103: Tong Huan, who is not like a human being

Bai Wanning didn't care if they were willing or not; she took the group to the farmers' market.

Although no zombies were found, a group of Mutated Rats was discovered, gnawing on the leftover vegetables and trash from the workers.

"You try these monsters first," Bai Wanning said, backing away slightly. "They're much easier to deal with than zombies."

Moreover, the Apocalypse virus within the Mutant Rat wasn't as potent as that in zombies, so even if her Older Brothers were bitten by these rats, the most they would get was a slight fever.

Bai Jixuan and Bai Zhan said nothing.

One transformed his entire arm into gold, while the other became a giant wolf.

Bai Wanning watched her two Older Brothers charge at the Mutated Rats; one smashed the rats into pulp, while the other tore them to death with his claws. Only then did she turn to Lei Yan, who was standing behind her, and ask, "Do you want to try?"

Lei Yan didn't agree, and Bai Wanning, not surprised, said, "I'll go collect the vegetables."

"Okay, but don't go too far."

If Lei Yan left her and something happened, she worried she wouldn't be able to save her in time.

"Okay," Lei Yan replied with a smile, turning and walking towards the small refrigerated cabinet where the vegetables were stored.

While her Older Brothers were clearing out the rats, Bai Wanning searched around the market, slowly picking up a few hoes, sickles, and other farm tools, and putting them into her space pocket. She didn't touch the vegetables but instead put them into boxes and placed them on top of the cabinets to prevent them from being damaged by the rats.

After doing all this, she clapped her hands, stepped aside, and found a few pairs of boots and chains to tie to the wheels when the roads were slippery.

Although she already had plenty of these items in her space, she still thought of Yun Chuan and his group, then took out a few chains and put them into her backpack.

Having finished, she turned to her Older Brothers, who were wiping their hands on their clothes, looking disgusted.

"So disgusting," Bai Zhan spat on the ground. Although he couldn't taste anything while biting these rats, he still found it a bit sickening.

After all, in his current form, he had to use his mouth to kill rats.

"You'll get used to it," Bai Wanning said, at a loss for words. After all, with her second Older Brother's awakened ability, he had no choice but to get used to it.

Of course, once he became a level three or four Extraordinary Person, he would be able to easily control other beasts with his abilities without having to use his own skills.

"Are you two done searching?" Bai Jixuan asked, putting a few pairs of gloves into his backpack, looking at his two younger siblings. "If you're done, then we'll—"

Before he could finish, there was a sudden loud bang, followed by an even louder scream.

They rushed towards the room at the end of the corridor, where Lei Yan was looking at something at her feet.

Seeing this, Bai Wanning breathed a sigh of relief. She had thought Lu Yin had caught Lei Yan, but thankfully, she hadn't.

She walked over and looked down at the woman lying at Lei Yan's feet. She was in rags, and there was a hideous wound on one side of her abdomen.

"Sister Wanning, she, she's dying," Lei Yan turned to Bai Wanning, her eyes red, and said. Lei Yan had lived like a little princess her whole life and had never seen someone die in front of her, at least she had never felt so helpless.

"I wanted to see what was in the wardrobe, so I pulled it open, and this woman fell out. Now she's begging me, and I really don't know what to do."

"Save—save me," the woman moaned weakly, her cloudy eyes brightening when she saw Bai Wanning, exclaiming, "Benefactor, it's you."

Bai Wanning lowered her flashlight to the woman, carefully recalling her appearance, and tentatively called out, "Tong Huan?"

"Hey, hey, it's me..."

Seeing the two greeting each other, Lei Yan was startled and turned to ask, "Sister, do you know her?"

"I met her when I was looking for supplies."

Tong Huan slightly raised her head, scrutinized Bai Wanning, then slid her hand into the bag she was clutching, pulled out a rubber ball, and handed it to Bai Wanning, saying, "Benefactor, this I... I'm returning it to you."

Only then did Bai Wanning realize that what Tong Huan was giving her was actually the damaged inflatable boat she had given her.

"It's a bit broken, but you can still use it if you fix it," Tong Huan told Bai Wanning, "I don't need it anymore." She added with a bitter smile.

Although she was begging Lei Yan, Tong Huan knew her chances of survival were slim.

"Keep it," Bai Wanning squatted down, carefully examining her wound. "Let me look at your wound first."

"It's no use," Tong Huan sighed, pulling open her clothes to show the wound to Bai Wanning and the others.

The wound on her abdomen was not simple; it looked like it had been cut and then dug into, with countless bite marks around the wound, and her ribs were faintly visible.

The wound was already infected and festering.

"The day I went home... I found out someone had broken into my house and killed my parents and younger siblings..."

"I wanted to kill them... but I couldn't beat those people, and in the end, I escaped, barely alive. Thanks to this boat, I got away, otherwise those people..." Tong Huan said, her eyes welling up. She was a woman and knew very well what the four men who killed her parents were after.

She sniffed and continued, "But I was unlucky; I attracted a group of Mutated Rats that attacked me, and even this boat was—bitten through by them."

She looked at Bai Wanning with a bitter smile and said, "Benefactor, I'm sorry, I broke what you lent me."

"I told you, don't worry." Bai Wanning frowned, looking at the wound. This wound was tricky, but she knew she could handle it. As long as she exchanged for some traditional Chinese medicine from the Miracle Doctor, she could treat Tong Huan's wound.

There was no choice; Tong Huan reminded her of Shen Zhen, and seeing her like this made Bai Wanning feel a little uneasy.

Tong Huan didn't speak, but just took a few things out of her bag and handed them to Bai Wanning.

"I, I picked up a Puppy when I was escaping," Tong Huan pulled over the cage hidden under the aisle and pushed it in front of Bai Wanning. "Can you take it? I don't think I can take care of it."

Bai Wanning looked at the Puppy in the cage, a hint of coldness flashing in her eyes. She certainly remembered this Puppy.

Bai Wanning asked the woman lying on the ground, "Are you a veterinarian?"

"I'm studying to be a veterinarian..."

This woman, she had to bring her back.

Not only because Tong Huan looked a bit like Shen Zhen, but also because she had saved this Puppy.

Bai Wanning didn't know if her suspicions were correct, but she wanted to save Tong Huan, even if she wasn't Shen Zhen's sister who had been sent away by her parents.

Shen Zhen, as the eldest daughter, didn't know that her younger sisters were being sent away one by one.

She came to the city at sixteen and had always lived with her uncle in the city.

Because the village was far from the city, she rarely went back, and each time she did, her parents would find excuses not to bring her younger sisters.

After becoming a doctor, she couldn't go back to the village even more.

It wasn't until her parents brought their precious son to the city and took over her house that Shen Zhen realized her younger sisters had all been sold by her parents.

They kept her because she had started earning money from a young age.

If it weren't for this, Shen Zhen wouldn't have abandoned her parents when she reunited with them in the Apocalypse.