Chapter 3

Returning to his residence, Lin Xian takes a bottle of disinfectant mixed with bleach from behind the door and sprays it carefully at the entrance and in the hallway. After doing all this, he enters the room, closes the security door, and bolts it with an iron chain.

Lin Xian's first priority is to take out his phone and open the map, searching for Chen Sixuan's location.

Apocalypse Rule No. 1: Beware of the night.

Apocalypse Rule No. 2: Do not be reckless.

Lin Xian does not fight unprepared battles. Jiang City has now completely fallen. The remaining people are either survivors huddled in shelters or thugs looting the streets and hordes of zombies.

And entering the night is even more terrifying, because people still don't know how many bizarre existences are in the dark night.

Judging from the accounts of survivors on various radio bands, they are indescribable, unspeakable, and very few people can survive after encountering the bizarre.

"7.2 kilometers, not close..."

If it were before the apocalypse, this distance would take no more than ten minutes by taxi, but now traffic is paralyzed, roads and bridges are damaged, and Lin Xian estimates that even if he rides a motorcycle, it will take him half an hour.

And the situation there is unclear. It can be said that in the apocalypse, daring to go save someone like this, except for one's own mother, no one is worth it.

Lin Xian's gaze flickers, and he sighs in his heart.

Teacher Chen, I hope you are worth me taking this risk for you.

18:45, the night gradually arrives.

Lin Xian pulls down the window shutters and begins to prepare dinner.

He didn't search for supplies today. Those who fled Jiang City and the survivors had already looted supermarkets and convenience stores countless times, and even a pack of tomato sauce was hard to find.

Fortunately, when he searches for things, besides food and water, various mechanical items that other survivors don't care about are also his prey.

02:42

A faint sound wakes Lin Xian, who is sleeping lightly. He gets up, steadies himself, and stares at the door in the dark night.

The sound seems to come from outside the hallway.

So he picks up his self-defense dagger and comes behind the main door without changing his expression.

This door has been reinforced with steel plates several times by him, much stronger than an ordinary security door. However, for those things, Lin Xian does not have full confidence. Being on a high floor, his only escape route is the stairs in the hallway.

Lin Xian leans close to the peephole to check outside. The hallway is pitch-black, and only the faint green light of the emergency lights in the stairwell allows him to see some outlines of walls and floors.

After observing for a while, there is nothing, so he turns around and prepares to go back to sleep.

But just as he takes two steps, a bizarre knocking sound suddenly comes from the iron door behind him!

Knock~ knock!

Two long-spaced knocks immediately make Lin Xian's scalp tingle!

Is there really someone? Or have those things discovered his hiding place?

He turns back behind the door with a solemn expression, hesitates for a moment, tightens his grip on the dagger, and then holds his breath to check outside through the peephole again.

Hiss!

The scene in the peephole makes Lin Xian gasp!

In the hallway under the dim green light, an old man wearing black burial clothes has appeared at his door, standing motionless. His face is withered and pale, and those eyes are on the verge of decay... a deathly gray-black color, giving off a terrifying aura.

The most terrifying thing is that the corpse-like old man's eyes seem to be looking right at him through the peephole!

Lin Xian is so scared that he stumbles back two steps, his expression incredibly shocked.

Isn't this Old Man Li from downstairs?

But he is already dead...

Lin Xian takes half a step back with a solemn expression. No need to think, the thing outside that looks like "Old Man Li" is definitely no longer human.

Is it a zombie? But how can a zombie knock on a door?

Lin Xian's expression is ugly. If it's a bizarre thing in the night, then he is in trouble tonight.

"Old Man Li, you didn't lie in your coffin and enjoy your peace, why did you run back to suffer..." Lin Xian curses secretly.

Time passes bit by bit. Lin Xian has completely lost his sleepiness, standing behind the door against the wall, gripping the dagger tightly.

But that knocking sound never rings again.

But the more bizarre part comes: a faint sound of fingernails scratching the wall suddenly rings out from the wall Lin Xian is leaning against. The sound is not loud, but it makes one's scalp tingle, as if something is separated from him by a wall, constantly scratching...

"Holy crap!" He takes a step back, looking at the wall in front of him. "Is this thing trying to drill in!"

Lin Xian is a bit dazed.

The thing outside seems to have sensed his presence, separated from him by only a wall.

Lin Xian's best choice now is to hold his breath and not make any movement. As long as the door of this room hasn't been broken through, he is temporarily safe.

But at the same time, he has prepared an escape route in advance. Most of his supplies have been moved to the "Infinite" train, and only a few days of food and water, as well as the generator and batteries, remain in the house.

!

Time passes second by second, and that bizarre scratching sound keeps ringing in Lin Xian's ears like a heart demon.

After a while, the sound finally disappears. Lin Xian sighs in relief and gets up to look through the peephole again.

However, this time, the scene before him makes his hair stand on end.

In the hallway, a girl has appeared at some point, lying on the ground covered in blood. She keeps trying to struggle up, reaching her hand toward the door, calling out weakly,

"Save me... save me..."

Lin Xian's eyes narrow slightly. The girl looks to be only fifteen or sixteen years old, and her outfit is completely out of place with the apocalyptic world background: short shorts, a low-waist tube top, a bright baseball jacket on the outside, and wireless headphones around her neck. She looks youthful and stylish. If it weren't for the blood on her face, Lin Xian would even think this wasn't the apocalypse, but a neighbor's little sister visiting late at night.

Facing the girl's plea for help, Lin Xian behind the door says nothing.

Just now he clearly saw a dead corpse bizarrely standing outside, and now it suddenly turned into a little girl. Anyone would find it extremely abnormal.

These things in the dark night are bizarre and unpredictable. Besides, he has no relation to this girl. Opening the door now, wouldn't that be harming himself?

Time gradually reaches 5:00 AM, at least 9 hours until dawn.

Through the peephole, Lin Xian finds that the girl is now pale and has fainted on the ground.

"Damn, is it a monster, setting a trap to trick me into opening the door?" Lin Xian has a headache. This situation is much more bizarre than any zombie.

Lin Xian can't help his curiosity and looks again.

This time, he is shocked to find "Old Man Li's" figure standing beside the little girl, head buried, as if sniffing.

Then "Old Man Li" moves his stiff steps, stands in front of the little girl, and slowly bends down.

In an instant, Lin Xian's pupils shrink, because he sees a long-legged black centipede-like monster insect clinging to the back of Old Man Li's corpse, its size almost occupying his entire back!

What the hell is this!

Lin Xian gasps.

He sees the monster's legs slowly moving, causing Old Man Li's hands to lift, and then they pounce toward the little girl.

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(End of chapter)