Chapter 14 The Mother's Instinct

Seeing Li Chenzhou and the others leave, Gray Bear subconsciously looked at Leopard, and Leopard was also looking at Gray Bear. Suddenly, he gritted his teeth and asked:

"Gray Bear! Do you choose to go with them, or stay and help me?"

"I have to execute the captain's orders!"

Gray Bear slowly shook his head and said:

"Besides...I think he's right. We're not gods. We can't save everyone in this city!"

"Just because we think it's impossible, we're going to just stand by and watch them die in front of us?"

Leopard suddenly roared:

"Gray Bear! Have you forgotten the oath you took when you joined the team? We must protect the people!!!"

"I remember!"

Gray Bear nodded, then sighed and turned to walk towards the door, saying:

"But I remember even more that we must take obeying orders as our duty! The captain is waiting for us to scout the way, go back and take them, and the survivors in the hotel, out of the city together!"

"But his orders tell us to disregard countless innocent people and only care about saving our own lives. Why should we obey such orders?"

Leopard threw down the bedsheet in his hand and rushed out of the side bedroom, shouting at the door.

"I'll check on those two downstairs, the father and daughter. As for you...Leopard! You better calm down!"

Gray Bear's voice came from outside the door, gradually fading away.

"I am very calm right now!"

Hearing this, Leopard suddenly seemed very angry. His eyes were bloodshot as he chased out the door and shouted into the stairwell below:

"You just watch, I'm going to save those people you abandoned, and I'm going to take them and live in this damn world! I'm going to use the facts to tell you, I! Am the fucking savior!!!"

Li Chenzhou and Duan Lei, who had already gone downstairs, also heard Leopard's roar. Li Chenzhou paused slightly, then shook his head gently.

Accompanied by rapid footsteps, Gray Bear also appeared in their sight. He lowered his head, looked at Duan Lei and Li Chenzhou, and shook his head with a helpless wry smile:

"Leopard, he..."

He only opened his mouth, but Gray Bear didn't know what to say. Li Chenzhou didn't say much, just nodded to Gray Bear and said softly:

"Everyone has their own choice, let's go!"

Taking Duan Lei, Duan Xue, and Leopard, Li Chenzhou arrived at the unit door. On these floors, they didn't encounter any zombies at all. Duan Lei's continuous gunshots earlier were enough to attract all the zombies to the sixth floor.

At the unit door, Li Chenzhou stopped. Duan Lei and Leopard also took out their pistols, sandwiching Duan Xue between them, one in front and one behind. They all remembered that just to the right front of the unit door was the house where the zombie king was hiding.

At this moment, they also heard a burst of fighting sounds from their right, accompanied by the loud shouts of Gao Lin from the ramen shop:

"Let go of my daughter, you beast!!!"

Hearing the sound, Li Chenzhou frowned and immediately poked his head out, then said:

"Lei Zi! If any zombies appear, be careful to control that zombie king!"

"Understood!"

Duan Lei, who was closely following Li Chenzhou, immediately agreed, then turned back to Duan Xue and said:

"Sis! Stay close to me!"

After speaking, Duan Lei also looked at Gray Bear.

"Don't worry! I'm at the back!"

Gray Bear also nodded vigorously.

Just as Li Chenzhou rushed out of the unit door, intending to see what happened at the ramen shop, the door of the ramen shop was suddenly pulled open. The little girl, Xiao Ya, holding a doll, screamed and ran out. Behind her came Gao Lin's shrill and desperate cry:

"Run! Run! Find the police officer from before! Don't look back! Run!!!"

"This way!"

Li Chenzhou immediately rushed towards Xiao Ya, shouting loudly.

But no one expected that Xiao Ya, as if she hadn't heard Li Chenzhou's words, actually ran straight to the house hiding the zombie king, crying out:

"Mommy! Save me!"

The female zombie king, who had been staying in the house, also rushed out at Xiao Ya's cry, quickly meeting her daughter and hugging her in her arms.

"Wait!"

Seeing the female zombie king's posture, Li Chenzhou immediately turned back and interrupted Duan Lei, who was about to activate his mental control. The four of them all stopped, staring blankly at the zombie king holding Xiao Ya.

It could be seen that the female zombie king was very beautiful when she was alive. Even now, one could still clearly see her exquisite features on her indigo face.

The female zombie king gently hugged Xiao Ya, her sharp-nailed fingers all straightened, afraid of touching Xiao Ya's skin, and her blood-red eyes were looking at Xiao Ya. Two drops of black liquid slowly flowed down...

"She... still remembers her daughter?"

Seeing this scene, the four people, including Li Chenzhou, were all stunned. Duan Xue asked with a choked voice.

"Zombies don't have memories from when they were alive! This... is a mother's instinct!"

Li Chenzhou took a deep breath and explained softly.

In fact, he didn't know why this was happening. He had personally seen countless scenes of zombies immediately tearing their relatives, such as parents, children, and partners, to death after becoming zombies.

Even on the sixth floor, that young man turned his own son into food after mutating into a zombie!

Zombie kings do have consciousness, even wisdom, but they are also unlikely to remember their relatives. Therefore, for the scene in front of him, Li Chenzhou could only attribute it to a mother's instinct—that natural, irreplaceable, willingness to give everything to protect her child's nature!

"Ah!"

At this moment, another scream suddenly came from the ramen shop. It was still Gao Lin. Li Chenzhou immediately rushed forward, saying:

"Lei Zi, you guys stay here and stay alert!"

After all, there was a zombie king here, and Li Chenzhou didn't dare to be careless. That zombie king might remember her daughter, but she would definitely not be friendly to them because of it.

Hearing this, Duan Lei immediately pulled Duan Xue and Gray Bear to the side, standing by the wall, protecting Duan Xue in the middle with Gray Bear on one side and him on the other, their eyes constantly staring at the female zombie king holding Xiao Ya.

Li Chenzhou, who rushed into the ramen shop, immediately saw Gao Lin supporting himself on a table, blood spurting from his body like a sprinkler. The young man was holding a boning knife and desperately rushing towards the front door.

Li Chenzhou immediately raised his arm, intending to shoot the young man, but at this moment, Gao Lin saw Li Chenzhou and suddenly turned around, opening his mouth as if wanting to say something, but his body went limp and he fell directly towards Li Chenzhou.

Li Chenzhou had no choice but to give up shooting and helped Gao Lin, saying:

"Your daughter is fine! She's outside!"

"I want... to see... her!"

Gao Lin, covered in blood, suddenly had a light in his already dim eyes when he heard Li Chenzhou mention his daughter. He supported himself on Li Chenzhou's shoulder, trying to prop up his body, then moved towards the back door, walking out step by step with difficulty...