After Marking the Villain Professor (ABO, GL) - Chapter 37

Chapter 37

The worst situation right now was that among the dozens of zombies closing in, there were quite a few Omega and alpha zombies. Xu Man smelled those strands of mutated pheromone scents and could not help but feel a little affected by them.

Such a strong pheromone scent would very likely attract even more zombies.

Along the way, Xu Man had encountered at most two or three at a time, but now so many came at once. Let alone her—even Xu Yi and the others would not dare say they could retreat unscathed from this.

Under the double pressure, someone could not hold on. She heard a young female alpha say loudly, “My wife is an Omega. I give her to you. Let me in.”

That female alpha did not care whether her pregnant wife agreed or not and forcibly pulled her to rush toward the wire mesh.

The men inside wearing camouflage uniforms exchanged a smile, jumped down from the vehicle, and let that female alpha in.

Once the others saw this, those who had an Omega beside them all stepped forward and pulled the Omegas to rush over.

“My daughter is an Omega. Let me in.”

“And me. My dad is.”

“…”

The scene fell into chaos, but what happened made Xu Man’s hair stand on end.

Was this the apocalypse? Monsters ate people, and people “ate” people too.

Once people lost their moral bottom line, they really could do anything.

According to the book’s description, these things were nothing. She remembered that later on, some people got hungry and really did not even spare their own relatives.

When Xu Man thought of these things, her face grew even uglier.

The people who entered the town clearly breathed a sigh of relief, but the rest who had no Omega to exchange immediately panicked.

For example, the two burly men who had come to team up with Xu Man earlier rushed to her side again. “You saw it too. The zombies outside will only increase. It is just handing over one Omega. Anyway, everyone will die outside. Why not hand her over? Then everyone can live. Is that not good?”

“It is not just you doing this. It is the apocalypse now. Everyone wants to live. No one will blame you.”

Seeing the two burly men pressuring her aggressively, as if they would rob her outright if Xu Man did not agree.

Xu Man did not care about any of that.

She had only one thought now: whoever wanted to hurt Zhou Yutao would have to step over her corpse first.

Xu Man had already prepared herself for death.

But Zhou Yutao held her back.

“Okay, I will go exchange for everyone’s safety. But you all have to listen to us.” She smiled at the two burly men.

The two burly men exchanged a glance and nodded without any hesitation.

Anyway, once they got inside, even if they did not listen, what could these few people, who looked utterly weak, do to them?

As they thought that, they saw the beautiful yet fragile-looking Omega in front of them take out two blue pills. She still smiled. “One for each. Eat them, and we will go in.”

The two burly men: “…”.

Something that looked just like poison—did they really think they were fools?

However, more and more zombies were coming toward them. In at most five minutes, they would rush right up to them. If they did not go in, everyone would die here together.

Damn it. They were clearly the ones who had come over, yet the initiative had fallen into this Omega’s hands all at once.

They had underestimated these people.

Of course. How could an Omega this beautiful reach here unscathed without some tricks up her sleeve?

The two burly men faintly regretted it, but the current situation left them no choice.

In the end, they still ate the pills.

Zhou Yutao also kept her word and immediately called the group to head into the town. Xu Man could not persuade her otherwise. Moreover, every time she mentioned turning herself into an Omega to replace Zhou Yutao, she would receive a cold glare. Xu Man could only shut up and choose to obey.

“Could I ask what we just ate?” One burly man asked.

Zhou Yutao: “It is nothing. Just a kind of poison with no antidote that will turn all the internal organs into bloody water within half a month.”

“Oh, right. It will not kill right away. At least, you can experience the pain of the internal organs melting for three hours. Is that not interesting?”

The burly man who asked the question was so scared that he did not dare speak. The other burly man laughed like he was crying. “Are you deceiving us? Where in the world is there such a drug?”

Zhou Yutao: “You can try it.”

The other burly man did not dare speak either.

No one noticed that Xu Man, upon hearing this, had her hand holding the knife tremble slightly.

It was real. Others might not have it, but Zhou Yutao really could make such a drug.

It was just that in the whole book, that happened much later.

Had she already made it now?

She and Xu Si had really been lucky to survive. They had offended her so badly before, yet they had not been given such poison.

While Xu Man secretly felt a bit fortunate, her heartbeat grew faster and faster.

For some reason, she quite liked this cold and wicked side of Zhou Yutao.

She was really too charming.

The group smoothly entered the town. Those who could not hand over an Omega soon became meals in the zombies’ mouths, buying a little time for the people in the town to clear the zombies approaching the wire mesh.

The zombies attracted by the pheromones from behind scattered when they saw no people, leaving only a few wandering outside the town. With just those few zombies, they could not break into the town for the time being.

Once inside the town, those camouflage men with guns forced Xu Man and Zhou Yutao to separate.

What was even more excessive was that they wanted to take Lin Sha and Zhou Yutao away together and confiscated all their weapons.

This gave Xu Man the feeling that after entering the town, they had become pigs waiting to be slaughtered.

Also, the way these people looked at Zhou Yutao made her extremely unhappy.

Xin’er tugged at Xu Man’s clothes corner and said softly, “Auntie Xu, I want to stay with Auntie Lin.”

Along the way, Lin Sha had protected her, so she did not want to separate from her.

Although the child did not understand things fully, she vaguely sensed that this group separating them was very fierce and very bad.

Xu Man gripped Xin’er’s hand tightly and comforted her in a low voice. “Be good. Go with Auntie Xu first. We will come find them later.”

She did not want to separate from them either, but the current situation left no choice.

“Did we not agree that handing over one Omega allows three people to enter?”

Xu Man did not even need to speak before someone asked for her. Among those who entered, there was also one who had brought two Omegas and was similarly taken away by the camouflage men.

“Oh, did we not say that all the Omegas who enter the town belong to us?”

“Do not talk about Omegas. You all have to obey obediently too.”

The camouflage men laughed arrogantly.

The person who asked still seemed unconvinced. A bullet shot into the center of his brow, and he fell to the ground. His face still held disbelief, but he could no longer say a word.

Xu Man quickly covered Xin’er’s eyes with her hand, not letting her see this cruel scene.

The crowd fell silent at once.

“Those who do not obey end up like this. Does anyone else have a problem?” The camouflage man who fired asked.

No one dared to speak.

“Very good. Everyone except the Omegas, line up and go to the street on the left for inspection. If you have a fever or injuries, I advise you to step forward yourselves now.”

The camouflage man continued.

From a distance of ten meters, Xu Man looked at Zhou Yutao with worry.

But Zhou Yutao waved her hand and pointed at Xin’er. The meaning was very clear: she was fine. Xu Man should take care of Xin’er first.

Xu Man could only take Xin’er, along with the two burly men, and head to the designated spot.

Among them, two who had fevers and injuries were dealt with on the spot without even a chance to explain.

Xu Man grew even more worried about Zhou Yutao.

Because her leg was injured.

Although these people’s level of danger did not match the group hunting Zhou Yutao, it absolutely surpassed Chen Xing. When they encountered Chen Xing’s group, they could only avoid them temporarily. She did not know why Zhou Yutao chose to enter the town.

But the situation at the time had left them no choice but to enter.

Entering at least allowed them to live, though she did not know for how long. But facing that many zombies meant only death, and a quicker one at that.

As Xu Man thought this, suddenly a black cloth bag was thrown over her head, and someone pushed her forward.

She held back the impulse to resist and tightly gripped Xin’er.

Fortunately, the person who put the black cloth bag on her did not forcibly separate them.

They walked for about ten minutes, then got into a vehicle. When it stopped, another ten or so minutes passed.

When she could see, Xu Man already could not quite distinguish directions. Much less now with her head covered.

In any case, when the black cloth bag was finally removed from her head, she discovered that she was not in the town at all but in the mountains. Everyone except the Omegas had been brought here.

The intent was easy to guess: to make them all mine for gold.

There were many unfamiliar faces here too, all with numb expressions. Some even had wounds on their bodies, clearly having stayed here for some time.

They should have been the people who entered the town earlier.

At first, Xu Man wondered why there were no others besides those who entered together. So this was the “protection” the camouflage men had mentioned.

This was no protection at all but squeezing people to death.

Had someone already realized the importance of gold in the apocalypse this quickly?

No wonder these people stayed in this place.

What a scheme. Leave some people outside to divert the zombies’ attention, while the rest helped them mine gold.

Then what about Zhou Yutao and the others? What were those people doing with so many Omegas?

The more Xu Man thought, the more panicked she became. She worried about Zhou Yutao.

The two burly men who came with Xu Man regretted it so much their intestines turned green.

“We will listen to you. You must make her give us the antidote.” The burly man whispered to Xu Man.

Xu Man tugged at her lips. “We will talk after we leave here.”

Then, both the burly man’s and Xu Man’s legs received a whip lash. “No talking. Hurry up and get to work. If you do not complete the task, tonight we will throw you out to feed the zombies.”

The two paled at the pain.

Especially Xu Man. Her skin and flesh were tender to begin with. With this one whip, she felt like her soul had been drawn out. But at this moment, she could not afford to care about that.

Now, she faced a big problem: what to do with Xin’er. Whether going into the mine with her or staying outside with those camouflage men, it was all very dangerous.

She had promised Zhou Yutao to take good care of Xin’er.

In the end, Xu Man still brought her inside together.

“From now on, your main job is to protect Xin’er’s safety. Otherwise, do not think about getting the antidote.” Xu Man said to the two burly men.