Chapter 332 - Race of Zombies (1/2)

Indeed, Yue Hongbo thought. No sane woman would want to come back to the home she shared with her housemates whom she witnessed with her own eyes their gruesome deaths.

Not even warriors, never mind an ordinary woman, would feel comfortable coming back here.

“So, what now, Uncle?” asked Yue Hongbo. Calling Chu Xun “Uncle” sounded really like a norm to him.

Chu Xun, on the other hand, still found it unsettling to be addressed such. “We wait,” he answered.

And so their long vigil lasted for hours.

Until the sun began to set and night began to fall.

“There she is,” Yue Hongbo said.

The woman was leaving her home and she looked pretty well-dressed too.

“Let’s follow her,” said Chu Xun.

They maintained a distance while tailing her from behind.

“What the…”

Yue Hongbo could not believe what he saw. The woman walked into a nightclub?! His earlier investigations about this woman had shown that the woman works as a hostess here. But considering how three of her colleagues and housemates had just died before her very eyes, it was outlandish that she could still think of dressing up and come to work.

If she was not an abnormally fearless person, then something must really be wrong here.

Chu Xun and Yue Hongbo followed her into the nightclub.

The string of murders still unsolved had caused widespread terror in the city that hardly anyone dared to come out at night. This culminated in the low number of patrons in the local nightlife scene.

This nightclub however was quite a sizable establishment with its dance hall divided into many small areas and corners.

The young female survivor stepped into the dance floor and began gyrating wildly to the raunchy beat of the blaring music.

Chu Xun found himself bewildered, not so much about the woman’s voluptuous movements than the noisy environment. Having been roaming the wildernesses since the anomalies around Earth began, he had been largely detached from the effulgent splendors of city nightlife.

The two men looked around and found a quiet corner to sit in.

It did not take long for the woman to finish her dance and she left the floor.

Yue Hongbo got up, but Chu Xun pulled him back down. With his Divine Sense fully enveloping this entire building, there was no worry at all that the woman could escape.

And so they sat there for hours.

The young woman busied herself all night, promoting liquor and wine to her patrons while accompanying them.

“Dammit, what a bloody waste of time,” seethed Yue Hongbo uneasily.

“You don’t come to places like this often?”

“I did a few times,” admitted Yue Hongbo, blushing, “But it’s only for work. Father is strict; no children of his are permitted into such places.”

“I say you should bring your father here. He might like it here,” teased Chu Xun.

Yue Hongbo stared at him blankly before answering solemnly, “Impossible. My father spends his time solely on training.”

Chu Xun’s jaw dropped. He was only joking.

“All right, let’s go,” said Chu Xun.

“She’s leaving now?” Yue Hongbo asked, puzzled.

It was already midnight and most of the patrons had all left.

“We’re waiting outside.”

They were just barely out when the female survivor came out, accompanied by a group of pretty women.

“How about supper? I know a coffee house not far ahead and they operate 24/7,” said the female survivor.

With everyone agreeing, the group of women began moving in the direction of the coffee shop the female survivor pointed out while chattering incessantly.

“I think we should take the main road. This alleyway looks so dark and scary. Look at those recent murders, this place reminds me of them.”

One of the women voiced her reluctance when the survivor insisted on taking them through a darkened back lane, calling it a shortcut.

“There’s nothing to be afraid of. It’s a shortcut. We’d be taking a big detour by taking the main road. That will cost us more than a half-hour,” coaxed the female survivor.

Ultimately, the girls caved in and listened to her.

They walked into the back lane, plunging into shadows so dark that not a ray of light from the street lamps outside reached inside.

Suddenly, the female survivor halted.

“What is it? Come on, get a move on! It’s so dark in here that it’s scary,” said one of the girls.

The female survivor displayed a wicked smile, saying, “We’ve arrived.”

Before the girls understood what she said, one of them thrust a finger forward and let loose a terrified shriek.

The rest of the girls began screaming too.

Strangely, no one outside could hear them; a huge black smog seemed to envelop them like a barrier, keeping their voices inside.

A several-meter-tall hulking monster fully purplish-green came into view, showing them its sharp fangs and its red ruby-like eyes.

“My Lord!” the female survivor bowed to the monster, her eyes flashing similarly red too.

“Well done,” croaked the monster raspily in human tongue.

“Thank you, my Lord,” said the woman reverently, stepping aside, “Do enjoy your meal.”

The monster sniggered vilely. “With today’s meal, I’ll just need another seven hearts, then I’ll regain my full power! By then, you shall have your reward of eternal life.”

The female survivor dipped her head lower, appearing ever so demure and deferential.

The monster’s incredibly long arms stretched well past its knees, with five razor blade-like bones for fingers instead of a meaty paw.

It threw itself forward suddenly, clawing at one of the girl’s chest.

But before its talons could pierce through the soft flesh of its prey, it leaped away quickly.

Boom!

A white flash of light came and blasted open a wide crater at where it was standing just a split-second before.

Chu Xun and Yue Hongbo strolled into the alleyway.

It was the latter who had fired the shot just now.

“You,” the female survivor gasped with surprise at Chu Xun.

“And here I was, thinking you’re just a poor survivor of a bloody massacre,” smirked Chu Xun, “I did not take you for such a cunning and cruel person. To think that you would lure fellow humans to feed this monster.”

“You fool, you led them here!” snarled the monster.

The female survivor shot a scathing glare at Chu Xun.

“My apologies, Lord. I…”

Bang!

The monster callously drove its claws right into her, swatting her with such force that her entire self burst into pieces like a squashed insect.