Yu Ke sneered, "We haven't even taken anything yet, and you're already making demands?"
He glanced at Shen Hegui and the others still fighting zombies outside, then pointed at the zombies they had just killed on the ground, and said, "Why don't you say that we saved you, and you should let us take whatever we want to repay us?"
The female boss, hearing this, suddenly spoke up, "Since you're so kind as to save us, why can't you take us along? If you're here to get medicine, it means you definitely need our medicine to save lives."
"No matter how you look at it, medicine is precious. You take our medicine, so it's only right that you ensure our safety, isn't it?"
Yu Ke laughed in anger, "Do we look like suckers to you?"
"What? We helped you kill these zombies so you could come out, and instead of being grateful, you repay kindness with enmity and try to latch onto us?"
"Who asked you to come in and kill these zombies? You did it yourselves; we didn't beg you to," the male boss said, puffing out his chest, looking unafraid.
Yu Ke really couldn't figure out what leverage he had.
Just as he was hesitating whether to collect medicine here, Jiang Yuntan spoke up, "Since they don't need our help and don't want anyone to touch their pharmacy, let's forget it. After all, it is their property."
Yu Ke looked at her in confusion. Was this young lady actually speaking for those two?
But the next moment, Jiang Yuntan's words made him understand instantly.
"If they don't want to lose even a single thing from their store, then we'll just return everything we have intact," Jiang Yuntan said lazily.
Yu Ke nodded and said to the others, "Let's go out first and discuss with Brother Shen."
Lin Tingxue didn't understand why they had to be so reasonable. But seeing Yu Ke and Jiang Yuntan walk out, she had no choice but to follow.
The male boss and his wife didn't catch their underlying meaning and still waited for Yu Ke and the others to give in and take them along.
After all, they had cleared the zombies from their store—they wouldn't want to have done that for nothing, right?
But soon, they were shocked by Yu Ke's words.
Just as Yu Ke reached the door, he shouted to Shen Hegui, "Brother Shen, let six zombies through and return them to the boss and his wife."
Shen Hegui understood immediately that they must have run into some trouble.
He exchanged a glance with Xue Zhao and let a few zombies through. Exactly six. Then they began retreating toward their car.
Seeing this, Yu Ke told Jiang Yufeng to protect Jiang Yuntan and the other women and leave first.
Then he lured the zombies to the pharmacy entrance, led them inside, and seized the chance to slip away.
After training these past few days, although he couldn't kill several zombies at once, he was more than capable of luring a few away.
The male boss and his wife were horrified at the scene.
They wanted to follow Yu Ke out, but the zombies, catching their scent, lunged at them, terrifying them into not daring to move.
The male boss quickly shouted, "Come back! I'll let you take my medicine, okay?"
But he only heard Yu Ke casually leave behind a line, "Keep it for yourselves."
The male boss and his wife, watching the zombies closing in, scrambled back into the storage room in terror.
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In the car.
Shen Hegui took a sip of water and asked what had happened.
Jiang Yuntan told him everything in detail.
Shen Hegui had no objection and simply said, "In the future, just look for shops without living people. There's no need to bother with people like that; it's not worth it."
Jiang Yuntan hummed in agreement. Actually, if they hadn't been so pushy, asking to be taken along as dead weight and demanding good food and drink, they wouldn't have ended up returning the zombies to them.
As for what would happen to those two, that wasn't her concern.
Shen Hegui told the others via walkie-talkie to check the small pharmacies on the side streets.
Lin Xuan's puzzled voice came through the radio, "Why didn't we just take the stuff there? Now we have to go through all this trouble. If those two didn't want to give it up, we could have just taught them a lesson. After all, it's the apocalypse now—a lot of things have become ownerless."
Shen Hegui said calmly, "You're not wrong. But if they insist on not giving, and you forcibly take it, there will be a confrontation. If things get messy, who knows what could happen."
"We can't just kill the shopkeeper because he's blocking us from getting medicine, can we?"
Lin Xuan thought to himself: Why not?
But he didn't say it out loud in front of everyone, as it would make him seem too cold-blooded.
Shen Hegui continued, "We weren't there, but we should trust our teammates' decisions. Yu Ke and the others chose not to collect supplies there for a reason."
Yu Ke added, "Those two are just thugs. There's no benefit in getting tangled up with them. Besides, it's not like they're the only pharmacy. We can just find another one."
"Fine," Lin Xuan said, his voice carrying a hint of sulkiness.
But since Yu Ke and Shen Hegui were closer, and they stood together, he felt he had no say at all.
Once they returned to Jing City, he would definitely form his own team. He turned his head and glanced at Lin Tingxue from the corner of his eye.
If his own sister could awaken powers, then since they were siblings, he didn't believe he didn't have powers.
Soon, the group found a pharmacy on a street with fewer zombies.
While they were collecting medicine, Yu Ke pulled Jiang Yuntan into the liquor and cigarette store next door.
Yu Ke said, "Cigarettes can be a hard currency sometimes, sis. You should stash some away; they might come in handy for greasing the wheels later. And alcohol—it's a great accelerant."
Jiang Yuntan saw the lighters nearby, nodded, and grabbed some lighters as well.
But they didn't take much tobacco or alcohol—just half a cubic meter, saving room for medicine.
When they came out of the liquor store, Jiang Yuntan heard Shen Hegui calling her and waving.
She walked over, and Shen Hegui said, "There's some bird's nest and rose tea here. Didn't you want some? Oh, and there's more in their storage room. Come with me to check it out and take as much as you want."
Jiang Yuntan immediately understood his intention and followed him into the storage room.