"No...no need, I think I still have hope!" Tang Cheng fearfully moved back, realizing that his current appearance indeed resembled a zombie. He worried that the airborne female special forces member might just shoot him in the head at any moment.
"Kid, good luck to you then!" The female special forces member put away her M4A1 rifle and disappeared on the helicopter.
Tang Cheng touched the rotting scar on his left cheek with a somber expression. Even the rescue team had given up on saving him, it seemed he had nothing to do with the identity of a human anymore. Even if he hadn't really become a zombie, having this zombie-like scar on his face meant he couldn't return to the human world. Because if he did, he would be killed as a zombie!
"Gurgle gurgle..." His stomach rumbled with hunger. He decided to find something to eat first.
He wondered if he could still eat normal food, or if he had become like those zombies, needing to eat humans. If he had to eat humans, being shot earlier would have been better!
Leaving the school's administrative building, Tang Cheng cautiously walked towards the outside. The campus was filled with zombies wandering back and forth. Some were even on the ground tearing at human corpses, a sight that shocked him. However, just like before, these zombies showed no interest or intent to attack him.
"Maybe they really think I'm one of them..." With his heart finally at ease, Tang Cheng boldly walked through the crowded zombie crowd and headed towards the city. The once bustling city was now dead silent, with only zombies moving around and no traces of living people.
There were many vehicles scattered on the streets, including luxury sports cars like Ferraris and Porsches. The keys were still in the cars! Since the zombies weren't attacking him, Tang Cheng enjoyed walking around the streets filled with zombies, getting excited. In this apocalyptic zombie world, he seemed to be immune to their attacks. It felt like an invincible ability!
Standing in the center of the street, he gazed around at the towering department stores, the dazzling supermarkets, fine-dining restaurants, and five-star hotels. Wasn't all of this his now?
"Right, a bakery!" In front of the department store on the first floor, there were a few famous bakeries. Tang Cheng had been there a few times with Miss Chuchu Ruoyun, so he was familiar with some of the shops.
"Uh, uh, uh, uh..." Many zombies were lying in front of the store’s sliding glass doors, sc.raping them with their fingers, making strange sounds. To enter the store, he had to push them away.
For safety, Tang Cheng picked up a riot shield that seemed to have been dropped by a police officer and used it to push the zombies in front of the door. The horde of zombies remained dull, even after being forcefully pushed aside, they didn’t attack Tang Cheng. Instead, they fell back. It seemed that even if he attacked the zombies, they wouldn't attack him back.
After clearing the zombies from the doorway, Tang Cheng opened the heavy glass door and walked into the department store. Meanwhile, the zombies behind him were trying to follow him in, so he quickly closed the glass door tightly.
There were also some zombies on the first floor of the department store, dressed as employees. It seemed that they hadn't been able to escape and were infected by the zombies. The department store was spacious and much cooler than outside, with the air conditioning still running, indicating that the electricity supply was still functional. On the first floor, there were mobile phone shops, tea shops, etc. Looking through the window, Tang Cheng saw an LED screen displaying the date: July 17, 2150!
"July 17!" "So, I've been unconscious for a week!" Tang Cheng remembered the incident happened on July 10th. By that calculation, he had been unconscious for seven days. Without food or water, how did he not starve to death?"Has my body really undergone a strange change?" Without dwelling on this thought, I quickly walked into an upscale bakery. Right now, filling my stomach was the most important thing.
There were many types of bread displayed in the cabinet: cheese bread, cream bread, Caesar bread, puffs, and so on. These were all things that I could only dream of eating before. I hastily grabbed a dozen loaves of bread and wolfed them down. Under the hunger, these delicious bread tasted even better, although I swallowed them so quickly that I hardly had the chance to savor them.
"Ah, finally I, Tang Cheng, am rich!"
"It takes a rich person to afford bread..."
With tears of happiness in my eyes, I swallowed the bread in my hands. There were drinks in the beverage cabinet next to me. I grabbed one and gulped it down.
"Ah, happiness!"
With a full stomach, I gradually regained my strength.
This was a good sign, it meant that I could still eat human food and didn't need to eat humans like those zombies. However, at this moment, a faint cry for help sounded.
"Help... Help me!"
"Hahaha, hold her down, I'll take off her skirt!"
"Please, please don't... no!"
It seemed that a girl's cry for help was coming from the second floor, which made Tang Cheng choke on the water he was drinking.
"Cough, cough, cough... Are there people upstairs?!"
"And it seems to be something bad..."
Tang Cheng rushed to the stairs on the first floor of the department store, but the door to the stairs was locked!
He tried to push it open, but it remained shut. It seemed that there was something blocking the door from the other side. There must be people on the second floor, otherwise, the door to the stairs wouldn't be locked from the inside.
"I can't get up there! What should I do?"
Tang Cheng thought anxiously.
"That's right, use the elevator!"
He hurried to the elevator on the side. The air conditioning in the building was still on, indicating that the electricity was functioning normally.
When he got to the elevators, he pressed the up button. The indicator light lit up immediately, proving that the elevator was working.
The elevator in the building was conveniently located at the basement level, so it quickly reached the first floor. Tang Cheng ran into the elevator and pressed the button for the second floor.
Although taking the elevator might not be safe, he didn't have time to worry about that right now!
With a ding, the elevator opened on the second floor.
"Holy crap, there are so many zombies!"
As soon as the elevator door opened, Tang Cheng was almost scared to death. The hallway was filled with zombies, the number of which was horrifying!
These people must have been trying to escape when the virus broke out, but they had all turned into zombies in the end!
"Ughhhhh..."
The zombies moaned and pressed against the walls of the hallway. When the elevator door opened, they aimlessly walked in. Fortunately, they showed no interest in Tang Cheng.
"Excuse me! Please excuse me..."
Because there were so many zombies, Tang Cheng could only squeeze his body and weave between them. If he were a normal person at this moment, he would have been knocked down by the zombies and eaten alive.
