King Kong's enormous head seemed to float beside the building.

The height of his head alone was much greater than that of Huang Zhao and the others, which terrified Li Jiuxu.

"Xiao Jiu, what did you see?"

A middle-aged man's voice rang out from the stairwell.

Before long, more than ten men, who had been awakened, rushed to the top floor of the building.

The middle-aged man leading the group was carrying a kerosene lamp; it was unclear how many houses he had searched to find such an antique.

Even in the dim light of the kerosene lamp, the men of the village could see the golden head standing outside the small building.

The flickering firelight made King Kong's head appear exceptionally ferocious.

"Holy crap! What the hell is that?!"

"monster!!"

"Chief, get everyone and escape!"

Some were even worse off than Li Jiuxu; upon seeing Jin Gang, they turned and fled downstairs.

"Hehehe, Brother Huang Zhao, you're so naughty!"

"Don't scare them. Weren't we planning to rest here for the night?"

Ning Chuxia looked at Huang Zhao's wicked sense of humor with some helplessness and spoke up to advise him.

Huang Zhao only wanted to give the night watchman a minor punishment as a warning; he didn't really want to scare the villagers into making them sick.

At this moment, he also spoke to the panicked survivors on the rooftop:

"Don't worry, we are all human beings."

I just happened to be passing through and would like to stay overnight in your village.

Huang Zhaoming's clear voice reached everyone's ears, calming their panicked emotions.

"By the way, the person you assigned for night watch isn't very competent; he was just dozing off."

Huang Zhao had an extreme aversion to those who held positions but failed to perform their duties.

Not to mention that they are responsible for guarding and protecting everyone's safety in the apocalypse.

At this moment, everyone looked at the young man who was still in shock and had not yet stood up.

"Nonsense! I...I saw you and alerted the others in time."

The problem lies with you, who entered our village with ill intentions!

Under the watchful eyes of everyone, Li Jiuxu mustered his courage and retorted to Huang Zhao.

Awooo!

Jin Gang yawned at the opportune moment, blowing out a gust of wind that rushed towards Li Jiuxu on the ground.

His body, which was trying to get up, fell to the ground again, and he rolled several times.

Well done!

Huang Zhao mentally gave Jin Gang a thumbs up, not even bothering to refute him.

Looking at the middle-aged man carrying the extinguished kerosene lamp, who seemed somewhat nervous, he said:

"Are you the person in charge of this gathering place?"

"Don't worry, we're just resting here for the night and will leave at dawn tomorrow."

The middle-aged man snapped out of his daze and hurriedly replied:

"My name is Li Zongyao, and I am the village chief of Li Family Village outside."

This is our ancestral land; these are the relatives who fled the town to seek refuge here.

As he spoke, he turned to Li Jiuxu, who was standing on the ground looking at Jin Gang with some annoyance, and shouted:

"Xiao Jiu, come and apologize to this gentleman!"

I entrusted you with such an important task, and you've neglected your duties. Your food rations will be halved for the next three days!

After a short while, Li Zongyao had figured out what had happened.

Huang Zhao, who was talking to him, was definitely not an ordinary person, and the gorilla that was as tall as a building was not something their village could handle.

He didn't believe that someone like that would say something like that out of boredom; Li Jiuxu must have been really sleepy and hadn't noticed Huang Zhao coming.

"this..."

Li Jiuxu was dumbfounded; the clan leader, who always protected his people, had actually punished him.

However, Li Zongyao's authority did not allow him to refuse, and he reluctantly got up to apologize to Huang Zhao.

"I...I'm sorry!"

After saying that, he turned around and left downstairs, somewhat resentful.

"I'm sorry, you must have found this amusing..."

One shouldn't hit a smiling face, and since Li Zongyao was respectful, Huang Zhao genuinely had no intention of making things difficult for them.

"It's alright, you guys go about your business, we'll just find somewhere to rest for the night and leave tomorrow."

"Shall I arrange for you to clean a building, sir?"

"No need, we have a suitable place to rest."

Huang Zhao declined Li Zongyao's invitation and directed Jin Gang to an open space outside their small building.

He leaped off the Golden Man's shoulder and manipulated Chen Run to take out two tents, each about 20 square meters in size.

This was prepared by Huang Zhao when he was in Dawn City; he could move in immediately after taking it out.

His initial plan was only to prepare one for himself, and he kept an extra one in case of unforeseen circumstances.

Now that there are five of them—three men and two women—it's a bit difficult to arrange things for them.

On the other side, after Jin Gang left, Li Zongyao and his clansmen walked to the edge of the rooftop.

Looking at the 15-meter-tall King Kong, who can take a single step and travel several meters, one can't help but feel awe.

"Is the outside world now filled with monsters like this?"

After the apocalypse broke out, they had barely managed to escape from the zombies in the village to this ancestral land.

I've been here ever since, and I have no idea how things are going in the outside world.

"Don't mess with them, we're not even worth a finger of theirs."

"Chieftain, our food is running low, but no one wants to leave to fight the monsters outside..."

"Since there's been no official news for so long, we can try to get some information about the situation outside from them..."

The group discussed amongst themselves, but none of them wanted to make contact with Huang Zhao and his group.

Seeing this, Li Zongyao sighed. If they weren't his relatives, he would have abandoned them long ago.

"Quiet down, everyone. I'll go look for them again later. You all go back and rest first."

After sending the rest of the group to rest, Li Zongyao went downstairs and headed towards the campsite that Huang Zhao had chosen.

......

After taking out the tents, Huang Zhao guided Chen Run and Qin Yi into one of them.

"Why are there only two tents?"

Seeing Huang Zhao stop after taking out two tents, Ning Chuxia asked with some confusion.

There were only two tents; the original plan was for me to travel alone.

Preparing two is already overly cautious.

Huang Zhao made a helpless gesture and pulled Alice into another tent.

Ning Chuxia was left alone outside the tent, somewhat at a loss.

"You did this on purpose, didn't you?"

After Huang Zhao left, a light rain began to fall, prompting Ning Chuxia to quickly follow Alice inside.

Suppressing a laugh, Huang Zhao said in a serious tone:

"No, there aren't any tents like that readily available."

Only Huang Zhao himself knew what supplies were in the supernatural space; there were so many tents that they were countless.

However, there were only two that were prepared in advance and ready to be used, so it wasn't exactly lying to her.

Ning Chuxia felt a little frustrated, unsure whether Huang Zhao was pretending to be stupid or genuinely didn't understand her meaning.

"Then go over there and join Brother Qin Yi!"

"No way! I didn't even cuddle with Alice last night. I want to sleep with her tonight!"

As he spoke, Huang Zhao began to remove his armor.