Zhou Ming heard Xu An’s words. Although he was displeased, he also understood that these were special times.
With the two women’s excellent combat skills, their actions of looking around here were not hard to notice that they were searching for someone.
He wanted to team up with them, primarily due to their skills and the fact that they were both women.
However, after receiving their clear refusal, his desire to accompany them diminished significantly.
When walking in the apocalypse, it was better to go alone than to have someone with ulterior motives by your side, regardless of their strength.
He was about to bid farewell to Xu An.
But before he could finish speaking, the woman beside him started causing trouble.
“How can you two be so heartless? We kindly saved you, and now you refuse to even travel together. We should have just let you die at the hands of that zombie.”
As soon as these words were spoken, everyone who had been maintaining a superficial politeness had a change in demeanor.
Especially Zhou Ming, given the current unclear situation.
This foolish woman dared to speak such wild words.
The facade of politeness he was trying to maintain was directly shattered by this woman.
No one knew better than Zhou Ming that his arrow had not been of great significance to the two women in front of him.
At the very moment Zhou Ming’s arrow was shot, he clearly saw Xu An’s surprise.
This proved that the other party had clearly held back some means, though he didn’t know what method they would use to escape.
But Zhou Ming believed that even without his arrow.
The woman in front of them would have been fine.
Yet, the idiot beside him had broken their pretense of peace.
Xu An frowned upon hearing this, forming a subtle ‘川’ shape between her eyebrows.
“Watch your words and try to cultivate some good karma.”
Cursing others at such a critical juncture was worse than dying; such words were truly vicious.
“I’ve already said that our paths are different. We are here to find someone. I don’t know where you are going, but everything is blocked now. Wandering aimlessly is worse than finding a place to hide. This is my final advice to you. Whether you listen or not is your own business.”
Xu An thought for a moment, then took out some food and water from her backpack, and even a roll of medical bandages and alcohol.
She handed the items to the man.
“Take these. After all, you did help us. I can’t do anything else,” Xu An said, turning to look at the indignant woman beside him. “District B is in chaos. While your archery skills are professional, your close-quarters combat is lacking. Also, be careful of your words. Since you are with your own people, if you don’t want to be killed, you’d best control the people around you.”
Xu An’s words were blunt, not far from naming names directly.
However, these words were indeed spoken from the heart.
Although the man in front of her was not a great philanthropist, he was not a despicable person with a dirty mind either.
After speaking, she handed the man a dagger.
She also carefully reiterated her instructions, telling him to keep the dagger on himself for self-defense and to not show it easily.
In hindsight, Xu An herself wondered why she had been so kind and patient in explaining so many things to that man that day.
However, Xu An did not expect that her unintentional kindness would indeed save the man’s life.
After finishing, Xu An did not linger. She grabbed Zhou Haimai and took the opportunity to turn out of the alley.
Leaving behind the woman who was stomping her feet in anger and cursing. The faint sounds of the woman saying something about “a dagger, only one, what about me” could be heard.
Xu An chuckled. Selfish people always thought of themselves.
Zhou Haimai looked at Xu An’s smile with some confusion.
“What are you laughing at? That woman is too arrogant. She clearly hasn’t experienced the harshness of society. You were too kind just now; it stunned me. I was even prepared to go back and forth with that woman for another eight hundred rounds.”
Xu An smiled at her, “Don’t argue with fools; why waste your breath arguing with her?”
“Besides, that man did help us. I gave him the dagger purely for self-defense. As for the woman beside him, I’ve already warned her. If he’s the type of person who would die for a young girl just because she sweet-talked him, then we’ll just offer our respect and blessings.”
Zhou Haimai also looked on with a sigh.
“Respect others’ destinies, abandon the urge to help.”
“However, his archery posture is truly standard, isn’t it? Even national-level athletes wouldn’t be much better?”
Zhou Haimai looked at him with surprise, “He’s an archery athlete. He even won a gold medal and participated in international competitions. Zhou Ming, don’t you know him?”
Now it was Xu An’s turn to be shocked. She truly hadn’t known.
“No wonder his posture is so standard.”
In modern society, life was fast-paced. Unless one was a professional athlete, few people would take up archery out of interest or hobby; it was mostly for entertainment.
Therefore, seeing such a primitive combat technique from the lighthouse, Xu An had assumed the other party was an amateur. She didn’t expect him to be an athlete.
“I thought you knew him, which is why you were so kind.”
“How so?”
“Ah, Zhou Ming, before the apocalypse, he was a high-profile popular figure. Handsome, with solid professional skills. Ever since he defeated the United States and won the world championship, he’s had countless endorsements and advertisements. Not long ago, it felt like his advertisements were all over the place, with countless fangirls.”
Xu An had no memory of these things at all.
She wasn’t much of a fan of celebrities. Her memories from her previous life were too painful, and her mind was entirely focused on survival. After rebirth, she was also anxiously preparing for the impending apocalypse.
She simply had no time to pay attention to any shooting stars.
The two chatted and laughed as they headed towards a deserted convenience store that had already been ransacked.
The man had only given them a general direction and a vague place name, then said he had entrusted the girl to a middle-aged woman, who had taken the girl to hide in a convenience store.
Neither Xu An nor Zhou Haimai were from District B. With the current jamming system, their communicators couldn’t connect to the internet, making the map function useless.
They could only rely on their own exploration.
Along the way, they had already checked over a dozen convenience stores, but there were no signs of living people inside.
Only a few recently mutated zombies were seen wandering around vaguely.
“How is it? Found anyone?” Xu An asked.
Zhou Haimai shook her head, “No, there are no clues here either.”
Seeing Xu An’s dejected and disappointed expression,
Zhou Haimai spoke to comfort her, “It’s okay, An’an. No news might be good news.”