Chapter 26: Euphemism (1/2)

The clear sunny morning gave a little bit of relaxation to me and Luo Zhen as we greatly progressed in our journey. It's been two days since we got out of the city where Luo Zhen found me and now, we're taking a stroll underneath the cover of the trees.

Unlike the times when there was still a lot of hustle and bustle in the city due to its overpopulation, the forest was unusually quiet, which was occasionally interrupted by the chirping of birds and the breeze that rustled the leaves. Even in the middle of an outbreak, I still found it soothing.

”Aah,” I exhaled after breathing in a lungful of fresh air. There were hints of the disgusting smell from the rabid humans but I ignored it. Right now, it was time to relax.

It was quite surprising that the forest wasn't filled with rabid humans at all. Thinking about it, the cause of that was probably due to the limited number of humans living in the forest. If such was the case, then that would explain why a shelter has been built here. They're utilizing the forest as an invisible barricade from the rabid humans that roamed and patrolled the area.

”Is that what you're going to check out? A shelter?” Luo Zehn suddenly asked me. There was a hint of disappointment in his voice as he spoke. And I could tell that he was afraid I would join this shelter instead of theirs.

”Yes, a friend of mine told me about this shelter,” I said in response. ”Oh, we're here.”

”So... are you planning to join them?”

”Um, not really.” I shrugged in a nonchalant manner. It was amusing how Luo Zehn looked a little panicked right now. But his expression quickly shifted to that of relief upon hearing my response.

My jaws almost dropped to the floor as I saw the state of the shelter that Lin Xian told me about, assuming that this was the shelter she was referring to.

Broken fences, messy barbed wires, and thin walls that were patched together by scrap materials were everything that I've seen as I observed the shelter. There were probably a few strong rabid humans who were able to infiltrate them since there were a few gaps by the fences and barbed wires surrounding the walled shelter. It would be an overstatement to coin it as fortified since there aren't any signs of fortification at all.

To summarize, the shelter was in shambles. Even if it was big enough to fit more than a hundred people, it won't be long before it gets felled by a wave of rabid humans. Sooner or later, it would happen. t's only a matter of time before this shelter disappears.