Chapter 2: The Calm Before the Storm
As the days passed in cold storage, I didn't idle away. Instead, I took out my VR headset and played Resident Evil to accumulate some experience in fighting zombies.
I glanced at my phone and saw the last message from Su Qingqing, sent the previous night. I figured she must have died, and I felt a sense of relief. The city residents didn't fare much better, with over half of them dying from heat or thirst. Now, a bottle of mineral water sells for 300 yuan, and crime is rampant in the streets.
Soon, it was 8 o'clock in the evening, with only two hours left until the virus outbreak. Unexpectedly, just as I finished gearing up to go out, the cold gate was suddenly knocked on. When I looked out through the one-way window, I was surprised to see several men holding tools knocking on the door.
One of them said, "I delivered 10-million-yuan worth of mineral water here a few days ago. If we can take over, we won't have to worry for the rest of our lives. Let's hurry and pry open the door." In an instant, I understood that the one speaking was Wang Dazhuang, the truck driver who delivered water a few days ago. He had cheated me out of 10,000 yuan when he delivered the water. I hadn't expected him to have such ruthless intentions now, which made me smirk.
They struggled to pry open the door for a while, but to no avail, as the door was reinforced to the standards of a bank vault. I could have continued sleeping peacefully, but I had errands to run later, so I opened the door directly. Suddenly, a cold wind blew in, causing Wang Dazhuang to shiver instantly. The hairs on his body stood up, having just experienced 70 degrees of heat, he was now hit by a cool breeze of less than 20 degrees.
His soul reached a climax instantly, even letting out a sigh of relief. However, the scene in the next second chilled them to the core. I pulled out an AK-47, pointing its dark barrel at them. Unexpectedly, Wang Dazhuang sneered after realizing, "You brat, trying to scare us with a toy gun? Let's take him down together." After all, Yan Guo had only seen this on TV, so he didn't believe I could get it.
Seeing their greedy eyes, I sighed helplessly. But the next second, I fired a warning shot, which immediately made them freeze in place. The sight of their friend falling to the ground was enough to make the rest of them back off in fear.
After dealing with the situation, I packed the supplies and drove the armored vehicle with confidence towards the destination. As soon as I stepped out, I started sweating profusely, but luckily I had chilled beverages stocked up. So I grabbed a bottle of Happy Water and took a big gulp, also opening one for the shop owner. Meanwhile, countless people on the street were desperately searching for supplies.
Suddenly, they saw even a cat in my car had water to drink. They all showed thirsty expressions, with someone even suggesting to trade their wife for water. However, I expressed strong disgust, as I would never do such a thing, even if it meant death.
Soon, I arrived at the place where the virus broke out in the previous life, a residential area in the third district, now plunged into darkness due to a power outage. Checking the time, it was almost half past 10, the time when the zombies broke out in the previous life. Just as I was anxiously waiting, a glowing object fell from the sky. I immediately realized it was virus purification and excitedly ran over.
Soon, I obtained the virus purification, which turned out to be a small purple crystal. However, the next second, I swallowed it directly, causing me to groan in pain and sweat profusely on my forehead. Yet, I was not worried at all, as forcibly altering the host's body required enduring pain. Finally, after a few minutes, the transformation was complete, and I clearly felt stronger.
More importantly, I awakened the ability to teleport, though limited to a 3-meter range, surprisingly, I could even go over walls. I was instantly excited, thinking I wouldn't fear being caught in bed anymore, but just as I was happy, the electric mother suddenly let out a scream. So I immediately rushed back to the car, but after seeing the situation clearly, I was instantly furious. It turns out a group of people sneaked into the car, ate all the food I left, and even tried to catch the electric mother to eat cat meat.
I immediately recognized this group of people was actually the family of the child who abused cats I encountered before. Seeing them about to take the electric pancake away, I shouted to stop them immediately. Unexpectedly, the fat woman also recognized me, and then directly demanded that I compensate her son's medical expenses, not much, just 100 perfume. And her son immediately cried and accused me of bullying him, even the man next to him kept agreeing.
What a bunch of troublemakers, all together. Just as I was considering whether to send them off to the Western Heaven, the originally crying child suddenly stopped, then started convulsing, rolling his eyes back, and making gurgling sounds from his mouth. The child's parents also noticed something was wrong, but they thought it was due to being scratched by a cat and having a rabies outbreak.
Unexpectedly, the next second, the child mutated into a zombie, then suddenly attacked his father. The scene quickly turned chaotic, and I took a step back to assess the situation.
I prepared to take out my weapon to deal with the zombie. Unexpectedly, the electric mother suddenly flashed in front of me, and the next moment, its tail emitted a sizzling electric current. I immediately understood that the electric mother had evolved, so I asked if it wanted revenge. Upon hearing that, the electric mother let out a meow, and at the same time, its tail emitted a flickering electric current, shooting towards the zombie.
Immediately after a bang, the zombie child collapsed directly to the ground. I was shocked and dumbfounded, thinking that I wouldn't be afraid of zombies when going out in the future. Then I took out a small knife from my space and extracted the zombie's enhanced brain crystal. Then I absorbed it directly, feeling a tingling sensation in my body, much more comfortable than absorbing the purification crystal just now. However, the energy was vastly different. The energy of this crystal is only 1% of the enhanced crystal.
It seems I need to hurry and collect more enhanced crystals. So I drove around looking for them, avoiding the zombies along the way. When passing by a school, I finally found an enhanced crystal in front of the dormitory building. So I immediately rushed over, but as soon as I picked up the crystal, a scream came from above, and the next moment, a girl fell down.
After spotting the girl's face, I was so startled my jaw almost dropped. "It's you!" When Fang Chen saw the girl in his arms, he was surprised and delighted. The girl was none other than the one who had saved his life in a previous life, the girl with a limp leg he had been searching for. But how did she fall from the sky? Suddenly, he remembered the evolutionary crystal he had picked up. Could it be... Fang Chen couldn't help but smile. He probably knew how Lin Zijin awakened her abilities in the previous life. She must have been fleeing from zombies, jumped from upstairs, landed on the evolutionary crystal, and awakened her abilities. Her leg should have been injured from that fall. His appearance in this life prevented her from breaking her leg.
Feeling tightly embraced, Lin Zijin slowly opened her eyes and blushed when she saw a strange man holding her. She had never been held by a boy before, especially one whose hand was tightly gripping hers. She could feel the warmth of his palm, and to her annoyance, he would occasionally squeeze it. It was too embarrassing. Lin Zijin's parents had died early, and she was raised by her grandmother with a traditional belief in self-love and self-pity. She had never encountered a rogue like Fang Chen. However, Fang Chen's strength made it impossible for her to break free. After struggling a few times, she ended up in an intimate embrace with Fang Chen, blushing.
"Let go of me," Lin Zijin said with a mix of embarrassment and anger. Unable to break free, she blushed and thanked Fang Chen. She felt lucky to have him there, as she would have either died or broken her bones if he hadn't been around.
"By the way, we need to run, there are zombies upstairs!" Lin Zijin remembered she was fleeing for her life and immediately grabbed Fang Chen's arm to escape. However, when she looked ahead, she saw more zombies coming towards them, leaving her with no escape route. "We're done for, we're going to die," Lin Zijin said in despair. "Follow me!" Fang Chen saw the approaching zombies and picked up Lin Zijin again, running towards the armored vehicle. With so many zombies around and no vehicle protection, even he could get bitten. "Is this your car?"
Lin Zijin was surprised to see the large armored vehicle, as she had only seen such vehicles on TV.