“They didn’t leave the village because of a lack of supplies.” Jing Chen stopped and turned to Mu Qingyu with a serious expression: “They were robbed.”

"Those people wore masks and were conducting a massacre-style search for supplies in the villages. They killed anyone they saw and looted any supplies they found. They lived in large villages. One village originally had about a hundred survivors, and another village originally had more than two hundred survivors."

"But after the ambush, one village was left with only thirteen people who had hidden, and another village had thirty-three people left. The reason why the second village was able to have so many left was because a few days before the ambush, they had a team of about twenty people who went out to search for supplies."

"By the time they returned to the village, it had all been burned down..."

Jing Chen's expression remained deeply sorrowful as he spoke. The apocalypse had arrived; besides the terrifying zombies, people seemed to have transformed into horrific monsters, devouring their own kind in various ways.

"The two villages are close to each other. After the remaining people escaped, they were chased by zombies all the way to the entrance of our village. That day, we happened to go out of the village to clear out the zombies at the entrance."

"You know we're short-staffed right now, so I took them in. I explained the rules to them clearly, and so far, no one has caused any trouble. However—"

Jing Chen's worry deepened: "Those robbers seem to be sweeping through the villages in this area, starting with the big villages. Once they've wiped out the big villages, they'll eventually notice small villages like ours."

In other words, those people were bound to come knocking sooner or later. Unfortunately, the survivors of those two villages only knew that the other side had explosives and people; they couldn't say anything else.

They were attacked in their sleep in the middle of the night.

Those who survived were all people who managed to hide themselves well, so they never got to see just how strong that group really was.

This is why Jingchen suddenly started urging everyone to speed up the construction!