The grandmother zombie before him did not sense the danger. Since it could not catch Tang Ling, it greedily stuffed the rest of the iron-toothed mole into its mouth.
"Stop eating!" Tang Ling bellowed angrily. His raised hand did not turn into a fist to smash the zombie in front of him. Instead, he watched as his grandmother stuffed the raw rat meat into her mouth. His heart ached as he snatched the iron-toothed rat from her hand and tossed it aside.
"Grrr …" The grandmother zombie was even more enraged when Tang Ling snatched its food away. It growled louder and louder, and the zombies that gathered suddenly sped up.
"Grrr …" Tang Ling looked at his grandmother whose face was covered in blood. He really wanted to cry his heart out, but he could not call his family back.
However, he could not make the most logical decision, which was to kill the zombie before him.
He even wanted to hug it tightly, wipe the blood off the corner of its mouth, and tidy its messy clothes.
In the end, Tang Ling tossed it away. At that moment, he did not forget to wipe its bloody face with his own hand before he turned around and ran.
...
Other than running, Tang Ling had no other choice. He could not let his grandmother die. Even though it was just a zombie.
The scary thing was, Tang Ling could not shake the zombie off at all.
Since it had discovered a living person, how could it simply give up on the food in front of it? Maybe because it had lost half of its body, its speed was not slower than Tang Ling after his transformation.
Tang Ling ran like a madman. He did not care about the countless dangers that were scarier than the zombies if he went deeper into the forest.
"Let me die. Let something reasonable happen. Let me die. Then, I won't hate myself for not being able to take revenge anymore. "Amidst the messy pain, that was the only thought left in Tang Ling's mind.
Countless trees that he crashed into and the thorny bushes that he stomped on left tiny wounds on his body, but he did not feel anything.
However, was there an end to despair?
Tang Ling stopped.
He strenuously looked at the group of people that suddenly appeared in the forest.
Their clothes were ragged and each of them was covered in wounds, but their eyes were filled with unusual excitement and hope.
Walking at the front were a few children.
When Tang Ling, a monster that was bursting with muscles, his height and physique far exceeded a normal human's, and his body was covered in black blood, suddenly appeared in front of the group of people, they were frightened and shocked to a halt.
Tang Ling never thought he would run into the Drifters at a time like this!
As a matter of fact, Tang Ling was no stranger to the Drifters. Back when the settlement was still around, they would accept a few hundred Drifters every year.
In Tang Ling's limited knowledge of this world, he had never seen anything like this before. If there was anyone who was worse off than the people in the settlement, it would undoubtedly be these wanderers who had no place to stay and could only live in groups in the dangerous outskirts.
These people's biggest wish was to have a settlement around a safe zone that could accept them, but such wishes were often difficult to achieve.
The reason why the Drifters were so excited was that they were finally close to Safety Sector No. 17.
But how would they know? The settlement outside Safety Sector No. 17 had turned into hell!
Their encounter was so sudden! Before Tang Ling could think further, the zombies' growls came from behind him again.
It was Granny!
Instinctively, Tang Ling moved to the side and dodged its lunge.
Undoubtedly, when Tang Ling climbed up from the ground, the group of people also noticed the zombies at the same time. On the other hand, when Granny saw the amount of food, it dashed towards the group without a second thought.
"It's a zombie! Everyone, get ready for battle!
Women and children, stand in the middle!
Pull the children in front back! "
The Drifters were ready for battle at the first moment. Against a zombie, as long as it was a living person, it would not be easy, even if there was only one.
However, Granny's speed was much faster than the other zombies. Before the Drifters could prepare themselves, Granny was less than 10 meters away from them in a blink of an eye.
The children in front were a little stunned. The adults who wanted to pull them back were obviously not as fast as Granny.
According to Tang Ling's Precise Instinct, Granny had enough time to bite at least one of the children before the Drifters caught the children.
"Brother!" At that moment, a little girl with brown hair and freckles who looked a little dirty pulled the little boy beside her anxiously and fearfully.
The little boy seemed to explode with boundless courage when he heard Granny call him brother. He stood in front of the little girl and opened his arms.
"No!" A woman in the crowd screamed in despair.
Tang Ling moved. Following a painful growl, he stood in front of the siblings and grabbed Granny before he pushed it away.
Granny fell into the bushes not far away. She tried her best to get up, but her broken body was not as agile.
"Kill this zombie!"
"Hurry up! There might be more zombies around here!"
The people did not have the time to wonder why the strange man before them would help them. Since the biggest danger was over, they had to kill the zombie.
"Stop!" Tang Ling suddenly turned around and glared at the Drifters coldly. No one knew the pain in his heart. Even at that moment, he could not help but want to help his grandmother up.
The person before him was his grandmother who had raised him since he was young.
The people with crude weapons were stunned by Tang Ling's voice and appearance. They were so stunned that they stopped moving.
"I'll do it." Tang Ling's voice was cold and his expression was calm.
Everything had to end. Only Tang Ling knew that the danger before him was not Granny but the zombies that were gathering towards them.
Tang Ling had no idea whether he should shoulder the lives of others, but he could not bear to watch the siblings behind him die like that.
He felt like he saw himself and his little sister in them.
The sunset of the safety belt. The little body behind him was pulling the corner of his shirt.
"Brother, we're too far away. Will it be dangerous?"
"Are you afraid?"
"I'm not afraid. Brother will protect me."
Yes, he would protect her, just like the little brother just now. However, as despair and hatred rumbled in Tang Ling's heart, he remembered!
Under the encirclement of the zombies, those helpless eyes, those last words of "Brother … Brother …"
Tang Ling clenched his fists and walked towards Granny, who was still struggling to get up.
One step, two steps …
The wind and clouds rumbled in the sky, but his footsteps were already broken.
If gathering and dispersing were impermanent and formless, why would he leave a mark in his heart?
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