Underneath the strange, tense standoff, a clear, girlish voice suddenly rang out.
Everyone froze, their gazes all turning towards the sound.
Luo Xiao Le held up a small box of medicine and waved it.
"Here, do you have the medicine you need?"
The doctor, cradled in Li Xiao Tian's arms, trembled.
Li Xiao Tian continuously released his fire-elemental abilities, burning the air around him to threaten the doctor.
Having finally obtained medicine, he stretched his neck desperately to look down.
Seeing familiar medicine in the box, he was filled with joy, his eyes shining with the light of salvation.
"Yes, yes, yes!" he yelled, craning his neck.
Li Xiao Tian, hearing that the medicine he needed was present, felt a surge of delight.
"Throw the medicine up!" he also shouted at Luo Xiao Le.
"I can give you the medicine, but I have a condition," Luo Xiao Le said, her eyes twinkling.
"Please lend me this doctor for a while," she said sincerely.
"Little girl, I am the young master's private doctor... all diagnostic and treatment rights... require the young master's word."
"Then, Young Master Qin, is that okay?" Luo Xiao Le turned towards Qin Ming Yang. "I'll give him the medicine, help you save your doctor, and then ask you to let him treat someone for us." Luo Xiao Le spoke loudly, as if 'scheming' in front of Li Xiao Tian.
As soon as she said this, two people in the group suddenly looked up suspiciously.
"Did I hear that right? That sounds like Luo Xiao Le?" Her uncle and brother's eyes were filled with confusion.
"The voice does sound like it, but how is that possible! Luo Xiao Le, that girl, usually looks like she'd be blown over by a gust of wind. How could she be alive now and be here?" her uncle vehemently denied.
"That's right, and she's incredibly timid, how could she dare speak to the young master like that? Absolutely impossible!" her brother nodded in full agreement.
Both of them felt it was impossible for Luo Xiao Le, that coward and good-for-nothing, to have arrived here unharmed.
When Luo Xiao Le had first spoken, she had considered the possibility of being discovered by her uncle and brother.
But she had already decided that she would eventually have to confront Qin Ming Yang.
Hiding like this was not a solution.
What was meant to be revealed would eventually be revealed, so she might as well stop hiding.
What if they knew she was alive? They didn't know she had activated the system in her ring anyway.
Luo Xiao Le silently took off the ring on her finger and put it into a small inner pocket.
Qin Ming Yang found Luo Xiao Le's open defiance interesting.
He had actually been feeling a headache just now.
He suffered from a hereditary genetic illness, and his team of doctors treated him daily.
The doctor was an indispensable person to him.
Last night, Li Xiao Tian had snuck up, not only kidnapping the doctor but also stealing many weapons from their group, including silencer guns.
Moreover, he possessed troublesome fire-elemental abilities.
Without Luo Xiao Le's medicine, this situation would have been truly difficult.
"No problem, as long as you ensure the doctor returns safely, I will naturally have him treat you," Qin Ming Yang replied.
For him, this was merely a matter of giving an order.
As long as the doctor returned and someone helped him solve a tricky problem, he lost nothing.
Although he didn't know where Luo Xiao Le got the medicine, why wouldn't he agree to such a proposition?
Luo Xiao Le nodded.
Qin Ming Yang wouldn't go back on his word in a matter like this.
She turned back to Li Xiao Tian.
"Then you'll let me come up, exchange goods for a person?"
"That's not impossible," Li Xiao Tian said, pressing the gun against the doctor's head again.
"I have another condition," he said, with a crooked smile towards the nearby supermarket.
"I know these two floors of the supermarket are connected. You can come up, but you have to come through that supermarket, and then I'll release him."
Hearing this, everyone felt the extent of Li Xiao Tian's madness.
This Luo Xiao Le looked so thin, she probably weighed no more than a sack.
It went without saying that she definitely had no special abilities.
Asking someone like her to go through a supermarket full of zombies was like sending her to her death!
What kind of deep hatred could warrant such a demand?
"Little friend, we can discuss things. This request of yours is impossible even for an immortal! Hurry and let her bring the medicine up, aren't you still in pain?" the kidnapped doctor said, sweating profusely, trying to persuade him.
"Shut up for me!" Li Xiao Tian's anger flared, and he glared fiercely at Luo Xiao Le.
Of course, he knew that no one could fulfill this request.
He wanted Luo Xiao Le to yield and beg him.
After all, this frail girl had dared to wound him in the gymnasium.
If he hadn't awakened his abilities, he, with his wound, would have been cleaved by zombies countless times by now!
And now she dared to put on airs in front of him!
He couldn't swallow this insult!
"Fine, I'll go up, and you'll release him," Luo Xiao Le said, her eyes completely devoid of fear.
"What!" Li Xiao Tian's bloodshot eyes were also filled with astonishment.
"You lying bastard, don't talk big!" he yelled in anger.
The next second, Luo Xiao Le vanished from their sight.
Li Xiao Tian, holding the doctor hostage, shuffled to the railing and craned his neck to look down.
His eyeballs nearly popped out.
Below, the supermarket entrance, which had been swarming with zombies, was now littered with a pile of them...
Dark blood had already covered the original bloodstains.
It looked like a scene of slaughter.
This... all of this was done by that little sack?
Absolutely impossible!
Li Xiao Tian and the doctor's eyes were filled with shock.
"Roar!" The zombies in the supermarket on their floor stirred at that moment.
They only heard a fierce zombie roar, and they rushed towards the stairwell.
But they didn't hear any human cries of agony.
"This bean sprout... died in there directly?" the special forces soldier next to Qin Ming Yang offered the most logical guess.
"Tap tap tap..." A sound of footsteps suddenly came from inside the supermarket.
Before long, Luo Xiao Le's incredibly slender figure, miraculously, emerged step by step from the shadows of the supermarket.
She stood unharmed at the entrance of their floor's supermarket.
No... this... how could this be!
Everyone who saw it had their world shaken to its core.
They didn't know how many zombies were in the supermarket on this floor.
But according to those who had been there before, there were so many zombies that they could pour out continuously.
Even Qin Ming Yang and his group hadn't dared to hope to obtain any supplies from such a well-stocked supermarket.
And this sack of bean sprouts actually emerged from inside completely unharmed?
"Cough, cough, don't look at me like that," Luo Xiao Le said, seeing the shocked gazes of others, and quickly tried to cover it up.
"The zombies in the supermarket, I don't know who dealt with them... a lot of zombies are stuck on the stairs now, and I was just lucky I didn't get bitten while passing through."
Luo Xiao Le shrugged, acting as if she hadn't done anything.
She indeed hadn't done much.
She had simply put on her Strawberry Bear costume on the way up.
The first zombie that came triggered the defense system of her Strawberry Bear costume, not the attack system.
Since no zombies pounced on her and died, it didn't trigger new zombies.
Naturally, she had time to observe which ones were the main zombies upstairs.
Then she took out her thumbtacks and dealt with them.
It's worth noting that there were far fewer zombies upstairs than downstairs last night.
With the weakness of the split zombies understood and weapons in hand, she was actually able to take down three main zombies by herself.
Of course, to cover her tracks, as she had said, she left behind one main zombie and its few smaller split zombies.
She also lured those zombies to a corner and used the railing of the corridor to trap them at the turn of the stairs.
And just before reaching the entrance, Luo Xiao Le took off her costume.
So, if anything, her action was just changing clothes.
"This..." The doctor was also astonished.
None of them believed Luo Xiao Le could kill zombies.
Her explanation now, though it sounded far-fetched, seemed... much more reasonable than they had initially thought!
"I'll go take a look!" Among the people from the small shops who had been with Li Xiao Tian, one young man, holding something in his hand, rushed into the supermarket behind Luo Xiao Le.
As he brushed past Luo Xiao Le, she keenly noticed that the young man seemed to be holding a small military crossbow.
Her pupils constricted sharply.
Arrows!