Chapter 19: I’m Just a Passing-By Righteous Knight

Chapter 19: Chapter 19: I’m Just a Passing-By Righteous Knight

With her back against the wall, Cheng Ying’s face was a mask of utter despair.

’The only way out is suicide!’

She would die before she let her husband’s murderers defile her.

Seeing the lecherous hand reaching for her, Cheng Ying steeled herself and thrust the fruit knife in her hand straight forward.

’Since I’m going to die anyway, I’ll be damned if I let them have an easy time of it.’

One of the thugs failed to dodge in time and was stabbed to death.

Blood immediately spurted out, and Cheng Ying instinctively stumbled backward in fright.

The remaining thugs were enraged.

"Damn bitch! We tried to be nice, but you just had to make me get rough, didn’t you!"

The thug didn’t hold back, swinging a hand viciously toward Cheng Ying’s face.

The terrifying force of the blow made Cheng Ying scream in fear.

"Stay away from me!"

Her body tipped straight backward—and right behind her was the window...

Cheng Ying instinctively squeezed her eyes shut. She could feel the cold wind whistling past her ears...

’Oh well, maybe it’s better to die!’

’Death will be a release!’

’My only regret is that I won’t get to see those bastards die...’

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Just as Cheng Ying thought she was certainly going to die, a strong arm suddenly wrapped around her waist, pulling her straight back from the window’s edge.

The strong scent of a man washed over her.

"Didn’t you hear her tell you to stay away?"

A sharp SLAP echoed as a hand struck one of the thugs across the face.

Another vicious kick sent two more thugs flying.

The newcomer was so fast that the men in the room only registered his presence after two of their own were already on the floor, unable to get up. Their expressions immediately turned vicious.

"Who the hell are you, kid?"

"You dare meddle in our business?"

Surrounded by thugs brandishing knives and clubs, the newcomer remained completely unfazed.

"Me? Who am I?"

"I’m just a passing knight of justice!"

Mengde smiled faintly, borrowing a classic line from Brother Xiaoming.

Just moments before, he had finally finished dealing with the massive horde of zombies downstairs.

Finding the rooms downstairs picked clean of supplies, he had made a beeline for this apartment.

He hadn’t expected to find that Apartment #1302 was actually home to a top-tier Goddess!

And the crucial part was, he actually recognized this Goddess!

Cheng Ying!

This was one of the few streamers that the body’s previous owner—that blockhead who claimed to be "uninterested in women"—had silently followed.

She was a woman who had once brought a measure of comfort to the previous owner’s soul!

The previous owner probably would have never guessed, not in a million years, that the Goddess he dreamed of day and night lived right across the hall from him!

So, upon seeing her, Mengde felt a genuine sense of familiarity.

Don’t get the wrong idea. He wasn’t having too many dirty thoughts. Like so many other guys out there, he simply wanted to add her to the Goddess Catalogue.

Really!

He swore!

And it was a good thing he arrived when he did. Otherwise, this Goddess’s life and beauty would have truly been forfeit.

Hearing Mengde’s reply, Cheng Ying, who had just been snatched from the jaws of death, couldn’t help but let out a small laugh from within his embrace.

’This young man is kind of interesting...’

[Ding! Congratulations, Host. Goddess Cheng Ying’s Affinity has increased by 5. Current Affinity: 5!]

But to the thugs, it sounded like Mengde was insulting their intelligence.

Since the apocalypse began, everyone who had dared to talk to them like that was already dead!

"You brat, you’re asking to die!"

Enraged, one of them charged, swinging his knife at Mengde. Terrified, Cheng Ying threw her arms around Mengde’s broad waist and screamed instinctively.

"AH! Be careful!!!"

But in the next second, the thug dropped to his knees.

Because a pistol was already pressed firmly against his forehead.

"What did you just say? I didn’t hear you clearly."

"Say it again."

With the massive Desert Eagle pressed to his head, the thug was already breaking out in a cold sweat.

He never imagined that the kid who’d suddenly burst in would actually have a gun.

After all, guns were illegal contraband before the apocalypse.

In their entire residential complex’s security team, only their captain, Brother Kun, had a gun.

’Where the hell did this guy get one!’

"I..."

BANG!

"Sorry, I don’t feel like listening anymore!"

Mengde kept one arm wrapped around Cheng Ying’s slender waist.

’This woman’s waist is so damn slim!’

Holding her, he could feel her curvaceous figure pressing tightly against him.

Seeing the newcomer open fire without a moment’s hesitation, the surviving thugs realized this was bad news and tried to flee.

Guys with knives and clubs were no match for someone with a gun.

However, the next second, a voice rang out.

"Stop. Did I say you could leave?"

The thugs had just stopped, not even fully turned around yet!

Mengde grinned.

"Heh! I tell you to stop, and you actually stop? You guys really aren’t afraid to die, are you!"

"Well, sorry, but I’m not taking prisoners!"

BANG! BANG! BANG!

After a few more shots, the thugs who had just tried to flee all fell to his gun.

One thug remained standing, pointing at Mengde with a look of pure indignation...

"Oh, so you want one too?"

"Got it, got it!"

BANG!

The last of the thugs who broke into the room died with his eyes wide open in disbelief...

Watching this newcomer kill so decisively, the only other person still alive, Wang Dan, was scared witless. A puddle formed on the floor beneath her.

But it was no use.

Mengde had heard every word of that woman’s outrageous speech just now.

Mengde had zero tolerance for these kinds of entitled brats.

So, without another word, he went to pull the trigger. But to his surprise, Cheng Ying, still in his arms, stopped his hand.

"Wait!"

"Oh?"

Mengde glanced down at the woman in his arms, puzzled.

Wang Dan, who had been certain she was about to die, clung to this moment like a lifeline, turning her last glimmer of hope toward Cheng Ying.

"Xiaoying, I’m your best friend!"

"Think about our friendship all these years, think of everything I’ve done for you... I was the one who got you into this business in the first place..."

Wang Dan seized the opportunity, frantically listing every good deed she had ever done for Cheng Ying.

Mengde watched with great interest to see what choice Cheng Ying would make.

He had heard their entire conversation from outside the door.

So he had a pretty good idea of what had happened.

If Cheng Ying could forgive her so-called best friend after all this, then even if she was a top-tier Goddess, Mengde wouldn’t let her live.

’In the apocalypse, you kill the bleeding hearts first.’

That was a rule he knew well.

Thankfully, Cheng Ying didn’t disappoint him.

"No!"

"Her... I want to kill her myself!"

As she spoke, Cheng Ying’s eyes blazed with hatred.

It was because of this "best friend" that her husband had been brutally killed!

’How could I possibly let her go!’

Mengde nodded and handed the pistol to Cheng Ying.

Taking the gun from Mengde’s hand, Cheng Ying’s body trembled slightly as she aimed the muzzle at her former best friend.

Seeing this, Mengde stepped forward to embrace her slender waist, inhaling her sweet feminine scent. This would also help her absorb the gun’s recoil...

"Xiaoying, don’t... Think about your wedding, I helped you plan it..."

With the dark, hollow barrel of the gun pointed at her, Wang Dan began to babble desperately.

She would have been better off not saying anything. Her words completely ignited Cheng Ying’s rage.

"AHH!!!"

BANG!

A gunshot rang out, and Wang Dan was completely silenced.

Cheng Ying just stood there, stunned, as if she hadn’t processed what just happened...

Within the span of a few days, she had suffered the brutal death of her husband and the betrayal of her best friend.

And today, she had personally killed her once-best friend....

This series of devastating blows was finally too much for her to bear. She went limp in Mengde’s arms and began to sob uncontrollably.......

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