My Girlfriend is a Zombie - Chapter 1108: Ten Seconds of Sudden Change

Chapter 1108: Ten Seconds of Sudden Change

“Ah!”

In the darkness, a woman’s scream suddenly rang out, echoing through the passage.

“It’s Gu Shuangshuang… they’re up ahead!” Mu Chen’s pupils shrank as he cried out anxiously.

Everyone’s hearts immediately sank… No one expected that what Ling Mo had worried about would happen so quickly…

“The other side came prepared, and we can’t guard against everything. Anyway, let’s pick up the pace…” Ling Mo said in a deep voice, his body suddenly lunging forward, as if pulled by an invisible rope from ahead. Although his steps didn’t seem to change, his position was rapidly moving forward…

Xia Na and the others exchanged glances and tacitly sped up as well. These Female Zombies were already at the front of the group, and with a sudden burst of speed, they vanished silently into the darkness. Only Ling Mo’s field of vision matched theirs at this moment… He was nervously observing the situation ahead through Ye Lian’s rapidly shifting perspective…

But in this state of extreme acceleration, Ye Lian and the others couldn’t help but reveal the true color of their eyes… Not only that, even their suppressed Zombie scent began to slowly leak out… “Hold on… just ten seconds, only ten seconds…” Ling Mo couldn’t help but silently chant in his heart…

“Shh… don’t… don’t speak… it’s coming…”

In a corner of the passage, a pair of eyes was nervously and fearfully watching outside through a crack. After Skinny Monkey whispered this, he turned his head and pressed his ear to the gap, listening in terror to the sounds around him…

And what they were using as cover was none other than the corpse wall that Ling Mo and the others had dug through…

Among several corpses, Gu Shuangshuang stood motionless, tightly covering her mouth and nose with her hand. Although it was pitch dark all around, from the strange sensations before and behind, and the rotting scent wafting nearby, Gu Shuangshuang could roughly imagine her current situation… Normally, just glancing at these corpses a couple more times would make her shudder uncontrollably. But now, to survive, they had no choice but to hide here…

Tap… tap…

Just then, footsteps suddenly sounded again.

“Ugh!” Gu Shuangshuang couldn’t help but shiver all over, hurriedly holding her breath. Her eyes stared ahead in panic… The less she could see of her surroundings, the more terrified she felt… And those footsteps seemed to be getting closer and closer… Recalling the scene from just a moment ago, Gu Shuangshuang felt a chill run through her entire body…

“It’s… behind me…”

When the footsteps abruptly appeared behind her, Gu Shuangshuang instantly froze. She didn’t dare turn around, only staring at Skinny Monkey’s face… And from the look of horror in Skinny Monkey’s eyes, she already had her answer…

The footsteps suddenly stopped right behind her, then went quiet… She didn’t need to think to know that the owner of those footsteps was now pressed up against her back, silently staring at her hindbrain… Gu Shuangshuang could even feel the other’s faint breath blowing on her neck…

Yet despite her extreme fear, the survival and combat instincts honed through repeated training and real battles surfaced in Gu Shuangshuang’s mind. Almost instinctively, she switched off the Flashlight, and at the same time, a mental shock was suddenly hurled backward. Without looking back, she dashed forward: “Ah! Run!”

Skinny Monkey reacted quickly too; almost the instant the Flashlight was turned off, he had already changed direction, desperately running with Gu Shuangshuang for some distance.

But both of them knew their combat power was lacking, and their speed was clearly no match for the other side. So when they reached the corpse wall, Skinny Monkey and Gu Shuangshuang immediately hid inside… Standing among the pile of corpses, they didn’t even dare to breathe…

“What Skinny Monkey just saw… was it a person? But if it was a person, he shouldn’t have shown that expression… But no matter what, these corpses can block the line of sight and mask our scent… But when we squeezed in, we must have moved some corpses. If it notices anything unnatural, then… No, it won’t, it can’t possibly notice such tiny details…”

Shuangshuang was desperately thinking… Although every day they knew they might face the threat of death, when this moment truly arrived, Gu Shuangshuang realized that she hadn’t stopped fearing death just because she’d faced so much danger before and the future was full of uncertainty… In fact, she was even more afraid…

“I don’t want to die yet… I can’t die here like this!” Gu Shuangshuang thought, silently praying in her heart, “Don’t find us, don’t let it find us!”

Tap… tap…

The footsteps were getting closer and closer to them. Even Skinny Monkey shrank his body further inside; compared to Gu Shuangshuang, he could definitely hear the change in distance more clearly. Although Skinny Monkey didn’t make a sound at this moment, Gu Shuangshuang still sensed it… He had suddenly become even more terrified…

Tap…

The footsteps suddenly paused… Gu Shuangshuang’s heartbeat shot up to her throat; now she was certain-the thing was right outside the wall! It was sizing up those corpses… Maybe, it would look through the corpses and discover them hiding behind…

Gu Shuangshuang’s palm gripping the Flashlight was already drenched in Sweat. She stiffly moved her finger to the switch, waiting in high tension…

“If it could chase us so quickly, that means the psychic tremor just now didn’t have much effect on it… But if I suddenly shine the Flashlight at it, or turn it on and throw it out, that should be enough to distract it for a moment. That way, we could escape a bit farther again…” In this situation, Gu Shuangshuang actually felt her mind become even clearer… “And that scream just now should be enough to alert the captain and the others…”

But as soon as she thought of this, Gu Shuangshuang couldn’t help but feel a bit desperate. Because she had no idea how deep this passage really was, nor how much longer they could hold on…

Tap…

Just as Gu Shuangshuang was about to make a move, the footsteps suddenly sounded again. And this time, they were actually getting farther away…

Only after two or three seconds did Gu Shuangshuang finally relax her grip on the Flashlight in disbelief…

She had held it so tightly that she felt her entire Arm begin to tremble… And along with it, her whole body was shaking… If not for the corpses all around, she probably would have collapsed right then…

Skinny Monkey immediately let go of his mouth and nose, taking deep breaths, still shaken as he stared in the direction where the sound had disappeared. Then, he reached out and pushed aside a corpse in front of him…

“Alright, let’s take this chance to hurry in the opposite direction. Otherwise, if it doubles back, we’ll be caught for sure.” Skinny Monkey spoke in a low voice as he squeezed his body out between two corpses.

“Okay… We’re really lucky… It really didn’t find us…” Gu Shuangshuang sighed in relief.

But just as she finished speaking, Skinny Monkey, halfway through crawling out, suddenly opened his mouth and shouted, “Help!”…

But… he was too late…

By the time Gu Shuangshuang reacted and reached out to grab him, Skinny Monkey had already been dragged away by something…

“Ah! Skinny Monkey!” Gu Shuangshuang screamed in horror.

Only then did she realize that thing had been faking! It hadn’t gone far at all, but was watching in secret… Since it didn’t attack directly, it meant it was still uncertain, and at a time like this, staying to observe for a while was undoubtedly the safest-and most sinister-move…

And Gu Shuangshuang and the others’ eagerness to escape had played right into its hands…

Gu Shuangshuang, left in the pile of corpses, felt as if she’d fallen into an ice cave! Luckily, she quickly snapped back, gritted her teeth, and squeezed out through the gap, immediately switching on the Flashlight.

But when she swept the beam around, she discovered a terrifying fact…

In that split second of shock, Skinny Monkey was already gone! Gu Shuangshuang hadn’t even seen what had dragged him away…

“Skin… Skinny Monkey?”

Gu Shuangshuang’s voice was trembling… First the Pilot died, now it was Skinny Monkey’s turn… These were all veteran Survivors who had managed to last until now! At least in basic survival skills, they were all competent. Especially Skinny Monkey-he was a superhuman himself…

But clearly, while humans struggled to adapt, these Monsters were evolving at a horrifying speed… Surviving until now didn’t mean you could keep surviving…

“No… Skinny Monkey can’t die… If I’d been more careful just now, he wouldn’t have been taken…” Gu Shuangshuang anxiously swept the Flashlight around, and suddenly spotted a scrap of cloth on the ground not far away…

“This is Skinny Monkey’s!”

Skinny Monkey always wore pretty much the same outfit, so his clothes were easy to recognize by color and material.

“Good, there’s no blood… That means the thing didn’t intend to kill him right away… Right, if it had tried to ambush me earlier, it might have succeeded too, which means its goal isn’t to kill us directly…”

Gu Shuangshuang shone the beam on the scrap of cloth, confirming there was no blood on it…

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