The number of zombies on the shopping mall's ground floor was comparable to the number of zombie corpses already littering the ground. As soon as Xiao Bai entered, it let out a gleeful roar and plunged into the horde, crushing the skulls of a dozen zombies with just a few swipes of its claws.
Its long, barbed tongue flicked across a zombie's shattered skull, plucking out a sparkling Crystal Core before swallowing it whole.
"Flora, let's head for the escalators," Neal Wallace said. "It's an exposed position, but it gives us a clear line of sight. The Middle Level zombies by the emergency stairwell seem to be afraid of something; they're hiding inside and won't come out. I wonder how The Crown Prince and Civet are doing with their scouting."
