Chapter 300

“Yeah, kid, even if you’re really strong, you can’t just sneak off like that. We’d be worried, you know.”

Nie Yizhou crossed his arms and laughed carelessly.

“Don’t run off alone and make people panic.”

Xiao Feng pouted, his tone harsh and impatient, but his words were full of concern.

Lu Chen stood alone to the side, arms crossed.

Though he didn’t say a word, his icy aura was impossible to ignore.

“Oh, by the way, Brother Yang and Yun’er wanted to come too, but since someone had to stay back and hold down the fort, only a few of us came.”

Nie Yizhou added.

These few, of course, included Ling Jing’s sidekick, Ah Hao.

Not long ago, they had noticed that Yun Xiaoxiao had gone missing.

When they asked around, no one had seen her.

It was Mu Yang who remembered that when they had rushed from the Tang brothers’ place to Jianghuai’s side earlier, Yun Xiaoxiao’s emotions had been off, and her location had been strange.

At the time, the situation was urgent, so he hadn’t thought much of it.

But after Yun Xiaoxiao disappeared, he began to wonder if there was a connection between the two.

That’s why Lu Chen and the others had come here to try their luck.

Unexpectedly, Yun Xiaoxiao had indeed come this way.

Xiao Feng had been using his ability to light the way the entire time, and they had followed Yun Xiaoxiao’s footprints.

But the footprints disappeared at the entrance to the subway station.

There were also some bits of dirt and metal shavings nearby, and the barrier was made of ice. The group immediately knew it was Yun Xiaoxiao’s doing.

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“By the way, kid, why did you come here alone?”

Nie Yizhou looked around, completely baffled as to why Yun Xiaoxiao had run into the subway station.

Yun Xiaoxiao was surprised by their sudden appearance.

Although she had gotten to know them after the apocalypse,

and they got along quite well,

she was still used to acting alone.

Even with her big brother, she wasn’t as clingy as she had been at the beginning of her past life.

In her past life, after he passed away, she had developed the habit of going solo.

Seeing them appear here so suddenly, aside from being shocked, she also felt a twinge of emotion.

Actually, this wasn’t so bad.

She had family now.

She unconsciously curled the corners of her lips.

Remembering the matter at hand, she quickly said, “Big Beauty is missing. I came to look for it.”

“Uh, Big Beauty is... your big tiger?” Nie Yizhou twitched the corner of his mouth.

He really couldn’t get behind the kid’s naming skills.

Little Cutie, Big Beauty, Little Flower—what kind of names were those?

A complete naming disaster.

Why not just call it Big Black Scorpion, Big Strong Tiger, or Man-Eating Flower? That would’ve been so much better.

Yun Xiaoxiao, who had overheard his thoughts, immediately felt two big black lines forming on her forehead.

Who was the one with bad naming skills here?!

Just as Yun Xiaoxiao was about to speak, a strange noise suddenly came from behind her.

“Something’s coming.”

Lu Chen stared ahead, his voice cold.

Yun Xiaoxiao and the others immediately turned to look.

The flashlight beams illuminated the empty passage ahead.

Suddenly, a zombie, almost entirely stripped down to its bones, charged out of the shadows.

The little flesh left on its body hung loosely from its bones, its stomach completely hollow, allowing them to see right through to its back.

Behind it, several more zombies came rushing forward, baring their teeth.

The common trait among these zombies was that they were covered in mold.

Black and foul-smelling, they reeked even worse than regular zombies.

“Damn, dude, you need a bath!”

Nie Yizhou swung his blade at the zombie in front of him.

He fought while complaining.

“It must be from the heavy rain earlier. The water flowed in here and didn’t drain in time, so the zombies inside grew mold.”

Ling Jing elegantly plunged a blade into a zombie’s head.

With practiced ease, he twisted the handle and pulled out a crystal core.

He wondered what color the core in his own head would be.

Aside from being smelly, this wave of zombies had no other notable traits.

Yun Xiaoxiao and the others quickly dealt with them.

To prevent any zombies from escaping after they left, Nie Yizhou reinforced the barrier with two additional layers.

Once that was done, the group moved forward.

Big Beauty’s paw prints had been partially destroyed by the earlier wave of zombies, but they could still make out the general direction it had gone.n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

Inside the subway station, it was pitch black and eerily quiet, with no signs of movement.

Xiao Feng, impatient, conjured a flame and lit up the entire hall.

The once bustling, bright, and clean hall was now covered in grime and dust.

The walls bore dried bloodstains in the shape of handprints, dragged from top to bottom.

The thickness of the prints showed just how desperately those people had clung to life in their final moments.

Unfortunately, the cruel reality had offered them no hope.

Warning signs lay covered in dust, toppled over and scattered haphazardly.

On the ground, there were occasional remnants of limbs and torn clothing.

The entire space was suffocating to behold.

However, there wasn’t a single zombie in the hall.

It seemed the earlier wave had been the last of them here.

Some must have escaped before the entrance was sealed, while others had likely made their way down to the subway platform.

Yun Xiaoxiao kept searching for Big Beauty’s paw prints.

Judging by the direction of the prints, it had run toward the ticket gates, likely heading to the lower levels.

Once they had their bearings, the group hurried downward.

The subway platform was equally horrifying, with dried bloodstains everywhere.

On one side, there was no train, just an empty tunnel.

On the other side was... a subway car packed with zombies!

As Yun Xiaoxiao’s flashlight beam swept over it, countless zombie faces pressed against the windows, mouths wide open, screaming madly.

Their scarred faces were more terrifying than ghosts at midnight.

They shoved themselves against the windows, their already twisted faces contorting even further.

One zombie’s face was squeezed so hard by the others behind it that half of its face was torn off and stuck to the glass.

All that remained was a blur of rotting flesh and bone.

It was truly nauseating to look at.

Of course, there was something even more disgusting.

In the next car over, another zombie had its left eye popped out by the pressure from the zombies behind it.

Black fluid oozed down the window.

“Oh man, even though I’m used to seeing gross stuff by now, I didn’t think it could get worse! Good thing I didn’t eat much earlier, or I’d be puking everything out right now.”

Nie Yizhou shuddered and pretended to gag.

“If you’re gonna puke, stay away from me. You’re grosser than they are.”

Xiao Feng took two steps back, disgusted.

“Hey, I’ll puke if I want to. What’s it to you?”

The more Xiao Feng retreated, the closer Nie Yizhou got to him.

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