"You have ten minutes. Eat your fill and then continue searching."
If someone deliberately sabotaged the event, the first suspect should be the biggest beneficiary of the dissolution of the Eastern Conference.
With the Eastern Conference, such a lucrative prize, falling from grace, all related parties that could have potentially benefited are now under suspicion.
Right now, we need to find that half-zombie with psychic abilities first.
No one objected, and soon after Meng Baitang and the others had filled their stomachs, everyone set off again.
Deep within the Eastern Alliance, only a commercial area remained unexplored. With a clear objective, the group assigned Zhuangzhuang to use his perception abilities to scout the way and find a relatively safe path.
The scene before me was desolate and bleak, with clutter scattered everywhere and shops with their doors wide open and no one in charge. Only the various promotional posters pasted on the streets and alleys could attest to the former prosperity.
A few mid-level zombies occasionally roamed the streets, howling, but they were quickly dealt with by the well-fed crowd.
Although things appeared calm on the surface, no one dared to let their guard down.
There is also a mind-controlled zombie lurking in the shadows, waiting for its chance to strike and deliver a fatal blow.
For safety reasons, the search operation was not divided into groups. The three teams stayed together and searched the entire commercial street. In the end, only a five-story shopping mall remained.
Although supplies were scarce, commerce existed wherever there were people. The shopping mall was similar to the one before the apocalypse, except that in addition to food, clothing, shelter, and transportation, it now sold items such as power supplements and combat weapons and protective gear.
Night had fallen, the red moon hung high, and the brightly lit shopping mall seemed particularly eerie amidst the desolate atmosphere.
Lu Sheng considered for a moment, then said, "I'll go in and take a look first. You all stay where you are and signal me immediately if there's any danger."
Searching five floors would be time-consuming and laborious, and this time the target was particularly special.
Based on her experience of just exchanging blows with that mental force, the opponent was likely a mutated zombie at the seventh rank. If such a high-level mental zombie attacked at close range, Sun Tiantian and the others could very well be controlled by it.
Rather than having a large group of people go in and become targets for the mental zombies, she decided to go in first and scout ahead.
Having gained more experience fighting alongside Lu Sheng, the remaining people wouldn't blindly rush in like in TV dramas. They exchanged a word of caution and then obediently huddled together and waited.
Upon entering the mall, Lu Sheng immediately noticed the neatly arranged goods for sale in the display cases.
With the mindset that "since I'm already here, I might as well take something," Lu Sheng rushed towards the stairs while reaching out to put everything he could into his spatial storage.
She came all this way to help them clean up the battlefield, so it's reasonable for her to take a few supplies, right?
They searched every floor from the first to the fourth, and the contents of the space were piled up like a mountain, but they didn't even see a trace of a half-zombie.
With only one floor left, Lu Sheng carefully stepped onto the stairs.
As soon as I stepped into the corridor, a series of clattering and banging sounds came from a room not far ahead.
Lu Sheng slowly approached, glancing sideways through the crack in the door.
In the dim light, a slender and petite figure held a sharp boning knife, vigorously chopping at the bloody, bone-in meat on the cutting board.
Is that piece of human flesh on the cutting board? Lu Sheng frowned.
From Lu Sheng's perspective, he could only see her profile: fair and full cheeks, thin and rosy lips pouting angrily, and her chopping of bones was swift and ruthless.
"What kind of worthless bones do I have to chop them myself!"
The petite figure angrily threw down the bone-crushing knife, turned sharply to look through the crack in the door, and stared intently at Lu Sheng with a pair of bewitching blood-red eyes, her voice tinged with grievance, "What are you doing over there? Aren't you going to come and help!"
With red eyes and skin as white as paper, he was undoubtedly not human.
Now that he had been discovered, Lu Sheng didn't bother to hide anymore and simply kicked the door open.
She was prepared for a fierce battle, but unexpectedly, the figure's eyes suddenly lit up, and it rushed over like a puppy, sniffing around Lu Sheng frantically.
"You smell so good..."
Those blood-red eyes suddenly shimmered, and even her voice softened.
Even now, Lu Sheng finally deduced from the voice that the young girl in front of her, who was about 1.6 meters tall, was the mental zombie that had invaded her mind.
"It's...it's sesame paste! Right?"
The half-zombie's eyes lit up, and it asked excitedly, "Is there more?"
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