Chapter 40 (1/2)

The girl suddenly let out a piercing scream!

“Shut up!” Shen Chen said angrily!

She immediately covered her mouth and kept it shut. Shen Chen looked coldly at her and asked, “What was he doing to you just now?”

The girl was incredibly stubborn. With a nudge of his blade, blood started trickling from Ye Tianlong’s neck. Upon seeing that, the girl starting sobbing again. “Don’t kill him. Don’t kill him, please! I’ll give you anything you want…”

Her voice sounded really sad. She didn’t seem to be faking it! Shen Chen was baffled. Why was this girl so protective of Ye Tianlong? What was going on?

Before he could do anything else, Xiao Li threw herself at him and tugged at Shen Chen’s sleeve. Gazing at him with watery eyes, she implored Shen Chen, “I’m still a virgin… if you want, I can give my virginity to you… if you agree to let him go…”

Shen Chen narrowed his eyes. Did he look like a sex-starved monster?

Seeing that the girl was in a pitiful state, Ye Tianlong pulled her toward him and held her in his embrace. He interrupted her and told her to “shut up!” and then looked at Shen Chen beseechingly, saying, “Master, Xiao Li’s brother just died. She still has an elderly mother at home and just wanted to go home to look for her only kin. But as you know, it’s too dangerous outside. I can’t let her go! If I did, I would be sending her to her death… I… I already watched as her brother died in front of me. How could I let her do it…”

Shen Chen’s chest constricted again. The way both of them were acting, one would have thought Shen Chen was the one who was acting like a bast*rd. The girl was pliant in Ye Tianlong’s embrace, a stark contrast to how she had struggled previously.

Shen Chen started breathing heavily as the pain in his body began to spread. He forced himself to endure the pain, then gravely asked Xiao Li, “Is he telling the truth?”

The girl nodded urgently, seemingly worried that Shen Chen’s blade would touch Ye Tianlong again. The two of them stared at Shen Chen with bated breath, not even daring to exhale.

After quite a while, Shen Chen took a deep breath and sheathed his blade. He then turned around and walked away without saying another word.

As they watched him retreat into the shadows, Xiao Li gave Ye Tianlong a tight hug. “Brother Ye, that guy… what’s up with him? Why did he want to kill us?”

Ye Tianlong tried to comfort the girl in his embrace. “Don’t worry. Everything is okay now. Perhaps… there is some misunderstanding between us!” Even so, as he tried to reassure her, there was a trace of doubt and puzzlement in his eyes. He didn’t remember having met this guy prior to the drugstore!

Shen Chen went back to the room quietly. The room was a huge mess, and the hall was filled with drunken people of all ages and gender.

Guo Yuan was found snoring in a corner, and Ye Xiaoyu had gone to the female dormitory on the third floor. Shen Chen found a quiet corner for himself and sat down, both his hands clutching the Black Blade. He was lost in thought. He was facing a dilemma right now: the malevolent Ye Tianlong from his past life versus the benevolent Ye Tianlong in his current life.

Looking at Ye Tianlong, no one would doubt that he was an honest and trustworthy Mr. Nice Guy; this much was obvious from the fact that the girl was willing to sacrifice her body and life in exchange for his. He must be well-esteemed among this batch of survivors!

Why would someone like that become a heinous person in the future, a monster a hundred times worse than a zombie? And what should Shen Chen do in this life? Should he kill a good person simply because he was going to become a threat in the future?