But now... When they saw those individuals who surpassed ordinary people appear, only then did they understand that strength was the most important thing. Being able to hunt zombies, do as one pleases, and be respected wherever one went.
It was just a pity... they were all ordinary people, ordinary people barely surviving in the apocalypse.
Arriving on the city wall, they took over from the other survivors.
Looking towards the distance.
An boundless expanse of open land, littered everywhere with hunted zombie corpses. Occasionally, one or two zombies would wander by, but these zombies were of no consequence, unable to cause any impact here.
Night.
Somewhere.
Quy Thu Nguyet stayed in the car, listening to the movements outside. She looked at her own two hands, clearly discovering that her body's situation had undergone a peculiar change.
The zombie virus brought from the base had all been used up. She could feel something rampaging inside her body.
Fresh blood flowed from her nasal cavity again.
She reached up to touch it.
Familiar with this situation, she felt a foreign object in her mouth, spat it into her palm. Looking closely, it was several teeth.
She hurriedly checked herself in the mirror.
A row of teeth had fallen out, and new teeth seemed to be growing in the gums.
She didn't know if it was an illusion. She reached out to touch them; she could indeed feel hard objects.
If it were before, she would definitely have exclaimed, "How could this be?" No woman doesn't like to adorn herself. But her current situation had nothing to do with beauty anymore: fallen teeth, discolored skin.
All indicated she was already developing towards an aberration.
Just as she was thinking about these things.
Bang!
A pair of bloody hands suddenly appeared beside the car window. She saw a zombie roaring ferociously, its pale eyes cunningly staring at her inside the car.
She had forgotten what happened when she left the base and fainted midway. It was just that after waking up, she found her whole body covered in viscous blood.
Quy Thu Nguyet was not afraid of the zombie outside the car window.
Just looking at it like this, she herself couldn't even be considered a normal person; what else was there to be afraid of?
Suddenly.
Quy Thu Nguyet felt something strange about her condition. When she looked at the zombie outside the car, she could seemingly see the blood flowing within the zombie's body.
There was even an irresistible aroma rushing into her nostrils; it was a kind of delicious smell.
She swallowed her saliva, wanting to open the car door and go out. However, her rationality made her grip the steering wheel, her face showing a pained expression.
"How can this be? Why do I have such a feeling? What on earth are the lucky cells doing inside my body?"
She lowered her head, desperately suppressing that impulse in her heart.
It was as if all the cells in her body were boiling with excitement.
Instantly.
She raised her head, her pupils instantly changing color, turning blood-red. Her ten fingernails were growing, becoming sharp and terrifying.
One hand was on the car door latch, wanting to open it, but the other hand tightly gripped her wrist, struggling against each other.
Bang bang bang!
The zombie outside, seeing flesh and blood, became completely enraged. The car window glass was even cracked from the impact. She looked at that ferocious-looking zombie outside, and the impulse in her body became increasingly difficult to suppress.
Crack!
Finally, she opened the car door. The zombie outside, seeing the car door open, thought of lunging in. However, at the very moment the zombie lunged, sharp fingers grabbed the zombie's neck. With a crack, its neck was broken.
Quy Thu Nguyet looked as if she had seen some kind of delicious feast.
The dying zombie corpse slumped to the ground.
The night was extremely quiet.
Accompanied by mumbling, chewing sounds.
As if some kind of animal was eating.
Early morning.
A refitted bus sped towards the city gate of Huong Son Film City shelter. The people in the bus looked at the tightly shut city gate, not daring to get off.
A dozen or so ordinary zombies followed behind, surrounding the vehicle, continuously slapping the car body, frightening them into trembling.
But at this moment.
A small door in the city gate opened.
A dark, burly man carrying a steel spear slowly walked out.
The zombies, seeing a human appear before them, their primal nature thoroughly erupted, ferociously lunging this way.
"A bunch of trash."
Dam Thanh swung his steel spear. One thrust pierced the head of the leading zombie. He suddenly lifted it, and the zombie flew into the sky. Immediately after, he swept his steel spear, the spear tip cutting horizontally, and a dozen or so frightening zombies instantly fell to the ground.
It happened too quickly.
So fast that people didn't even have time to react.
The survivors in the bus gaped, as if looking at a superman, staring intently at Dam Thanh, as if they hadn't expected humans could be so formidable.
The survivors standing on the city wall also looked at Dam Thanh with adoration.
In their Huong Son shelter, there were about ten formidable people like Dam Thanh.
So they felt extremely secure.
Even if they died, they had to die here.
It was truly too terrifying outside.
The bus door opened.
The survivors got off the bus. Just as they thought of surrounding Dam Thanh, wanting to properly "lick" (flatter) him for a bit.
Dam Thanh slung his steel spear and turned to walk inside, ignoring them, not even wanting to say anything to them. Today, the task of clearing the zombies outside was his responsibility.
Otherwise, he wouldn't have appeared here.
"Little brother!"
On the city wall, the man on duty, who was also the one who had contacted Duong Quang residential area, called out softly, waving at the same time. He hadn't expected his younger brother to actually arrive with a group of people.
Among the survivors from the bus, a young man also waved, tears streaming down his face, looking extremely emotional. The moment he saw his relative, all his grievances vanished.
He excitedly said to his companions, "My older brother, that's my older brother! I told you, my older brother wouldn't lie to me!"
Everyone looked at him with envy. Having an acquaintance here was extremely convenient.
Very quickly.
People from inside Huong Son shelter came out to lead them in. Here, special talents were very important, meaning skills in various trades. Of course, if one possessed strength surpassing ordinary people, that was even more wonderful.
Inside the shelter.
"Brother, who was that just now? So formidable!"
"Ah, that's Dam Thanh. Isn't he overwhelmingly strong?"
"Yes, brother! Did you know I was coming, so you were specially waiting for me?"
"No, I have a part-time job standing guard on the city wall. Don't overthink it. Your brother is just an ordinary survivor here. However, your brother has connections. Later, I'll pull some strings for you and also arrange a part-time job for you. I can't promise anything else, but two pieces of bread are absolutely guaranteed. It's good enough to fill your stomach."
Younger brother: ...?
This wasn't what he had imagined. He now wanted to eat hotpot, wanted to eat scrambled eggs with tomatoes.
What the heck was bread?
"Oh right, little brother, you came from Hoang City. Is the situation over there very serious? Is there a shelter called Duong Quang residential area?"
"Brother, how would I know? We were lucky to even get out alive. Those zombies are like dogs, desperately chasing us. And some living survivors are truly terrifying; they actually use people as bait!"
Hearing his younger brother say these things.
He understood...
Hoang City was not safe at all. It seemed the fellow who contacted him yesterday was most likely exaggerating.