Chapter 3 (1/2)

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio  Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

Guo Yuan’s eyes widened suddenly as he watched the grim scene in front of him. All his hair stood on end, but his hands and feet didn’t react. They felt as heavy as lead.

He watched Shen Chen narrow his eyes, holding the machete in both hands. At the moment the zombie pounced on him, he dodged to the side, stabbing the zombie’s back with his hilt. Then the zombie fell onto the bed. It was just struggling to get back up when Shen Chen jumped onto the bed.

Snap—

Black Blade precisely cut the back of the attendant’s head. Its solid skull was easily split open. The attendant looked like all her energy had been sucked out of her by some sort of machine. Her body shook for a bit, then fell limp to the bed like a pile of mud.

Shen Chen lightly panted, but his eyes were tranquil. Only then did Guo Yuan feebly crawl over, an expression of horror on his face. His face was extremely pale. “Second! Second… She… Zombies… Is this the apocalypse?”

Shen Chen smiled helplessly. “It is! Congratulations! Welcome to Doomsday!” Then he stepped on the zombie’s skull with his foot and pulled Black Blade out of the zombie’s split skull.

Blood spurted onto Guo Yuan’s face. Fear made him lose his senses for a few seconds, but he quickly recovered. He called people frantically on his phone, but the automatic reply on the phone made Guo Yuanhim fall limp onto the floor.

“Grandpa… Grandma…” He wanted to cry, but he had no tears. Guo Yuan didn’t know how the world had become like this. He had lost his parents when he was young and had grown up with his grandfather and grandmother. To him, his grandparents were his only family… yet now…

Shen Chen patted his shoulder, consoling him. “Think about it this way: ninety percent of old people became zombies. Compared to those who still live… perhaps becoming zombies is actually a happy thing…”

“Right…” Guo Yuan had no choice but to nod. His gaze was dull, and he rambled incoherently.

Shen Chen didn’t pay any mind to him. There was a process of adaptation after Doomsday came. He wiped the fluid on Black Blade with the bed sheets in disgust, then he opened the window and tossed down both the zombie and the bedding.

Boom!

The loud noise of heavy objects falling to the ground attracted dozens of swaying zombies. But after they didn’t smell the scent of living humans, they quickly scattered and began wandering around.

There were more zombies this time than before! Shen Chen keenly noticed this. It looked like in the short while that had just passed, at least another dozen people had been infected and had become zombies!

Screams came one after another, lingering in the air. At the same time, the pungent scent of blood and rotting corpses came from outside the window. Soon, the screams became more and more infrequent. What replaced them were the growling of zombies and the noise of them eating. Shen Chen knew that by now the remaining people in the hotel either had become zombies or had been eaten by zombies. Less than ten percent of people survive in those kinds of public locations.

Shutting the window, Shen Chen’s heart fell. He had initially thought that the hotel was in a remote location and that there weren’t many people in it. He didn’t expect there to be more than a hundred zombies on the seventeenth floor. It made him nervous. The restaurant door was always open, which meant that the hundred zombies in the restaurant could appear anywhere in the hotel at any moment. “Second! Thank you!”

“Huh?” Shen Chen raised his head.

“Thank you for saving me!” Guo Yuan said seriously. “Perhaps you knew early on, but no matter what, thank you for calling me to the hotel…”

Guo Yuan gazed outside the window with a complicated expression. He saw another woman jumping off a building with broken legs… then he turned back around. “Otherwise, I might have ended up like the rest of them!”

Looking at Guo Yuan, who quickly calmed down, Shen Chen smiled. “Don’t mention it. We’re brothers!”

‘Yes, brothers! Even at the moment of death in my previous life, you stood in front of me without hesitating. In this life, no matter what, I will let you escape the fate of death! Because we are brothers!’

Ding!

His phone rang again. Shen Chen quickly picked it up and heard Third’s trembling voice. “Second, are… are you still alive? I’m with Boss. There are so many zombies here! So many people have been eaten… The biochemical… biochemical crisis has erupted!

“Where are you guys now?”

“We’ve fled from the street of snacks. We’re not far from the school now… There aren’t many zombies on the road… Shen Chen, you…”