Zhang Yun looked in the direction of the sound and saw a girl of about thirteen or fourteen years old lying on top of a large shelf nearby, looking at him pitifully.
Seeing Zhang Yun looking over, a spark of hope ignited in the girl's eyes. "Big brother, please save me!"
Meanwhile, the zombies attracted by the music had destroyed all the speakers on the second floor.
The sound disappeared, and the zombies, having gained nothing, began to slowly return.
The girl, being high up, had clearly seen the zombies returning. Her fear intensified, but she dared not utter a sound, her pretty face filled with pleading.
Although Zhang Yun is a natural bottom, people who are attracted to good-looking people have no resistance to them, regardless of gender.
He ran quickly to the shelf, stretched out his hands to her, and mouthed the words "Jump down" silently.
The girl understood what he meant. Her eyes lit up, and she used all her strength to prop up her body, which was trembling with fear, and leaped towards Zhang Yun, only to be caught by him.
Several nearby zombies noticed the commotion and rushed over.
Zhang Yun, carrying the girl, rushed into the elevator as fast as he could and pressed the close button.
The elevator doors slammed shut the moment the zombies arrived, keeping the danger at bay.
Zhang Yun breathed a sigh of relief, took out Liang Tou's employee card from his pocket, swiped it on the sensor, and pressed the button for the basement.
The basement level is the mall's warehouse, and only employees and supervisors of the corresponding warehouse can access it by swiping their work cards; other customers and staff cannot go there.
That warehouse is probably the safest place in the entire mall now.
The elevator doors opened, but there was no one or any zombies outside.
As Zhang Yun carried the girl out of the elevator, he realized that he was drenched in cold sweat.
The girl in his arms was even more shocking; she fainted from fright.
Zhang Yun placed the girl on a pile of cardboard boxes and lay her down. Holding the Tang sword in his hand, he moved around the warehouse, storing all the inventory and shelves in his spatial storage wherever he went.
These items all belong to the shopping mall...
It's the end of the world, who cares if you've stolen from someone else's premises!
As the shelves that were obstructing his view were gradually removed, he actually saw four zombies.
Judging from their clothing, they were warehouse guards when they were alive.
Zhang Yun used his Tang sword to deliver them from suffering one by one.
Zhang Yun stored all the inventory in the basement warehouse, regardless of whether it was useful or not, into his spatial storage.
Anyway, he has unlimited space.
After collecting the supplies, Zhang Yun turned around to find the little girl.
When Zhang Yun walked to the pile of cardboard boxes, he didn't see anyone. He was startled. Could there be other people in the warehouse?
"Come out!" Zhang Yun shouted in a low voice.
A rustling sound came from inside the pile of cardboard boxes.
Zhang Yun looked over and saw that the two empty cardboard boxes on top had fallen down, and a little girl with a wronged look was revealed in the cardboard box below.
"How could you..." Zhang Yun stopped mid-sentence.
The little girl must have woken up in the middle of the night and found him gone. She thought he had abandoned her because he found her a burden, so she buryed her head in the sand and hid in the cardboard box.
Zhang Yun took out milk, bread, and a piece of chocolate and placed them on the cardboard box in front of her, softening his voice, "Eat up, you'll have the strength to escape when you're full."
When the little girl saw Zhang Yun, hope shone in her eyes again. She nodded vigorously and obediently grabbed the bread and milk in front of her.
After wolfing down her food, she put the chocolate in her pocket.
"My name is Zhang Yun. What's your name?"
Zhang Yun waited until she finished eating and calmed down before asking her a question.
It's the apocalypse now, no one will bother to find out what his original name was.
He would never use the name Liang Tou again, even if it meant his life!
"Yang Yiyi..." the girl said timidly.
“When I left, the willows were swaying gently. It’s a very nice name,” Zhang Yun said with a smile.
This body was also exactly twenty-four years old. When Zhang Yun transmigrated, the system helped correct his appearance, making his face and body exactly the same as those in his original world.
That friendly smile, like that of a neighbor's older brother, stunned Yang Yiyi, and her little face immediately turned rosy.
"Yiyi...can I call you that?" Zhang Yun showed no awareness of her need to suppress her charm.
"Mmm," Yang Yiyi replied softly.
"The mall is full of zombies. They haven't finished eating the corpses yet, so they don't have time to deal with us. Once they finish, we'll be in danger. So we have to get out of here as soon as possible."
Thinking of the scene outside, Yang Yiyi trembled and immediately curled up into a ball. "Big brother, I, I'm scared..."
"Don't be afraid, your brother will protect you." Zhang Yun couldn't help but pat her shoulder.
"The second basement level is a parking garage. It's usually deserted there, so there shouldn't be many zombies. We'll go down there, get a car, and drive out of here. Just follow me and remember not to make a sound."
Yang Yiyi hesitated for a moment, then nodded and carefully reached out to grab Zhang Yun's sleeve.
Zhang Yun was charmed by her and said with a suppressed laugh, "Rest a little longer, and then we'll leave."
Seeing Yang Yiyi nod, Zhang Yun fell silent, and the two of them quietly recovered their strength.
After more than thirty minutes, Zhang Yun stood up and stretched his muscles.
Yang Yiyi also stood up sensibly.
Zhang Yun did not continue taking the elevator.
He couldn't take the elevator before because the emergency stairwell was too far from the storage room where he was hiding, with countless zombie zones in between; there was no way he could run there alive.
However, if you have a choice, it's best not to take the elevator.
In this situation, the elevator could malfunction at any time. If you get stuck halfway through the ride, you'll be dead!
The two arrived at the stairwell, and Yang Yiyi fearfully huddled closer to him.
“If you’re scared, just hold my hand.” Zhang Yun reached out his hand to her.
Yang Yiyi quickly placed her little hand in his.
The motion-sensor lights on the stairs came on, and the two descended to the second basement level by the stark white light.
Luckily, there were no zombies at the bottom of the stairs on the second basement level.
Zhang Yun, carrying a knife in one hand and holding Yi Yi's hand with the other, walked out of the stairwell.
There were already few people in the mall's underground parking garage, and when the apocalypse came, everyone who could escaped did.
Only a dozen or so zombie customers who came to drive their cars were scattered throughout the huge garage space, and Zhang Yun killed them one by one in an instant.
Zhang Yun retrieved the car keys from a male zombie, unlocked a nearby car, opened the door for Yi Yi to sit in the back, and got into the driver's seat himself.
Zhang Yun thought to himself, "System, provide a navigation map to the protagonist's house."
The apocalypse began on a Saturday. The protagonist was on a bus home when some passengers on the bus turned into zombies.
As a military academy student, the protagonist, bursting with a sense of justice, naturally stood up to protect the passengers on the bus, but was outnumbered and almost killed.
He was seriously injured while saving the passengers in the car, but tragically, when he was on the verge of death, not a single passenger was willing to come out to help him.
He managed to kill all the zombies thanks to a sudden physical evolution, but before he could even breathe a sigh of relief, he discovered that the bus driver had also mutated.
The bus overturned, and he was the only passenger who survived thanks to his evolved and powerful physique.
Because he was already a first-tier evolved being, Yang Shize only remained unconscious for a short while before regaining his mobility.
He then immediately returned to Pearl City to save his family, but after risking his life to get home, he found the house empty. Thinking that his family was probably dead, the protagonist, who had barely managed to get home, finally collapsed...
Zhang Yun calculated the time. The bus should have already overturned by now, and there wouldn't be enough time for him to go looking for it. He might as well just go to the protagonist's house and wait for him to come to him.
"Your destination has been navigated to. The nearest routes are blocked due to a car accident. Follow the current navigation route and you will be able to travel without any obstacles."
Zhang Yun mentally gave it a thumbs up, "Tiezi, awesome!"
With a tap on the accelerator, the car sped out of the underground parking garage and drove away.
The outside world was also a post-apocalyptic scene, with zombies and human body parts everywhere, and the walls and ground were covered with glaring crimson.
As soon as he left the parking lot, the zombies outside ran towards him at the sound. Zhang Yun stepped on the gas and accelerated, knocking away two zombies that were close to the front of the car. He quickly rushed out through the gap before the zombies could surround him.
Zhang Yun activated the windshield wipers to clear away the green blood and zombie residue obstructing his view from the windshield.
Yang Yiyi in the back seat made a vomiting sound, but she remembered Zhang Yun's words that she should not make a sound, so she immediately covered her mouth with both hands.
Following the system's navigation route, Zhang Yun left the downtown area and drove around on the ring road before finally pulling into the entrance of the protagonist's residential complex.
There was a car barrier at the entrance of the residential area, but Zhang Yun drove straight through it and into the area, eventually driving to the entrance of the emergency staircase of Yang Shize's building.
Pushing open the car door, which was covered in zombie blood and limb fragments, Zhang Yun, with a knife in one hand and holding Yang Yiyi, whose eyes were already rolling back in her head, quickly ran into the nearby emergency stairwell.
Just as Zhang Yun closed the fire door in front of the stairwell, he heard the sound of zombies banging and hitting things outside.
"Ugh!" Yang Yiyi vomited uncontrollably while holding onto the stair railing.
Zhang Yun gently patted her back to comfort her, "Are you alright?"
After vomiting up everything she had eaten, along with the acid, Yang Yiyi finally felt a little better and nodded.
“I have a friend who lives here, and he hasn’t come back yet. We’ll have to wait for him here for a while,” Zhang Yun explained.
Yang Yiyi nodded. She had been dizzy from Zhang Yun's high-speed driving and the disgusting scene outside, so she finally had time to look at her surroundings.
When she saw a large trash can at the bottom of the stairs, her pale face suddenly lit up with surprise. "Big brother, I live here too. Come to my house and wait."
"Really?" Zhang Yun was also quite surprised; it seemed her luck wasn't too bad.
There are definitely zombies in this apartment building, but because they usually go up and down the stairs by elevator and there are doors blocking the stairwells, the zombies on each floor can't leave. After hearing Yiyi say that her home is in this building, Zhang Yun took out his knife and led her upstairs.
This upscale residential complex has only two households per floor, and no one usually wanders around the buildings, so there aren't many zombies in the building.
Yang Yiyi's home was on the eighth floor. As soon as the two of them stepped out of the emergency exit in the eighth-floor stairwell, a zombie pounced on them, but Zhang Yun, who was prepared, killed it instantly with a single slash.
Once inside Yiyi's house and behind closed door, the two finally breathed a sigh of relief.
"Big brother, you're amazing! Are you a martial arts master?"
Perhaps because she felt safe once she got home, Yang Yiyi was no longer as afraid to speak as before.
Zhang Yun glanced at the knife in his hand, which was covered in zombie brains, and then looked at the little girl with an adoring expression. Thinking that explaining it would be a lot of trouble, he simply nodded and said, "I used to practice kung fu, Yiyi. Can I borrow your sink to wash the knife?"
Yang Yiyi rushed to the bathroom, turned on the tap for him, and watched him wash the knife clean.
The Tang sword that the system gave him looks quite unassuming, but a closer look reveals that it is anything but simple.
The blade is engraved with extremely fine and exquisite patterns, and the hilt is inlaid with a gold-plated pattern of a mythical beast. It doesn't look like an ordinary Tang sword at all.
Yang Yiyi was mesmerized by the sight. "Big brother, can I touch your treasured sword?"
"Okay, I'll wash it first."
After saying that, Zhang Yun felt that the conversation between the two was strange. If he hadn't seen the scene and had only heard the conversation, he might have guessed that the two of them were doing something indescribable!
After washing the knife and wiping it dry with a paper towel, Zhang Yun sheathed it and handed it to Yang Yiyi.
Yiyi took it with both hands, but almost couldn't hold it. Luckily, Zhang Yun helped her hold it up in time.
"It's so heavy!" Yang Yiyi said.
The knife was indeed quite heavy, but Zhang Yun didn't feel it when he used it, probably because Yang Yiyi wasn't strong enough.
Yang Yiyi stroked the knife several times, then pulled out a small section, the gleaming silver blade flashing with a cold light.
"Don't touch the blade, it's very sharp," Zhang Yun warned.
At other times, he wouldn't be so nervous; after all, a cut won't kill him.
The problem is that this knife has just killed zombies, so who knows if the virus can be washed away with water?
If someone gets cut, and the virus spreads through the wound, that would be a classic case of "no zuo no die" (a Chinese internet slang term meaning something is inherently dangerous or reckless).
Yiyi quickly put the knife back in and returned it to Zhang Yun, saying, "Big brother's knife is really beautiful."
Zhang Yun smiled and said, "It's a pity I only have this one. I'll give you another knife when I have the chance in the future."
"Really?" Yiyi asked in surprise.
"certainly."
"Yes, I believe in my older brother."
Seeing the innocent and trusting smile on the little girl's face, Zhang Yun also smiled.
"My friend should be here soon. I'm going out to check and meet him. You wait here for me."
I had barely taken a step when my hand was grabbed.
Zhang Yun turned his head and saw the girl with a smile on her face, but it gave people the feeling that she was about to cry. "Big brother, you, will you come back?"
Zhang Yun instantly understood her worries, smiled and patted her on the shoulder, "Don't worry, no matter whether I find my friend or not, I will come back to find you."
"Yes, I believe in big brother!" Yiyi smiled again and slowly loosened her grip on his clothes.
Zhang Yun patted her head before walking towards the door.
But before he could open the door, it suddenly opened from the outside.
"Yiyi!"
When the blood-covered youth appeared before him, Zhang Yun's mind went blank for a moment.
The young man at the door paused for a moment when he saw Zhang Yun, a stranger, and then threw a punch.
Zhang Yun quickly raised his palm to catch it, but the other person was too strong. Although he caught the fist with his palm, his body was pulled down to the ground.
The young man climbed onto him, raised his other hand, and clenched his fist, ready to strike him in the face.
Zhang Yun quickly closed his eyes.
The expected fist did not fall.
Looking at the handsome face beneath him, Yang Shize knew perfectly well that this stranger had usurped his home and likely harmed his sister, yet for some reason, he couldn't bring himself to strike.
He lowered his fist and instead grabbed Zhang Yun by the collar, his face covered in blood, staring at him like a ferocious demon. "Who are you? What are you doing in my house? Where's my sister?"
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