With a full stomach and plenty of water.
Lin Ziluo lay on the sofa and took out his secondhand phone.
He checked the map he had downloaded earlier.
"I'm on Pingshan Road now. This afternoon, I'll head straight east. I should make it to around here."
"I'm still a little short of reaching level five, but killing zombies along this road should be more than enough."
After resting briefly, Lin Ziluo put away his phone and got up from the sofa.
Humming an unfamiliar tune, he headed outside.
Curiously, just as he reached the doorway, he stopped. The tune died on his lips.
"One, two, three."
Lin Ziluo's keen hearing picked up three breaths, each at a different rhythm.
That meant three people were lying in wait outside the door.
"Is he coming out yet?" Ji Yao asked nervously.
"No. I definitely heard footsteps just now." Ji Kaiji clutched a kitchen knife, sweat streaming down his forehead.
"Listen to me. You smelled that food just now, too. That guy definitely has a card that can conjure up delicious meals." Gu Gaojie gripped a fire axe, his expression dark.
He'd seen someone in the building conjure up food from a card with his own eyes last night.
"But isn't it wrong to rob him?" Ji Yao said uneasily.
"What's wrong with it? When he comes out, we'll hit him once, then threaten him until he hands over the cards he has." Gu Gaojie glared at Ji Yao.
"Exactly, sis. We're in the right here. He's the one who broke our family's door, so we can charge him with breaking and entering." Gu Kaiji thought Gu Gaojie made a lot of sense and tried to reassure Ji Yao.
Ji Yao remembered the delicious smell and rubbed her empty stomach. Then she nodded.
There was no choice. He had food.
She hadn't eaten anything since noon yesterday.
After the apocalypse began, her father had turned into a zombie.
She and her brother had fled in a panic, taking nothing with them.
They'd tried asking others for food, but everyone knew how precious it was now. They hadn't received a thing.
Now that they'd finally decided to go out and look for food, how could they return empty-handed?
"All right," Ji Yao said. "Let's rob him. We'll take everything he has."
Gu Gaojie was pleased. He knew he'd convinced the Ji siblings.
Once they did it the first time, there'd be a second.
Before long, the two of them would be the foot soldiers charging ahead for him.
"Listen, don't go easy on him. We'll take out his legs first. If he still refuses to talk, then—" Before he could finish, the window to Gu Gaojie's left shattered.
A green greatsword thrust through the window and struck the back of his neck.
Gu Gaojie didn't even know what had happened before his head rolled to the ground.
Blood gushed from his neck.
The thick spray splattered across Ji Yao's face as she was about to chime in.
The sudden, bloody scene left Ji Yao frozen just a step away from Gu Gaojie.
Her mouth opened instinctively, and she screamed.
"I can't let you attract all the zombies. I was hoping to save a little spiritual energy," Lin Ziluo said helplessly.
Then Lin Ziluo thrust his entire right arm out the window.
He channeled his spiritual energy, triggering Whirlwind Slash.
He swung his arm with all his strength, sending the Tang Dao spinning through the air with a sharp whistle.
Dead on target.
The blade cut straight through the point where Ji Yao's upper and lower lips met.
Her upper and lower lips were separated forever.
The Tang Dao kept going, pursuing Ji Kaiji as he fled into the distance.
The moment he heard the window shatter, Ji Kaiji had already panicked and run, not sparing even a glance for his own sister.
He'd made it more than ten meters before preparing to turn back and see what had happened.
Then a long blade struck his left side.
The Tang Dao kept spinning, like a meat grinder.
It sliced clean through Ji Kaiji's waist.
Having completed its task, the Tang Dao abruptly changed direction and flew back to Lin Ziluo.
Ji Kaiji's upper body crawled across the ground, leaving a long trail of blood flowing from his waist.
But after crawling a little over a meter, his head finally sagged onto the ground.
Three "deaths" appeared, marking the end of the three people who'd ambushed Lin Ziluo.
Catching the Tang Dao, Lin Ziluo walked out from the kitchen.
After hearing their breathing, he hadn't gone outside. Instead, he'd gone into the kitchen to his left.
The kitchen window was just to the left of the front door.
Gu Gaojie and Ji Yao, hiding to the left of the door, had no idea Lin Ziluo had heard every word they said.
Including Gu Gaojie's threats.
After taking three lives, Lin Ziluo was still in a good mood.
They came after me first. They tried to rob me and got killed instead.
That was perfectly "reasonable."
Lin Ziluo figured they should even thank him.
At least they'd died early, sparing themselves more suffering in the apocalypse.
"Ah, I've done another good deed. The government should give me a Good Citizen Award," Lin Ziluo said helplessly.
He continued on his way.
The thought of personally killing Li Haobo the night after tomorrow filled Lin Ziluo with energy.
Li Family, none of you are getting away.
To put it simply, Yao Jinghan had mostly just been a puppet out in front.
She was a woman who knew nothing. How could she possibly command the Li Family?
At first, Lin Ziluo's grudge had been a personal one against Li Haobo and Yao Jinghan.
But after Lin Ziluo killed several of the Li Family's thugs sent by the two of them, it became a grudge between Lin Ziluo and the Li Family.
To the Li Family, Lin Ziluo was like a fish bone stuck in their throat.
If they let him be, the Li Family would keep losing face.
The outside world would keep laughing at them, too.
So later, the Li Family didn't even need Li Haobo and Yao Jinghan to lead the way.
Every member of the Li Family wanted to eliminate Lin Ziluo, the man who'd brought shame upon them.
They simply hadn't expected Lin Ziluo to be like a cockroach, never quite beaten down.
He'd clawed his way back from the brink of death time and again, eventually becoming a War God.
The Li Family couldn't let a War God who hated them go unchecked.
They paid an enormous price to bring in two War Gods, then paid an even greater price to hire a Zombie Emperor.
Finally, Yao Jinghan led the Zombie Emperor into the place where they were meeting.
Two War Gods and a Zombie Emperor—three people on Lin Ziluo's level—joined forces against him alone.
They even used a Legend Grade barrier-type item to seal off his escape route completely.
As a result, Lin Ziluo died there without even getting the chance to flee.
But fate had given me, Lin Ziluo, another chance.
Yao Jinghan!
Li Haobo!
The Li Family!
Those two War Gods!
And the Zombie Emperor!
As well as every family, group, and individual who'd helped the Li Family hunt me down along the way!
Not one of you will get away!
I don't care whether you meant to or not, whether you're good or evil.
Anyone who's ever crossed me.
Will die without exception!