Edge of the Apocalypse

Chapter 83: Chapter 78: Lin Xiaojun Appears

「Day nine of the apocalypse. Morning.」

"I’m going out with you guys today. Otherwise, the signal won’t reach inside the building."

Wearing a mask, Liu Ye’ye carried the robot dog and two small, tracked remote-control cars. She went out with Yu Dong and the others, temporarily placed the two cars by the entrance, and steered the robot dog forward.

Maybe it was because this was her first time out, but she was a little nervous, and her control of the robot dog was a bit stiff.

Seeing this, Shen Xinyi came out as well.

"I’ll come help out! You guys have already taken care of all the zombies in the community anyway. I’ll just clean up the entrance. It’s covered in bloodstains, attracting so many flies. It’s disgusting."

Yu Dong said, "Yeah, go ahead and clean. It’s the ninth day... we can use water freely."

She had brought a mop with her today. Before the water was cut off, they had filled many buckets with tap water from the first floor.

The six of them and the dog went out in top form. Shen Xinyi focused on cleaning at the entrance of Building 1, the door of which was also wide open.

"Let’s deal with the main gate first, then we’ll make our move."

As usual, Yu Dong led the team to deal with the zombies at the community’s main gate. There were even fewer today, just two or three stragglers.

They dispatched them with ease.

After that was taken care of, Yu Dong led the team on a lap around the community. They slowly ambled over to the front entrance of Building 2. He looked at the soot-blackened words on a fourth-floor window and closed his eyes.

’Building 2, cleared out too early... that arrogant declaration... the missing stalker... the escaped Lin Xiaojun...’

All of this flashed before Yu Dong’s eyes. The clues had all connected into a single thread.

’Lin Xiaojun, do you really think... you can get away?’

’Since you won’t show yourself, I’ll just have to force you out.’

"Zhou."

From the case slung over his shoulder, Zhou pulled out several dark, round balls. They were covered in fuel and spikes and had long fuses attached, looking like the heads of meteor hammers.

Yu Dong took one of the "meteor balls" and lit its long fuse...

He wound up his arm and hurled it forcefully at the fourth-floor window!

BOOM!!!

The immense force shattered the glass and the paper stuck to it on the fourth floor!

"Holy shit, Brother Dong!!! You smashed the fourth-floor window in one hit! The strength on you!"

Yan Yikai clicked his tongue in wonder.

Just yesterday, he thought Yu Dong had been bragging.

"It’s because the windows in this community are poor quality. Zhou, give me another one."

Zhou handed him another lit meteor ball, and Yu Dong threw it at another window of the fourth-floor apartment.

BANG!

Another perfect throw right through it!

"Again!"

Yu Dong threw in another one, shattering all three windows of the apartment that had displayed the Building 2 survivors’ declaration!

A moment later, flames and smoke billowed out from the fourth floor.

"It’s lit!"

"How’s that for arrogant?"

"Keep talking shit and we’ll burn down all of Building 2! Let’s see if he comes out then!"

Zhao Youcai felt a cathartic sense of satisfaction.

After setting the fourth-floor apartment on fire, the group retreated a little.

Huang Zhiqiang took out a megaphone and shouted towards the building:

"Whoever is inside, whatever your position, lay down your weapons and come out immediately!"

"If you come out now, we can still talk. This is just a warning."

"Rest assured, we are not bad people!"

The group stared at the main entrance of Building 2, waiting for any movement from within, but... it was completely silent.

"Send the tracked vehicle to the entrance of Building 2 to check it out."

"Okay."

One of the small, remote-controlled tracked vehicles headed for the entrance. It was equipped with a camera, intended to peek through the gap in the doors to see what the situation was inside Building 2.

They were keeping their distance from Building 2, being extremely cautious.

After the tracked vehicle drove over, it positioned itself at the crack in the door and slowly raised the camera on its front end...

POP!

A pneumatic hiss came from inside. The tracked vehicle’s camera went black. Yu Dong narrowed his eyes and saw... a nail was now embedded in the vehicle’s head.

"Just as I thought. They’re inside. Zhou, get the smoke sticks."

"Here!"

Zhou handed out black sticks to the others. When lit, they produced thick, rolling smoke.

Yu Dong tossed one toward the gap in the doors. It landed at the entrance, but the thick smoke continuously billowed inside through the opening.

The ground-floor entrances to the buildings in Xiangti Bay Community all had electronic doors, which couldn’t be closed tightly after the power went out.

They could only be secured with a chain on the inside handles, but this still left a gap.

As the group threw their smoke sticks at the entrance, the smoke completely flooded the inside. The wind blew, and soon Yu Dong and the others were enveloped in a thick fog, as if they were standing inside a smoke bomb.

Hearing no more sounds from inside...

"Charge!"

Shen Xinyi, who was still cleaning, looked up. She saw that the entrance to Building 2 was a sea of fog, obscuring Yu Dong and the others from view. She could only hear the sound of banging on the door coming from within the dense smoke. BANG! BANG! BANG!

’Sigh, I don’t know what got into the leader, he’s suddenly so aggressive...’

’This wasn’t their strategy before.’

’But ever since Yu Dong came back from the property management office, he’s been a different person. He’s become... cold.’

Shen Xinyi glanced at the main gate outside. There wasn’t a single zombie. It was very quiet.

’The leader cleared out all the surrounding zombies in advance, just for today...’

’Are there really that many enemies?’

She remembered what Yu Dong had said last night and thought it was an exaggeration. She didn’t even really understand why today’s operation was so extreme.

So extreme that he didn’t seem like the Yu Dong she had known just a few days ago.

Just as she was continuing to clean the bloodstains at the entrance with her mop... suddenly, she heard the sound of several people running quickly.

She subconsciously turned her head toward the sound.

Three men were running toward her!

Not from Building 2!

It was from the direction of Building 3!

The man in the lead was burly, carrying a baseball bat caked with black blood clots... The look in his eyes as he stared at her was filled with naked aggression.

The two men behind him looked vaguely familiar, like they were residents of this community. One held a pair of bolt cutters, the other an entrenching tool.

"AHHH!!! Brother Dong!!! Someone’s here!!!"

Shen Xinyi screamed, threw down her mop, and ran for the entrance of Building 1.

She fumbled frantically, trying to close and lock the door.

But the more she panicked, the more she struggled to get it locked.

Just as she finally managed to get the padlock onto the chain... a pair of large hands reached in through the gap in the door and grabbed the chain.

"Heh~ Pretty lady, don’t be scared. We brothers... we’re not bad people."

A deranged smile played on Lin Xiaojun’s lips, frightening Shen Xinyi so much that she dropped the chain and stumbled backward.

"Brother Jun is awesome! It wasn’t a waste waiting all these days... we finally found a chance when they were all out. Little nurse, don’t run. I’m your neighbor~ Don’t you remember me?"

"Fuck, stop thinking with your dick! Help Brother Jun get the door open first. Once we take this building, everything will be ours!"

The three men quickly started to force the door open!

Lin Xiaojun looked toward the smoke, flames, and noise coming from Building 2, his bloodshot eyes filled with mockery.

’College kids, I don’t know how you knew about the zombie outbreak in advance... but today, everything you have belongs to me.’

’Timing is always the most important thing.’

Lin Xiaojun was a master at seizing fleeting opportunities!

This time, he had succeeded!

Just as he and his team were about to get the door open, something suddenly bumped into his foot...

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