After more than an hour, Jiang You completed her morning training regimen. When she looked outside again,
she found that the area outside her door was clean to an almost outrageous degree.
She had no idea how that couple had managed to clean it. With no mops and no water, they had somehow scrubbed the tiles outside the door until they looked polished.
They were clear enough to reflect people's silhouettes!
It was still very hot outside. After the flooding and the extreme heat, almost none of the city's greenery could be seen.
Only the withered branches remained in the flower beds beneath the residential buildings.
The scenery was even more desolate than in winter.
Yet over the past few days, she had often heard strange sounds in the night, faint and intermittent, like the scraping of sharp claws against the ground.
Or perhaps the faint dragging of iron chains.
And the sound was clearly coming from above.
There were two more floors above her, but three households among them had been wiped out after someone in each home turned into a zombie.
The rest had either been away before the apocalypse or had fled.
How could there be any movement?
Just then, Jiang You heard several more faint noises.
She looked up at the ceiling. After a while, she took her gun and left the apartment, heading upstairs.
The moment she opened the door, a wave of heat rushed over her.
She first searched the entire twenty-fourth floor but found nothing unusual.
At some point, two zombies had wandered onto the twenty-fifth floor. They looked somewhat familiar, as if they had been residents of this building.
One of the zombies was still carrying a hiking backpack.
The two zombies had been wandering through the corridor on the twenty-fifth floor.