BXBX NOVEL Chapter 347 - 166: A Pancake_3
He was indeed able to swing it, but it would become a bit cumbersome after prolonged use.
“What a huge axe!”
Jiang Shixue spoke from the side.
“Little Xue, do you want to give it a try?”
Wang Tao suddenly remembered that he had someone with great strength right by his side.
“Okay~”
Jiang Shixue took it over and, imitating Wang Tao’s movements, swung it a few times. It seemed she could handle it with even more ease than Wang Tao.
But Jiang Shixue frowned.
“This axe affects my speed; I don’t like it.”
Jiang Shixue didn’t have a specific Speed Ability, but her speed was not slow, and she often relied on her speed to launch attacks. If she were to use this axe, it might actually be a handicap.
“Hmm, I’ll find you a better weapon in the future.”
Wang Tao ruffled Jiang Shixue’s hair.
The axe was also quite cumbersome for him, but he had the Space Backpack, which allowed him to stow it away when not needed and take it out when necessary. So there were no problems in terms of portability.
Of course, during real combat, this weapon was indeed too heavy and could prevent him from performing at his best. It was best used as a special attack move.
Wang Tao put away the weapon and continued to stroll around with Jiang Shixue, hoping to find a zombie to test the new weapon on.
Unfortunately, luck was not on their side; the two wandered until late into the night and couldn’t even find a Level 1 Elite Zombie, let alone a Level 2 Zombie.
Wang Tao felt somewhat helpless.
“Let’s go back and see if that Level 3 Zombie has returned to its nest yet.”
“Okay~”
They hadn’t reached near the grain storage yet when they suddenly saw firelight appear in the distance.
In the pitch-black night, that firelight was very conspicuous.
“That’s… Fish Bay Camp? Did something happen to them?”
Wang Tao’s eyebrows rose; it was in the direction of Fish Bay Camp.
However, Wang Tao didn’t like to meddle in others’ affairs, especially since the only two people he had a decent impression of from the entire Fish Bay Camp were Eldest Lu, who had died, and Xu Xiaojun, who was with him now…
Arriving back at the grain storage, they could see that the Blood-red Zombie was still wandering around nearby.
Wang Tao didn’t dare to move forward, after all, combined he and Jiang Shixue were no match for the Level 3 Zombie.
The two returned to the small building they had been staying in.
“Hmm? Where’s Xu Xiaojun?”
Wang Tao noticed that Xu Xiaojun was gone.
There were crooked lines scratched into the wall.
“Brother Wang, something happened at the camp, I’ve gone back.”
Wang Tao was speechless.
Normally, one should sever ties with a camp that abandoned them.
Yet Xu Xiaojun had gone back.
If he had gone back, so be it; enduring a bit wasn’t impossible. But after Xu Xiaojun returned, he was met with humiliation and slanderous accusations. The fact that he didn’t react violently on the spot was saintly. If it were Wang Tao, he would have made sure those people understood why the flower was so red.
And now, in the middle of the night, seeing that something had happened at the camp, Xu Xiaojun ran back… Could it be that he was a ‘lickspittle,’ feeling his previous wounds were not deep enough?
Wang Tao really couldn’t understand.
But it was the same old story: drop the hero complex and respect others’ fates. If Xu Xiaojun really wanted to go to his death, Wang Tao couldn’t stop him.
The two continued to monitor the grain storage until daylight.
Wang Tao clearly saw that before dawn, that Level 3 Blood-red Zombie crawled back through that hole!
“Very good!”
A smile appeared on Wang Tao’s face. Now that he knew the old lair of this Level 3 Zombie, there was no rush. He would slowly try to force the zombie out—he wanted to see just how much its abilities would be weakened if it came out during the day! If it was weakened significantly, then he and Jiang Shixue would not hesitate!
In the morning, Wang Tao caught up on some sleep.
Although his need for sleep had decreased since his abilities had improved, staying up all night from time to time didn’t really affect him. But Wang Tao was targeting a Level 3 Zombie next, so he had to be more cautious.
At noon, Jiang Shixue woke him up.
“Fatty has come back.”
Looking at Xu Xiaojun, who was once again dirty and injured, Wang Tao smirked.
“You weren’t chased out again, were you?”
Xu Xiaojun’s expression was a mix of embarrassment and sadness.
“Everyone… they’re all dead…”
“What? Everyone’s dead? What happened?”
Wang Tao’s face became serious.
“Last night, to celebrate the new boss taking charge, they held an inauguration ceremony… but it attracted the two terrifying zombies from the underground grain storage! The camp’s barriers couldn’t stop these two zombies at all, and no one in the camp could resist, so it was a massacre…”
“When I got there, nearly everyone was dead. Only Li Yi managed to jump into the water and temporarily escape disaster, but half his body was eaten by fish in the lake… it was just the upper half left… these were Li Yi’s last words to me…”
After hearing Xu Xiaojun’s story, Wang Tao felt quite shaken.
Indeed, it seemed it’s not easy to evade fate forever! Those people who previously encountered the Level 3 Blood-red Zombie and abandoned Xu Xiaojun had just managed to save their lives. But now, they had paid back everything, with interest.
After reflecting on the event, Wang Tao suddenly looked at Xu Xiaojun and asked:
“I’m curious, seeing as they abandoned you, why did you still go back to save them?”
Could it be that Xu Xiaojun was really a fool who couldn’t differentiate good from bad?
Xu Xiaojun looked at Wang Tao, then said with his head lowered:
“… When the virus outbreak started, my family sacrificed themselves to protect me, and I somehow escaped, but I had no food and was about to starve to death. Uncle Lu, Eldest Lu’s father, came by; he gave me a pancake…”
“Afterwards, when I unexpectedly encountered Uncle Lu again and learned that his son had a survivors’ camp, I followed Uncle Lu to Fish Bay Camp. Later, Uncle Lu got infected; before he died, he asked me to help Eldest Lu manage Fish Bay Camp, and I agreed…”
“I didn’t know how to manage a camp; all I could do was to follow what I knew—I wanted to gain their favor, I desperately protected them, and I gave them most of the supplies I scavenged… I had to earn that pancake Uncle Lu gave me. But… I truly, did my best.”