Apocalypse: Zombie Elimination Expert

After carefully observing the zombies, Chen Tuo stood up again.

Looking at the corpse on the ground, he felt no fear, only a sense of感慨 (gǎnkǎi, a feeling of mixed emotions, often including regret or sadness).

Zombies aren't that scary.

To be honest, he's weaker than I imagined.

As long as you stay calm enough, killing isn't too difficult.

But he did not look down on this creature because of it.

After all, once you are bitten or scratched, there is no hope of recovery.

Sometimes arrogance is the biggest factor that kills a person. This was the first thing Chen Tuo's coach told him when he first stepped into the field of combat at the age of seventeen.

Now, Chen Tuo is twenty-five years old, and he still remembers those words.

From the moment he first stepped into the octagon, Chen Tuo never underestimated any opponent.

Regardless of the opponent's record or reputation, he will go all out.

Arrogance on the field may only result in a loss in one match, but there is no room for error when fighting zombies.

Failure means death!

Chen Tuo would never underestimate the existence of zombies, which are a matter of life and death.

After all, he didn't want to become such a monster.

If you can handle one zombie on your own, what about two?

What about three?

Or... more?

In future battles against zombies, he will only be more cautious and careful to maximize his chances of survival.

Whether it's troublesome or tiring is completely unimportant; after all, it's your own life...

The scratching sounds behind the door continued, but Chen Tuo ignored them.

He dragged the zombie's corpse and threw it into the safety passage behind the fire door.

It's worth mentioning that this building has a two-elevator, four-unit layout.

The sturdy fire door is usually very difficult to open without force, which is why the rider zombie lingered in the corridor for so long – because it couldn't get out.

Of course, if there are zombies in the safety passage, it would be difficult to push open the heavy fire door if there aren't enough of them.

But Chen Tuo wouldn't pin his hopes on the fire door keeping the zombies out.

If there really are zombies in the emergency exit, and they happen to push the door open, and you bump into them as soon as you step out, that would be truly terrible.

After finding a broomstick at home and inserting it horizontally into the doorknob, Chen Tuo tied a slipknot with nylon rope before he was completely at ease.

As for the elevator, it did not stop running.

But it's unlikely that zombies would use it. Even if he randomly pressed the buttons and ended up on the sixteenth floor, it would be a coincidence, and then Chen Tuo would be helpless.

You can't exactly go down and turn off the elevator, can you?

After ensuring the fire door could not be opened from the outside, Chen Tuo picked up the styrofoam box and the bottled water, and closed the door again...

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slam-la-

In the bathroom, Chen Tuo closed his eyes and enjoyed the hot water.

The muscular, robust body was scrubbed clean.

Although I had just taken a shower, I still broke out in a sweat after fighting the zombies.

With the end times approaching, the disruption of water, electricity, and gas supplies is foreseeable.

Before the water and gas are cut off, Chen Tuo naturally wouldn't refuse to enjoy one more hot shower.

In addition, while taking a shower, Chen Tuo also wiped down his leather jacket, spear, baseball bat, and fingerless gauntlets, which were stained with zombie blood.

After taking a shower and returning to the living room, the air was already filled with the aroma of stewed chicken.

"It's almost ready to eat."

Chen Tuo immediately threw off the towel he had used to dry his hair and went into the kitchen.

Food has always been the greatest desire of humankind.

It is all the more precious in the apocalypse.

Even though Chen Tuo hasn't reached the point of food shortage yet, the mental exertion from dealing with the apocalypse and the physical exertion from fighting zombies still make him feel hungry.

Half an hour later, only bones remained of the half-chicken, and the rice in the half-cooker was completely eaten.

Feeling slightly dizzy, Chen Tuo lay on the sofa scrolling through short videos, keeping up with the changes in the outside world.

The more Chen Tuo scrolled through netizens' comments and the constantly updated videos, the deeper his brows furrowed.

The phone showed the time as 05:23.

From the time Chen Tuo woke up to the time he discovered the zombie crisis, fully accepted reality, killed the rider zombie, and now after washing up and eating, only about four hours had passed.

The comments, as before, were filled with cries for help driven by despair and fear.

There are far fewer videos now, and almost all of them are about zombies, taken from various angles.

Residential communities, hospitals, factories, food streets, bars, and even villages and towns...

In addition, many people are also live streaming.

Of course, the purpose of these live streams is not to gain followers or make money, but mainly to ask for help and hope that someone can come to their rescue.

They were simply hiding in corners amidst densely packed zombie-infested areas, their voices trembling with sobs, repeatedly telling each other their location, hoping someone would come to rescue them.

I'd give any amount of money as a reward as long as it saves me.

Even in a live-streaming room located in a bar, Chen Tuo saw several young girls with good figures and decent looks, their faces streaked with tears, covering their mouths and sobbing.

In order to get rescued, they were even willing to use their bodies as a condition to get others to help them escape from there.

But in the current climate where everyone is on edge, and so many people are struggling to protect themselves, how could anyone possibly risk going to an unfamiliar place to save a complete stranger?

money?

It's useless now, it's no different from waste paper.

As for things like sex trafficking, unless it's a complete idiot who takes over from the big boss, most people wouldn't even consider it.

If it were true, seeing the countless zombies flash by in the live stream would instantly sober you up.

Chen Tuo slowly shook his head, silently mourning for the girls as he scrolled through the live stream.

Survivors hiding in other places, such as food streets, hospitals, and residential areas, still have a chance of escaping even if there are many zombies and the chances of escape are slim.

But a bar...

In places where people are usually packed together and it's difficult to even pass through a passageway, it's unimaginable how densely packed the zombies would be after the outbreak.

Escaping from here is as difficult as climbing to heaven.

"Um?"

The video froze halfway through playback. Chen Tuo swiped up and down the screen to try to reload it, but the video remained unresponsive.

Switching to other platforms did not resolve the issue.

I opened my browser, typed in a few words, but there was no internet connection.

The signal in the upper left corner changed directly to "No Signal".

Chen Tuo: "..."

Okay, the internet's down, no signal.

This means we're completely cut off from the outside world.

We can no longer even keep up with changes in the external situation through the internet.

Chen Tuo felt somewhat depressed, and his sense of crisis increased dramatically.

The signal was lost on the very first day. I'm not a professional in this field, so I don't know why it was cut off so quickly.

But if things continue like this, won't the water, electricity, and gas supply be cut off at any time?

Without the internet, a mobile phone is practically just a brick with some utility function.

After staring at the empty living room for a long time, feeling depressed and bored, Chen Tuo went to the balcony and sat down, looking down through the floor-to-ceiling glass.

There are more zombies than before.

There were no fewer than fifty zombies lurking around just the three buildings that were visible in the vicinity.

When they have no goal, they all wander aimlessly, dragging their bodies and wading slowly with twisted gaits.

The quantity is greater than before.

It's unclear whether the original first batch of mutated zombies were just that many, and they wandered over from different places since childhood, or whether some survivors who hadn't mutated originally but tried to escape the community were unfortunately bitten and infected, thus increasing the number of zombies.

"Um?"

At this moment, Chen Tuo noticed a change in the movements of the zombie on the left.

Their previously unsteady steps became rapid, and they swung their hands as they converged in one place.

This situation seemed to trigger a chain reaction, with more and more wandering zombies joining in.

Some zombies that had previously been hiding in dark corners and gone unnoticed emerged.

Looking down from above, it resembles a swarm of ants that have caught the scent of food.

Their target was a group of people running out of the apartment building...

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