?" Hearing about a peer, Wen Ling was full of curiosity.

"He doesn't know how to kill zombies, and he's not as capable as you!"

"Really?"

"Really!" Looking at Wen Ling's inability to suppress her joy, Lin Qingqing felt that bringing them back was the most correct decision she had ever made.