After Marking the Villain Professor (ABO, GL) - Chapter 34

Chapter 34

Zhou Yutao held the dagger over the fire for a while, then bit down on a towel and used the dagger to cut open the skin on her leg, starting to remove the bullet casing inside.

Her hand holding the knife was very steady, and her technique was very professional.

Lin Sha turned her head away, unable to bear watching.

Sister Li coaxed her daughter to the corner and covered her eyes.

A moment later, Zhou Yutao removed the bullet casing. She sprinkled some of her homemade powder on it, then wrapped it with a cloth strip. The whole process went very smoothly, and Lin Sha breathed a sigh of relief.

Sister Li, however, sincerely admired this unfamiliar Omega.

With such a performance, she felt that she was not an ordinary person.

While Sister Li was thinking, her daughter in her arms gently tugged at her clothes corner. “Mommy, I’m still so hungry.”

The tone was pitiful.

Sister Li felt a pang of reluctance in her heart. She could only turn her head and, thickening her face, say to Lin Sha, “Miss Lin, do you have anything to eat?”

Lin Sha shook her head. The bag of biscuits she had given to the little girl just now was the last bit of food she had on her.

As for her good friend, her pockets were full of medicine. She could not possibly let the little girl eat medicine.

Sister Li was not disappointed and continued, “Miss Lin, then can you come with me to find some food?”

Lin Sha looked at Zhou Yutao, who was covered in sweat and seemed utterly exhausted, then at the little girl softly calling out that she was hungry. In the end, she nodded.

Xu Man had not woken up yet, and Yutao was injured. In a short time, they might not be able to leave here.

If Xu Si and Qi Rui could not find them tonight, they would need some food, even if it was just a little wild vegetable.

Lin Sha was not stupid. She knew that the reason Sister Li asked her along was that she did not fully trust them. By taking her, Sister Li could feel at ease leaving her daughter at home.

Sister Li said, “Thank you. Then, Miss Zhou, before we come back, please take care of my daughter.”

Zhou Yutao nodded.

Just as Sister Li and Lin Sha were about to go out, she called out to her. “Wait a minute.”

Sister Li turned back in confusion.

“Take this.” Zhou Yutao pointed to the knife beside her.

The knife was from the batch Xu Man had prepared, all infused with a small amount of gold, which made killing zombies a bit less effort.

They had only two in total, one in Lin Sha’s hand.

Sister Li’s shotgun had no bullets left, and at this moment, she was holding a hoe from home. Thinking that they might encounter zombies outside at any time, Zhou Yutao planned to give the other knife to Sister Li.

Sister Li had not expected Zhou Yutao to stop her for this and was at a loss for a moment. “I… if I take it, what if zombies come, what will you do?”

Zhou Yutao waved her hand. “It’s fine. Ordinary zombies cannot break the door open. Besides, I have a dagger, so self-defense is no problem.”

If they encountered people, supposing there were not many and they were not like Chen Xing’s group of ruthless villains, she could manage somehow.

This time, she had not brought much poison, but she did have some knockout drugs.

She was giving away the knife out of selfish motives, mainly to ensure Lin Sha’s safety.

“Okay, then Miss Zhou, if bad people come, you all hide in the cellar. Moving the water jar reveals the entrance.”

Hearing this, Sister Li thought she would be back soon and did not refuse too much. She took the knife and went out with Lin Sha.

As soon as the two left, Zhou Yutao’s expression changed. The hand gripping the chair showed bulging veins, and she let out a low grunt.

This was also the first time she had suffered such a severe injury, so how could it not hurt.

Moreover, the medicine she made was never very mild, though its effects were good. As long as she endured the first ten minutes, it would be fine.

Zhou Yutao’s eyes were misted over with pain.

At this moment, a small hand rested on hers, and the little girl’s timid voice sounded in her ear. “Auntie, are you in a lot of pain? Are you going to cry? Let me blow on it for you.”

The little girl really squatted down and blew on the spot where Zhou Yutao had wrapped the cloth strip.

Clearly, just a moment ago, she had been calling out that she was hungry.

Actually, this kind of method to coax a child had no effect at all, but in Zhou Yutao’s heart, a certain spot softened.

It was the first time she had been comforted by a child in this way, and it was an incredibly novel experience.

“Is it just you and your mommy at home?”

To distract herself, Zhou Yutao chatted with the little girl.

The little girl’s expression suddenly became very sad. “Yes, Grandma passed away, and Mommy passed away too. She was killed by bad guys.”

“Sorry.”

Zhou Yutao paused, then raised her hand and touched the little girl’s head. “Your grandma and mommy are watching you from heaven.”

She was not very good at comforting people, and her words came out very stiffly.

Yet the little girl was comforted at once, her eyes brightening. “My mommy said that too.”

Zhou Yutao tugged at the corner of her mouth, about to say something more, when she heard footsteps outside. Her expression changed abruptly.

She struggled to stand up and moved the water jar that held only a little water, letting the little girl into the cellar. “Someone is coming. You cannot make a sound, okay?”

The little girl immediately obediently covered her mouth, clearly not experiencing this for the first time.

But the next moment, seeing Zhou Yutao about to leave, she let go of her hand and said anxiously, “Auntie, what about you? Are you not coming in?”

Zhou Yutao’s eyes darkened. “It’s fine. Auntie has a way. You just stay quiet.”

Children were easy to fool and did not know at all that the reason Zhou Yutao did not hide was simply because, in her current state, she could not move the unconscious Xu Man.

Earlier, Xu Man had not abandoned her, so naturally, she could not abandon Xu Man.

“Would Star Bro’s target really come to such a rundown little mountain village? Could it be that this dog nose has a problem?”

“There’s no one here anymore. Didn’t we come here two days ago? Back then, Star Bro was not even our leader yet.”

“Hey, brother, you say it’s the apocalypse and all, but there really is an alpha who cannot forget one Omega, not even touching other Omegas?”

“That Professor Zhou is indeed very beautiful, but it should not make our Star Bro like this, right? With everything he has now, what kind of Omega could he not have?”

“Shh, I’ll tell you a secret. Do not tell anyone else.”

“It is said that Star Bro’s gland is injured, so he cannot touch Omegas at all. I suspect the reason he is looking for Professor Zhou is just to have her help treat his gland.”

“No way, really?”

“Then you say, if we really run into Professor Zhou later, should we… well… anyway, Star Bro cannot do it either. Facing such a beauty but unable to touch her, is that not too miserable?”

“You do not want to live anymore. That is the person Star Bro wants.”

“What is there to fear? This matter would be known only to heaven, earth, you, and me. Would that not make your heart race?”

“Besides, it is the apocalypse. Do you think such a beautiful Omega has not been touched by other alphas? We are not alphas, so we would not leave pheromones on her. As long as you do not say anything and I do not say anything, who would know we touched her?”

“Even if she tells Star Bro, between one Omega and the brothers who risk their lives for him, which is more important? Do we even need to think about it?”

The voices of the people outside were not low as they spoke freely, as if they were certain there were no living people here.

Naturally, their words fell into Zhou Yutao’s ears.

It was Chen Xing’s group, but from the footsteps, it seemed only two had come.

She could not let them notify others that she was here.

Zhou Yutao gripped the dagger tightly in one hand and reached for the medicine with the other.

As the footsteps grew closer, Zhou Yutao lightened her breathing and was about to make a move when suddenly she heard a soft groan from Xu Man lying on the bed.

Was she waking up?

Zhou Yutao’s eyes flickered, and she withdrew the hand reaching for the medicine.

Two men holding guns led a dog through the small mountain village. Every time they reached a house, they kicked open the door. When they kicked open the door of the third brick-tiled house on the left and saw the Omega sitting on the chair, utterly weak and peerlessly beautiful, the men’s breathing immediately quickened.

Two pairs of wolfish eyes roamed over the Omega without restraint, ignoring the person still lying on the bed in the corner.

“Brother, we are in luck today.”

One of the men held his gun and quickly approached Zhou Yutao, laughing with ill intent. “Professor Zhou, right? You are truly beautiful. I saw you once at the food factory before, and it has made my heart itch ever since.”

“This time, you cannot run away, can you?”

“What about the others? Did they abandon you, or are they dead?”

He quickly knocked the dagger out of Zhou Yutao’s hand.

Zhou Yutao said nothing, as if she had accepted her fate. Her slightly red eye corners and tightly bitten lips only excited the man more.

The two glanced around and saw Xu Man in a coma on the bed but paid her no mind.

“I hear Professor Zhou is skilled at making medicine. Take off your clothes and let us see if you have hidden any drugs on you.”

The man spoke very frivolously and was already impatient to act.

They had not taken Chen Xing’s warning to heart. After all, Zhou Yutao was injured—an Omega, how dangerous could she be? Moreover, there were two of them, and they had guns.

Besides, to touch such a beautiful person, even if it meant death afterward, there would be no regrets.

The two men smelled the fragrance on Zhou Yutao and had already lost patience.

Xu Man did not know how long she had been unconscious. When she regained consciousness, she heard someone mention the three words “Professor Zhou” in a very frivolous tone.

A surge of anger ignited from the bottom of her heart. Xu Man struggled fiercely to wake up. When she saw the two men bullying Zhou Yutao and heard Zhou Yutao’s sobbing voice, her mind went blank.

At this moment, she had only one thought: she absolutely could not let Zhou Yutao be bullied by these two men.

Xu Man drew the spare dagger Xu Si had given her and quickly stabbed toward the man.

One stab, right into the man’s nape, and bl00d sprayed onto Xu Man’s face.

Actually, the two men had noticed when Xu Man woke up. Just as they were about to grab their guns to deal with her, they found themselves utterly powerless. Let alone doing anything to the Omega in front of them, they could not even hold their guns steady.

Looking at Zhou Yutao, who was clearly crying but had eyes full of icy killing intent, they finally realized they had been hit.

But they did not know when they had been hit.

Only now did they remember Chen Xing’s words that this Omega was very dangerous, but it was already too late.

They could only watch with wide eyes as the suddenly awakened alpha killed them.

When the two fell into pools of bl00d, Xu Man finally realized what she had done.

With a clatter, the dagger in her hand dropped to the ground.

She looked at her bloodstained hands in collapse and belatedly felt afraid. “I… I killed people.”

She had killed two at once.

She had not even killed Sun Xiahe, who was infected with the zombie virus, yet she killed people at this moment.

But when she saw Zhou Yutao injured and disheveled, with red eyes, Xu Man did not regret it.

It was just her first time killing, so she was afraid, that was all.

“It is fine. Manman was very brave, my hero. Manman did not kill people. Even if it were not the apocalypse, what Manman did was not wrong.”

In Zhou Yutao’s gentle comforting words, Xu Man gradually calmed down.

Thinking that Zhou Yutao had gone through such a bad thing yet was comforting her, she felt even worse inside.

It was all because she was too weak, so she could not even protect the person she liked. Without Xu Yi and the others, she really was nothing.

At this moment, Xu Man was certain that she liked Zhou Yutao and resolved to work hard to become stronger.