Standing in front of the warehouse, Wen Le pulled at the corner of his mouth and resignedly began to load the entire warehouse of weapons and ammunition into the space.
But after finishing with the warehouse, Wen Le couldn’t remain calm when he saw a massive object in the corner of the garage.
Trembling, he pointed at the object and said, “This…this…”
“You said you wanted an armored car, right? This one cost a lot of money to get, but we only have one,” explained Xiao Wen kindly.
Only one? How many do you want?! This is an armored car, an armored car!!
After putting away all the cars in the garage except for the one they would use, the seven of them got into the vehicle and prepared to depart.
“Get ready! We’re leaving!” said Mo Yan, who was responsible for driving.
Wen Le held Xiao Wen’s hand and watched as the garage door slowly rose.
The journey through the apocalypse had officially begun.
Wen Le’s villa was located close to the outskirts of the city, and there were still humans who had fainted and not yet turned into zombies, so their journey was relatively smooth.
What they didn’t know was that the city was basically paralyzed due to widespread fainting, making it difficult to escape the urban area when people truly faced the apocalypse in a few hours.
To get to the plateau from here, they could only take the highway. As soon as they got on the highway, they saw many vehicles crashed together. Fortunately, the traffic to and from the Tibetan area is usually not very heavy, so they were able to slowly move forward by carefully dodging the obstacles.
Wen Le sat by the window, staring closely at the vehicles on the roadside. It had been an hour since he woke up, and at any moment, zombies could appear.
Yin Chengyang sat in the passenger seat, while military strategist Han Ya and doctor Zhou Quan squeezed Uncle Mo in the middle of the second row. Wen Le and Xiao Wen sat in the back.
Wen Le was very satisfied with his arrangement, which he believed was the safest lineup for the apocalypse. Compared to the others, Han Ya and Zhou Quan’s combat power was clearly weaker, and Uncle Mo was older and deserved more protection.
As for the other people’s satisfaction, Wen Le ignored it.
For Han Ya, he also agreed with Wen Le’s strong and weak arrangement. But shouldn’t Wen Le, the weakest in combat power, be given priority protection?! With his thin and tender limbs, even Uncle Mo, who had been doing manual labor for half his life, couldn’t match him, right?!
“What’s that?” Yin Chengyang’s loud voice suddenly broke the silence in the car.
Wen Le thought: Here they come!
He opened the sunroof and stood up, and sure enough, about 200 meters ahead, he saw a stiff figure crouching by a car door, vaguely eating something.
The car door was covered in blood, and it was obvious what the food was.
As the car approached, they saw that the person in the car door had been eviscerated and only half of their body remained. Mo Yan slammed on the brakes, and Yin Chengyang opened the window and vomited.
Attracted by the scent of living humans in the car, the zombie abandoned the half-eaten corpse and stiffly approached the fresh food.
Almost wanting to curse out loud, how could these people who looked reliable normally let him down at this critical moment?!
“Get your heads back in the car! Drive!” As he spoke, Wen Le raised his pistol and shot the zombie in the head as it approached.
Mo Yan slammed down on the accelerator pedal, and the slow-reacting Yin Chengyang quickly pulled back, but hit his head on the car frame with a bang.
Rubbing the lump on his head, Yin Chengyang shrank his neck and didn’t dare to complain. He cautiously looked at Wen Le, who had just sat back, through the mirror, but met his gaze and scowling face. Now Yin Chengyang didn’t even dare to look at the mirror.
“Was everything I said before just bullsh*t?” asked Wen Le, his body filled with anger.
Not only Mo Yan and Yin Chengyang, but even others couldn’t help but shrink their shoulders, not daring to confront Wen Le.
Xiao Wen laughed and looked at everyone obediently sitting in front, holding Wen Le’s hand to comfort him.
Han Ya glanced at the brain splashing on the car window…
Young Master Wen’s shot was ruthless enough. Although they knew it was no longer human, facing the humanoid zombies, none of them could directly shoot like Young Master Wen without hesitation.
They were all from the underworld for many years! Young Master Wen was even more underworld than their group of genuine underworld! This world is really crazy.
But that shot was accurate! It was awesome!
Being comforted by Xiao Wen, Wen Le’s face, which had turned as black as the bottom of a pot, finally warmed up. He also understood that although these people were in the underworld, they were not the kind of criminals who killed indiscriminately. Even though he had already told them before, accepting reality also requires some time.
“The zombies are no longer human, now it’s either they die or we die. Moreover, the zombies have just mutated, their movements are slow, and they are easy to deal with. We should practice more while we still have the chance. It is estimated that within a month, their movements will become more flexible and close to that of humans.”
Perhaps this is nature’s revenge against humanity. Except for a few genetically similar animals, other animals will become stronger, and the range of human survival will shrink. Vegetation will also spread across the earth again. Humanity has dominated the earth for so many years, and perhaps has reached the end. But this also highlights the law of the survival of the fittest. The strong will adapt to the environment and become stronger, while the weak will be assimilated and eliminated.
At least nature is still kind. It has given humanity a chance. When the zombies first appeared, they were not difficult to deal with. As long as the surviving humans stay calm and unite, the apocalypse may not necessarily lead to the end of humanity. But…
Wen Le sarcastically curled his lips.
“How could human nature change so easily? Perhaps the collapse of society and the moral decline of humanity are the real drivers of the apocalypse.”
The zombies they encountered earlier were just the beginning. Along the road, sporadic stiff figures and patches of bloodstains could be seen.
The car weaved between the roads at a speed of thirty miles per hour. There weren’t too many zombies yet, so they didn’t have to worry about attracting more with noise.
Except for Mo Yan, who was driving, and Uncle Mo, who was sandwiched in the middle, everyone else had opened the car windows a small slit just enough for the barrel of their guns to stick out and move slightly. As long as they passed by a zombie, they would shoot it in the head.
Wen Le knew that killing one zombie meant there was one less, and there was a probability of the zombies mutating again. If the base number was reduced, there would be fewer mutated zombies. Moreover, it was estimated that the survivors in the city would soon be fleeing outside the city. At least on this road to Tibet, they could help survivors eliminate more zombies, making it safer for those behind them.
Wen Le felt that he had changed a lot and thoroughly. If it were the previous him, he would have found a way to inform everyone if he knew the end of the world was coming. But this time, except for Xiao Wen and a few others, he didn’t tell anyone. Having seen too much darkness, Wen Le would no longer naively give everything for the uncertain.
Even if he had spoken out in advance, who would have believed him? And once the end of the world erupts, how would the survivors see him?
Even if they didn’t take him away for research, they would resent him for not telling them more details in advance, for not telling them earlier, for not… Perhaps in the end, they would even blame him for the mutations of their relatives and friends.
This is human nature…
Therefore, Wen Le kept his mouth shut.
After experiencing too much, he only wants to protect this group of people on this car, and help them as much as he can when he is able to.
But to ask him to sacrifice his own family for the greater good…
Sorry, it’s just not possible!
It’s sad to imagine how much he must have lived through to be disillusioned with people except his family 😩
Thanks for the update!!