What Should I Do If I Wake Up and It’s the Apocalypse? (GL) - Chapter 13

When Kang Kai learned the truth from Mu Xiao that he had not been bitten, his feelings were extremely complicated. He was glad he had escaped disaster, and then he became unbearably embarrassed over what he had just done.

He had actually cried just like that?!

A real man did not shed tears lightly!

Senior was going to look down on him now, right?!

In truth, “Senior” Mu Xiao did not pay any attention to Kang Kai’s emotional changes at all. She merely picked up the racket she had thrown at the zombie, shook off whatever filth might be stuck to the racket face, and without the slightest reluctance, ran off to find little An Qi and Ling Qi.

“Let’s go.” Almost the moment she reached the two of them, Mu Xiao simply said those two words.

This small group of three had clearly formed around Mu Xiao as its main fighter and leader. Naturally, An Qi would not oppose anything Mu Xiao said, and neither would Ling Qi.

“Senior…” As Mu Xiao and the other two passed by, Kang Kai subconsciously called out softly. But once the words left his mouth, he did not know what he wanted to say.

“Your target is over there.” Mu Xiao turned her head, slightly raised her brows, swept a glance over the three people behind him, and then pointed toward the right, the direction leading to the lobby. “And we need to go upstairs. It’s just right for us to go our separate ways. Thank you for earlier. I hope we can meet again.”

After saying that, Mu Xiao left with Ling Qi and An Qi without looking back, leaving behind a rather carefree figure.

Only after the three of them safely entered the stairwell under Mu Xiao’s scouting did Mu Xiao look back through the crack in the door to confirm the situation with the four students.

They seemed to say something, then turned toward the lobby.

Mu Xiao breathed a sigh of relief. When she turned around, she saw An Qi and Ling Qi looking at her, An Qi full of confusion.

“They didn’t follow us.” Mu Xiao explained awkwardly. Looking at An Qi, she could not help sighing with emotion. Even a seven-year-old little girl knew not to casually shout at the top of her lungs. Thinking of the scene just now, she seriously reminded An Qi, “An Qi, pig teammates who casually speak loudly like that are terrifying. If you walk together with them, you won’t even know how you died.”

An Qi obediently nodded, though she did not really understand what “pig teammate” meant.

Ling Qi silently glanced at Mu Xiao. No one knew what she was thinking.

Of course, complaints were complaints. Mu Xiao quickly entered her proper state, signaling for Ling Qi to bring An Qi a few steps away from her while she walked in front to take the lead.

The hospital’s stairwell was dimmer and narrower than the apartment building’s. The lights were sensor lights. Apart from louder sounds, they could also be turned on if someone touched a sensor device similar to a switch.

They climbed four floors in a row without encountering any problems. It seemed that the hospital stairwell was even more neglected. But that was not strange. Since there were elevators, who would happily run into such a dim, narrow space to take the stairs?

Thinking of this, Mu Xiao slowly let out a breath in her heart.

She still held the tennis racket tightly in her hand. She turned back to glance at An Qi and Ling Qi following closely behind. Seeing An Qi’s nervous expression, she smiled reassuringly at her and even made a cheering gesture.

At that moment, Mu Xiao had just passed the door to the fourth floor, and before she could withdraw the gesture, the door was suddenly slammed open.

Mu Xiao was startled by the sudden movement. She turned and swung the racket out, but then forcefully stopped it.

The person rushing out from the other side of the door also escaped the disaster of having a tennis racket slapped across his face.

Their eyes met, and both were startled by each other. But the white coat who had come out of the door did not hesitate in the slightest. He turned around and threw his whole body against the door, shouting, “Run!”

At the same time his voice rang out, the door was visibly knocked open a little from the inside. A wide gap opened between the two doors. Fear showed in the white coat’s eyes, but he did not change his action of pressing himself against the door.

Almost at the same time, Mu Xiao threw herself against that door as well.

She had seen it clearly. On the other side of the gap were many zombies, trying to rush out from inside.

Mu Xiao’s pounce barely pressed the door, which had been on the verge of opening, back into place. But a dry, shriveled hand stretched out from the crack in the door. As if it had eyes, it grabbed straight toward Mu Xiao, who was pressing against the door with all her strength and did not dare dodge.

At this critical moment, a fair and delicate hand caught that shriveled zombie hand.

Ling Qi seemed completely unconcerned that what she was gripping was something that would make most people nauseated and give them nightmares with just one glance. With one hand, she gripped the zombie’s hand tightly. The zombie hand struggled, but it could not even spread its claws open.

Mu Xiao’s heart lurched. At first, she worriedly wanted to tell Ling Qi to let go quickly, but reality forced the words back down.

Ling Qi looked at that zombie hand, then glanced at the crack in the door that could not close tightly because the zombie hand was stuck there—if they did not deal with it quickly, a second and third hand might stretch out at any time.

“Do you have a knife?” Ling Qi frowned almost imperceptibly. It was unclear who she was asking.

“Yes!” Mu Xiao reacted quickly. Her body did not dare move, so she could only explain with words. “On my right side, at my waist.”

Ling Qi glanced at Mu Xiao, then quickly reached toward Mu Xiao’s lower back. With one sweep, she touched the protruding hard object.

Mu Xiao’s cheek twitched. The strength in her hands loosened, and the crack in the door opened a little more. She hurriedly focused fully and used all her strength to push the door.

This tiny movement frightened the white coat waiting anxiously nearby, making his face turn deathly pale.

Of course, Ling Qi also noticed this small incident and glanced at Mu Xiao.

Mu Xiao was feeling guilty at that exact moment. Seeing Ling Qi’s gaze sweep over, she instinctively confessed with righteous seriousness, “It tickled—”

“…”

Ling Qi silently withdrew her gaze and looked at the zombie hand she was holding, which was still struggling. Without the slightest hesitation, she raised the knife and brought it down.

The angle of the blade in her hand was very clever. It slipped into the door crack diagonally. This slash cut off the zombie hand, and because the severed surface was slanted, the white coat and Mu Xiao pushed hard in time, actually managing to close the door successfully!

At the same time, Mu Xiao took out the clothes-drying pole she still had not been willing to throw away and placed it horizontally across the handles of the two doors, temporarily using it as a door bolt and successfully barring the door.

From the other side of the door, the sounds of slapping, scratching, and roaring continued to come through. They were terrifying to hear.

Mu Xiao and the white coat breathed a sigh of relief. When they turned around, they saw Ling Qi indifferently toss the zombie hand aside, then rummage through her pocket for a tissue and wipe her hand.

“…Thank you for earlier. It’s thanks to you. My name is Yi Sheng. I’m an intern here.” The white coat turned to look at Mu Xiao. He did not look very old either. Wearing a pair of glasses, he appeared somewhat refined. “Why are you here? Were you trapped in the hospital before?”

Judging by the time, more than half a day had already passed since the zombie outbreak. Even if there were still survivors, it did not seem like they should be wandering around in the stairwell.

“We came to find—” Mu Xiao froze, realizing that she still did not know An Qi’s mother’s name. She turned around to ask An Qi, “An Qi, what’s your mommy’s name?”

“Mommy is called An Ming!” An Qi immediately answered.

Yi Sheng suddenly understood, and the look he gave An Qi also became friendly. “So it’s Doctor An! The department she’s in charge of is upstairs. I’ll take you to look for her. One more person means one more bit of strength.”

As he spoke, he looked back at the door being struck with lingering fear and lowered his voice. “This isn’t a place to talk either.”

Mu Xiao naturally agreed. Holding the tennis racket, she was about to head upstairs.

A knife crossed in front of her. The hand holding the knife was slender and fair. It was Ling Qi. The knife was naturally the one Mu Xiao had previously kept.

Mu Xiao, however, pushed the knife back to Ling Qi and smiled without any scheming. “You have more talent with a knife than I do. You keep it.”

As she spoke, she even unfastened the belt at her waist that was used to hold the knife and stuffed it to Ling Qi as well. “I still prefer longer things. They give me more of a sense of security.”

This time, Ling Qi did not even look at Mu Xiao. Silently, she fastened the belt around herself, put the knife away, and still held the badminton racket Mu Xiao had given her as she walked beside An Qi.

Watching the two girls’ actions, Yi Sheng did not rush them. Only after Mu Xiao had no more issues did he walk together with her. After taking two steps, he could not help saying, “Your relationship is really good.”

When he said this, he seemed to think of something. His expression changed slightly, and he failed to hide his envy toward them.

Mu Xiao did not quite understand why he sighed like that. She had been in this world for less than a day, and she had known Ling Qi for even less than a day. A good relationship? That probably did not count, right?

She simply felt that Ling Qi did not seem like a bad person.

Fortunately, Yi Sheng was only sighing and did not insist on Mu Xiao answering. They quickly finished climbing the last floor. Yi Sheng stopped Mu Xiao’s steps, carefully pressed himself against the door, and listened for a while. Then he quietly opened a crack and looked through it.

After confirming that there was no movement on the other side, Yi Sheng beckoned to Mu Xiao. Before the girls had fully come over, he stepped inside first.

Just like the first floor, this side of the door was the elevator area. Not far away was a doorless frame leading to the lobby—or perhaps another corridor. Mu Xiao habitually scanned the situation of the five elevators. The two elevators that stopped only on even-numbered floors did not need to be considered. As for the remaining one that stopped on all floors and the two that stopped on odd-numbered floors, the numbers shown on their displays had no pattern. They were respectively on the fifteenth floor, the fourth floor, and the basement level.

“Once we go out, it’s a corridor. Turn right, and after a few steps there’s the nurses’ station and the duty room. Doctor An’s office and the temporary staff lounge are also near there. The rest are all patient rooms.” Before they went out, Yi Sheng quietly explained the rough layout of this floor to them. “This floor is the general surgery inpatient department. Beds are tight, so I’m not sure what the situation inside is like.”

“Having a direction is always much better.” Mu Xiao smiled, but she did not lower her guard. “Then let’s search to the right.”