In the end, Sheng Ge and Ah Bao decided to follow the group to Tyrant Base for a trip.
After all, they had to go see what a helicopter was like… or rather, take Grandma Grandmaster to broaden her horizons and show her what a helicopter was.
“Alright, it’s getting late. Let’s head back to the temporary stronghold and meet up with Yu Sheng and the others first,” Song Siyu said after checking her watch.
There had originally been seven people in their group on this mission.
Their goal was to search the nearby small towns for supplies and survivors.
But one day earlier, vice-captain Yu Sheng had gotten injured while saving a teammate during the mission.
So they had no choice but to find a temporary shelter and leave him, another teammate, and several rescued survivors there while the remaining five continued searching for supplies.
Then they accidentally ran into the mutant rat horde.
And after that, they met Sheng Ge and Ah Bao.
The others naturally had no objections and started heading toward the temporary stronghold.
Along the way, Ah Bao kept trying his hardest to explain to his Grandma Grandmaster that a helicopter was not a chicken, all in hopes of saving Xiao Huang’s life.
“Grandma Grandmaster, a helicopter isn’t a chicken and it isn’t a spirit beast either. You can’t eat it… There are lots of ways to cook chicken though—yellow-braised chicken, roast chicken… Ah, no, Xiao Huang can’t be eaten either!”
Song Siyu and the others, who had been vigilantly checking their surroundings the whole time: “…….”
So this girl had been rambling all this time just because she wanted to eat chicken?
But…
They glanced at the plump and healthy yellow-feathered chicken in Ah Bao’s arms.
…Who wouldn’t want to eat it?
Sensing several hungry gazes landing on it, Xiao Huang desperately tucked itself deeper into Ah Bao’s arms.
……
Meanwhile, at the temporary stronghold where Yu Sheng and the others were staying—
Inside a two-story residential building, more than ten people were hiding.
Several of them were desperately bracing the front door shut.
Everyone looked disheveled, their faces filled with fear and tension.
Outside the door came horrifying zombie roars and repeated crashing sounds.
Roar roar—
“How did so many zombies suddenly appear?! Miss Feng, what exactly did you go outside to do?” a middle-aged woman cried as she questioned the woman in combat gear standing nearby.
“What do you mean by that? Are you blaming me for attracting the zombies?” the woman snapped back unhappily. “Don’t forget—you still need us to get you to the base.”
“I saw big sister throw the chicken innards nearby,” a little girl said timidly in a tiny voice.
The room fell silent for several seconds.
Then Feng Shuang’er exploded in embarrassment and anger, yelling at the little girl, “You brat, what nonsense are you talking about?! I obviously threw them far away! Tell me, are you deliberately framing me because I ate your chicken?!”
“I… I didn’t…” The little girl was so frightened she was about to cry and hurriedly hid behind the others.
But she really wasn’t lying.
Aside from Yu Sheng and Feng Shuang’er, the remaining dozen or so people here had all originally been from the same town before the apocalypse.
After the apocalypse began, they gathered together for survival.
At first there had been more than a hundred people.
Later, some escaped to the bases, while others died along the way.
In the end, only this small group remained behind because most of them were old, weak, sick, or injured.
Fortunately, the area hadn’t had many people even before the apocalypse.
And because two people in their group awakened abilities, they gathered enough courage to clear out most of the zombies nearby and used this residential building to establish a small safe zone.
They had struggled to survive there for over a year.
A few days ago, this ability-user squad found them and offered to bring them to a base.
Since surviving outside was becoming harder and harder, they didn’t hesitate much.
The squad only told them they still had another mission and asked them to wait two more days, leaving behind two people while the others continued gathering supplies.
Later, Feng Shuang’er forcefully demanded that they kill their last chicken to nourish Uncle Yu’s injured body.
Because the chicken had always been raised by the little girl, she couldn’t bear to part with it and secretly hid nearby watching.
Then she saw Feng Shuang’er casually throw the chicken innards not far away because she found it troublesome to deal with properly.
“And you still say you didn’t—”
“Enough! Is now the time to argue about this?” Yu Sheng shouted to stop Feng Shuang’er.
His injuries still hadn’t healed, and he could only use a small portion of his ability. At the moment, he was also using all his strength to hold the door shut, making his face grow even paler.
Feng Shuang’er stiffened after being scolded and viciously glared at the little girl.
“Ah!”
Suddenly, a scream rang out.
“Old Lin!” The middle-aged woman who had just been arguing covered her mouth and trembled as she looked toward the old man bracing the door.
Old Lin had originally been leaning his body against the door, but now a bloody hand had suddenly pierced through his stomach.
It was a zombie’s hand!
The zombie had directly stabbed through Old Lin’s entire abdomen from behind!
The bluish-white bloody hand clawed around in the air before retreating back into Old Lin’s stomach and rummaging around inside.
Then it seemed to grab a mass of organs and stuff them into the mouth behind the door.
Crunching sounds followed.
And the smell of fresh blood made the zombies outside even more excited, causing them to slam against the door even harder.
“Old Lin!”
The woman threw herself onto Old Lin’s collapsing body.
He twitched a few times before going completely still.
“We can’t hold it anymore! Everyone retreat upstairs first!” Zhuo Dahong shouted with a frown while still bracing the door.
The moment Feng Shuang’er heard that, she was the first to run upstairs.
She was only a water-type ability user and had very little combat power.
The others no longer had time for grief or anger and also hurried upstairs.
Once Zhuo Dahong, Yu Sheng, and the others reached the second floor, they quickly rushed upward too.
With a loud bang, the first-floor entrance was finally smashed open, and the zombies surged inside.
The people upstairs who had arrived first immediately shoved against the second-floor door the moment Yu Sheng and the others entered.
The pursuing zombies slammed into the door recklessly while everyone desperately tried to force it shut.
Roar roar—
A zombie’s head suddenly squeezed in through the side of the doorway.
Someone screamed in terror.
Bang!
Suddenly, a baseball bat smashed into the zombie’s head.
With a crisp crack, the zombie’s skull exploded, splattering rotten and disgusting slime all over the place.
And perhaps due to sheer bad luck, most of it landed on Feng Shuang’er.
At the same time, the others finally managed to shut the door completely and quickly pushed sofas, cabinets, and every piece of furniture they could find against it.
Everyone finally relaxed a little.
Feng Shuang’er looked at the disgusting slime covering her body and dry-heaved before rushing into the bathroom, using her ability to wash her clothes.
But although the slime was gone, her clothes were completely soaked, and that nauseating smell still lingered.
She was so furious her face twisted.
“This door won’t hold for long,” Yu Sheng said with a deep frown.
The others also listened nervously to the violent pounding outside.
Feng Shuang’er came out wearing soaked clothes and heard that, but she didn’t seem worried at all.
“What’s there to worry about? Sister Siyu and the others should be back soon. Once they return, there’s nothing to fear from the zombies outside.”
After saying that, she turned toward the girl in the dark green outdoor jacket holding the baseball bat.
“Hey, did you deliberately splash zombie blood on me just now?”
“No.”
The girl denied it instantly without hesitation.
Feng Shuang’er nearly choked on her response.
She still wanted to say more, but nobody else had the mood to care about her.
Yu Sheng and Zhuo Dahong walked to the window and looked at the densely packed zombies in the courtyard, as well as the endless stream still approaching from afar.
Their expressions became extremely grim.
“It’s about to get dark. The zombies’ speed and strength will both increase at night. When are Captain Song and the others coming back?”
“Captain said they’d return within two days. Logically, they should arrive before dark. But just in case, we can’t just sit here waiting to die.”
As Yu Sheng spoke, he looked at Zhuo Dahong.
“Is there anywhere else we can hide here?”
Zhuo Dahong was also one of the survivors and the only able-bodied adult among them, making him the group’s leader.
That was why Yu Sheng always consulted him about important matters.
“Let’s climb onto the rooftop first through the balcony. The zombies are still only on the first and second floors right now, and the rooftop stairwell has an iron gate. It should hold a little longer.”
“Alright.”
After reaching an agreement, the two immediately instructed everyone to prepare to climb up.
Zhuo Dahong climbed up first and locked the stairwell gate before tossing down a rope.
The others tied the rope around themselves and climbed upward.
To save time, the people who had already climbed up threw down another rope to help pull the others.
Bang bang bang—
The zombies outside slammed harder and harder against the door.
It was obvious the door wouldn’t hold much longer.
Soon, only Yu Sheng, Auntie Lin, and the baseball-bat girl remained in the room.
“Auntie Lin, let’s go up,” the baseball-bat girl, Gu Xiaoxue, said softly while looking at Auntie Lin, who had been standing there blankly ever since coming upstairs.
Yu Sheng directly grabbed a rope and tied it around Auntie Lin’s waist.
From beginning to end, Auntie Lin showed no reaction at all and simply let the two move her however they wanted.
Time was running out.
After tying her up, the two also secured themselves and began climbing together.
Just as they were about to reach the top, Auntie Lin suddenly turned and smiled at Gu Xiaoxue.
A terrible premonition instantly rose in Gu Xiaoxue’s heart.
Sure enough, in the next second, Auntie Lin pulled out a pair of scissors from her clothes and, without hesitation, cut the rope around herself!