At this moment, it is dusk, and the zombies that have been asleep all day are beginning to wake up one after another, wandering back onto the streets.
They are ragged, their bodies decaying, dragging their feet, occasionally emitting a hoarse cry from their throats, aimlessly wandering the streets, forming an eerie urban scene under the setting sun.
Birds glide through the sky, emitting a chirp.
The zombies are attracted by the sound, reflexively looking up.
Then, in that instant, they stop in their tracks.
It’s as if time suddenly stopped flowing, or as if a switch had been turned off.
They open their eyes, which are gray-red and inhuman, with pupils trembling slightly. If you look closely, you’ll notice that their bodies are also trembling slightly, as if struggling.
After a silent second.
These zombies all lower their heads, silent for a moment, then drag their feet and disperse—but this time, there is a flicker of something astonishing in their eyes.
…
Two teams sneak out of the base and walk onto the street, into the midst of the zombies.
However, the zombies seem not to see them at all, with no reaction at all. After passing by them, they go on their own into various buildings nearby, their eyes shining ominously.
—These zombies have already been controlled by Yuan Yue, with the goal of finding that mysterious psychic.
There are so many zombies in the city that it’s impossible to calculate. As long as these zombies can be used well, finding the other party is no problem.
Of course, even so, walking among so many zombies still makes these people feel a little creepy.
They subconsciously held their breath, careful and cautious, with two people at the end of the team speaking softly.
“How long will it take to find him?”
“That person shouldn’t be far away…”
After walking for a while, the leader suddenly raised his arm, signaling the team to stop.
A zombie staggered over in front of them, walked up to the leader, glanced at him, then turned around and staggered back the way it came.
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
The leader whispered, “Keep up!”
*
On the second-floor platform of a half-finished building in City B.
A figure leaned against the window, eyes closed in the sunset.
His body was also decaying, but unlike ordinary zombies, he bent one leg, crossed his hands over his chest, and his behavior was completely that of a conscious person.
He was having a dream.
In the dream, there was a bustling city, a warm home, parents who waited for him at home every day, and a girlfriend who would sweetly wrap a scarf around him in winter.
There were several zombies sleeping peacefully next to him.
Suddenly, one of the zombies trembled and made a groaning sound.
This sound also startled him, causing him to furrow his brow in his sleep.
Because the pleasant dream had turned into a nightmare.
Overnight, a virus invaded, turning countless people into zombies, attacking, biting, and killing in every corner of the city.
After a few days, the bustling city became deserted, replaced by the walking dead on the streets.
He had to kill the zombies that attempted to attack his parents after turning, and fled the city with his girlfriend in a panic. However, there was no way out. Every city was the same. All surviving humans were frantically looking for an ark that could rescue them from this viral flood.
He and his girlfriend kept running, living in fear every day.
He discovered he had a special ability, but his psychic attack ability was almost useless. He could only use sticks, knives, and any other weapon to protect them both.
He even placed the knife in his fragile and pitiful girlfriend’s hand, patiently telling her, “Be brave. There will be times when I can’t protect you, and you need to learn to protect yourself. This knife can kill zombies… and also humans who want to harm you.”
His girlfriend shook her head, crying, and as she let go, the knife fell to the ground.
She threw herself into his arms, sobbing, “Yun, I’m scared. I’m really scared.”
He sighed and said helplessly, “It’s okay, there’s nothing wrong. With me here, I will protect you.”
Later, they came across a base.
The base was not big, with only more than forty people inside, led by a young man.
He was handsome and had a warm smile. He said, “Join us. From now on, consider this place your home.”
Seeing the man’s smile, he breathed a sigh of relief. He thought they could finally stop and rest.
He was really exhausted.
After the apocalypse, what was even more dangerous than the virus-ravaged environment was the human heart.
He had been tense, both physically and mentally, until he encountered this base, finally able to empty his mind…
Although the people in this base had their own thoughts, it was okay. Just having thoughts was much easier to deal with than calculating lives.
Moreover, the base leader was indeed a very righteous person. Even though they didn’t interact much, he trusted him.
He didn’t know when the apocalypse would end, but if he could spend the rest of his life with his girlfriend in this base, it would be a stroke of luck in misfortune…
“Naive.”
Fate seemed to sneer at him, uttering those extremely ironic words.
—In that small shop, when the zombies suddenly swarmed and knocked him down, tearing at him on the ground, he stared blankly at the ceiling.
All his efforts seemed like a joke. No matter how hard he tried to survive, death was always lurking around him, waiting for him to let his guard down so it could devour him mercilessly…
People in the apocalypse had no freedom.
Death might even be a kind of liberation.
As he came to this realization, his eyes stung, and even his vision blurred for a moment.
…
It was also because of this that when he woke up again half a month later in that small shop, he felt a sense of disappointment.
His body had decayed, looking no different from other zombies, but he retained consciousness and could control his body—he had become a half-zombie.
He fell into confusion once again.
So, should he return to the base?
He pondered over this for a whole day.
He had seen how much people in the base despised half-zombies.
Not to mention his timid girlfriend, who would probably collapse once she found out he had turned into a half-zombie.
He thought and thought, then sighed. Why bother going back and inviting people’s disdain?
So he began to wander as well.
His appearance recovered very slowly, and the zombies always saw him as one of their own. No matter how he ran, jumped, or even danced in the streets, the zombies never paid him any attention.
Slowly, he even began to feel a hint of pleasure, thinking that these were the happiest days since the apocalypse had come.
“How ridiculous.”
Fate seemed to once again emit a sigh of ironic lament.
One day, he realized that his ability had already changed.
From attacking, it had transformed into being able to infiltrate the zombies’ brains, extract memories, and control them.
He curiously peered into the memories of some zombies—they had long lost their memories of being human, with only images of them devouring humans remaining in their brains.
Of course, aside from that, there were also some interesting contents, such as zombie puppies that fought, zombie ducklings that sank after diving into the water due to their decayed bodies, and zombie cats hanging on branches and growling at humans.
He was like watching an animation or some dark comedy movie, enjoying the show all the way—
Until he returned to that small shop and extracted the memories of those zombies who had attacked him before.
From their brains, he heard a command.
A panicked command.
“—Don’t kill me, kill Liang Yun if you want to kill someone!!”
His smile froze on his lips.
He tilted his head in confusion, then carefully explored the brains of those zombies.
He discovered traces of violence that had invaded their mental domains.
And that command was issued after the violent intrusion.
The voice came from the person he was with “before he died”, the person who was in the room with him.
Yuan Yue.
He remembered this person’s name.
This poor young man was very weak, yet unwilling to remain weak, so he always begged them to take him on missions in the hope of growing himself.
He had a soft heart, so he took this young man along.
And then he died.
His brain sluggishly emerged from a blank state.
His smile vanished, his joy vanished, his freedom vanished.
The sky seemed to be filled with dark clouds and thunder, pressing down on him, making it hard for him to breathe.
…
He madly kept exploring the memories of those zombies, but the answer he got was always the same.
He ran towards the base in anger, only to find an empty city and the bodies of the few half-zombies who had once huddled in the base.
No, there was one person still alive, barely.
The half-zombie twitched his lips, his breath feeble, “Xu Yin is dead too. He died a week after you had an accident. Yuan Yue awakened a very powerful psychic ability and became the leader of this base. And then… they locked us up.”
“Experiments? Heh, if I could contribute to the vaccine, I wouldn’t mind dying. But after staying in this base for so long, don’t you understand? We don’t have any researchers in this base. They locked us up just to torment us for their own pleasure.”
“Do you want to seek revenge on Yuan Yue? They just left today, not long ago. I heard they planned to join the base in City B…”
In the final moments of his life as a half-zombie, he stared blankly upwards, even though there was no sky to be seen, only the dark ceiling and the decaying wallpaper.
The half-zombie said, “Liang Yun, you don’t need to cry. In this world, no one is free anymore. Death is a release.”
But why?
In that moment, he suddenly refuted the words that had once appeared in his mind.
He suddenly understood all the strangeness—
If this death was forced upon them by others, then why should it be considered a release for them?
No, that wasn’t liberation, and it certainly wasn’t freedom.
It was a lump of shit—
—a rotting, pus-dripping heart!
Under the setting sun, by the window, Liang Yun suddenly opened his eyes and looked to his left—
Startled, the few who had just quietly climbed to this floor were taken aback.
The next moment, Liang Yun sneered, “You’re here, but you still didn’t bring Yuan Yue?”
*
In the small office of the base, Yuan Yue suddenly grunted.
Jin Lun was originally standing by the window, and no one was speaking in the office.
Hearing the sound, Jin Lun turned around, squinting as he asked, “What’s wrong?”
“Nothing, nothing,” Yuan Yue forced himself to calm down, “There’s just a conflict starting over there. I’m trying to control the zombies that Liang Yun has already manipulated.”
Jin Lun spoke slowly, “Don’t make mistakes, or it won’t be good.”
Yuan Yue kept his eyes closed.
He was filled with suspicion and tension, exerting all his strength. Sweat flowed down his temples.
The second floor of the unfinished building was already in chaos—
After Liang Yun woke up, all the zombies in the unfinished building attacked the two teams. At the same time, the zombies that had previously ignored them suddenly changed their behavior and aggressively rushed towards them.
“What’s going on? Isn’t Yuan Yue supposed to be controlling those zombies behind us?!”
The two teams shouted as they fought.
Liang Yun was still sitting by the window, not moving, and sneered, “Do you really think he’s stronger than me?”
His first attack on Base B was impulsive, driven by anger and a desire to kill. After calming down, the second attack a few days ago was more of a probe.
It didn’t take much effort, and he had pretty much figured out Yuan Yue’s bottom line before stopping.
Taking Yuan Yue out of Base B was actually quite simple. Liang Yun simply didn’t want to harm or affect other innocent people, so he had been holding back until now.
But human nature… The leader of Base B was a bit reluctant to let go when faced with such a powerful psychic ability user. Under his control, the zombies’ attacks became more fierce. The two teams that were sent out had abilities, but compared to Xu Yin and Li Nianqin, they were still far behind. They couldn’t resist the zombies’ strong attacks at all. They were even trapped on the stairs, unable to even reach the second-floor platform!
The team leader was starting to have a bad feeling.
Liang Yun said slowly, “Hand over Yuan Yue, and I’ll let you go.”
The team leader shouted in panic, “Our leader won’t agree to that!”
“Well, then it’s unfortunate. You will die here today,” Liang Yun said indifferently.
Just then, Liang Yun suddenly staggered, bracing himself against the wall, veins popping on his forehead.
The zombies on the first floor stopped their attack. The two teams looked surprised and exclaimed, “Yuan Yue has taken control!”
Their morale was boosted, and they immediately started hacking their way up to the second floor.
Liang Yun’s eyes gleamed coldly. In the next moment, the zombies on the first floor surged forward again.
The members of the two teams were shocked—Liang Yun had regained control!
These two were simply engaged in a battle of wits, and Yuan Yue seemed to be a bit overwhelmed by Liang Yun!
Seeing the crisis reappear, someone in the team had already weakened, and the momentum they had when they set off had completely dissipated—truly powerful psychic ability users were far more terrifying than they had imagined!
The team leader gritted his teeth, turned around, and suddenly grabbed the woman who had been cowering behind them.
The woman screamed as she was dragged to the front by her hair, and Liang Yun’s pupils suddenly contracted!
Suddenly, all the zombies in the unfinished building stopped moving.
Silence fell.
Seeing that this move worked, the team leader’s pounding heart finally eased.
He breathed heavily, smiled, and said, “Liang Yun, you must still recognize this person, right?”
The woman was half kneeling on the ground, crying and trembling, and said, “Ah, Liang Yun.”
Liang Yun stood up, looked coldly at the team leader.
The team leader said, “Today is just bad luck for us. We believed Yuan Yue could beat you, so we cooperated with him in organizing this operation. It was a damn mistake. Here’s the deal: you let us go, and your girlfriend will be safe and return to you. If you kill us, we all die together, and your girlfriend won’t survive either.”
The woman was still crying, fearfully calling out, “Liang Yun, save me…”
Liang Yun’s face was cold, and he remained silent.
The team leader swallowed hard, angrily saying, “Give me a clear answer! If you don’t, I’ll kill her!”
With that, Liang Yun took a deep breath.
The zombies behind the two teams parted, creating a path.
The team leader glanced around, then said warily, “How can I be sure that once I give your girlfriend back to you, you won’t control these zombies again and kill us?”
“Otherwise, you’d all be dead here right now,” Liang Yun said indifferently.
The team leader was taken aback. After exchanging glances with the others, he began to cautiously retreat.
Liang Yun kept his eyes on his girlfriend, stepping forward, closer and closer.
Until they reached the staircase—the rest of the team had fled down the stairs, leaving only the team leader on the upper floor. He looked at Liang Yun, breathing heavily, and said, “Keep your word.”
With that, he gave the woman a hard shove, sending her out, then turned and ran!
Liang Yun caught the woman, embracing her after so long, feeling her warmth again.
He muttered, “Nian Nian…”
“Yun, I-I’m scared,” the woman continued to tremble.
“Don’t be afraid, don’t be afraid, it’s okay,” Yun hugged her, comforting her as he always had.
“But I’m really scared…” the woman cried.
The next moment, Yun felt a sharp pain in the back of his neck. He pushed the woman away abruptly, and she fell to the ground, screaming and crawling into a corner.
Yun touched his neck— a knife had pierced through. A strong horizontal cut could have severed his neck.
Yun looked at the woman in disbelief. She covered her face, crying and shouting incoherently, “I’m sorry! I’m sorry! But why did you come over! Why did you come over! Why aren’t you dead! You’re not human anymore, you should have died long ago, Yun!!”
Yun’s eyes gradually filled with bloodshot veins.
The once motionless zombies in the building began to tremble and shake, as if a tsunami was about to occur.
The woman continued to cry out, and then she felt something cold touch her forehead.
She screamed and began to struggle, but he grabbed her hands and lifted her chin—forcing her to look up at the man who was now so close, tears in her eyes, she pleaded, “Yun, I’m sorry, I’m really sorry, please let me go, please.”
The man caressed her face with the same tenderness as before.
The woman subconsciously relaxed, tears streaming down her face, she said, “I really had no choice…”
The man gently said, “Nian Nian, I’ve taught you for so long, and you’ve finally learned to pick up the knife.”
Remembering their past moments together, the woman’s tears flowed incessantly. She said hopefully, “Yun, let me go, I—”
The next moment, her neck was twisted violently, freezing her expression in a moment of shock.
The man let go, and she fell softly to the ground.
His eyes were now completely red.
He said gently, “In this post-apocalyptic world, there’s so little freedom. I made you do this against your will. But it’s okay, now, you’re free.”
The members of the two teams ran downstairs, cursing as they ran.
“Yuan Yue is useless! We almost lost our lives today!”
“Damn it, he’s a disaster. If we had failed today, I would have to go back and tell Boss Jin that risking our lives for such a person is not worth it!”
When they reached the street, they suddenly stopped in their tracks.
The leader looked back and said, “Wait for her for two minutes, if she doesn’t come down, we’ll leave.”
The group nervously guarded against the zombies around them, shaking their legs as they counted the time in their minds.
Just as the leader was about to speak anxiously and leave, the zombies on the street suddenly stopped in unison.
The leader’s heart skipped a beat.
The next moment, the zombies grabbed their heads simultaneously, began to twist their bodies frantically, and let out sharp screams, shocking the two teams, “What’s going on?!”
*
Inside the base.
Xu Yin was running laps around the base, thinking about Liang Yun. Just then, 018 suddenly said: “A random mission has appeared…”
Xu Yin stopped, took a deep breath, and opened the mission list. His face darkened immediately.
[Please assist other kind-hearted people in the base to resolve the turmoil that will occur in ten seconds. Reward: 500 points.]
Xu Yin immediately took out his phone—the one he had received upon entering the base—and called Li Nianqin. He quickly said, “There’s going to be trouble, tell your dad to organize everyone to go to the underground shelter.”
But as he spoke, screams erupted from the mall, which served as the base’s main building.
Xu Yin froze, looked ahead, and saw many people fleeing, followed by crazed zombies chasing after them.
Zombies?
Xu Yin was astonished.
Why were there still so many zombies in the base?
Wait, could it be the over 100 zombies that Jin Lun had found for Yuan Yue’s research? Didn’t they dispose of those zombies?
During the time when Yuan Yue was practicing hard, Xu Yin had once considered why the mysterious psychic ability user could control zombies, but had never controlled the research zombies in the base.
Xu Yin thought it might be because the other party’s control over zombies might not be enough to break them out of their cages.
Or perhaps, out of the remaining kindness in his heart, he did not want to harm innocent humans.
Later, when Jin Lun revealed his true colors and bluntly stated his plan, which they could not stop, they had disposed of all the zombies in Dr. Lu’s laboratory, and also checked the situation of their disposal on Jin Lun’s side.
At that time, Jin Lun had smiled and said, “Rest assured, rest assured.”
However, now it seemed that this person didn’t take their vigilance seriously at all. He had transferred those zombies, and the purpose seemed not difficult to guess.
After dealing with Lian Yun, their next target was the internal base.
And the zombies were Yuan Yue’s weapons.
Xu Yin’s face turned cold.
He said to Li Nianqin, “It has already started, Nianqin, take care of yourself.”
“I know, you take care of yourself too.” Li Nianqin replied solemnly.
In the office.
Yuan Yue suddenly screamed, twitched all over, fell to the ground, eyes rolled back, foaming at the mouth!
“What’s going on?”
Hearing the sound, Jin Lun turned around abruptly.
Seeing this, he quickly walked over, squatted down, and looked at Yuan Yue’s face, his face darkened: “He’s being counterattacked!”
“Isn’t he supposed to be more powerful than that Liang Yun? How could he be counterattacked?” his subordinate asked anxiously.
During the previous zombie wave, Yuan Yue had dispersed them all by himself!
However, reality was right in front of them. Jin Lun angrily said, “That Liang Yun was holding back, he was testing Yuan Yue’s strength!”
But it was too late now, Jin Lun angrily pointed at Yuan Yue and said, “Throw him out—”
The next moment, Yuan Yue suddenly jumped up, pounced on him, grabbed his arm, and opened his mouth to bite him, moving just like a zombie!
Jin Lun only had earth elemental abilities, which couldn’t be used for attacking. He pulled out his gun, but Yuan Yue pushed him away and jumped back. Jin Lun roared, “Kill him!”
Several subordinates drew their guns, but Yuan Yue’s movements were unusually agile. He jumped back and forth several times, dodging all the bullets.
Screams came from outside. Realizing that things were really bad, the men began to sweat, and their actions became more frantic!
Just as Yuan Yue was about to jump at Jin Lun again, one of his subordinates instinctively pulled the trigger—
It was too late for Jin Lun to stop it. Yuan Yue stepped on his shoulder and jumped out of the window, while the bullet hit him directly in the chest.
Jin Lun angrily widened his eyes, took a step back, and looked at the subordinate in disbelief.
The subordinate was also dumbfounded, with a blank face, saying, “I-I’m sorry, I didn’t know—”
Jin Lun’s mouth overflowed with blood, as he raised his gun at the subordinate.
The subordinate trembled, fearfully pulling the trigger in rapid succession. Bullets “bang, bang, bang” pierced Jin Lun’s left chest, ribs, stomach, neck, and right eye—until the bullets ran out, leaving Jin Lun’s body riddled with holes, and he fell straight down.
The other subordinates were stunned, unsure of what to do, when suddenly a zombie burst in through the door, seizing the moment of their daze to lunge at them!
In an instant, chaos erupted in the base!
Over a hundred zombies forcefully broke through their confinement, hunting everywhere, their heads tilted back as they roared, “Revenge!”
Xu Yin swiftly killed two zombies with ice blades, squinting as he looked into the distance.
All the zombies had their wills unified.
Was that the will of Liang Yun?
Outside the base, there was a muffled sound—”rumbling”—another wave of zombies was gathering outside the base!
Xu Yin ran towards the city wall, where he met with Li Nianqin. He shouted, “I’ll go to the city wall, you stay down here!”
Li Nianqin nodded, then turned around and flew out, slashing a zombie with a golden blade, while organizing the residents fleeing inside the base to hide in safe spots.
Xu Yin climbed onto the city wall, facing the densely packed zombies below. He took a deep breath and released a blast of cold air.
The mist spread out, quickly freezing a layer of zombies below. However, zombies continued to converge from all directions.
Other ability users on the city wall were feeling weak in the legs, while Xu Yin closed his eyes.
His ice-based ability required an hour of cooldown after each major use, so it wasn’t continuous.
However, during the downtime of his ice ability, his water ability could be used.
But the water-based ability was not very aggressive.
To make this ability effective, it required an extremely powerful force…
Xu Yin focused.
Desperate cries echoed around him.
“There are too many, have all the zombies in the city come over?”
“What did Yuan Yue and the others do!”
“Lao Li didn’t want the base to collapse from within and let Jin Lun and the others run wild, but now… the base is going to be destroyed!”
“Are we all going to die today…”
At that moment, the clouds suddenly gathered and stacked up.
A loud thunderclap exploded in the clouds, silencing everyone instantly.
Then, threads of rain began to fall.
The ability users were stunned, looking up at the sky.
Was it going to rain?
Just as they looked up, there was a tremendous roar, and then a torrential downpour gushed from the clouds, rushing straight towards the ground!
Many ability users were knocked back by the shockwave, getting splashed in the face with water vapor!
But Xu Yin stood there motionless, frowning.
The surging wave rushed down the city wall, lifting countless zombies high into the air, crashing into the surrounding buildings, and surging towards the distance!
In just a few seconds, the zombies outside the base were swept away, leaving only shallow puddles.
As the wave surged past, countless sprouts emerged from the mud, trembling and breaking through the soil in the glow of the setting sun.
The ability users were dumbfounded, staring blankly at Xu Yin.
This was an incredibly powerful force, almost beyond their comprehension.
Xu Yin opened his eyes but didn’t relax immediately.
He took a step back, and the next moment, a figure leaped onto the city wall with an almost impossible leap and attacked him!
Xu Yin stood firm, blocking the opponent’s strike, and frowned. “Liang Yun!”
However, Liang Yun’s eyes were bloodshot, as if he had lost his sanity.
His neck had been injured, with a large hole that oozed pus mixed with blood, yet he seemed not to feel anything, with a hint of a smile at the corner of his lips.
Perhaps due to the heavy use of his ability, the wound showed no sign of healing, a horrifying sight to behold.
Liang Yun attacked Xu Yin relentlessly, seemingly without reason. After kicking Xu Yin aside, he tried to jump into the base. Xu Yin grabbed him back and slammed him to the ground!
Liang Yun struggled and roared, but Xu Yin held him down firmly.
The other Ability Users gathered around, nervous. “Xu Ge, is this Liang Yun?”
“Do you need our help?”
“No need,” Xu Yin replied, turning his head to them, then back to Liang Yun, speaking sternly, “Liang Yun, you need to wake up!”
Tears of blood streamed from Liang Yun’s eyes, but he continued to howl madly.
Xu Yin couldn’t fathom what Jin Lun and the others had done to drive this once gentle man to madness.
However, it didn’t have to come to this.
Xu Yin wasn’t a saint. Yuan Yue had caused the deaths of so many people, and one day, if he paid with his life, it would be just.
But Liang Yun could have handled it differently.
He could have easily controlled the zombies to break free from their cages. If so, he could have taken control of the zombies when Yuan Yue enthusiastically used them for practice, and directly seized control from him, killing Yuan Yue.
Why didn’t he do that? The reason was now clearer to Xu Yin.
The man remained kind at heart; he didn’t want to harm other innocent people.
Also, perhaps it was because—
He truly hated Yuan Yue.
He didn’t want to just kill him easily.
However, all the hesitation, all the hatred, mixed together, ultimately led him to face the unknown vile methods of Jin Lun and the others.
Xu Yin closed his eyes.
Just then, a few screams rang out as something was thrown up and smashed into the city wall, directly shattering a section of it!
Xu Yin opened his eyes, stunned, while his men held Liang Yun back—
Below the city wall, inside the base, the zombie that had thrown Yuan Yue onto the city wall lay still, harvested by Li Nianqin’s golden blades.
Li Nianqin confirmed through communication that all the more than one hundred zombies had been killed, immediately went up the city wall to check Xu Yin’s situation, while on the city wall—
After being smashed over, Yuan Yue’s head hung in mid-air. He felt dizzy and when he regained consciousness, he suddenly recovered from the backlash. He found his head hanging outside the city wall, and panicked, flailing about: “Help!!”
Struggling to get up, a figure suddenly pounced on him, pressing him back to the ground!
Seeing the decayed face of the person clearly, Yuan Yue screamed: “Liang Yun! Get away! You get away!”
However, Liang Yun firmly pressed him down, clutching his neck. In the struggle, the two fell from the city wall, crashing to the ground!
The people on the city wall came to their senses, their faces changing slightly as they stepped forward to look down.
Even after such a fall, Liang Yun did not release his grip on Yuan Yue’s neck.
Upon landing, Yuan Yue fell back, already dazed. Liang Yun chuckled, making strange pulsating sounds from his throat, still firmly gripping Yuan Yue’s neck.
Yuan Yue’s legs and arms weakly struggled and scratched, the veins on his forehead bulging, his eyes filled with fear and pain.
However, his struggles were futile.
He couldn’t escape, and no one was there to save him.
His eyes scanned Liang Yun, scanned the figures on the city wall, but they were too far away, and he couldn’t see clearly. All he heard was the wind in his ears and his own heart pounding with fear, as if it were about to explode.
He looked back at Liang Yun, mouth agape in terror, but no sound came out.
The fear of impending death filled his eyes with pleading.
Suddenly, Liang Yun lowered his head.
In those eyes, so close, bloodshot, and full of madness, it seemed as if a line of words was written.
– When you took us to feed the zombies, did you give us a chance to beg for mercy?
“…!” Yuan Yue struggled in despair, but two zombies that suddenly pounced on him bit his hands and legs, causing him extreme pain.
Then, in the next moment, his neck was completely snapped.
After leaving several claw marks in the mud, he lay on the ground, eyes bulging, staring at the sky ablaze with fire, his pupils unfocused.
Yuan Yue finally died.
Liang Yun’s chest was still rising and falling.
He suddenly let go, tilted his head back, then seemed to release all his strength, slowly falling back, his head tilting to one side.
His eyes, devoid of their blood-red color, reflected the sky.
Birds flew across the horizon.
The red clouds, the beautiful twilight, looking only at the sky, everything seemed to be the same as before the apocalypse arrived.
Peaceful and beautiful.
Freedom.
He opened his mouth, but no sound came out, just a sigh, as if gently escaping his lips.
He closed his eyes quietly.
