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Chapter 398 - 126: Cleaning the Institute, Launching the Salvation_4

Chapter 398: Chapter 126: Cleaning the Institute, Launching the Salvation_4

Such a terrible environment is really awful for any survivor.

It’s not easy to have held on until now.

Once they confirmed that the other party was emotionally stable,

Eagle said, "Hello, we’re from the Dragon Palace base action team, tasked with clearing out the research institute. What’s your name?"

"My name is Xiang Da, a scientific researcher at the institute. That day everything was fine, we were all having breakfast, and suddenly, everyone went crazy, pouncing on others and biting them. I was very scared and hid in the warehouse..."

Listening to what he said,

Eagle signaled to his companions to relay this person’s information to the Dragon Palace base to verify his identity. After confirming that his identity was genuine, he clapped Xiang Da on the shoulder and said, "I understand, but rest assured, we’re here now, and everything’s going to be alright. Leave the rest to us."

Xiang Da looked at Eagle and the warriors standing there with their guns, nodding heavily. His emotions were on the verge of collapse. If they hadn’t come, perhaps he would have really gone mad.

But when he heard they would continue the exploration,

Xiang Da said in terror, "Haven’t you encountered those zombies with meaty hand-like wings on their backs?"

"Meaty hand zombies?" Eagle was startled and quickly asked his teammates to watch the surroundings. Since their arrival, they hadn’t come across that type of zombie, let alone seen an Evolutionary Zombie.

Xiang Da said, "Some time ago, I felt it was quiet outside, so I thought about opening the door. I wanted to find a weapon for self-defense, and just as I found one and was ready to keep hiding, I saw that zombie with fleshly hands like wings on its back. It was so terrifying and ferocious— the scariest zombie I’ve ever seen."

Eagle frowned. The Evolutionary Zombie the other person described was starting to concern him. At least until now, he had not encountered or even heard of such a type of zombie.

"Heh heh,"

Just then,

a low voice came through, and looking towards the direction of the sound, they saw a shadow on the wall, shaking and getting closer, and it could emerge from the dark corner at any moment.

"It... it’s coming."

Xiang Da swallowed and pointed with trembling fingers to that side.

...

In Huang City, on the street, in a restaurant, on the fourth floor.

"I really know I was wrong, please don’t!"

A male survivor was pushed to the window by others, pale-faced, pleading with the two survivors in front of him, hoping they would show mercy and not treat him this way.

"You damn thief, eating our food, do you realize that food is what we control, the things you stole were enough for five people," said a burly man furiously.

Another survivor weakly said, "Stealing is wrong, but a beating would suffice, doesn’t he need to be thrown out, does he?"

"I think so too."

The burly man squinted his eyes, "What? Do you guys want to join him?"

Faced with this threat, the survivors thinking of pleading shrank back, standing there looking somewhat at a loss.

Another man opened the window, signaling the burly man with his eyes, and in an instant, the two of them pushed the male survivor out of the window.

There was a thud.

Screams followed.

The male survivor wasn’t dead; he had broken his legs and cried out in pain.

In his agony, when he thought about his situation and looked up, he was horrified to see zombies closing in on him. To the zombies, it must have seemed like delicious flesh had fallen from the sky, and the horde of senseless zombies seemed bewildered for a moment.

As the zombies lunged, the man screamed in agony; with so many zombies, it was uncertain whether he would even turn into a zombie himself.

Inside the restaurant,

the burly survivor told the group that stood there, "You see, that’s the consequence of breaking the rules; the food he stole could have been our lifesaving ration. As you can see the situation outside, we’re surrounded by zombies, leaving is impossible, not to mention scavenging for supplies to stay alive. Daily food portions are distributed according to the rules, maybe not enough to fill you, but definitely enough to keep you from starving."

"If there’s any more of this behavior, they’ll end up like him."

It was an intimidation.

An example made to deter others.

The surrounding survivors looked at each other, sighing internally.

They knew that arbitrarily deciding life and death was wrong, but this was the apocalypse; outside were only zombies, a situation with no easy solutions.

During peaceful times, who would have thought that stealing food could lead to death?

But now that it had happened right in front of them, no matter how fantastical it felt, what could they do? Everyone wanted to live, so they could only maintain their silence towards such behavior.

No one had thought of going out to search for supplies, but the sheer number of zombies around was terrifying. They didn’t even know how to escape, let alone whether anyone would risk the cars downstairs.

The team managing the supplies here had these concerns.

To say they wouldn’t give food to this group of survivors was unrealistic; they were all living here with no exit. Without deterrent weapons, should they become desperate, they might do all sorts of things.

Even rioting was possible.

Just then,

outside, the ’heh heh’ noise suddenly intensified as if all the zombies had gone completely berserk.

The survivors staying upstairs got a bit scared.

Such restlessness had last been felt during the recent thunderstorm; it had terrified them into thinking the zombies had discovered their hiding place and were about to burst in.

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