Kingdom of Corrosion
Chapter 804 - 361: Winter 2

Chapter 804: Chapter 361: Winter 2

Maya and Lin Wu sat by the poolside, watching the water slowly recede, and asked, "Do you regret it?"

"Regret."

Maya asked, "What if you could do it all over again?"

"I’d still have to play rock-paper-scissors," said Lin Wu. "Besides, I had an advantage going in."

"Oh?"

Lin Wu said, "If I got hurt, you could carry me, but if you got hurt, I couldn’t carry you. I could only drag you back and, thinking about that scream, it might attract all the zombies in town."

Maya didn’t follow up on Lin Wu’s teasing and passed over a bottle of painkillers, "Take these, eat one when it hurts."

"I’m fine," Lin Wu said. "You should be more careful, in case you get hurt and we have to crawl back."

"I would crawl and carry you back."

"You shouldn’t speak such plain truths, it makes me feel embarrassed."

"Oh." Maya said, "According to the equipment room’s instructions, it will probably take over an hour. Should I take you back first?"

"No worries, let’s leave after drawing the blood."

Maya said, "Not sure what might happen after we draw the blood, we might not be able to escape."

Lin Wu said, "Titans appear only after the fifth wave of Blood Heart attacks, and I can kill them in seconds without moving. Who else could replace me? Besides, I have only one rocket left, and it will surely be used when we head back."

Maya nodded, "Okay."

Ten minutes passed in silence.

Lin Wu: "Hey."

"Hmm?"

Lin Wu curiously asked, "What were you thinking about these last ten minutes?"

Maya replied, "Work rewards and punishments - the reward is to spend a night at Lin Meng Safety House with three units of fuel: you can sleep, play video games, shoot pool, listen to music, have a drink at the bar. But what’s the punishment?"

"The punishment is that you can’t spend a night at Lin Meng Safety House when the safety house’s fuel is running," said Lin Wu.

Alright, Maya nodded, and asked, "So what were you thinking about?"

Lin Wu was surprised, "You don’t chat, do you? I definitely wasn’t thinking about work."

"What could you be thinking about?"

"A lot: Blue Star’s delicacies, the Miss Blue Star contest, whether my classmate Pang is dead or not."

"Pang?"

"A certain unscrupulous middle-schooler who spread rumors about me dating some girl, leading us to fight," Lin Wu got caught up in reminiscence. "That’s when I learned that in front of absolute weight, any technique is just smoke."

Maya asked, "That’s it? You hope he’s dead?"

"No, he was bullied because of his obesity, and suffered from severe depression, making several suicide attempts more than half a year before the college entrance exams."

Maya said, "So you fought with him on purpose? You told him he could fight well and didn’t need to be afraid of those people."

"It was no use at all; he hated me even more, but towards those other people, he was just afraid and didn’t dare to fight back," Lin Wu sighed. "My counselor told me that since I lost the fight, in his eyes I was at the bottom of the food chain, and he wouldn’t respect me because of this, but rather hoped to reclaim the dignity he lost from me. After that, I stopped meddling in others’ affairs."

Maya said, "So afterwards, Pang deliberately provoked you, spreading rumors about who you were close with?"

"Pretty much," Lin Wu stared at the ceiling. "That was the first life lesson I learned."

Maya said, "It can’t be that serious, right?"

Lin Wu paused and then said, "We might have different understandings of enlightenment. Ha ha ha ha, the weather is really nice today."

Damn it! Maya understood what Lin Wu meant: the sequence of events went like this. Lin Wu sympathized with Pang, challenged him and was defeated, Pang did not gain confidence from the defeat but instead wanted to bully Lin Wu more, but Lin Wu was definitely not easy to bully, so Pang spread rumors about Lin Wu and a female classmate, leading to a certain ambiguity with that female student, which then led to an enlightening incident. Lin Wu remembered Pang because he was reminiscing about his enlightenment and Pang happened to cross his mind.

Facts are facts, but if you break down an event into separate parts, you can draw many incorrect conclusions.

Unable to suppress a laugh, Maya couldn’t help but kick Lin Wu’s thigh.

The two of them had been mixing together for a long time. Silence was common and not the least bit awkward. Maya didn’t find it strange to see Lin Wu lying by the edge blowing bubbles into the water. So an hour passed, the pool was drained, and it was time to get down to business.

Maya first helped Lin Wu up, placing him at the window ledge of their possible escape route in case they needed to flee. Lin Wu loaded the Silencer and the low-silenced carbine rifle with bullets, ready to provide fire support.

Maya climbed down the ladder into the pool, took out a syringe without hesitation, plunged it into the torso of Blood Heart, and with a fierce pull of the plunger, filled the syringe with blood. As the conditions were met, the syringe turned into a sealed serum bottle and entered Maya’s backpack. In response, the Blood Heart shuddered, eight zombies surged out from the changing rooms, and the Blood Heart also spawned a wave of five Blood Zombies, including a Blood Ferocious Ma.

Maya immediately rolled back against the pool wall to avoid being seen by the zombies, while Lin Wu targeted the zombies emerging from the changing room across from him. With the help of professional aiming tools, hitting these stationary targets was very simple; he executed headshots on them all. Meanwhile, Maya pulled out her low-silenced carbine rifle and shot the Blood Ferocious Ma flying, rapidly firing and killing the four zombies charging at her. However, due to the proximity, she was infected with the virus when she killed the last Blood Ferocious Ma.

Maya looted the corpse, taking an emergency blood serum drug from the body of the Blood Ferocious Ma. This serum was a new product designed to reduce infection by 50%, but it couldn’t eradicate the infection altogether.

Maya explained the situation and asked, "Are you ready?"