Chapter 140

The scene of the little zombie gnawing made many people around Zhang Su turn away, unable to bear the sight.

"Wuwuwu..."

Zhong Xiaoshan suddenly choked with sobs, threw herself into Zhang Su's arms, and said, "Brother Su, I lied to Sister Pan. If it weren't for me, Sister Pan wouldn't have died."

"Pan Guihua couldn't let go of her daughter; this would have been the outcome sooner or later. We just accelerated the whole process. You lied to her for the sake of all of us, so don't carry too much of a burden. We are all accomplices in this matter."

Zhang Su patted Zhong Xiaoshan's shoulder. His stance remained the same as always: it's fine to be a good person on the premise of not harming one's own interests, but if it meant causing himself and those around him to suffer substantial losses, then he was sorry.

Guilt and remorse are fine, but personal safety cannot be compromised.

Hearing Zhang Su's words, the others also comforted Zhong Xiaoshan one after another; her acting as the villain was to secure a relatively safe residence for everyone.

Awoo.

After about seven or eight minutes, Pan Guihua, who had been lovingly stroking the little zombie, stopped her movements. Her neck turned stiffly, a beast-like roar issued from her throat, and she turned her head and began to compete with her daughter for the bloody food on the ground.

The process of turning into a zombie was relatively fast; no one knew the reason, perhaps because of blood ties, or perhaps because of the part that was bitten...

"Let me send them on their way."

Lu Yubo stepped forward, carrying a grain sampler, but was stopped by Zhang Su.

"Zhang Ya, you go."

Zhang Su turned his head and looked at Zhang Ya, who had red-rimmed eyes in the crowd.

This order was beyond everyone's expectations. Since joining the team, Zhang Ya had always been very quiet, rarely expressing opinions, like an invisible person with very little presence. They didn't know why Zhang Su would call her name.

Zhang Ya walked forward with a complex expression and said, "Brother Su, must it be me?"

"Yes, you send Sister Pan and her daughter on their way, and then I'll talk to you."

Zhang Su said something puzzling.

"Alright, I'll go."

Others were puzzled, but Zhang Ya was not. Her body trembled slightly, and she walked toward Pan Guihua and her daughter with her head down.

The zombies gnawing on the bloody food were very stable in their emotions and didn't pay much attention to someone approaching.

Zhang Ya carefully walked behind Pan Guihua and her daughter, raised her hiking pole, and after a moment of hesitation, struck suddenly, piercing into the back of the neck.

Squish, squish...

Killing zombies that wouldn't fight back was not difficult for Zhang Ya. In a few moments, she made Pan Guihua and her daughter stop their movements, lying motionless on the bloody corpse.

Just in case, she even gave the bloody man on the ground a few more strikes!

"Liu Tianji, Wang Xin, Zhou Litao."

Zhang Su called out to the Tiguan trio.

"Brother Su, what are your orders?"

Liu Tianji was the first to jump in front of Zhang Su.

"Go dig a pit over there and bury Pan Guihua and her daughter."

Zhang Su pointed to the muddy wasteland by the side of the road.

"This... does this have any meaning?" Zhou Litao immediately refused, feeling it was an unnecessary move.

"I'll do it, Brother Su!"

"I'll help too."

Zhong Xiaoshan, Tan Huajun, and Yu Qing stepped forward.

"You don't need to!" Zhang Su said, "Let these three do it."

"What's the big deal about this little thing? Brother Su, I didn't say I wouldn't do it, he's the one who said it!"

After the initial shock, Liu Tianji reacted immediately, jumping on his feet and running toward the factory, saying, "I'll go get the shovels, don't fight me for it, I'll do this!"

"Brother Su, I'll go get the tools too, Liu Tianji and I are enough!"

Wang Xin said, glancing at Zhou Litao, and hurriedly followed Liu Tianji toward the glass factory.

Zhang Su looked at Zhou Litao, who had an awkward expression on his face, and said coldly, "It's clear that from the beginning you didn't like our team, didn't approve of me leading the team, and didn't even want to call me by my name."

"The bag is there, you can leave now. We don't welcome you here."

Zhang Su pointed to the bag prepared for Pan Guihua next to the woman's corpse. To avoid this defiant guy causing trouble, driving him away early was a better choice!

"You!" Zhou Litao didn't expect things to turn out like this. With a complex expression on his face, he stiffened his neck and said, "I, I'll just dig, why drive me away? You're too overbearing."

"You no longer have the opportunity to perform; now you only have the opportunity to leave. Don't waste this opportunity too."

Zhang Su waved his hand at the crowd behind him, signaling that everyone could go back to their own business.

Zhou Litao was very unconvinced. He saw his two colleagues running out with shovels and said, "If I'm leaving, the three of us are leaving together. I won't leave alone!"

"Alright, then you can ask them what they think."

Zhang Su spread his hands.

"Brother Su, what are you guys..."

Liu Tianji ran over, panting, feeling that the atmosphere was not quite right, his shifty eyes darting back and forth between Zhang Su and Zhou Litao's faces.

"Liu, they don't welcome us and want to drive us away. It's a waste of your hard work to show off, this is the result. Let's go together!"

Zhou Litao didn't care that Zhang Su was standing right in front of him, directly twisting the facts and talking nonsense.

Zhang Su didn't expose him either, taking this opportunity to examine the situation of Liu Tianji and Wang Xin.

Hearing Zhou Litao's words, the two were stunned for a moment, looking at him and then at Zhang Su. Both guys were sharp, and they instantly guessed the ins and outs of the matter.

Wang Xin sneered, "Zhou Litao, I think Brother Su only wants you to leave. You used to like to talk nonsense at the company, and now you still have this bad habit you won't change."

"That's right, Brother Su entrusted such a sacred task to me and Da Xin, how could he let us go? I think it's you who misses the prestige of being a manager in the past and always wants to control the discourse. I advise you, if you don't have the ability, just listen!"

Liu Tianji looked like a leader lecturing an employee, probably imitating Zhou Litao's attitude from before.

Zhang Su had a playful expression on his face and added, "You two are right, I only want him to leave. He said he wanted to call you guys together, you make your own decisions."

"What's there to decide? Brother Su, you are righteous, you are a leader, I'm definitely going to follow you from now on!"

Liu Tianji planted the shovel on the ground, impassioned.

Wang Xin also nodded vigorously and said, "That's right, Brother Su, from the moment you drove back alone to find us, I made up my mind to follow you well. Believe us, we are very capable!"

"Oh, enough talk, Brother Su, we're going to dig the pit!" Liu Tianji gave Wang Xin a wink and ran off in a flash.

Zhang Su saw Zhong Xiaoshan also following Liu Tianji and the others, and didn't stop her, knowing she definitely wanted to do something, otherwise she would feel uncomfortable in her heart.

He turned his head to look at the uneasy Zhou Litao, then looked at the bag left in the distance, the meaning was obvious.

Zhou Litao glanced at his colleagues digging the pit in the distance, shook his head, walked toward the bag, picked it up, put it on his back, and walked toward the city.

There were too many passersby like Zhou Litao in the apocalypse, and Zhang Su didn't have the energy to pay attention to them one by one. He focused his gaze on Zhang Ya, who was standing by the road.

Compared to Zhou Litao, who had low ability but high aspirations, he valued Zhang Ya, who had solid strength and didn't talk much.

Taking advantage of the Zhou Litao incident, it was also time to resolve Zhang Ya's problem.

"Let's go."

Zhang Su signaled Zhang Ya to walk toward the factory. On the way, he said, "Don't you have anything to say to me?"

"Ah?" Zhang Ya was a bit confused and said, "Brother Su, isn't it you who has something to talk to me about?"

"If you continue to play dumb, the outcome will be the same as Zhou Litao's. Think it over clearly." Zhang Su said lightly, without much emotion.

Zhang Ya lowered her head, biting her lip in great conflict.

When the two returned inside the glass factory, she looked around and saw everyone was busy in the distance, so she took a white bottle out of the bag she was carrying and handed it to Zhang Su.

Zhang Su looked curiously at the white plastic bottle in Zhang Ya's hand and said, "What does this mean?"

"You must have seen it a long time ago, right? That's right, I'm an undercover agent sent by Liang Xiaocheng..."

Zhang Ya said in a low voice, then shook the bottle in her hand: "Inside this is fluorescent powder for tracking. Liang Xiaocheng told me to sprinkle this along the way, and then he would catch up and find an opportunity to kill you."

"But there's one thing I need to make clear..."

Immediately after, Zhang Ya said urgently: "At that time, I was hiding in a medical beauty agency diagonally opposite the Yihe car dealership with Liang Xiaocheng and a few others. He said he wanted to take revenge on you, and everyone gave ideas, so I suggested that I infiltrate your team and then create an opportunity for him to take revenge."

"Actually, I made this suggestion on purpose just to escape from Liang Xiaocheng. Brother Su, you have to believe me!"

Zhang Su took the bottle, opened it, and looked at it. He couldn't see anything in the broad daylight under the sun. He screwed the cap back on and said, "Why did you want to escape from Liang Xiaocheng, and why did you choose to join my team?"

Zhang Ya looked at Zhang Su with some embarrassment, lowered her head again, and said, "If I tell the truth, don't be unhappy..."

"You've already played 'Infernal Affairs' with me, and you're still afraid I'll be unhappy?" Zhang Su felt a bit amused and said, "Go ahead."

"Actually, at the time, I didn't intend to join your team, I just purely wanted to leave Liang Xiaocheng's group. Of course, after getting along, I really liked the atmosphere of the team, everyone is very good, and you are also very good..."

"As for why I wanted to leave Liang Xiaocheng, it's because he's a lunatic, he's mentally unstable. Originally, when Liang Dacheng was alive, he could suppress Liang Xiaocheng and not let him act recklessly, but once Liang Dacheng died, Liang Xiaocheng became completely abnormal. Following him, I definitely wouldn't live long, I had to consider myself!"

Zhang Su closed his eyes, then opened them again. Three bubbles appeared above Zhang Ya's head.

【Vigilant】 【Strong-willed】 【Conceited】

Vigilance and strength are the most basic qualities in the apocalypse, but being clearly pointed out by the 【Insight Tag】 showed that these two qualities were extremely prominent in Zhang Ya. However, the last item, conceit, made Zhang Su quite surprised.

After joining the team, he had been secretly observing Zhang Ya and hadn't discovered this aspect. Perhaps because she had always been following the rules, it couldn't reflect her conceited personality, or perhaps there were too many people in the team stronger than her, so she didn't have the qualifications to be conceited...

(End of chapter)