The old woman kowtowed again and again, pleading, "I beg you, anyone, please save my daughter."
Dong! Dong! Dong!
The sound of her forehead striking the ground echoed through the warehouse—but no one stepped forward.
Even though the woman had saved them by killing the group of men, no one was willing to help. One reason was that they had no ability to offer real help. The other reason was their fear of Jiao Lizhi and Jin Xuyan.
They could see that the couple was different from the others. They could kill without hesitation.
What if they wanted to kill the woman, too? And they helped her?
Wouldn't they just be inviting disaster onto themselves?
When the old couple thought they would lose their daughter, they saw the young couple walk over. She looked at them warily, but also hopefully.
"Comrade, please—save my daughter," the old woman pleaded as she kowtowed to them.
Jiao Lizhi didn't stop her but reached out to check on the old woman's daughter. Even without any medical knowledge, she knew the woman's condition was not promising.
She had suffered abuse, and her wounds were infected. Some were already festering, and she also had a high fever.
Due to how those men treated the women, the chance of them being infected by the zombie virus was very high, as the infection could be caused by their wounds coming into contact with zombie blood or rotten flesh.
After checking her for a moment, Jiao Lizhi took a small bottle of pond water and a strip of fever medicine from her pocket and fed them to the woman.
When she was done, she said, "Take off her clothes."
Hearing this, the old couple were surprised and unwilling to follow her instructions. Their daughter had already been humiliated—they didn't want to expose her bare body to the public eye again.
While they were hesitating, Jin Xuyan said, "Ah Zhi, you treat her. I will take care of the bodies."
Jiao Lizhi wasn't so petty as to mind him seeing another woman's body. As she has seen Pei Yijun's body before. But when she heard his words, she felt more comfortable and agreed readily. "Okay."
Unbeknownst to her, even with so many barely dressed women around, Jin Xuyan didn't spare them a glance.
From the moment they entered the warehouse, his gaze had been focused on his Ah Zhi. After all, he had no interest in copulating with livestock—so, he wouldn't have any desire for them.
After he walked away, Jiao Lizhi said, "If you keep hesitating, I won't be able to save your daughter's life."
Upon hearing her words, the old couple finally relented. The old woman undressed her daughter and asked, "Comrade, can my daughter be saved?"
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