The next morning, while Ethan and the others were still catching up on sleep in their luxury home, chaos erupted just a few houses down—at Ray's place.
The heir of the Harlan family, dead in his own luxury home.
It was the kind of news that could shake the entire Harlan family to its core.
Ray wasn't just any spoiled rich kid—he was the chosen successor. An Awakened. The golden boy. The family had kept him in Lakeview Estates instead of sending him to the Safe Zone, letting him live in comfort while they hand-fed him zombies to level up. They'd even built reinforced cages for him, made sure he had everything he needed to grow stronger without ever getting his hands dirty.
And now?
Now he was a corpse with a caved-in skull, lying in a blood-soaked living room.
Samuel, the Harlan family's local enforcer, stood in the middle of the carnage, face pale, stomach churning. His eyes swept over the bodies, the blood, the shattered furniture.
