PDLP Chapter 32 Winter Ai Community - Beginning
Chapter 32 Winter Ai Community - Beginning
The deformed human, with its six fingers gripping the shelf, crawled out, revealing its small size—only one meter long. It arched its body like a wild beast, its exposed jawbone covered in black drool.
Miao Yin raised an eyebrow.
This guy was a child when he was alive.
"Without a crystal core, it's not very strong. Yan Shuzhou, kill it."
"Sister?!" Yan Shuzhou looked shocked, seemingly not expecting that he would actually have to let him do it.
Miao Yin leaned back slightly, indicating that she really didn't intend to get involved.
Yan Shuzhou pursed his lips, raised his knife with both hands, and watched the deformed man's movements warily. The little rabbit also jumped from his shoulder onto the counter.
The mutant climbed on the shelf for a while, finally locked onto its target, let out a warbling cry, and then pounced on Yan Shuzhou.
Yan Shuzhou quickly dodged and then slashed at it, but as expected, he only grazed the edge.
Miao Yin's eyes stung by his clumsy swordsmanship, and she couldn't help but press her temple. Her supernatural power had already quietly activated, ready to save her life at any moment.
Joking aside, she had no intention of letting a dignified summoner die at the hands of such a small aberration.
After all, before the apocalypse, Yan Shuzhou was just an ordinary college student with no fighting skills. He had awakened a summoning ability, so Miao Yin never intended to train him into a well-rounded warrior. She only required him to have some basic self-defense capabilities. His greatest use was in his ability.
The mutant's attacks were relentless. Yan Shuzhou hurriedly dodged while awkwardly attacking until he slipped on a piece of bread and fell to the ground. The mutant seized the opportunity to pin him down completely and tore at him haphazardly through the knife across his chest.
Yan Shuzhou struggled to resist the knife with his hand, unable to even utter a cry for help. Sticky liquid dripped onto his body, and as he watched that foul-smelling, rotting mouth about to bite his face, his mind went blank.
Just then, the frantic Nine-Tails Rabbit jumped onto the mutated man's head and frantically scratched his face with its two little paws.
Distracted by the Nine-Tasseled Rabbit, the mutant loosened its grip, and Yan Shuzhou seized the opportunity to draw the short knife from its waist and forcefully stab it into the mutant's waist.
The mutant screamed in pain and dodged away. Yan Shuzhou quickly pulled out his knife and stabbed again. He stabbed the mutant three times before finally getting him off his body.
"Get out of the way!" he shouted to the Nine-Tails Rabbit.
The rabbit immediately jumped down. Yan Shuzhou raised his knife high, aimed it at the mutant's eyes, and stabbed it hard. The tip of the knife pierced the mutant's skull. The mutant clutched its eyes in pain and let out a piercing scream.
Yan Shuzhou staggered to his feet, grabbed the long sword beside him, and chopped off its head with one stroke.
The deformed person's body shuddered, and then he died completely.
Having narrowly escaped death, Yan Shuzhou finally collapsed to the ground, panting heavily, his hand still trembling as he gripped the knife.
"Clap clap clap." Miao Yin clapped after watching the entire counterattack.
She walked to his side, cupped his face as a reward, and said tenderly, "Xiao Zhou is so amazing. He can solve the problem of the mutants on his own without relying on his sister. I'm so happy."
Miao Yin took out a wet wipe and gently wiped the dust off his face. Her eyes were filled with a gentle smile, her expression tender and approachable, and even her tone was full of encouragement.
Yan Shuzhou lifted his head with her help, looking at her blankly with tears still streaming down his face.
Is she... praising him?
After experiencing such dramatic ups and downs, Yan Shuzhou felt a sudden surge of resentment, and tears welled up in his eyes.
"Why are you crying?" Miao Yin wiped away his tears with her fingertips and tapped his nose.
Yan Shuzhou reached out and grabbed the hem of her clothes, burying his face in it, trembling silently, just like a little animal that had been frightened by a monster outside and was running home with teary eyes to its owner for a hug and comfort.
Miao Yin didn't resist; she even affectionately patted his head.
She helped Yan Shuzhou up once he had calmed down enough.
"Little Zhou, be good. We have other places to go. You can be cute when we get home." She seemed to treat the other person like a child, even her tone was coaxing.
"Hmm." Yan Shuzhou blushed slightly as he thought about his irrational behavior just now, and responded in a muffled voice.
Miao Yin sheathed her long sword, then turned around and took a backpack from the hook at the very back of the supermarket. She filled it with bread, biscuits, and a few bottles of water, and had Yan Shuzhou carry it.
"Take it for now, maybe we can use it as a pass."
Holding his heavy schoolbag, Yan Shuzhou asked, "Sister, where else are we going?"
"Winter Artemisia Community"
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Miao Yin once encountered a refugee who had escaped from the Dong Ai community at a disaster relief base. The man was disheveled, incoherent, and had been insane for several years. It was said that he had locked himself in a room to hide from the deformed people in the community and had gone insane before being rescued by the army.
Therefore, when the attacker said he was from Dongai Community, Miao Yin quickly remembered this place.
If Hell Mall is a breeding ground for mutants, where hundreds of mutants devour each other to determine the strongest, then Winter Ai Community is a paradise of joy for mutants.
There are 15 buildings in the community, each with 25 floors. Because it is located in a busy area and the houses are of high quality and have good facilities, the housing prices have been driven up to an astronomical level. The number of residents living there is over 4,500!
The more people there are, the more distortions will occur.
When the apocalypse came, all the residents hid in their homes and kept calling for help. Because of the large number of people, the government, which received the signal, quickly dispatched several teams to rescue them. However, it was like the Calabash Brothers trying to save their grandfather, one after another, and they all failed.
The reason is not because there are too many high-level mutants, but because there are too many of them. There are a large number of mutants hiding inside and outside the community. If you are not careful, you will be surrounded and attacked, and you will not be able to escape.
It wasn't until the third team arrived that they rescued the surviving, emaciated residents. After that, they sealed off the neighborhood and never came back.
Even at that time, there were still more than a hundred living people in the community, which was a spectacle in the apocalypse and could be considered a major rescue.
The rescue team leader who successfully rescued the Dongai community also made a name for himself with this achievement, won people's hearts, and rose to the top in one step. After a certain high-ranking official fell from power, he directly controlled most of the military's power.
Miao Yin had been curious about this place in her past life and really wanted to visit it, but she happened to be there when the place was frozen over, so she couldn't make it. Now that she's encountered it, of course she has to come and see it.
With the Nine-Tails Rabbit's reminder, they arrived at the Winter Ai Community smoothly in no time.
The community is very large, with a total of five exits. However, perhaps for the sake of management, all the entrances except the main gate and the back gate are locked. Through the openwork doors, you can see deformed people walking around inside.
The main gate was closed for some unknown reason, with iron pipes laid across the glass door, sealing it off firmly. The door to the security room next door was open, but the inside had been destroyed by the explosion.
It seems they went through a fierce battle, and Miao Yin felt a little hopeful.
She burned a hole, as tall as a person, into the glass and iron pipes of the gate.
A cool breeze blew in. Behind the main gate was a dimly lit property management hall. Half of the light bulbs were hanging in the air. The walls were covered with radial cracks and countless bullet holes. The floor was covered with thick dust, and every step left a footprint.
Miao Yin crouched down to take a closer look. Besides her and Yan Shuzhou, there were several shallower footprints on the ground. The footprints were very messy and had bloodstains, extending all the way to the express delivery room on the far right of the property lobby.
Miao Yin paused in front of the door for a moment and looked at Yan Shuzhou.
The nine-tasseled rabbit on the shoulder received the command, pricked up its ears to listen, then nodded to its master and clapped its paws three times in the air.
Without Yan Shuzhou translating, Miao Yin understood.
She gave Yan Shuzhou a wink, signaling him to put the rabbit away, then raised her hand and knocked on the door.