No Through Road!

These people were already too hungry to think clearly.

Lin Heng hesitated for a moment and immediately followed behind.

He had considered a lot of things.

If the upper ground was unsafe, then Xue Feng would not have appeared here either.

Besides, the Tier 3 mutant was a real existence.

Now was also his best opportunity to escape.

With so many people running out together, the zombies might not target any specific one.

Upon reaching the surface, Lin Heng was pleasantly surprised to find that the Tier 3 mutant was indeed gone.

That man had not lied; it had truly been eliminated by him.

"Are we safe?" someone wept tears of joy.

They collapsed straight to the ground and could not help sobbing bitterly.

"Brother, can we follow your lead from now on?"

"Yes! We'll do whatever you tell us to do!"

"We don't need food; we can find it ourselves."

The remaining dozen or so people all begged Xue Feng.

Right now, all they hoped for was a safe environment.

The original Blissful Garden residential complex had been safe enough.

Just gathering the food from the residents' homes could have sustained them for a while.

However, with the zombie horde and the appearance of mutants,

it had completely stripped them of their confidence.

"My base doesn't need you. Hold your ground right here; I'll send someone to contact the inside later." Leaving these words behind, Xue Feng walked away.

He left these people staring at each other, every single one of them filled with disappointment.

Who wouldn't want to join under the command of someone more powerful?

A problem that Lin Heng could not solve had been solved by this mysterious person.

Daring to roam around the city with just a dog—

he was definitely no ordinary person.

Even in the worst-case scenario, things couldn't possibly be worse than following Lin Heng.

They were practically starving to death.

"You want to defect to that guy? Too bad he doesn't think much of you," Lin Heng's cold voice came over.

Lin Heng had not expected these fellows to betray him at the very first opportunity.

"Boss, we were wrong..."

"It's not what you think, we were just acting pitiful."

"Yeah, who knows what kind of temper that guy has? Offending him won't do us any good."

The others hurriedly began making excuses,

trying to argue that they had no intention of rebelling.

"Enough! Stop the nonsense, all of you get out and find food," Lin Heng said coldly.

"Um..."

A dozen or so people all revealed troubled expressions.

They weren't unwilling to look for it, but they were simply too hungry.

They felt exhausted at the slightest movement.

Lin Heng wore a look of contempt, then rummaged through his pockets.

A large pile of food was tossed onto the ground.

"Take it and eat, you bunch of losers!"

As Lin Heng spoke, he even spat fiercely right into the middle of the food.

Doing so seemed to make him feel quite satisfied.

The others could no longer care whether it was disgusting or not.

They began scrambling for the food on the ground, frantically stuffing it into their mouths.

They had been hungry for far too long.

"Once we gather some food, we're leaving this dump!" Lin Heng held nothing but bad memories of Blissful Garden.

Besides, the food in this residential complex had already been pretty much scavenged dry by them.

It was time to change locations.

"Then where are we going?"

Someone couldn't help asking.

"We'll just have to join other factions and see if there are any other survivors willing to take us in," Lin Heng muttered to himself.

By now, Lin Heng had figured it out.

Relying solely on just this handful of people made it quite difficult to survive in the apocalypse.

They had to find powerful helpers.

Otherwise, a single mutant could block the residential complex and trap them inside.

Who knew what else might happen later?

"But remember, even if we join other factions, you are still my people. I'm the one who saved your worthless lives!" Lin Heng added.

"Boss, we will never forget you."

"You are our savior!"

"Without Boss, none of us would be here!"

The others chorused in agreement.

Yet the moment they lowered their heads, a flash of resentment crossed everyone's eyes.

That's right!

Their lives had indeed been saved by Lin Heng.

It was fair to say that without Lin Heng, they wouldn't be where they were today;

they would have been eaten by zombies long ago.

However, they were well aware that Lin Heng had saved their lives

definitely not out of kindness or anything like that.

The reason was simple and singular:

He regarded them as slaves!

They hadn't even been residents of this complex originally, but from the office building next door.

They were Lin Heng's subordinates.

Before the apocalypse broke out, they were just corporate slaves working 996 schedules every day.

They never expected things to get even worse after the apocalypse broke out, completely reducing them to Lin Heng's slaves.

The slightest disobedience would result in punishment.

A few female employees who had previously refused to submit to his unspoken rules had all been fed to the zombies by Lin Heng.

Yet given the current circumstances, they had no choice but to temporarily submit.

"Alright, stop dragging your feet! Hurry up and gather food, find a good place before dark, or don't blame me for being unmerciful. The one with the worst performance will be punished," Lin Heng said coldly.

Hearing this, everyone's expression shifted instantly.

This kind of evaluation system had already become their nightmare.

Yet they couldn't afford to care about that anymore.

One by one, they started running frantically toward the surroundings like their lives depended on it,

hoping to find some food in the nooks and crannies,

while praying silently in their hearts that they wouldn't encounter any zombies or the like.

Meanwhile, Xue Feng had already driven the Doomsday Chariot to an intersection in the south of the city.

To enter the city from the southern direction, this was the only accessible route.

There were six survivors, and all of them were ability users.

Xue Feng did not know what their strength was like, nor whether they harbored goodwill or malice.

However, Jiangcheng was his territory now.

If they wanted to enter directly, they would have to weigh their own strength first.

At this intersection, Xue Feng had erected a sign with a few large characters written on it:

No Outsiders Allowed.

Afterward, Xue Feng hid on a distant street, waiting for that group of people to arrive.

He wanted to see what their reaction would be upon seeing the sign.

Two o'clock arrived quickly.

A battered van rumbled shakily from the south.

Seeing this vehicle, Xue Feng was slightly stunned.

Talk about a piece of junk!

Not only was its speed agonizingly slow, but it emitted creaking and groaning noises.

Even the windows were broken, and from within, three men and three women could be seen sitting inside.

Could these ability users be this weak?

To have cobbled together such a crappy car.

When the van reached the intersection, it slowly came to a halt.

"There's actually a sign here! Sure enough, Jiangcheng is occupied by survivors."

"Well, duh! How could there not be survivors?"

"The problem now is what we do! We must find the antidote."

A fierce argument broke out inside the vehicle, with several people shouting until their faces were red.

Their expressions were filled with anxiety.