You say the cataclysm only comes after you've cleared the entire dungeon?

The moment the steel door closed, the sound of another door opening echoed down the corridor.

Luo Zeyan was dressed in a dark gray tactical uniform, brown ankle boots, and carrying a hiking backpack, with Li Yichen, who was also fully armed, beside him.

"Good morning." Luo Zeyan walked up to Lou Fengyue, his gaze lingered on her for a moment, then subtly shifted away.

Lou Fengyue glanced at the two of them and walked towards the stairwell first, saying, "Good morning."

His tone was neither warm nor cold, showing neither enthusiasm nor indifference.

However, compared to her attitude towards Lu An, she seemed even more estranged from Luo Zeyan at this moment.

Li Yichen's gaze swept between the two of them, then he lazily put his hands in his pockets, asked nothing, and followed at the back of the group downstairs.

At the entrance of the mall, Qin Qian had already prepared two black SUVs, their fuel tanks full, and their trunks neatly stacked with first-aid kits and several cases of bottled water.

The three special police officers he had carefully selected were also dressed in neat uniforms, each carrying a backpack, and waiting to the side.

The two men and one woman all had military experience, and their eyes shone with a firm and ardent light.

Qin Qian handed the car keys to Lou Fengyue and couldn't help but say, "The situation in Yulin is more serious than in Linjiang. The safe zone there is very small and barely holding on. You..."

"Understood." Lou Fengyue interrupted him, turning to look at the three SWAT officers. "Can you drive?"

"Yes," said one of the men, Fang Yuan. "I drove military vehicles in the army."

"You're the one." Lou Fengyue grabbed the car keys Qin Qian handed her and tossed them over. "Follow behind."

"yes!"

Two SUVs drove out of the safety zone gate and headed towards the highway entrance.

Lou Fengyue rested one hand on the steering wheel, her posture relaxed.

Luo Zeyan sat in the passenger seat, glancing at her every now and then, but never saying a word.

Li Yichen, on the other hand, was quite carefree. He simply lay down in the back seat to catch up on sleep, as if he were just taking a ride home during a holiday.

The morning mist had not yet dissipated, and the buildings on both sides of the road looked like rows of silent tombstones in the gray-white morning light.

Occasionally, zombies would dart out from the roadside, but Lou Fengyue wouldn't even brake, acting as if she didn't see them, and would simply run them over.

Luo Zeyan, jolted by the jolts, gripped his seatbelt tighter and finally couldn't help but ask, "Do you always drive this fast?"

"Am I supposed to stop and say hello to them?" Lou Fengyue glanced at him.

Luo Zeyan said, "...You should just focus on driving."

The SUV following behind lived up to expectations; it was clear that Fang Yuan's driving skills had indeed been honed to perfection, and he had learned the essence of Lou Fengyue's driving techniques.

It drove recklessly all the way, and when it encountered some clueless fools, it even stepped on the gas pedal a little harder, directly taking off.

This driving method saves a lot of effort, the only drawback is... it's quite bumpy.

Li Yichen was so jolted in the back seat that he almost rolled off. He didn't dare to sleep anymore, so he simply sat up and looked at the scenery outside.

If you ignore the zombies roaming the streets, the city is actually quite beautiful.

After about an hour's drive, the two SUVs finally got onto the highway.

The highway is much cleaner than the city. During heavy rain, the water is not deep and there are few zombies. You can only occasionally see a few cars stranded alone on the side of the road.

There are no living people left.

Lou Fengyue stepped on the gas, and the car's speed soared to 120.

Fang Yuan also accelerated, closely following the tail of the car.

Two hours later, the car exited the highway and entered the suburbs of Yulin City.

The scene here is even more dilapidated than in Linjiang City.

The streets were piled with silt and garbage left by the rainstorm, which had dried in the sun and formed cracked crusts.

There were more zombies than expected, wandering around the streets in twos and threes, and rushing towards them frantically at the sound of an engine.

Lou Fengyue didn't stop the car, and the car bounced violently, almost making Li Yichen in the back seat throw up.

"What time is it?" she asked.

Luo Zeyan glanced down at his phone. "11:30."

"Where do your parents live?" she asked.

"East of the city, Guihua Road." Luo Zeyan pointed in a direction. "Li Yichen lives in the same neighborhood as me. That area is full of old neighborhoods, so there are probably more zombies there."

"Since it's on my way, let's go take a look first."

Lou Fengyue has lived in Yulin City for more than ten years and knows the roads here very well.

You'll pass through that area on your way to the Yulin safety zone, but it only takes about five minutes to get around.

A short while later, the car turned into a narrow alley.

The alley is lined with residential buildings built in the 1970s and 80s, with mottled exterior walls and most of the window glass broken.

A zombie rushed out of the stairwell. Lou Fengyue raised her hand, and a silver-white electric current struck it precisely on the forehead.

The zombie fell straight down, twitched twice, and then remained still.

Further in, there are several residential buildings with a uniform exterior style, and the floors are cramped together, all belonging to the same community.

Strangely, the number of zombies decreased significantly after entering this area.

Lou Fengyue parked the car in front of the locked iron gate of the residential area and turned off the engine.

"arrive."

Luo Zeyan looked up at the familiar old houses, his feelings a little complicated.

His Adam's apple bobbed, and he pushed open the door and got out of the car.

Li Yichen, sitting in the back row, also woke up. When he opened his eyes and saw that the warm place in his memory had become this dilapidated state, his eyes suddenly reddened.

"Which building do your parents live in?" Lou Fengyue asked him, glancing at him sideways.

Li Yichen sniffed, forcing himself to remain calm, and pointed in a direction.

Lou Fengyue nodded and activated her sensory ability.

Within the neighborhood, there are quite a few survivors, at least forty or fifty.

Lou Fengyue quickly noticed the anomaly.

Normally, the security measures in this old residential area are very basic, and the iron gate at the entrance is practically useless.

Once the scent of humans is detected, the inside will quickly fall, and the zombies outside will break through the iron gate and rush in.

But the place is eerily quiet, and despite the severe flooding caused by the recent torrential rains, there are still living people on the second and third floors.

There weren't many zombies nearby; you could only see four or five wandering by every now and then.

There were black bloodstains on the street, which must have been cleaned up by someone, but if it was the government, they shouldn't have left the survivors here.

Lou Fengyue stopped observing and turned to Fang Yuan and the other two behind her, saying, "Something's not right here. You guys go to the Yulin safe zone and find Du Gui. I'll call you if anything happens."

"Yes!" Fang Yuan answered crisply and loudly.

"Do you know the way?" Lou Fengyue asked again.

"Yes, I know him." The female SWAT officer pulled a map of Yulin City from her pocket. "Team Leader Qin marked the locations for us."

"Okay." Lou Fengyue walked over, pointed to their current location on the map, and briefly explained which route would be more convenient.

After giving them a few words of advice to be careful, I let them go ahead.

After watching Fang Yuan and the other two leave in their SUV, Lou Fengyue, Luo Zeyan, and Li Yichen climbed over the gate and entered the residential area.

The three ran towards Building No. 2, where two or three zombies were wandering around, but Luo Zeyan took them out with a single punch.

"Which floor?" Lou Fengyue asked.

Li Yichen: "Fourth floor."

Lou Fengyue suddenly stopped in her tracks, and Luo Zeyan behind her almost bumped into her.

"What's wrong?" Luo Zeyan had a vague sense of unease.

Lou Fengyue pursed her lips and looked directly into Li Yichen's eyes. "There are no survivors on the fourth floor. There are a total of eighteen survivors in this building, all of whom are concentrated on the first to third floors."

Upon hearing this, Li Yichen's legs went weak, and he almost tumbled backward down the stairs.

Luo Zeyan quickly grabbed him and turned to Lou Fengyue, saying, "Let's go upstairs and take a look. If the house isn't in a mess, it means the person has probably been taken away."

The three continued walking uphill.

Upon reaching the fourth floor, Lou Fengyue sensed something unusual.

"Wait a minute." She stopped the two tall boys behind her, her brow furrowing slightly. "You two stay here and keep watch, I'll go check it out."

Seeing her serious expression, Luo Zeyan and Li Yichen exchanged a glance, and despite their doubts, they guessed that something was wrong.

They didn't ask any further questions and kept quiet to avoid causing any disturbance.

Lou Fengyue pulled out the rotten wooden stick, tiptoed, and walked towards the room at the end of the corridor.

The stainless steel door to the entrance was sealed off, not with anything else, but by using metal-based supernatural abilities to fuse the door and the frame together, turning it into a steel plate embedded in the wall.

Only a D-level metal-type ability user can change the form of metal.

She raised her hand and touched the steel plate. In addition to the metal-based superpower, there was also the aura of another superpower—sensory superpower.

If one's sensory abilities reach level C, they can achieve reverse perception.

It's similar to a formation, preventing other sensory ability users from touching any energy fluctuations within the formation.

Behind the steel plate, there was an even stronger energy fluctuation.

It's not superpowers, it's zombies.

It looks like a B-grade zombie.

A faint smell of blood wafted from inside.

It wasn't the stench of zombie black blood, but rather the sweet, pungent smell of human blood!