Surviving the Apocalypse with the Young Miss - Chapter 19

Chapter 19: The Error

The plan went smoothly at first.

However, an accident occurred just as the two of them ran from the stairwell out into the sun.

Tong Xiangyu, her eyes bound by the black cloth, wasn’t paying attention to the ground at her feet. She only felt her foot suddenly kick something. She was startled, fearing the object would clatter or roll into something and make a noise. When she looked down, she found it was a skull with nothing left but skin, bones, and hair.

A scream instantly stuck in Tong Xiangyu’s throat!

It was Song Ge who reacted quickly, timely stepping on the rolling “old fellow,” managing to prevent “it” from slamming into a roadside trash can and creating a loud noise that would attract monsters.

“See that SUV?” Song Ge whispered to Tong Xiangyu. “Sprint!”

Tong Xiangyu hadn’t even had time to adjust her startled emotions. Hearing Song Ge’s heavy command, she threw everything to the back of her mind and bolted straight toward the distant vehicle!

Running at full speed in the scorching midsummer while wearing three layers of masks—this was a sensation Tong Xiangyu never wanted to experience a second time in her life. The masks prevented rapid breathing, causing oxygen deprivation in the brain; the innermost layer of the mask clung wetly to her nose and mouth.

Tong Xiangyu felt deathly uncomfortable.

Yet, she couldn’t take it off.

They were almost there, almost at the SUV.

However, although the SUV was clearly a hundred meters away, and they were running at full speed even if the black cloth affected her vision, they should have arrived in about half a minute.

The eerie thing was…

After they had been sprinting for a while, that black SUV was still a hundred meters away in the distance through the shimmering, distorted air!

“What’s going on?!” Song Ge also realized something was wrong.

At this moment, the movement of the two girls and the scent of living people triggered a sudden commotion among the silent clusters of monsters.

Song Ge heard the sound of breathing starting to appear on both sides of the road. The hair on her body stood on end. She had no time to think too much; she grabbed Tong Xiangyu’s hand and continued to sprint forward!

As she ran, Song Ge kept an eye out for any safe places to hide temporarily.

But at a time like this, every unknown represented danger; no one knew which buildings might hide man-eating monsters.

Tong Xiangyu had been running at full speed earlier and was already somewhat exhausted. She only kept going because Song Ge was dragging her along and she didn’t want to be a burden. She looked at the sweat pouring madly down Song Ge’s neck, her sun-reddened forehead, and her tightly furrowed brows this expression of facing a formidable enemy? Tong Xiangyu couldn’t help but look back.

“Monsters!” Tong Xiangyu’s eyes suddenly widened, and she cried out in panic, losing her voice: “Song Ge, the monsters are chasing us!!”

So many, more than a dozen!!

And they were running so fast!

Song Ge knew this, of course; otherwise, why would she be running so desperately?

Tong Xiangyu was having a mental breakdown, but even as she broke down, she continued to run at full tilt.

This was when the benefits of the physical training Song Ge had insisted on earlier showed themselves; although exhausted, she was completely able to persevere.

However, the fact that “monsters were chasing” was too much psychological pressure for Tong Xiangyu. She couldn’t focus solely on running and couldn’t stop herself from looking back to check the situation.

The black cloth, soaked with sweat, made it difficult to keep her eyes open, and her vision was blurry. Tong Xiangyu simply ripped off the black cloth from her eyes.

However, the blinding sunlight was intense!

Tong Xiangyu felt her vision suddenly go black. The burning, stinging sensation in her eyeballs made her head spin. Her feet could no longer keep up with Song Ge’s speed and frequency, and she stumbled, face-planting onto the ground.

The one at the front of the pack of monsters was a child monster. Half of its face had been bitten off, and the wound was rotting and crawling with maggots, yet it was still wearing a small backpack. The child opened its completely mutated, sharp scarlet teeth and lunged directly at Tong Xiangyu to bite her!

Song Ge was quick of hand and eye. She used her spear to impale the small monster right through, then bent down to grab Tong Xiangyu’s hand.

Tong Xiangyu’s eyes were in so much pain she couldn’t open them at all. Terrified, she cried and tried to pull her hand away from Song Ge’s grasp. “Don’t worry about me, just run! My eyes can’t see!”

There was no time for nonsense. Song Ge tightened her fingers and pulled her forcefully, shouting loudly: “Don’t you want to find your parents anymore!”

Just this one sentence made Tong Xiangyu’s dizzy brain snap back to attention.

No, she couldn’t die yet.

Tong Xiangyu struggled to squint her sunburned eyes; everything she saw was tinged red. She ignored the pain in her knees and propped herself up.

The other monsters had already swarmed toward them.

After pulling Tong Xiangyu up with force, Song Ge pushed her to the side and shouted, “Run!” She herself gripped the spear, which still had the small monster skewered on it, and swung it fiercely at the pack of pursuing monsters!

Under the momentum, the small monster slid off the spear and knocked down two others like dominoes.

Song Ge suddenly discovered that these monsters had very poor balance; once they fell to the ground, they couldn’t get up for a long time. She suddenly remembered the old homeless man she had kicked down before; he had also fallen and seemingly couldn’t stand back up.

But the monsters were numerous, and there would only be more.

Song Ge took a hasty look; there were at least twenty or thirty zombie monsters. Her strength was limited, while the monsters were infinite. She couldn’t possibly take down these ghost-like things with just one spear.

Her heart was beating extremely fast, almost jumping out of her throat. The sound of her rapid breathing, trapped by the mask, echoed in her ears.

Song Ge pushed over a trash can to hinder the speed of the chasing monsters, then used the spear for leverage to jump onto the roof of a car.

“Song Ge!” Not far away, Tong Xiangyu waved her hands and shouted anxiously: “Song Ge, come this way!”

Song Ge looked over and saw someone beside Tong Xiangyu. Song Ge’s heart jumped in shock at first, but then she realized it was a living person rather than a monster a healthy-looking old grandmother.

The grandmother had a kind face but an anxious expression, clearly trying to persuade Tong Xiangyu to get inside quickly.

Song Ge calculated the fastest distance to that spot in her mind, then glanced at the spear in her hand and the dozen or so bloodthirsty, horrific monsters in front of her. She gritted her teeth, gripped the end of the spear, and used all her strength to swing it hard at the front row of monsters!!

She tried to knock down the monsters to buy herself time to run over.

However, monster pushed against monster; the few in the front row leaned back but did not fall.

Their chest ribs had already been smashed and collapsed inward, yet they were completely oblivious, huffing and puffing as they tried to pounce!

Song Ge cursed “damn it” in her heart. Seeing that Tong Xiangyu’s shouting had drawn away a few monsters, she immediately made a gesture telling the other girl to go inside and hide first, while she herself turned and jumped onto a shop’s sign, performing a pull-up to climb to the second floor.

The monsters actually knew how to split their forces some stayed below to watch, while some entered the shop.

However, the street shops were connected. Song Ge could completely move from this shop to another one.

On the other side, the grandmother had already brought Tong Xiangyu into her home and immediately double-locked the door.

At the thought that Song Ge might die because she was trapped by the pack of monsters for her sake, Tong Xiangyu could no longer hold back the self-reproach, fear, and despair in her heart. She leaned against the door and began to wail: “Song Ge, Song Ge!”

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