At noon,
Xiao Yu and the team members woke up one after another. After lunch, they immediately set out again.
The four of them took the elevator downstairs.
As they passed through the hotel lobby, they saw three soldiers on-site, and a corpse lying on the ground.
Looks like someone turned into a corpse while they were sleeping.
"Stop! Where are you going?"
"It's lockdown now. No one is allowed outside." A soldier blocked their path.
Xiao Yu was puzzled.
Hadn't the city nearly fallen yesterday? When they came back, even the soldiers at the checkpoint on Jinhu Bridge were gone.
So why was security so tight again today?
Xiao Yu showed his Special Pass and asked, "What's the current situation in the city?"
When the soldier saw the three characters "Special Commissioner" on Xiao Yu's pass,
he immediately saluted.
"Reporting in—currently 5,000 reinforcements have arrived in S City. An additional 25,000 troops will arrive in the next three days."
Oh?
More reinforcements?
That didn't happen in his previous life.
Xiao Yu put away the Special Pass and led the three team members out of the lobby, thoughts churning in his mind.
Suddenly, he understood.
Because of the butterfly effect triggered by his Rebirth, the T-Virus Carrier had appeared in S City earlier than in his previous life.
Other cities only had Mutants.
No Infecteds.
Therefore, S City was seen as the most critical disaster zone. The higher-ups had deployed heavy troops to secure it.
"Xiao Yu, what do we do next?"
"Should we evacuate early?"
Xiao Yu shook his head. "No need. Right now is the best time for us to fish in troubled waters."
So what if there were heavy troops?
He had a Special Pass.
In fact, the more secure the city was, the better it was for Xiao Yu.
The military could control the city, prevent large-scale corpse outbreaks, and ensure most people stayed under lockdown.
That gave him the freedom to sweep supplies without interference.
If S City really did fall completely,
and Xiao Yu was forced to leave early,
he would likely be labeled a T-Virus Carrier and hunted down by the Ministry of War.
Unless he gave up searching for supplies in other cities
and hid in some surveillance-free rural area.
The four of them got into the sports car and sped away from Jinhu Hotel.
On the streets outside,
gunfire was even fiercer than the day before. Convertible military jeeps with mounted machine guns roared past from time to time.
Truck after truck carried corpses toward the cremation fields on the outskirts.
The corpses in the trucks looked ferocious.
None were bagged—just piled in the cargo bed, fresh blood still dripping from the truck floorboards.
The roads were stained red.
The three female teammates looked somber. None of them had seen scenes like this before.
"You'll get used to it,"
"Things will get worse from here."
Xiao Yu reminded his team, memories of his past life flashing through his mind. That nightmarish experience would never be forgotten.
An Xiaoran began to worry about her parents.
Although she had already called them and told them to return early to their rural hometown to hide,
no one could guarantee their safety.
Han Kexin was slightly better off. She was originally an orphan. Though adopted by Charlie's mother, that happened when she was ten.
There was no deep mother-daughter bond.
So her sense of attachment was lighter.
As for Anna, her parents were abroad.
Even if she worried, it was pointless.
No one in the car spoke again.
Before long, a car accident appeared ahead.
Han Kexin slammed on the brakes.
Before the car even came to a full stop, two Zombies lunged toward them.
Anna rolled down the window.
A yellow card flicked out and pierced one Zombie's head.
Ding...
A Lucky Token dropped.
She quickly picked it up.
Ding! You picked up a Lucky Token. It has transformed into a 'Shotgun' and has been automatically stored in your Nano-Storage Pocket.
For someone with average shooting skills,
a shotgun was the best choice.
Anna immediately pulled it out. The gun came preloaded with 5 rounds.
Click...
The bullets were chambered. Just as Anna was about to take out the second Zombie,
Han Kexin fired first.
She froze the Zombie in place, then shot it in the head at point-blank range.
But no Lucky Token dropped.
"Guess I'm not as lucky as you,"
Han Kexin smiled at Anna.
"The road's blocked by the wreck. Let's get out and walk," Xiao Yu said.
Everyone had to continue on foot for now.
Around a dozen vehicles had crashed together, igniting huge flames. The acrid smell of burning rubber filled the air.
Everyone covered their noses.
Just then, several guttural howls came from the other side of the wreck.
Through the flickering firelight, a group of Zombies loomed, their figures flickering eerily—it looked like quite a few of them.
"They must've spotted us."
Xiao Yu looked around.
The terrain here was open with no obstacles—no choice but to face them head-on.
"Kexin, Anna, split up."
"Xiaoran, stay with me."
Han Kexin and Anna both had skills strong enough to handle things alone.
Xiaoran wasn't quite there yet, so she needed to stay with Xiao Yu.
Gradually, the Zombies howled and charged through the burning wreckage—about a dozen of them.
Anna struck first.
She threw a red card that instantly split into over a dozen playing cards, scattering like a flower bloom in the wind.
Three Zombies were blown apart on the spot.
Five had originally been targeting her—now only two were left.
She couldn't keep using skills.
They consumed too much mental energy.
Anna raised her shotgun.
One blast turned the fastest Zombie into a honeycomb.
Click...
She chambered another round and fired again.
Anna successfully resolved the threat on her side—
and another Lucky Token dropped.
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