With Ye Chen's level of strength, he could swing an axe every second, allowing him to kill a dozen zombies in a minute. Therefore, the battle ended swiftly, just a few minutes after it started.
"Clean up the corpses and leave quickly," Ye Chen said calmly.
Ye Zhu and Bai Long were stunned by the sight of zombies strewn across the ground. When they heard Ye Chen's voice, they snapped out of their daze, quickly suppressing their shock, and began swiftly dissecting the zombie corpses to extract the mutated meat.
In no time, the two had finished dissecting the zombies. Bai Long was responsible for cutting open the chest of the corpses, while Ye Zhu searched inside for the mutated meat; they divided the tasks between them.
After finishing, Ye Chen glanced around. Seeing no other zombies approaching, he cautiously walked to the wall, peering outside through the glass window. He saw that the nearby streets were filled with wandering zombies, each with their heads tilted up in a strange posture.
Ye Chen knew that this posture helped zombies better smell the scent of blood in the air.
After taking a quick look around, Ye Chen saw that the streets outside had only a few parked vehicles and were otherwise empty of hiding spots. If they were to go outside, they would immediately be spotted by the zombies.
From what Ye Chen understood, these first-phase zombies had vision three times stronger than an average human. They could see fresh blood and flesh in vivid red, while other objects, like rocks and vehicles, appeared in a grayish hue to them.
After observing for a moment and seeing no way out, Ye Chen frowned slightly, turned back to the elevator, and quickly said to Ye Zhu and Bai Long, "Let's leave through the back door."
The two nodded, and the three of them headed to the back of the hotel. Since they didn't know where the back door was, they had to search through one passage after another. Many of these passages were hiding zombies, but they didn't pose much of a threat.
Before long, the three of them found the back door in a basement. It was locked, and an old security guard zombie was lurking nearby. As soon as it saw Ye Chen and the others, it let out a roar and lunged at them.
Ye Chen swung his axe, shattering its skull, and took a large bunch of keys from its waist, using them to unlock the back door.
This back door led directly to the street. There weren't many zombies around, only seven or eight. Not far away, there was a small supermarket with a dozen zombies wandering in front of it.
As soon as the back door opened, the nearby zombies rushed over but were quickly felled by Ye Chen's axe. The three of them were about to head down a deserted path when three figures suddenly came running out of the supermarket in the distance, with a horde of twenty or so zombies chasing after them.
Yue Heng felt extremely unlucky. He had just sneaked into the supermarket and managed to grab some food, but before he could eat it, a wandering zombie spotted him, forcing him to dash out of the store and run away.
He hadn't run far when he saw three figures standing in front of a back door, two men and a woman, all armed. His eyes lit up, and he quickly shouted to his two brothers, "Follow me!"
The two young men carrying armfuls of food quickly nodded and followed behind him toward the hotel's back door.
As Yue Heng got closer to the hotel back door, he saw that the three people were still standing there, motionless, as if they hadn't noticed the horde of zombies behind him. He was getting anxious and shouted, "Run, the zombies are coming!!!"
However, the three people seemed not to hear his shout and stood there, staring at the horde of zombies behind him.
"Damn it, have they been scared stiff?" Yue Heng gritted his teeth and rushed to Ye Chen and the others. He quickly said, "Get inside quickly, or we'll all be doomed!"
After speaking, seeing that Ye Chen and the others were still unmoving, he couldn't help but want to curse. But with the zombies hot on his heels, he had no choice but to dive through the back door and shut it tightly, focusing on saving his own life first!
However, as soon as the door was closed, Yue Heng heard a "bang, bang" sound and couldn't help but turn around in surprise. What he saw nearly made his eyes pop out. The young man with black hair was wielding a fire axe and charging into the horde of zombies with cold, ruthless eyes.
The ferocious and brutal zombies seemed as fragile as straw before this young man. With each swing of the axe, two or three zombies were cut in half, like a massacre!
"Holy crap! Is this guy even human?"
The three of them were dumbfounded and stunned.
A minute later, the twenty zombies were all dead, and Ye Zhu and Bai Long began their dissection work.
Yue Heng rubbed his eyes, wondering if he had seen things wrong.
Oh, my God!
There were over twenty zombies! Each one could kill him as easily as swatting a fly, but this young man had finished them off like slicing watermelons.
Yue Heng swallowed hard, cautiously opened the door, and led his two men out. Seeing the corpses of zombies all over the ground, he couldn't help but feel his scalp tingle. He stammered, "Y-you guys..."
Bai Long, dissecting a zombie, chuckled and said, "You guys are pretty lucky to run into us. Otherwise, with this flimsy door, the zombies would have broken through in no time."
Yue Heng knew he wasn't lying. He swallowed again and cautiously asked, "Are you guys sent by God?"
Bai Long was taken aback, then burst out laughing, "That's right, I'm the savior sent by God, the handsome and dashing Little White Dragon! Hey, brother, if you have any sisters, cousins, or distant relatives, you might as well introduce one to me. I don't mind who as long as they're pretty."
"Screw you!" Yue Heng immediately realized he was being teased and rolled his eyes in annoyance. Seeing that they weren't so hard to get along with, he relaxed and got a bit bolder, curiously asking, "How did you manage to kill those zombies? Are you guys not human, or are you like the werewolves and vampires in the legends?"
Bai Long pouted, "Have you ever seen a werewolf as handsome as me? Kid, you read too many novels. Do you want to add a few more Transformers or Ultraman to the mix?"
Yue Heng almost spat out blood, speechless at Bai Long's words.
"Alright, let's get out of here." Ye Chen saw that everything was cleaned up and called out, then turned and walked down a not-so-wide path. Bai Long and Ye Zhu stood up and followed him.
"Goodbye, brother," Bai Long waved.
Yue Heng was momentarily stunned.
"Boss, let's go with them!" One of the young men behind Yue Heng quickly said.
Yue Heng snapped back to reality and quickly chased after them, saying, "Wait, where are you guys going? We'll go with you."
"Hmm?" Ye Chen turned his head and glanced at him, saying, "We don't take freeloaders."
Yue Heng quickly replied, "We won't eat your food, don't worry! We have our own supplies."
Ye Chen shook his head, "You're too weak. You'll only be a burden if you come with us."
Yue Heng was taken aback, then said tearfully, "We won't hold you back..."
"No," Ye Chen still shook his head.
Ye Zhu tugged at his clothes and said, "Brother, you're afraid they'll die faster if they come with us, but with their current strength, they'll die here too. It's better to stay together and protect them."
Ye Chen looked at her helplessly, then turned to Yue Heng and the others, "We're heading to a very dangerous place. If you're not afraid of dying, then come along."
Yue Heng and his group were overjoyed and nodded in agreement.
So, the group followed the secluded streets, dealing with the occasional zombie as they went. Bai Long and Yue Heng's men took care of them, while Ye Chen didn't make a move unless they encountered a dozen zombies at once.
Not long after...
Huff! Huff!
At a corner, Ye Chen smelled a damp, foul odor in the air and stopped in his tracks, looking toward the source of the smell. He immediately saw a mutated rat the size of a pig, with black fur, sharp claws, and long fangs crouching at a sewer entrance.
"Shit!" Yue Heng's eyes widened, and he quickly said, "Get back! That's a mutated monster, much stronger than zombies!" He started to retreat, walking a few steps away, but noticed no footsteps following him. He turned around in confusion and almost spat out blood. Bai Long and the others were hiding behind the wall, ignoring him, while Ye Chen, instead of backing away, was approaching the mutated rat with his fire axe.