Territory

That voice was like a summons from the god of death, sending chills through everyone's bodies and reducing their hearts to ashes.

Several terrifying zombies ahead seemed to have been activated. Savage roars erupted from their mouths, and bloodlust flickered in their eyes.

Tank, especially, looked extraordinarily excited.

The boss had arranged a buffet today. There were more than two hundred dishes...

"Roar—"

Tank let out a strange cry and led his underlings charging headlong into the crowd.

The people screamed and wailed as they scattered in every direction, but the zombies pounced on them one after another, pinning them to the ground and tearing into them.

The scene descended completely into chaos.

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

Li Nan fell into utter despair.

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

Only then did he realize it.

It had been this group of well-trained 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.

"Humanity... how could it possibly survive?"

That was Li Nan's final thought before death.

A piercing pain tore through his body. Little Eight had already ripped open his stomach.

After everyone from Tech Company had died, any resistance from the 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 chewing flesh.

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

Lin Dong remained indifferent as he headed outside.

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

"Time to go back..."

After killing Li Nan and the others, Lin Dong obtained five Crystal Cores. After devouring three of them, he felt brimming with power.

It felt like he was on the verge of evolving again...

But the three Crystal Cores contained immense energy and needed time to be absorbed, so he temporarily kept the remaining two.

On the way back.

The sky was beginning to brighten.

Before the apocalypse, this would have been a sunny, hopeful morning.

But what lay before them was utter devastation, with corpses strewn everywhere.

The entire city resembled ruins.

At that moment, Lin Dong led his underlings through a park. Mottled bloodstains covered the grounds, and the air reeked of rot.

Scattered zombies lingered all around. Some of them had even retained the habits they had in life.

For instance, an old man was using his back to ram into a tree, exercising his body.

His flesh had already been smashed to pulp, yet he continued tirelessly, leaving grim bloodstains across the cracked bark.

There was also an old woman pushing a wheelchair. Her steps were stiff as she walked circles around the plaza, endlessly and tirelessly repeating the same route.

Lin Dong glanced over.

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

Before long.

Several young zombies appeared ahead. Unlike the earlier ones, these were no longer so stiff. Clearly, they had eaten flesh before.

"Roar—"

One of the zombies actually opened its mouth wide, bared its sharp teeth, and roared at Lin Dong.

"Hmm?"

Lin Dong glanced at it.

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 had dared roar at him...

Lin Dong understood.

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

"Splat!"

The little zombie shattered into pieces, its blood spraying far into the distance.

Tank was treating it like a firecracker...

But Tank still was not satisfied. With a few punches and kicks, he smashed every zombie beside it into mush.

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

"Let's go. We're heading back."

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

But.

On a hillside in the distance within the park, a group of zombies was watching them.

The lead zombie was tall, standing a full two meters in height.

Its skin was pale red.

Black veins bulged across its face, their patterns clearly visible, making it look incomparably ferocious.

Around its neck was wrapped something dark and furry, resembling a large scarf.

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

A zombie beside it sent the message. It had clearly evolved considerable intelligence.

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

"Hrr—"

The lead Zombie King let out a series of low growls.

It regarded that mall as part of its territory. The humans inside had originally been something it could slowly consume.

But they had now been hunted by other zombies!

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

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

Bloodlust flashed in the Zombie King's eyes. It had already regarded Lin Dong and his group as prey.

And if it wanted its zombie horde to grow stronger.

It had to hunt down other Zombie Kings.

"Squeak—squeak squeak—"

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

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

Su Xiaorou was quick and efficient. She had cleaned the house until it was spotless and arranged every item neatly, making even someone with obsessive-compulsive disorder feel comfortable.

After all, other servants would merely have their wages docked for slacking off. If she failed to clean properly, what would be docked was her life...

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

Although Lin Dong had not physically touched anyone in the mall, the faint scent of blood still clung to his white shirt.

Su Xiaorou could smell it clearly.

"Bo... Boss, did you go out to eat again?"

"Yeah. A buffet."

Lin Dong answered casually.

"Ah..."

Su Xiaorou shrank her neck. It seemed this time the scene had been quite large, but she did not dare ask more. She 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 crime, and Tech Company had not discovered it yet.

Their official website still displayed an announcement: the King Hunt Operation was being prepared smoothly and would soon begin...

There were quite a few comments below.

"If they can wipe out the zombies, that would be best. We can rebuild our home. I hope this operation succeeds!"

"Tch! Tech Company conducted human experiments. They never cared about humanity. Hunting zombies is only for their own development and selfish desires."

"I wonder how this operation will turn out. Let's wait and see!"