Territory

That sound was like the summons of death, sending chills through everyone's bodies and leaving their hearts in ashes.

The terrifying zombies ahead seemed to have been activated. They let out vicious roars, their eyes gleaming with bloodlust.

Tank, especially, looked extremely excited.

The boss had arranged a buffet today. There were over two hundred dishes inside...

"Roar—"

Tank let out a strange cry and charged straight at the crowd with his underlings.

The crowd screamed and wailed as they began fleeing in every direction, but the zombies tackled them down one after another, pinning them to the ground and tearing into them.

The scene descended completely into chaos.

The moment the people opened the doors, they had already stepped into the abyss.

Li Nan was utterly despairing.

His mental power had been overdrawn earlier, leaving him with no strength left to resist.

Only then did he realize it.

It was this well-trained group of zombies that had breached the prison and killed Zhang Xiaoyuan.

And Lin Dong had already grown into a Zombie King!

A Zombie King with a domain was practically an unsolvable existence.

"How... were humans supposed to survive?"

That was Li Nan's final thought before death.

A searing pain tore through his body. Little Eight had already disemboweled him.

After the Tech Company personnel were wiped out, any resistance from the remaining ordinary people was futile. They fell one after another, then were devoured by the zombies.

This was the true apocalypse.

It was filled with blood and slaughter, leaving people helpless and lost.

Before long.

The people's screams vanished completely, replaced by the sounds of zombies tearing and eating flesh.

The entire mall had fallen. Not a single person survived!

Lin Dong looked indifferent as he started walking outside.

Tank, Little Eight, and the others followed behind him obediently.

"We should head back..."

After killing Li Nan and the others, Lin Dong obtained five Crystal Cores. After devouring three of them, he felt his strength become abundant.

It seemed he was nearing evolution once again...

But the three Crystal Cores contained enormous energy and would take some time to absorb, so he kept the remaining two for now.

On the way back.

The sky had begun to brighten faintly.

Before the apocalypse, this would surely have been a bright, hopeful morning beneath the rising sun.

But all that lay before them was devastation, with corpses strewn everywhere.

The entire city resembled ruins.

At that moment, Lin Dong led his underlings through a park. The park was covered in mottled bloodstains and filled with the pungent stench of rot.

Scattered zombies lingered all around, and some of them had even retained habits from when they were alive.

For example, an old man was ramming his back against a tree to exercise.

His flesh and blood had already been battered apart, yet he still enjoyed it tirelessly, leaving gruesome bloodstains on the cracked bark.

There was also an old woman pushing a wheelchair. Her steps were stiff as she walked circles around the plaza, never tiring, over and over again.

Lin Dong glanced over.

He discovered that a huge rat was sitting in the wheelchair. Its claws held something unknown as it gnawed away with relish.

Before long.

Several young zombies appeared ahead. Unlike the stiff ones from before, these had clearly eaten flesh and blood.

"Roar—"

One of the zombies actually opened its mouth wide, revealing sharp teeth as it roared at Lin Dong.

"Hm?"

Lin Dong cast it a glance.

He had not expected such a tiny zombie to dare roar at him.

However.

The zombie's roar conveyed a message.

"This is our boss's territory. Outsiders are not allowed to set foot here..."

Clearly, it had sworn allegiance elsewhere. This area belonged to another Zombie King.

No wonder it dared roar at him...

Lin Dong understood.

Tank had a fiery temper. Seeing a zombie roar at his boss, he strode forward in two great steps, grabbed the zombie by the neck, lifted it like a chick, and slammed it hard into the ground.

"Splat!"

The little zombie was smashed into pieces, its blood splattering far into the distance.

Tank was treating it like a firecracker...

Still, Tank did not feel satisfied. With three punches and two kicks, he smashed all the zombies beside it into pulp.

Only then did he return to Lin Dong's side, his face brimming with pride as if saying... Praise me already.

"Let's go. Time to head back."

Lin Dong did not think much of it and led his underlings away.

However.

On a distant hill in the park, a group of zombies was watching them.

The zombie at their head was enormous, standing a full two meters tall.

His skin was pale red.

Black veins bulged across his face, their patterns clearly visible. He looked exceptionally sinister.

A dark, furry thing was also wrapped around his neck, looking like a large scarf.

"Your Majesty, the humans in the mall were hunted by them."

A zombie beside him sent the signal. It had clearly evolved considerable intelligence.

Its intelligence was roughly on par with Little Eight's.

"Hrr—"

The leading Zombie King let out low growls from his throat.

He regarded that mall as his territory. Originally, he could have slowly consumed the humans inside.

But now they had been hunted by other zombies!

As the saying went, one mountain could not hold two tigers. Slaughter was a zombie's instinct. They could devour each other's Crystal Cores and absorb their energy.

"It's about time... to expand my territory..."

Bloodlust filled the Zombie King's eyes. He had already regarded Lin Dong and his group as prey.

And if he wanted his zombie horde to grow.

He had to hunt down other Zombie Kings.

"Squeak—squeak squeak squeak—"

The "large scarf" draped around him suddenly let out strange squeaks. It was actually a giant rat, and even more horrifyingly, it had a human head covered in dense black fur. It looked utterly terrifying!

After returning home, Lin Dong took a bath and changed into clean clothes.

Su Xiaorou was quick and efficient. She had cleaned the house until it was spotless, with every item neatly arranged in place. Even someone with obsessive-compulsive disorder would find it immensely satisfying.

After all, other servants only had their wages deducted for slacking off, but if she failed to clean properly, what would be deducted was her life...

When she saw Lin Dong's discarded clothes, she immediately took them away to wash.

Although Lin Dong had not made any physical contact with anyone in the mall, his white shirt was still stained with a faint scent of blood.

Su Xiaorou could smell it clearly.

"B-Boss, did you go out to eat again?"

"Yeah. A buffet."

Lin Dong answered casually.

"Hiss..."

Su Xiaorou shrank her neck. It seemed the scene this time had been quite something, but she did not dare ask further and hurried off to do the laundry obediently.

Lin Dong took out his phone.

He checked the information online.

But he had only just finished his major job, and the Tech Company had not discovered it yet.

Their official website was still announcing that preparations for the "King Hunt Operation" were proceeding smoothly and would begin soon...

There were quite a few comments below.

"It would be best if they could eliminate the zombies. Then we could rebuild our homes. I hope this operation succeeds!"

"Tch! The Tech Company conducts human experiments. They are not thinking about humanity at all. They hunt zombies only to develop themselves, all for their own selfish desires."

"No one knows how this operation will turn out. Let's wait and see!"