Bang! Bang! Bang!
Several shots were fired in quick succession, the first zombie to squeeze into the room was shot dead by Lu Chen, its corpse blocking the doorway.
There was still some time before the corpse disappeared. Lu Chen quickly scanned the room, seeing no other resources, grabbed He Hua's arm and retreated.
“Wait, wait! There's no way back!”
“Go through the window.”
Without further explanation, Lu Chen pulled the blonde girl into his arms with a slight force, his body leaning back towards the window.
He Hua, expecting a rapid descent, closed her eyes tightly. However, after waiting for a while, she didn't feel the weightlessness of falling.
Her body seemed to become incredibly light, as if freed from the constraints of gravity, floating gently.
The cool, moist air currents surrounding her, as well as the sound of rain falling in a continuous line, highlighted the tranquility of this moment.
The panic and fear in He Hua's heart gradually subsided in this weightless state of mind.
Only after a few seconds did a teasing voice reach her ears.
“Although I don't mind you hanging on me like this, are you sure you want to see your Sister Ma Yi like this?”
Opening her eyes, He Hua realized that she was still in Lu Chen's arms.
Her arms were wrapped around his neck like a koala, her entire body practically hanging on him.
However, due to some magical force, her weight seemed to have been reduced, causing little burden.
“...I know.”
He Hua mumbled, her cheeks flushed, in response to Lu Chen.
She jumped down from the air, her body floating lightly onto the ground, but immediately regained her normal weight.
Looking back, the apartment building's window where they were, was a good fifteen meters above ground!
“Is this also an effect of your ability?”
“That's right.”
Lu Chen nodded, reducing and increasing the "gravity" of himself or others was the most basic function of "Origin-Gravity."
As long as the gravity on oneself was reduced to zero, one could temporarily enter a "weightless" state, walking on walls as if on flat ground.
However, if one were to be hit with a large impact at this time, they would be thrown further, so there were both advantages and disadvantages.
“That's amazing.”
Thinking of the wondrous experience just now, He Hua expressed her envy.
Sister Ma Yi had also obtained similar "superpowers."
Now, out of the three of them, only she had no powers.
Lu Chen saw the slight disappointment on her face, and reached out to pat the blonde girl's head.
“Don't think too much about it, you today… are very lucky.”
“This luck, might come in handy for me.”
“Lucky?”
He Hua was a little puzzled, shaking her head with a wry smile.
“Why do I feel like today was the most unlucky day of my life?”
To this, Lu Chen didn't say anything.
Actually, he had discovered something while rushing here.
He Hua's location was exactly at the 200-meter limit of his “Survivor Broadcast.”
If she had been a little further away, she wouldn't have been able to receive his message or reply with her location.
In a sense, this was also a sign of good fortune.
“Where is Sister Ma Yi now?”
“Two blocks away, in a park... but she's currently taking care of a patient.”
“Did you encounter any other survivors?”
“It was Ma Yi's teacher from school, named Kiriya Madoka.”
Hearing this name, He Hua, who wasn't in the same high school as Sakurajima Mai, showed a look of realization.
“It's actually Teacher Kiriya, I didn't expect her to be caught up in this game too.”
“Do you know this Teacher Kiriya.”
“I've heard of her…”
While following Lu Chen, He Hua was recalling something.
“Teacher Kiriya was once the national champion in high school women's figure skating, known as the ‘Queen of Thin Ice’, she was very popular at the time…”
“However, she didn't choose to become a professional athlete, instead she retired and became a teacher, and the courses she taught were not physical education, but world history.”
“Oh... I see.”
Lu Chen turned his head and looked at the blonde girl who was talking, pondering.
“It seems you once admired her too.”
“Of course I did.”
He Hua didn't deny Lu Chen's words, instead she admitted it confidently.
“Back then, Teacher Kiriya's figure on the ice rink was dazzling, even now... I can't reach the brilliance she emitted back then.”
It seemed that the former “Ice Queen” was indeed a figure of admiration for a generation of students.
“By the way, you said ‘patient’... does that mean Teacher Kiriya is seriously injured?!”
“She isn't injured, but her condition is serious.”
Lu Chen simply described the situation of Kiriya Madoka, who had a persistent high fever and was in a coma.
Hearing this, He Hua, who had just escaped danger herself, couldn't help but worry.
“It sounds like a bad cold, that's really bad.”
“There are no doctors or operating hospitals in this place, relying solely on immunity to recover... would be very difficult.”
“So, besides coming to find you, I have another task.”
Lu Chen suddenly stopped in front of a store, raising his umbrella slightly, revealing the sign hanging above.
“Do you recognize this place?”
“This is... Ah!”
Only after seeing the entire store did He Hua realize they had come back to yesterday's clinic.
Perhaps due to the rain, the sign that was worn out yesterday was now clearly visible.
However, this time, they didn't encounter any other survivors.
“See if there are any usable medicines, pay attention to the expiration date.”
After confirming that there was no danger inside the clinic, Lu Chen activated the radar function of his wristwatch, marking surrounding resources in his field of vision.
Because he had a double-capacity storage space, Lu Chen didn't care if something was useful or not, he directly threw things into the space as he saw them marked.
Pain relievers? Good, save them for later.
Thermometer? Just take it to check Kiriya Madoka's temperature.
Bandages? It's common for survivors to be injured and bleed, take more, more.
Just as Lu Chen was busy stuffing a large bag of masks into his storage space, he heard a noise behind him, glanced back, and casually asked.
“What did you find?”
“Date!”
He Hua said an ambiguous word excitedly, her speech incoherent.
“This clinic has an electronic calendar that's still ticking.”
“I just happened to remember the date it showed yesterday.”
“After coming back here today, I found…”
“The time shown on the calendar is a whole year earlier than yesterday!”
“This city... is one year ‘earlier’ than yesterday!”
Lu Chen listened quietly as she finished speaking, his brows gradually furrowed.
After He Hua spilled everything she had discovered, he pondered for a moment and said softly.
“In other words.”
“We are gradually approaching the moment when this city experienced the ‘Doomsday’!”