Feeding Zombies

"Having a snack?"

Lin Dong spoke calmly, as if chatting with a friend.

Little Eight and Tank hurriedly rose from the wall, standing ramrod straight like schoolchildren being punished.

Tank even slipped a hand behind his back and secretly tossed the bug he was holding onto the ground.

Then he grinned foolishly.

"Hehehe, Boss, Little Eight was the one who gave it to me. I didn't even want to eat it..."

"Huh???"

Little Eight turned to look at him, utterly speechless and somewhat annoyed. Her sharp nails sank into Tank's waist with a pfft.

Are you seriously this shameless?

But Tank was thick-skinned and tough. He was already beyond caring about boiling water, so Little Eight's scratch did him no harm at all. He kept his foolish grin.

Lin Dong did not blame them much.

"I'm going out. Watch the place properly."

"Okay, okay..."

Tank and Little Eight agreed repeatedly, though they were somewhat curious. What was Boss going out for? If he was hunting, could he take them along?

But they had just made a mistake, so neither dared ask.

Lin Dong shot the two zombies a look.

"Don't you like eating bugs? Before I return, clear out every bug around the building. I don't want to see a single one."

"Mm-hmm."

The two zombies nodded like pecking chicks.

Lin Dong left the building.

He had absorbed all five of his Soul Crystals, so he planned to head out and see whether he could run into any "lucky ones" and hunt down a few more.

He also wanted to investigate the rat swarm attacks and the zombie harassment.

Since the exact situation remained unclear, Lin Dong did not intend to bring along his thousands of Zombie Underlings. He was better at concealing himself alone. If he encountered danger, he could unleash Corpse Domain to attack or retreat as he pleased, coming and going freely.

But his underlings were different. If they ran into a mutated beast pack or an even larger hostile Zombie Tide, they could easily get wiped out...

By then, Lin Dong would be left a commander without an army.

Moreover, Lin Dong was not completely without leads regarding the rat swarm attacks and zombie harassment. He guessed they had to be coming from nearby, most likely from the zombie faction he had encountered in the park that day.

So he headed toward the park.

A month had passed since the apocalypse descended. The abandoned vehicles on the streets had already become rusted, and weeds were beginning to grow across the roads that had once been bustling.

The entire city was desolate and ruined.

The only things still active were the zombies. Sometimes they stood still, sometimes they wandered aimlessly, but at the slightest disturbance, it was as though they had been activated, immediately sprinting toward it.

Their terrifying faces, the low growls rumbling from their throats, and their bloodthirsty gazes all revealed their extreme craving for flesh and blood.

Of course, these wild zombies would not attack Lin Dong when they encountered him. They even instinctively feared him and took the initiative to clear a path for him.

But as Lin Dong continued forward, there were fewer and fewer wild zombies.

Zombie corpses began to appear in the streets. Their flesh had been mangled, as if they had been run over by a heavy truck, reduced to patties of meat.

But this was not humanity's doing. It was the result of a stampede in a large-scale Zombie Tide.

Low-Tier Zombies had no intelligence. When they charged, they paid no heed to anything, so a few unlucky ones were inevitably trampled to death.

And the larger the Zombie Tide, the more were accidentally injured and trampled to death.

Countless flies buzzed around the rotting corpses. Even the green bottle flies had grown much larger in the apocalypse, each one as big as a thumb. Their incessant buzzing was deeply irritating.

Lin Dong had now entered another zombie king's territory.

Tufts of fur and black pellet-like rat droppings were scattered across the street, making the place utterly disgusting.

Lin Dong could already imagine it.

Beneath his feet, in the sewers, there had to be tens of thousands of rats lurking. They still retained their old habits, only coming out at night to forage.

A flock of black crows cawed noisily in the distance, circling a high-rise building.

Crows were symbols of death and ill omen.

They seemed drawn to whatever was inside that building, impatient to fly in.

"Survivors?"

Lin Dong made his judgment and walked toward the building.

As he drew closer,

Lin Dong indeed caught the scent of blood. There were living humans inside the building.

But what puzzled him was that beside the aura of the living humans, there were also zombies. They seemed to be living in the same room.

"What's going on?"

Lin Dong directly activated Corpse Domain, entering a concealed state. He passed through the wall and headed straight upward through the building.

Hidden within the void, he was completely invisible to others.

In this perilous apocalypse, invisibility was absolutely a god-tier ability. But Lin Dong's concealed state had one flaw: he could not attack while concealed. If he attacked someone, his true body would inevitably be exposed.

Lin Dong made his way to the eighteenth floor.

He could sense that the room before him contained four humans and one zombie.

With a trace of curiosity, Lin Dong passed through the wall once more.

The first room he entered was a cramped little bedroom. The sight inside was horrifying—blood covered the walls and floor.

The powerful stench of blood assaulted his nose.

Along with it came the clattering of chains.

Lin Dong turned his head and saw a Female Zombie with both hands bound, chained to the headboard. She roared from behind her restraints, trying to break free from the chains.

Across from her stood a human man with small eyes and Thick Lips, staring at the Female Zombie with a dazed expression.

"Yingying, my goddess. Even though you've become a zombie, I'll still keep my promise and take care of you for the rest of my life."

"Do you remember? I once said that no matter what you became, my love for you would never change."

"Rrrgh—"

The Female Zombie growled viciously at the man. Drool ran from the corner of her mouth, stretching into strings...

Thick Lips seemed long accustomed to it. He narrowed his eyes and smiled.

"You're still the same, always so fond of being mean to me. I chased after you for ten years, from middle school to college. Every morning, I got up early to bring you breakfast. When you were living with your boyfriend, I even had to bring two portions. But you never gave me a proper look. You used to curse at me like this all the time..."

Good grief!

Lin Dong was stunned. A simp like this actually existed?

Even Fei Yangyang would have to offer him a cigarette.

Yet as Thick Lips spoke, his face instead filled with sweetness.

"Now it's all right. You're finally with me. I can protect you forever. So what if it's the end of the world? Yingying, baby, you must be hungry. I'll go make you something to eat..."

After saying that, he turned and pushed the door open, leaving the room.

Lin Dong immediately followed him.

Since he was invisible, the man could not see him at all.

Lin Dong had already sensed that Thick Lips possessed abundant vitality, far surpassing that of an ordinary person. He was actually an awakened one.

Thick Lips entered another room.

After opening the door, he found three more men inside. Their hands and feet were bound, and their mouths were sealed with tape. They could only make muffled whimpering sounds.

The moment they saw Thick Lips, terror filled their eyes, and they struggled violently.

But they were tied too tightly. It was completely useless.

Thick Lips narrowed his eyes and smiled as he inspected them one by one.

"Let me see... who's lucky enough today to treat my Yingying baby to a meal."