Chapter 72: Double kill of a tough woman

Zhang Su finished using the bathroom and tried the faucet, but there was no water. Returning to the convenience store, he saw Zheng Xinyu chatting with the middle-aged woman, Wang Guangjun standing to the side holding a crowbar, and Zhong Xiaoshan walking back and forth in front of the shelves counting supplies.

Zhang Su walked to Zheng Xinyu's side and said, "What did you find out?"

Zhang Su's appearance startled the woman. She felt that among the four people present, Zhang Su was the most frightening.

Zheng Xinyu said, "Her name is Tan Huajun, a local of Qincheng, thirty-seven years old. She lives in the Phoenix International residential complex next door. She was working the night shift on the day the zombie outbreak happened and didn't wait for her colleague to take over before things went wrong."

"Tan Huajun, right? Come, sit down and talk."

Zhang Su showed a faint smile and pointed to the display cabinet where mineral water had originally been placed.

"No, no need, thank you."

Tan Huajun's fat hands waved repeatedly, extremely fearful of Zhang Su.

Zhang Su said to Zheng Xinyu and Wang Guangjun, "You guys go move things, I'll chat with Big Sister Tan."

"B-big brother, hello big brother."

When Tan Huajun heard that the fierce-looking Zhang Su wanted to chat with her, she almost scared herself into pooping and hurriedly greeted him.

"Although I can't say I'm handsome, I'm not scary, right? Do you have to be this scared?"

Zhang Su was very puzzled.

Tan Huajun's face twitched, revealing a smile that was uglier than crying. She stammered, "Big brother is... is handsome, not scary."

Zhang Su noticed Tan Huajun looking at the machete sheath at his waist intentionally or unintentionally, and realized, "You saw what we did outside earlier, right?"

"No, no, really no! Big brother, my eyesight is bad, I can't see things clearly. I've been hiding in the office, I don't know anything, I don't know!"

To her surprise, this sentence deeply stimulated Tan Huajun. Her face changed drastically, and she tried her best to deny it, not even noticing that her logic was incoherent.

Zhang Su scratched his face and frowned. "If you saw it, you saw it. I won't kill you to silence you. Don't worry, don't worry."

Even though these were comforting words, to Tan Huajun's ears, they sounded like a death curse from the King of Hell. She collapsed to the ground with a *thump*, looked up, and cried, "Big brother, I won't say anything, I really won't say anything. Don't kill me, I have an old father above and a daughter below. Don't kill me."

"Are you listening to me at all?" Zhang Su frowned, suddenly feeling that the challenge task didn't seem as easy as he had imagined. This woman was a bit stubborn.

"Listen, listen to you, big brother. I'll listen to whatever you say, just don't kill me."

Tan Huajun nodded vigorously, her oily face covered in tear stains.

"I'm kind-hearted, why would I kill people casually! Come, come, get up first. I really have something to ask you, don't be afraid."

Zhang Su boasted shamelessly and then helped Tan Huajun up.

Wang Guangjun and the others glanced at Zhang Su curiously, not understanding why Zhang Su was so polite to this middle-aged woman.

"You must work the night shift often, right? I come here to refuel often and know that... that fat guy Xu here. I haven't seen you. Do you smoke?"

Zhang Su lit a cigarette and handed one to Tan Huajun.

When Tan Huajun heard that Zhang Su knew her colleague, her panicked heart calmed down a lot. Seeing the cigarette in front of her, she subconsciously pointed to the "No Smoking" sign, but then thought about the current situation and said sheepishly, "I... I don't smoke, thank you, big brother."

"So many days have passed, has no one come to the gas station?"

Zhang Su smoked his cigarette and asked.

"Actually, before today, there were at least thirty of them in the gas station, um, the zombie monsters you mentioned. Around twelve o'clock at night, there was an explosion across the street, which lured away quite a few zombies."

Tan Huajun's language expression became smooth after her mood stabilized.

"An explosion?" Zhang Su thought for a moment. Zheng Xinyu was on the night shift at twelve o'clock last night, and he was busy sleeping. He hadn't heard the explosion, and there had been too many explosions in the surrounding area recently to distinguish the direction.

"Yes, it seems like a car crashed and exploded. I heard the sound of braking, and after the explosion, many cars on the road were honking. The zombie monsters outside roared and ran away!"

Tan Huajun rubbed her hands uneasily and said hesitantly, "Big brother, what happened outside? How did those zombie monsters come about? Do you know any news?"

Zhang Su shook his head decisively. "That morning, I slept until past ten o'clock. When I got up, there was no mobile phone signal. What happened here that day?"

"That morning, I was almost at the end of my shift, which was seven o'clock. I was tidying up the accounts and waiting for Xiao Lan to come and take over, but she never came. I was bored and playing with my phone. Someone came to refuel, so I went out. It was about seven-fifteen, and there was a traffic accident on the road..."

Tan Huajun told the story, which was the same as Zhang Su and Zheng Xinyu's speculation.

"You live in Phoenix International next door? You can get there by climbing over two walls, right? Why didn't you go back?"

Zhang Su pointed to the residential complex separated by two walls.

Tan Huajun smiled strangely. The gas station wall was a full four or five meters high, and the residential complex wall wasn't high, but it had anti-climbing spikes on top.

"Big brother, I can't climb that wall. But at first, I did try to rush out, but as soon as I went out, I bumped into a zombie. It was hard to kill it, but when I ran out of the gas station and looked, the whole street was full of them, densely packed. It scared me to death..."

"I ran back and kept hiding in the convenience store. There was food and drink, so I didn't starve, but I was very worried about the situation at home."

Zhang Su's eyes lit up after hearing Tan Huajun's words. "You've killed zombies?"

Tan Huajun nodded blankly and pointed outside. "Yes, over by the flower bed, and there's another one in the green belt."

"Killed two? A bit impressive. How did you kill them?"

Zhang Su asked with great interest. At first, he thought this fat big sister was quite timid and probably a burden, but he hadn't expected her to dare to kill zombies on the first day, and it was a double kill. This was stronger than ninety-nine percent of survivors.

Tan Huajun recalled, "I used a steel bar to poke them to death..."

"Awesome." Zhang Su couldn't help but give a thumbs up. It seemed this fat big sister was more afraid of people than zombies.

Being praised, Tan Huajun's emotions stabilized a bit. Thinking of the situation at home, she looked at Zhang Su with hope. "Big brother, can you send me home? I'll take things to repay you."

"Oh? How will you repay me? Don't say anything about giving yourself to me like that woman before. I don't want that!"

Zhang Su wasn't surprised at all that Tan Huajun wanted to go home.

Tan Huajun smiled awkwardly and then looked around. "Isn't everything here enough to repay you, big brother?"

Zhang Su was stunned for a moment, secretly thinking, is this woman really stupid or pretending to be smart?

"Hey, you don't think the things in this store belong to you, do you?"

Zheng Xinyu put her bag to the side, holding several large packs of toilet paper in her arms, with an expression of "no way."

"Yours, they're yours. I'm sorry."

Tan Huajun waved her hands repeatedly.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 73 =====