Killing with a Borrowed Knife

Lin Qi did not hesitate further, stepping forward as he walked toward the large supermarket.

Generally when gathering supplies, an Extraordinary team would enter inside large supermarkets.

Moreover, a large supermarket would also be the place where the most anomalies were born, and he could completely fish in troubled waters to obtain some more Ghost Cash.

By the way, he would settle his personal grudge with Li Xing...

Lin Qi stepped into the supermarket, and first a foul, moldy and spoiled stench irritated his nasal cavity, followed by a thick, unmelting stench of blood mixed within it.

The supermarket entrance was the rotting fresh produce section, and walking further inside were the food and daily necessities areas.

Lin Qi did not immediately set about gathering supplies; he first observed his surroundings in the dark.

He could see quite a few hurried survivors deliberately lowering the sound of their footsteps, shuttling through the dark and sweeping across the shelves.

The shelves near the exit were basically cleared out, and if he wanted to gather supplies, he had to go deeper into the dark.

Lin Qi walked past an empty shelf, and at the corner was a corpse with its eyes wide open in death.

His footsteps merely paused for a beat, and he lowered his head to start sizing up the corpse.

The corpse had no external injuries, and the time of death was not long; it looked as if it had just been freshly produced.

In the dead person's hand, a piece of chocolate was tightly clenched.

Can chocolate not be taken...

Lin Qi pondered secretly in his heart, stepping past the corpse and walking toward the depths of the dark.

Having survived a week of struggling in the quagmire, any survivor who could come out to search for supplies would look for the rules of death from corpses.

After all, survivors who did not figure out the rules had long since turned into corpses.

Passing two more shelves, the figures of survivors clearly became much more numerous, and the goods on the shelves also began to gradually appear.

It's not chocolate...

Lin Qi saw a survivor ahead grab a handful of chocolate and stuff it fiercely toward his backpack, which clearly showed that chocolate was not the rule of death.

The survivor ahead obviously came earlier with a bulging backpack, and after grabbing another handful of chocolate, he vigilantly guarded his backpack, looking left and right as he walked quickly toward the supermarket entrance.

Lin Qi arrived before the shelf, where basically all supplies had been plundered, with only scattered supplies placed on the shelf.

And these supplies had one very synchronized point-the packaging of all supplies was red!

Red cannot be taken.

Lin Qi finally confirmed the rule, and arriving before the next shelf, he stuffed anything usable right into the backpack behind him.

While stuffing supplies, his gaze was all the while searching for Li Xing's figure in the surroundings.

The supermarket food area was not very large, and before long, his gaze locked onto a figure with a slightly bloated belly-it was precisely Li Xing!

"Hah."

The corners of Lin Qi's mouth hooked into a sneer. "Found you..."

Li Xing used to be a sports major with a sturdy build, and if there were no Extraordinary abilities, two Lin Qis probably wouldn't necessarily have been his match.

Li Xing carried a full three backpacks on his back, one backpack on each shoulder, with another backpack hanging in front of his chest, making his already bloated body even more bloated.

Hauled down by three loaded backpacks, even as a sports major, he was somewhat panting.

His greed clearly had no upper limit, and even though all three backpacks were stuffed full, he was still stuffing supplies into his pockets as much as possible.

"Damn it, if I'd known gathering supplies was this tiring, I would have waited for that idiot Lin Qi to finish gathering supplies before rubbing him out." Li Xing muttered in a low voice while sweeping across the sparse supplies on the shelf.

As he walked, he sensed that something was a bit off. "How come it feels like someone is following me."

Li Xing's heart sank. "Could it be that someone wants to snatch my supplies? No, I have to hurry and go find the Extraordinary; with the Extraordinary around, they won't dare to make a move! Even if I follow behind the Extraordinary and can't snatch many supplies..."

Even though he sensed that something was wrong, he still did not choose to leave the supermarket at the first instance, instead walking quickly toward the direction where the Extraordinary was located.

Lin Qi hid in the dark, watching Li Xing's every move.

He had long since understood Li Xing's greed, previously holding only a filter of brotherhood.

Now that the brotherhood filter was shattered, he could truly see Li Xing clearly.

The location of the Extraordinary was very easy to find.

After all, following behind the Extraordinary was the safest, and the location where the Extraordinary was located was also the place with the greatest number of people.

Li Xing proceeded carefully all the way, bypassing a few shelves, where in a distant dark corner, the numerous survivors led by the Extraordinary were sweeping through.

The Extraordinary was a burly man with a tiger's back and bear's waist, and his movements in collecting supplies were also extremely bold; grabbing a snakeskin bag, he basically threw whatever he saw into the snakeskin bag.

Seeing the burly man, the panic on Li Xing's face faded, and he began to jog toward the Extraordinary.

Yet at the very instant he brushed past a shelf beside him.

"Crack."

The sound of something shattering rang out, exceptionally piercing in the silent dark.

The survivors ahead simultaneously cast their gazes over in unison.

"Gulp."

Li Xing swallowed hard without thinking and looked down. Because he hadn't been paying attention, he had stepped on a compact mirror.

The mirror's surface shattered beneath his foot. Every shard reflected countless images of his face.

From a distance, Extraordinary saw what had happened, and his expression changed.

Without anyone giving an order, the survivors around them rushed toward the supermarket entrance almost without hesitation.

In the confusion, some people even fell, but didn't dare make a sound. Gritting their teeth, they kept running.

Lin Qi, hiding in the dark, also looked grim.

He had been wondering how to kill Li Xing, but he hadn't expected the idiot to trigger a piece of common knowledge everyone knew!

After the apocalypse descended, anyone who stared directly at the Blood Moon for too long would turn into an aberration and become a servant of the darkness.

In the dark, never make too much noise!

Sound would awaken the aberrations lurking in the darkness!

"Idiot."

Lin Qi cursed under his breath. He didn't look at Li Xing again, turning and following the survivors outside without hesitation.

Less than five seconds after the survivors reacted, the darkness inside the supermarket began to churn. It was as if the entire, deathly silent supermarket had come alive at that moment!

One after another, aberrations dressed as store clerks emerged from behind the shelves without warning.

They were disheveled and filthy, each walking with stiff, twisted steps as they locked onto the nearest survivor.

They weren't fast, but the places they appeared made no sense.

"Ah!"

A scream rang out among the survivors fleeing ahead.

Sometimes, luck was part of surviving. The unlucky man was the fastest runner, but as he passed a corner, a clerk aberration appeared right in front of him.

He was knocked to the ground with virtually no chance to fight back, and the clerk began tearing into him.

The only good news was that the clerks had no intelligence. After catching their prey, they didn't continue after the other survivors.

The survivor's death was only the beginning, not the end.

More and more clerks emerged from the churning darkness around them, closing in on the survivors...

Extraordinary had clearly grown used to seeing such a scene. He hardly paused, quickly cutting behind another row of shelves and circling around.

As an Extraordinary, he didn't attack the clerks directly. He merely led the survivors through the shelves, taking detours.

Behind him were more than thirty survivors fleeing in disarray.

Li Xing was among them.

No one could make out his face in the dark. No one knew he was the one who had roused the aberrations; otherwise, he wouldn't even have made it out of the supermarket.

Lin Qi was the first to react.

He was also among the group. Carrying only one backpack, he moved quickly, just a few paces behind Extraordinary.

Lin Qi glanced at Li Xing, who was panting behind him.

He didn't act himself. Instead, in a voice so low it was barely audible, yet just loud enough for the nearby survivors to hear, he said, "The one at the back carrying three backpacks seems to be the guy who woke the aberrations..."