Su Mu nodded and swept his gaze across the back compartment.
“Anyone else going?”

Lu Shuangshuang hurriedly said, “I am.”

Xu Qingru and Su Yang owed their lives to Luo Beiyao. On top of that, they trusted his strength, so they followed without hesitation. Wu Keke wanted to integrate herself into the group and become someone Luo Beiyao valued—there was no way she wouldn’t go.

Jiang Sheng shrank back slightly, silently counting on his fingers.

Go… don’t go… go… don’t go…
Ugh, should I go or not? I’m scared to die…

Su Mu said flatly, “No one else?”

Jiang Sheng swallowed hard and asked in a highly cowardly voice,
“Su—Su-ge… will you protect me? My ability is beneficial.”

Even though Su Mu’s expression didn’t change, a trace of undisguised disdain flickered in his eyes. His tone remained calm.
“Is your ability useful against an advanced zombie?”

Jiang Sheng froze. “Huh?”

So… his ability was useless against an advanced zombie? Meaning if he went, he’d just be suicidal?

Before he could cling to that hopeful misunderstanding, Su Mu’s next sentence shattered it completely.

“Can your ability guarantee that you’ll stay alive long enough to lure the advanced zombie away?”

A chill ran through Jiang Sheng from head to toe. He wailed miserably, so dramatically that he was only a step away from throwing himself at Su Mu’s legs.
“No, no, no—don’t do this! I won’t go, I won’t go, okay?!”

Su Mu responded with a brief sound and said nothing more.

Jiang Sheng was cowardly to the extreme, but he still wasn’t willing to miss any chance to curry favor with Su Mu.
“Aren’t we going to eliminate the advanced zombie? Then why do we even need to lure it away?”

Su Mu didn’t even turn his head.
“What do you think your ability is good for besides luring zombies?”

Then he stabbed another knife straight into Jiang Sheng’s heart without mercy.
“With all that fat on you, you’d probably get your head blown off before you even swing your weapon.”

Despite saying that, Su Mu had to admit one thing—Jiang Sheng could really run. Every time they encountered zombies, Jiang Sheng reacted the fastest. Compared to Su Wanmei and the others, he was actually fairly decisive and efficient when killing zombies.

Zhou Haichen still refused to give up and continued persuading them.
“Aren’t you leaving this place soon to go to the H City base? That zombie stays in the hospital and doesn’t come out. Once we leave, won’t that be the end of it? That thing can attack our minds and control low-level zombies.”

Yan Yitao added, “Yeah. We don’t even know how many low-level zombies are still in the hospital. Just that one advanced zombie alone is hard enough to deal with. There were over thirty people in our team—only a few escaped.”

Su Mu was stubborn by nature. Even Su Wanmei rarely managed to change his mind—let alone a few people he hadn’t known for long.

Besides, he was genuinely curious whether that thing really was a Zombie King.

A Zombie King appearing only half a month after the apocalypse began was simply too shocking. If allowed to develop, it would eventually become a serious threat.

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In his previous life, it should have been Luo Beiyao who went to the hospital to eliminate this advanced zombie. Back then, Luo Beiyao wasn’t famous yet, so no one knew that this monstrously talented Zombie King had ever existed.

Seeing that no one responded, they had no choice but to swallow the rest of their words.

Deng Qinghuai hesitated for a moment.
“I’ll go too.”

He was afraid of death and didn’t agree with charging into the hospital to kill an advanced zombie—it really was too dangerous in his eyes. But watching two juniors risk their lives while he stood by made him feel deeply uncomfortable. He wasn’t good at persuading people, so the only thing he could do was go with them.

Su Mu and the others picked up their weapons and walked into the hospital.

Behind them, Jiang Sheng waved exaggeratedly, looking exactly like a little wife seeing her husband off to battle.
“Su-ge, be careful!”

Su Mu glanced back at him.
“Then why don’t you come in and protect me?”

Jiang Sheng stiffened. Meeting Luo Beiyao’s slightly darkened gaze beside him, he swallowed with difficulty. “Th-then… better not.”