Damn zombies, how dare they disguise themselves as humans!

"Keep your voice down!"

"Are you crazy?!"

The squad leader, who was also awakened by the commotion, was understandably terrified when he saw Luo Tian first smashing a chair and then shouting loudly.

With a pale face, he gave a low reprimand and rushed to the window, anxiously peering outside.

The two soldiers on night duty at the two stairwells heard the noise and rushed over, looking somewhat flustered.

The other soldiers who had just stood up, as well as everyone else who had stood up, were all terrified.

At the window,

After observing for a moment,

The squad leader breathed a heavy sigh of relief, as if he had been granted a pardon, and turned to the anxious group, saying, "Fortunately, the horde of corpses outside has mostly dispersed, and there are only a few wandering around nearby. Xiao Li, Xiao Chen, you two go out and take care of them, then come back immediately. Be quick and be careful."

After giving instructions to two of the soldiers, the squad leader immediately approached Luo Tian, ​​his face grim and tinged with anger, saying, "What's wrong with you, kid? Are you having a fit of madness? Making such a commotion in the middle of the night, what if it attracts all the zombies and forms a horde?"

Luo Tian didn't bother to explain; after all, no outsider would believe him even if he did.

Facing the gazes of the crowd, he asked again, "Is Wang Xiulan here? Your husband asked me to find you."

"My husband?"

No sooner had the words been spoken than a voice rang out from within the crowd.

The voice was soft, almost like talking to oneself, but it was all the more clear in the otherwise quiet scene.

at the same time.

Luo Tian's surveying gaze quickly landed on a middle-aged woman holding a child in the crowd.

They tricked me!

Level C targets are all ordinary people.

Once we find it, things will be much easier.

As he reached into his sleeve and pulled out the dagger he was holding behind his back, Luo Tian pushed through the crowd toward Wang Xiulan, reassuring her with a laugh, "Yes, that's your husband. He's my friend. Before we parted ways yesterday to escape the zombies, he specifically asked me to help find you and protect you."

"Are...are you sure?"

A distinct look of suspicion, or rather, eeriness, appeared on Wang Xiulan's face: "But... but my husband has been dead for eight years."

"..."

Luo Tian paused for a moment.

What a coincidence?

Can making things up really trigger a landmine?

Whether making things up or not doesn't really matter; the point is to find the target.

Luo Tian stopped two or three meters away from Wang Xiulan, maintaining a safe distance to observe the middle-aged woman.

Her clothes were very ordinary, and her appearance and expression gave people a sense of honesty and simplicity. She didn't seem like the sharp-tongued type like Su Rou at all.

"Young man, are you sure you haven't mistaken me for someone else?"

Wang Xiulan looked at Luo Tian, ​​who was sizing her up, and asked curiously, "Could it be that the person your friend is looking for shares the same name as me?"

"Perhaps."

Luo Tian stopped talking nonsense and had no intention of wasting time figuring out what the other party was doing wrong, nor did he soften his heart just because the other party had a child with them.

No matter how innocent or harmless this woman may seem, the fact that the system has made a judgment indicates that there is a reason for her inevitable death.

However, just as Luo Tian was about to make a move, a cold gun barrel was suddenly pressed against the back of his head.

"Don't move!"

Behind him, the squad leader, holding a gun, glanced at Luo Tian's hanging right hand: "Kid, I've noticed something's off about you for a while now. At first, you were completely calm, not like someone fleeing a disaster at all. And now you're pulling this stunt in the middle of the night, using a dead person to find someone? What are you holding? A knife? What are you trying to do?"

Luo Tian's eye twitched.

Having the ability to protect his master, he is not afraid of being shot to death.

The problem is that the protector can only block once; he can withstand the first shot, but not the second.

Although he has the Swiftness skill to increase his speed, the surrounding crowd is so dense that there is simply no space for him to use it to dodge.

After a quick assessment, Luo Tian had no choice but to abandon his plan to kill, and said, "It's nothing, I was just preparing to kill someone, I did this in order to..."

Upon hearing the word "murder," the surrounding crowd panicked and pushed back, keeping their distance from Luo Tian, ​​including Wang Xiulan who was holding a child.

But at that moment, Luo Tian's expression hardened.

His gaze was fixed intently on Wang Xiulan.

To be precise, I was staring at the child she was holding.

The child, who appeared to be only a few years old, was held tightly in her arms the whole time.

It wasn't until the stepping back that the child's face was partially revealed.

"So that's how it is."

In that instant, Luo Tian finally understood why Wang Xiulan had been identified as a target for elimination by the system.

Even with a gun pointed at him, he didn't move, but continued, "I'm doing this to save you."

"Save us? What do you mean?" the squad leader behind him asked, puzzled.

"Didn't you notice...?"

Luo Tian nodded, gesturing to Wang Xiulan: "Is that a dead child she's holding?"

"..."

The squad leader's eyelids twitched suddenly, and he immediately looked at the child that Wang Xiulan was holding.

Although the child was being held tightly in Wang Xiulan's arms and could not be seen clearly, he still put down the gun in his hand.

Whether it's true or false, he has no choice but to be cautious.

After all, in this world, "dead child" usually doesn't refer to a corpse or inanimate object, but rather to a zombie.

"He...he's not dead."

Seeing the sergeant's sharp gaze and the soldiers behind her raising their guns in unison, Wang Xiulan hurriedly explained, "I found this child on the road. His parents are probably dead. I can't have children, and I've always wanted one. I just happened to find him, and I plan to raise him as my son. He's not dead, really. He was fine when I found him, but now he's probably caught a cold and has a fever, so he's fallen asleep..."

Upon hearing this, the squad leader's expression completely changed.

"Back off! Everyone, back off!"

At his repeated shouts, and having understood what he meant, the crowd immediately pushed back in a rush, trying to make way for a large space.

The squad leader and several soldiers stepped forward and stood with Luo Tian, ​​pointing their rifles at the lone Wang Xiulan in front of them.

"Put the child down! Quickly!"

"No, please don't hurt my child. He's really alright. You won't believe me... just look..."

Wang Xiulan pleaded urgently, tears welling in her eyes, and then turned the child in her arms over.

The moment they saw the child, the squad leader and several soldiers felt a chill run down their spines, and the crowd behind them erupted in a chorus of fear.

The child's face was very pale and bloodless.

Even on his face and neck, bulging veins spread like a spider web, looking ferocious and terrifying.

You call this nothing?

These are clearly symptoms of infection!

"Put the child down immediately!"

The squad leader gave another stern order, gripping his rifle tightly: "Or we'll open fire!"

"shot?"

Wang Xiulan was stunned for a moment.

Instead of putting the child down, she protected him even more tightly.

The shock of finally having a child only to face the prospect of losing it drove her to the brink of madness.

"The child is just sick, not turned into a monster."

"Besides, he's only three or four years old. How could you possibly want to shoot such a young child?"

"So cold-blooded, are you even human?!"