After Marking the Villain Professor (ABO, GL) - Chapter 35

Chapter 35

Zhou Yutao’s injured left leg had its pant leg cut off halfway, wrapped with a circle of white cloth strip. At this moment, the cloth strip was stained with a small patch of red, like bl00d, and her face was unusually pale. The buttons on her upper shirt were undone by two, her hair was disheveled, and her slightly red eyes were covered with a layer of mist, giving people a sense of beauty after being abused.

Xu Man only felt heartbroken. She half-squatted down, reached out wanting to touch the wound on Zhou Yutao’s leg, but did not dare to touch it. She felt so distressed that tears fell down. “Yutao, does it hurt a lot? Sorry… sorry…” It was because she was useless.

Her tone carried thick self-blame.

This made Zhou Yutao, who had originally wanted to say it hurt, shake her head. She raised her hand and rubbed Xu Man’s head. “It does not hurt, Manman. It does not hurt at all. Do not cry.”

Ten minutes had already passed. To say it did not hurt at all was false, but it had already gotten much better.

The red that spread on the cloth strip was not bl00d either, but the color of the powder itself.

Actually, at this moment, she should have said it hurt. Zhou Yutao knew how to stir up Xu Man’s fighting spirit, how to force her to grow.

Just like earlier, she could have solved those two men by herself, but she deliberately forced Xu Man to kill.

She was quite bad too.

But Xu Man still knew nothing and only knew to feel distressed for her, to blame herself for her.

Looking at Xu Man squatting in front of her and shedding silent tears, with her bloodstained hands still trembling, Zhou Yutao suddenly could not bear it.

She reflected on herself, wondering if she had pushed her too hard.

Making a person who originally had no moral bottom line kill was easy, but her family’s Xu Man was different—her three views had always been very upright.

In comparison, she really was too bad.

Xu Man only felt that Zhou Yutao was deceiving herself, so her tears fell even more fiercely.

How could a gunshot wound not hurt? Just now, she had been bullied by people too. She was just deceiving herself to keep her from feeling sad.

Seeing that the little alpha’s tears could not be stopped, Zhou Yutao was helpless. She cupped her face and quickly bit her lip. “Alright, it hurts a little. Manman, let me bite you once and it will be fine.”

“Or, Manman, give me some pheromones. An alpha’s pheromones have a pain-relieving effect on an Omega.”

Her blank mind was instantly occupied by the peach fragrance.

Xu Man even forgot to cry and had no time to think that the words about pheromones relieving pain that Zhou Yutao said were not described in the book at all. She dazedly opened her mouth, and a soft thing full of peach fragrance hooked away her soul.

No, it should be that her soul, scared away after killing, was hooked back.

A lingering kiss added a bit of color to the two people’s originally pale faces.

Zhou Yutao almost got swallowed by the passionate alpha, and her breathing was not smooth. She reached out to push her, but Xu Man stood up and chased after her relentlessly.

Until Xu Man could not help but want to touch Zhou Yutao with both hands, she remembered the bloodstains on her hands, and the color drained from her face as she retreated in panic.

She had just killed people, and her hands were still stained with those people’s bl00d—how could she touch the woman she liked just like that?

Zhou Yutao finally could breathe. Seeing that Xu Man’s mood had improved some—at least she was no longer shedding tears—she immediately spoke of the main matter. “Manman, since you are awake, when Xiao Sha comes back, we will leave here as soon as possible.”

Although the two men were dead, the dog they brought had run off without a trace.

She was not afraid of ten thousand possibilities, just the one unexpected one—that dog leading the others here.

One or two could be dealt with, but if they all came, they would inevitably fall into Chen Xing’s hands.

“Okay.”

Xu Man nodded. “I will go wash my hands first.”

With that, she walked toward the water jar.

“Wait a minute, Manman.”

Zhou Yutao thought of the little girl hiding in the cellar and called to her. “First, deal with these two people.”

They had killed the people, and such bloody things were not good for a child to see.

Although it had been several days since the apocalypse, this child might have seen everything, but after all, she was still in someone else’s home.

It was also a good chance to let Xu Man temper herself more.

“Okay.”

This time, looking at the two men dead beyond death on the ground, Xu Man was no longer that afraid and even felt that they deserved to die.

Although facing these two bloodstained corpses, Xu Man still could not be as calm inside as Xu Yi and the others, but she could drag the corpses away. Even if her speed was still somewhat slow.

Half an hour later, Xu Man dragged the corpses out, roughly cleaned the bl00d on the ground, washed her hands and face clean, and only then dared to touch Zhou Yutao.

She hugged her without any extra thoughts, then seriously buttoned up the buttons on Zhou Yutao’s clothes for her.

Xu Man no longer thought about the killing just now and only felt fortunate that she could still hug Zhou Yutao like this.

The little girl was brought out of the cellar by Zhou Yutao. She did not know what had happened in the room just now and only looked very happy at the awakened Xu Man.

She did not have that many thoughts and only thought that there was another pretty auntie at home to chat with her.

She also thought that when Mommy and the other auntie came back later, there would be food to eat.

However, this wait lasted until nightfall. When the door was suddenly kicked open, Xu Man, who had been sitting on the chair holding Zhou Yutao to rest, immediately stood up and alertly drew her dagger.

Only until she saw the two people entering from the dim firelight, one of whom was Lin Sha, did Xu Man’s tense body relax.

“How was it? Not very smooth?” Zhou Yutao saw at a glance that Sister Li, whom Lin Sha was supporting, was not quite right.

Lin Sha, who had barely managed to support Sister Li back, could not hold it together at once. “Sister Li, to save me…”

Sister Li interrupted her words. Her slightly pale face squeezed out a smile toward her daughter. “Xin’er, Mommy brought you food.”

Lin Sha then realized that some words could not be said in front of the child. She took out the wild rabbit she was carrying. “Yes, tonight we have food to eat.”

Zhou Yutao’s pupils contracted slightly, and her gaze fell on the black clothes around Sister Li’s waist that were wet for more than half.

The little girl did not notice the wrongness among the adults and was immersed in the joy of having meat to eat.

Sister Li was supported by Lin Sha to sit on the chair. She raised her hand to call her daughter. “Xin’er, come here.”

The little girl no longer looked at the little rabbit and obediently leaned into her arms. “Mommy.”

Sister Li hugged her tightly, her breathing unsteady as she said, “Xin’er, next, can you stay with the aunties for a while?”

Xin’er immediately became anxious. “Why? Mommy, are you abandoning me too?”

Sister Li: “No, Mommy just has important things to do and cannot take care of Xin’er. Can you stay with the aunties for a while first?”

“I do not want to. I want to stay with Mommy.” Xin’er naturally did not agree.

A child over seven years old, saying she did not understand things—actually, she knew quite a lot.

The tiny person was already crying. Even if she did not understand the reason why Mommy said this to her, she still felt heartbroken.

Sister Li fell silent at once, and her eyes reddened too.

Lin Sha, Zhou Yutao, and Xu Man walked to the corner.

“As soon as we went out, we encountered a wild rabbit. On the way chasing the wild rabbit, we were targeted by three zombies. Sister Li, to save me, was bitten by a zombie.”

Lin Sha choked up and quietly finished the words she had not said earlier in a small voice.

What it meant to be bitten by a zombie, everyone understood.

Looking at Sister Li, who was still patiently persuading her daughter, Zhou Yutao and Xu Man both fell silent at the same time.

Zhou Yutao gripped Lin Sha’s hand tightly.

Tears fell from Lin Sha’s eyes, but to avoid Xin’er noticing something wrong, she quickly wiped the tears from her face.

Xin’er finally agreed to leave with Zhou Yutao and the others. After Sister Li lost her temper, she was afraid that her mommy really would get angry and not want her, so she could only agree.

Seeing Xin’er’s cautious appearance, Sister Li felt even more heartbroken and could not help but tell a lie. “When Mommy finishes being busy, when you grow up, Mommy will come find you. You have to listen to the aunties.”

Just now, Lin Sha had already promised her that she would take care of her daughter as her own.

No matter what happened later, at least now Lin Sha had promised.

Sister Li did not want to think of people as too bad and could not accept that kind of bad outcome.

In the evening, the few people ate the wild rabbit they had caught—it was roasted by Sister Li herself. When they were about to leave, she called Xu Man aside alone.

“You are the only alpha among them. That Miss Zhou is your girlfriend, right? I ask you for one thing.”

Hearing the words “girlfriend” from Sister Li’s mouth, Xu Man could not help but feel a bit dazed. “Please say.”

She now already knew that during the time she was unconscious, it was Sister Li who had saved them.

However, girlfriend—why did Sister Li alone think that Zhou Yutao and she had a girlfriend relationship? There was only one possibility: Zhou Yutao had admitted it herself.

She had admitted that she was her girlfriend.

Knowing that it was not appropriate at such a heavy moment, a trace of joy still rose in Xu Man’s heart.

Sister Li: “Lend me your knife again. When I die, you come take it back.”

Actually, they were all about to leave, and everyone had tacitly not mentioned that Sister Li was infected with the zombie virus. They had no intention of making a move against Sister Li.

From what Sister Li meant, though, she intended to end her own life.

Xu Man could not hold back and asked, “Why?”

Sister Li looked at her daughter being pulled away by Lin Sha, and her eyes moistened at once. “Nothing, I am just afraid that one day I will turn into one of those monsters and cannot control myself to hurt her.”

Who was not afraid of death? But she was a mother and still had a daughter.

Sister Li looked at Xu Man, and many incomprehensible things appeared in her eyes. “If it were you, you would make the same choice as me, right?”

She did not want to use the extra gun in the room—the sound was too loud.

Yes.

Xu Man thought in her heart.

She was also afraid that after turning into a zombie, she would hurt Zhou Yutao. Dying would settle everything once and for all, and perhaps there was even a certain probability of returning to her own world.

But now, she was a bit greedy. She wanted to live well with Zhou Yutao.

“Okay, I understand.” Xu Man gave the knife to Sister Li.

Sister Li took the knife. “Thank you.”

The door closed. When there was no more movement inside the room, Xu Man went in.

Without surprise, Sister Li was dead.

This time, though, Xu Man did not feel that afraid. She closed her eyes for her, picked up the knife beside her, wiped it clean, and only then caught up to the few people who had left one step ahead.

She did not take the gun because none of them knew how to use it, and carrying it would just be a burden.

Zhou Yutao and Lin Sha did not ask Xu Man why she had been slow by one step or what she had gone to do.

They all knew the answer very clearly in their hearts.

“Where are we going?” Along the way, everyone was very silent. In the end, it was Lin Sha who spoke first.

Xu Si and Qi Rui had not come looking for so long, so they could not sit and wait for death. The people wanting to find Zhou Yutao were really too many.

Xu Man took out a paper map from her pocket. “Xu Yi and the others told me that if we got separated, we should first go to the nearest Qingshan Hospital to the capital. There are Xu family people there, perhaps they can provide support. If they arrived one step ahead, they would also go there to wait for us.”

“But I cannot read this map.”

Xu Man felt a bit embarrassed and once again realized her own incompetence.

She only knew how to look at maps on her phone, but now her phone was useless.

“I will do it.” Zhou Yutao took the map.

She looked at it for a while, her brows furrowing slightly. “Over sixty kilometers of road. Head south along the highway and you can reach it. However, if walking, it might not work.”

Among them, there was still a child. Walking would be both dangerous and physically exhausting. If they encountered zombies, it would be hard to survive.

“Those two men just now came by motorcycle, but none of us know how. And there are too many people, so there is no way to take everyone on. Even if we could take them, just relying on a motorcycle would not work,” Zhou Yutao said.

Xu Man immediately said, “I know how. Squeeze a bit, it is possible. First use this motorcycle. Along the way, we will think of other ways.”

She finally found something she could do.

The three adults and one child—with her skills, she could barely manage it. Some experts could even carry seven or eight.

Zhou Yutao gave Xu Man a strange look.

If she really was the Xu family’s eldest miss, how could she possibly know how to ride a motorcycle?

Xu Si had said that Xu Man, from childhood, had only needed to eat, drink, and play—nothing else.