You were supposed to hoard supplies, why the heck did you hoard zombies!

The woman desparately reciprocated the movements of the man on top of her, but suddenly noticed the breathing sounds by her ear were strangely abnormal.

It was like a broken bellows, frantically gasping for air.

"Heh... heh..."

She felt something drip onto her face.

One drop, two drops, until a stream of warm liquid completely gathered.

The overwhelming stench of fishiness finally became unbearable for the woman, who forced her eyes open only to see her whole field of vision was awash with blood.

The man's eyeballs were filled with bloodshot veins, wriggling like worms.

Blood was flowing from his nose and mouth.

"Aaahhhh!"

The woman let out a piercing scream at the sight.

It was the scream that shattered the last bit of sanity in the man's mind.

The agony, conflict, and fear on his face vanished in an instant.

In their place emerged a nearly distorted madness, making his suddenly gaunt features all the more terrifying.

"Ehh... heh heh..."

"Aaahhhh!"

The woman had just crawled to the edge of the bed when the man swiftly pulled her back.

Amidst crying and pleading, his teeth, soaked with blood and pus, sank deep into the woman's flesh and tore it completely open like a wild dog.

The screams from the room quickly reached the outside.

"What's going on?"

"Go, let's check it out!"

The two men guarding outside exchanged a look and hastily pushed the door open to see two figures on the bed almost completely overlapping.n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

Underneath—that seemed to be the woman—her two pale legs convulsed uncontrollably.

"Quick!"

"Hold him back!"

"Otherwise, someone's going to get killed!"

One of the men immediately panicked.

Zheng had said before: you can play with the women, but absolutely no killing.

This guy was clearly going overboard; what if he actually killed her—how would they explain it when Zheng returned?

Without a second word, they jumped onto the bed and forcefully dragged him off the woman.

"Have you gone mad?"

"Are you trying to eat someone?"

"Look what you've done to her, she's bleeding!"

One of them, upon seeing the woman's horrific condition, immediately started cursing the tall, thin man on the floor.

The other immediately went to check on the woman's injuries.

The tall, thin man sitting on the ground was covered in blood, seemingly oblivious to his cohort's rebukes, as he repeatedly jerked his head up as if stuck in a loop.

A ghastly face suddenly appeared in front of the man.

His pupils dilated in shock.

Zombies!

"No good, go—"

The man wanted to alert his comrade behind him, but there was already a scream coming from that direction.

Before he could look back, the tall, thin man lunged at him with a roar, pinning him completely onto the bed.

The sharp pain from his shoulder made the man cry out in agony.

He pushed the tall, thin man away and, not even looking at his partner being devoured by the woman, scrambled out of the room in a mix of rolls and crawls.

In his gradually blurring vision, several figures soon appeared.

They were the ones in charge of patrolling the sixth floor.

"Save... save me..."

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Only one young man remained in the surveillance room.

He watched the screens before him with languid boredom, the display in the center showing the fourth floor where Xu Lin was located.

These people seemed to be unaware that the surveillance had been fixed.

Xu Lin was, as ever, sitting in the office, fiddling with the portable radio he had found from an electronics store, his expression calm and indifferent.

"Hoo ah—"

The man yawned.

Three bosses of the mall, and now two were gone.

Only Xu Lin was left, a quiet man, hardly necessitating any surveillance at all.

Just as he was about to pick up a book from beside him, he noticed that Xu Lin on the screen suddenly sat up from her chair and carefully walked out of the office.

Something seemed to have happened on the fourth floor; suddenly, it was in chaos.

It sounded like someone was screaming.

Huh?

This surveillance system doesn't seem to have audio capabilities, does it?

The man became curious at once; he unconsciously leaned in closer, trying to listen for any sound.

"Ahhhh!"

A piercing scream tore through his eardrums.

At the instant he heard the sound, his body uncontrollably broke out in goosebumps, and immediately his face changed color.

No, the sound wasn't coming from the screen at all!

It was from outside the surveillance room!

Only then did he notice that something was happening on the screen in the corner as well.

The screen showed the stairwell between the seventh and eighth floors, which by now was completely blocked by a crowd of people, with some falling to the floor from time to time.

This is bad—could it be that Zheng Youcai's men took the opportunity to come up?

The man was shocked. Hearing the increasingly chaotic noise outside, he grabbed a wrench nearby and prepared to rush out.

But just as he reached the door, it was pushed open by someone.

The person who entered was a colleague covered in blood, head hanging low.

So severely wounded?

The man hurried forward to support his colleague upon seeing this.

But before he could ask about the situation outside, his colleague had already bitten down on his neck.

Thump—a sound resonated.

Both men fell to the ground together.

Suddenly, the spacious surveillance room was left with only the sound of ferocious devouring.

"Bang!"

Xu Lin could no longer care about the impact of the gunshot sounds.

The horrific scene before him nearly drove his entire being into madness.

Zombies that had come from somewhere were chasing after living people; in just a few minutes, no fewer than five others had died before his eyes.

But he was powerless to do anything; he could only watch helplessly as these survivors were devoured by the zombies.

"Chief Xu!"

"What, what should we do?"

"Are we all going to die here?"

The woman hiding behind him was trembling all over, her face, which had been fairly fair, now smeared with tears and snot.

"Shut up, stop yelling!"

Xiao Zhou couldn't help but burst out upon hearing this.

If it hadn't been for saving her, that man wouldn't have died.

Chief Xu, too, couldn't see the situation clearly. Even at such a time, he insisted on rescuing others?

Wasn't this clearly seeking death?

No!

He had to persuade him!

If things continued like this, everyone would die here!

"Chief Xu, there's no time left!"

"If we don't leave now, we'll all end up dead here!"

Xu Lin's eyes were red with fury; upon hearing these words, he roared back, "No, I promised them, I will definitely bring them back alive!"

With that said, he split another zombie's head with his axe.

The splatter of blood completely dyed half of his body red, like a vengeful spirit returned from hell, radiating a heart-pounding madness from head to toe.

"Bang, bang, bang!"

Three more gunshots rang out.

Two zombies that ran over from the side instantly fell to the ground.

But even so, the number of zombies in Xu Lin's field of vision continued to grow, eventually taking over most of the corners on the fourth floor.

The seven or eight men surrounding him were almost at their breaking point.

It was only then that he made a decision.

"Go!"

"Follow me!"

"Head to the stairs!" Continue your journey with empire