Daily Training

After storing the chickens in the space, Jiang You ran for a while longer and discovered that the zombie horde behind her was beginning to disperse. Some zombies stopped chasing her partway through.

After all, she was sprinting ridiculously fast up ahead, while the zombies behind her were running after her with all their might.

But since they had all become zombies, how many of them could still remember to wear shoes?

The barefoot zombies had it worse. The soles of their feet kept rubbing against the concrete as they chased her for several kilometers, as if they were running a marathon.

The skin on their feet gradually wore away against the concrete, becoming bloody and mangled bit by bit. Some even had the bones of their feet exposed.

Seeing that quite a few zombies had begun spreading out in all directions and wandering around aimlessly like loose sand, Jiang You grew anxious.

These guys really had no sense of cohesion at all.

How could this do?

If she wanted to be a persistent zombie, how could she give up halfway?!

You either chased her or you didn't. If you didn't, you just patted your butt and left. Did they think this was love?

If you wanted it, you wanted it. If you didn't, then forget it!!

As Jiang You sprinted, she took a portable street-vendor loudspeaker out of her space, switched it on, and quickly stuffed it into her backpack.

The moment she pressed the switch, an incredibly powerful sales pitch exploded across the entire area.

"Jiangnan Leather Factory! Jiangnan Leather Factory has gone bankrupt! Leather goods for everyone—no 588, no 48, just 58!!"

"Come take a look, come have a look! Two yuan, two yuan! Everything's two yuan! Every item is two yuan! For two yuan, you can't buy a loss, and you can't get cheated!!"

"Last day, last day! Everything must go! Every item is ten yuan! Come choose, come look! Anyone who doesn't take advantage of a bargain is a fool! Really the last day—if you don't leave tomorrow, you're a grandson!!"

"..."

The zombie army behind her, which had been starting to disperse, immediately became full of fighting spirit, just like the uncles and aunties charging toward a supermarket to grab eggs.

At the same time, more and more zombies came running out of the alleys from all directions. Every one of them bared its teeth, drooled, and lunged toward Jiang You.

Jiang You gripped the Miao Saber. Whenever she could dodge, she dodged. When she encountered a zombie she could not avoid, she simply chopped off its head.

A zombie charged out of a side alley and was the first to reach Jiang You. It opened its bloody maw, and a foul stench rushed into her face.

Jiang You held the saber in both hands, raised it high, and then hacked down violently.

"Chhk~"

With a light sound, the zombie that had just reached her was split in two from the top of its skull downward, its body falling apart to either side.

Jiang You quickly stepped through the gap and continued sprinting.

As the commotion grew louder and louder,

the zombie horde behind her grew larger and larger.

They roared and growled one after another. Jiang You felt that even the fans of top celebrities before the apocalypse might not have been as fanatical as the group behind her.

She moved nimbly through the city's streets and alleys at high speed. Every time she passed through a narrow passage, the zombies behind her trailed along like a long tail.

The loudspeaker in her backpack had been shouting for more than two hours before it ran out of power.

The zombie army began to disperse again.

Jiang You skillfully swapped it out for a small speaker, turned it on, hoisted it onto her shoulder, and continued running.

At first, she could only be chased by the zombies for half an hour.

Later, it became one hour, two hours, then four hours.

Her body kept breaking through its limits. Every time she returned home, her legs felt weak, as if they no longer belonged to her.

Every bone and muscle in her body ached.

But those pains were like the forging of steel, making her physical abilities grow stronger and stronger.

Even luring zombies around became smoother and smoother.

No one could have imagined that this lunatic's method of training her speed and agility was to lure an entire city's zombies into chasing her!

If word got out, who wouldn't say she was courting death?

Yet in Jiang You's eyes, this was merely an appetizer.

She had always firmly believed one thing: human potential was like the oil inside a sesame seed. No matter how thoroughly you squeezed it dry, if you kept applying pressure, you could still squeeze out a little more.

Moreover, with the help of the perfect stem cells, she did not need to worry that her body could not withstand such intense training.

The speaker on her shoulder was playing rousing music, loud enough to make Jiang You's own ears go numb.

The songs, with their powerful rhythm, were like instantly recharging the exhausted zombie horde.

The zombies behind her continued howling without end.

"Nothing can stop me from yearning for freedom... Blue Lotus, aaaaah!!!!"

"Beep beep beep beep beep beep, ta-da-da! Walking on the road of pressing forward bravely!!!"

"I once crossed mountains and seas, and passed through crowds in deep mountains. I once possessed everything, but in the blink of an eye it all drifted away like smoke!!"

"..."

Jiang You felt that she must have played the wrong songs. Why did listening to them make it impossible for her feet to stop?

She now had the urge to keep charging forward, sprinting endlessly, always toward the front.

If she were driving right now, she believed her foot would definitely be pressing the accelerator all the way down.

For some reason, the zombie army felt extremely excited. They sprinted wildly, following behind her and howling.

Perhaps that was the power of music—transcending species.

They could not understand it, but they could still resonate with it.

It was impossible for every survivor in the city to have left. There had to be some people still behind.

And the speaker Jiang You carried on her shoulder was thunderously loud. Wherever she went, it caused a commotion.

Not only could the zombies hear it, but the human survivors who had stayed behind could hear it too.

One survivor heard the music and thought they were hallucinating.

Then, suddenly, they felt as if they had returned to the days when old ladies danced in the public squares.

They used to think those women were noisy, uncivilized, and so annoying.

But now, how many people longed for that noise?

On the sixth floor of an apartment building beside the street, a tightly closed window quietly opened from inside.

Yellow Hair, whose roots had already grown out a layer of black hair, saw the scene below and rubbed his eyes in disbelief.

"Holy crap, this has to be a hallucination! It absolutely has to be a hallucination!!!"

He viciously slapped himself twice with two Big Slaps.

When he looked down again, his jaw nearly dropped to the floor.

"My goodness, what kind of monster is this!!!"

A woman was carrying a square black speaker on her shoulder and sprinting for her life. The speaker was playing upbeat music, while the zombie army chasing her packed the street below so tightly that it made people's scalps go numb.

There were simply too many zombies. They even caused a stampede.

Some zombies tripped or were knocked down by others. Before they could stand up, they were trampled into meat paste by the packed crowd behind them.

After the zombie army had all run off into the distance, the man looked at the foul-smelling remains scattered across the street below and involuntarily swallowed.

"A true warrior dares to walk zombies."

Meanwhile, Jiang You up ahead paid no attention to whether her commotion would attract the attention of other survivors. Her daily twenty-kilometer running plan absolutely could not fall through.

Jiang You went around in a wide circle. When the sky grew dim, she returned to the vicinity of the residential compound where she lived.

Once she reached the area, she put away the square-dance speaker on her back.

She then quickly slipped into an alley, shaking off some of the zombies in front of her.

The zombies behind her lost their target and immediately disbanded on the spot.

When they had gone out in the afternoon, the zombies chasing behind her had still been full of fighting spirit.

Now, many of them could only drag their legs along the ground.

Jiang You was probably the first person in history to run zombies ragged.

Jiang You was extremely satisfied with the training plan she had made for herself. She had now moved beyond the stage of training behind closed doors at home.

Morning.

Da Zhuang carried a loudspeaker and raw meat, luring the zombies into an abandoned warehouse.

Jiang You was responsible for closing the doors and counting them. Once the number of zombies exceeded three hundred, they could close the warehouse doors.

A group of zombies was locked inside the empty warehouse for close-combat practice. Without using abilities, they relied entirely on cold weapons. The key was speed.

Among all the martial arts under heaven, speed alone was invincible.

The best defense was offense!

Training was not over until all three hundred zombies had been separated from their heads and bodies.

At the beginning, killing three hundred zombies took an entire morning. Later, she condensed it to three hours, then two hours. In the end, one hour and five minutes was her limit.

After all, without using abilities and relying solely on the Miao Saber to deal with them move by move, she currently could not surpass that time.

The morning training ended.

Jiang You stored all the zombies' bodies in her space, ran to the nearby stadium, and then piled all the bodies in the stadium's open area.

The stadium's enormous swimming pool was already filled with corpses, and the tennis courts were also covered in piles of bodies.

The massive number of zombie corpses attracted many small animals. Every time one approached from far away, the stench from the stadium could already be smelled.

Many insects and rats gathered there. To them, it was simply a paradise of free food.

The moment Jiang You entered the stadium, she saw rats, flies, cockroaches, and all kinds of unknown insects feeding on the corpse mountain everywhere.