The Absolute Favorite in the Apocalyptic Rebirth

It was close to evening, and the tunnel ahead was said to be two kilometers long. They didn't know what was inside, and they were afraid of being trapped in the dark, so they didn't go in rashly.

Yan Ge returned with the information he had gathered and told Lou Zhan and the others, "I asked Li Shang. They said it's best not to go in at night. It's very dangerous. It's best to go in at noon."

Lou Zhan pondered for a moment and said, "Let's find a place to rest tonight and set off tomorrow."

The others had no objections. Since Li Shang and the others didn't dare to go there rashly, they naturally wouldn't go there without knowing anything. That would be courting death.

After some discussion, Lou Zhan ordered them to turn back and rest for the night in a village by the road ahead. They had passed by earlier and seen a row of houses below the road, which was a village. However, because it was located in the mountains, there seemed to be no one there, so the village was not very big.

Seeing that they chose to pass by tomorrow, Li Shang discussed it with Liu Xin and followed them back. They had taken another road earlier and didn't know there was a village ahead. Now they had solved the problem of accommodation for the night.

They turned off from a narrow dirt road by the road, and in a few minutes they arrived at the village.

They parked their cars in an open space in front of the village. After getting out of the cars, they found the village incredibly quiet, as if there were no zombies. Could it be that the villagers themselves had eliminated the zombies? But upon closer inspection, they found that there were no people, let alone zombies, which was really strange.

Li Shang and the others also drove their cars over. They had more than a dozen cars and a large number of people. After they all got out of the cars, they found that in addition to the strong men, there were also a group of haggard and emaciated women. Moreover, there were many bruises on the skin of those women. The adults present knew what it meant at a glance.

Lin Baobao looked at the men in disgust, and found that many of them were looking at her. She pursed her lips and looked away, out of sight, out of mind.

Lou Ling's eyes only swept over the women, but before she could take a closer look, she was pulled back by someone. She looked at the man holding her hand tightly, and shrugged. Since he didn't want her to look, then she wouldn't.

Li Shang and his group had a total of more than fifty people, more than double their number. After everyone got out of the car, the women all shrank back in fear, while the men looked indifferent, which was really disgusting.

"Brother Liu, Brother Li, it's too quiet here, and the doors and windows are locked tightly. Could there be something in the house?" A man with a loud voice said, and then came up with a bad idea, "Brother Li, let these women go and check the situation." As he spoke, he casually pushed a thin woman in front of him.

The woman was so thin that she was all skin and bones, with a numb expression on her face. She staggered when she was pushed, but she didn't react, as if she were a walking corpse.

Li Shang looked at the other group of people, and finally understood something. He hurriedly scolded, "Don't talk nonsense, you guys go and check the situation!"

Li Shang was always good at observing people's expressions. He could naturally see that Lou Zhan and his group must be quite strong. Otherwise, everyone wouldn't look so different from before the apocalypse. Besides, the elderly, children, and women were all kept clean. He knew that they should still retain the habits of respecting women, treating the elderly and children kindly, and not treating ordinary people like nothing, unlike other ability users.

Yan Ge also sent a few ability users to open the door. Just as they entered, someone from Li Shang's side let out a miserable scream, which scared everyone into thinking something had happened. Just as they were on guard, a man crawled out and screamed, "There… there… there are corpses inside…"

Liu Xin slapped him and said angrily, "What are you afraid of corpses for? They're not zombies, are they?" Everyone knew that after the apocalypse, zombies were the most terrifying. Zombies would bite people, but corpses wouldn't jump up and bite you.

"But, these corpses…"

Without giving the man a chance to explain, Liu Xin had already taken the lead and rushed in.

On the other side, Yan Ge and the others also saw the situation in the house, and their faces couldn't help but change. They saw several white skeletons lying on the ground in the house. There was no flesh and blood except bones, and some of the bones were missing.

After they checked all the houses in the village, they found that most of the houses in the village had such white bones. There was no stench of zombies here, so there shouldn't be any zombies. So what was going on with these pale bones?

One of them, who used to be a forensic doctor, checked and said to the crowd, "Judging from the traces on these bones, it shouldn't have been more than a year."

Yan Ge stroked his chin and said, "Why does it feel like the flesh and blood were eaten alive by something?"

"Or it was done by something in the tunnel ahead." Lou Dian said.

Hearing Lou Dian's words, everyone turned to look at him. Lou Zhan asked, "Did you find anything?" It wouldn't be surprising if Lou Dian found something with his strength.

Lou Dian thought for a moment and said, "I'm not sure either, just a thought. Everyone, be on high alert tonight."

Even Lou Dian wasn't sure, and everyone's hearts sank.

After they came out of the house, everyone gathered in the center of the village. Li Shang and Liu Xin came over to ask them what they had found.

Yan Ge shook his head and sighed, "It seems that the situation is not good! Brothers, it's best to strengthen our defenses tonight. We suspect that it was done by the monsters in the tunnel."

Hearing this, Li Shang and the other two were horrified. To be able to gnaw on human bodies so cleanly, the monster's teeth were really good… No, it should be said that the monster was too terrifying. It actually ate people like zombies. Of course, zombies wouldn't eat people so cleanly. This monster ate people too cleanly, not even leaving any meat residue behind.

In any case, they still had to spend the night here. Everyone looked at each other and chose to stay in the more solid concrete houses. No one dared to stay in the earthen houses on the edge of the village, feeling that they were not strong enough.

Lou Zhan and the others also directly chose a concrete house to stay in. The house had a yard, three rooms, and a living room. The kitchen was on the other side. The situation was unclear, so they didn't choose comfort or anything. It was safer for everyone to squeeze together.

Since they didn't know what would happen tonight, after a simple dinner of dry food, everyone began to get busy. Yan Ge and the others went to find wooden boards to nail all the doors and windows shut, leaving only a few gaps for ventilation. Lou Zhan was a metal ability user, so he also reinforced the metal on the doors and windows. Lou Ling directly grew two mutated vines, an ivy and a wire vine. The ivy guarded the doors and windows, while the wire vine hid in the dark. Lou Dian took out environmentally friendly oil and other things from his space in case of emergency.

Seeing them making such preparations, Li Shang and the others naturally followed suit. Regardless of what would happen, in an unknown situation, they could only feel at ease by making more preparations.

Thus, the whole day finally turned dark, and night fell.

Yan Ge arranged for people to keep watch at night, and the others seized the time to rest. Due to the limited conditions, everyone just wiped their bodies and went to sleep without much fuss. However, there were not many vents left on the doors and windows, making the air a little stuffy. Fortunately, Chen Kaiwei condensed a few basins of ice in the house to drive away some of the heat.

It wasn't until midnight that something suddenly hit the window with a bang, waking everyone up. Then there were more and more sounds, not only hitting the doors and windows, but also gnawing on the wood. The clicking sound made people's hair stand on end.

"It's bats!" Lou Dian said.

"And they're mutated vampire bats." Yan Ge added with an ugly expression.

As they were talking, several screams had already been heard outside. It was estimated that someone had been bitten.

Lou Ling and the others looked at Tan Mo. Tan Mo stared at them, then at the outside, and said to Lin Baobao, "Sister, there are too many, I can't get rid of them." What he didn't say was that those bats relied on sound waves to differentiate, and they didn't seem to be affected by him, but this was too complicated for him to explain.

Hearing this, Lin Baobao patted his hand reassuringly, telling him not to worry.

Since Tan Mo couldn't get rid of them, they could only reinforce the house. Lou Ling hurriedly directed the mutated vines to protect the doors and windows, and at the same time, she also sent them more abilities to make them stronger and able to resist the sharp teeth of the bats. Lou Zhan also reinforced the metal and other things in the house, hoping to resist the mutated bats.

Screams were heard from time to time outside, but after they were prepared, nothing happened. On this side, in addition to Lou Ling's mutated vines, Tang Zhao also used his abilities to erect earthen walls, and even surrounded some of the more fragile places in the house with earthen walls, lest the mutated bats gnaw on the walls as well.

After such a busy night, the mutated bats finally retreated when it was almost dawn.

Lou Ling, Lou Zhan, and Tang Zhao were all exhausted. The three of them fell asleep as soon as their heads hit the pillow, seizing the time to rest. Yan Ge arranged for people to keep watch at night and hurriedly let the three of them go to rest. The others also let them rest first, lest they be exhausted after dawn.

Lou Ling and the others slept until ten o'clock in the morning.

The others had already eaten. Seeing that they were awake, they hurriedly brought them the food they had saved for them. Yan Ge also took the opportunity to report what Li Shang had said when he came over in the morning.

Six of Li Shang's people had died. It was said that one house couldn't accommodate so many people, so they let these six people live in another house. Without the ability users' abilities, ordinary windows really couldn't defend against those mutated bats, and they were eaten by the bats that broke in. When they went to see in the morning, those people were only left with bones, without any flesh and blood.

Thinking of the so many vampire bats in the tunnel, everyone felt their scalps tingle.

After they finished eating, Liu Xin brought Li Shang and the others over again. They hadn't slept for half the night either, and didn't get to rest until the mutated bats retreated. Li Shang came over in the morning to check the situation here, and found that none of them were injured, and even the doors and windows were intact. He knew that this group of people were much stronger than them, and no matter how many crooked ideas he had in his heart, he didn't dare to act rashly.

"Brother Yan, when are you setting off?" Li Shang asked with a smile, "Those vampire bats are really terrifying. Are you still planning to go through the tunnel?"

Yan Ge sighed, "If we take a detour, not to mention that we have to bypass a province, we also don't know what dangers there are in other places. We have to take a chance."

The others were busy packing their luggage, leaving Yan Ge to deal with them. Li Shang was quick-witted and obviously wanted to take advantage of them, but it depended on whether Old Fox Yan Ge would agree. Li Shang also had more than twenty ability users, so he had to contribute.

Author's Note: Today's goal:

Lou Ling's goal: Conquer the mutated bats!

Lou Dian's goal: Same as my sister's!

Everyone's goal: Conquer the mutated bats!

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