Chapter 102 Zombie Horde
Chapter 102 Zombie Horde
"Brother Qin, an office building collapsed in the CBD across from our neighborhood..." Wei Cheng's voice came through the walkie-talkie, broken and intermittent, as if he had witnessed some indescribable scene.
The building where Wei Cheng and his group lived was on the outer edge of the community. They could see the famous CBD area of N City across the street. When Qin Yuan and his group arrived at this community, they originally wanted to choose an outer building so that it would be easier to observe the situation outside. However, after circling around several times, they only saw that the security door on the first floor of this building was open. They had no choice but to stay in this building, which is why they can only see the situation inside the community now.
"Holy crap, holy crap!" Wei Cheng exclaimed repeatedly on the walkie-talkie. The rumbling sounds outside continued, accompanied by gasps from some people.
"We need to go out and take a look." Gu Nanfeng looked at the building across the street and could clearly feel the snow mist rising behind it. There must have been more than one collapsed office building outside.
“Alright, we’ll go. Xiao Lu, stay here and watch over Lao Du.” Even if Gu Nanfeng hadn’t said anything, Qin Yuan was also planning to go out and take a look. The temperature outside was so high that an ordinary person would basically die if they went out. However, he and Gu Nanfeng would be fine if they wore more clothes.
The two quickly changed into the cold-weather clothes that Lu Yuan had taken out, and then put several hand warmers on them. They grabbed the ski equipment that Lu Yuan had prepared and went out.
The snow in the residential area had almost reached the escape windows on the first floor and was close to the second floor, so the two people easily climbed out.
As soon as they left, Lu Yuan ran to the observation window, grabbed his binoculars, and looked out. He soon spotted Gu Nanfeng and Qin Yuan in the residential area.
Although they were dressed in bulky clothes, Gu Nanfeng and Qin Yuan both had skiing experience, so they were much faster than when Qin Yuan and Lu Yuan went out a few days ago.
Soon they arrived at the entrance of the residential area. Just as they were about to leave, Lu Yuan saw two people wrapped up like cloth balls coming out of the building across the street. They seemed to have called out to Qin Yuan and Gu Nanfeng, and then quickly skied after them.
At this point, the only one who could go out and face the blizzard was the girl with special abilities that Wei Cheng had told him about. After the four of them reunited, they quickly disappeared from Lu Yuan's sight.
Gu Nanfeng and Qin Yuan never imagined that there were so many survivors in the CBD business district just across the street from them. However, they could no longer be called survivors now.
As soon as the four of them left the residential area and passed through the commercial complex in front of it, before they could walk any further, an outermost office building began to sway from side to side.
Although it was night, thanks to their enhanced vision, all four of them could see that dozens of survivors had rushed out of the building. They were terrified by the shaking of the tall building, and fear was written all over their faces.
The moment they rushed out of the gate, some of them, dressed in thin clothes, had their faces quickly covered in frost, and within moments they could no longer move, collapsing straight into the snow. Others, dressed in thick layers, wrapped in clothing for all seasons, luckily escaped the fate of freezing to death and were not buried in the collapsed building, but they were soon surrounded by zombies that sprang out of the snow, and soon could no longer be found.
Qin Yuan looked around. He didn't see any zombies at first, but he soon realized that the zombies were actually moving in the snow. He didn't know how powerful they were, or how many zombies there were, to be able to shake a nearly 100-story building in the snow.
Once all the survivors who could escape the building had run out, some froze to death, and others became zombies, the building collapsed with a deafening roar, seemingly at the perfect moment.
"What... what should we do? Will they come and demolish our building?" Wei Cheng's voice came through the several layers of masks he was wearing, sounding somewhat muffled. He looked back at their own building and then at the CBD business district across the street, where there were only a few buildings left.
Gu Nanfeng remained silent. He wasn't just observing with his eyes; he also tried to extend his consciousness to investigate the situation on the other side of the road. However, having just awakened, his understanding and control of this ability were far from sufficient. He couldn't extend his consciousness too far, only vaguely sensing a powerful force on the other side, along with countless energy clusters of varying sizes, some grayish-black, others dark red. It seemed that even zombies had evolved superpowers.
Just as Gu Nanfeng was about to share this information with Qin Yuan beside him, he clearly sensed the largest energy cluster moving towards them. He could "see" the zombie more and more clearly as it slowly approached them.
"There's a zombie over there, it's coming. Even the four of us together probably couldn't beat it." Gu Nanfeng quickly made a judgment. Because of the presence of this powerful figure, the zombie horde was exceptionally cohesive. All the other energy clusters, large and small, that Gu Nanfeng observed were revolving around this one zombie.
"Then, what do we do?" asked the girl with Wei Cheng. Although she had evolved superpowers and could help move more supplies before, she was just an ordinary office worker before the apocalypse. It was already difficult for her to survive in the early stages, and now she was even more at a loss.
The zombie horde arrived faster than they had anticipated. Soon, Gu Nanfeng sensed countless zombies appearing in the snow across the road. At this distance, perhaps due to their instincts as evolved beings, the other three could also sense the threat from the other side.
Qin Yuan was a man of action. He quickly unleashed a huge wave of fire, and a large chunk of the snow in front of them collapsed and evaporated before it could even melt. At the same time, the four of them saw countless zombie heads swarming through the snow towards the residential area.
On the other side of the residential area, zombies had already crossed the road. Several buildings were swaying in the wind and snow, and two of them collapsed shortly afterward.
The apartment buildings in the complex were all side by side. Wei Cheng had just taken out his walkie-talkie to notify the other survivors in the building to escape, but before he could do anything, the two buildings next to him tilted and began to collapse on their building.
At that moment, screams echoed throughout the building. Hearing the screams of those familiar people, Wei Cheng and the girl with him collapsed to the ground. They couldn't save these people.
With no time to waste, Qin Yuan and Gu Nanfeng each grabbed one of the two people on the ground. They had to hurry back to their building and take Lu Yuan and Du Wenqing away.
As the four of them dragged each other along, the snow beneath their feet began to tremble slightly. The zombies had moved to their feet, and countless withered arms emerged from the ground. One of these arms grabbed the girl being dragged along by Qin Yuan.
She gasped in surprise, and Qin Yuan felt a strong force pulling the girl into the snow.
"Gu Nanfeng!"
Hearing Qin Yuan's shout, Gu Nanfeng and Wei Cheng turned around to help, but they were too slow and were grabbed by the ankles by the zombie's hands in the snow. If they hadn't been wearing thick layers of clothing to protect them from the cold, they would have been wiped out by now.
Gu Nanfeng and Qin Yuan reacted immediately, using their superpowers to attack the zombie arms that were sticking out of the snow. However, there were countless zombies under the snow. Under the pull of the zombies and Qin Yuan, the girl was still pulled into the snow and disappeared.
With no other option, the two could only pull the bewildered Wei Cheng along, fighting and retreating, little by little, into the residential area.
Just as the building where Wei Cheng and his group lived was slowly collapsing, Gu Nanfeng noticed a reddish-brown energy ball appearing inside the community, comparable in size to the gray-black ball in the zombie horde. This ball was heading towards their apartment. At the same time, the gray-black energy ball behind them was also rapidly approaching. Now they were truly in a dilemma.
The world suddenly became quiet...
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