Apocalypse: The Great Reset
Chapter 4

That Car Was Plowing Through Zombies

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Chu Han's eyes flashed with murderous intent. Idiot!

He turned toward the source of the voice. On the first floor of the boys' dormitory, Duan Ming had opened a window and was shouting at Chu Han from a hundred meters away. Because of his desperate cries, the aimlessly wandering zombies gradually began gathering in that direction.

"Chu Han! Get me out of here! I'll give you money! My dad is—" Seeing Chu Han turn around, Duan Ming kept yelling at the top of his lungs.

Chu Han did not linger. He found a concealed patch of grass and moved through it in a crouch, swift as the wind without making the slightest sound. Even the low shrubs provided cover.

Walking openly in front of a horde of zombies was practically suicide.

As for what Duan Ming had said, Chu Han did not care in the slightest. Who cared whether he had money or who his father was? Money would soon become worthless. The world would return to a primitive age of barter, and status and position from before the apocalypse would be utter bullshit.

Watching Chu Han leave without even looking back, Duan Ming gnashed his teeth in fury. Ever since the apocalypse began, he had been so shocked by the sight outside that he had not dared open the door. Yet now, he had happened to spot Chu Han escaping alone and connected it with the sounds of fighting he had heard in the hallway earlier.

Hope flared within Duan Ming, and he immediately called out for Chu Han's help. Who would have thought that Chu Han would simply ignore him and leave?

Just as Duan Ming was considering how to teach Chu Han a lesson after escaping, a terrifying roar suddenly sounded beside his ear.

Roar—

A zombie suddenly appeared at Duan Ming's window. Its tongue and teeth, smeared with blood and bits of flesh, loomed before his eyes. The stench of rot, its hideous face, its horrifying milky-white pupils.

Bang! Duan Ming was scared out of his wits and slammed the window shut!

Fortunately, he had closed it quickly, completely blocking the zombie outside. Only then did he see that at least fifty zombies were gathering here!

He locked the window and drew the curtains, shutting out every sight from outside. But the sound of zombies desperately battering the window did not stop. It only grew denser, bang bang bang, like the high-speed impact of machinery.

Their thunderous roars mixed in, making it sound like the depths of hell.

Duan Ming panicked helplessly. The zombie horde was here!

Tier 1 zombies were indeed not very strong, but what if fifty of them hammered on the window together? Everyone understood that constant dripping could wear through stone. This window could not hold back zombies that felt no pain for long.

Many people in the boys' dormitory had seen the scene from their windows. Duan Ming's shouting had been loud enough, after all. When they saw Chu Han carrying a large pack and heading outside, a thought of survival unconsciously surfaced in everyone's mind.

A few people hesitantly began packing. It was noon. Normally, they would either be gnawing on chicken legs in the cafeteria or taking a girl they liked to a small restaurant for a good meal. But now the apocalypse had come, and there was hardly any food in the dorms. Their instinctive hunger forced them to face reality.

Those who were in the same dormitory and had luckily not turned into zombies were bolder. They cracked open their doors to observe the hallway. Soon, more and more people opened their doors, gripping steel pipes torn from bed frames as they prepared to leave together.

But even more chose to remain in their dorm rooms, desperately pulling out phones that would not even turn on. They wanted to call for help, wanted to call the police, but it was useless.

When those fleeing for their lives reached the first-floor corridor and saw the ten zombies laid out in a line, they were so stunned it felt like a dream. The blasted-open heads gave off a rancid stench, brains scattered all over the floor. Their deaths were horrifying, their bodies neatly lined up head to tail.

Who had done this? What kind of person could kill ten zombies in one go?

Quite a few people's legs trembled, while some with weaker nerves dropped to the floor and dry-heaved.

When they followed the line of zombies and saw the large words on the door of Room 104, they became even more dizzy. They needed tremendous courage just to face zombies, yet someone had already escaped and even left them a convenient path!

Had that kid named Chu Han done this?

No way!

Chu Han did not head straight for the school gate. Instead, he went toward the parking lot. He was not stupid enough to travel on foot. When the apocalypse had just begun, there were not many vehicles on the roads, making cars the best means of transport.

After killing several more zombies along the way, Chu Han climbed over an iron fence to take a shortcut to the parking lot. Just as he had expected, several cars were parked there!

Among them were a flashy red Ferrari 458 and a G55.

Chu Han's eyes lit up when he saw the G55. Among civilian vehicles in the apocalypse, the G series ranked among the top ten. It had excellent off-road capability and was incredibly sturdy, especially its front bumper, which could smash through reinforced concrete pillars without deforming.

However, it could not fit many people and could not carry a squad of more than ten at once, so it ranked below trucks and large buses.

Chu Han was in a hurry to get to Anluo City and pick up his parents. He had no intention of forming a team for now. Compared to a truck, the G55 was more nimble and the best choice for moving alone.

Chu Han carefully circled around to the driver's side. The inside of the vehicle was clean. Several cute ornaments sat at the front, along with a photograph of a man and a woman.

By coincidence, Chu Han had seen the man in the photo half an hour ago. It was Duan Ming. The woman was Ji Qingliu, the campus beauty of Mingqiu University.

This car belonged to Ji Qingliu. More precisely, it was a gift from Duan Ming to Ji Qingliu. The 458 Chu Han had ignored earlier was Duan Ming's own ride.

Chu Han narrowed his eyes. Memories so distant that he had nearly forgotten them surfaced, and the corners of his mouth curled upward in an exceptionally savage, cruel smile.

He stepped back twice, gripped his axe, then swung it fiercely. Stepping forward, he smashed the lock on the rear seat with a bang!

Crash! The force was so great that glass shattered all over the ground.

Beep beep beep beep beep—

The G55 let out a piercing alarm. Though Chu Han moved efficiently, his heart clenched. This car alarm was really loud. He could already see more than a dozen zombies appearing a dozen meters away and charging toward him.

Chu Han hurriedly pulled open the door and jumped in, tossing his hiking pack onto the seat. He climbed into the driver's seat, hacked open the area beneath the steering wheel with an axe, forcibly pulled out the ignition wires, and began connecting them.

He had done this countless times in his previous life—breaking it open and starting the engine.

Electronic devices such as phones and computers had been ruined the instant the apocalypse arrived. It seemed that some unknown energy had flooded into Earth with the apocalypse and instantly burned out all these advanced electronic products.

Cars could still run, but only their radio function remained intact. Although the nation's power grid and information network had already collapsed, the powerful government had still taken measures immediately.

Radio stations were relatively less complicated and would soon be restored. Primitive radios became the only way to learn information about the world. Soon after, the government would use planes to airdrop relief packages into every city, containing various first-aid supplies, weapons, and food. By then, the military would also receive orders to lead survivors away.

But Chu Han could not wait for that day. He had to get to Anluo City as quickly as possible!

Several faster zombies had already reached the vehicle. They extended their sharp claws and scraped against the windows with shrill screeches. Foul, unidentified pus covered the windows. More and more of them came, layering around the car and using the most direct, brutal method to ram the vehicle with all their might.

They wanted to feed. They wanted to tear apart the person in the car and devour every inch of his body, even the filth inside his organs!

As more zombies gathered, the car began to shake. The front windshield had become completely obscured, covered everywhere with blackened blood and rotten flesh. If this continued, the vehicle would eventually be overturned.

Click!

At that moment, Chu Han finally connected the wires. The car started, letting out a reassuring roar of its engine. Chu Han took one last look at the zombies that were about to drown the vehicle.

Then he slammed down on the accelerator!

Vrooom!

The massive SUV shot out like a cannonball. Its height of nearly two meters and enormous body gave it overwhelming crushing power, instantly plowing down a whole group!

Mindless zombies did not know to dodge. Even if they had, it would have been too late. Chu Han drove the massive SUV straight over them.

Bang bang bang!

Several zombies did not even have time to bare their teeth and claws before they were smashed bloody. Chu Han burst out of the parking lot, briefly checked his route, and drove toward the school gate.

"Ding Xue, what do we do? What do we do?!" Ji Qingliu wept until her eyes were swollen red. She no longer possessed the beauty and charm expected of the campus belle, instead looking dejected and disheveled.

Ding Xue was not much better off, but she forcibly suppressed her collapsing emotions. Her hands gripped a baseball bat tightly, her entire body rigid. Blood dripped from the bat.

Across from them lay a female zombie with half its head smashed apart. Its brains and black blood were splattered everywhere.

She had been their roommate before turning into a zombie. Fortunately, the school dorm beds were bunk beds, giving the two women time to react. Even so, killing that zombie had nearly exhausted all their strength and shattered the psychological boundaries they had maintained for twenty years.

Just as the two were lost and despairing, the sound of a speeding car suddenly whistled past outside, accompanied by repeated bang bang bang impacts. In this eerily silent city, it was exceptionally clear.

"Someone's driving?" Ding Xue's eyes suddenly lit up. "Someone escaped!"

The two immediately went to the window and happened to see an SUV driving out toward the school gate in the distance. It sped all the way, killing countless zombies as it went.

Ji Qingliu did not recognize it as her own car, because the G55 had become completely unrecognizable after being covered in zombie blood. She excitedly grabbed Ding Xue's hand, her desire to escape becoming especially intense.

It was not just Ding Xue and Ji Qingliu. Countless male and female students pressed themselves against their dormitory windows and witnessed the scene, their eyes filled with hope. Someone could escape, so naturally they could too.

Naturally, Chu Han, who had left the school, had no idea of the commotion and hope he had brought to the students. Nor could he have anticipated that one day in the future, he would meet his former classmates from Mingqiu University again.

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