What Should I Do If I Wake Up and It’s the Apocalypse? (GL) - Chapter 15

An Qi’s little face was drawn tight.

She watched as the zombie in the white coat got up, roaring as it pounced over, only for Mu Xiao to find a way to temporarily hold it back two meters away. It no longer had a human appearance or rationality. Its protruding eyeballs were filled only with instinctive hunger.

To zombies, when facing living people, there was not even such a thing as hunting. Their corpse-life consisted only of eating and tearing with their teeth.

An Qi understood what Mu Xiao meant. She was terribly afraid, but the more afraid she was, the wider she opened her eyes and stared at the zombie in front of her.

There was still a stethoscope around the zombie’s neck. Its long hair was frizzy and tangled into knots, and both sides of its cheeks had sunken dryly inward, making its original appearance impossible to recognize.

But An Qi suddenly pointed at the zombie and cried out, “That’s not Mommy!”

She seemed a little agitated. With one hand clutching the corner of Mu Xiao’s clothes, she lifted her head and said, “Mu Xiao Sister, that’s not Mommy!”

Mu Xiao looked at the zombie with some hesitation. She did not know whether An Qi simply did not want to believe it, or whether she was truly certain that it was not her.

But the zombie would not wait for them.

After discovering it was blocked, the zombie’s only instinct was to keep increasing its strength. As a result, its body tilted, and a chunk of flesh on its chest scraped off against the tennis racket. Completely unaware, the zombie lunged fiercely toward An Qi.

Mu Xiao had no choice. Unable to care about anything else, she reached out and grabbed one of the zombie’s hands. This was something Ling Qi had done earlier, and Mu Xiao had subconsciously remembered it.

The feel of a zombie could not be called pleasant. Its loose, sagging skin had a strange slippery sensation, making one worry that if they pulled too hard, they would directly tear off a layer of flesh. It was somewhat like a toad that had not touched water for several days.

The instant Mu Xiao grabbed it, a subconscious wave of nausea and resistance rose in her heart. However, she also knew she had to restrain the impulse to immediately let go.

After that contradictory feeling flashed past in an instant, what Mu Xiao felt was the zombie’s enormous strength.

She could not hold on!

Facts proved that the same force, when it was only unmoving weight versus a force that kept struggling, had a world of difference in how difficult it was to hold.

Mu Xiao knew absolutely nothing about grappling techniques. After only a short while, she felt the zombie’s hand slipping out of her tightly clenched palm.

“Ling Qi!” Mu Xiao almost immediately called Ling Qi. Her next warning had only just reached the tip of her tongue when she stared, dumbfounded, as Ling Qi neatly stabbed the military knife into the zombie’s eye socket.

The eye socket was much softer than the skull, and deep inside it was still the brain.

When Ling Qi’s military knife pierced into the eye socket and twisted once, the two words on the tip of Mu Xiao’s tongue finally came out.

“Don’t kill—”

The rest of the sentence died unfinished.

The strength in the zombie’s hand suddenly slackened. As Mu Xiao let go, the zombie crashed to the ground.

Mu Xiao stared wide-eyed at Ling Qi, then watched her withdraw the military knife and turn her head to glance at her.

Mu Xiao swore that Ling Qi’s gaze was saying: So fussy.

“Next, what do we do?” Before Mu Xiao could cradle her wounded little heart and complain, Ling Qi quickly stepped back two paces. Her thin lips uttered six words, while her expression and eyes very sincerely conveyed the meaning of “I don’t know.”

Mu Xiao abruptly felt that this “delicate” teammate was actually naturally black-bellied.

“Sister, Mommy is taller than her—” At this moment, An Qi tugged at the corner of Mu Xiao’s clothes and lifted her head, saying with certainty.

Her eyes were red, and she was both anxious and worried, but there was not the slightest hesitation.

Mu Xiao’s heart felt uncomfortable too. She kicked the zombie a little farther away with her foot and led An Qi into the room by the hand, of course not forgetting to give Ling Qi a look to tell her to come in too.

Together with Yi Sheng, the four of them entered the office and temporarily closed the door.

Seeing An Qi biting her lip with her head lowered, Mu Xiao found it both amusing and painful. She rubbed An Qi’s head.

“We need to look around and see if we can find any clues about where your mommy went. Don’t let your thoughts run wild.”

Just now, Mu Xiao had entered the room without saying a word, and An Qi had been worried that Mu Xiao did not believe her, or that she no longer wanted to look for her mommy.

After all, she herself could not say where they should go to search. Earlier, at the nurses’ station, she had also seen how dangerous it had been when Mu Xiao locked the door. With so many zombies lunging over, if Mu Xiao had been even a beat slower, she would have been dead for sure.

Hearing Mu Xiao’s explanation, even An Qi herself felt a little disbelief. Only when she lifted her head and met Mu Xiao’s smiling expression did her heart brighten.

Every time she saw Mu Xiao Sister’s smile, An Qi always felt as if things were not that terrible after all.

While the adult and child were speaking, Ling Qi walked over to the window and leaned against the wall, glancing outside before bringing her gaze back to Mu Xiao.

She felt that not killing Mu Xiao immediately before had seemed to be the correct choice. This person’s performance over the past day was far too different from the person in her impression.

How should those descriptions go?

Friendly, loyal, true to her word, and a little indecisive—

This Mu Xiao’s “emotions” were a little too abundant, and “emotions” in the apocalypse were a terrifying double-edged sword.

Right. The person who had described it that way to her in her previous life was this very person before her.

Ling Qi was very interested in how someone with such abundant “emotions” would, over the next two or three years, turn into someone who regarded “emotions” as weakness and discarded them like worn-out shoes.

“All right, let’s look around and see if there are any clues!” After comforting An Qi, Mu Xiao took a deep breath, cheering everyone on as well as herself.

Yi Sheng was the most familiar with the hospital staff’s situation. His first reaction was to walk to the desk and flip through the documents placed on top. Of course, he also turned on the computer.

Strictly speaking, the computer had not been turned off. It had only gone to sleep because no one had used it for a long time. After it was awakened, the window open on the desktop was a spreadsheet, listing the times of several surgeries. One of them happened to be this morning.

“Could she be in the operating room?” Mu Xiao also noticed Yi Sheng’s actions. Walking over to look, she guessed.

Yi Sheng thought with a frown, then shook his head with certainty. “If patients here need surgery, they’re mainly sent to the operating rooms on the third floor. When the hospital descended into chaos, I was studying in Operating Room Two there. After that—”

He paused. Something terrible had probably happened during the surgery, because his face looked somewhat ugly.

“In short, I can confirm that at the time, only two operating rooms there were performing surgeries, and Doctor An wasn’t in either of them.”

“But when the zombie outbreak happened, it was indeed around this time.” Mu Xiao recalled the time she had glimpsed on her phone when she first transmigrated that morning, then compared it to the schedule on the spreadsheet and became even more certain.

“Could it be that before the surgery, she already…” Yi Sheng could only guess according to what he could think of. But halfway through, he remembered An Qi was beside them and did not finish the sentence. “Let’s search the wards on this floor? The bed numbers of the patients Doctor An was responsible for should all be recorded.”

Very soon, Yi Sheng found An Ming’s work notes on the already neatly arranged desk. They recorded bed numbers and patient conditions in detail.

Although the time before and after the zombie outbreak was not when doctors usually made ward rounds, he could not think of any other possibility. Perhaps one of the patients had suddenly developed some issue?

But Mu Xiao continued staring at the surgery schedule on the computer. Suddenly, her expression became ugly.

Yi Sheng had originally thought Mu Xiao had not noticed what he said and wanted to ask again, but he happened to see the moment her expression changed.

“What’s wrong?” Because of the apocalypse, his nervousness had already deepened another layer, and his voice carried unease as he asked.

“I suddenly remembered. When we passed the elevator area just now, one of the elevators that stops on odd-numbered floors was shown on the display as stopped on the fourth floor.” Mu Xiao glanced at An Qi. Because of this guess, she was full of worry, and her face was rarely expressionless.

She simply did not know what expression she should use to face such a terrifying guess.

An elevator stopped abnormally.

The zombie horde they had just blocked in the fourth-floor elevator area.

And the unknown situation inside the sealed elevator.

If An Ming was inside the elevator, then who else was inside with her? Among those people, could one of them have turned into a zombie?

Yi Sheng’s face also turned ashen because of Mu Xiao’s guess. He knew that Mu Xiao’s guess was much more likely than his.

As for Ling Qi, when no one was paying attention, the corners of her mouth curved up.

That elevator…

There was indeed the aura of living people inside.

And not only the aura of living people.