Blocking the Road

When the door opened, a young man stood in the doorway. He wore a spotless white shirt, and his handsome face carried a hint of coldness.

The three chefs stared straight at him, their eyes filled with shock.

"This..."

"Is he human or a ghost???"

Tank, the Female Zombie, and the others stood behind the young man, their bodies radiating fierce hostility and an oppressive presence.

The three chefs glanced over and spotted a girl standing among them.

It was Su Xiaorou, whom they had shut outside earlier.

The three immediately looked stunned, unable to believe it.

"Y-You're not dead?"

"Yes. Surprised?"

Su Xiaorou's pretty face was filled with resentment. She was furious at the three of them for locking her outside. Fortunately, she had run into her boss. Otherwise, they really would have gotten her killed.

At that moment.

The three Zombie Underlings had already surrounded them.

Tank was still as irritable as ever, letting out continuous low growls. Still, he admired Lin Dong greatly. As expected of the boss—he had easily opened the door with that little rod.

While they had been outside, Tank had been thinking that if he got in, he definitely would not let those three have an easy time...

The Female Zombie remained excited. Her pale, terrifying face wore a faint, ambiguous smile, making her look especially eerie.

"Waaah, Xiaorou, please save me! I don't want to be eaten by zombies! I really don't want to die!"

The girl knelt on the ground and begged, utterly devoid of the determination she had shown when closing the door.

In truth, the two had known each other for a long time.

They had once been on fairly good terms.

Su Xiaorou shook her head.

"I don't get to decide whether you live or die. That depends on how my boss chooses to deal with you."

The three turned their gazes toward Lin Dong.

This clean, fair-skinned, handsome young man was the leader of the zombies.

"Please don't kill me! As long as you spare my life, I'll do anything, waaah~~~" the girl cried.

The chef spoke up as well.

"Big brother, I can cook! I... I can prepare food for you. I'm really good at it—I even won first place in a city cooking competition."

They had already realized that relying on Lin Dong's kindness to spare them was absolutely impossible.

They had to prove their worth.

Perhaps then they might have a sliver of hope.

But Lin Dong looked at the chef and slowly spoke.

"There's no need to make things so troublesome. Let's just eat."

"Huh?"

The chef's eyes widened as he seemed to understand what Lin Dong meant.

"Roar—"

The three underlings let out savage roars. They had long been unable to wait and lunged at the three people, whose screams immediately rang out.

But it was over within just a few seconds.

What followed were the sounds of chewing and tearing flesh.

Amid the horrifying sight of zombies feeding.

Lin Dong remained spotless as he strolled through the cold storage room as though taking a leisurely walk, inspecting the goods stored around him.

The supplies here were quite comprehensive: beef, mutton, chicken, duck, fish—everything was available, and there was plenty of it.

With a wave of his hand.

He stored it all in his storage space.

He had almost completely replenished everything he had consumed over the past two days.

He was quite satisfied with this haul.

Meanwhile, the three Zombie Underlings were feasting.

Tank and the Female Zombie were like ravenous beasts, grabbing chunks of flesh and gnawing directly into them. The scene was extremely bloody and terrifying.

Only the Doctor Zombie was rather unusual.

He first cut open the corpses, then picked out the internal organs one by one as though conducting an autopsy before swallowing them individually.

Although the Doctor Zombie looked somewhat more refined, he was even stranger than Tank and the others.

A zombie that could perform autopsies...

Who could stand that?

Yet the one suffering the most was naturally Su Xiaorou. She was the only normal human present. Watching the zombies eat made her stomach churn, and she could not stop dry-heaving. She was on the verge of vomiting.

But Su Xiaorou quickly covered her mouth and forced it back down.

Because.

She knew Lin Dong somewhat well and knew that he was a bit of a clean freak.

If she threw up.

And made him unhappy.

He might just kill her outright!

Fortunately, it did not take long.

Lin Dong finished gathering the supplies. He took not only the fresh meat from the cold storage room, but also the rice, flour, grain, cooking oil, and other goods from the warehouse.

There was also a convenience store in the cafeteria.

Beer, cigarettes, sunflower seeds, drinks, bottled water, instant noodles, sausages, and countless snacks all went into his storage space.

Because these were all rare supplies.

The humans outside might start fighting and killing one another over a single piece of bread.

Lin Dong had plenty of room in his storage space anyway. He might find a use for these supplies later...

Once everything had been dealt with.

The three Zombie Underlings had finished eating as well.

The three of them surrounded Su Xiaorou, looking her over repeatedly. The Female Zombie smiled and occasionally patted her head.

She probably found the little pet their boss had taken in rather amusing. Like petting a cat or teasing a dog, she wanted to play with her.

Su Xiaorou curled up into a ball like a chick caught in the wind, trembling uncontrollably. Her pretty face had turned deathly pale from fright.

She had never imagined that one day, she would be surrounded and watched by zombies...

"Let's go."

Lin Dong gave the order.

The Female Zombie patted Su Xiaorou's head again before turning and leaving.

Su Xiaorou was nearly scared to death.

She thought about how she would have to live among these zombies from now on.

She was still filled with worry.

"B-Boss, you won't kill me, right?"

"Mm."

Lin Dong nodded. Since he was in a good mood today, he wanted to tease her a little.

"Did you forget? I used to run a livestock farm."

"Huh???"

Su Xiaorou looked completely bewildered.

What did that mean?

Was he treating her like livestock???

Then.

They left the campus.

On the way back, Su Xiaorou drove. She voluntarily took on the role of driver to demonstrate her value as an employee.

So that her boss would not kill her.

Su Xiaorou had driven that box truck before while working at the supermarket, so she was familiar with it and quite an experienced driver.

She drove very steadily.

Tank, sitting in the cargo compartment, gave her a five-star rating.

The streets were still a mess, scattered with stray zombies, but they posed no threat to the truck.

But at an intersection.

A heavy truck was parked there.

Two middle-aged men sat inside, both gaunt and yellow-faced from hunger.

One of them had a full beard and held half a cigarette in his hand. He kept sniffing it with his nose, unwilling to light it.

"Fuck! Wasn't Wang Cong supposed to be looking for supplies? Where the hell did that brat run off to?"

"Maybe he ran into a zombie's stomach. There's been no news for so long—he's definitely dead."

The other, thinner man analyzed.

The bearded man said.

"No way! Brother Long said he got through when he called him. He just didn't say anything before hanging up. Maybe he ditched his wife and ran off alone!"

"Forget that for now. Let's go find something to eat. I'm fucking starving to death!"

The thin man said with a miserable expression.

The bearded man continued sniffing the cigarette hard.

"Where are we supposed to find food? It was all looted long ago!"

"Eh? Wait..."

As the two spoke, the rumble of an engine reached their ears. A box truck was driving toward them from a side road to the left.