"Sooner or later, you will all end up like me, food for the zombies."
"No, no, no!" Zhang Ming shook his head frantically. "It's better if the men become male prostitutes and the women become prostitutes, played with in the palms of those more powerful than you, sleeping with a thousand and riding with ten thousand. Once they're tired of you and you're no longer valuable, you'll be discarded like worn-out shoes and devoured by zombies."
"I curse you, I curse you to have a terrible death, to die without a burial place."
...
Immobilized, Zhang Ming could only resort to verbal abuse.
He spewed out every vulgar and vicious word he could think of.
He could feel his life draining away, and soon he would become one of the zombie horde.
His only regret was not avenging his wife, not killing Su Ling and Gu Shangse with his own hands.
He tried to provoke Su Ling and Gu Shangse with his words, but his plan backfired.
Su Ling looked down at the struggling Zhang Ming, her eyes as indifferent and cold as water.
As for Gu Shangse, after digging out the crystal core, he straightened his back and looked at Zhang Ming, also remaining silent.
Zhang Ming wanted to say more, but before he could, he coughed up blood.
Whether he accepted his fate or not, Zhang Ming's end was to become a zombie, and one that crawled on the ground, unable to move freely.
Zhang Ming did not want to become a zombie. After coughing up blood, he looked at Su Ling and Gu Shangse, "Give me a quick death. I don't want to suffer before I die, nor do I want to become an emotionless zombie after death."
He could finally understand how those survivors felt when he had thrown them into the room to become food for his wife.
It was despair, helplessness, watching themselves become food for zombies.
Struggling was useless, resisting was useless, begging for help was useless, everything was useless, they could only endure it all.
Su Ling looked at Zhang Ming with a cold expression. This man, who seemed to deeply love his zombie wife, was in fact extremely selfish.
He had imprisoned his zombie wife and fed her survivors to keep her alive.
In essence, it was merely to satisfy his own selfish desires.
Some people appear to be well-dressed and decent.
But in reality, beneath their respectable appearance hides a twisted and perverted heart.
This perverted and twisted heart will drive them to do things they have always wanted to do but never had the opportunity to, when there are no restraints.
Su Ling turned her head to look at Gu Shangse, "Any thoughts?"
Gu Shangse, who was asked, turned his head and met Su Ling's icy gaze. He told her his thoughts truthfully, "He got what he deserved."
Gu Shangse's answer made Su Ling raise her eyebrows slightly, "I thought—"
"No." Gu Shangse seemed to know what Su Ling was going to say, and he spoke first, "I can distinguish right from wrong."
Looking at the corpses scattered on the ground, Gu Shangse said, "This world is no longer the world we were familiar with. I have kindness in my heart, but my kindness must never become a weakness or a threat to myself and those I want to protect."
"He treated human lives like grass, and the moment he fed living people to zombies, his fate was sealed."
Su Ling listened to Gu Shangse speak in silence. Her actions today had a purpose and a reason.
She needed Gu Shangse to experience the ugliness of human nature in advance, as she did not want him to harm everyone with a moment of kindness in the future.
But it seemed she had worried too much.
Gu Shangse himself was much more insightful than she had imagined.
Su Ling hummed, looked up at the scorching sun overhead, and then slowly said, "Let's continue."
Gu Shangse looked at Su Ling as she turned to push her bicycle, a fleeting tenderness in his eyes.
He wanted to tell her—
He had seen too much evil and knew what human nature was like.
She didn't need to worry; he would not become a burden to her.