Ding Jia nodded, and the tattooed man stepped forward to untie her bonds.
The moment the ropes came loose, Ding Jia slapped him across the face with a loud smack.
The blow made his vision blur.
The tattooed man was stunned, and everyone else in the room froze in shock.
"You bastard! I saw the alien! If it weren't for you, my mother wouldn't have died! I'll kill you!"
Ding Jia lunged forward like a madwoman, biting and clawing at the tattooed man.
"Shut her up, quick!" someone in the room hissed in panic.
"You fucking killed two people already, and after I let you go, you pull this shit?!"
Furious, the tattooed man shoved Ding Jia to the ground and raised his foot to stomp on her face.
Before his foot could come down, it froze in midair.
Everyone in the room turned together to look toward the rear of the building.
Just a moment ago, the sound of shattering glass had echoed... The glass upstairs had broken inexplicably.
The tattooed man swallowed hard, his eyes locking onto the stairs.
Before long, footsteps grew distinct, echoing clearly in the ears of everyone in the room.
At the staircase, four figures emerged, coming up from below.
Two women: one was breathtakingly gorgeous and cleanly dressed; the other was plain-looking, yet radiated an unusually seductive charm.
The man was tall and hulking, with fierce features and remarkably broad shoulders.
As for the little girl... she looked like an ordinary child of five or six, except that she was constantly fiddling with a bizarre, palm-sized insect in her hands.
Seeing that they were not zombies, everyone in the room breathed a collective sigh of relief.
Yet an eerie feeling welled up unbidden in their chests.
These four people looked as though they hadn't lived through the disaster at all—their clothes were neat and clean, and their complexions were glowing and rosy.
The skinny man crawled forward on his belly until he reached the tattooed man's feet. Gritting his teeth, he was so excited that tears pricked the corners of his eyes. "Boss... we're definitely not surviving this apocalypse anyway! These two chicks are top-tier! One for each of us! I can't take it anymore, I want to screw one so bad—I've got a reaction! Let me get my rocks off, and then I can die happy!"
The tattooed man's face twisted... To be honest, it was somewhat shameful, but he had actually gotten hard!
In an environment like this, his body had inexplicably been taken over by raw primal impulse.
And it wasn't even for the stunning beauty, but for the plain-looking woman beside her.
It was as if that woman possessed some sort of bewitching magic...
"Aliens... Where are the aliens?" The tall man turned his head toward Ding Jia and spoke first.
"Keep your voice down! What the fuck kind of question is that?! Where the hell did you people come from?" the tattooed man snapped in a hushed, angry whisper.
Seeing the man continue to walk forward, Ding Jia blurted out hurriedly, "Everything I said is true! There really are aliens! I saw him before, and there was a little girl with him! They knew about the apocalypse all along! They came to save us! They just drove past here in a car!"
The man halted his steps and glanced back at the three females.
The gorgeous woman descended the steps and asked with a beaming smile, "Oh? Then do you know where he is?"
"He... he should be living in Rencai Community, but whether he's still there or not, I don't know."
"I'm fucking talking to you! Can't you hear me—"
Before the tattooed man could finish, his head burst open, brains splattering everywhere.
The man withdrew his fist and flicked away the viscous blood clinging to his hand.
The sudden sight caused everyone's breath to catch in their throats!
The very next second, someone began to scream!
The gorgeous woman casually pointed a finger through the air, piercing right through the screamer's throat.
"Whoever screams, I'll kill first."
Silence fell over the room. Limp with terror, people collapsed to the floor, weeping in utter despair.
These newcomers were definitely not benevolent... They were far more terrifying than the zombies. What on earth was going on? Why were human beings slaughtering their own kind?
Peace returned to the room. The three females and one male gathered around Ding Jia.
"Tell us everything about that little girl and the alien you mentioned. Every single detail."
Ding Jia's eyes were wide, her entire body trembling like a sieve as she stared at the four in hopeless bewilderment.
"Wh-why?"
"If you want to live, speak quickly." The man leaned down with a faint smile and wiped away Ding Jia's tears.
"I'll talk..." Shivering, Ding Jia recounted the entire story from beginning to end.
Having heard her out, the four looked at one another.
"Hmm... sounds interesting. Those two might be very nutritious," the little girl said playfully. "The one driving the car just now—I could sense it. His aura was so strong and sweet! No amount of ordinary people could compare to him!"
"How about we head to Rencai Community right now? I know where it is, around three or four kilometers from here."
"Mmh... too far. I want to clear out this area completely before heading over," the man pondered.
"That works too, but if I want to go ahead first, I won't wait for you guys."
"I want to go too!"
Completely ignoring the other people in the room, the four carried on their discussion.
A few minutes later, the little girl pointed at Ding Jia. "Done asking. You guys don't want her, right?"
None of the three spoke. The little girl flashed a smile, reached out, and pulled Ding Jia's head into her arms.
The next instant, she took a bite!
Ding Jia's eyes bulged, her skull cracked open... and she breathed her last.
At the same moment, the plain-looking woman moved, dashing into the crowd and beginning a wholesale slaughter.
Every step she took, blood sprayed, and life was snuffed out.
The gorgeous woman bent down and scooped up the skinny man, whose body was frozen stiff on the floor. Her plump, moist red lips drew closer and closer to him.
Urine trickled down the skinny man's trousers. Before he could utter a sound, a palm punched straight through his heart, and teeth tore away his Adam's apple.
The skinny man's corpse dropped to the floor.
The woman stood with her mouth parted, dripping with fresh blood.
The man grinned with an admiring gleam in his eyes, wrapping an arm around the woman's waist.
Soon, corpses littered the restaurant lobby, and crimson blood soaked through the floor...
In the dark stairwell, Su Jin took shallow breaths as he ran upstairs.
In the end, two mutated zombies had caught up to him.
Fortunately, the stairwell was dark enough, and their speed couldn't match his own.
With an overwhelming advantage in agility, he had turned the tables and slain both mutated zombies in one go.
Downstairs, the car horn was still blaring, which was bound to attract a massive swarm of zombies; before long, the car would probably be torn apart.
He would first head to the rooftop to bask in the sun and recover, then wait until midnight, when he could quickly sprint back to Rencai Community.
A faint smile returned to Su Jin's face.
This excursion had truly been full of twists and turns... but looking at things now, the outcome wasn't too bad.
As long as nothing went wrong on Fu Hu and Cheng Du's end, all would be well!
There shouldn't be much to worry about with Fu Hu and Cheng Du; both were capable enough, and zombies were sparse along the rest of their route.
Having reached the fifth floor, Su Jin was just about to head for the sixth when an abrupt change occurred!
His hand had just brushed against a security door on one side.
With an ear-splitting boom, the entire security door was violently blasted open, as if slammed by a monstrous force!
The security door, frame and all, flew straight at Su Jin and rammed him hard against the security door across the corridor.
Wracked with searing pain all over and his vision swimming, Su Jin coughed up a mouthful of blood.
Instinctively, he shoved aside the fallen security door on top of him, drew the sidearm at his waist, and fired!
Between shots, he suddenly caught sight of his attacker:
An oversized, muscular zombie clad in an undershirt and sweatpants, building up momentum to charge at him!
Two bursts of black blood blossomed on the zombie's body, but did nothing to impede its momentum.
The zombie charged!
Su Jin ducked low, kicking off the security door behind him to dive right between the bodybuilder zombie's legs and into the apartment opposite...
Chapter 55