Gu Man was furious.
She rolled her eyes at her.
"What do you mean I have a foul mouth and dirty eyes? Why don't you take a look at yourself? You look exactly like a homewrecking vixen."
"And you blame others for pointing it out?!"
The corners of Chu Liuyue's lips curled up slightly.
Her tone carried a hint of a smile.
"Oh, thank you for complimenting my beauty."
Gu Man: "..."
She was at a loss for words.
"Pfft—" Yan Qingdu couldn't hold back a laugh.
Gu Man was originally quite angry.
But seeing her student-days crush smiling so brightly at her, her anger instantly dissipated.
"Senior Yan, let's hurry and leave now."
The zombies were coming up incredibly fast.
Looking down the stairs of the emergency exit, the fastest ones had already reached the tenth floor.
Hearing the noise.
They all snapped their heads up in unison, revealing empty eye sockets. Like dogs smelling a bone, they sprinted up the stairs without pausing.
"Run!"
Zhou Yuan shouted.
Gu Man was seen rushing to the very front of the group, looking terrified of being caught by the zombies behind her.
She was deathly afraid of dying.
Chu Liuyue tried her best, but it wasn't long before she was panting heavily.
Her fair, pristine face was flushed, and beads of sweat formed on her forehead.
Her eyes were moist.
"Huff... huff... just now, running up so many flights of stairs."
"My legs are still like jelly," she explained.
Yan Qingdu glanced at her without saying a word. He walked briskly forward, pausing briefly as he passed Zhou Yuan.
"She's carrying the item. Protect her."
With that said, he headed straight for the roof.
Zhou Yuan turned around, took a deep breath, and looked at her.
"Hand."
Chu Liuyue obediently reached out her hand.
"Hold on."
"Oh."
As soon as the words left his mouth, her palm was enveloped by a large, warm hand. Propelled by Zhou Yuan's rapid forward momentum, Chu Liuyue was pulled along.
But he was too anxious.
If one observed carefully,
they would notice that although the zombies were panting as they climbed up, they showed zero interest in Chu Liuyue, who had fallen to the back of the group.
One could even say they completely ignored her.
The director's office was on the eleventh floor.
The top floor was the sixteenth.
They had climbed five floors.
This floor housed the administrative staff's lounge and led to the rooftop helipad.
"Thud—" Zhou Yuan thrust the steel pipe in his hand into an approaching zombie, then kicked it. The creature tumbled down the stairs like a deflated ball.
It consequently knocked down several other zombies trailing behind it.
The emergency exit on the sixteenth floor was an iron door.
After it slammed shut heavily.
Yan Qingdu stared at their joined hands with a half-smile.
Meanwhile, Gu Man was already fuming.
"Holding hands again?! You two are holding hands again!"
"Zhou Yuan, do you think I'm dead?"
She charged over like a little cannonball and forcefully ripped their grasped hands apart.
Zhou Yuan frowned slightly and said, "What are you doing?"
Chu Liuyue was pushed back a step.
She shook her head pitifully.
"It's not like that. You've misunderstood."
"Misunderstood?" Gu Man sneered, then added, "Once is a misunderstanding, but twice? Are you two already hooking up? You did this on purpose."
Zhou Yuan massaged his temples.
"Chu Liuyue is currently carrying the item the research lab needs, so nothing can happen to her."
"You all ran very fast just now, and she fell to the back. I only pulled her along to ensure her safety."
After saying this.
He felt completely exhausted.
Chu Liuyue cooperatively opened her beautiful almond eyes wide.
She nodded her head.
"Yes! That's exactly it."
"Miss Gu, please don't be angry. It really is just a misunderstanding."
Gu Man let out a soft hmph from her throat.
She strode up to Zhou Yuan, her eyes filled with resentment, and said coldly:
"If you don't want me to misunderstand, then give that item to me. I'll keep it safe."
"As for her—"
She pointed a finger vaguely at Chu Liuyue.
"Open the door and throw her down to feed the zombies."
"Then I'll believe that what just happened was a misunderstanding."
Zhou Yuan looked dismissively at the unreasonably throwing-a-tantrum heiress in front of him.
"Gu Man, you're emotionally unstable."
"I won't let you hold onto it. On this point, I believe Yan Qingdu and I have reached a consensus."
In the distance, Yan Qingdu curled the corners of his lips into a faint smile.
He looked completely detached, as if he were just enjoying their argument as a good show.
"Furthermore, Chu Liuyue was my patient, and now she's a living, breathing person on the run with us."
"How could you suggest throwing her down to the zombies?"
"That's murder, do you realize that?" Zhou Yuan's gaze sharpened slightly.
Carrying a tone of reprimand.
Chu Liuyue took the opportunity to chime in:
"Miss Gu, your assistant and driver weren't thrown down by you like this as well, were they?"
"So, this wouldn't be your first time killing someone."
These words carried a double meaning.
Yan Qingdu twitched his lips, his peripheral vision sweeping past quickly, his hands in his pockets.
His black handgun had been stowed away somewhere unknown.
He was lazily watching their confrontation.
At this moment, he cooperatively uttered a single word.
"Correct!"
Correct? Correct about what?
Gu Man felt a chill run through her body and whipped her head around to look at Yan Qingdu in disbelief.
Senior Yan had never liked getting involved in such matters.
And he would definitely never pay attention to a vulgar woman like Chu Liuyue.
Why did he speak up?
More than Zhou Yuan's defense of her, Gu Man cared about Yan Qingdu's agreement.
This was her untouchable first love from college; for Senior Yan, she had ruined countless girls who tried to get close to him.
Why?!
Why would Senior Yan actually agree with this vixen?
Gu Man was instantly consumed by rage. She pivoted on her heel and charged at Chu Liuyue standing nearby.
She recklessly thrust the steel pipe in her hand forward!
Completely disregarding the fact that the girl was a normal human being.
"Clatter—"
The sound of the steel pipe hitting the ground rang out.
Zhou Yuan had already tightly gripped her wrist, knocking the steel pipe from her hand.
A flash of anger crossed his usually gentle face.
"Gu! Man!"
"You actually dare to try and kill someone right in front of me?"
Gu Man let out a highly disdainful 'Tch' and argued:
"I just wanted to scare her and teach her a lesson."
"It's not like I actually wanted to do it."
Terrified, Chu Liuyue instantly hid behind Zhou Yuan and whispered, "Miss Gu really wanted to kill me just now."
Of course, Zhou Yuan wouldn't believe Gu Man's excuses.
Just as he was about to leave Gu Man to fend for herself, his phone rang.
It was his father.
"Yuan, did you get the item?" His voice was urgent.
"I got it." Zhou Yuan appeared much calmer.
"Good, good, good. Wait for the helicopter to pick you up tomorrow, and then we can reunite."
Zhou Yuan glanced at Yan Qingdu not far away and said:
"Dad, Yan Qingdu is also at the hospital. Did you know about this?"
