She and Zhuang Yilang always thought that the adult their daughter mentioned and the sea of blood and corpses outside the shelter were actually done by a mysterious force or a group of people.
How could a single person accomplish all these things? Slaughter tens of thousands, or even more, of zombies in a matter of days?
Not to mention whether such a thing was possible, the idea had never even occurred to them.
But now it seems...
She now understood why some of the survivors she had taken in would immediately change color when they talked about the Red Shadow that wiped out the zombies.
What exactly is this?
"..."
In just a few minutes, the bloody massacre in the shelter came to an end.
The once bustling and bustling shelter has now turned into a devastating ruin, with blood and corpses intertwined among the broken walls.
Instead, there was a brand new sea of blood and corpses created by Lingyi.
She stood on this ruin, the black and red blade dripping with dark red blood, looking so absurd.
Ling Yi put away his sword, and the splattering blood slid down the streamlined blade of the Flash Blade, blooming like enchanting red plum blossoms on the scorched earth.
"Thank you, Lingyi, thank you for saving mom!"
With tears in her eyes, Takagi Saya staggered towards Lingyi with gratitude.
Takagi Yuriko followed closely behind. Although she was still frightened, she still maintained her proper elegance and bowed slightly to Lingyi to express her gratitude.
"It's okay." Ling Yi said lightly, her golden hair fluttering in the smoke. "See if there is anything else to deal with. If not, prepare to go back with me."
"what......"
Saya Takagi was stunned.
Because they were all expelled by Lingyi, Lingyi should have gone back alone at this time, and Takagi Saya would have been left here.
But she immediately came to her senses. She had cried and begged Lingyi to help, and even said that she was willing to do anything.
So everyone will be expelled and leave, but she is the exception. She will go back with Lingyi to fulfill her promise and pay the price she deserves.
The girl's fingertips trembled slightly, and anxiety and fear surged in her heart, but were quickly replaced by determination - she had no intention of breaking her promise or regretting it.
She didn't dare, and couldn't go back on her word.
The scene just now was still vivid in her mind - if Lingyi had not taken action, her mother would have been killed by the zombies. She didn't dare to think about such a terrible outcome.
She took a deep breath, suppressed her trembling, and nodded firmly: "I...I understand."
24.Hey, the widow is here, Yuriko Takagi
"..."
Yuriko noticed her daughter's abnormality and held her hand worriedly. Then she looked at Lingyi, lowered her posture enough, and asked respectfully.
"Master Lingyi, may I ask what Saya will do after she returns with you?"
She is not ungrateful, nor does she fail to recognize the current situation.
Just as a mother, she had to ask about her daughter's situation.
If it was something bad, she would not stop it, because in the face of Lingyi's strength, all resistance was meaningless.
But she will try her best to resolve the danger for her daughter without angering Lingyi.
Even if the cost is herself.
"Nothing, but I have other plans for her and her friends."
Then Lingyi looked at Takagi Saya, who was nervous and seemed to have realized something.
"It is too dangerous for you to live in this city. I will send you to a safer place."
"...?"
Saya Takagi was stunned again.
She thought she was going to pay the price and was even prepared to endure any pain.
But it was obvious that she seemed to be overthinking it.
Lingyi had no such thoughts at all, she just wanted to help them.
"Zero..."
"Ok?"
"sorry......"
"Oh."
I didn't really understand why Takagi Saya apologized, but Rei didn't care.
She didn't take Takagi Saya's words of "willing to do anything" that she said in a hurry to heart at all.
However, she also knew that Saya Takagi had misunderstood something before, and the general direction of the misunderstanding was not difficult to guess.
Saya clutched her mother's sleeve tightly, she looked up into those emerald eyes, her voice filled with cautious pleading.
"Um...can mom come with us?"
"can."
Lingyi paused and glanced at the survivors who were slumped on the ground, covered in blood - those who had once stood shoulder to shoulder with Takagi Yuriko on the roof.
"But they can't," she said coldly. "I don't trust them."
Yuriko was silent for a moment, then nodded slightly with a complicated expression.
"......I see."
She was reluctant to abandon these subordinates, but Lingyi's decision was unquestionable.
For her daughter, she had no choice.
And although she felt reluctant, she had a clear conscience.
After all, whether in normal times or in desperate situations like the one just now, she has never been the one being protected, but the one who stands up to protect everyone.
"By the way! Where's Dad?"
Saya was suddenly startled and her voice suddenly rose.
The joy of reunion and the shock brought by Lingyi made her temporarily forget about her other close relative.
She grabbed her mother's arm anxiously: "Mom, where is Dad? Why can't I see him?"
Yuriko's body stiffened slightly, her eyes drooped, her eyelashes trembling violently. She looked at her daughter's anxious eyes, and it felt like there was a piece of red-hot iron stuck in her throat.
Sadness flooded her face like a tide. She reached out to touch her daughter's face, but her hand dropped weakly halfway.
Her lips moved, and the crackling of the flames in the distance illuminated the tears that were about to burst in her eyes: "Saya...your father..."
Before she finished speaking, Saya Takagi had already understood the answer.
"how come......"
Saya's voice trembled, tears welled up in her eyes, and her face under her pink hair instantly lost its color.
She staggered back half a step and almost fell over a piece of charred wood.
It was just yesterday that she could still hear her father's familiar voice on the phone.
Soichiro Takagi is dead.
A group of people who believed that zombies were just sick and not monsters, and who sympathized and pitied the zombies, quickly expanded their power in the shelter.
They accused Takagi Soichiro of being a dictator, a madman, and a murderer, and began to confront Takagi Soichiro.
Although Takagi Soichiro wanted to eradicate these bad apples, his methods were not decisive and ruthless enough, and it was too late.
The conflict escalated rapidly with repeated clashes.
Finally someone got the zombies' blood.
The zombies were killed by Lingyi, but the source of infection, the zombies' flesh and blood, was still easy to find.
When Soichiro Takagi once again led people to suppress the rioting crowd, someone splashed blood on Soichiro's face.
The mouth, nose, and eyes, these vulnerable parts, came into contact with the virus without any protection, and he was inevitably infected.
When the bowl of blood was poured out, it wasn't just Takagi Soichiro who was splashed in the crowded crowd.
What's more, there are indeed some mentally ill people among those people. They really think that zombies are just sick people and they just need to go to the hospital for treatment.
So they actively came into contact with the virus.
The shelter was lost and Soichiro Takagi died in regret. He hated himself for not being extreme and radical enough.
When he was about to turn into a zombie, he asked Yuriko Takagi to end his life.
The bullet that disappeared from Yuriko's pistol was used on Soichiro Takagi.
"..."
Yuriko Takagi gently embraced her devastated daughter in her arms, her slender fingers running through Saya's pink hair.
She silently closed her eyes filled with sadness, suppressing a choked sigh in her throat.
The crackling of flames intertwined with the sound of the wind in the distance, and the figures of mother and daughter hugging each other looked particularly desolate in the ruins.
After a long time, Saya raised her head from her mother's arms and looked at Lingyi beside her with tearful eyes.
"Zero..."
Her voice was still filled with tears, and she pleaded tremblingly, "Can I take one last look at Dad before I leave? Just one last look..."
"can."
Lingyi's voice was short and calm.
"Go ahead, there are no zombies around here anymore, including inside the building."
"thanks, thanks!"
Having received permission, Saya eagerly grabbed her mother's hand.
"Mom, where is Dad now? Can I... still see him?"
"Saya..."
Yuriko gently stroked her daughter's hair, and her heart ached when she saw her daughter's hopeful eyes, which were full of heartache and hesitation.
Soichiro's body might not have been destroyed by the horde of zombies, but she really couldn't bear to let her daughter see her father's cold death - that face that was forever frozen, and those eyes that would never look at her daughter gently again.
Such a last meeting was too cruel for a child.
"Mom, please..."
"......Come with me."
In the end, Yuriko was unable to deny her daughter's wish to see her father for the last time.
About ten minutes later, Yuriko came back holding Saya Takagi, who had her head completely lowered and not said a word.
"Sorry to trouble you, Master Lingyi, but we are ready and can leave anytime."
When she came back, she also gave a brief explanation to the remaining survivors.
"Well, let's go then."
25. Hirano Toda's departure and the arrangements for the protagonists
Lingyi's eyes swept across the tablet in his hand, and the six names on the personnel list flickered slightly in the blue light of the screen.
When the other survivors were driven out of the survivor base one after another, the girls in the protagonist group were qualified to stay because Lingyi had other arrangements for them.
Miyamoto Rei was helping her mother make the bed in the temporary dormitory. On the bedside table next to her was the family photo that her mother brought in.
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