Dead leaves scraped across the ground, making faint sounds like someone lightly scratching the surface with their fingernails.
Apart from that, there was no sound at all.
But there was absolutely no sound from the vehicle.
"What's going on?" Zheng Xiaofeng asked in confusion.
Yang Yong's heart lurched.
Something had to be wrong for things to be this unusual.
A chill crept up from his tailbone.
He said gravely, "Let's be cautious first. Go down and wake Old Cao and the others."
Zheng Xiaofeng leaped straight off the nearly four-meter-high roof and hit the ground with a thud.
Even the ground shook.
The crash was loud.
He barely needed to call out. Almost everyone woke up.
After all, this was the apocalypse. Even when resting, they couldn't possibly sleep like the dead.
Everyone maintained a measure of vigilance in their light sleep. The slightest sound could send them springing out of bed.
"What happened?"
Wang Ying reacted fastest.
She rushed out with the Black Gold Bone Blade in hand.
Under the Blood Moon, the blade gleamed with a cold, dim sheen, like congealed blood.
Her eyes swiftly swept her surroundings, her pupils contracting into two sharp points of light in the darkness.
Zheng Xiaofeng scratched his head and chuckled. "There's a vehicle approaching."
"A vehicle's approaching?"
Everyone who had rushed out looked baffled at those words.
Why get so nervous over an approaching vehicle?
Then, after struggling for a long while, Zheng Xiaofeng finally got the rest out.
"That vehicle... doesn't have its lights on. It's getting closer and closer along the highway, like a ghost."
At those words,
everyone's expression changed.
They all knew... something really was wrong.
The air seemed to lose a layer of warmth.
Everyone fell silent, instinctively tightening their grips on their weapons.
Without another