Chapter 7 (1/2)

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

After the two armed themselves, Shen Chen brought Ye Xiaoyu to a small supermarket near the gas station. Currently, there was only one cashier trapped at the checkout stand inside the small supermarket, wandering back and forth.

Watching Ye Xiaoyu holding the fire axe in her hands, Shen Chen ordered in a low voice, “I’ll leave this zombie to you. You get some practice.”

Ye Xiaoyu gulped anxiously. She raised the fire axe and nodded firmly. The supermarket door slowly opened. A “welcome” greeting instantly made the zombie’s hideous head turn toward the door, emitting a terrifying growling sound from its mouth.

Ye Xiaoyu stepped back in a flurry, but she heard Shen Chen’s deep and strong voice from behind her say, “Don’t be nervous. It can’t find you.”

As Shen Chen said this, the zombie growled a few times, then turned around and no longer paid any mind to them.

“Go. Aim for the zombie’s head.”

Ye Xiaoyu slowly walked next to the zombie. Although she was prepared, her heart still tightened in that moment. She quickly raised the fire axe and swung down on the zombie’s head, but in the end she missed her target… It didn’t hit the zombie’s head. Instead, it hit its chest!

The zombie instantly let out a mad roar, then it turned around, glaring at Ye Xiaoyu with bloodthirsty eyes. She suddenly felt an absurd fear in her heart, making her hair stand on end. She didn’t have a single doubt that the zombie would shatter her in its arms the next second.

“Don’t be stupid. What you need to do now is pick up the axe and continue chopping at its head.” Shen Chen promptly appeared next to the cash register. He didn’t look like he was going to attack the zombie at all. He just brought Ye Xiaoyu out of the zombie’s range of attack.

“Listen up. The current world gives you no opportunity to be weak. Chop off its head, then become my companion. If you can’t do it, then stay behind.” Shen Chen’s voice was very stern.

Shen Chen was used to the sight of humans being torn apart by zombies from his previous life. Women, kids—as long as one was a human, he had to pick up a weapon and fight. Otherwise, death was his only end. Weakness and fear would never appear in any Doomsday person, because those who were weak had already died or become zombies!

Shen Chen’s stern words provoked Ye Xiaoyu. Ye Xiaoyu suddenly found strength. She yelled and quickly jumped forward, violently yanked the fire axe out, and chopped down on the zombie’s head with all her strength.

With a grunt, the zombie’s head left its body and fell to the floor. Ye Xiaoyu turned around, half in surprise and half in horror. She couldn’t smile, and she couldn’t cry.

Shen Chen calmly watched Ye Xiaoyu, who had quickly overcome her psychological barrier. He nodded. “Not bad. Let’s go, then!”

Not far ahead was a prosperous intersection. Shops in every tier dazzled in the streets. There were even more people today, on Valentine’s Day. But now, the shops’ roll-up doors were all rolled down, and the vast number of cars in the wide street piled together like a lot of scrapped cars, sprawled around in every direction, blocking the road to the point where not even a drop of water could trickle through.

Tens of thousands of zombies wandered in the streets, feeding. The heavy odor of blood was sickening. On the side, Ye Xiaoyu grabbed onto Shen Chen’s shirt with trembling hands. “Shen… Shen…”

It would be nearly impossible to pass through to get into a certain shop on a street like this. Ye Xiaoyu didn’t have any doubt that if she took a single step forward, the zombies would all pounce onto her just like in TV shows. They would tear her apart alive and stuff her into their decaying bodies.

Shen Chen turned around and said softly, “From now on, don’t talk. The zombies will discover our aura. Remember, our goal is to get inside a restaurant called ellu.”

Ye Xiaoyu stared at Shen Chen, asking with the lightest of whispers, “Shen Chen, can we really get through like this?”

Shen Chen watched Ye Xiaoyu, who was weak and trembling from fear but still trying to feign bravery, and smiled. “Rest assured!”

‘Rest assured…’ Perhaps it was Shen Chen’s confident smile that infected Ye Xiaoyu, but she nodded with a pale face and grabbed the fire axe tightly in her hands.