At this point, Huang Zhao had not yet carefully observed the rescued survivors.

Naturally, it's unknown whether any of them are awakened superhumans or what kind of superpowers they might have awakened.

Most of the trapped survivors have not yet awakened their superpowers, and are therefore powerless to fight back against the zombies.

Huang Zhao planned to take the person back to Dawn City first.

As Huang Zhao was thinking, he suddenly felt the girl rushing towards him hug him.

"Thanks...

Thanks!!"

As she spoke, tears welled up even more profusely in Alice's eyes.

Huang Zhao felt somewhat at a loss, unsure of what to do with his hands.

'I've never encountered this situation before...'

The survivors who were just rescued from the hotel and office building were all grateful to themselves.

But more likely, it's a fear of oneself, a constant distance from oneself.

This was the first time Huang Zhao had ever encountered Alice so directly hugging one of the survivors.

......

Alice hugged Huang Zhao, who was avenging her parents.

He took a deep look at Huang Zhao, who was wearing armor and whose face was obscured, as if trying to etch him into his memory.

She lost two of her closest loved ones within a week.

The long-term mental tension was released all at once, causing Alice to faint.

As Alice was about to collapse in Huang Zhao's arms, exhausted, a strong hand caught her delicate body just in time.

"Hey, wake up!"

What is this all about...?

Huang Zhao felt a headache coming on, but seeing the tear stains covering the girl's delicate face, he couldn't bear to wake her up again.

He let Alice fall asleep in his arms.

'Sigh, it's all because of this damned apocalypse!'

Huang Zhao sighed inwardly. The search and rescue operation had to continue, and he couldn't move around freely while carrying someone.

Considering that she had awakened her special abilities on her own and that her talent was not bad, Huang Zhao decided to take her to the storage room of the shopping mall first.

He spoke to Qin Yi through the mental connection:

"Brother Yi, I'll take one survivor to the shopping center to settle in first."

I'll be back soon.

"Okay, call me immediately if anything happens!"

Qin Yi replied, still clearing out the zombies.

As for the other survivors rescued from the office building, they are now waiting on the floors above where the zombies have already been cleared.

After clearing all the zombies from the building, Huang Zhao then took them to the shopping mall.

Huang Zhao lifted the girl's legs in his arms, carried her in a princess carry, and turned to walk towards the emergency staircase of the office building behind him.

Worried about waking the girl, Huang Zhao walked downstairs slowly.

At the same time, I observe Alice through my mental perception:

Wearing a dark red Lolita dress, she still looked youthful and beautiful even though she hadn't done her makeup for six days.

Exquisitely crafted, like a porcelain doll, she seems like a princess straight out of a fairy tale.

A faint fragrance wafted from her, it was hard to tell if it was perfume or the girl's natural scent.

'Before the apocalypse, they must have been a wealthy family, and they were taken very good care of.'

Otherwise, a girl with such temperament could not be cultivated...

Even through the cold alloy armor, Huang Zhao couldn't feel the girl's softness; he was only observing her with his spiritual perception.

Huang Zhao suddenly froze, his foot stopping in mid-air.

'This is...'

In his mental perception, a milky white aura surrounded the girl in his arms.

The same color as the level 3 zombie next to the Corpse King that Huang Zhao observed the previous night.

Judging from the intensity, it's roughly at the level of someone who has just awakened and hasn't absorbed any energy crystals yet.

'He actually awakened a restorative ability!'

The surprise came somewhat suddenly. Huang Zhao, who had just seen the data on the awakening of superpowers among the Dawn City personnel that morning, was still troubled.

Among the nearly one hundred awakened ability users in Dawn City, there isn't even a first newly awakened trait type.

At that moment, one of the survivors he unintentionally rescued happened to be a healer who would become indispensable in the post-apocalyptic world.

'What a stroke of luck!'

Looking at the girl's delicate face, if she weren't wearing a helmet, Huang Zhao would have wanted to cup Alice's face and give her a big kiss.

With even lighter steps, Huang Zhao carefully carried Alice downstairs.

Using a mental shock, they instantly killed the zombies that rushed towards them after discovering them, then leisurely crossed the road and entered the shopping center.

Back in the storage room, Huang Zhao placed Alice on the yoga mat he had taken from his special ability space on the way there and laid her down.

He addressed the 30 survivors already inside the storage room:

"Keep quiet and don't wake her!"

After rescuing the survivors from the three office buildings, we will leave this place.

His tone was somewhat cold, completely opposite to the gentle and considerate actions he took towards Alice.

The other survivors, who were about to question Huang Zhao, were so frightened that they choked on their words and dared not utter a sound.

After Huang Zhao finished speaking, he left the storage room and returned to the office building where he had rescued Alice, where he and Qin Yi continued to clear out the zombies inside the building.

'Rescue the survivors as soon as possible and bring them back to Dawn City.'

I still have a lot of things to take care of.

It was already close to noon, and Huang Zhao had been lingering at Wanda Plaza for quite some time.

Thinking of this, Huang Zhao quickened his pace even more.

Nothing further went wrong during the subsequent rescue operation.

All 37 survivors from the four office buildings were successfully rescued.

Including the 23 people in the hotel, there were now 60 survivors in the shopping mall's storage room.

The rescue operation took Huang Zhao nearly 3 hours, which was more than the number of survivors a hunting team could rescue in a whole day.

This is still in the vicinity of Wanda Plaza, where zombies are densely packed!

In areas with lower zombie density, rescue operations actually spend more time searching for survivors.

However, Huang Zhao, who possessed spiritual perception, went straight to the destination, calmly killed the zombies, and took the person away directly.

'If I focus all my efforts on rescuing survivors, I could probably save hundreds in a day, right?'

Unfortunately, Huang Zhao was not that noble, disregarding his own development in order to rescue the survivors.

At most, they could only rescue any survivors they found after finishing their own business.

Outside the shopping mall, on a street with few zombies, Huang Zhao took the menacing heavy truck out of his supernatural space.

In cities, advanced superhumans are far more mobile when acting alone than when driving a motor vehicle.

Since yesterday afternoon, Huang Zhao has not driven this big guy out anymore.

Back in the storage room, Huang Zhao picked up Alice, who was still unconscious, and had all the rescued survivors follow behind him.

As they walked toward the street where the heavy truck was located, all the zombies along the way had been lured away or killed by Qin Yi.

The bloodstains on the ground indicate that this is the apocalypse, not the way to the cafeteria after work.