Shelter

Ye Zhao shouted once, then pedaled her bicycle like mad and fled. She had sensed something was wrong the moment she heard the man calling for help. He lived on the third floor, not the thirtieth, yet after an entire night, he had not prepared an escape route for himself and was now waiting for someone to save him. Even if they saved him, he would only be dead weight.

Sure enough, before long, the sound of smashing and crashing came from behind, followed by a crowd fleeing amid curses. Ye Zhao pedaled even harder.

She had also carefully observed the zombies today. It definitely was not her imagination—the zombies were faster than yesterday and their reactions were sharper. Even their grayish-white beady eyes seemed to have gained a trace of light. This was a terrible sign. The zombies were evolving!

No one dared stop. They were all tense with fear of being surrounded by zombies. Fortunately, they were not unlucky. Half an hour later, they encountered the first rescue team. Unfortunately, every large truck was already packed with people, and even the roofs had no room left. There was nowhere for them to sit.

Quite a few private cars were following behind the trucks. Fortunately, there were also many ownerless vehicles by the roadside, so the group hurriedly found cars and joined the convoy.

Duan Chen, He Fei, and Sang Xiaoqi, meanwhile, took the initiative to surrender themselves to the government troops and reveal that they had supernatural abilities. One released a fireball, one summoned lightning, and Duan Chen pulled out a handgun. The three were immediately surrounded and protected by several fully armed soldiers, then taken into the jeep at the very front.

Only after getting into the car did the three discover that two men who were obviously Players were already inside. They exchanged glances, and wisely, no one spoke.

Countless people watched this scene with envy.

"They've really shot straight to the top, haven't they?"

"The status of people with supernatural abilities definitely won't be low in the future!"

"You came with those supernatural ability users, right? Do you know how to awaken abilities?"

"How would we know? We barely even spoke to them!"

"That's so great... I wish I had supernatural abilities too..."

Ye Zhao rode her E-scooter from the back of the convoy to the front, making a round through it. She really did Scan some good things.

Military pickup trucks, armored vehicles, trucks, even emergency power trucks and fuel tankers—assault rifles, grenades, bullets, bulletproof vests, medical kits, and suppressors. Now she would not have to worry about gunshots attracting zombies.

There were also two game items.

[Scan successful: Create Waterball - Elemental Card*1. Creation Points required: 100.]

[Waterball - Elemental Card: Can launch 100 Waterballs measuring 3–5 cm.]

[Scan successful: Create Defense +5 Hat*1. Creation Points required: 50.]

After the Scan ended, Ye Zhao did not wait to move with the government troops. She took the lead and rode her E-scooter toward the outskirts. Someone immediately cursed her, saying that leaving the main group was suicide.

A path wide enough for one car had been cleared through the congested roads. The journey was relatively peaceful. Large groups of zombies had been drawn away by the Helicopters, while scattered zombies were quickly left behind.

Unattended corpses lay everywhere by the roadside. Flies and mosquitoes swarmed around them. Ye Zhao even saw cockroaches and rats gnawing on the bodies...

Suppressing her nausea, she sped up.

Unfortunately, the road did not stay clear for long before it became blocked again.

It turned out that survivors from the nearby residential complexes had seen the roads open up and poured out of their homes, trying to reach the airport in the south of the city.

It seemed they had also received the text message sent by the city government.

Fortunately, Ye Zhao's E-scooter was small enough. She weaved left and right through the traffic, only to discover that the source of the jam was a dozen or so men at the front, holding machetes, hammers, and clubs as they demanded protection fees from the cars. Those who refused to pay had their cars smashed.

They let one car through for every car they collected from, which was why the line was moving so slowly.

The reason everything had stopped now was that the bald man had taken a liking to the beautiful woman in one of the cars. Paying was not enough—he insisted that she get out and keep him company. Apparently, she was a famous actress, a woman he normally would not even get a glimpse of. Now, she would have to submit beneath him in order to survive. How could he not be excited?

The moment Ye Zhao appeared on her E-scooter, the bald man blocking the intersection stared straight at her. His muddy eyes roamed over her body. "Looks like I'm pretty lucky today, huh? Another little beauty has come along."

Ye Zhao: ...

She pulled out her handgun. "Move."

The bald man was not intimidated. Especially after seeing that Ye Zhao was alone, he looked down on her even more and grinned. "Why's a little girl playing with a fake gun? Big brother will let you play with a real one!"

Ye Zhao did not hesitate. She fired a shot. It missed, the bullet whistling past the bald man's head. His face went pale. "You're fucking serious?"

Ye Zhao had only just attached the suppressor to her handgun when the bald man practically threw himself into her line of fire. She fired again. This shot was off too, but it hit the bald man in the arm. Blood sprayed out as he screamed and fell to the ground. The lackeys behind him scattered in an instant.

The bald man clearly had not expected such a delicate-looking girl to be so ruthless. The way he looked at Ye Zhao changed completely. Struggling, he knelt to apologize and beg for mercy, but he was actually trying to lower her guard so he could snatch the gun from her hand. Ye Zhao rarely made enemies, but once she did, she could not leave trouble behind. She kicked the bald man to the ground and sent him to the afterlife with a bullet.

Looking down at the bald man lying on the ground, Ye Zhao took a tissue from her pocket and wiped at the blood splashed on her clothes. It would not come clean no matter how she wiped, so she tossed the tissue away, mounted her E-scooter, and continued onward.

The three people in the car behind her finally recovered from their shock. They hurriedly got out to move the roadblocks aside. The beautiful woman picked up the bald man's machete and kicked his corpse. "Trash."

Ye Zhao tucked the gun directly into her waistband, hoping anyone who wanted to cause trouble would think twice. Still, her marksmanship really was terrible. She needed to find a chance to practice.

After she displayed her weapon, the journey indeed became much smoother.

Men and women alike kept their distance after seeing the gun at her waist.

The closer they got to the airport, the more survivors they encountered. Several roads near the airport had been fenced off with heavy wire barriers, with large numbers of government troops standing guard and patrolling nearby. Survivors entering the shelter also had to go through layers of inspection.

Riding her E-scooter, Ye Zhao finally passed through the first layer of wire fencing. She was told that her E-scooter would be confiscated and that she would have to undergo a strip search before entering the Safe Zone.

Ye Zhao stood at the back of the crowd and relaxed slightly. She took out a bottle of mineral water from her backpack and gulped down half of it.

Not long after, Duan Chen and the others finally arrived as well. As supernatural ability users, they went through a special channel for ability users. Their identities were almost immediately checked and confirmed, and they entered the Safe Zone.

"Are those people supernatural ability users? I heard their status is incredibly high!"

"I heard there are only a few supernatural ability users so far. They're scarce resources..."

"How strange. I wanted to leave the city, but the soldiers wouldn't let me out. They didn't give any reason either, just told us to come to the airport..."

"The situation outside is probably bad too! This is a zombie virus—our world is finished!"

Listening to the gossip around her, Ye Zhao thought, The city has already been sealed off? She put the mineral water bottle back into her backpack, unwrapped a milk candy, and popped it into her mouth. At last, she had time to check her [Prophet Skill], whose CD had ended. She tapped to use it.

[Prophet Skill activated. Current Prophet level: 1. Skill duration: 10s.]

Ye Zhao's vision darkened, and her consciousness entered that mysterious world once more.

This time, she still possessed a god's-eye view. She saw the enormous airport packed with people, with survivors continuing to arrive outside it. And she saw herself standing among the crowd, waiting in line.

Just as it was her turn to enter the tent for inspection, someone suddenly shouted, "Look over there! What is that? A bomb?"

Ye Zhao's view shifted with the shout, and she saw a streak of fire descend from the sky.

BOOM—

A massive mushroom cloud rose into the air. The distant high-rises crumbled in an instant, while the shockwave of the explosion spread outward from the city center. In the blink of an eye, the prosperous, enormous City X was reduced to ashes as though it were nothing!

RUMBLE—

All that remained in Ye Zhao's vision were humanity's terrified expressions and endless flames.

City X had vanished!

[Prophet Skill use ended.]

The [Prophet Skill] turned gray.

[CD: 24h]

Ye Zhao opened her eyes and came back to herself from that overwhelming shock and terror. Her legs gave out beneath her, and she collapsed to the ground. Gone. A city of tens of millions of people had simply vanished...

A total wipeout. It was actually a total wipeout!

Her heart sank to rock bottom.