Apocalyptic Disasters: Carrying a bun and hoarding supplies - Chapter 211

Chapter 211: Targeting her
However, just as she was having a hard time taking an aim at the head of the Level One zombie, Lei Qian summoned a flaming whip and tied the zombie with it such that it wouldn’t be able to move. When Bai Meiyue looked at him, the man smiled at her and said, “Don’t you think the two of us make a great team?”

Bai Meiyue rolled her eyes upon hearing his remarks. She took out a sabre sword and chopped down the head of the Level One zombie. The head of the zombie dropped on the street and rolled twice before coming to a stop, and Bai Meiyue smashed it open without wasting another second.

As soon as she cracked open the head of the zombie, Lei Qian could notice the difference between the level one zombie and the normal zombies. The nuclei inside the heads of the normal zombies were smaller and not as clear as the one that Bai Meiyue took out of the head of the level one zombie.

It was bigger and its colour was even more brilliant. What was more, he could notice a small trace of energy from the crystal nuclei.

“Do you want it?” Bai Meiyue asked as she washed the crystal nuclei with her water abilities. Now that the tar-like blood had been cleared off the nuclei, its brilliant red shade looked even more beautiful.

Lei Qian shook his head and replied, “No, even though we killed it together, if you hadn’t watched my back and told me the difference between this level one zombie and the normal zombies, I might have been bitten by it.”

He paused and asked, “Is there a difference between being bitten by a mutated zombie and a normal zombie?”

“No,” Bai Meiyue shook her head. She entered the shop and then started pocketing the gold and silver jewellery that were left inside the shop. Though Lei Qian was confused by her actions, he didn’t say anything.

He heard Bai Meiyue say, “There is not much difference. You can classify the level of zombies into five grades and the first four levels of zombies don’t make any difference other than that the chances of turning into a zombie, getting higher.”

“It’s the fifth-level zombie that makes a difference.” Bai Meiyue recalled the fight that she had with the fifth-level zombie. Back then she was able to escape with her life but there were some of her team members who were not lucky.

They were greedy for faster grain and underestimated the fifth-level zombie. Not only were they bitten, they turned into high-level zombies, which resulted in the difficulty level of the task getting higher.

“You mean if someone gets bitten by the fifth-level zombie, they would turn into high-level zombies as well?” Lei Qian sucked in a breath.

“Yes,” Bai Meiyue nodded. She turned on her feet and headed back to where the rest of the team was and continued speaking, “With each mutation, the zombies would get stronger and better at fighting with humans. They would even start developing abnormal strength and speed. The fifth-level zombies can even awaken supernatural powers.”

“So, if you find a mutated zombie, it’s better to kill it before it awakens as a fifth-level zombie.”

Lei Qian hummed in agreement.

When the two returned to the spot where the cars were parked, Bai Meiyue noticed Yun Chuan using his long, gnarled vines to squeeze a few zombies to death.

Next to him, Yang Chunhua created earth golems that walked towards the zombies without any fear. Though the zombies tried to bite these golems, they only got a mouthful of soil before they were smashed to death.

Beside them, Mo He rushed past the zombies. His speed was so fast that no one noticed him and even if the zombies did notice him, by the time they detected a presence near them, Mo He had already beheaded them and was done collecting their crystal nuclei.

Once the team was done collecting the nuclei and supplies, they got inside the car and drove past the street. But they couldn’t even drive past two blocks when they found another horde of zombies.

[Ding.]

[Another Level One Zombie detected.]

[Does the host want to exchange the level one crystal nuclei?]

Bai Meiyue arched her brow when she heard that there was another level one zombie.

Because these zombies were more powerful than the normal ones, they attracted horde after horde of zombies. If they didn’t clean this level one zombie, Bai Meiyue was worried that there would be more zombies filling up the street very soon.

She was about to step out of the car when —

“Help! Help us!”

“Hey, aren’t those survivors?” Bai Jixuan pointed at the building, which wasn’t far from where they were stuck. Bai Meiyue raised her head and looked in the direction in which her brother was pointing and noticed a few pieces of clothing and blankets hanging by the railings of the twenty-third floor.

Even though it was quite far, Bai Meiyue could see the people stuck on that floor.

Behind her, Dacheng and the rest also noticed the three men and two women stuck on the highest floor. They were standing on the balcony and waving their hands at them, clearly asking them to come and save them.

Dacheng saw those people begging for help and sneered. “Do they really think that we are going to help them by cleaning the zombies up for them? They have such a good opportunity to escape from this place but instead of fighting the zombies and coming downstairs, they want us to rush upstairs and save them? They really know how to dream big!”

“Since they don’t have the courage. Why don’t they kill themselves? It’s better to die rather than live a life like that,” he snorted.

But while he was speaking, he didn’t notice that Lu Yin’s expression was changing again and again. Because even if she was not the one who was stuck, if she was in the same position as these survivors, she too would have waited for someone to come and save them.

Thus, even though Dacheng didn’t mean it, she felt like the man was targeting her.