IDMLA 24

The people inside the supermarket exchanged uneasy glances. This situation…

“Should we go in?” Qin Zhang leaned over to ask.

Among the abilities awakened by their group, none could saw through the warehouse door, not even Jiang Zhu could manage it. In the current situation, they had no idea whether anyone was inside the warehouse. If the person inside had abilities stronger than theirs, going in could end badly.

But if they didn’t go in, they had no food supplies left either. Dragging things out would only lead to starvation.

Jiang Zhu stared at the hole, frowning as well.

If someone’s ability could saw through a door like this, then if it hit a person, wouldn’t there be no chance of saving them at all…

He tightened his grip on the hand he was holding.

Tang Tang shared the same concern.

The sudden tightening on her hand startled her. She looked up at Jiang Zhu and saw him frowning. She thought for a moment and could roughly guess he was worried about her.

“Hey, hey,” Tang Tang poked Jiang Zhu’s shoulder, signaling she wanted to say something.

Jiang Zhu bent down to lean closer. “Hmm?”

“Let’s not go in first,” Tang Tang whispered into his ear, her finger subtly pointing toward Zheng Xue’s direction. “Be careful Zheng Xue might pull something. His ability, those thin threads can’t be cut with a knife. I’ve tried.”

Jiang Zhu nodded. When he looked toward Zheng Xue, his gaze suddenly turned cold and sinister.

Over on the other side, Jiang Chi didn’t think much of it. Seeing the door already opened for them saved him the effort.

He was about to step forward when he turned and noticed that Jiang Zhu’s people were all standing at the entrance, neither going in nor leaving. He didn’t know why, but he was hungry now and didn’t care. Since these people weren’t going in, he would go in himself.

With that thought, he strode toward the opening.

The girl whose ability involved vision saw him move and followed, though she didn’t stop him. She only said, “Let me check the situation inside first.”

With that, she peered inside.

The warehouse had several doors. After the outermost door was opened, one had to cross a small bend before reaching the second door. This was also one of the reasons they were all standing outside, hesitating with so many considerations.

But unexpectedly, the girl could see inside just by standing outside the first door? Why? Could she see through walls?

Tang Tang watched the girl. She seemed no different from how she normally looked at people. After about a minute, however, the girl suddenly began to sweat, and her face was turning noticeably pale.

Huh? What was happening?

“Don’t go in!” the girl quickly turned her head away, closed her eyes, and blurted out.

“Why?” Jiang Chi asked.

“I don’t know,” she shook her head. “There should be someone inside. My ability can’t probe in.”

“Then what’s going on with you? You’re sweating.”

The girl frowned, her expression grave. “The pressure inside is very high. The moment I extended my ability in, it couldn’t withstand it.”

The supermarket fell into silence again.

Then Jiang Zhu spoke up. “Let’s go somewhere else.”

With that, he took Tang Tang’s hand and turned, heading toward the supermarket entrance.

Qin Zhang and Qi Mu, seeing this, naturally had no objections to the decision and followed along. The knife-wielding young man was a bit annoyed, but seeing the other two follow as well, he had no choice but to tag along.

In his view, even though the warehouse might be dangerous, if it weren’t for that woman holding them back, they could have given it a shot. Now going out, what was the point? Starve to death?!

With that thought, the young man stared at Tang Tang’s back, grinding his teeth in frustration.

Noticing this, Jiang Zhu glanced back at him, a flicker of thought passing through his eyes.

In the end, they made their way through the thick fog and returned to the shelter they’d decided on in Jiang Zhu’s dorm room when the apocalypse first began, the gymnasium.

Compared to the supermarket, the gymnasium was in much better shape. There weren’t even many wandering zombies inside, let alone people.

The few zombies noticed the scent of humans and shuffled their stiff steps toward them, but before they could get close, Jiang Zhu’s ability swept them up and tossed them all out.

Qin Zhang and Qi Mu quickly shut the gymnasium doors and dragged two large tables over to block them.

Instantly, it felt like the gymnasium was their own private domain.

But that clearly wasn’t enough, because even with a quiet place to rest, their stomachs were still empty.

Tang Tang was led by Jiang Zhu to a chair in the gymnasium and sat down. She watched the others find seats for themselves as well, but they were probably hungry, hands pressed to their stomachs, all of them listless.

She looked over at Jiang Zhu again.

He sat on a chair beside her. He wasn’t holding his stomach, but since they were close, she could just barely hear a few faint grumbles coming from him.

Jiang Zhu noticed Tang Tang’s gaze and turned his head. “What’s wrong?”

Tang Tang shook her head. “Nothing.”

She turned back, propping her chin on her hand, lost in thought.

She remembered that she still had a hidden space.

Jiang Zhu, Qin Zhang, Qi Mu, and Yan Chen, who was currently awakening his ability, she had come into contact with all four of them. If it were just these four, she could reveal the hidden space to them right now and share the food together.

Tang Tang looked up at the other three people sitting on the opposite side, but these three…

Although she knew that anyone who could enter the male lead’s group would definitely not betray Jiang Zhu, her identity was awkward right now, and judging from their expressions, they also had a lot of complaints about her. Especially that guy who played with knives, the way he glared at her was especially terrifying.

Because she didn’t have an ability, she was actually still a bit scared.

She thought about it, then thought about it again. After going back and forth, she still decided to take a gamble.

“Um, I…”

But just as she opened her mouth, a familiar dizzy feeling washed over her. Tang Tang’s vision went dark, and then a headache followed. The pain was simply indescribable, it felt like something was constantly exploding inside her head. This time, even her ears began to feel like they were losing their hearing.

Jiang Zhu noticed her abnormal condition and quickly reached out to support her. “What’s wrong?”

This time, the dizziness lasted a bit longer, a full thirty seconds.

Tang Tang took a while to recover before she finally came to.

But her head still ached faintly, as if there were aftereffects.

“I’m fine, just dizzy again.”

She raised her hand and rubbed her face, trying to make herself more alert.

What was going on? Why did this headache and dizziness suddenly appear out of nowhere…

Tang Tang couldn’t figure it out. She noticed Jiang Zhu was still supporting her, so she pushed his arm away, indicating she could lie back against the chair’s headrest and rest for a while.

Jiang Zhu didn’t insist. He just said softly for her to rest well, then stood up.

Jiang Zhu wasn’t the only one who noticed Tang Tang’s condition, the other five also belatedly took note.

Qin Zhang and Qi Mu exchanged a glance, both worried about Tang Tang’s situation. This dizziness came on too strangely, and it seemed the duration had even lengthened.

The knife-wielding guy, however, was very disdainful, looking at Tang Tang with contempt in his eyes.

At that moment, the line of sight toward Tang Tang was suddenly blocked. The guy looked up and saw Jiang Zhu.

“I have something to say to you all. Come over here.”

Jiang Zhu looked at him, and also glanced at the other two guys, his face expressionless. After speaking, he walked ahead toward the open area deeper inside the gymnasium.

That spot was a bit of a distance from where the others were resting—if they talked there, the others definitely wouldn’t be able to hear.

The three exchanged looks, stood up, and followed.

“Jiang Zhu, what’s the matter?” one of the three asked.

Jiang Zhu nodded. “It’s something very important. I need to tell you all.”

The three looked at each other again. Seeing Jiang Zhu’s grave expression, they all listened seriously.

Then Jiang Zhu said, “Tang Tang is now part of our team. I hope that while you trust me, you can also see her as a teammate.”

The atmosphere fell silent for a moment, and then the knife-wielding guy couldn’t hold it in.

“Jiang Zhu, you just heard it too, she…” He spoke urgently, truly unable to bear watching Jiang Zhu be used by this vain, vicious woman again.

But Jiang Zhu cut him off: “I did hear what she said about me, but that’s a personal issue between her and me. We’ll resolve it on our own.”

“Jiang Zhu…” The other two saw how deeply Jiang Zhu was in it and tried to dissuade him as well.

“I’m serious about this. This really is something between us. I hope you won’t interfere.”

Jiang Zhu’s expression was earnest, with not a trace of joking.

The three opened their mouths, wanting to speak but holding back. But seeing Jiang Zhu’s unyielding attitude, they could only sigh helplessly.

They truly couldn’t understand why the rational Jiang Zhu would be so completely bewitched by such a vain woman with a sharp tongue, to the point of losing his senses.

They were so frustrated!

But Jiang Zhu was right, this really was a matter between the two of them. Even if they were close brothers, it wouldn’t be appropriate to interfere and target her like this.

The three nodded, indicating their agreement.

Only then was Jiang Zhu satisfied. He turned to head back to the resting area, but suddenly stopped in his tracks.

He didn’t turn around, only saying, “You only know her through what happened with me. If you’re willing, you can try getting to know her. She…”

She’s not what you think, and she’s not what I thought either.

Jiang Zhu paused, not finishing that sentence completely.

It was also the words he used to convince himself.

Let him try, to see if he could unravel the mystery in all of this.

The four of them returned to the resting area and saw Tang Tang had left her seat, standing in front of Qin Zhang and Qi Mu, holding several packs of instant noodles in her hands, with two bottles of water resting on top of the noodles.

Qin Zhang and Qi Mu’s expressions looked hilarious, their mouths were wide open, faces full of disbelief.

It took them a long while before they dumbly took the things Tang Tang had brought over, then looked at each other, only seeing a shocked face on the other.

A space?

And it was fully stocked?

They seemed to realize something, and a wave of emotion suddenly swept through their hearts.

This was probably something she had saved up before. In a place like the apocalypse, where people’s true natures were tested, she actually trusted them this much, even revealing something like that.

Jiang Zhu and the others walked over. Tang Tang didn’t know what they had just said, but she could tell that the three people behind him were looking at her with much gentler eyes.

She pursed her lips. Since she had already made up her mind to speak up, there was no point in hiding it anymore.

So she quickly summoned a bundle of instant noodles out of thin air again, and then, once more, conjured water over the noodles.

Even Jiang Zhu included, the four who had just returned were all stunned by her move.

What was going on?

How was this possible?

Tang Tang held out the things in her arms: “This is what I’ve stocked up. Want to fill your stomachs first?”