XG 6 - Not everyone is as fearless as you, mother

To make sure no more surprises will pop out, Suzie Yap stabbed the heart of the other female corpse with white streaks on her hair, who had most of her flesh eaten clean.

To be eaten alive… what a painful way of dying.

Today, the clean, sophisticated design of the female washroom and soft music had met its end and became a crime scene. No one will bother cleaning this place, or any other place in this shopping mall because everyone will be busy running for their lives. Wong Xue Guo doubted the military will be able to contain the spreading that quickly and efficiently. None of the zombie apocalypse novels she had read ever had their government able to control the situation and the whole world was in code red in just a few days.

Would reality fare better?

"Guo Guo, is that umbrella your weapon of choice?" Suzie Yap mentioned what her daughter was holding.

Once again, Wong Xue Guo flashed her death exemption tag. "Father said it's a barely acceptable weapon if I use its ribs."

"Him again." Suzie Yap scowled before her face was once again smiling sweetly at Wong Xue Guo. "Come, let mommy fix it for you."

For a moment, Wong Xue Guo resisted the idea of handling her only weapon to her mother. It was just for a moment.

As she watched how easily her mother's fair, dainty hands easily ripped apart the umbrella without hesitation, she told herself she could not use her father’s name to block her mother. At least until their father joined them. Even if her mother was displeased with her father, unknown for what reasons, her father would easily coax her to the sweet wife mode again when they finally reunited.

"These are still weak." Suzie Yap eyed the umbrella ribs with a frown, eying them as low-graded goods.

Wong Xue Guo silently agreed with her mother's analysis. After searching around a small cupboard with cleaning supplies, she pulled out two brooms.

"You are such a clever child, baby!" Suzie Yap generously praised her, even bestowing her with a kiss on her cheek-covered mask.

Wong Xue Guo: '...'

With her body assaulted by heat flush, Wong Xue Guo does not remember when was the last time her mother had kissed or hugged her. Why was she finally given what she had long given up on at the time of the apocalypse?

Final wish granted before your death?

Suzie Yap took the wooden brooms and her heels stepped at the neck, snapping them off easily. She passed two long sticks to Wong Xue Guo, who silently accepted it and was no longer surprised with her strength. As for the umbrella spine and ribs, she stored them into her sling bag, thinking that it would be useful for something else.

"Guo Guo, outside will have many failures. Remember to stick to mom and don't leave my side, okay? Leave all the fighting to mom."

"Failures?" Wong Xue Guo repeated the word that caught her attention. Why would her mother call those zombies with that particular term that was full of meanings?

"I don't know what to call them. Since Guo Guo called them zombies, let's call them that." Suzie Yap's expression was acted well, full of nonchalant and disregard of the issue.

But Wong Xue Guo had spent more than ten years trying to decipher her parent’s body language and expression to avoid any landmines.

"I just called them randomly." Wong Xue Guo laughed and did not press onto the issue since her mother does not want to speak of it. "They are similar to the zombies I've seen from the movies."

“Hmm, they are truly alike to zombies,” Suzie Yap readily agreed as she went to the sink and cleaned her bloodstained hands, face and hair, but her dress could not be saved. “Alright, let’s go.”

It was a lie if Wong Xue Guo was not afraid of going out. It will be more chaotic and dangerous out there, but they have to face them if they want to get to safety. "Mother, are there a lot of zombies outside?"

"Yes, so Guo Guo has to follow mom closely, okay?"

"Do we need to walk quietly?" Wong Xue Guo asked.

"No need. With mom here, there's no need to hide from them. I will kill any that approach us."

Wong Xue Guo: ‘…’ Not everyone is as fearless as you, mother.

Basically, she got zero useful information from her mother and could only see the situation for herself.

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, with tense shoulders and roaming eyes.

The lights were as bright as before, with sounds coming from different shops that were displaying advertisements. It was completely empty of living people.

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

Wong Xue Guo eyed those corpses warily, noted that most of them have completely white hair and shrunken flesh. There were very few corpses with black hair and with normal body size. 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 failures.

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

The shopping mall was mostly peaceful, with echoes of growls that would disturb the peace occasionally.

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.

Thankfully, she had the foresight not to remove her face mask and it helped to block out most of the bloody stench. As for those pieces around the pool of blood that looked like meat, she avoids her urge to examine them closely.

Suzie Yap's lively figure naturally attracted the zombies that were eying for new food and immediately ran over.

Clutching tightly onto the broomstick, Wong Xue Guo could not resist whimpering in fear seeing more than twenty zombies running towards them. They were moving as fast as a healthy human… no, they could be even faster, as they do not seem to need to think or conscious of their limit as humans do.

This time, Wong Xue Guo saw with her own eyes how her mother fought against the zombies and understood why she was fearless.

She has the capital to feel so!

Suzie Yap's movement with her knives was swift, brutal, and precise. In Wong Xue Guo’s eyes, not even the stunt actors from movies could fight as well as her mother. There was no way she could see behind her head, yet she could defend all her weak spots and also guarding Wong Xue Guo who was following closely behind her.

The charging white-haired male zombie was restrained with a kick onto its chest and Suzie Yap took the momentum to kick it onto the ground and stabbed its heart in one go.

As a woman that mingles in high society, Suzie Yap always wore high heels during any occasion, even if it was just going out to trim flowers in the garden. It was only inside their home had she replaced her high heels with cozy home slippers. The years of intimacy with her shoes had trained her to be able to run or jump with no problem in high heels.

Wong Xue Guo wondered just how much pain and suffering her mother had experienced to successfully conquer her high heels.

With how easily her mother pulled the aggro onto her and killed the zombies, Wong Xue Guo felt like she only needed to lie down to win the 'game'. She only got the chance to fight against one zombie. Unfortunately, even if she had planned to stab its chest, her fear had her move against her plan and smacked the zombie on its head instead.

Her attack had not even hurt the zombie but made it enter rage mode.

With a tiny yelp, she continues on with the second attack, only to once again let her die-hard habit to have her stab its head, intending for its brain. She had failed to reprogram her body to accept the zombie's new weak point which was their heart.

In the end, her mother interrupted her clumsy fight and ended the zombie with a deep thrust into its heart. Earlier, Wong Xue Guo had confirmed that it was difficult to stab a person's head and bone with her level of chicken strength.

Wong Xue Guo: How did a woman that did not even do any housework could get this kind of strength?!

Maybe her mother had hit the gym during her free time.

"Baby, did they frighten you? Mom will quickly kill them all, okay?" Suzie Yap gazed at her daughter with concern when she noticed her dejected mood and thought she was afraid.

Wong Xue Guo plastered her well-oiled smile, not that her mother could see it with her mask blocking. "I'm fine. I want to help my mother fight."

"No need. Such a thing, just let mom do it."

"How can I do that? Mother will be tired if you continue fighting!" Wong Xue Guo's voice was full of worry. "We haven't even passed through one floor yet."

And her mother seems to have cleaned up most of the zombies on this floor... Darn it, just how many humans had been infected in such a short time? There was also no encounter with any survivors.

"Don't worry. Your mom has lots of strength!"

Wong Xue Guo silently eyed her mother and concluded that it does not seem to be a lie.

Suzie Yap was only sweating a little, her breathing was not as harsh as one expected from the intense fight she had done. Her physical state was not something one could train in one day, but years.

Looks like not only her father has secrets, even her mother was too …

Smiling until her eyes curved like a crescent moon, Wong Xue Guo said with a slight spoiling tone. "Then Guo Guo will count on mom to protect me!"

She had done that to test if her mother would be offended with her clinginess, but who would have thought it made her mother so happy that she was over the moon. Suzie Yap would have hugged her daughter if she was not covered with blood.

Suzie Yap’s reaction told her that her current mother was not averse to having a closer relationship with her, which was in contrast to her previous attitude of keeping her at arm’s length. With her mother’s current attitude, she could use this chance to gather information from her.

If it was her father, she would not even have the chance to get even a word of information.

Little cub Guo Guo was trained to obey and be submissive to the Alpha Papa, the head of their family of three.