BC Chapter 121

Chapter 120

Night fell, and the absence of city lights plunged the area within thousands of kilometers into a darkness where one couldn’t see their own fingers. It was as if an ink-like black velvet cloth had enveloped the entire city. Even the emergency lighting in many large buildings, which had flickered weakly in the initial days of the chaos, had ceased to emit light. Only a few streets, crowded with hordes of zombies, emitted the cacophony of shoes scraping against the ground, the sound of flesh and cloth dragging, the meaningless moans and occasional howls of the zombies.

Under the cover of the inky darkness, the six individuals with mutated constitutions mingled with the zombie horde, systematically eliminating those who appeared to be agile and mobile. They also ambushed some Level 1 mutated zombies, trying to get closer to the surviving group where Dai Qianya and Jin Shengzhe were, little by little, without causing a major disturbance. Jiang Juncheng, the only ordinary person, was assigned to guard the building entrance by the collective decision of the others. Although she voiced a hundred objections, she succumbed to a threatening glance from He Linglong—ever since that incident, she felt as if He Linglong had somehow seized an invisible weakness of hers, depriving her of the right to vehemently oppose.

However, her agreement to guard the door wasn’t entirely due to He Linglong’s “constraint.” Their “base camp” needed someone to guard it anyway, and after a comprehensive consideration, she, with her weakest combat ability, was best suited for the job. Though she could be stubborn at times, she didn’t want to be a burden to everyone at critical moments, so she reluctantly agreed.

What they didn’t know was that the zombie horde now was slightly different from the scattered and disorganized groups of the early days—unbeknownst to them, the zombies seemed to have evolved some means of communicating with each other. So, after the group had successfully advanced a considerable distance through the zombie horde under the cover of night, an unforeseen event occurred.

The zombie horde, which had been moving in one direction like grass swaying in the wind, finally began to stir. Initially, only a small group stopped, shaking their disheveled heads around in confusion—their long-useless eyes could no longer distinguish between “food” and their own kind. However, the sense of crisis spreading through the horde gradually drove them into a frenzy. No one knew from what moment or which zombie it started, but reckless biting and destruction spread through the horde…

The once orderly zombie tide began to “surge” erratically. Areas collapsed, and severed limbs and heads, dripping black blood, were thrown into the air above the horde before falling back down—it was truly a scene of hell on earth…

The zombie horde, once as calm as a river, was now “boiling” like water being heated.

“Not good, the zombies are going crazy! We have to retreat from here!” Chen Li, who was leading the way, kicked down an elderly zombie that lunged at her, then smashed a female zombie on her left with her club before turning to shout at Leng Dongchi, who was behind her performing a “decapitation” on a male zombie.

“Okay!” Leng Dongchi pulled his knife out of the zombie’s severed neck, then used the zombie’s body to knock two zombies away with a side kick. His mind was on Chen Li in front, so he immediately understood Chen Li’s meaning and relayed the message to the people behind him.

However, while it was easy to blend into the zombie horde, extricating themselves from a chaotic horde was difficult. After all, the group’s initial success was due to the zombies’ orderly nature. Now, with the horde chaotic and crowded, it was difficult to maintain even the equidistant defensive formation, let alone for the six of them to retreat as a group unscathed.

“Stay close to me!” Unknowingly, the group had been pushed by the horde to a row of walls. In the distance, they could see the location of the group of survivors where Dai Qianya and her son were.

Chen Li thrust her weapon back into her bag. Using the height gained from the corpse of a zombie she had just knocked down, she accelerated, stepped on the corpse sandbag, and leaped onto the top of the nearly three-meter-high wall. With her arms bent, she pushed off the slightly uneven wall surface with her toes, using the leverage to climb up just before a zombie below could pounce and grab her ankle.

“You go first!” Leng Dongchi was closest to Liu Qingyu and knew her physical strength was slightly weaker than the others. He pulled her out of the encirclement of three zombies, turned, and with a flick, switched their positions. Liu Qingyu staggered twice and reached the wall.

“Up! Grab my foot with one hand and give me the other!” Chen Li, already on the wall, hooked one leg around the wall and used one hand to grip the concrete edge, letting her other leg down and reaching out to Liu Qingyu.

If it were Leng Dongchi or He Linglong, Chen Li would only need to extend one hand to help pull them up. But Liu Qingyu’s physical strength wasn’t as good, and she had already consumed a lot of energy in the previous actions, so Chen Li naturally had to help her more.

After pulling Liu Qingyu up onto the wall, Leng Dongchi and the others had unconsciously moved away from the wall due to the fighting. He Linglong, who was at the rear guarding everyone, looked up and saw Chen Li and Liu Qingyu anxiously watching them from the wall. She took the initiative to break away from her battle and moved closer to Zhou Yuanyuan, who was wielding her knife with some difficulty, and shouted, “You go to Chen Li first!”

He Linglong would never forget that Jiang Juncheng and Zhou Yuanyuan had saved her life, so before solving the problem of saving others, the priority must be to ensure the safety of Jiang Juncheng and Zhou Yuanyuan.

With He Linglong’s help, the two quickly reached the wall. After sending Zhou Yuanyuan to the top, He Linglong was not in a hurry to follow—her physical strength was among the best in the group, so at this time she still had the strength to help Jiang Yuan and Leng Dongchi who were left.

After confirming that the three people below were temporarily safe, Chen Li went straight along the direction of the wall towards their destination—Dai Qianya and her son.

“Where’s Li-jie?” After Leng Dongchi and the three others finally escaped the encirclement of zombies and climbed onto the wall, getting a chance to catch their breath, Leng Dongchi nervously asked Zhou Yuanyuan and Liu Qingyu, her face turning pale when she realized that Chen Li wasn’t with them.

The reason the two hadn’t followed Chen Li was partly to support the three people below, and partly because they were indeed feeling a little weak in the legs after the previous exertion. Without taking a break, they would only be a burden if they went down again.