Reunion with Old Friends

The six of them moved forward cautiously. They had all applied a special agent that masked their scent, so as long as they made no noise, they would be fine.

The zombies on the outskirts were not densely packed either. As long as they avoided them, they would not alert them.

From far away,

Chen Ming spotted several zombies standing in the street, their bodies swaying as they wore somewhat vacant expressions.

The six of them pressed against the walls, moving lightly and using abandoned vehicles as cover, planning to circle around behind the zombies.

But halfway there, Sun Xiaoqiang's stomach suddenly let out a rumbling sound.

"Uh?"

Chen Ming and the others instantly changed expressions, their hearts leaping into their throats.

Although the sound was not loud,

zombies had exceptionally sharp hearing.

The few swaying zombies immediately stopped where they stood. They became alert, low growls rumbling from their throats as though they were carefully sensing their surroundings.

Cheng Luoyi stared ahead with her beautiful eyes, already prepared to fight.

The others crouched behind the abandoned cars, holding their breath and barely daring to breathe.

Fortunately,

the zombies were only briefly alert. Before long, they calmed down and returned to their vacant, swaying state.

"Phew—"

Chen Ming and the others let out long breaths of relief and quickly circled around the dangerous area.

Once they were far from the zombies,

an Awakened spoke with lingering fear.

"Xiaoqiang, you almost alerted the zombies just now!"

"Wasn't I hungry?"

Sun Xiaoqiang replied as if it were only natural.

Chen Ming quickly tried to smooth things over.

"All right, finishing the mission is what matters. Once we find the supplies, we'll have something to eat!"

"Yeah."

Thinking about delicious food, Sun Xiaoqiang was instantly full of motivation.

He imagined it in his heart.

After finding the supplies, he would take a bite of bread first, then wash it down with a can of Six Nuclear Bombs. Perfect...

And so, the six of them continued forward carefully.

The journey went fairly smoothly.

They avoided wave after wave of zombies.

When necessary, they even climbed onto rooftops, walking over the tiles like ancient assassins leaping across eaves and walls.

However,

Chen Ming was still extremely nervous.

As they went deeper and deeper, they had already reached the center of the area. The zombies below had evolved to a higher degree, and their senses were incredibly sharp.

According to the supplementary information later provided by Tech Company, this place had been classified as a Five-Star Zombie Nest!

"Woo woo~~ Woo woo~~ Wooooooo~~~"

Suddenly, a woman's crying rang out. It was incomparably shrill, rising and falling in pitch, as if it came from the depths of hell itself. It was utterly eerie.

Simply hearing it sent chills down their spines.

The six of them lay prone atop a building and hurriedly looked toward the source of the crying. They saw a Female Zombie kneeling on the ground with her head lowered as she cried.

"Hiss..."

Chen Ming drew in a sharp breath, every hair on his body standing on end.

It was simply too terrifying...

"I'm hungry enough to cry too, but I haven't cried. What's she crying for?"

Sun Xiaoqiang craned his neck to look.

Cheng Luoyi said,

"Maybe she's even hungrier than you..."

"We can't go through this place. We need to go around it."

Chen Ming immediately made his judgment.

There were also many zombies around the Female Zombie. They moved swiftly and were not vacant-minded, clearly indicating that they had evolved to a very high degree.

Besides, the group that had looted the supplies could not possibly be hiding here.

Otherwise, they would have been torn apart and eaten by the zombies long ago...

Just as the six were about to take a detour, Little Eight's senses were keen enough that she had already noticed their gazes. Her loose hair covered her entire face, leaving only one eye exposed, and she suddenly turned to look their way.

After Little Eight discovered the targets, the pupil of that eye shrank to the size of a needlepoint, making her look even more horrifying.

"Hehehehehehe~~~"

Her originally shrill crying instantly turned into eerie laughter.

Her figure flashed as she charged toward them like a gust of wind.

"Not good! We've been discovered!"

Chen Ming's face turned grave, terror filling his heart. It was the first time he had ever seen such a terrifying zombie.

As Little Eight ran,

she also alerted the zombies around her.

"Roar—"

Several hundred elite zombies roared. They had already formed a small zombie tide and came stampeding toward them. Their bodies were agile, and with just a few leaps, they could climb onto the rooftop.

Even hiding high above was useless for the six of them.

"What do we do now?"

Amid his panic, Chen Ming had no idea what to do either.

Cheng Luoyi's expression remained calm.

"What else can we do? Prepare to break out."

"Yeah!"

Chen Ming and the other Brain Core Awakened drew alloy blades from their waists. They had been specially made by researchers from tough, sharp materials capable of cutting down high-level zombies.

But facing so many elite zombies, the four of them had no confidence.

Even though Cheng Luoyi was an Awakened from Shelter No. 001 and was known as the strongest person,

there were simply too many zombies.

Even a fierce tiger could not withstand a pack of wolves...

And among those zombies was a terrifying Agility-Type Zombie King.

Little Eight's figure was rapidly approaching. The territory had been far too peaceful lately, making warmongers like them feel terribly bored.

They had been so bored that they were about to cry...

Today, they had finally found prey, so naturally, they were extremely excited.

But just as she was about to reach the targets, Little Eight suddenly received an order in her mind.

"Wait. Don't kill them yet..."

"Huh?"

Little Eight's speeding figure abruptly stopped. It was the boss's voice. Although she desperately wanted to slaughter them, she had to restrain herself. She glanced at Chen Ming and the others before moving away sideways.

"This..."

Chen Ming's body trembled. Even until the day he died, he would never forget the resentful look in that Female Zombie's eyes.

But what happened next left them even more astonished.

The zombies that had been charging at them so ferociously all became quiet, then scattered in every direction. Before long, every last one of them had vanished!

"What's going on?"

The six of them found it unbelievable. It was the first time they had encountered something like this.

They had all been prepared to fight.

They had planned to make a desperate last stand.

Yet... the zombie tide had retreated...

"Oh, I get it. They were deliberately trying to scare us."

Sun Xiaoqiang analyzed seriously.

"..." Chen Ming was speechless. "Why would they try to scare you? There must be some special reason."

"What special reason?"

Cheng Luoyi did not understand either.

However, she suddenly realized that... not everything in this world was as terrible as expected. Sometimes, there could even be small surprises.

Just then,

a tall figure appeared at the end of the street. He had a handsome face, and his gaze swept over the group.

Lin Dong looked at Cheng Luoyi. The face before him gradually overlapped with the one in his memories, and scenes from their childhood surfaced in his mind one by one. He could not help reminiscing about the childhood that had long since passed.

"Long time no see!"

"Uh..."

Cheng Luoyi's gaze froze. After spending ten years in a mental hospital, her heart had long become as cold as a bedboard. Yet when she looked at that figure, her heartbeat suddenly quickened.

That face before her carried many memories as well.

They were among the few warm moments in her life.

Sun Xiaoqiang was also especially excited. He remembered Lin Dong deeply, and tears had already welled up in his unique eyes.

In this bleak apocalypse, he had actually met a childhood friend.

So he leaped directly down from the rooftop and arrived before Lin Dong.

"Lin Dong, it's really you! I never expected to run into you here!"

But Chen Ming and the others found it increasingly suspicious. Thinking of what had just happened, together with the photos online,

although the photos were blurry, the figure in them bore an extremely high resemblance to the person before them.

"Xiaoqiang! Be careful, he might be a zombie!"

"Don't talk nonsense!"

Sun Xiaoqiang curled his lip. His friend whom he had not seen for ten years was being called a zombie, and it made him rather angry.

"Lin Dong can't possibly be a zombie! My eyes are the measure of truth!"