Chapter 62: Interdimensional market.

Chapter 62: Interdimensional market.

There was still a long road after this, a long fight waiting for them, but in that moment Bai Li felt something she didn’t want to name too loudly. Maybe having a teammate really was useful. Maybe this woman beside her was not just someone she had to protect, but someone who could actually stand there and keep moving when the world tried to swallow them whole. That thought stayed with her as they pushed toward the top, the iron stairs groaning beneath their feet, the zombies still chasing from below.

By the time they reached the very top of the iron staircase, both of them were already running on nothing but willpower, their legs heavy, their breaths uneven, and the sound of the zombies behind them still chasing like a never ending nightmare that refused to stop no matter how far they climbed. Bai Li didn’t even bother to look back anymore because she already knew what she would see, a mass of twisted bodies crawling and climbing over each other, dragging themselves up step by step, guided not by intelligence but by some strange instinct that pulled them upward like puppets being dragged by invisible strings. Yan Cijin reached the iron door first and grabbed it, shaking it hard, but the metal didn’t move at all, the lock holding firm as if mocking them at the worst possible moment. The sound of the zombies getting closer made her heart tighten for just a second, even though she had seen this exact situation before in her past lives, but this time felt different, because Bai Li was here, because things were slightly out of place, and because this time she wasn’t alone anymore.

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