"I don't know if she was powerful or not, but I didn't feel that woman breathing afterward."
Shi Yuan realized that he hadn't noticed the woman earlier, so he had taken a closer look. He couldn't sense her breathing at all. If she hadn't been right in front of them, he wouldn't have believed that someone could be without breath.
The others also realized that they hadn't sensed the person's breathing before, so they all fell silent for a moment. Fu Xiaxia had a strange thought and moved closer to Fang Qingxun. She couldn't think of any other explanation.
Fang Qingxun didn't understand Fu Xiaxia's thoughts, but seeing that Fu Xiaxia was closer to him, he put his arm around Fu Xiaxia's shoulder and patted her to comfort her.
Jiang Li already knew what a woman was, but she was still a little uncertain because the woman's behavior was somewhat different from what she had encountered in her previous life. She wondered if it was because of the initial reason.
Jiang Li didn't think too much about it. He scrolled through the tablet on his lap, which displayed route maps of various parts of the country that he had downloaded before the apocalypse. He held a paper map in his other hand and then discussed the next route and direction with a few people.
Over the past few days, the group had been traveling non-stop. On this particular day, before nightfall, they found a place to rest in, an abandoned town three days' journey from their destination.
The entire town was shrouded in deathly aura and was dilapidated, exuding an eerie atmosphere inside and out.
"Aren't you guys feeling really cold?"
Fu Xiaxia wrapped her coat tighter around herself, but she was still shivering from the cold, and her lips were even turning a little purple.
Only after Fu Xiaxia said this did the others realize what the strange feeling that had been lingering in their minds since they got off the bus was. The temperature had been very comfortable for the past few days, with the temperature dropping a bit at night, but it was still a cool temperature.
The group felt unusually cold after getting off the bus here, and even their breath produced white mist.
“We won’t go into town. We’ll just stay in this open space. Let’s start a fire now, have dinner quickly, and get some rest. We’ll leave here first thing tomorrow morning.”
After arranging what needed to be done, Gu Jin got out of the car first to start a fire. The group worked quickly and soon the campfire was lit.
Because the weather was quite cold, Jiang Li cooked a pot of seafood porridge to warm himself up, and then took out some side dishes and steamed buns.
The group chatted and ate, and the meal was especially enjoyable thanks to Fang Qingxun's lively personality. Everyone seemed to have forgotten the fatigue from the journey and the cold weather. After a pleasant dinner, they began to assign shifts for night watch.
Tonight, Gu Jin and Jiang Li will face off in the first round, Shi Lin and Shi Yuan in the second round, and Fu Xiaxia and Fang Qingxun in the third round.
After everyone had tidied up the tents, everyone except Gu Jin and Jiang Li went inside to rest. Jiang Li and Gu Jin each held a thermos and sat together drinking hot water while keeping watch.
As soon as the two people were gone, it was as if they had instantly fallen into a cold storage room, shivering from the cold. Jiang Li immediately took out two pieces of clothing from his space, handing one to Gu Jin and putting the other on himself. He then drank some hot water before feeling a little more comfortable. He didn't know why it was so cold here.
Not far away, in the shadows, danger lurked everywhere. Pairs of murky, dead eyes stared intently at the camp, where the firelight flickered, waiting for their chance to strike.
At one o'clock in the morning, suddenly the sound of footsteps could be heard all around, and it seemed to be a lot of people, accompanied by a hoarse sound.
Gu Jin and Jiang Li immediately became alert, looking around for any potential dangers, and quietly called out to everyone.
The people in the tent were suddenly awakened and hurriedly climbed out, gripping their weapons and looking around. Jiang Li took this opportunity to put everything into his spatial storage.
Suddenly, a cold wind blew out of the town, sweeping up a pile of withered leaves and rushing straight towards the group of people standing together.
Everyone nimbly dodged away, and the strange wind missed its target, quietly dissipating behind them, leaving only fallen leaves to prove that what had just happened was not their hallucination.
Gusts of wind swept out, carrying all sorts of strange things, bringing not only a pile of garbage and waste but also an increasingly strong stench, or more precisely, the smell of rotting corpses.
After four or five gusts of wind, things finally calmed down for a while, but the group remained on high alert.
Because the "hohoho" sound was getting closer and closer, suddenly blurry figures emerged from the desolate, waist-high grass all around.
More figures emerged from the town; stiff figures walked out of the detached bungalows, slowly but steadily approaching the group.
When those people got closer, the group realized that these people were actually dead. Their skin was bluish-gray, their bodies were beginning to rot, their eyes had turned completely white, and they were accompanied by a strong stench of death.
As these corpses walked, white, wriggling maggots fell from their bodies, and something kept churning beneath their bluish-gray skin, as if it were about to burst out of their skin at any moment.
The short, fat male corpse closest to Jiang Li was walking along when one of its eyeballs suddenly fell off. It was kicked by Jiang Li himself, rolled forward a short distance, and then crushed by Jiang Li's foot.
White maggots were crawling in the man's eye sockets where his eyeballs had fallen out, and there were also a few black worms of unknown species wriggling and trying to crawl out of the eye sockets.
Seeing this disgusting scene, Jiang Li was alright, after all, he had seen quite a few zombies in his previous life.
However, Fu Xiaxia immediately let out a soft cry and hid behind Fang Qingxun, covering her mouth as if she wanted to vomit.
Without saying a word, Gu Jin and Jiang Li began shooting at the approaching zombies.
While suppressing the acidic fluid that kept gushing out, Fu Xiaxia launched a frenzied attack on the corpse, and the others also began to make their move.
Black and white worms kept falling from the holes in the corpses. In other words, now these corpses are basically just shells, and the internal organs have been completely eaten away.
Among the fallen insects, the white ones were still swimming vigorously on the ground.
"Hit their heads, it won't work anywhere else, and be careful not to get scratched by them."
Jiang Li said to Gu Jin and the others, "The others have also noticed that hitting their arms, legs, or even their hearts is useless. They get up again after being knocked down, as if they don't feel any pain."
Upon hearing Jiang Li say to hit the head, they immediately struck the zombie's head without hesitation, and found that it was indeed effective.
The situation suddenly reversed, and the group quickly dealt with the zombies that pounced on them, but the commotion had already attracted even more zombies.
Seeing that there were more and more zombies around, Gu Jin quickly addressed everyone.
"Get in the car quickly and get out of here."
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