Excavator

With the zombies' keen senses, Lin Dong had already heard human activity inside, along with a faint smell of blood. He had no idea what was happening.

The three underlings sensed the prey and all looked excited.

They sprinted toward the fortress-like building.

There really were quite a few survivors inside that building.

More than a dozen of them.

There were construction workers, street thugs, and the developer of the construction site, Zhao Peng!

He was the sucker who had bought Lin Dong's farm and lent him money.

When the apocalypse broke out, Zhao Peng had happened to be inspecting the site with his underlings.

After discovering the zombies, he immediately organized people to pour reinforced concrete and construct an apocalyptic fortress.

Thanks to that, they had narrowly escaped disaster.

They had survived until now.

Zhao Peng was still the leader of the fortress.

Together with his capable subordinate Xing Tianlong and several thug underlings, he controlled the construction workers.

"Boss Zhao, the people we sent out never came back," Xing Tianlong said with a frown.

Zhao Peng was deeply troubled as well.

The fortress was safe, but their supplies were limited.

They had run out of food and were starving.

"If it really comes down to it, we'll have to eat some meat to hold ourselves over first. I just don't know... whether we'll get prion disease."

"Boss, probably not."

A bespectacled woman beside him spoke.

She was Zhao Peng's secretary and quite knowledgeable.

"Prion viruses only form in the body after a person dies."

"So as long as we eat them alive, there won't be a problem..."

"Boss Zhao, why don't I personally take some men out to find food?"

Xing Tianlong suggested.

Zhao Peng shook his head.

"No. It's too dangerous outside."

"Don't worry, Boss Zhao. Back when I was fighting in the streets, I could slash through three blocks with a machete without even blinking."

"The strength of those zombies isn't even as good as that of living people."

"If you don't blink, won't your eyes dry out?"

Zhao Peng asked.

"..."

Xing Tianlong was speechless. He had been talking about killing people, yet Zhao Peng was asking whether his eyes got dry.

Just then, they heard the roar of engines outside the fortress.

A vehicle had driven into the construction site courtyard.

Xing Tianlong's eyes flashed.

"Boss Zhao, it might be Second Brother and the others coming back."

"Come on, let's go take a look!"

Zhao Peng perked up and hurried toward the fortress entrance.

He thought they might have brought back food.

The fortress's stainless-steel doors were exceptionally sturdy.

The fist-sized ventilation holes could be used not only for air circulation, but also for observing the outside.

Zhao Peng and Xing Tianlong pressed themselves to the door and looked through.

The sight before them immediately made their scalps tingle.

There was no sign of Second Brother. There were only several terrifying zombies.

"Hehehehe~~~"

The Female Zombie's grinning face blocked the ventilation hole.

Separated from them by only a door, she looked incomparably horrifying.

The Female Zombie could no longer wait to "dote on" them.

She swung her hand at the steel door, her sharp nails scraping against the stainless steel with a teeth-grating screech.

"Fuck!"

Zhao Peng and Xing Tianlong staggered back several steps in fright, nearly falling to the ground.

"What the fuck... there are zombies!"

"Don't worry, Boss Zhao. Zombies can't get in."

Xing Tianlong said.

"Mm."

Zhao Peng nodded.

The zombie might be strange, but given how sturdy the fortress was, it definitely could not get inside.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Before long, violent pounding sounded again.

Clearly, Tank had made his move. Each heavy punch made the entire building tremble.

All the survivors in the fortress were alarmed.

They gathered at the door, wanting to see what had happened.

Roar—

Tank let out a thunderous roar.

His strength was great, but at his current level, he could not even smash open a cold storage room.

Let alone this specially constructed fortress.

After throwing a few punches, he gave up as well.

He obediently stood behind Lin Dong, waiting for his big brother to make a move and take out another "little stick" to open the stainless-steel doors.

"That zombie mutated, didn't it? Its strength is so great?"

Zhao Peng was still shaken.

It was the first time he had seen something like this.

Ever since the apocalypse began, strange things had been happening more and more often.

Xing Tianlong waved his hand.

"Relax. Even if it were a dinosaur, it couldn't get in unless the zombies knew how to drive an excavator and dig this place open."

"Mm."

Zhao Peng nodded, becoming fearless.

"Let me take another look at what that zombie looks like."

He went back to the ventilation hole, tilting his head as he looked outside.

This time, however, he saw a young man standing outside.

Three strange zombies stood around him.

"That's... Lin Dong?"

Zhao Peng looked shocked, having recognized him.

The moment he saw Lin Dong, anger rose in his heart. Before the apocalypse, Lin Dong had sold him the farm and borrowed eighty million from him.

He still owed him money even now...

"Serves you right! You turned into a zombie, didn't you? What karma!"

Zhao Peng muttered.

Still, he was quite impressed.

Even after becoming a zombie, Lin Dong was still so clean.

Xing Tianlong said, "Boss Zhao, we don't need to bother with them."

"They can't get in anyway. Let them fool around all they want. They'll probably leave soon enough."

"Mm."

Zhao Peng stopped watching at the door and turned around to sit in a chair.

Outside, Lin Dong stared at the building.

Even if he had a key, he could not open it from the outside.

But with his current physical strength, he could punch right through it.

However... that would dirty his clothes.

So—

With a wave of his hand, Lin Dong took something out of his storage space.

It was a massive metal machine, its steel arm connected to a huge bucket.

It was an excavator!

He had brought it from the farm, and today, it happened to come in handy.

Rumble rumble rumble!

As the steel machine started up, it let out a huge roar.

Lin Dong drove the excavator toward the fortress.

The reinforced concrete was too thick and heavy, making it difficult to dig through.

He planned to start with the dirt beneath the ground and dig a tunnel inside.

"Huh?"

Zhao Peng and the others in the fortress heard the machine's roar.

They were instantly startled.

What was that?

They hurried to the door and looked through the ventilation holes.

A steel behemoth was slowly driving toward them.

"This..."

Everyone was dumbfounded.

An excavator?

Could that zombie be a Lanxiang alumnus?

What they were seeing completely overturned their understanding of the world.

Xing Tianlong was utterly bewildered too. He had just mentioned an excavator, and it had immediately come true!

He never could have imagined that zombies really knew how to operate something like this!

So now the question was, which excavator school was the best?

As Lin Dong kept digging—

A massive pit soon appeared before the doors.

The ground inside the fortress began to collapse continuously.

Sunlight from outside shone in beneath the door.

"Go get weapons! Prepare to fight them!"

Xing Tianlong's ruthlessness erupted as he turned and ordered.

Whether thugs or construction workers, everyone pulled out machetes or steel pipes.

Somewhere, a buzzing sound rang out. Someone had even brought out a chainsaw!

They had the advantage in numbers, and their momentum was imposing.

"Right! Let's fight them!"