Shadow In Your Mind [ARC 1- 5]

Chapter 8 - Never help anyone that's bitten

XG 8 - Never help anyone that's bitten

Suzie Yap exited the washroom first, with her usual straight back and sophisticated walk that was her signature. Opposite her mother's confident strut, Wong Xue Guo nearly tiptoed like a thief as she walked to control the sound coming from her shoes, her shoulder tense and her eyes roaming around.

As soon as Wong Xue Guo rounded the corner right outside the washroom, she nearly had a mini heart attack. She was not sure what she was expecting, but the sight of a young girl, clutching onto the phone receiver connected to the payphone might not be it. The girl was still in her school uniform and was crying as she pleaded for whoever she was calling to save her.

Her crying eyes widened when she saw them. "Help... help me."

Suzie Yap grasped Wong Xue Guo's wrist, acting as a chain if her daughter were to move to help. "She's bitten. Guo Guo, never help anyone that's bitten. You can choose not to kill them, but never risk your life to help them."

"Yes, mother." Wong Xue Guo had also noticed the girl's lower leg was bitten so badly she could not stand up straight.

The young girl could never chase after them with her injured leg, and she also was not willing to end the phone call. In the end, she could only scream in helplessness from being abandoned as she watched the mother and daughter walk away.

"Mother, you are not afraid she would become one of the zombies if we don't kill her first?" Wong Xue Guo asked, trying to ignore the girl's scream that would attract danger.

She had not seen the Calendar friends and thus was able to hold an indifferent heart, even if the sound of them meeting their end still spook her very soul. But she had seen that poor girl, which moved her compassionate side a tiny bit.

Visuals were important in influencing people's hearts. If not for her mother's words, she might be debating on whether to help the poor girl even if she insisted on being a lone wolf.

"As long as she's still breathing, it's not right for us to end her life without her permission." Just as Suzie Yap said that the screaming abruptly stopped, like the plug being pulled out from the socket.

That girl... might be found by a stray zombie.

At that thought, Wong Xue Guo could not help but break out shivers from that disheartening guess.

The lights in the shopping mall were much brighter than in the restroom area. The loudest sound came from different shops that were displaying advertisements on the TV, with no sign of other living humans.

The welcoming shopping mall had transformed into a horror mall, with some corpses littered around the place. There was also a large amount of blood spilt on every surface as if someone disdains the clean exterior.

Wong Xue Guo eyed those corpses warily, noting that most of them have completely white hair and shrunken flesh. There were very few corpses with black hair and with normal body sizes. She could not figure out why these people had not changed into zombies.

Was this related to what her mother called them? Failures? There must be conditions to be met to avoid being 'failure'.

"Guo Guo, follow mommy," Suzie Yap called when she noticed her daughter was distracted from staring intensely at the corpses, who then hurriedly chased after her.

As they walked, she could hear echoes of growls and screams that yanked at her desire to hide to the surface.

Wong Xue Guo resisted the urge to suggest hiding and sneaking around when she saw her mother walk around confidently. She also slowly got used to stepping onto blood and was forced to speed walk to keep up with her mother's speed, as well as to avoid slipping on the wet floor. Luckily her school shoes were black and she could not see the blood staining her shoes.