Chapter 9 - 8: Scavenging (Part 2)
When the fourth knock sounded, Little Knife bravely pushed the door open again. Expecting to face an empty room, she instead saw a person and instantly leaped in fright. Mid-jump, she realized it was Lin Wu and stuffed her left hand into her mouth to stop herself from screaming aloud.
"Why did you knock and scare me?" Little Knife demanded.
Lin Wu looked innocent, "I didn't knock. I came around after hearing the knocking sound and saw nothing."
Little Knife immediately breathed a sigh of relief, "You heard it too?" That's good, that's good.
Then Little Knife saw a zombie appear beside Lin Wu. As Lin Wu was about to step inside, the zombie was about to grab Lin Wu's shoulder and bite down. Instinctively, Little Knife kicked Lin Wu in the abdomen, causing him to step back and knock down the crumbling zombie. Only then did Lin Wu come to his senses and quickly knifed the zombie dead.
Little Knife also understood the situation.
Zombies were drawn to the sound of boards being pried open, their logic leading them to investigate the source of the noise. This somewhat intelligent zombie knew that knocking on the wall was futile, so it started knocking on the door instead. When Little Knife opened the door, she pushed it behind the door without noticing due to her blocked view by the door. Back and forth they went until Lin Wu, alerted by the noise, came to check and also failed to see the zombie on the ground behind the door.
"Nice kick." Lin Wu gave a thumbs-up, feeling a shiver of fear—he had been so serious, so meticulous, so vigilant, and yet had almost been caught off guard. The main reason was that human settlements were crowded with obstacles: low walls, bushes, greenery trees, discarded trucks, and so on, all good hiding places for corpses.
Little Knife opened the lid of a crate and found the first material package, "Got it." Afterward, she put the material package into her backpack.