Shadow In Your Mind [ARC 1- 5]

Chapter 77 - Could the chicken talk to the duck?

XG 77 - Could the chicken talk to the duck?

With the messy floor, it was easy for Man Jeong to 'accidentally' trip over something and even 'clumsily' grab onto an unstable shelf as support. There were some miscellaneous items on the shelf and they tumbled down to the floor, causing so much noise that even people at the next door could hear.

With a horrified expression, Man Jeong trembled as he guiltily stared at Wong Xue Guo that met his eyes.

"Shit!" Wong Xue Guo cursed as the growls of zombies became louder, along with the sounds of running footsteps.

"I-I'm sorry!" Man Jeong dropped his baseball bat with a loud clang and clutched his head in fierce tremor. His current pose further deepens their view of him being a coward that needs protection.

"Pick up your bat!" Wong Xue Guo hissed at the coward while trying to keep her voice down, not that he could understand what she said.

"Xue Guo, take Man Jeong and hide first!" Chen Yibo urged, stabbing a zombie and kicking away another from reaching out to Wong Xue Guo. Man Jeong's current state was no use to them.

With a frustrated click of her tongue, Wong Xue Guo grabbed Man Jeong's wrist and pulled him up. "Come on!"

"Run!" Chen Yibo shouted at Man Jeong in Korean, which finally triggered the scared guy's survival instinct.

Wong Xue Guo followed behind Man Jeong that finally took off, keeping an eye on any zombie that might follow them. Man Jeong ran like a headless chicken back to the bedroom, but only to return to the wrong one.

"You got the wrong one!" Wong Xue Guo was about to knock on the door of their real hideout when the panicking Man Jeong grabbed her wrist and pulled her into Yuna's stinky bedroom before locking the door.

"You... haish." Since they were already in the wrong room, it was useless to scold someone that did not understand what she was saying anyway.

She consoled herself that Man Jeong was afraid and prone to make mistakes in his state. At least he challenged his cowardice and tried to save her too. She had planned to shove him back into the safe room and went back out to fight, but seeing his trembling figure pressing his back against the locked door, she decided to stay with him for a bit.

At least, until he calmed down and then made sure there was no zombie outside, before sending him back to the right room. Those people that were fighting outside should be fine even without her.

But could the chicken talk to the duck?

Wong Xue Guo's eyes twitched. She had to try. He should have also noticed they had got into the wrong room. Luckily they had removed most of the papers sticking to the window, so they still have natural light seeping into the room.

She pointed at the wall, indicating the next room. "Man Jeong, next door-"

Her words died out when Man Jeong raised his head. Different from what she expected, there was no fear on his face at all and the unexpected expression had the words she wanted to say vaporized from her tongue.

Dare did she say he looked... hungry instead?

She did not guess wrong when he licked his lips, his mouth overflowing with drool rather disgustingly. This type of lecherous gaze was disturbingly similar to those she had seen from the villain perverts in movies when they look at female characters.

She forced her legs to stay still instead of backing away from the deranged leer. It was good that this fool had dropped his weapon, and she still had hers.