Leaving City B, Xu An accelerated again, stomped on the clutch, and sped towards the deserted suburbs.
Most of the zombies here had been cleared, so she didn't have to worry about being attacked from both sides while dealing with them.
She tensed her face, took a deep breath, freed one hand, took out the hunting rifle from her spatial storage and handed it to her mother, then took out a handgun and tucked it into her waist, and placed the long saber aside.
Xu An's expression was more serious than ever.
"In a moment, protect yourself!"
"You're going to deal with them yourself? No!"
Hearing the implied meaning of her daughter's words, Xu Yan was shocked! She immediately called out to stop her.
Even Goudan sensed the uneasy atmosphere in the car.
"Don't worry, they shouldn't have any firearms. I'll be careful."
Xu An comforted her, but in reality, she was unsure whether the other party had any guns.
"...Then I can't let you face them alone. Mom will go with you!" her tone was firm.
Xu Yan pinched her palm with her fingertips. She couldn't let her daughter face danger alone while she hid behind her.
Xu An glanced at her mother. She wanted to refuse but felt a pang of hesitation. What she wanted to say ultimately remained unspoken.
When she brought Xu Yan to kill zombies back then, wasn't it so that one day, when danger struck and she wasn't there, her mother could still protect herself?
Xu Yan didn't know what her daughter was thinking. She gripped the hunting rifle tightly. Whenever she recalled the scene of Xu An standing in a pool of blood in the security room,
Her heart felt as if it were being squeezed, suffocating her.
For the past six months, she had trained her physique and practiced her marksmanship every single day, all for this moment, so that she wouldn't become her daughter's burden!
Xu An finally compromised and didn't try to stop her anymore, only warning, "Be careful with everything!"
Seeing her daughter relent, Xu Yan's expression softened. She gripped the hunting rifle and nodded solemnly.
This was a dead end, and they were destined to have no retreat.
Xu An looked at the road ahead and then glanced at the pursuing vehicles in the rearview mirror. Finally, she stopped the car at the foot of a barren mountain.
...
As soon as they reached the foot of the mountain, the man looked at Xu An's vehicle parked there and shouted to the others in the car, "Brothers, grab your weapons! Let's go teach that bitch a lesson!"
"Boss, can we play with her before killing her? That young girl is quite pretty, it's a shame! Heh heh..."
The man called "Boss" smacked the back of the other's head with his palm. "You brat! You'll die by a woman's hand sooner or later!"
"Heh heh heh..." The man chuckled lewdly and followed the crowd as they walked away.
...
Xu An, Goudan, and her mother walked directly into a patch of forest. Due to the continuous high temperatures, these trees had long since withered, with only sparse branches drooping powerlessly.
She hid behind a tree as wide as half a person and watched the approaching crowd.
When she clearly saw what the leader of the group was holding, Xu An's heart lurched!
The other party had a gun!
Five minutes before, as soon as Xu An got out of the car, she quickly formulated a plan based on the terrain.
Three fixed points were designated by the terrain, with her at the center, and Goudan positioned on the other side, parallel to her, as support.
As long as she attracted everyone's attention in the front, Goudan could launch a surprise attack from behind, while Xu Yan would hide and lurk in a low-lying area, responsible for taking sneak shots from the shadows!
Upon seeing the revolver in the man's hand, Xu An quickly thought of countermeasures. She knew she couldn't panic. Relying on her own strategy and a surprise attack, she might still be able to retreat safely.
She didn't show any unusual emotion. She knew her family's lives rested on her.
Even if today was a sure death situation, she would drag those people down to hell with her!
Xu An gripped the qzs-92 handgun in her hand and pulled off the safety. Fortunately, the other party only had three people, and they only had one gun.
Besides the leader, the other two men each held a machete.
She could only gamble. She gambled that the revolver in the opponent's hand was single-shot. If so, she still had a sliver of a chance!
...
"Bitch! Come out quickly. I know you're hiding here. You were so arrogant this morning, weren't you?"
"I'll let you know today what happens when you talk too much!"
"I said this morning, you'd better not leave the lighthouse... Hahahaha... If you can kneel down and beg me, maybe I'll be happy and grant you a quick death."
"Big brother, won't this bitch be scared and hide inside, trembling and not daring to come out..... Hahahaha......."
They walked towards the forest ahead without any precautions, brandishing their large knives, their faces full of confidence, constantly shouting.
In their eyes, Xu An and the others were just two smelly bitches, posing no threat.
...
Facing the man's provocation, Xu An remained unmoved, hiding in the shadows, waiting for an opportunity.
It was precisely because of this underestimation that Xu An seized the opportunity. She hid in a blind spot, aimed at one of the men's heads, and pulled the trigger without hesitation! The men who were still quiet in the forest were startled by the sudden occurrence. As a loud gunshot rang out, the man who was shot had no time to react before he fell to the ground with a thud.
The originally quiet forest was disturbed by many birds and beasts, and a black mass of them flew past overhead.
The remaining two were thrown into a panic, and the triumphant smiles were gone from their faces.
The man holding the gun shot in a panic towards Xu An's direction, but he missed, and the bullet was embedded in the tree in front of Xu An.
Xu An thus confirmed that the opponent's gun must be a single-shot revolver. She had won her gamble!
Now it was three against two, and they were not without a chance of winning!
Seeing Xu An emerge from behind the tree, the remaining two men erupted, "You bitch, you'll pay for my brother's life!"
"We'll see who dies!"
As soon as Xu An finished speaking, she fired without giving the other party any time to react, but this time, the two were clearly on guard.
The bullet missed, only grazing the man's shoulder.
She didn't give them time to react and shouted, "Goudan!"
Goudan darted out from diagonally behind the two men and lunged at one of them. His weight of over a hundred pounds directly slammed onto the man's back, and he felt his ribs break.
But before he could resist, Goudan's sharp teeth bit into the carotid artery on the man's neck, holding on tightly.
"Ah!...... Damn it, boss, save me!"
Upon hearing this, the man holding the gun loaded his bullet and was about to shoot at Goudan. Xu An was too far from Goudan to stop him in time.
"Bang!"
Another gunshot rang out, but this time it was the man holding the gun who fell.
Xu An looked in the direction the bullet came from. Xu Yan was holding the hunting rifle, her hands trembling uncontrollably.
Xu An first shot the man, who was only half-dead from Goudan's attack, in the head. After ensuring that these three were completely dead, she then walked towards her mother with Goudan.
The hunting rifle fell to Xu Yan's feet, her hands hanging limply at her sides. She thought bitterly, killing people was nothing like fighting zombies.