Feeding Zombies

"Having a snack?"

Lin Dong's tone was calm, as if he were simply making small talk with friends.

But Little Eight and Tank hurriedly rose from the base of 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 floor.

Then he grinned foolishly.

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

"Hmm???"

Little Eight turned to look at him, utterly speechless and somewhat annoyed. With a sharp pfft, his claws dug into Tank's waist.

Are you seriously this shameless...?

But Tank's hide was thick and his flesh tough. He did not feel pain or itch anymore, as if even boiling water could not scald him. Little Eight's scratch did nothing to him, and he continued grinning foolishly.

Lin Dong did not blame them too much.

"I'm heading 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 going hunting, could he take them along?

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

Lin Dong shot the two zombies a glance.

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

"Mm-hmm."

The two zombies nodded over and over like pecking chicks.

Lin Dong left the building.

He had absorbed all five Soul Crystals, so he planned to look around 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 situation was still unclear, Lin Dong did not plan to bring his several thousand Zombie Underlings. He could hide more easily alone. If he encountered danger, he could deploy his Corpse Domain to attack or retreat at will, coming and going freely.

But his underlings were different. If they ran into a pack of mutated beasts or an even larger hostile zombie horde, they could easily get wiped out...

At that point, Lin Dong would be left a commander without an army.

Besides, Lin Dong was not entirely without leads regarding the rat swarm attacks and zombie harassment. He guessed they must have come from nearby, most likely the zombie faction he had encountered in the park that day.

So, he headed toward the park.

A month had passed since the apocalypse began. The abandoned vehicles on the streets were already covered in rust, while weeds had begun sprouting across the once-bustling roads.

The entire city was desolate and ruined.

The only active things were the zombies. Sometimes they stood still, sometimes they wandered aimlessly, but at the slightest disturbance, they seemed to activate and immediately sprinted toward it.

Those terrifying faces, the low growls in their throats, and their bloodthirsty eyes all showed their desperate craving for flesh and blood.

Naturally, those wild zombies did not attack Lin Dong. They even instinctively feared him and took the initiative to clear a path for him.

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

Bodies began appearing in the streets. Those zombies had been mangled beyond recognition, like they had been run over by heavy trucks and flattened into patties of flesh.

But this was not humanity's doing. It was the result of a large zombie horde trampling itself.

Low-level zombies had no intelligence. When they charged, they paid no attention to anything, so a few unlucky ones inevitably got trampled to death.

And the larger the zombie horde, the more were accidentally injured and crushed.

Countless flies buzzed around the rotting corpses. In the apocalypse, even green bottle flies had grown much larger, as big as thumbs, their incessant buzzing making people restless.

Lin Dong had now entered another Zombie King's territory.

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

Lin Dong could already picture it.

Beneath his feet, in the sewers, there were certainly tens of thousands of rats lurking. They still retained their old habits and only came out at night to forage.

In the distant sky, a flock of pitch-black crows cawed noisily as they circled a high-rise building.

Crows symbolized death and misfortune.

It was as though something inside that building had drawn them in, and they could not wait to get inside.

"Are there survivors?"

Lin Dong made his judgment and headed toward the high-rise.

As he drew closer,

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

But what puzzled him was that beside the presence of living humans, there was also a zombie. They seemed to be living in the same room.

"What's going on?"

Lin Dong directly used his Corpse Domain ability, entering a concealed state. He passed through the wall and headed straight toward the upper floors.

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 drawback: he could not attack while hidden. The moment he attacked someone, his true body would be exposed.

Lin Dong made his way to the eighteenth floor.

He could sense that the room in front of him contained four humans and one zombie.

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

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

The powerful stench of blood assaulted his nose.

Along with it came the clattering of iron chains.

Lin Dong turned his head and saw a Female Zombie with both hands bound, chained to the bedpost. She roared as she tried 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."

"Hoar, hoar—"

The Female Zombie growled fiercely at the man. Drool streamed 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 you for ten years, from middle school through 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 scold me like this all the time..."

Good heavens!

Lin Dong was stunned. There was actually a simp like this?

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, darling, you must be hungry, right? I'll go make you something to eat..."

After saying that, he turned and pushed open the door to leave 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's blood energy was vigorous, far beyond that of an ordinary person. He was actually an Awakened.

Thick Lips came to another room.

When he opened the door, there were three more men inside. Their hands and feet were bound, and tape sealed their mouths, leaving them able to make only muffled whimpering sounds.

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

But they were tied too securely for it to do any good.

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

"Let's see... Who's lucky enough today to treat my darling Yingying to a meal?"