Chapter 138: Come to the Security Room to Find Me Tomorrow Morning
Chapter 138: Come to the Security Room to Find Me Tomorrow Morning
On the side, Yun Tao, who has taken care of the zombie trapped in the door, successfully closes the electric gate. He then sits down on the roadside, covered in blood but looking at ease. He takes a pack of cigarettes from his pocket and lights one.
Yun Tao holds the cigarette between two fingers, takes a puff, and exhales a cloud of white smoke. Through the smoke, he watches Anran, who is holding a child and calmly extracting diamonds from the zombie corpses, her expression unchanged.
Among the scattered zombie bodies, he suddenly asks, "Do you know what these crystal cores are used for?"
"Crystal cores? I thought they were diamonds. What can they do?" Anran responds, clearly intrigued by the term Yun Tao uses. Holding Doll, she stands up, looks at Yun Tao earnestly, and shakes her head, indicating that she doesn’t know. Yun Tao takes another puff of his cigarette, his gaze full of experience as he looks at her.
"Keep them. One day, you'll find out their purpose."
In other words, Yun Tao himself doesn’t know what these crystal cores, or diamonds, are for.
Outside the gate, the zombies continue to howl, and the sounds seem to grow louder.
Inside, Anran listens in mild surprise. She hadn’t expected that after just a week of hiding in the community, the zombies had already evolved to this point. Their ability to call for reinforcements has grown stronger. Yun Tao has been inside for almost an hour, yet the zombies still haven’t dispersed.
Looking at Yun Tao, who has just finished smoking, she sees him stand up, stretch, and pick up his machete. He opens the electric gate once more. It seems like he has grown tired of killing outside, so he has come in to rest for a while. After he’s gotten enough rest, he lets in another wave of zombies to fight.
Several zombies pour into the community like a tidal wave. Anran, having just finished collecting the diamonds from the ground, instinctively takes a few steps back. Yun Tao doesn’t have time to pay attention to her. He quickly closes the electric gate and charges into the group of zombies to fight.
It’s clear that his training pays off—his skill is evident. Yun Tao deals with the zombies attacking him with ease. His movements are smooth, fluid, and precise. Within moments, most of the zombies released into the area have been drawn to him, and he has already taken down a considerable number.
Anran takes a deep breath, grips her knife, and moves toward the nearest zombie. At her current level, she can only handle the smaller zombies, but fortunately, she is able to manage them. Soon, the zombies that have been let in are wiped out, with both Yun Tao and Anran contributing.
Yun Tao has killed about a hundred zombies, while Anran has only managed about a dozen. The difference in their combat abilities is significant.
As the sky grows darker, Doll in Anran's arms begins to groan from hunger. Anran has no choice but to stop fighting zombies. At this point, Yun Tao seems to be done for the day. He stands among the bodies of the zombies, looks at Anran, and, in a somewhat cryptic tone, says:
"Come to the security room to find me tomorrow morning."
"Ah? What’s going on?" Anran asks, her face smeared with black blood, looking at Yun Tao in confusion. Yun Tao doesn’t respond. He simply picks up his machete and returns to the security room.
The zombies outside the gate continue to howl, showing no signs of dispersing. Anran thinks that perhaps Yun Tao has asked her to come to the security room for food the next morning. She goes back inside, feeds Doll, eats a little herself, and then goes downstairs to collect the diamonds the zombies have left behind in their heads. Afterward, she returns home and cleans herself up.