Walking ahead was Wei Xuan, followed by a relatively neat line of his followers. They moved unsteadily, but none of them strayed from the path Wei Xuan led.
This time, Wei Xuan arranged the team into four columns, each with ten people, the largest group he had ever taken with him. Naturally, it was also the most challenging expedition.
Why did he decide to get everything done in one go? Although he worried they might encounter the little girl zombie on the way, he had to bring as many followers as possible to deal with this situation at once. He didn’t want to make multiple trips back and forth, increasing the chances of encountering that group of zombies, which would be a loss in the long run.
On the semi-abandoned streets, the group of unsteady zombies walked slowly. Their formation was eye-catching, but they deliberately moved through inconspicuous streets. With other zombies wandering around as cover, it was unlikely that anyone would notice them unless someone lived along their path.
Overcoming various obstacles and challenges along different routes, it felt like they had experienced countless hardships. Finally, on the morning of the fourth day, they arrived at their destination.
Indeed, it took them four days to get here. Thankfully, Wei Xuan had anticipated the possibility of a time-consuming journey. He carried durable food such as biscuits and canned goods in his backpack and Du Hang’s, and the zombie followers carried water, so even if the trip lasted half a month, he could endure it.
Even if he finished all the food, Wei Xuan wasn’t too worried. He could scavenge some food from the nearby buildings that were practically in ruins.
“It’s a pity we couldn’t bring the potato sprouts.” As Wei Xuan saw the buildings that marked their destination, he sighed when he looked around at the empty space.
He hadn’t been to this area during the early days of the apocalypse, so naturally, there were no potatoes planted nearby. Moreover, this time he had to consider the possibility of encountering the little girl zombie, so he didn’t bring any potato sprouts.
However, though there were no potatoes, he did bring a considerable amount of carrot seeds that would otherwise have likely gone moldy at home. Occasionally, when they came across large, open areas of soil, he would scatter some of the seeds. Whether these seeds would grow successfully afterward was out of his control.
With a sense of regret for not planting potatoes, Wei Xuan climbed onto the roof of an abandoned car parked on the roadside. He took out binoculars and scanned the area to confirm that there were no issues nearby. Then, he led his followers toward the warehouse of the delivery company at a leisurely pace.
The warehouse yard was just like how Wei Xuan left it the last time, nothing had changed. He bypassed several warehouses in front and headed straight for their destination. The half-open door and the waft of pungent smell confirmed a conclusion, no one had been here during his absence.
Pulling out the gas mask specially prepared from his backpack, Wei Xuan put it on, giving himself the appearance of a terrorist or a biohazard creature.
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The room was eerily quiet, with all the equipment shut down due to a lack of electricity. Countless things had already decayed, and every surface – tables, counters, shelves, and boxes – was covered in dark patches.
On the floor were remnants of melted frozen foods, like popsicles, which had dried up, leaving a mix of various eerie colors. Wei Xuan accidentally stepped on one, and as he lifted his foot, he felt a sticky mess beneath it, making him feel extremely disgusted.
He walked through the room, observing everything. Before long, he reached the side of the indoor refrigeration unit and sighed softly after carefully confirming its condition. He had to give up the idea of moving the entire machine.
There were two main reasons for this decision. First, the device itself was large, and it had a whole set of ventilation equipment and other things to consider, making it even more massive and difficult to move.
Second, this device used liquid ammonia for cooling. Leaving aside the challenge of finding a replacement once it ran out, the process of disassembling it could lead to major issues. Even with his gas mask on, it wouldn’t help if the ammonia splashed onto him or accidentally exploded. Even Du Hang and the others wouldn’t escape the danger.
Though he knew this outcome beforehand, when faced with such a useful machine, Wei Xuan couldn’t help but feel a bit regretful. But then he turned around and decided on another course of action – demolition!
That’s right, today, he was here to form a demolition team! He wouldn’t leave until he tore off the interior wall of this warehouse!
Carefully inspecting the wall, Wei Xuan found a joint near the entrance. He took out the hardware tools he had brought and wedged them into the crevice to start peeling off the wall.
Despite the warehouse’s large size, there wasn’t much stored inside if he only peeled off the interior walls, which suited his purposes.
After peeling off a layer of wall, Wei Xuan was somewhat stunned. Though he knew generally what the interior walls of such cold storage units looked like, he had never seen them up close.
Under the metal sheet he peeled off, was a layer of foam-like material tightly adhered between the wall and the metal. A gentle press with his hand confirmed its unmistakable elasticity – it was foam!
“Where have I seen this thing before?” Wei Xuan tapped his forehead and immediately stood upright, turning to look at Du Hang and the zombie followers behind him.
“Let’s go! We need to check another place!”
The first time he came here, he once stayed a night in an office building of another factory nearby. Although he hadn’t had a chance to inspect what the nearby factories produced due to encountering the little girl zombie, he remembered seeing something similar in the back of one of the factory buildings!
His memory served him well, and fortunately, the previous factory he stayed in was indeed a factory that produced polyurethane foam. There were several relatively portable filling machines inside. Though they were larger, there was no problem for the zombie followers to carry them back.
However, these machines alone wouldn’t be enough. While they provided thermal insulation, those metal sheets were still essential.
Due to time constraints, Wei Xuan couldn’t find a nearby manufacturer that produced these steel sheets, so he had to return to the previous warehouse and start peeling off walls in earnest.
After removing a few metal sheets on his own, Wei Xuan decided to leave the rest of this honorable and grand work to Du Hang and the zombie followers, he couldn’t handle it alone.
Then, when all the metal sheets close to the ground were removed by the followers, Wei Xuan witnessed a shocking scene…
In the past, during missions with his team, Wei Xuan had seen zombies climbing over walls as if it were an easy feat and witnessed their astonishing combat abilities.
However, seeing his own zombie followers sticking their hands into the foam material and suspending themselves on the walls to remove the metal sheets still sent shivers down his spine.
It was as if all his zombie followers had suddenly transformed into Spider-Man, reaching the peak of their agility. This startling feeling left him speechless.
His Adam’s apple bobbed up and down twice, and standing in the room, Wei Xuan felt like he was just a bystander at a spectacle. His mind began to wander, if all the zombies could climb walls like this, why did the survivor bases in the city still exist? These zombies could easily scale the walls and get into the buildings to get to the living people!
Once this thought emerged, Wei Xuan’s imagination couldn’t help but expand in different directions. He thought about those two lunatics, even though they lived at a high place, if the zombies learned to climb walls, their strength wouldn’t be of much use!
There was also that high-rise mini-base they encountered earlier, which faced the same problem.
“I should remind them when I go back. It can’t be that only the zombies around me have this climbing ability, right?” Wei Xuan murmured to himself, revealing a slightly helpless smile.
“Or is it that other zombies simply haven’t thought about the fact that they can climb walls?”
The idea was too horrifying, and even Wei Xuan himself, who came up with it, couldn’t help but shudder and quickly dismiss this possibility.
“Clang, clang!” The sound of objects falling continuously made Wei Xuan’s face, which had just shown a bitter smile, turn green, those guys actually just threw the removed metal sheets directly down! What if they break or bend?
“Be gentle! Put them down! Don’t just drop them!” His shout rang out, and the more than thirty zombies that were climbing the walls collectively paused their actions, then all turned their heads in Wei Xuan’s direction.
Subsequently, he received more than thirty identical thought waves, “Shout at me, shout at me, shout at me…”
The overwhelming sense of grievance made Wei Xuan take two steps back and accidentally bump into a nearby table. After stopping his movements, his body trembled, shaking off the goosebumps all over him.
“Uh, take your time to put the metal sheets down, don’t just throw them, they might break…”
Then, an even more shocking scene unfolded. The followers put away their grievances and continued with their respective tasks. After removing a new steel sheet, they climbed down one by one and gently placed the sheet on the ground before grabbing the wall again to climb up.
As for Wei Xuan, at this point, he wore a blank expression, with his mind completely blank…
Major zombie change!
Omg the zombie guards are so adorable and stronk 🤣
Q_Q why yell? Q_Q
THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR BEING AWESOME!!!
Yeah, I’ll be upset too
Zombies don’t understand, they just think Q_Q why yell Q_Q
Thanks for the chapter! Wow! The little zombies are evolving so fast!
Hahahahah the zombie’s little grievances
Wei Xuan, please thank your zombie neighbors for their hard work, lest they go on a labor strike
Ahhhh why is this so adorable 😂😂😂
Love how the zombies r so aggrieved imao
Be patient when you’re looking after your zombies and they will be good zombies
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What cuties!
This is cute and horrifying at the same time…
I’m curious. Why are WX’s zombies evolving so fast while the two lunatics’ zombies are still so so 🤔
I was thinking maybe because they also absorb the falling snow directly, while the lunatics’ zombies are tied up indoors all the time. Plus they ate other zombies’ crystals before and the healer’s girlfriend still eats human flesh by biting him.
Emo zombies 🧟