Chen Han drove out of the hotel, feeling uneasy, because he had tried contacting Ling Xue just now but got no response.
When he left, he had already told Gangzi that if anything happened, he must notify him immediately.
He originally thought the villa area was remote with few residents, so even if there were zombies, they wouldn’t pose much threat.
But Chen Han was wrong.
In the apocalypse, humans are more dangerous than zombies!
Along the way, zombies wandered everywhere, survivors fled in panic, and cars crashed wildly—there was no traffic at all.
Chen Han kept turning the steering wheel left and right to avoid vehicles.
Soon, he noticed the presence of the military.
The authorities reacted quickly.
The apocalypse had only begun for a little over an hour, and the army was already deployed for rescue.
Along the way, Chen Han still opened the game’s virtual interface to check the situation.
After [Doomsday Dawn] descended into reality, the game system appeared directly in people’s minds.
With a single thought, one could enter it.
This also made communication much easier.
At this moment, the world channel had exploded.
Countless people were crying for help, cursing, praying… everything imaginable—too much to even look through.
But among them, a few messages caught Chen Han’s attention.
“Buying newbie equipment at high prices.
PM if interested.”
“Buying food at high prices.
PM.”
Equipment and food had become the scarcest resources in the apocalypse.
With hundreds of millions of players in [Doomsday Dawn], many still had food stored in their backpacks, so they wouldn’t starve within just two hours.
And those buying food now were basically “merchants”!
Some even used real-world money to buy in-game food—those were the true experts.
Some people still didn’t realize that after the apocalypse arrived, money was no better than scrap paper.
There were plenty of contaminated foods in malls for free, but who dared to eat them?
Chen Han checked his private messages—999+ notifications, completely flooded.
Randomly opening one, they were all buyers asking for equipment or food.
Before the apocalypse hit, Chen Han’s stockpiling of equipment and food was so massive that he already expected this.
He didn’t reply to a single message.
He would sell the items—but not now.
Since he monopolized the market, the timing and price of selling were entirely up to him.
Some people might condemn him or try moral blackmail.
But Chen Han didn’t care.
It was the apocalypse—who cared about who anymore!
Blue Star had tens of billions of people—how many could he save?
If he didn’t earn a ton of gold coins early, how would he deal with the BOSSes descending later in the game?
When that time came, he’d be the one dying!
Closing the personal interface, Chen Han had no mood to bother with these things.
Ling Xue and the others still weren’t answering calls, making his heart hang in his throat. New chapters come out on g.com first.
His foot never left the accelerator.
…
Twenty minutes later, Chen Han drove into Summer Retreat Manor.
Summer Retreat Manor was a high-end villa district with not many residents.
As he drove inside, Chen Han first saw the corpse of a security guard.
Seeing the wounds on their bodies, Chen Han’s heart sank—these were absolutely not caused by zombies.
Someone had forced their way into the community.
The guards tried to stop them, and those people killed them directly.
A quick thought made Chen Han roughly understand the situation.
“Were they coming for me?” Chen Han frowned.
His previous actions had indeed attracted attention.
With so many supplies stockpiled, it would be strange if no one coveted them.
As long as they killed him, all the fruits of his labor would be taken.
Chen Han’s breathing quickened.
If his guess was right, then Ling Xue and the others were truly in danger.
Since they knew he had huge amounts of equipment, they must have come prepared.
When Chen Han arrived at his villa and saw it shrouded in darkness, his heart skipped a beat.
The community clearly still had power—so why weren’t the lights on?
Could the enemies have already captured Ling Xue and the others?
No—if they had, they wouldn’t have turned off the lights.
They would’ve kept everything bright and waited openly for Chen Han to return, using Ling Xue and the others as hostages.
Keeping the lights off instead served as a warning to Chen Han.
Ling Xue and the others must be hiding.
The villa had three floors, each floor over a thousand square meters.
If they hid, they wouldn’t be found easily.
Thinking of this, Chen Han finally calmed down a little.
He didn’t drive into the courtyard, to avoid alerting the enemy.
With his right hand gripping the Tang sword and his left hand holding a crossbow, he quietly slipped into the side yard.
Then he climbed through a window on the side and entered the villa.
As soon as he went inside, he saw two men hiding behind the main door holding machetes.
It looked like they planned to ambush him the moment he returned!
Chen Han’s expression darkened.
He raised his crossbow and fired two arrows.
“Puff!
Puff!”
As the arrows hit their bodies, a thin barrier appeared.
These two were actually wearing equipment!
But their equipment was clearly inferior to Chen Han’s purple newbie crossbow.
[Damage -150]
[Damage -150]
As two damage values popped out, the arrows pierced through their protective suits and blew their heads apart.
After the two men died, two boxes floated above their corpses.
These things floated in the air and were far too eye-catching!
[Killed player “Death Is Not Scary”, obtained 348610 gold coins, Blue Newbie Machete*1]
[Killed player “Peak of Life”, obtained 752491 gold coins, Blue Newbie Dagger*1]
Chen Han was slightly shocked—so many gold coins?
Who were these people?
Together, they had over a million gold coins.
A normal person could never have that much.
Meaning—they were veteran players, and paying players at that!
And these two were only the gatekeepers.
What about the people inside?
Chen Han’s heart tightened again.
It seemed he had been targeted by a powerful group.
At that moment, a message flashed before his eyes.
[Life-and-Death Bond “Loli Sweetheart” PM: Brother Han, something happened at home, come back quickly.]
[Brother Gang was injured and captured.
My dad was knocked out.
I cut the power and hid.]
[The enemy is about to find me.
I hear his footsteps outside the door.]
Seeing the message, Chen Han’s expression changed.
He urgently replied.
[Where are you now?]
[The last guest room on the second floor.]
The guest room on the second floor!
Chen Han instantly reacted.
He rushed out the door and leaped toward the second-floor balcony.
Grabbing the drainpipe, he climbed up and flipped over, then dashed into the room Ling Xue mentioned.
Chen Han scanned the room but didn’t see Ling Xue.
At that moment, the door handle turned slightly, and a man holding a dagger walked in.
His eyes locked onto Chen Han.
The man’s pupils shrank sharply.
He was just about to shout—
A cold gleam flashed across his neck.
The man covered his spurting wound, his eyes widening.
He never expected Chen Han to appear here suddenly.
Chen Han supported the man’s corpse and gently lowered him, then closed the door.
But at that moment, a black shadow pounced from behind.
Just as Chen Han raised his blade, he smelled that familiar fragrance.
Then, a tiny figure clung onto him, her long smooth legs wrapping tightly around his waist.
Before Chen Han could speak, his head was pressed into a pair of soft, towering mounds!