The young woman on the sofa curled up tightly into a ball. Her face was deathly pale, and beads of sweat seeped out, soaking the stray hairs on her forehead.
Her pale, thin lips parted slightly, letting out low, guttural gasps.
This was clearly the precursor to turning into a zombie.
A trace of secret joy flashed in Gu Man's heart. She had bet right!!!
This hateful woman had finally become a zombie. Neither Zhou Yu'an nor Yan Qingdu would ever like a woman who had turned into a monster.
This was great.
This annoying thorn in her side could finally be removed.
However, after she shouted those words, the two men in front of her didn't move at all.
"What are you standing around for?! Zhou Yu'an, hurry up and stab her to death with the steel pipe before she fully mutates!"
"Senior Yan, I know you are very kind, but now is not the time for misplaced sympathy. She is about to become a zombie. Hurry up and shoot her."
Gu Man shouted in an anxious panic.
The two men exchanged a look.
A hint of unnaturalness and hesitation flashed in their eyes.
Zhou Yu'an hesitated because he couldn't bear to do it.
Yan Qingdu hesitated because he found it strange.
This little lady had been so confident, which was why she hadn't let him stop Gu Man. How could she really be turning into a zombie?
Seeing that neither of them made a move, Gu Man pulled out a handgun in exasperation.
This gun was transformed by Yan Qingdu's mechanical ability, and it was Zhou Yu'an who had personally said to hand it over to Gu Man.
At this moment, the black handgun showed no hesitation. The trigger was pulled, firing a shot straight at the chest of the woman on the sofa.
It was incredibly fast.
So fast that the two men didn't even have time to react.
"Bang—"
The recoil of the gun was powerful, the vibration making Gu Man's hand go numb.
But as she watched the bullet pierce Chu Liuyue's chest with her own eyes, the joy on her face was beyond words.
"Gu Man!" Yan Qingdu was the first to react.
He lunged forward, snatched the gun from her hand, and glared at her furiously.
His previous careless and lazy demeanor was completely gone.
Gu Man was terrified by his murderous look; it was like he was looking at a dead person.
How could this be? How could Senior Yan look at her with such eyes?
She stumbled back several steps.
Her legs went weak, and she nearly fell to the ground.
The moment the gunshot rang out, Zhou Yu'an thrust the steel pipe in his hand toward her, only slightly deflecting it right before it pierced her eye.
In the end, the steel pipe only grazed her cheek.
It left a highly visible and twisted red gash on the right side of her face, causing Gu Man to shriek in pain.
"Ahhhhhh!!!"
"Zhou Yu'an, you bastard, how dare you ruin my face!"
"If I'm disfigured, just wait for a horrible death!" Gu Man cursed.
She hurriedly covered her wound.
Zhou Yu'an didn't even spare her another glance. After doing this, he strode forward.
Yan Qingdu was even faster.
Seeing the bullet hole clearly on the lower left side of Chu Liuyue's chest, a flash of rage crossed his face.
He gritted his teeth and said:
"Disfigurement is too light a punishment."
"How about cutting off an ear?" His tone was eerie.
Hearing this from behind, Gu Man was so frightened she instantly stopped her screaming.
Zhou Yu'an pursed his lips and said, "Might as well cut off her mouth. Such a vicious mouth is better off gone."
Upon hearing this, Gu Man immediately fainted from terror.
Fortunately, there was a medical kit on this floor.
Since Zhou Yu'an was a doctor, he performed a simple treatment on the wound and extracted the bullet, but Chu Liuyue remained unconscious.
First, the red potion was poured into her mouth.
Then, she was shot.
Zhou Yu'an took a deep breath, his face full of regret and self-blame.
He muttered in a low voice:
"Damn me! I gave that gun to Gu Man. I never expected it to become a weapon against Liuyue."
Yan Qingdu also furrowed his brows.
"I was the one who transformed this gun with my ability. If I had known, I wouldn't have teased you on purpose."
"If I had just given the gun directly to the Mas—ah, no, to Yueyue, none of this would have happened."
Zhou Yu'an suddenly realized something, turned his head slightly, and looked at him.
He asked in confusion, "What did you just say you were going to boil?"
Yan Qingdu said with a straight face, "I said it's mainly your fault. I take secondary responsibility."
Zhou Yu'an fell silent for a moment.
Then he asked, "Why do you call her Yueyue? Are you two really that close?"
Yan Qingdu curled the corners of his lips slightly.
He said confidently, "Closer than you think, anyway."
"Haven't you only known each other for a few days?" Zhou Yu'an asked.
"Haven't you?" he retorted. "Do you know that the way you're interrogating me right now makes you look like an official boyfriend trying to catch the other man?"
Zhou Yu'an quickly turned his head away.
"I'm not."
Yan Qingdu smiled in satisfaction and said in a lighthearted tone, "Good that you aren't. In that case, Yueyue's official boyfriend is me."
Zhou Yu'an frowned slightly.
He asked in confusion:
"The reason you approached Liuyue was for the red potion she had on her, wasn't it?"
"Now that the potion is gone, why..."
Yan Qingdu quickly interrupted, "Who told you I approached her just for the potion?"
"Why else?"
"Of course it's because... I'm very interested in her." Yan Qingdu drew out his words slightly.
Very interested.
How could that be?
Zhou Yu'an pursed his lips, his gaze carrying a hint of scrutiny.
He looked at the man in front of him.
"Aren't you only interested in laboratories and research?"
Yan Qingdu nodded seriously and replied:
"That's right."
"I'm not interested in women."
"But that doesn't stop me from being interested in Yueyue. After all, she is Yueyue..." His last sentence carried a profound, underlying meaning.
The conversation ended there.
Gu Man, who had fainted on the floor, slowly woke up. Seeing the two men sitting on the sofa, still guarding the unconscious Chu Liuyue, she had a bit of a breakdown.
"Are you two crazy?"
"She's about to mutate into a zombie."
"Hurry up and throw her out!"
Zhou Yu'an and Yan Qingdu slowly turned their heads and spat out two words at her in unison.
"Shut up!"
Day broke.
Chu Liuyue still hadn't woken up.
The guttural gasps coming from her mouth grew more frequent.
Her complexion gradually transitioned from a natural tone to an ashen gray.
Gu Man didn't dare get close at all.
When she heard that Zhou Yu'an and Yan Qingdu were still sticking to their original plan to carry Chu Liuyue on their backs and leave this place, a look of despair appeared in her eyes.
Lunatics.
Two lunatics.
Just what kind of magic potion had Chu Liuyue fed these two men?
Even though she was on the verge of turning into a zombie, neither of them was willing to give up on her!
No, she couldn't let things go on like this.
Otherwise, once Chu Liuyue fully turned into a zombie, she would die too.
A gleam of coldness flashed in Gu Man's eyes.
A plan quietly formed in her mind.
She muttered under her breath, "Don't blame me for being ruthless; if you want to blame anyone, blame your own bad luck for mutating into a zombie..."
