The people in the high-rise community looked outside with a tense demeanor and serious expressions, focusing on the area facing their windows.
Ever since they had discovered that people had moved into that building a few days ago, they had been on edge, fearing that these newcomers might accidentally come near their base or, even worse, discover the existence of their base, which could lead to trouble.
The current situation was different from the early days of the apocalypse. Some people in their community had gradually turned into zombies. Besides the original base members who had been left to fend for themselves downstairs, there were also a few docile, trouble-free zombies inside the base.
To be honest, the fact that there were zombies inside their base still made them uneasy. Even those who had been living here for years were occasionally worried that the zombies inside might suddenly turn hostile and attack their former companions. So, naturally, they were even more concerned about the possibility of outsiders discovering their base.
Leaving aside the potential for the newcomers to loot their supplies and disrupt the base they had painstakingly maintained for three years, even if the newcomers were friendly, they might still take action against the zombies being kept in the base or reveal the base’s existence to the outside world once they learned about it.
However, they hadn’t found a good solution to these concerns. What they had discovered now was even more terrifying: those people who had peacefully lived in the building were suddenly being taken away by zombies.
Don’t ask them how they knew those who entered the building were zombies; just the fact that the zombies near that area didn’t react at all when those individuals entered the building was a strong hint.
How had those people managed to reach the neighboring community in the first place? The people from the high-rise base still didn’t know. But judging from their quiet entry without making any noise, those individuals likely possessed powerful abilities or exceptional combat skills. This enabled them to sneak into the building while the heavy snow sealed the area off and most of the zombies were in a deep sleep.
Now, even those skilled individuals were being captured by zombies. What about the people in their base who didn’t dare venture outside? Would there come a day when zombies would suddenly burst into their base and capture everyone?
What would happen to those captured by zombies? The people in the high-rise base didn’t even dare to think about it. They had to keep their guard up, assigning more people to observe the surroundings every day, fearing that one day, zombies might suddenly appear and rush upstairs.
However, since the day they discovered that people from the neighboring building were being captured, the high-rise base residents had noticed that the number of zombies digging holes in the vicinity had been increasing, but they hadn’t seen any zombies showing significant interest in their base.
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Of course, the zombies that would gather below the building, scratching the walls, and occasionally howling to indicate hunger were still there. However, they acted just like before, scratching at the walls, looking up occasionally, and letting out growls to show their hunger. Other than that, there didn’t seem to be anything strange happening. It was as if no one had ever moved into the building across the way, and no one had been captured by zombies…
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Some survivors had taken shelter in relatively secluded underground supermarkets during the early days of the apocalypse. They had cleared out the zombies inside, sealed the supermarket doors, and survived by using the supplies within. Over the course of two years, they occasionally ventured outside through ventilation ducts to gather additional resources, managing to eke out a living.
There were also survivors who had occupied residential buildings, scraping by on the remaining supplies found in the residents’ homes.
In the third year of the apocalypse, as winter arrived, the survivors in the occupied residential building encountered a few people who claimed to have come into the city from a nearby base on a mission but had gotten separated from their group.
These newcomers carried a significant amount of food and supplies with them. After careful consideration, the survivors in the residential building decided to temporarily accept these newcomers, who appeared to have decent combat skills and valuable resources.
As they tried to extract more information from these outsiders about the situation in other bases and the production of the strange device that could harness zombie crystals for electricity, something unexpected happened. Suddenly, a group of around ten special zombies appeared from somewhere outside.
These zombies showed no interest in scratching or banging against walls; instead, they effortlessly leaped over the sealed-off ground floor and smashed through the window of a room on the second floor at lightning speed. They rushed into the room where the survivors usually gathered, seized several individuals, and made a swift exit.
The speed and agility of these zombies left all the super-powered individuals in the base unable to react in time.
Once the figures of those zombies had completely disappeared into the surrounding buildings, the remaining survivors exchanged terrified glances and realized, “Where did those people go?!”
“Huh? The ones who were taken are the newcomers who just arrived a few days ago!”
“…Are those really zombies? Why didn’t they attack us?”
“How did they manage to jump up here…”
The people in the base were bewildered, unable to even distinguish whether those who had rushed in were humans or zombies. During the sudden turn of events, someone had unintentionally unleashed their powers, but even that didn’t have much effect on the intruders. They had been injured but not stopped.
“Could it be that they provoked someone, and that’s why those people came here to capture them?” After a long pause, someone finally spoke with a bewildered expression, seeking the opinions of others.
Others exchanged glances, some hesitating before nodding one by one.
“That’s what I’m saying. We shouldn’t bring in people with unknown backgrounds in the future. Otherwise, even if this group didn’t cause trouble for us, we can’t be sure about the others in the future.” Those individuals were so fast that wiping out everyone here, even as an afterthought, was highly possible.
Similar incidents were occurring in the streets and alleys of T City. Some people who had been driven out of their bases didn’t immediately venture deep into the city. After all, not everyone knew that their bodies were no longer susceptible to zombie attacks.
These survivors cautiously avoided the mutated animals near the city and reached the outskirts. Since their movements had not attracted the attention of the dormant zombies buried in the snow, they mistakenly believed that there were no survivors in the vicinity of the city’s outskirts. They settled in the buildings on the outskirts of the city, not knowing what awaited them.
Suddenly, they were grabbed and hoisted onto the shoulders of some advanced zombies, who then jumped and leaped out of the city, into the vast snowy landscape.
A group of bewildered people who had been inexplicably thrown out could only stare in shock in the direction of the city. The advanced zombies left only their backs and quickly disappeared. Meanwhile, others who had experienced a similar fate stood nearby, equally baffled.
“What on earth is happening?”
“Who are those people?”
“Could they be powerful espers residing in the city? Forbidding outsiders from entering?!”
“It’s possible…”
These unfortunate individuals, thrown out from various bases, exchanged glances for a while. Regardless of what kind of expectations they had when entering the city, they could only temporarily accept their current situation and leave, without diving headfirst into the enigmatic city until they figured things out.
As the group of zombies aimlessly dug pits and searched for the scent of outsiders throughout the city, they spread a unified message to their fellow undead, simple and direct: “Outsiders, thrown out,” “Eat people, become dumb.”
Indeed, as human body temperatures dropped to a certain level, the difference between them and the zombies was not as pronounced. Although ordinary zombies and those accustomed to human flesh still salivated at the thought of human meat, some zombies with a degree of sentience could barely control their instincts.
Therefore, the survivors who had been living in the city had not been eradicated by the advanced zombies, as long as they stayed away from the area where the advanced zombies were present.
Now, most of the survivors who entered the city had body temperatures hovering around 22 degrees Celsius. Furthermore, one of the three people brought over by the little girl’s zombie had a body temperature that dropped to around 22 degrees after being captured by the zombies. Although the reason was unknown, the little girl did not release that person. Instead, she still considered them part of the breeding group and brought them to Wei Xuan.
Due to the distance, Wei Xuan had not been able to distinguish any differences among the three individuals that day. He had simply instructed the little girl to throw them out. Consequently, the little girl, with her limited cognitive capacity, had thought long and hard before remembering that all three of them had come from outside, leading her to define them all as “outsiders.” This definition allowed the original survivors in the city to escape their fate.
Otherwise, at this moment, it would not have only been the newcomers who were thrown out.
Yup, Wei Xuqns inadvertent measure to make TCity great again…
Thanks for the chapter!
Slight zombie misunderstanding and miscommunication…leads to human removals…lmao! Thanks for the update 🤣❤️🤣❤️🤣
This is going to make things much safer for everyone in the city. Wei Xuan has managed to accidentally get himself a territory and an army that defends it.
“eat people, become dumb” 😂