Surviving the Apocalypse: Stock Up on Food and Weapons
Chapter 43

Tier 2 Zombie

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The top floor of the twenty-fifth story was so high that you couldn't see the ground clearly without a telescope.

Besides watching movies, Jiang You's daily pastime was looking around with her telescope.

On the street, a zombie would be gnawing on a person one moment, and the next, an enraged survivor would blow its head off.

And since the weather was hot and there was no electricity, no one closed their windows during the day. Every home that was inhabited had its windows open for ventilation.

Because of this, Jiang You could see many things others couldn't.

She wasn't afraid of the sun; her years in the dark, sunless Forbidden Tower made her cherish the feeling of sunlight on her skin.

On the sixth floor of the building across the way lived seven or eight people. One couple had just finished their intimate moment when the man left, and immediately after, another guy played the part of the "Cao thief."

Then, after the woman left, the two men got together.

She stared at that household, her CPU spinning so fast it almost burned out, but she couldn't untangle the complex relationships among these people.

It was too complicated. Too many people made things too complicated.

It was better to be alone.

Jiang You blinked and started looking at another building. In one unit of that building, a full-blown fight happened several times a day. Judging by the time, it should be about that time again.

But this time, when she turned her telescope.

She sighed in disappointment.

"Oh, wow~"

The inside of that house was covered in blood, and several zombies were wandering aimlessly within.

One of them was one of the survivors from before.

It seemed she had lost another channel.

As she watched others, it was possible that someone else was watching her from the shadows.

Jiang You glanced at the rooftop of a tall building not far away. A dazzling reflection flashed by.

She pouted listlessly, looked around for a while, and then moved the broken standing punching bag on the balcony to a corner.

She went back inside, brought out a new punching bag, did some warm-up exercises, and started training again.

Jiang You was doing a plank on the mat.

After a while, she was drenched in sweat, her arms trembling slightly.

Da Zhuang let out a disdainful yelp and walked over with a feline gait, lying down directly opposite her.

His ferocious face was filled with contempt, as if to say, "That's it?"

Jiang You gave it a glare, then suddenly reached out and grabbed Da Zhuang's tail. "Since you're idle, you can train with me."

"Meow!!!"

Da Zhuang exploded, struggling desperately, but it was too late to leave now.

Jiang You held its tail. "Stop struggling and train with me, hehehe!"

Her smile was exactly like that of a street thug.

After the apocalypse, others grew thinner day by day, but for her, it was the complete opposite.

When she was first reborn, she was as thin as a bean sprout, dark and skinny.

But now, with good food and daily exercise, she had visibly gained muscle.

Her entire body looked much more proportionate.

The only thing she found a little unaccustomed to was her skin tone. The perfect stem cell experiment had given her body abnormal regeneration and repair abilities.

Even though she was exposed to the sun on the balcony every day, her skin was still as pale as if she had been dead for three days and not buried.

This was no longer just fair skin.

White skin was beautiful, but an abnormal paleness wasn't just unappealing; it looked eerie.

Even if she stayed up all night, she wouldn't have any dark circles in the morning.

The old scars on her face and body were long gone, her skin so smooth she felt like a mosquito landing on her would have to do a split.

If such experimental results had happened in peacetime, even without the regenerative abilities, just based on the god-tier beauty effects, it could have taken the world by storm.

In the afternoon, after showering, Jiang You went to inspect her Space as usual.

The saplings she had planted were now half her height. In about half a month, the livestock would no longer need to be penned up and could be let out.

She picked some strawberries and cherry tomatoes from the yard, eating them as she walked to check on the food she was raising.

The little yellow chickens had grown a lot, their little legs looking very sturdy. The pot chicken made from them would surely be chewy.

The little sheep had grown a bit, their thick wool piled on their bodies like clouds. They would surely be delicious roasted whole.

The little duck was plump and strong. Jiang You could already imagine a sizzling, oily Peking duck.

She picked all the remaining strawberries and cherry tomatoes and fed them to the livestock.

She only kept a few very red and large strawberries to take out of her Space for Da Zhuang to eat.

This cat ate everything: mutated rats, lizards, geckos, all sorts of high-protein insects, and even plain white rice. It just wouldn't eat cat food.

The first time Jiang You brought out cat food, Da Zhuang rolled its eyes so hard they almost fell out.

She glanced at Da Zhuang's cat bed. Inside, there was only a toy fish. The main occupant was nowhere to be found, likely out catching mice.

Jiang You stayed quietly in the house.

The supplies she had hoarded were not used to feed men, nor were they given to some inexplicable teammates. They all went into her own stomach, helping her gain weight.

Not a single bit was wasted.

In the evening, Jiang You, as usual, took Da Zhuang out onto the streets.

First, she caught a zombie and tapped its skull with her finger.

It made a crisp "dong dong dong" sound.

"Da Zhuang, remember, when tapping like this and the sound is crisp, the brain is usually not mature. These brains usually don't have crystal cores inside."

"Meow?"

Da Zhuang looked at the zombie whose head she had just cracked open, confused: You're tricking me because I'm uneducated?!

She caught another zombie, removed its head, and continued tapping.

She detached and tapped over a dozen heads in a row, all making the same sound.

The woman and the cat walked through narrow alleys. When they encountered zombies, she would detach their heads and tap them.

From a distance, a dark figure had been quietly following her.

Just as Jiang You was about to give up and head home, disappointed.

Suddenly, a dark figure shot out from a window and lunged directly at Jiang You.

"Meow!!!!!"

Da Zhuang sensed the danger and instantly bristled.

With a leap, it directly confronted the shadowy figure.

As Da Zhuang fought, Jiang You got a clear look at the shadowy figure.

It was a gaunt zombie, its entire body form shrunken.

Its spine was unnaturally bent, its skin dark and sallow, stretched taut over protruding bones. Its face vaguely suggested it had been an old person in life.

Its head had clearly mutated, appearing shriveled.

A human body was topped with an oval-shaped infant's head. The facial features were all scrunched together, and its mouth stretched open to its ears, revealing two rows of sharp teeth.

Faint traces of unknown meat fibers still clung to its teeth.

This was a Tier 2 zombie!

The sparse, long white hairs on its head were yanked off by Da Zhuang's claws.

But Da Zhuang was, after all, just a cat. After only a minute, a gash was torn on its head by the Tier 2 zombie. However, instead of fear, it became even more ferocious, pouncing upwards.

As if it were fearless of death.

Jiang You was also a bit curious about Da Zhuang's combat prowess. It had been leashed before but could keep two zombies from getting close. It must be a formidable fighter.

What was a little injury to a creature surviving in the apocalypse?

She certainly didn't intend to raise Da Zhuang as a delicate pet.

"Meow!!!!!"

"Hiss!!!!"

Da Zhuang was incredibly fierce. The ferocious expression on its cat face made anyone's scalp tingle.

It looked like the cat was about to devour someone.

The Tier 2 zombie was equally unwilling to be blocked by a mere cat.

It had been quietly following Jiang You for a long time. This human had stopped and started along the way, and the zombies that charged at her had their heads easily plucked like vegetables in a garden.

It hadn't encountered such an interesting human in a long time.

Compared to those humans who only screamed loudly, this human would surely be more delicious.

The Tier 2 zombie was furious and wanted to kill the damned cat immediately. But although Da Zhuang wasn't large in size, precisely because of this, its speed was very high.

It dodged and attacked with great agility. Just when you saw it charge, in the blink of an eye, the cat would disappear again.

The Tier 2 zombie couldn't accurately pinpoint its next move.

It was like a ghost, here one moment and there the next.

Although it had sustained several injuries, it had also left many scratches on the Tier 2 zombie.

It was a battle of "lose a thousand to kill eight hundred"!

These scratches weren't fatal, but they made it very annoyed.

If you think this book is good, remember to add it to your bookshelf to avoid losing it next time.

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