Hearing the sound, Mo Yuwan frowned slightly, ready to go deal with the person in the alley. But before she could get close, the figure suddenly lunged out—heading straight for her mother!
In that instant, Mo Yuwan saw the person’s face clearly.
It was the barbecue stall owner!
Seeing that familiar face, Mo Yuwan was momentarily stunned. After a split second, she realized something was wrong.
She rushed toward her mother, shouting,
“Mom! Watch out!”
Mo Siying was also startled by the sudden attack. She, too, recognized that all-too-familiar face.
But now, the woman’s face no longer wore its usual warm smile. Instead, it was twisted and ferocious.
Mo Siying was so shocked she froze, unable to react.
You couldn’t blame her—hearing about zombies and actually seeing one were two very different things.
Especially when that zombie was now lunging at her, mouth wide open, drooling, and looking at her as if she were a delicious meal.
Mo Yuwan was still some distance away from her mother. Even at full speed, ten meters was not so easy to cross in an instant!
Her face filled with anxiety.
How could she have been so careless, leaving her mother alone while she went off?
This wasn’t the late apocalypse, but the very beginning—her mother was still afraid of zombies. How could she have been so careless!
Mo Yuwan was frustrated, but there was no time for regret—only urgency.
At the critical moment, Mo Siying pulled a kitchen knife from the gemstone necklace Mo Yuwan had given her—clearly one she’d just picked up from the mall. Imitating what she’d seen her daughter do earlier, she swung the knife straight at the barbecue owner’s neck!
Even after days of training, her strength was nowhere near Mo Yuwan’s, and she didn’t know how to use proper technique. The first chop didn’t go all the way through.
She managed to cut about a third through the bone.
She thought it was over, but the zombie didn’t seem to feel the wound at all. Still snarling, it tried to lunge at Mo Siying, but the knife stuck in its neck kept it from moving, so it just grabbed at Mo Siying, trying to pull her closer.
“Haa—haa—”
That once-familiar face was now terrifying, mouth wide and bloody, eyes a never-before-seen shade of gray-white.
Mo Siying shuddered in fear.
Instinctively, she yanked the knife free and kicked the barbecue owner to the ground.
Before the zombie could react, she hacked at the back of its neck several more times.
Maybe it was the adrenaline, but each swing was harder than the last.
After all the recent training, Mo Siying was actually quite strong—she just hadn’t realized it. With that much force, the zombie’s head came off on the second chop.
But she didn’t stop, continuing to hack at the neck over and over.
By the time Mo Yuwan reached her, she fell silent at the sight.
The barbecue owner zombie was well and truly dead.
When she finally snapped out of it, Mo Yuwan stepped forward and grabbed her mother’s hand.
“Mom.”
But Mo Siying didn’t seem to hear, still trying to swing the knife down.
Mo Yuwan gently squeezed her mother’s wrist until the pain brought her back to her senses. She turned and saw her daughter.
Mo Yuwan met her mother’s reddened eyes, gently took the blood-stained knife from her hand, and tossed it aside.
The people nearby had been scared off by what happened. Unlike the night market, these people realized something was wrong and had already run away when the barbecue owner charged.
Now, only a few people watched from a distance.
But the two of them were so heavily disguised that no one could see their faces, let alone recognize them as the ones who’d just been hacking at a zombie’s neck.
Mo Siying gradually regained her composure.
Mo Yuwan said nothing, just watched her quietly.
This was a hurdle everyone in the apocalypse had to face.
Whether it was her mother now, herself in her previous life, or anyone else.
No one could escape it.
If you made it through, you’d be able to survive in the apocalypse. If you couldn’t accept it, you might die the very next second.
She knew her mother would be okay.
In her previous life, the first time she killed a zombie to protect herself, she’d actually been calmer than this.
Because she’d aimed for the neck, and the head had been violently chopped off after several swings, there was a lot of blood—splattering everywhere, even on both of them.
Mo Yuwan didn’t rush her mother, just waited for her to calm down.
The barbecue owner now lay “peacefully” on the ground.
Early-stage zombies were just ordinary zombies, with no crystal cores in their brains, so there was no need to check.
Besides, the owner had just been serving them barbecue not long ago. Even if there was a core, it wouldn’t have formed so quickly.
And since she was an acquaintance, it was better to leave the body intact if possible.
Mo Yuwan glanced at the woman’s neck, then quietly looked away.
Some people were still watching from a distance, but they didn’t dare come closer.
To them, the two of them must have seemed very strange.
Their outfits hid their faces completely, and the way they’d just hacked at a neck was terrifying.
Mo Siying stared at her blood-soaked hands, dazed and trembling, muttering to herself.
Mo Yuwan heard her.
“I killed someone, I killed someone, I killed someone, I killed someone…”
Mo Yuwan put her hand in her pocket, pretending to pull out a napkin, and gently wiped her mother’s hands.
She kept wiping until all the blood was gone, leaving only some red stains that couldn’t be wiped away—those would have to be washed.
“Mom, that was a zombie, not a person.”
“The moment they lose their reason, they’re already dead.”
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