In Chen Chao's auditory perception, the movements of these zombies were as eye-catching as fireflies. At this moment, seven zombies had already emerged from various alleyways, chasing after them in the darkness.
Chen Chao glanced at Fan Xiangyu and said, "You go deal with it." He really didn't feel like moving for just a few ordinary zombies.
Fan Xiangyu pouted and said, "You always boss people around." Although unwilling, she still released her brainwaves to control these seven zombies and disperse them to lead away the zombies chasing from other directions.
Not long after, the group arrived at the end of the street. Chen Chao chose a 24-hour convenience store as their residence for the night.
In front of the convenience store, there were over a dozen human remains, gnawed to the bone, with a little flesh and blood left on the bones that had already rotted in the air, crawling with maggots.
Relying on his hearing, Chen Chao discovered that there were three zombies inside the convenience store. The dozen human corpses outside the door were likely driven by hunger to come to the convenience store in search of food, but ended up being treated as food by the three zombies inside.
Chen Chao put down Chen Shiyu and led her to walk over first.
Ye Fei chased up from behind, panting heavily. When she saw Chen Chao pushing open the door of the convenience store, she immediately turned pale with fright and hurriedly said, "No, there are monsters inside!"
Squeak~!
The transparent glass door of the convenience store was pushed open.
Ye Fei thought it was over.
She had witnessed the speed of these monsters, far superior to humans. Once targeted, it was difficult to escape, especially at such a close distance...
Roar~!
Several growls echoed from behind the door. Suddenly, three dark figures leaped out from the darkness behind the door, their bodies ulcerated and their rotten faces looked hideous under the faint moonlight.
Ye Fei had already expected such a situation. She gritted her teeth and instead of turning to run, she rushed forward.
Just then, she was astonished to see the young man in his early twenties, who somehow had a fire axe in his hand, chopping towards the leading zombie.
His speed was as fast as lightning. The zombie had just leaped out from behind the door and its head was chopped off, causing its body to fall forward stiffly. The two zombies beside it were still roaring and leaping forward.
Chen Chao didn't stop. After swinging the fire axe, he turned and kicked one of the zombies in the stomach, sending its body directly into the darkness inside the store. With a reverse swing of the axe, he chopped down on the head of the other zombie with tremendous force, splitting its skull directly. The axe followed its rotten forehead, chopping down to its nose, lips, and then its chin.
The fire axe slightly tilted to the side, splitting its head in half, and brain matter flowed down along the wound.
Chen Chao used the axe to push its body away to prevent it from falling on him and dirtying his clothes. This fire axe was found by him while on the road and hidden in the dimensional space along with the golden dog and the grass monster, ready to be used in battle at any time.
At this time, the zombie that had been kicked into the store climbed up again and leaped forward. Chen Chao still swung his axe, slicing off its head from the neck.
All of this happened in less than ten seconds. The three zombies were taken care of, leaving Ye Fei, who had come to help, stunned.
When Chen Chao and the others entered the store and the glass door closed, the female policeman finally came to her senses. She quickly followed them, pushed open the door, and looked at the three dead zombies on the ground. She still felt a trace of fear, as if they would leap up and bite her at any moment.
Chen Chao pressed the light switch but found that the power was out. He took out a flashlight collected from a supermarket along the way in the dimensional space and handed it to Chen Shiyu, saying, "Find a place to rest. We have to keep moving tomorrow morning."
Chen Shiyu nodded and shone the flashlight on the shelves, discovering many snacks, tobacco, and alcohol. She picked up two bags of potato chips and tore them open, handing one to Fan Xiangyu.
Fan Xiangyu naturally took it, tore it open, and ate it, saying with her mouth full, "Mm, it tastes good, but it's still a bit inferior to human flesh..." Just as she said that, she felt a chilling gaze.
She awkwardly shut her mouth, knowing without looking that it was Chen Chao's gaze.
Ye Fei entered the store and, with the light from Chen Shiyu's flashlight, immediately saw the shelves full of food. She felt like she was dreaming. She had observed this convenience store for several days and had always wanted to go in, but there were three zombies inside. Although she had a pistol, she didn't dare to shoot easily as the sound of gunfire could easily attract other monsters. So, she reluctantly made this place a forbidden zone.
Unexpectedly, she was now standing in this store with plenty of food right in front of her!
She swallowed hard. Since the apocalypse, she had never eaten a full meal, and her food portions had been gradually decreasing. By these two days, her meal was just a candy!
Looking at the room full of food, she didn't rush to eat it. Instead, she looked at Chen Chao, looking surprised and uncertain. "You're not an ordinary survivor, are you?"
Chen Chao casually grabbed a snack and ate it, sitting in the rotating armchair behind the cash register and indifferently saying, "Do you have any objections?"
Ye Fei was slightly startled. She stared at him and said, "Your skills just now are definitely not ordinary. Are you a soldier? No, you don't have that military, iron-blooded demeanor. Could it be that you're an international mercenary or a killer?"
Chen Chao glanced at her and said, "You're thinking too much. I'm just an ordinary person, a small-town folk."
Ye Fei naturally didn't believe him. From the process of Chen Chao killing the three zombies just now, she had noticed many suspicious things. First, his movements were very agile, definitely not what an ordinary person possessed. Whether it was strength, speed, or reaction, he was like a veteran who had been on the battlefield for a long time.
Second, his expression was calm and composed. When chopping off the heads of the three monsters, the young man didn't frown or feel uncomfortable at all, as if the bloody scene was the most ordinary thing. Such composure was something she couldn't achieve, even after seeing many car accidents and corpses.
And also, the reactions of his two "sisters" seemed like they were used to it, indicating that he had done such things many times!
"Since you have such strong power, why didn't you save that mother and daughter earlier?" Ye Fei furrowed her brows and looked at Chen Chao with some annoyance. She couldn't forget the scene of the little girl being attacked by the monster, which haunted her mind like a nightmare.
If Chen Chao had intervened, she believed that this young man could have saved them!
Chen Chao glanced at her and ignored her.
Fan Xiangyu chewed on her potato chips and laughed, "Policewoman, if you were counting on this demon to save people, you're too naive. It's good enough that he doesn't kill anyone. To him, probably all the people in the world aren't as important as his sister's finger."
"Sister?" Ye Fei looked at the two of them and said, "Who's his sister? How can he be so selfish?"
Chen Shiyu pushed up her glasses and said, "I'm his sister. I believe there's a reason why Xiao Chao did what he did. Don't blame him."
Ye Fei looked at her in surprise and said, "You're his sister? How could that be..." Suddenly, she realized she had missed the point and couldn't help but say angrily, "What's the reason? For him, it was just a trivial effort!"
Chen Shiyu was speechless. She didn't understand Chen Chao's thoughts either, but she wouldn't blame him because... he was her younger brother, the one she had raised herself. No matter what her younger brother did, she would stand by him, even if the whole world was on the other side!
Chen Chao slightly lifted his eyelids and looked at her coldly, saying, "Why should I save them?"
"Why..." Ye Fei was stunned. She didn't expect this man to say such a thing with such confidence. She felt like her worldview was distorted and said angrily, "Do you need a reason to save someone?"
"Don't I?" Chen Chao asked back.
"Of course, you don't!" Ye Fei answered almost instinctively, "We're all humans. Do humans need a reason to save other humans?"
Chen Chao said coldly, "If I save them, then what?"
"And then..." Ye Fei hesitated for a moment, instinctively saying, "Of course, it's to survive together!"
Fan Xiangyu covered her mouth with a chuckle, feeling that she hadn't made a mistake in saving this police officer. She was indeed cute in her stupidity and could also irritate this big devil!
Chen Chao furrowed his brows. Based on his personality, he would have ignored this female police officer altogether, as she was just an irrelevant person to him. He didn't care how others viewed or judged him. But he didn't want his sister to misunderstand his thoughts, so he looked at the female police officer intently and said, word by word, "First, if I save them, they will follow us and depend on us, like parasites clinging to us. You've already seen it just now; they were willing to sell their self-esteem and bodies just to hide in that dark basement!"
Ye Fei's face darkened slightly, saying, "When people are driven to their wits' end, they will always do something crazy. Everyone is like that. Their nature isn't bad; it's just forced out of them."
Chen Chao looked at her calmly and said, "I don't want to discuss good and bad with you, because it's not that important. What I want to tell you is that people who need my saving won't live long. And those who can survive don't need my saving at all."
Ye Fei rebutted, "It's not said like that. If you save them, even if they cling to you, it won't affect you much, given your strong abilities."
"How do you know it won't affect us?" Chen Chao's gaze was cold as he said, "We have to cross several provinces and more than ten cities to reach the capital. Even for us, there's no guarantee of survival on this journey. If we bring along two burdens... First, more people mean a more pronounced scent, which can easily attract the attention of monsters. Second, can their physical condition keep up with our pace? Or do you think we can slow down and wait for their slow footsteps on this dangerous road?"
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