36 Zombie Queen has the Biggest Thigh of All 12 (1/2)

The next day, just before the sun rose, they arrived at a place a mile or two away from the outskirts of H City. Because H City was a zombie hotspot, they couldn't get any closer or the car's noise would attract all sorts of unwanted things.

They first rested for several hours (and Yin Mei slept a little), before moving on. In the beginning, Yin Mei didn't think there would be any more humans left in the area, but she was proven wrong, much to her surprise.

With H City being infested with zombies, any humans that hadn't died would surely have already long gone off to other cities?

But there was a small group of humans that was camping out on the outskirts of H City, as if intent on entering.

Seeing Yin Mei's group, they were wary at first, until they saw that they appeared human. At least, save for the one with the aura of a dead man. But, no one had yet to encounter such a human like zombie yet, so they simply believed that he was on the pale and sickly side, and his extreme beauty only helped them believe he wasn't a zombie.

The group's leader was actually a girl, who had a small but energetic and straight forward appearance. She directly cut to the chase, ”are you guys trying to go to H City?”

”Yeah,” Yin Mei said, also not beating around the bush.

”It's impossible. That place is infested to the brim with zombies. Recently, they've even started to organize themselves, believe it or not,” the girl said, shaking her head.

Yin Mei put on a thoughtful expression. This should probably mean that a rank 3 zombie had appeared. Considering H City's state, probably several had already ranked up to level 3. In the information, in the beginning years, H City had been split into different territories ruled by the stronger zombies. In those days, it had already been a formidable enough place, but then the zombie emperor appeared, killing or bringing under his wing all those strong zombies and uniting all of H City under one leader.

”Well, then what are you guys doing here?” Yin Mei said, raising an eyebrow. When she looked at the group, there was at least over ten of them.

And one of them was actually a family of three, one father, one mother, and one young looking girl who could be no older than three or four. A child! Yin Mei's eyes immediately glinted. She had not forgotten her idea of forming an all child special forces unit, it was just that she hadn't had the time to do so. But, sadly, this child had luckily been able to survive with the help of her parents, though she didn't know how long that would last. But a family that was able to survive together really attested to their strength - it was very rare for this to happen. After all, surviving by yourself in the apocalypse was hard enough, let alone with the burden of having to protect extra people.

Their leader seemed to laugh drily, shaking her head. ”All of us have some sort of family in H City. We all know that they have probably long been eaten by zombies, but all of us here just refuse to give up...”

Yin Mei nodded. There were people who gave up, and those who didn't. Sometimes not giving up was a good thing, but most of the time, it got people killed.

Well, that was their decision though. Yin Mei could tell that some of them had already resigned themselves to death, while others just simply didn't want to believe in the reality of things.

But, it had already been almost a year since the start of the apocalypse. At this point in time, there was no way that their family members had survived. If they had, then they would have already long left H City.

”What are you five here for?” The brown-haired girl asked, feeling like the group was a little odd. The oldest seemed to be the beautiful man with pale skin, and even he appeared to be only in his early twenties, and the rest looked like no more than children. Lu Mei's body was 17 years old, Qin Shuang was reaching eight years old, and the Ri twins were both fifteen, so the girl, who was in her late twenties, was not wrong in calling them a bunch of kids.

”Oh, us? We're here to hunt,” Yin Mei said as she flashed them a fierce and toothy grin.

”Hunt? Young ones, you shouldn't throw away your lives so easily. Anywhere else is okay, but in H City, the zombies are practically never ending. You'll end up dead before you know it.” One older man said, from where he was sitting by the campfire.

When the group heard that Yin Mei and them planned on going into the city to hunt, they all started to crowd around, saying things similar to the first man, telling them not to be rash or overconfident and etc.

”Haha, don't worry about it. You guys can wait here.” Yin Mei said, and not acknowledging their words, walking with the other four into the city.

Calling H City a zombie's nest wasn't wrong. One could find a zombie roaming around every ten feet, and rank 2 zombies were unbelievably common, even though outside of H City they still had a rarity of about one rank 2 zombie every hundred to five hundred rank 1 zombies.

”Does your confidence stem from me being here?” The zombie emperor asked as he walked behind them. He was no longer bound by Qin Shuang's threads, though the boy had been reluctant to unbind him. The Ri twins didn't know his true identity, but Qin Shuang had been listening in at the lab the entire time so he knew - this man that looked almost no different from a human was, in reality, an extremely strong and highly evolved zombie.

He didn't know why his big sister would insist on keeping him with them, but when the time came, he would definitely protect his big sis. Although his big sister seemed extremely strong and all seeing, as time had passed, Qin Shuang had realized that Yin Mei had been sacrificing advancing her own strength in favor of advancing Qin Shuang's. Because of that, Qin Shuang felt guilty and had taken it upon himself to further improve his skills in order to protect her. Though the boy was young, children could be surprisingly smart and perceptive.

”Yeah, it does,” Yin Mei said. In the previous life, the one who gave her confidence from being by her side was the demon king. Now it was switched out with a zombie emperor, but the feeling didn't seem to change. It was probably because they were so similar in appearance that caused this, but in the end, Yin Mei didn't know.

Anyways, the reason why Yin Mei was confident was because lower rank zombies felt naturally suppressed by higher rank zombies. It was the case for humans as well. Those with weaker abilities would naturally feel suppressed by those with stronger ones. The world of the apocalypse was truly one that had evolved into a dog eat dog world where the strong ruled supreme.

Because of the zombie emperor's presence, the lower rank zombies all scampered away from them like headless chickens.

The Ri twins both looked at each other, even more curious over the identity of the mysterious man. Was this his special ability or something?

The only thing that was a pity was that the suppression weakened the closer in strength people were, so the rank 3 ruling zombies of the area could still somewhat put up a fight, though it depended on the zombie. Even the stupid low ranked zombies had their personality differences, after all, it wasn't like they were completely incapable of thought. They were just more on the level of drooling mentally impaired toddlers, that was all.

At the time that the zombie emperor goes to H City, it had already been four or so years since the apocalypse started, so Yin Mei couldn't trust that all the rulers of H City at that time were the same as the current H City rulers.

Because of this, Yin Mei felt she might have to go on a bit of a wild goose chase to find those zombies, since they were fairly important to the zombie emperor's forces.