Chapter 58 Not a Single One Spared

She looked at the young man's body, which was trembling like a sieve, and was just about to speak when someone else rushed into the convenience store.

"Sister Lin, that man has been tied up!"

It was Lei Min's voice. As she spoke, she had already entered the door. Seeing the blood covering the floor, she hurriedly pulled Wen Ling behind her.

Almost simultaneously, another figure appeared inside the convenience store.

"Did you kill Lao Jiu?"

The newcomer was none other than Scarface. He had come out from the utility room in the corner of the convenience store. Because he was in a hurry, he was bare-chested and hadn't even pulled his trousers up properly.

At this moment, the door to the utility room was wide open. Lying flat on his back on the floor was a person positioned in a bizarre posture. The once fair skin was covered in bruises, and even the seaweed-like long hair was torn to shreds.

Her eyes were fixed toward the doorway, her face stained with terrified tears, yet her body remained completely motionless—she was unmistakably dead with her eyes wide open in grievance.

"Sister!"

Yue Xuanxuan, having caught his breath, struggled to climb to his feet. Upon seeing his sister, he made to rush into the utility room.

"Lei Min, stop him!"

As she spoke, Lin Qingqing brandished her ice blade and slashed toward Scarface. Scarface, also known as Brother Long, hurriedly rolled on the ground, narrowly dodging the ice blade's attack.

Meanwhile, Yue Xuanxuan was pinned to the ground by Lei Min, who had rushed up from behind.

"Let me go! Let me go! I have to save my sister!" Yue Xuanxuan struggled desperately.

"Don't be impulsive! Your sister is already dead!" Lei Min pressed down on him with all her might, giving him no chance to rush inside.

"People who die turn into zombies! Are you going to throw your life away?"

"You're lying! My sister isn't dead!"

Seeing Yue Xuanxuan's bloodshot eyes, Lei Min didn't argue with him further, merely pinning him down fiercely.

On the other side, Lin Qingqing's blade rained down continuously on Brother Long, but this limping man proved even more agile than Lao Jiu, managing to dodge the fatal points every time.

"Miss Lin, let's talk this out. Lao Jiu always had an arrogant temper, but since he offended Miss Lin, his dying by your hands is only what he deserves."

"He certainly deserves to die!"

"Miss Lin, as the saying goes, we mind our own business, so why resort to killing and fighting? How about we each take a step back?"

"Scumbags love to dream, don't they?"

After testing him a few times without figuring out what his special ability was, Lin Qingqing flicked her wrist, and a blade of ice shot forward.

However, the next second, the limping man who had been dodging so clumsily vanished right before her eyes.

*A speed-type esper?* This Brother Long was indeed craftier than Lao Jiu.

"None of you are getting away today!"

Spotting Brother Long hiding behind the shelves, Lin Qingqing dashed swiftly to the exit, shielding Wen Ling and the doorway behind her.

Seeing her react with such swiftness, Brother Long's expression turned ugly. "We have no feud between us. Must you be so merciless?"

"Who says we have no feud? Our feud is massive. Those two girls were my apprentices, after all."

"Besides, do I need a reason to kill scum like you?"

Naturally, Lin Qingqing had no intention of letting him go, and with a gesture, she summoned another eight ice blades.

"Since you're a speed-type esper, let's see whether your legs are faster or my ice blades are."

With one injured leg, Brother Long dared not test his speed against flying ice blades.

The moment the eight blades struck simultaneously, he lunged swiftly behind the young man nearby, hoisting him up to use as a human shield.

*Splat, splat.* Out of the eight ice blades, seven were intercepted by the young man's body, and only one pierced past his armpit to pin itself into Brother Long's thigh.

The young man pierced through by the ice blades died on the spot, while Brother Long behind him broke out in a cold sweat from the sudden agony.

"Miss Lin! I'll give you whatever you want! I have jewelry and weapons—please spare my life!"

In his youth, Brother Long had been quite a figure. Ruthless and connected in both the underworld and legitimate circles, the bar he originally owned was just one of his many assets. The wealth accumulated over the years had all been converted into weapons and jewelry, hidden in a secret stash.

He had originally planned to use these resources to make a comeback after the apocalypse, but who could have expected that first he and his subordinates would be trapped in the bar, and then, upon finally escaping, he would run into such a merciless female fiend.

Knowing he could no longer escape, he was willing to sacrifice everything to buy his life.

"Where is the stash?" Lin Qingqing's ice blades paused slightly.

"In Fairy Mountain near Kang County, coordinates are XXXX. Besides that one, I have another warehouse. If Miss Lin is willing to spare me, I'll tell you about that one too!"

Brother Long blurted out the address without hesitation; it didn't sound like something made up on the spot.

"Miss Lin, you can't let him go!" Seeing Lin Qingqing waver slightly, Aunt Zhang couldn't help crying out loudly.

"They killed Old Chen, violated Tingting and Zhao Na, and even reduced my son Chen Tao to this state! They are demons—you can't let him go!"

Aunt Zhang sobbed tearfully as she loosened her grip slightly, allowing Lin Qingqing to finally see clearly that the person she was holding was indeed Chen Tao.

The once spirited young man now lay in Aunt Zhang's arms with a lifeless, ashen expression. His limbs were horribly twisted, and even his fingers dangled limply at his sides, bearing witness to unimaginably cruel torture.

Noticing Lin Qingqing's darkening expression, Brother Long hurriedly begged for mercy. "Miss Lin, Lao Jiu did all those things. I only played with a girl, that's all."

"You *only* played with a girl, *that's all*?"

Lin Qingqing's voice sounded as though it had been frozen in ice.

Meeting her murderous gaze, Brother Long dropped to his knees and begged for mercy frantically.

"I was wrong! I was truly wrong, Miss Lin! I'll never dare do it again, please spare me, I'll give you everything I own!" As he spoke, Brother Long half-knelt on the ground, putting on a tearful performance. Yet in the next instant, he suddenly sprang up, charging toward Yue Xuanxuan with terrifying speed.

Knowing Lin Qingqing would never let him go, he intended to take the nearest person, Yue Xuanxuan, hostage to bargain with her. However, he hadn't anticipated that Lei Min was standing right beside Yue Xuanxuan.

Lin Qingqing merely watched coldly as he rushed forward with a smug look on his face, only to be instantly knocked flat onto the ground by a flash of lightning.

Lei Min controlled her strength carefully; although Brother Long's entire body was numb, his consciousness remained clear.

"I want to kill him! Let me go, I want to kill him to avenge my sister!"

Seeing Brother Long fall, Yue Xuanxuan lunged at him fiercely. It took a tremendous effort for Lei Min to pin him down again.

"Why are you holding me back? I have to avenge my sister!" Yue Xuanxuan cried, tears streaming down his face as he struggled hysterically.

"I think your sister would rather avenge herself than have you do it."

Lin Qingqing put away her ice blade, walked over, and looked down at him.

"But my sister is already... already..."

"It doesn't matter. This is the apocalypse—who says the dead can't take their own revenge?"

As she spoke, she bent down and grabbed Brother Long by the collar, dragging him across the floor like a dead dog.

"No... no, you can't..."

Seemingly realizing what Lin Qingqing intended to do, Brother Long was seized by absolute terror. Unfortunately, his tongue was still paralyzed from the electricity, preventing him from forming a complete sentence.

"Of course I can!" Lin Qingqing sneered, then grabbed Brother Long by the collar and tossed him right inside beside Yue Tingting.

"Save your pleas for mercy and tell them to Yue Tingting!"

With that, she locked the door of the utility room and reinforced it securely with a heavy chain on the outside.

No one spoke. Unconsciously, everyone's gazes drifted toward the direction of the utility room.

Sure enough, within moments, the growls of a zombie echoed from inside, followed shortly by the miserable shrieks of Brother Long.

"My sister, she... she..." Yue Xuanxuan slumped limply into Lei Min's arms, staring in disbelief at that locked door.

"She has avenged herself," Lin Qingqing finished for him.

"Sister!"

Hearing those words, Yue Xuanxuan broke down completely, sobbing bitterly.