Shen Chen interrupted him. "The zombies right now still retain human biological characteristics. Their nails haven't mutated yet, and their speed isn't as fast as humans. They're only as dangerous as sixty-year-old men. You're telling me you can't beat someone like that?"
Shen Chen calmly pointed toward the door. "In my team, men handle the exterior dangers, and women handle the interior matters. If you can't do it, then leave alone!"
After he finished, he led them with vigorous strides and walked up the stairs. Guo Yuan, Pan Di, and Zhao Zhen naturally followed behind him. Li Qi hesitated for a moment, then followed as well. Zhao Ze looked outside the door, then at the three people leaving, a hint of resentment on his face, but he had to follow.
The six of them quickly reached the second floor. In the circular hall, there were three zombies. This made everyone sigh in relief, but the moment the zombies saw living humans, they became ecstatic. They swayed their incredibly hideous arms and pounced on them like hungry wolves.
Shen Chen waved his hands. "Three zombies for me. Third and Fourth will each take one!"
The Black Blade in his hands was like a crescent moon. With a white flash, Shen Chen killed the first zombie. Shen Chen turned around and saw that Guo Yuan had driven a zombie against the wall. With a swing of his axe, his zombie also died. Shen Chen smiled contently, but Pan Di's condition made him frown.
Pan Di felt his hands and feet go cold. His hands, holding the fire axe, were drenched in sweat. The hideous and terrifying zombie in front of him made his knees weak. Watching the zombie pounce toward him, Pan Di screamed, then swung down with his axe, but it landed right on the zombie's skull. The skull was chopped half-open. Brains spurted everywhere, but even then, the zombie, which only had half a head remaining, still leaped toward him with a wide open mouth.
He was nearly scared out of his wits. He backed up frantically and could no longer hold onto his axe. But as he stepped back, he was suddenly pushed forward by someone. Pan Di fell forward unsteadily. Watching the zombie bite toward him with a rotten mouth, Pan Di screamed his heart out and closed his eyes in despair.
The expected pain never came. When Pan Di opened his eyes, he saw Shen Chen fiercely kick the zombie into the air from the side. The zombie crashed into the wall with a thump. It made a shallow man-shaped cavity in the wall!
Everyone's eyes widened, and they stared at Shen Chen dumbfoundedly. Shen Chen stepped on the zombie's back firmly, holding it against the wall so it couldn't move. Then he turned around and said to Pan Di, "What are you afraid of? Pull that axe out and aim for its neck!"
Seeing how casual Shen Chen was, the fear in Pan Di's heart seemed to vanish. He yelled, then pulled the axe out of the zombie's skull and chopped at the zombie's head. The skull flew up high and landed on the windowsill. Pan Di felt like he had broken through the chains in his heart. He turned over in surprise to look at Shen Chen.
Shen Chen only nodded. "Not bad! But remember, next time aim for the gap in the spine before you chop. That way, you'll save twenty percent of your strength."
Pan Di was convinced and nodded. He suddenly had a thought. 'Second, oh no, boss, he's very strong!'
At the time, there weren't many zombies in the hallway. After Pan Di got over his psychological barrier, he became fierce, too. Quickly, the few of them cleared the zombies in the hallway, then successfully obtained three more fire axes. After tossing them to Zhao Zhen, Li Qi, and Zhao Ze, Guo Yuan asked, "What should we do now?"
"Clean. Clean every room entirely! Zhao Ze, you go kick the doors!" Shen Chen ordered.
Zhao Ze shouted in agitation, "Didn't we already get the fire axes? Why are we still killing zombies?"
Shen Chen pointed his knife at Zhao Ze. "I'll count to three, and you will kick the door! If you go, you'll have a chance of survival. If you don't, you can die now!"
Zhao Ze trembled. The fire axe in his hands fell on the floor. "No, you can't treat me this way! I know you made me join combat on purpose, that way you can send me to my death! Am I right? Let me tell you, your hideous face will be revealed very soon! Li Qi! Listen up. After I die, it'll be your turn soon! Pan Di, do you see this? That's your good brother. He's just treating us as baits!"
Zhao Ze was truly an eloquent speaker. Li Qi's eyes flickered immediately. Guo Yuan and Zhao Zhen hastily stood up and tried to cut Zhao Ze off, but Shen Chen scoffed. "You're a good speaker. Why don't you continue?"
Zhao Ze hastily pulled on Pan Di. "Pan Di, you must think this through! This man's a total villain!"
"Think through, my a**!"
Unexpectedly, Pan Di kicked Zhao Ze off angrily. "You were the one who pushed me from behind earlier, weren't you? You were trying to use me as a shield, right? I can't believe I trusted you!" Pan Di pointed his fire axe at Zhao Ze. "Do as boss said! Hurry up! Otherwise, I'll kill you right now!"
Zhao Ze was bewildered. He hadn't expected Pan Di to hold such an attitude toward him at all. Watching the three young men in front of him, Zhao Ze wiped his face helplessly. "All right, all right… I'll open it…"
Zhao Ze couldn't open the door, even after several kicks. Shen Chen shook his head and thought to himself how society had people like him in high positions, tyrannically abusing their power, yet they didn't have any skill. But Chen Shen didn't look like he was going to help at all. Only after he saw Zhao Ze finally kick open the door did he raise the steel knife in his hands and get into a defensive position.
The room was completely empty. Zhao Ze fell to the ground and cried loudly, as if he had just gone through an extremely dangerous experience. Shen Chen didn't pay any mind to him. He just said, "Take all the food in this room, and then we'll leave."
The few of them finished clearing the second floor. Perhaps because they had weapons, they were all ferocious when dealing with single zombies. Even Zhao Zhen and Li Qi, who were feeble, managed to kill a zombie on their own, but Zhao Ze shrank behind like a coward the entire time.
While it was still light, they decided to go look in the third floor. There weren't many zombies on the third floor. It may have been because when Doomsday began, everyone had still been eating. It wasn't yet time to go to their rooms.
Twenty-some rooms were all swept clean in a short while. Pan Di still looked very excited. He said with intrigue, "Boss, what are we doing next?"
"We're going home. Today's mission has been accomplished. We'll come to clean the fourth floor again tomorrow," Shen Chen ordered.
Zhao Ze let out a sigh of relief. After the entire day, he was truly scared out of his wits. He never imagined that real zombies would be much more terrifying that what he saw in movies.
After they took a short break, they opened the door and got ready to leave. Suddenly, a swaying zombie appeared at the stair entrance in the distance. Pan Di turned his head, and an excited smile appeared on his face. He weighed the axe in his hands and said, "Boss, you guys go first. I'll follow after I kill that zombie!"
Shen Chen didn't mind. He just ordered, "Make it quick," then walked forward.
Pan Di chuckled, strolling over casually with his axe. The zombie pounced onto him. Pan Di shouted, then swung down with both his arms, and the zombie was instantly as dead as could be.
Pan Di looked down at the zombie at his feet with content. He suddenly felt incredibly proud of himself. There was no comparison between how shabbily he fled yesterday and how vigorously he fought today.
But soon, his smile froze on his face. A raspy growl came from overhead. Pan Di found to his horror that a bloody figure had appeared in his sight. But that wasn't the most terrifying thing. With the fierce growl, dozens of bloody zombies raced down the stairs, all of them with wide open mouths, terrifying growling sounds coming out of their mouths.
Pan Di's hair stood on end. He screamed madly, wildly running toward Shen Chen. "Ah! Help me!"
"Hurry up and run!" With his words, the rumbling of footsteps filled the stairwell, as if a thousand horses were galloping through it. A vast number of zombies rushed down the stairs. Their countless arms waved in the air like maggots!
Zhao Ze and Li Qi completely lost their senses from fear. They screamed as they ran forward on their hands and feet. Seeing so many zombies, Shen Chen got goosebumps, too. He immediately pulled Pan Di backwards and yelled, "Hurry up and run! Go down from the stairs on the other end!"
A tide of growling came from the distance and grew nearer. The zombies' thundering footsteps rang throughout the hallway. Clearly, a mass of zombies was heading toward them. Each rumble of the ground made their hearts quiver. Soon, rotten and eaten purple faces growled at them with bared fangs and open claws.
Even Second Tier neo-humans wouldn't dare to fight against more than a hundred zombies alone. These zombies could tear them into shreds before eating them. There were around seventy to eighty zombies, which was far beyond what Shen Chen, who was not even a First Tier neo-human, could handle.
Guo Yuan and Zhao Zhen ran in the front. Li Qi and Zhao Ze followed behind. Pan Di was after them, and Shen Chen was all the way at the end.
Seeing that they were about to reach the stairs, Pan Di suddenly screamed his heart out. He slipped and fell heavily to the floor. He was in extreme pain and couldn't get up. Shen Chen grew increasingly anxious, yanking on Pan Di with all his might.
Pan Di panted heavily. "My foot is sprained. It hurts so much!"
"My a**! It'll hurt more to get eaten by zombies. Get the hell up!"
"I... I can't get up!"
'F*ck!' Shen Chen saw that the zombies were about to reach them. He ran in front of Pan Di and gathered up all his strength. The energy from the evolution fluid was transferred in his body, and he lifted up a man who was eighty kilograms in weight. Shen Chen glanced at the stairs and tossed Pan Di straight down them. He watched Pan Di roll down the stairs. At that moment, the zombies were only one step away from Shen Chen.