Chapter 100: The

The cars drove less than two hundred meters from the gas station when Zhang Su stopped in front of a pharmacy with a relatively intact storefront. He called for everyone to get out and take medicine. They quickly packed several large boxes, which made the already limited car space even tighter, forcing them to tie two boxes of puffed food to the roof rack of the Prado.

Of the four cars, only Zhang Su was driving alone; the other cars had quite a few people, making interaction inevitable.

The atmosphere in the Highlander was the most warm and harmonious. Pei Lan was sitting twisted in the back row, surrounded by various supplies. Looking at Zheng Xinyu, who was petting a dog in the passenger seat, her expression was a bit strange.

"Sister Xinyu, Sister Shanshan, actually I've always had a question..."

Pei Lan spoke timidly.

Zhong Xiaoshan, who was driving, smoothed her hair, which was no longer tidy, and said: "You want to ask about our relationship with Zhang Su, right?"

She knew very well that the topic among women was nothing more than gossip. Even if zombies were running rampant and flesh and blood were flying outside, it couldn't stop women's ambition to explore gossip.

Sure enough, after hearing Zhong Xiaoshan's words, Pei Lan smiled slightly shyly and asked: "Are you and Brother Su really in that kind of relationship?"

"Is there anything strange about that?" Zhong Xiaoshan followed the van and made a left turn, saying nonchalantly: "But Sister Xinyu was first; I can only count as Brother Su's lover."

"Actually, I wasn't much earlier. Don't look at the fact that I've been sharing an apartment with Zhang Su for almost a year; I only found out when the disaster broke out that he was the damn landlord! He pretended to be a tenant to share the apartment with me, and I highly suspect he drew a line with me just to collect rent!"

Zheng Xinyu's big eyes rolled around slyly.

Pei Lan was stunned. What kind of bizarre encounter was this? What was wrong with men nowadays? They'd rather have rent than a beautiful girl?

If she knew that beautiful girls were even less valuable in the apocalypse, she would probably collapse.

"My god, Sister Xinyu, I can't believe it..."

"Can't believe it? Hmph, let me tell you, before the disaster broke out, the landlord—that is, Zhang Su—pretended to be the landlord and sent me a message saying he was going to raise the rent by 10% next year, just because I told him I was used to living there and didn't want to move even if the rent went up. It pissed me off!"

Zheng Xinyu felt depressed and rubbed the Corgi's head hard. The poor little guy was unconscious and bearing pressure he shouldn't have to.

"My god, Brother Su is too... well, no wonder he has his own house at such a young age. This brain is indeed not that of an ordinary person!" Zhong Xiaoshan shook her head with a smile.

Pei Lan also covered her mouth and chuckled, then sighed and said: "I really envy you two sisters. You are so amazing; you aren't afraid at all when fighting zombies. How did you do it? Can you teach me?"

"Ho, speaking of this, I really have to thank Zhang Su..." Zheng Xinyu shrugged and said: "On the first day, he acted like a madman and took me to kill zombies, scaring me so much I vomited—I felt like I was going to vomit my stomach out!"

Zheng Xinyu vividly recounted her past. She hadn't chatted with anyone for a long time and was extremely happy.

Zhong Xiaoshan also talked about some of her own experiences, and the atmosphere in the car was very harmonious.

However, the situation inside the H6 driven by Tan Huajun was completely different. As soon as they got in the car, Chen Hanzhou and Song Yijun had a fierce argument. Kuang Miao's mediation had no effect, and the atmosphere was a bit frozen.

Song Yijun believed that Zhang Su was too arbitrary and too ruthless, without even the most basic moral bottom line. He advised everyone to leave if they found a chance and even lobbied Tan Huajun to leave together.

Chen Hanzhou, on the other hand, had completely changed, believing that Zhang Su's code of conduct had no problems. Now that they had returned to a primitive society of "survival of the fittest," the old morals and worldviews should be discarded, and new ones established to survive better.

Kuang Miao didn't express his opinion at all, just kept urging the two to talk less...

Tan Huajun was driving with her eyes straight ahead. The road conditions were extremely complex, and she couldn't afford to be distracted at all. However, she kept the content of everyone's conversation in her heart, planning to find a time to tell Zhang Su secretly.

The most interesting was the Prado driven by Lu Yubo. Inside the car, only he and the fish-killing guy Zhao Dezhu were chatting. The two were birds of a feather, bragging from the South Pole to the North Pole, from the Mariana Trench to the top of Mount Everest.

"Zhuzi, you don't know, there was a fool before who told us that this disaster was an alien invasion. You say, isn't his brain broken? Hahaha."

"Hey, little brother, don't say that. I've also thought about this question, and I also feel it might be related to aliens. Damn, the things happening now can't be explained by knowledge on Earth, right?"

"That's true, it can't be explained. But you can't just throw it on the aliens just because science can't explain it."

Yu Wen, supporting Yu Qing, couldn't help but join the conversation: "Two, I don't know if you've paid attention to news about space?"

"Space? No..." Lu Yubo only cared about whether women were "vacuum-packed" (naked), not about space.

Zhao Dezhu also shook his head.

Yu Wen pushed his glasses and said: "A period of time before the disaster broke out—I don't remember the exact date, maybe about a week—I saw a piece of news about space on an authoritative overseas website. It said that a cigar-shaped magical celestial body was escaping the solar system, triggering a shock among experts in the academic world."

"Damn, experts love to be shocked blindly. Even if nothing happens, they can be shocked. There are so many stars in the sky, what's so strange about something escaping the solar system?" Zhao Dezhu shook his head with disdain.

"Master Zhao, things are not as simple as you see. First of all, a cigar-shaped celestial body is very unusual. Even if it's a meteorite, the aspect ratio wouldn't be exaggerated to one to ten. So experts highly suspect that it's an artifact, not a naturally formed celestial body!"

"Then, escaping the solar system—don't you think it's strange? The sun is the gravitational point of the entire solar system, and countless celestial bodies rotate around the sun. The cigar-shaped celestial body is accelerating and flying out of the solar system. Think about it, why would it accelerate?"

"Why would it accelerate?" Zhao Dezhu scratched his head: "Step on the gas and it accelerates!"

"Exactly. So experts suspect that it's not a natural celestial body. And even more bizarre things happened immediately after. After discovering the cigar-shaped celestial body, NASA kept paying attention, and then disclosed an even more shocking piece of news: the trajectory of that celestial body changed, turning in space and flying toward Mars."

"And then?" Lu Yubo was listening intently and asked when Yu Wen stopped.

Yu Wen spread his hands: "Then there were no follow-up reports."

Lu Yubo and Zhao Dezhu were both deflated. Damn, this was headless and tailless, what was that?

"Young people should have imagination. What if that celestial body changes direction again in space and comes to Earth?" Yu Wen said his guess.

"That's impossible..." Lu Yubo immediately denied: "Teacher Yu, do you mean something is going to hit Earth? That would definitely not be as simple as a zombie virus outbreak. Wouldn't we be gone just like the dinosaurs?"

"Exactly, exactly. This group of experts is also doing blind research, their salaries are so high, and they just talk nonsense. Damn, I can be an expert too." Zhao Dezhu shook his head with disdain.

Yu Wen sighed helplessly and didn't continue. He felt that if that celestial body was indeed not natural but an artifact as the experts judged, then there were too many possibilities. But clearly, there was no one on this car to discuss this aspect with him...

The car turned a corner, and Zhang Su subconsciously looked at the car from which someone had asked him for help a few days ago. Because of the rush at the time, he had only taken a quick glance and had forgotten which car it was. Anyway, he didn't see any living people.

"I hope she has already escaped."

He muttered a word and continued driving forward. It was two kilometers from here to the convenience store. The road conditions were better than the main road at the entrance of Phoenix International Community. The number of accident vehicles had dropped sharply, but tragic scenes could still be seen everywhere.

Fortunately, the temperature was very low, so the severed limbs were relatively well-preserved and showed no obvious signs of decay. But because of this, it constantly reminded people that the apocalypse had arrived.

"Damn!"

Suddenly, the sound of tires screeching from an emergency brake rang out on the street.

Zhang Su slammed on the brakes, and the van stopped diagonally in the middle of the road in a very reluctant posture. The Highlander following closely behind couldn't brake in time and could only steer to the left to avoid it. Fortunately, no accident occurred, and it stopped next to the van.

Tan Huajun in the H6 reacted quickly and stopped steadily two or three meters behind the van.

*Clang. *

The H6, which had just stopped, was pushed out several meters by the Prado behind it that hadn't braked in time, leaving only an arm's distance from the van.

Fortunately, the speed of the cars wasn't fast, only thirty or forty, otherwise at least two cars would have been scrapped!

"Holy crap..."

Lu Yubo held his head in annoyance: "It's all your fault, Zhuzi, chatting with me while I'm driving!"

"What happened?" Zheng Xinyu jumped out of the passenger seat and happened to see Zhang Su walking off the van with a livid face.

Zhang Su didn't speak. He first looked around. On one side of the street was the wall of a demolition area, and on the other side were the shops at the bottom of the residential area. He didn't find any suspicious people.

However, because of the sound of the vehicles, it attracted some zombies wandering from all directions toward them.

"There's a 'Yin-B' (sneaky person) making trouble!"

Zhang Su walked to the front of the car, squatted down, and flicked the steel wire that was less than thirty centimeters from the van!

"Damn, this, this is too ruthless!"

Lu Yubo rushed to the front, wanting to admit his mistake, but when he saw the cold, taut steel wire, his scalp tightened.

Everyone gasped.

Looking along the steel wire to both sides, they found one end fixed to a tree trunk and the other end looped around a fire hydrant.

This kind of trap did no harm to pedestrians; as long as you weren't blind, you could see it. But if you were driving or riding an electric bike, because of the speed, you were very likely to ignore it. Whether it could stop a car was unknown, but a two-wheeled vehicle would definitely be miserable!

Everyone couldn't help but look at Zhang Su with great admiration. He could even discover such hidden dangers, which gave everyone a great sense of security.

"Solve the zombies first!"

Zhang Su pulled a hand axe from under the driver's seat and took the lead in hammering down a zombie with a severed arm.

The surrounding zombies were only eleven or twelve, posing no threat to Zhang Su's group. Everyone fought and retreated, carefully and cautiously solving them. The zombies in the distance were sixty or seventy meters away, and unless a big commotion was made, they generally wouldn't be discovered.

During this time, Lu Yubo secretly checked the front of the Prado and found that the problem wasn't serious, just the license plate was slightly deformed, and his heart settled a little.

If a car was scrapped because of him, that would be a huge sin!

"What's the purpose of setting a trap here... and no one came out. A lunatic, harming others without benefiting oneself!"

Zheng Xinyu hit the steel wire with a baseball bat, making it bounce.

Zhang Su's gaze kept searching the dark windows of the shops, but he didn't find any figures or movement. He curled his lips and smiled: "I guess that 'Yin-B' probably didn't expect to meet so many of us at once, so he didn't dare to come out!"

"That's for sure!" Zhao Dezhu stared at the storefronts and said: "If it were just one car, flipped over by the steel wire, a bunch of dog-bastards would definitely run out to grab things!"

Kuang Miao scratched his head and said: "Could it be that guy from before?"

Everyone knew he was talking about the person who provided the information about the guns.

Zhang Su shook his head decisively: "He didn't go this way, and in such a short time, he wouldn't have had time to do these things!"

Lu Yubo said with a dark face: "Brother Su, let's search this area and drag the 'Yin-B' out!"

"This kind of behavior is too despicable. Little brother, I'll go with you!"

Zhao Dezhu, who was chatting happily with Lu Yubo, immediately responded to the call, carrying his fire axe and ready to walk forward.

"Stop!"

Zhang Su called out to Zhao Dezhu: "Zhuzi, Bo-zai, don't be so impulsive! From now on, without my permission, you are not allowed to act recklessly!"

"Exactly!" Lu Yubo hurriedly pulled Zhao Dezhu back and said: "Brother Su hasn't agreed to my opinion yet, what are you rushing for?"

"I'm very angry to see this kind of behavior. Sorry, Brother Su, I won't be impulsive in the future." Zhao Dezhu admitted his mistake very readily, then winked at Lu Yubo.

Zhang Su listened intently, trying to find clues, but unfortunately, there was no sound. The row of storefronts included a dry cleaner, refrigeration equipment, nail and eyelash shops, and a few restaurants. From the shattered storefronts, it could be seen that they had already been looted.

"Old Tan, Zhuzi, dismantle the steel wire and take it with you. Let's continue!"

Zhang Su didn't intend to get involved in this muddy water.

Tan Huajun nimbly took out a toolbox from her bag, took out a pair of pliers, and handed them to Zhao Dezhu. The two began to work. The tens of meters of steel wire might be useful in the future, so hanging it on the car wouldn't be in the way.

Everyone didn't know that on the second floor of the dry cleaner next to the street, four pairs of eyes were staring at them intently.

Two men and two women were crouching in the darkness, watching with helpless and depressed expressions as the steel wire was cut and the four cars slowly drove away.

"Damn, there are too many people in this survivor team!"

A woman in jeans spoke first.

A man sitting on the ground picked up a stone and squeezed it, annoyed: "If there were half as many, as long as the car flipped, we would have made a fortune. Damn!"

"That crappy van in the lead is cunning as a ghost. At first, I thought he was cannon fodder, but I didn't expect him to be their leader. The leader drives a crappy van and lets his underlings drive the Prado. This guy is very sneaky!"

Another person spoke in the darkness.

"Should we follow them and see? They have a dozen people. If we join them, it will be much easier!"

The woman in jeans looked in the direction the cars were driving, with a hint of longing in her eyes.

"No!" The man sitting on the ground refused the woman's suggestion decisively: "I don't like dealing with 'Yin-Bs', and I certainly won't let a 'Yin-B' be my boss."

If Zhang Su knew that the guy he called a "Yin-B" was calling him a "Yin-B," he didn't know what his reaction would be.

I was originally going to ask for leave to go out for an IV drip, but seeing the 500 tip from Xieyu Huan and the 500 tip from Professional Fake Accounts, I really felt embarrassed to ask for leave. I'll update a little less...

Also, I'll go to a clinic for the IV drip. It's cheap—the cost is one-fourth of a tertiary hospital. Call me a smart-ass.

Leaving, going out. The chapter is scheduled to be released at 09:36.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 101 =====