Chapter 23: What Do You Think You're Doing?
"He's not here to join us, is he? It looked to me like he was living pretty well in that strange city."
Lin Manche said dismissively, "I saw him save a few people before. I think he's here to save us this time."
"If he really is here to save us, should we go with him to that strange city?"
The girl who had first spotted Xiao Yi approaching asked timidly, "I feel like he's quite capable. Our chances of survival might be greater if we follow him."
"Join him? In his dreams! Unless he's willing to join us and follow my every order!" Shen Jiabin said arrogantly.
For the proud him to join a loser he looked down on would be worse than death. In his eyes, only a noble and perfect person like him was fit to be a leader!
Only he could lead others!
No one could lead him!
Meanwhile, Xiao Yi had arrived outside the gymnasium.
As for his purpose for this trip, the guesses of Shen Jiabin and the others were a complete joke to Xiao Yi.
Xiao Yi couldn't care less about whether the survivors on the gymnasium roof lived or died. The reason he had fought his way to the gymnasium was simply to find a few mutated zombies!
That was all.
Xiao Yi found a high platform outside the gymnasium. After resting for a moment, he looked around. The gymnasium was about nine meters high, a simple, rectangular building.
Before the apocalypse, Xiao Yi had been to the gymnasium a few times, so he knew its general layout.
The last time the burly, mutated zombie had been in the hallway on the third floor leading to the rooftop balcony.
Barring any surprises, that zombie should still be in the third-floor hallway.
Xiao Yi didn't know if there were any other special zombies inside the gymnasium, but his primary target right now was that burly zombie.
Of course, if he could run into a few more special zombies along the way, Xiao Yi would be more than happy.
After drinking some water and resting for a short while, Xiao Yi picked up his Mo Dao again and carefully walked towards the gymnasium entrance.
It was noon, and there weren't many zombies on the large plaza outside the gymnasium. The few remaining ones were sluggish due to the sunlight. Xiao Yi didn't expend much effort and successfully made it to a wall of the gymnasium that had a sewer pipe.
Slinging the Mo Dao onto his back, Xiao Yi began to climb up the sewer pipe.
"Hey! Kid! What do you think you're doing?"
Just as Xiao Yi was halfway up, a few heads popped over the edge of the roof, watching him warily.
These were the very people who had been observing Xiao Yi from the rooftop earlier: Shen Jiabin, Tang Jingyan, and the others.
Xiao Yi looked up at them with a blank expression and continued climbing, showing no intention of acknowledging them.
There is no love without reason, and no hate without cause.
Although Xiao Yi considered himself a villain, he wasn't so depraved as to kill innocents without reason.
As long as these people didn't provoke him, Xiao Yi couldn't be bothered with them.
"Hey! Kid! I'm talking to you! Did you hear me?" Shen Jiabin shouted at Xiao Yi, somewhat annoyed. "You're not welcome here! If you dare come any closer, don't blame us for being rude!"
As he spoke, Shen Jiabin waved his baseball bat around on the roof.
"If you want to join us, that's fine too. Hand over your food and water, and we'll take you in," Gu Fanghua said beside him, oozing a sense of superiority.
The two of them had it all planned out: one would threaten, the other would entice, using the same domineering aura they had in the basketball team to subdue Xiao Yi and make him work for them.
Xiao Yi looked up again, gave Shen Jiabin a cold glance, then quickly climbed to the third-floor corridor and leaped onto it.
Seeing Xiao Yi's strange behavior, Shen Jiabin and the others were completely dumbfounded.
They had already prepared to negotiate with Xiao Yi, but they never imagined that he would completely ignore them. What's more, Xiao Yi had actually climbed directly into the third-floor corridor, which was full of zombies!
What on earth was he trying to do?
"Look! He's killing zombies!"
"See? He really is here to save us! He must be trying to clear out the zombies below so he can take us to his city!"
Tang Jingyan was lying on her stomach, peering down at the third-floor corridor, and she screamed to the others.
"It seems he wants to show off his abilities in front of us, so he'll have more bargaining power when he joins us!" Shen Jiabin said, thinking he had it all figured out. "But it's useless. To join us, you must follow my arrangements! Only I can lead everyone to survive in this apocalypse!"
"But he has a knife! And judging by the way he's killing those zombies, he seems very strong! We might not be a match for him..."
Zhuang Qiang narrowed his eyes and said coldly, "Perhaps... he's not here to save us, but to get something from us?"
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