Chapter 4: Taking Charge

She then quickly locked the door of room 602 and hid in room 601. She closed the security door and moved a cabinet over to completely seal the door.

Wu Lianyi sat on the sofa in the small living room feeling somewhat exhausted. She touched her forehead and was sure that she had a fever.

This is a precursor to the second evolution of mankind. On the day of the end of the world, among the people who woke up from their coma, some turned into zombies that ate human flesh, some failed to evolve and remained ordinary people, and some, like Lian Yi, started having a high fever within two hours of waking up, fell into a coma one after another, and underwent a second round of evolution.

The original body had good physical fitness because she had been traveling for business all year round. Although she was thin, she was stronger than the average girl. In addition, with the integration of Wu Lianyi, the tasker, she entered the second round of evolution in the shortest time.

Wu Lianyi knew that this was a critical moment, and this sleep would require twenty-four hours. As long as her physical fitness was up to par and she was not interrupted, she could more or less stimulate her supernatural powers. This was the basic condition for survival in the doomsday, and she must not miss it.

So when Wang Qiang, who had bad intentions next door, asked her for help, she had a plan in mind. Although she took a shortcut and returned to the rental house before Ma Tao and Yun Rou, who knew if the two would come to hide in her rental house? After finding the house empty, would they come to Room 601? If her evolution was interrupted by the two, she would suffer.

After Wu Lianyi made up her mind, she threw the couple next door out. It wouldn't be long before Wang Qiang would turn into a zombie. With the two of them blocking the stairwell, it would be a miracle for Ma Tao and Yun Rou to come up. Even if they did, how long could they last in an empty house?

In order to prevent the two of them from setting their sights on this room, Wu Lianyi gritted her teeth and prevented herself from falling asleep for the time being. She skillfully blocked the door with the sofa, coffee table, dining table and other furniture in the living room. Unless someone was stronger than her and broke the door open violently, she would be safe at least until she woke up.

Although Wu Lianyi had her own divine power, she was not careless. She went to the small study room with an intact door and blocked the door as usual, as a double insurance for herself.

Then he spread a quilt on the ground, lay down on it, closed his eyes and fell into a deep sleep.

Just as Wu Lianyi fell into a deep sleep, Ma Tao and Yun Rou had already broken out of the sex toy store, shook off the stiff-footed zombies, and headed towards Lianyi's rental house.

Ma Tao and Yun Rou were able to escape from the predicament so quickly because Ma Tao pulled the door handle hard in a hurry. His original intention was to prevent the surrounding zombies from crushing the glass door, but he ended up pulling the door handle directly down.

Yun Rou's eyes flashed after seeing it, and she immediately whispered in surprise:

"Brother Tao, when did you become so strong?"

Ma Tao, who looked simple and honest, held the black stainless steel door handle in his hand, still a little confused. After hearing Yun Rou's words, he immediately laughed foolishly and said:

"I don't know how I suddenly became so strong! This is a good thing. Only with strength can I protect you."

"Brother Tao, what should we do now? We don't know what's going on outside, whether it's all chaos, and it's not good for the two of us to hide here. Without food and water, it's easy to attract zombies."

Yun Rou immediately spoke in a soft voice, obviously having regarded Ma Tao as her backbone.

Under Yun Rou's admiring gaze, Ma Tao's confidence immediately exploded. He no longer concealed his previously obscure thoughts and immediately whispered:

"Don't worry, Yunrou, Brother Tao will definitely protect you!

The situation is unclear now, so we'd better find a place to hide, collect some food, clothing and daily necessities, and then wait for news. This place is very close to where Wu Lianyi rents, so let's go there."

After hearing this, Yun Rou lowered her eyes and nodded, saying with a slightly sad tone:

"Brother Tao comes here often, so he must be very familiar with this place. I'll listen to you."

Ma Tao seemed to realize that he had said something wrong, and immediately explained in a low voice:

"It was Wu Lianyi who insisted that I go over to identify the door. I didn't go there twice in total, but I know where she put the spare door key. Now we go to knock on the door to ask for shelter, but those people will probably not open the door for us."

After hearing what Ma Tao said, Yun Rou smiled slightly, and then whispered:

"Brother Tao, don't worry, I will follow you closely."

Ma Tao nodded. When the time came for him to take action, he was still a little scared. After all, saying it is one thing and doing it is another.

But he didn't want to embarrass himself in front of the beautiful Yun Rou, so he gritted his teeth and said:

"I will push open these double doors and the zombies that are surrounding us. There will be a gap. Follow me and we will rush out first."

"good!"

Yun Rou actually didn’t want to leave here for the time being, but because of that phone call, the number of zombies gathered here was increasing, and she was afraid that the glass door would eventually be squeezed and broken, so she decided to leave here first.

In the previous life, there was no phone call, and the two of them stayed in that sex toy store until the sun rose the next day. The newly transformed zombies were afraid of the sunlight and automatically dispersed and hid in the shadows. The two of them then ran all the way to their original residence, and because they had the key, they had a place to stay.

In this life, due to the appearance of the tasker, Ancestor Lianyi, they lost the initiative and now have to find a way to break through.

Ma Tao took a deep breath, nodded to Yun Rou, and used all his strength to push the door. As a result, the two doors seemed unable to withstand his strength and fell directly outwards, crushing three or four zombies underneath and giving the two men space to escape.

When Ma Tao saw that he had succeeded, he immediately turned around, pulled Yun Rou up, stepped on the glass door, quickly left the small shop, and started running.

It took the two of them twenty minutes to reach a distance of one thousand meters, and that was because they had to avoid the zombies that pounced on them along the way.

Ma Tao held the door handle that he had removed and swung it left and right, knocking away the zombies who wanted to attack them. Yun Rou hid behind the tall Ma Tao, and the two of them quickly came to the electric door of the family compound.

The zombies in the yard walked around aimlessly, then their nostrils moved slightly, as if they smelled a good smell. A "huffing" sound was heard, and then they turned their heads stiffly, looking in the direction of Ma Tao and Yun Rou with their white eyes without eyeballs, making the two of them feel a little numb on their scalps.

"Brother Tao, what should I do? I'm scared!"

Yun Rou said with a trembling voice.

Because at this time, it was not just the zombies in the yard who were "watching" them. The zombies that the two had shaken off along the way were chasing after them, slowly approaching them, "puffing" at them non-stop, treating them as food.

(End of this chapter)