Chapter 32: Save My Sister

Several months ago, as the younger sister of major celebrity Zhou Lan, Zhou Xiaoxiao was also someone surrounded by stars and adored by the moon.

If judged solely by appearance, Zhou Xiaoxiao was not inferior to her older sister Zhou Lan.

Even before Zhou Xiaoxiao had officially debuted, numerous talent agencies had approached her, hoping to sign her.

Before Zhou Xiaoxiao even began her debut preparations, she had already secured several top-tier opportunities.

It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say the entire entertainment industry was waiting for her debut.

Compared to her sister Zhou Lan's graceful and mature womanly charm, Zhou Xiaoxiao embodied the youthful, energetic beauty that was currently most popular.

Coupled with her sister Zhou Lan's established background, Zhou Xiaoxiao was predictably destined for A-list status in the domestic entertainment industry.

Even Zhou Xiaoxiao herself believed this.

Unfortunately, accidents often happen precisely when you think everything will go smoothly.

Countless terrifying anomalies appeared.

Human civilization was collapsing at an unimaginable speed.

At that time, Zhou Xiaoxiao was preparing her debut project with her sister Zhou Lan, with both sisters set to appear in a major production film playing opposing roles.

In just a few hours.

Everyone in the film crew was killed by some unknown anomaly, turning the entire set into a death zone.

Zhou Xiaoxiao and her sister desperately escaped from the city and, through a series of coincidences, joined this convoy.

Like many others, Zhou Xiaoxiao didn't believe human society would become completely extinct.

Perhaps soon, human military forces would reclaim the cities from the anomalies.

But as she learned more about the apocalypse, the small hope in Zhou Xiaoxiao's heart gradually disappeared.

The order of human society was slowly collapsing, becoming increasingly barbaric.

If they hadn't joined the convoy, the sisters' current situation would definitely be much worse.

Zhou Xiaoxiao cut her long hair short, changed out of her little dresses, smeared dirt on her fair, lovely face, and even gradually learned to act like a boy.

Zhou Xiaoxiao treated herself as a boy.

To survive in this apocalypse, to live with dignity.

The sisters worked harder than ordinary survivors.

Whenever they reached supply points, other survivors would hesitate and shrink back, even unwilling to gather supplies.

But the sisters never missed a single opportunity, always rushing into towns and villages to collect supplies, encountering countless dangers along the way.

Therefore, the sisters lived much better than other survivors.

The sisters understood that in this kind of apocalypse, you could only rely on yourself!

Until the day Zhou Xiaoxiao learned her sister had given a can of gasoline to a newly awakened sequence superhuman.

That was an entire can of gasoline.

To collect that can of gasoline, the sisters had almost died at the hands of anomalies.

And that can of gasoline wasn't exchanged for anything.

Her sister had given it away for just a promise.

Zhou Xiaoxiao felt indignant and directly took back that can of gasoline.

In the following days, Zhou Xiaoxiao had worried about retaliation from that person.

Even though he was a support sequence, he was still a sequence superhuman after all.

The days passed steadily like this.

As she learned more about sequence superhumans, Zhou Xiaoxiao sometimes regretted what she had done.

No matter what, he was still a sequence superhuman.

Until they reached Longevity Village here.

The dangers encountered in Longevity Village far exceeded those at other supply points.

Zhou Xiaoxiao had never felt death so close before.

Even the next second, she could become a cold corpse.

Only now did Zhou Xiaoxiao truly feel regret about taking that can of gasoline back then.

If they had obtained Chen Ye's promise, gained his protection, perhaps they could survive this time.

Unfortunately, there's no medicine for regret in this world.

Zhou Xiaoxiao had been trying to follow behind the other two sequence superhumans to seek protection.

Unfortunately, in the eyes of sequence superhumans, her and her sister's status wasn't any different from ordinary people.

Up until now, the last two sequence superhumans were too busy dealing with those corpses hanging from the willow branches to care about the sisters.

And that support sequence Chen Ye, who she had previously thought was useless, could actually repel those corpses using his hand crossbow.

Even if he couldn't kill those corpses, just being able to repel them already made the sisters see him as a lifeline.

Zhou Xiaoxiao couldn't care less about her past conflict with Chen Ye now, only wanting to seek his protection.

At this moment, it wasn't just Zhou Xiaoxiao gathering toward Chen Ye's location.

Even that Old Lady Zhao was making similar calculations.

Nana and Iron Lion were coordinating with each other as they charged toward the great willow, completely unable to care about the other survivors at this moment.

Fortunately, almost most of the corpse puppets were concentrated around these two.

Otherwise, Chen Ye and the other survivors would have died long ago.

But even so, the scattered corpse puppets still kept Chen Ye busy and flustered.

Chen Ye was currently unleashing unprecedented potential.

His hand crossbow was firing at its fastest speed.

Thanks to his regular practice during rest periods with the convoy.

He had just loaded a bolt arrow when a corpse puppet bared its ghastly white teeth and charged forward.

Chen Ye raised his hand and fired an arrow.

"Whoosh!"

An arrow embedded in a corpse puppet's forehead, white smoke emerging from the wound.

The corpse puppet retreated with a miserable howl.

Chen Ye didn't have time to check the system notifications, pulling out another bolt arrow and quickly loading it.

The surrounding corpse puppets were like moths drawn to flame.

Ordinary survivors couldn't mount effective attacks against the corpse puppets.

The steel pipes and reinforcement bars they picked up were nothing more than tickling to the corpse puppets.

Old Lady Zhao moved with the speed of someone grabbing eggs in a supermarket or snatching seats on a bus.

Before other survivors could reach Chen Ye's side.

This nimble old lady had already quietly hidden behind Chen Ye, seeking his protection.

Just as Old Lady Zhao felt slightly pleased with herself.

She saw a large hand suddenly reach for her neck.

Old Lady Zhao was slightly startled!

What was this kid trying to do?

Before Old Lady Zhao could think further, the large hand gently pushed her.

Old Lady Zhao stumbled and saw an incredibly terrifying ghostly face giving her a venomous, cold smile.

"You..."

Old Lady Zhao understood - this kid was using her as a human shield.

How dare he?

Didn't he know to respect the elderly and cherish the young?

Before Old Lady Zhao could curse aloud, she was already surrounded by two corpse puppets.

"Ah~~~"

With a miserable scream, this agile old lady who moved no slower than young people was dragged away by several corpse puppets, leaving only a pool of blood on the ground.

Chen Ye's actions made the other survivors watching feel chilled to the bone.

This young man... how ruthless!

Just now, Chen Ye had been slightly slow in loading his crossbow bolt, allowing a corpse puppet to get close.

So he pushed Old Lady Zhao who was behind him to use her as a sacrificial pawn.

This was the epitome of ruthlessness and cruelty.

Chen Ye didn't feel the slightest bit of guilt in his heart!

When Zhou Xiaoxiao saw how ruthless Chen Ye was, her footsteps hesitated slightly.

It was precisely this hesitation.

"Xiaoxiao!"

Zhou Xiaoxiao's heart jumped, and she quickly turned to look, only to see her sister Zhou Lan being pounced on by a corpse.

"Chen Ye, save my sister!"