EOTWR Chapter 13

Chapter 13

The group looked at Doctor Li again. Doctor Li looked back at them and said, “Why are you all looking at me? I’m just afraid she’ll film something she shouldn’t, invading privacy.”

“So you agree too?” Ai Wei asked.

Doctor Li said, “She can film, but there must be supervision. No random filming.”

“I have no objection to that. You can check what I film anytime,” Han Lu immediately stated.

After discussing a few more rules, they agreed to let Han Lu use the camera.

That night, they found a place in the outskirts and made do for the night. Early the next morning, they continued their journey to find a place to live.

After driving for some time, they arrived at a small town.

Unlike other small towns filled with the terrifying cries of zombies, this town, named Sanhe Town, was very quiet. There were no zombie howls or footsteps to be heard. The silent streets only had some blackened bloodstains, and flies buzzing around them, proving that some bloodshed had occurred here.

“This is a bit strange. How come there aren’t any zombies? Could it be that the zombies here have all been killed?” Han Lu frowned as she looked at the streets outside the car window.

Doctor Li didn’t see any zombies, but he breathed a sigh of relief, saying, “It’s a good thing if the zombies have been cleaned up.”

Han Lu still frowned, saying, “If the zombies here have been cleaned up, then there must have been quite a few people doing the cleaning, and with weapons. Maybe even guns…”

At this point, her eyes suddenly lit up, and she said, “Could it be soldiers? Yes, only soldiers have the ability to clean up so many zombies in such a short time. They even cleaned up the zombie corpses, probably to prevent an epidemic.”

The thought of soldiers being stationed here excited everyone. If there were soldiers, then the safety here would be guaranteed, and maybe they could stay.

“There’s a supermarket ahead. Let’s go there and get some water,” Han Lu said, pointing to a large supermarket ahead.

In the summer heat, three adults and a child were using up water quickly with eating and drinking. Moreover, they didn’t have much water left.

So, they drove the car to the entrance of the supermarket. Ai Wei, feeling the car stop, almost habitually released his mental power, covering a range of several tens of meters, checking for any abnormalities in the surroundings.

Then, he discovered someone hiding inside the supermarket door, holding something that looked like a gun and pointing it at them.

Because of gun control, Ai Wei had basically never seen a gun in real life. When his mental power outlined the shape of that gun, he thought the person was holding a stick or something. But when he realized it was a handgun, he immediately became alert.

The muzzle of the gun was pointed directly at him.

Could the other party really be a soldier or police officer holding a gun?

Suddenly, they heard a “whoosh” sound, and both of their front tires were punctured by something. They quickly deflated.

Ai Wei was shocked. Without time to think, he said, “Quick, go!”

Han Lu was also startled by the punctured tires. Hearing Ai Wei’s words, she immediately reversed, wanting to drive back. Who knew that before she could reverse the car properly, a group of people holding guns ran out of the supermarket and surrounded them.

Seeing people blocking the front of the car, Han Lu instinctively wanted to step on the brakes, afraid of hitting them.

“Hit them! Don’t stop!” Xia Junchi shouted urgently and firmly.

Han Lu, who was a little flustered, couldn’t help but follow his instructions, gritting her teeth and hitting them.

The people blocking in front of them saw the car heading straight for them and immediately dodged to the side, getting out of the way.

Behind them, there were several “bang, bang” sounds of bullets hitting the car and the ground, as well as the angry roar of a man: “Who fired the gun?! Damn it!! Do you think we have too many bullets?!”

Everyone in the car ducked down when they heard the bullets. Once the sound behind them stopped, they sat up, still somewhat shaken.

Han Lu continued to drive, but all four tires were now flat—they had run over more nails when turning around.

Ai Wei used his mental power to detect that the people were already far away before turning his head to look back. He saw that the supermarket had been left far behind, and the person who looked like the leader was kicking someone next to him in the butt, seemingly scolding them.

He swallowed, knowing that these people were definitely not soldiers. The physical quality of Hua Country soldiers was very strong, and there were requirements for the height of those who enlisted. But these people were not only of varying heights, but also some were thin and hunchbacked. None of them were upright.

This group of people, not to mention military training, probably hadn’t even consistently worked out.

However, where did they get so many guns? And it wasn’t just handguns.

Could it be that there was a military base nearby that had been overrun by zombies, and these people had looted it? Or had some soldiers come here to kill zombies but were tricked by these living people and killed by them?

In any case, no matter which possibility, if they were left here, they definitely wouldn’t have a good ending.

“How… how do those people have guns?” Han Lu said, trembling slightly. “They… they wouldn’t have robbed a police station, would they…”

The group had originally wanted to get some water and food from the supermarket, but they hadn’t expected to encounter such a thing. Not only did they not get any water and food, but their tires were punctured.

If only one tire had been punctured, they could have just replaced it with a spare. But now that all four tires were punctured, there were no tires to replace.

Not only that, but there were no tire repair tools in the car, so they could only continue on the road with four flat tires.

The car drove for another fifteen minutes or so, and there were even fewer residential areas to be seen. However, they did find a car on the road. The driver of that car had turned into a zombie, but the car keys were still in the ignition. They lured the zombie driver away, cleaned the car, and changed to the new car.

Ai Wei looked at the map on his phone and said, “If we go further, we’ll be in the forest.”

“We can’t live in the forest. If we still can’t find a place to live, let’s turn back,” Xia Junchi said, frowning.

Just then, Han Lu suddenly spotted a high wall made of stone in the distance.

“What’s that?” Han Lu pointed to the wall and said, “It looks like a wall.”

Hearing Han Lu’s words, Ai Wei looked in the direction Han Lu was pointing.

His eyesight had been enhanced, and he could now see things clearly from a great distance.

It was indeed a wall, and it was very long.

“Let’s go take a look,” he said.

So, Han Lu drove the car over. Because the surrounding area was bare, with only farmland and no zombies to be seen, everyone except Xia Junchi got out of the car.

Ai Wei climbed onto the wall, wanting to see what was inside. Then, he froze.

Not far from the wall, there was a small forest. Outside the forest was a wide golf course. Further in, there was a small river and some flowers and plants. Behind the flowers and plants was a six-story-high villa built like a European castle.

On the golf course and in the villa, they could see a few zombies in uniforms slowly walking around. Judging by their clothing, they should be the nannies and security guards hired by the villa.

Ai Wei didn’t expect that such a large place would be a large private villa.

He didn’t know which rich person had built it, choosing such a remote location, occupying such a large area, and building it so luxuriously.

Doctor Li and Han Lu didn’t have his good eyesight and couldn’t climb the wall. They could only ask him from below what he saw. Ai Wei jumped down from the wall and described what he had seen.

“I think we can go in and take a look,” he said. “This place is very remote, and there are no zombie hordes nearby. Moreover, such a large place must have hired a lot of people, and those people living here must have stored some food. With this food and water, we should be able to last for a while. Although there are some zombies inside, there shouldn’t be too many. We can clean them up and move in.”

Hearing that they had to clean up zombies, Han Lu’s face turned pale, and she said, “How… how many zombies could there be here?”

Ai Wei shook his head and said, “I don’t know, but there should be at least a few dozen.”

Everyone fell silent. Although zombies were dangerous and they all hoped they could disappear, zombies looked similar to humans, so killing them felt like killing people.

“Otherwise, let’s go find another place to live,” Han Lu said.

Xia Junchi, hearing her say this, obviously wanted to personally clean up the zombies, and he frowned, saying, “There are too many zombies inside.”

But Ai Wei said, “There are zombies everywhere now. Although we haven’t fought zombies yet, we’ll have to face them sooner or later. It’s good to have some experience fighting zombies now. Besides, haven’t we encountered enough dangers on this road? Even if we go to a place without zombies, we can’t guarantee we won’t be harmed by humans.”

On this road, they had first been chased by a group of thugs, then accidentally entered Master Hong’s cult, and just now they had been shot at by a group of people with guns. Compared to those malicious humans, Ai Wei felt that zombies, who only chased people to bite, weren’t as dangerous.

This place was not only far from zombie hordes, but also far from people. As long as they cleaned up the zombies inside, it would be much safer than other places.

In fact, besides these reasons, he also wanted to see if there were crystal nuclei on the zombies.

Since mutated plants could have crystal nuclei, it wouldn’t be strange if zombies had crystal nuclei in their heads.

Hearing his words, the others thought about their experiences on this road and showed thoughtful expressions.

Seeing that they seemed to be persuaded, Ai Wei continued, “As long as we wrap ourselves up tightly, it won’t be easy for the zombies’ nails to scratch us.”

As he said this, he looked at Doctor Li.

Xia Junchi’s leg was broken, so he naturally couldn’t go kill zombies. Han Lu was not tall or strong enough, and they needed to leave someone here to watch the child and the injured, so that she could immediately drive away with them if there was any danger. So Han Lu couldn’t go kill zombies either. The only one who could go with Ai Wei to kill zombies was Doctor Li.

Doctor Li also thought it would be best to live here. After hesitating for a while, he agreed to Ai Wei’s suggestion.

So, Ai Wei and Doctor Li put on several layers of clothes, helmets, and gloves, and tied several magazines to their arms, wrapping themselves up tightly. Master Hong’s cult had only taken their food and water, and wasn’t interested in these things, so these items were still left in their car.

The two also took two bottles of water and, armed with knives, climbed over the wall.

Xia Junchi watched the direction the two disappeared and gripped his broken leg tightly.

He was just a burden now, and he really hoped his leg would heal quickly!

This manor was very large. The outer forest alone was several hundred meters wide. Ai Wei and Doctor Li hadn’t walked far when they encountered a zombie wearing a work uniform and holding a large pair of scissors. It seemed that the zombie used to be a gardener. When the gardener zombie saw them, it immediately bared its teeth and claws and lunged at them. Ai Wei couldn’t help but shudder, feeling a bit hesitant to strike.

After all, he had never even killed a fish before. Now he had to kill zombies that looked like humans, so he naturally couldn’t bring himself to do it.

Especially when he thought about the scene of seeing the zombies’ heads split open, with brains and blood splattering everywhere, he felt very disgusted.

He looked at Doctor Li, who was much calmer than him, and thought that the other must be so calm because he had seen many corpses in medical school.

His psychological quality still needed to be strengthened.

Ai Wei suppressed his nausea and did some mental preparation for himself. Then, he took a deep breath and slashed at the zombie’s head.

With a “swoosh” sound, Ai Wei almost vomited as he watched the bursting brains and blood.

“Are you okay?” Doctor Li asked, seeing that he didn’t seem to be doing well.

“A little nauseous,” Ai Wei said. “But I’ve read in some novels that many people vomit after killing someone.”

Hearing his words, Doctor Li couldn’t help but smile and said, “You’ve read a lot of things.”

“I like to stay at home and watch novels, movies, and TV series when I’m free,” Ai Wei said.

Although the things in novels and movies weren’t always true, he had indeed learned a lot through them.

After dealing with this zombie, the two headed towards the manor.

The further they went, the more zombies they encountered. Many zombies noticed the commotion and ran towards them, baring their teeth and claws. The two were afraid of being surrounded by zombies, so they remained vigilant. Fortunately, Ai Wei’s ability could locate the zombies, and using the terrain and their intelligence advantage, it was simply a one-sided slaughter of the zombies. After a few hours of work, they had killed dozens of zombies.

Doctor Li didn’t have as good stamina as him, and had to rest after killing a few zombies. Therefore, Ai Wei had dealt with most of the zombies.

Looking at the corpses lying scattered on the ground, Ai Wei gradually felt a bit numb.

After dealing with the zombies outside, the two rested for a while and then entered the villa to start cleaning.

Entering the villa’s main door, there was a spacious hall of about two hundred square meters. The ceiling of the hall was four stories high, and the overall decoration was very beautiful. There weren’t many rooms on the first floor. Following the beautiful spiral staircase upstairs, the layout of the rooms on the second and third floors was similar to the first floor.

Ai Wei checked the rooms one by one. If there were zombies in the room and the door could be opened, he would kill the zombies inside. If there were zombies in the room but the door couldn’t be opened, he would make a mark on the door and leave it for later.

In this way, after half an hour, the two arrived on the second floor.

However, when using his ability to scan a room on the second floor, Ai Wei felt that something was different about this room.

There were three people in the room, one adult and two children. The adult was a woman, and the children were two boys, one about 1.2-1.3 meters tall, and the other less than a meter tall.

Their movements and gestures didn’t seem like zombies. Could they actually be living people?

Ai Wei had killed many zombies since entering the manor, and this was the first time he had encountered living people.

He told Doctor Li about this situation, and the two decided to greet the people in the room first.

Ai Wei knocked on the door and said, “Excuse me, is anyone inside?”

Several faint and chaotic sounds came from the room, and the sound of a child crying could be faintly heard.

“Hello, we don’t have any malicious intentions. You don’t need to be nervous,” Ai Wei said.

The people in this room should be people from the manor, and the zombies in the manor might be their acquaintances or even relatives. He had just killed so many zombies, and the people in the room might hate him after learning about it.

Ai Wei couldn’t help but frown. If the people in the room hated him, would they still continue to live here?

Although there was only a woman and two children in this room, he didn’t dare to live with people who harbored resentment towards him.

The people in the room didn’t answer. Ai Wei didn’t necessarily have to talk to them. After a while, he and Doctor Li planned to leave.

Just then, a boy’s voice suddenly came from the room.

“Y-you, who are you?”

Ai Wei turned around and saw that the door of that room had opened a crack, and a child’s face was peeking out.

The child was about six or seven years old, with delicate features. His large, black-and-white eyes were filled with fear. He looked at Ai Wei and Doctor Li somewhat tremulously, and then shifted his gaze to the knife dripping with black blood in Ai Wei’s hand.

The boy’s pupils shrank, and he pulled the door inward.

This boy was the larger child that Ai Wei had sensed in the room. He put away the knife, walked over to the boy, and said, “Little friend, hello, don’t be afraid, we won’t hurt you.”

The child swallowed and pointed to the zombies on the ground, saying, “Did you kill all these zombies?”

Ai Wei nodded and said, “Yes.”

The child looked at them warily again before opening the door a crack and saying, “Come in, my mother has something to say to you.”

Ai Wei and Doctor Li exchanged a look and followed the boy into the room.

This room was a bedroom with a warm-toned, Nordic-style decoration, which looked like a bedroom for an adult man.

In addition to this boy, there was also a woman who was about thirty years old, with a gentle temperament and a beautiful appearance, and a small boy who was only two or three years old. Although the little boy’s clothes weren’t very complicated or exquisite, somehow they made people feel very expensive at first glance.

The woman was sitting on the sofa by the window, her face pale, with a lot of blood on her body, and a bandage wrapped around her arm. She must have an injury.

Ai Wei and Doctor Li looked at the wound on the woman’s arm and became alert.

If the wound was from a zombie bite, then this woman would soon turn into a zombie.

“Mom, they killed a lot of the zombies outside,” the boy said to the woman.

The woman nodded and looked at Doctor Li and Ai Wei, weakly asking, “Hello, my name is Tao Xin, I’m the nanny here.” She touched the head of the little boy next to her and said, “This is the son of the owner of Youran Mountain Villa, named Zheng Anhe.” She pointed to the six- or seven-year-old boy and said, “This is my son, Lan Ting. He came to play with the young master during the holidays a while ago.”

Ai Wei said, “My surname is Ai, my given name is Wei, and this is Doctor Li. We came from A City.”

“Have you been bitten or scratched by a zombie?” Doctor Li asked, looking at the bandaged area on the woman’s arm.

“No.” The woman’s eyes flickered, and she said, “I was cut by someone.”

Speaking of this, a bit of anger appeared on her face.

It turned out that on the day the zombies broke out, she was playing with building blocks with the young master and her son in the room when she suddenly heard a scream from outside. So she went to the door to take a look, and then saw a scene where many people were like madmen, pouncing on the people around them and tearing at them.

At that time, the security guards of the manor wanted to step forward and pull away the crazy people, but they were accidentally bitten by the crazy people, and immediately covered in blood. She was so frightened that she quickly closed the door and called the security department of the manor.

After receiving the call, the security guards said they would come over to protect them and asked her to hide with the children first. However, she waited a long time with the children, but no security guards came. She then called the male and female owners of the manor, but no one answered after making several calls. She went out to find someone to come over, but found that the people outside had turned into zombies.

In the evening, the three of them ate some snacks and water from the refrigerator and slept in this room. However, the food and water in the refrigerator were limited, so she had to risk going out to find food, drinks, and supplies. At most by tonight, the three of them would have nothing to eat or drink. A few hours ago, because the food was running out, she went out to find food again.

The kitchen was several rooms away from here. She carefully avoided the zombies, took a roast chicken and some bread from the refrigerator in the kitchen, and hurried back. On the way back, she also met a living person—Xiao Wang, who helped out in the kitchen.

Because there were many zombies in the villa, she had been in a state of fear for days. At this time, meeting a living person, and a man, she was naturally very happy. She thought that with a man protecting them, they would be safer.

That man’s surname was Wang, known as Xiao Wang. Xiao Wang was also very happy to see her, and said he would protect her and the two children. She was quite moved by Xiao Wang’s words at the time. Who knew that not long after, Xiao Wang would become physically aggressive towards her. He even wanted to rape her. When she resisted, she stabbed Xiao Wang with a fruit knife for self-defense, but accidentally cut her arm and bled a lot.

Xiao Wang was injured and ran out. Now, no one knew whether he was alive or dead. If he was still alive, he would definitely come to take revenge on them, so she had been worried during this time.

Therefore, she took the two children, sneaked out of the young master’s room, and moved to the owner’s room. The anti-theft measures in this room were very good, and people outside would have a hard time breaking in unless they had the key.

When she heard someone knocking on the door just now, and they were men, she originally didn’t want to open the door. But thinking that Xiao Wang was still in the villa, if these people met Xiao Wang and were won over by Xiao Wang, her situation would be worse. Thinking that these people’s attitudes were still polite, she decided to take a risk and contact them. If she could win them over, she wouldn’t have to be afraid of Xiao Wang.

Tao Xin briefly told them her experiences over the past two days, and then pulled Zheng Anhe over, saying, “This child’s parents are major shareholders of Yilong Group, worth tens of billions. I’ve already contacted his father, and his father is in D City, saying that he will come to pick him up soon. Although the world is chaotic now, his parents are capable people. If you can protect him and hand him over to his parents, his parents will definitely thank you well.” Ai Wei looked at Zheng Anhe. This child looked a little timid, with fear and unease in his eyes, hiding beside Tao Xin. This was not surprising. Now there were man-eating zombies outside, and even many adults were afraid, let alone such a small child.

Ai Wei said, “We plan to stay here for now, and go to the safe zone when the government’s safe zone is built. Since he is the owner of the villa, we will naturally protect him.”

Hearing this, Tao Xin couldn’t help but breathe a sigh of relief and said, “The villa has abundant supplies. There is also a fish pond and some fruit trees and vegetables outside. If you stay here, you don’t have to worry about food.”

Doctor Li looked at the bandaged cloth on her arm and suddenly said, “I’m a surgeon. Your bandaging technique is wrong. Let me re-bandage it for you.”

“Thank you, then please trouble you,” Tao Xin said.

In fact, Doctor Li wanted to see if Tao Xin’s wound had been scratched by a zombie, but seeing Tao Xin’s composure, he felt that it was unlikely that she had been scratched by a zombie.

Sure enough, after he unwrapped the bandage, he saw that there was a knife wound about two inches long on Tao Xin’s arm. The wound had been treated and medicated.

“Is there any medicine left? This medicine needs to be changed every few hours. I’ll help you change it,” Doctor Li said.

“Yes,” Tao Xin said, asking Lan Ting to fetch a medical kit.

The owner of Youran Mountain Villa was very rich, and the villa lacked nothing. In fact, everything was the best.

Doctor Li changed the medicine for Tao Xin and re-wrapped the bandage. Tao Xin was a bit weak due to her injury. After briefly telling them about the structure of the villa, especially about the security room, where there were shock batons and guns and other weapons.

The two perked up, knowing that their safety would be greatly improved with weapons.

After resting for more than ten minutes, the two went out again to clean up the zombies. When cleaning up outside a room on the third floor, Ai Wei detected that the person inside was not a zombie.

It was a man who was about 1.7 meters tall and on the thin side. That man was checking the movements outside from the peephole on the door, presumably Xiao Wang, who Tao Xin had mentioned.

Ai Wei couldn’t help but frown. If what Tao Xin said was true, that Xiao Wang had once tried to rape her, then Xiao Wang’s character was very problematic. Having such a person staying in the villa made him feel uneasy.