Chapter 12: Escaping into the Basement

Chen Yusheng crossed several streets and finally hid on a street more than 500 meters away from that Zombie Group, but as soon as he stood steady, he discovered the drone above his head was still circling; he hadn't shaken it off at all.

When he was at the supermarket, this thing had been hovering directly above him, and now that he had run over 500 meters away, the drone was still steadily following above his head, like a plaster that couldn't be shaken off.

"Damn it, I must have been discovered!"

Chen Yusheng's face sank instantly, and he cursed inwardly.

Just then, his ears twitched, and he faintly heard a muffled "thud" of a heavy object landing not far away.

He looked in the direction of the sound, and his pupils suddenly constricted.

On the roof of a building on one side of the street, a figure was sprinting along the edge; when reaching the edge of the roof, the person leaped directly, crossing a building gap of over ten meters, and slammed heavily onto the roof of the next building, another muffled sound following.

"Damn, they're coming for me!"

Seeing that the person's direction of travel was aimed straight at him, Chen Yusheng's heart tightened instantly.

Being able to jump over ten meters in one step, this was definitely not an ordinary person; nine times out of ten, it was the Ability User the little girl had mentioned!

"Fuck!"

Without a shred of hesitation, Chen Yusheng took off and sprinted toward the city center.

He knew clearly in his heart that there would only be more zombies in the city center, and the probability of encountering a Mutant Zombie was also higher.

But compared to these mysterious Ability Users, at least he had some ways to deal with zombies.

His meager skills were only enough for his Soul-Seizing Art to handle ordinary people; if he truly faced an Ability User, he had no confidence at all in whether this move would work.

……

"Boss, Chen Hai has discovered you all and is running toward the city center!"

The young man on the roof suddenly heard a team member's voice in his earpiece, and he ordered coldly with an expressionless face: "Follow him closely with the drone, I'll catch up immediately."

As soon as he finished speaking, a hurried report came through the earpiece again: "Boss, Chen Hai is too fast, the zombies on the ground aren't attacking him at all, and your current speed can't catch up to him!"

"I know."

The young man replied coldly, but his expression instantly turned sinister.

They were moving on the rooftops; although they could ignore the zombies on the ground, there were too many obstacles like billboards and concrete blocks on the roofs, making it impossible to pick up speed.

Compared to Chen Yusheng, who was sprinting at full speed on the ground, they were significantly slower.

He glanced down; a large group of zombies was already following behind Chen Yusheng, and a cold light flashed in his eyes as he made a decision.

The next second, he leaped directly from the five-story-high roof, landed heavily, exerted force with his feet, and chased fiercely in the direction Chen Yusheng was fleeing like a cheetah.

Sure enough, the speed on the ground was much faster than on the rooftops, and since all the zombies on the street had been lured away by Chen Yusheng, his path was completely unobstructed, without even a single zombie blocking the way.

Seeing this, the other few people chasing on the rooftops immediately jumped down as well, and after landing, they all chased in Chen Yusheng's direction.

In terms of pure ground speed, these Ability Users were much faster than Chen Yusheng; in just a moment, the distance between the two sides was closing at a speed visible to the naked eye.

And at this moment, behind Chen Yusheng, there were already hundreds of ordinary zombies, a dark, dense mass.

The further he ran toward the city center, the more zombies were attracted, causing the size of the Zombie Group behind him to keep expanding.

"Chen Hai, stop right there!"

A furious roar suddenly came from behind, shaking one's eardrums.

Chen Yusheng looked back while running, but behind him were only dense heads of zombies, baring fangs and brandishing claws; he couldn't see at all who was shouting.

Yet this shout had the exact opposite effect.

The hundreds of zombies that had been tightly following Chen Yusheng, upon hearing this loud roar, suddenly had over a hundred of them turn their direction, and with red eyes, they frantically lunged toward the few people chasing them, their roars deafening.

"Idiots!"

Watching the Zombie Group lunging toward them, the young man's face turned green instantly, and he turned his head to curse fiercely at the person beside him who had just shouted, his tone full of rage.

With over a hundred zombies lunging over, even if they were Ability Users, they didn't dare to face them head-on at all.

One had to know that even ordinary zombies were stronger than these Ability Users in terms of pure strength.

They had only awakened some abilities; their physical strength couldn't compare to the copper-skinned and iron-boned zombies at all, and fighting them head-on was just courting death.

Without a shred of hesitation, the young man tapped his feet, leaped up onto the third-floor windowsill of a nearby building, climbed quickly to the roof using both hands and feet, and then continued the pursuit by stepping across the rooftops.

The others didn't dare to delay either, each finding a nearby building to climb up; one by one, they didn't even dare to look back, forced back onto the rooftops by these hundred or so zombies.

"Boss, with so many zombies following behind him, we can't get close at all!" one person said to the young man while running on the roof.

The young man gritted his teeth, his eyes full of malice, and said in a deep voice: "We'll just tail him! I don't believe he can keep running forever; the moment he runs out of stamina and stops, that will be the time we catch him!"

And at this moment, Chen Yusheng was already running out of breath, drenched in sweat, with sweat even streaming down his cheeks from his forehead.

Although he had cultivated True Qi and could barely support his body, the foundation of this young boy's body was truly too poor to withstand such a desperate sprint.

His stamina was draining rapidly, and his legs were starting to go soft.

Although this desperate run just now had temporarily left those Ability Users behind, he himself was also reaching his limit.

"No, if I keep running like this, I'll be exhausted to death!"

Chen Yusheng gritted his teeth, pushing forward with his last bit of strength, while his brain was spinning rapidly, desperately pondering a way to escape.

His peripheral vision kept scanning the surroundings, looking for something he could use.

Finally, Chen Yusheng's gaze landed on a huge shopping mall building at an intersection dozens of meters away.

Without hesitation, Chen Yusheng headed straight for the mall.

He intended to lure the hundreds of zombies following him into the mall; he had discovered that those few Ability Users didn't seem to dare to fight the zombies head-on either.

Therefore, he only needed to find a more enclosed place, like an underground garage or similar, and he could let the Zombie Group help him block the enemies chasing from behind.

As Chen Yusheng ran into the mall, the hundreds of zombies behind him followed him into the mall without the slightest hesitation.

After entering the mall, Chen Yusheng began to quickly look for the entrance to the basement.

Heaven rewards the diligent; he actually found the passage to the basement very quickly.

Without hesitation, Chen Yusheng led all the zombies straight toward the basement.

Arriving at the basement, it was a pitch-black underground garage; he used a lighter for illumination and finally reached a dead end in the basement.

He adjusted the Warding Off Evil Talisman to a five-meter range, and hundreds of Sangshi roared at him from the perimeter, yet they dared not step even an inch beyond the line.

After Chen Yusheng extinguished the light of his lighter, the entire underground parking garage instantly plunged into darkness, devoid of the slightest glimmer of light.