Within the room, the sudden sound of surprising words came from Wang JiZhong’s mouth.
He rose from his seat once more, his face was even darker than it had been a moment before.
However, he soon sat down again under the cold stares of everyone in the room, anxiousness with a hint of bewilderment was shown on his expression.
Bai Lang returned his gaze to the man who had reported the news, this time with a hint of solemnity in his long, slanted eyes: “You’re saying that the thirteen people who died and fled were all because of the work of that little girl alone?”
The man who reported the news had a slight tremor in his voice: “Yes, yes. I saw it with my own eyes…”
The gaze of the white-shirted man drifter over to Brother San, but when he saw that his face was also full of surprise, he said: “It seems that Brother San also wasn’t made aware that his niece was actually capable of such a thing.”
Brother San already collected the astonished expression on his face, but his heart couldn’t stay calm, he didn’t know how many skills and capabilities Gu Ning had hidden in her body, but every time she struck, it was so … amazing!
With thirteen people surrounding him, even he wouldn’t dare to say that he could get out in one piece, let alone when she was that young and looked that … frail. He really could not imagine how Gu Ning’s delicate body could cause such a tragic battle scene.
“What’s the big deal?” The pretty girl with a black ponytail seated on the bottom left of Bai Lang, who had been quiet and probably around twenty years old, suddenly snorted and said with a slightly contemptuous expression on her face: “If it had been me, none of those people would have escaped.”
Brother San glanced at her but kept silent. He had killed zombies alongside this girl and she was indeed very skilled. If she had been the one facing those thirteen people, it would be as she had stated, none of those people would have escaped and every single one of them would’ve been killed.
So in this case, she was indeed qualified to say that Gu Ning’s performance was nothing remarkable.
The thing was, they didn’t know that just three months ago, Gu Ning was an ordinary girl who hadn’t even fought with anyone since she was a child.
Bai Lang, however, had a thoughtful look on his face, recalling his brief meeting with Gu Ning in that office, when she was clearly… It was as if a light had dawned on him, there was a glint in his slanted eyes and Bai Lang’s eyes narrowed. A hint of somewhat disbelieving dismay appeared in his pupils, but in an instant, he smiled.
The white-shirted man looked at the smile that appeared on Bai Lang’s lips in astonishment. After spending a long time with him, he already knew what certain expressions and movements from Bai Lang meant instantly. And now in this situation, it was even more obvious.
Bai Lang put down his pair of long legs off the conference table, stood up, and asked: “Where is she now?”
“I don’t know.” The man shook his head: “I just saw she went out of the front door, but don’t know where she went.”
Brother San furrowed his brow, to leave the colony alone at this time… Was she going to go out alone to find the medicine?
“Is she going to run away after killing someone, is it?!” Wang JiZhong said indignantly.
Yet, Brother San banged on the table and stood up, looking at Wang JiZhong, and said: “Mr. Wang, we all know who sent those people there. We had already negotiated and came to an agreement that we would give her a chance. Instead, you sent someone over to kill her secretly, but since you’ve acted out privately, that means the result of our negotiation is null and void.” Brother San’s gaze roamed around the conference room before saying in a deep voice: “I’ll state my stand on this matter here. If anyone dares to touch her from now on, the gun in my hand will not just comply.”
This was a warning and a direct threat.
Mr. Wang’s face twitched a few times, but he didn’t make a sound. Everyone knows that Brother San has a group of men under his command, all coming from the military and they all have guns. Although Brother San has underlings armed with guns, he usually always keeps quiet and has never had any conflicts with anyone. But this time, Brother San looked so fierce that it shut Mr. Wang up.
“The zombie dog problem hasn’t even been resolved yet, and we’re already fighting amongst ourselves.” The white-shirted man pushed the glasses on the bridge of his nose and spoke out to ease the tension in the room: “In the future, within the colony, I do not want to have a situation where our people fight among themselves. It’s already been more than three months since the apocalypse started, haven’t you all figured out who our biggest enemy is yet?” With a grave look on his face, he said: “As Brother San reported, now that the animals and beasts are already starting to zombify. Our living conditions are getting worse and worse by the day. If you all have time to fight internally, you might as well go out and kill a few more zombies”
No one in the meeting room spoke again.
What happened to Gu Ning was just a minor incident for them, while the great shadow of the apocalypse was still looming over them.
On the other side.
After Gu Ning left the gate, she found a small roadside restaurant and dug in.
Then returned to the space.
With a smooth motion, she pivoted the pointer on the wall to the other side and was ready to open the door.
However, as her hand touched the door handle, her movements stopped and she looked at a certain spot in the space with a very strange expression.
In one corner of this room lays a quiet pile of the quilt and the stuff from the closet that had disappeared into thin air right before her eyes in the small three-storied building with a courtyard…
Gu Ning grabbed a piece of the closet stuff with her hand, currently having mixed feelings. So all those things she had “vanished” were transferred to here?
Gu Ning’s mind was somewhat unable to think for a while.
The shock in her mind at this moment was too great.
What did this represent?
This “vanishing” was the same as carrying a huge storage locker with her. And this locker can only be opened by her, and her alone. Nobody else would be able to touch or even see it.
She could fit anything within it and take it out whenever she needed to use it.
It could maybe even store a car?
The vague pain of the wound on her hand burst her bubble and brought her senses back. This thing could be researched slowly, but Father Gu’s injury couldn’t be delayed any longer.
With this in mind, she ran quickly to the door again and opened it.
With a flash of golden light, she was back in her bedroom.
A glance at the wall clock showed the time was 3:30 pm.
In a swift and smooth movement, she undressed all her blood-stained clothes and put on her new ones.
The gauze on the wound of her hand was completely soaked with blood.
She sat down cross-legged and removed the gauze layer by layer, her palms were drenched in blood, yet it could still be seen that the skin rolled over in a gruesome manner. There was still a batch of medicine she had left in her bedroom. Gu Ning used the alcohol to clean the wound, the whole process she kept making gasping sounds, but without screaming out or shedding any tears. Gu Ning found that her pain tolerance was somewhat amazing, and there was a few moments of triumph yet sorrowful feeling she felt in her heart.
Gu Ning hastily rewrapped the hand in gauze and found a glove to put on. She tied up the changed clothes, the bloody gauze along with the bloody knife in a plastic bag and stuffed them underneath the bed. Then stood in front of the mirror and wiped the blood off her face with some wet tissues, making sure there was nothing wrong with herself before she opened the door and walked out.
As soon as she pushed open the door, she saw her parents sitting on the sofa in the living room with their backs toward her and watching the TV.
The TV volume was turned down for fear of disturbing her sleep.
There was a bright light shining in through the window screen, and there was a sense of peace and tranquillity.
Gu Ning’s anxious and worried mood calmed down right away.
As if sensing something, Mother Gu turned around and saw Gu Ning standing there, and hurriedly stood up and said to her: “You’re awake! The food is warmed up for you, I’ll go and bring it out so you can eat.” With that, she got up and went into the kitchen.
Father Gu saw that Gu Ning was awake and took the remote control and turned up the volume.
Gu Ning walked over and sat down next to Father Gu.
The TV was showing the National Martial Arts Competition.
Gu SiYuan explained the match to Gu Ning as he watched: “This is the grand finale. This girl is very strong, many guys can’t beat her, since her strikes were too heavy and many of them were carried off the match. I think she’ll be the winner this time with no doubt.”
Gu SiYuan stated as the girl had just gone up the stage on the screen.
Gu Ning couldn’t resist and took her bowl of food and shovelled rice into her mouth while paying attention to the martial arts competition on the TV.
The girl whom Gu SiYuan was talking about was wearing a black thick coat, with a slender body, long black hair tied up in a high ponytail, and without any extra expression on her face, she walked gingerly to the stage, in a fresh and sharp movement. She looked to be in her mid-twenties, her face was clean without any signs of makeup, but she looked exceptionally bright and beautiful.
Her entrance had the crowd in the stands cheering for her, she seemed to be very popular.
Her profile appears on the screen. The background voice was a deep male voice that was introducing the player’s history and past achievements in a very impassioned tone.
“Yin Sang, female, 21 years old, height one point six-eight. In her first appearance in the National Martial Arts Competition, she made it all the way to the finals after overcoming the 3,000 competitors nationwide. She was the only female competitor to make it to the finals of this year’s National Wushu Championships without a single defeat. What’s even more incredible was that the longest time she spent with her opponent was less than three minutes! Her strength was exceptional, she was the unexpected fierce competitor for this year’s National Martial Arts Competition!”
The camera paused on her face for three seconds, before she tugged the corners of her mouth slightly upwards, her willow eyebrows raised slightly as she gazed into the camera and locked eyes with Gu Ning across the TV screen. Even the smile at the end of her eyes was penetrating and showed her sharpness.
Her opponent was a 23-year-old male called Zhang Qiang, around one point seven five-meter tall with a very athletic build and bulging muscles on both arms. In stark contrast to the slender and slim Yin Sang, it felt like she couldn’t even handle a punch from him.
However, it was very clear that he was wary of Yin Sang, and his expression was sombre when he cupped his hand in greeting.
This match was a close-combat fight, without weapons.
After the whistle had been blown.
Yin Sang was the first to strike! No extra gimmicks done! She quickly approached Zhang Qiang at a lightning-fast speed, and at the same time, her right hand reached out and aimed straight towards Zhang Qiang’s throat!
Although Zhang Qiang’s mind was quite tense, he didn’t panic, he completely ignored the hand that was coming towards his neck and he clasped his right hand on Yin Sang’s wrist on her left hand, squeezing it forcefully, then turned it violently in the opposite direction! A sharp pain could be felt in her wrist, but Yin Sang remained unperturbed, her willow-like eyebrows raised, the end of her eyes swept out a harsh and fierce gaze, she immediately pulled back her outstretched right hand, then rested it on Zhang Qiang’s arm that was clasping her left hand, then subsequently spun her whole body in the air, following the huge force flowing from Zhang Qiang’s arm! Her long, slender body twirled while in mid-air like a willow leaf! Her posture was indescribably graceful and the moment her feet landed on the ground, while in a short stance, swept her leg violently towards Zhang Qiang’s lower body with great force!
Zhang Qiang is undaunted! And raised his right foot to block!
Yin Sang sweeps her leg out! It collided directly with Zhang Qiang’s right leg! It felt like her leg had just kicked against a metal pole!
Zhang Qiang smiled smugly, he was proud of his leg kung fu, yet Yin Sang picked this underhanded method to attack, simply because she didn’t research into his past battles!
Yin Sang’s eyes flashed as she stretched out her leg to block Zhang Qiang’s right kick, then her slender right leg kicked upwards which surprisingly went over his head! Then she thrust a kick at Zhang Qiang’s head!
The whole arena let out gasps of surprise at this difficult move pulled off by Yin Sang!
Zhang Qiang couldn’t react! He was kicked squarely on the head! His whole head was thrown back by the kick and the grip he had in his hand involuntarily relaxed! Yin Sang saw this moment to act! She quickly bent her arm, closed in on Zhang Qiang and her elbow landed heavily onto his chest!
Zhang Qiang received a hard blow to his chest! The burly body took a few steps backward! Yin Sang, however, didn’t miss this opportunity and followed up an attack again. Her long and slender right leg strike out again to kick hard at his chest where she had just elbowed it!
Zhang Qiang let out a muffled grunt and stumbled backward before falling to the floor with a thud!
The fight came fiercely and abruptly, then it was over before anyone could even react properly.
Only Yin Sang was left standing on stage, looking relaxed as if she had just entered.
Her opponent, on the other hand, is already lying on the ground, clutching his chest and letting out moans of pain.
Soon someone came up and carried the man away.
The screen above began to slow down and replay the footage of the battle that had just taken place.
“Thirty seconds! Only thirty seconds in the actual fight! Yin Sang once again broke through her personal record!” The male voice in the background let out an excited roar, and the crowd went wild.
Gu Ning stared at Yin Sang’s back view, who had left the screen in style, and she still felt the ripples of shock happening in her heart.
All this while, she had been very confident in her strength, but this time she realized that she had always been relying on her brute strength and instinct to fight, without any combat skills. She could easily defeat those zombies who were like her, absolutely having no fighting techniques or the ability to dodge. She could just barely defeat the group of people today who only knew how to slash and kill indiscriminately with their knives.
She now realized that if this girl called Yin Sang was going to be her opponent, she hardly would have any chance of winning. Even more so, she may not even be able to beat that Zhang Qiang just now.
Today, Gu Ning was surrounded and attacked by that group of people, which made her realize that in the post-apocalyptic world, her enemies were not only the zombies out there but also the humans around her. And compared to the zombies, sometimes humans around her were much more difficult to deal with.
It was also at this moment that she stared at Yin Sang’s back view and suddenly made up her decision of some sort.
She put down the half-eaten bowl of rice in her hand, looking at Yin Sang’s profile that appeared on the TV screen once more, then said calmly: “I’m going to learn martial arts.”
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(T/N: Hmmmm I still don’t really like Yin Sang and this chapter fighting scene was about her… =( Anyway, please kindly support the author in jjwxc if you like the story. ~(^.^)~ )
(Editor: De Vile)
