Assassination

"Continue?"

The corners of Lin Dong's mouth curled up slightly. He felt this was indeed a good idea. He should continue hunting human Awakened and obtain Crystal Cores to replenish his energy.

He still hadn't had enough "cherries"...

Besides, Lin Dong liked hiding out in his little nest and hated being disturbed. The best way to keep others from coming after him was to go out and kill them all first!

Thus, Lin Dong gave Little Eight an order to search for traces of human Awakened.

Little Eight was fast enough to be a qualified swift scout.

"Hehehehehe~~"

Little Eight laughed eerily and quickly left the nest, vanishing around a distant street corner.

Night fell.

Darkness blanketed the land. Jiangbei City's power grid had collapsed, and even the streetlights no longer worked. Everything was now completely black.

In the ink-black night, the savage roars of zombies and the howls of mutated monsters often rang out, as bloody slaughter played out without end.

Lin Dong stood by the window at home, gazing outside.

Zombies possessed extremely powerful night vision. Even from the twentieth floor, he could still take in the detailed street scene below.

At that moment, a ghostlike figure dashed rapidly into the building.

Little Eight had returned.

"My King... I found a group of humans hiding in Dafa Supermarket. They're guarding a warehouse. There are more than ten Awakened among them, wearing the same uniforms as those people from today."

Little Eight reported.

With her current intelligence, she was already comparable to a ten-year-old child. As long as things were not too complicated, she could express them clearly.

More than ten Awakened...

The same uniforms...

Lin Dong did not need to think much to know they were from the Tech Company. In this apocalypse, no other faction wore standardized uniforms.

They were guarding the supermarket warehouse. They had probably found a huge quantity of supplies and were trying to figure out how to transport them back.

In this apocalypse,

transportation was definitely a difficult problem. After all, not everyone had storage space.

"Let's go take a look."

Lin Dong said simply.

Little Eight immediately became excited, her mouth stretching all the way to her ears in a huge, eerie grin...

Night was the best time for zombies to hunt.

But this time was different from before.

The zombies made no sound as they silently followed behind Lin Dong toward their target.

The zombie army was like ghosts melding into the darkness.

Inside Dafa Supermarket, there were more than two hundred humans. Over a hundred of them were ordinary survivors, while the rest were Tech Company employees.

Among them were twelve Awakened.

The large warehouse here held supplies worth hundreds of millions, enough to affect the food rations of tens of thousands of people. It was clearly extremely important to them, and there could be no mistakes.

"With so much stuff, when the hell are we supposed to get it all back? There are only two hundred of us. We'll be exhausted to death just moving it."

A young man standing guard at night complained.

The person beside him took a drag of his cigarette, exhaling smoke.

"Who cares? We'll just wait for the higher-ups to send people. We've got food, drinks, cigarettes, and booze. Let's just guard the place."

"The key is... we can't go back to the company. Being out here never feels safe."

The young man felt deeply uneasy.

The person beside him burst out laughing.

"No way. Don't tell me you're worried zombies might get in? We've got twelve Awakened here. If zombies come in, they're just coming here to die."

"Haah! Let's hope so..."

The young man yawned. It was already late, and he could not help feeling sleepy. "Brother Nan, give me a cigarette too. I need to wake up."

But what they did not know was that more than a thousand zombies had already surrounded the supermarket. They stood there silently like wooden stakes, yet their eyes grew increasingly savage, like evil ghosts lurking in the dark!

With a single command from Lin Dong, they would charge without hesitation or fear of death!

"So many Awakened..."

Lin Dong sensed the human auras inside and suddenly felt that a frontal assault would not be appropriate under the circumstances.

He himself would be fine.

The problem was that his underlings could easily suffer heavy losses.

The ones he had brought out today were all elite zombies capable of understanding commands and obeying orders...

So Lin Dong decided to make the first move himself.

He would find an opportunity to assassinate several Awakened.

Then launch the full assault.

Immediately afterward, he told his underlings to wait where they were and stepped forward alone. With each step, his figure sank into the darkness until he slowly disappeared...

Using the Corpse Domain ability, Lin Dong passed straight through the wall and entered the supermarket.

He moved without a sound, like a ghost.

I need to be careful too...

Lin Dong looked around. After all, there were twelve Awakened here. Even with Zombie King Domain fully unleashed, he could only maintain it for five minutes at most.

If he got bogged down in a battle of attrition, it might become troublesome.

Lin Dong followed the human auras and slowly walked forward. Though he was surrounded by darkness, he could see everything around him clearly.

The first floor of the supermarket was the section for gold and silver jewelry, gemstones, diamonds, and the like.

In the apocalypse, such things were useless. They had simply been left here, untouched by anyone.

Lin Dong continued forward and arrived at the first-floor lobby.

The sounds of human breathing were clearer here, and he could even hear faint snores.

With a glance, Lin Dong saw dozens of people sleeping on the floor here. Most of them were already asleep.

Of course, some were still awake, playing on their phones. The faint glow from a screen illuminated a bald face.

All his hair had fallen out, and he was still staying up late?

Large supermarkets like this had backup generators, so it was normal for people to be able to use their phones...

Lin Dong did not disturb them, because they were all ordinary survivors.

Besides,

Lin Dong had already locked onto his target, in a private room not far away.

There were three auras inside: one Awakened and two women.

Lin Dong walked over without making a sound.

Using the Corpse Domain ability, he passed straight through the wall.

The room had originally been a store, but beds had been moved inside, turning it into a bedroom. The air was filled with a lewd scent.

A young man and two women lay on the bed, all of them naked.

There was no need to guess what had happened.

In this apocalypse, Awakened naturally became highly sought after. Countless women threw themselves at them.

Moreover, they faced savage monsters every day, under enormous mental pressure, never knowing when they might die. Thus, they cared far less about chastity and were more willing to indulge themselves.

Lin Dong drew a dagger and stabbed it straight into the young man's forehead.

To avoid making any sound,

he used the Corpse Domain ability to pass through the skull and scramble the man's brain. With a flick, a Brain Core flew out.

Clearly, this Awakened was relatively low-level and had yet to form a Crystal Core.

Lin Dong was not picky.

He put it directly into his mouth. It still tasted like a "cherry."

The two women remained deeply asleep, completely unresponsive. They had clearly been exhausted earlier.

If they wake up later and find themselves sleeping beside a corpse, they'll probably be terrified...

Lin Dong was rather tenderhearted toward women. To spare them the fear and anxiety, he drove his drawn dagger into their hearts one by one.