For Gu Hang, so far, the only one who could obtain Crystal Energy effortlessly was Lin Fan.
It was even difficult for the base to obtain Crystal Energy, let alone ordinary survivors.
After Lin Fan and his team cleaned the store and earned a meager wage, they started clearing zombies in the streets. During this period, he cleared the streets quickly, carving out a large safe zone.
Even if zombies appeared, their numbers were very few.
Arriving on the familiar street, he saw familiar figures, the zombie Dongdong and his mother.
He simply nodded with a smile and did not disturb the mother and son.
The woman’s expression grew increasingly worse.
Very haggard, very tired.
Her face lacked any color.
He knew the mother’s life would not last long, but in her final moments, she only wanted to be with Dongdong, even though the child had turned into a zombie, she never minded.
Walking toward the distance.
He casually dealt with a few stray zombies that had wandered here. Frostmourne in his hand was the Divine Artifact he used against the zombies, becoming increasingly sharp and robust with Crystal Energy absorption.
He wasn’t intentionally looking for trouble with zombies, but most often, he acted in self-defense. He would just greet zombies, and then they would madly rush towards him, forcing him to defend himself under such life-threatening circumstances.
Mansion Front Mall, on the streets.
He appeared here because Ahai had told him that he had escaped from this location; a group of survivors were looking for female survivors unscrupulously.
He came to have a look.
In front of him lay many zombie corpses, all cleared by him during that time.
"In areas I’ve cleaned, even if zombies appear, their numbers won’t be too many."
Based on the situation in various places, he concluded that this was a good sign, at least ensuring that the cleaned area remained relatively clear.
He looked around at the buildings, quiet, dilapidated, looking very desolate.
Now, he only had three things to do.
The first: clear zombies.
The second: bring hope to hopeful survivors.
The third: collect Crystal Energy.
"Is there anyone alive?" Lin Fan shouted, his voice spreading around. There were too many buildings here, obviously a waste of time to search each one.
He shouted, wanting the living survivors to hear him.
There was a stir in the surroundings, not survivors, but the sound of zombies. His shouted voice had already attracted zombies.
This group of zombies looked ferocious and terrifying. Seeing a living human standing on the street, their ferocity completely erupted. They didn’t care how strong this human was; to them, it was just about having a tasty meal.
Lin Fan looked on indifferently.
Can’t you see that there are bodies just like you all around, so many zombies have been killed by me in self-defense, and yet you still don’t learn your lesson.
All the zombies that rushed at him were chopped to death, some bisected at the waist, others’ heads spinning in the air.
Other people seeing this scene might vomit.
But for Lin Fan, he had long been used to it.
In a building not far away.
A group of survivors watched the situation in front of them in horror.
"Such a strong guy. Isn’t this the guy who was said to kill zombies with a sword? Up until now, those zombie bodies are still lying here," said a middle-aged man named Hou Jin, leader of these survivors. Like the other survivors, they had been trapped here in despair before.
The supplies they had stored were dwindling, and with them running out, nobody expected such a thing to happen: the zombies around being killed by someone, giving them a chance to gather supplies.
"Hou Jin, that woman ran that way," one survivor said urgently, seeing a woman going out and running towards the source of the sound.
Originally, there were some survivors here, but they had decisively run off, seemingly to leave Huang City and take refuge in the countryside.
Hou Jin watched the retreating figure, pondering before saying, "Let’s go, we’ll go too."
"Hmm, that guy’s situation is clear to see. He definitely has strong protection, and just a few of us brothers going there could form a small team. With a little display of loyalty, wouldn’t it be better than mingling on our own?" Hou Jin said.
They thought it over and felt Hou Jin made a lot of sense.
As they left, they glanced at the corner at a dead woman, chuckling. A new hope had arrived, it was time to switch places. As long as they could stick to that guy, their lives thereafter could really be fantastic.
"Does nobody wish to leave with me?"
Lin Fan sighed, and as the apocalypse continued to unfold, trust between people had diminished to an extreme, with each guessing and scheming against the other.
He turned around, ready to leave.
There was a voice from behind.
The voice sounded panicked, helpless, afraid.
Liang Yuan gasped for air, her heart completely shattered by the advent of the apocalypse. That fear was greater than watching hundreds of horror films, and she had been living in constant terror here.