With his hands behind his head, Zhang Mu lay comfortably on a red Simmons mattress, closing his eyes and resting.

Thinking back to what happened two hours ago, he was still frightened.

At that time, he ran directly to the ancient locust tree where he had rested. He did not dare to slow down when he picked up his backpack and fled forward desperately.

The sight of being chased by hundreds of zombies was so terrifying that it was exaggerated.

Because of exhaustion, when he was almost caught up by several fast-running zombies, Zhang Mu finally saw a narrow street and plunged into it. After turning a few more corners, he distanced himself from the zombies who were easily distracted.

Then he sneaked into an ordinary residential area, picked a second-floor house whose balcony was wide open due to the carelessness of the owner, and climbed in. After checking that there was no one in the house, he locked the balcony door and fell into a deep sleep until now.

Zhang Mu chewed a piece of compressed biscuit carefully. It was not because he was afraid of spilling biscuit crumbs and looking messy, but it was a habit developed in later generations to not waste any food.

His other hand reached into his backpack, took out a few flawless second-level crystals, and played with them with interest.

“Ding!” “Ding!”

Zhang Mu was somewhat intoxicated by the soft sound made by the collision of the Yuan Crystals.

In the future world, Yuan Jing may be a valuable cultivation resource for others, but for Zhang Mu, Yuan Jing is an old friend who has been with him for many years.

People in their line of work have no friends at all. The benefits are too great, so they will never trust their backs to others.

Whenever the feeling of loneliness after being away from the group for too long emerged from the depths of his heart, Zhang Mu would always play with a few Yuan crystals, listening to their crisp sounds, and his restless heart would always calm down.

Gradually calming down, Zhang Mu began to think about how to proceed with the next plan.

After midnight today, the City Era merchants will appear for the first time. They will stay for one hour at the People's Square where Zhang Mu visited today.

Zhang Mu was not worried at all that the first-rank merchant qualification would be taken away by someone else. Not to mention today, even in the next three days, no one should be able to survive in the dark wilderness. If nothing unexpected happens, the first trading spot should be his.

The key question is, how to rush in?

There should be hundreds of zombies roaming around in the square. Zhang Mu had stepped carefully today, but he still felt a little scared.

It is impossible to deal with those zombies head-on, so we can only use that trick that is very popular in later generations.

Although they can only deal with the low-level zombies that have no brains in the early stage, they are definitely enough now that they are the only ones that have no basic intelligence and judgment.

After sorting out the next steps and pondering them over several times, he decided that there shouldn't be any mistakes. The fatigue that Zhang Mu had just suppressed instantly resurfaced.

After adjusting the alarm clock, Zhang Mu fell into a deep sleep with his arms around the specially made Tang sword, not feeling uncomfortable at all, as if this could bring him some comforting sense of security.

“Sizzle, sizzle…”

Time passed quickly, and the quartz watch struck on time.

Sensing only the slight vibration of the alarm, Zhang Mu suddenly opened his eyes and jumped up from the bed.

"I haven't slept in a long time.

Such a peaceful sleep."

Zhang Mu stretched lazily. Although he was very alert now, he really had no chance to sleep peacefully in the future. He didn't dare to fall asleep without setting up a trap and finding a hidden place where no one knew. In the past ten years in the future, he had heard too many things about people being killed silently in their sleep.

And the more you go back in time, the more this is the case, as the potential of the evolvers is constantly being tapped. So you have to guard not only against the monsters that are constantly evolving, but also against other humans and their kind.

Although it was chilling, Zhang Mu got used to it after so many experiences. People are always selfish. As for Zhang Mu himself, he couldn't take advantage of strangers, but he didn't have the capital to help the world, so he tried his best to keep himself out of trouble.

I stopped thinking about the past and looked at my watch. It was already eleven o'clock. It was time to leave.

Zhang Mu stuffed some more biscuits he had just found in the room into his half-empty backpack, then went to the balcony with a knife in hand.

He simply inserted the Tang sword into his mountaineering bag, threw it out, leaned against the balcony fence, and jumped down.

Although the floor was not high, he still used a forward roll to relieve the force. Now he had to keep his body in the best condition, as what happened that night was too important and he could not afford to make any mistakes.

…Boom! Boom! Boom!

After connecting the two ground wires and the live wire, they were immediately separated. This process was repeated several times to create sparks, and the pickup truck he had just found was directly started. Zhang Mu curled his lips in dissatisfaction, but there was nothing to choose from. This was the only car nearby that looked sturdier, and high-end cars couldn't start with just two wires.

The roar of the cars seemed particularly harsh in the eerie silence, instantly igniting the temporary silence of the entire street. One after another, zombies were running madly towards this direction.

"Hold on tight!"

"Ha ha ha ha!"

Zhang Mu laughed loudly like a psycho, driving recklessly on the narrow streets with his high beams on, completely ignoring the zombies that were brushing past his car body.

The ferocious faces of the zombies beside the car window and the speeding car made Zhang Mu's adrenaline increase continuously, and his calm heart gradually regained the original desperate desire.

Soon, we arrived at our destination, and the bright high beams illuminated the People's Square not far away.

Although he was mentally prepared, Zhang Mu still couldn't help but secretly smacked his lips.

After a night, most of the zombies had been attracted away by the noises and smells elsewhere, but in the center of the square, there was still a dense concentration of zombies numbering at least three digits.

Fortunately, the tactic of this car was used, otherwise, with more than a hundred zombies, Zhang Mu would not be able to get through. If he was not careful, he would not even be left with a pair of pants.

The time was almost up, so Zhang Mu turned up the volume of the car stereo to the maximum, rolled down the window to the lowest, and started circling around the periphery of the square.

"The fluorescent colored lights, chandeliers, spotlights continue to shine, and the strobing lasers continue to reveal the play tonight."

Zhang Mu glanced at the speakers in surprise, and it turned out to be the song "Night Color".

He often hummed this song for a while, although he gradually forgot it later. It was a little strange, but when he got to the first part, he immediately followed the tune and sang out. The exciting sound of heavy metal instantly filled the quiet square.

The scene was very chaotic.

"Let's dance together. The joyful dance will pass by in a daze. How much happiness is here in a hazy state. In fact, you don't need to chase it anymore. Keep dancing, following the shouts of Hi! Hi! Hi!"

Then, more than a hundred zombies turned their heads at the same time. The scene was indeed horrifying, but for someone like Zhang Mu who had walked out of a sea of ​​blood and corpses, it was still child's play. He sang even more excitedly.

Coincidentally, the zombies that were led out from the street by Zhang Mu just now also came here and merged with the zombies from the People's Square. The scene was extremely spectacular.

If someone was nearby at this time, they would be stunned. A shabby pickup truck was shaking with its paint peeling off, and behind it was a huge group of zombies.

With a "sizzle", it was twelve o'clock.

A powerful silver-white beam of light was projected from the sky directly above the People's Square on time. All the zombies in the area covered by the beam of light were bounced out, and the more than ten huge pillars that were originally there were instantly flattened at that moment, as if they had never appeared.

Squinting his eyes, Zhang Mu carefully observed the arrival of the legendary merchant passage. As expected, just as those people said, the living things were removed and the dead things were annihilated.

Zhang Mu stuck his head out of the car window and took a look. The zombies behind him seemed to be unable to see the beam of light and continued to chase the back of the car.

They didn't even bother to look at the noise, and they chased my shabby car. As expected, my guess was correct. The merchants of Jiyuan and these monsters had nothing to do with each other.

It's about time.

Zhang Mu drove a big circle, turned the car around, stepped on the accelerator to accelerate, and rushed straight into the zombie horde.

Because the brakes of the car had been broken long ago, he simply opened the door and jumped out with his bag on his back. When he touched the ground, he used his hands and feet to gently push and land steadily.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

The pickup truck looked very powerful when it hit the zombies, but after knocking down more than a dozen zombies, it was no longer able to continue.

Just as Zhang Mu was standing on tiptoe in the distance to see how far the car could go, he suddenly discovered that there was only a small opening in the zombie swarm, and the two sides closed together and continued to rush towards him. He could even see the ugly faces of the fastest zombies.

If only I had the conditions to make a time bomb, these are all pure Yuan Crystals.

Zhang Mu just thought about it, with a trace of regret, but he ran towards the direction of the light column without hesitation.

It was only a few hundred meters away, but Zhang Mu felt like he was racing against death.

As the number of zombies increases, the possibility of zombies that are particularly fast appearing increases. There are several extremely fast zombies that are constantly closing the distance with him.

Zhang Mu didn't dare to look back at all, fearing that if he paused, a zombie would kiss him intimately.

Swish!

After running at full speed for dozens of seconds, Zhang Mu finally reached the edge of the light column. He kicked off with his right foot and leaped in.

Looking at several agile mega-evolved zombies behind him being bounced away by the beam of light one after another, Zhang Mu breathed a sigh of relief with lingering fear.

Just as Zhang Mu was sighing, a lazy and magnetic familiar voice appeared silently behind him.

"Hello, welcome to Shop No. 37."

(End of this chapter)