Ch37 - The Outsiders

There was more than one person who came, and they had guns and equipment. The number of those weapons was unknown, but at least it was enough to support them to go deep into the city and come to this place, which shows that they have good strength.

Just as Wei Xuan was observing, the group of people finally arrived at the position he could see—behind the two rows of high-rise buildings, there was an old housing neighborhood. There was a plan set to rebuild, but it was pushed and not completed, so the height of their roofs is very low compared to other surrounding buildings.

The group of people who came didn’t drive for some unknown reason. Maybe the car broke down on the way, or maybe they deliberately left the car for the convenience of mobility. At this time, to avoid the zombies, they climbed onto the roof of the house and began to move in the other direction of the street.

There was a rumbling sound, and Wei Xuan raised his eyebrows slightly. Several ability users among the passers-by started to activate their powers and the surrounding soil was mobilized by them, they built dirt walls to keep out zombies that want to jump right up to the roof and come after them.

When the group of people climbed to the roof of a two-story building, the zombies had no choice but to crowd around, eagerly raising their heads and stretching their hands toward the roof, showing how eager they were for fresh flesh and blood.

The few people who climbed up to the roof and could take a breath for a while crumpled down one after another, leaving only a few people who were vigilant around and careful not to let the zombies climb up, and the rest of them were recovering their strength.

“Damn, is there no place for the living to stay in the city? This overwhelming amount of zombies is annoying!” One person spits down toward the zombies, and the movement of him sticking his head out to spit out the saliva attracted the crowd below. The foolish zombies cheered, and stretched out their hands high, grasping and swinging frantically in mid-air.

“Hmph, there are only zombies here, otherwise why would the base issue tasks with such high rewards?” Another person was lying on the roof with their limbs spread out, panting heavily.

“Tell me, since those things are so important, why didn’t the base send troops in to pick them up? Didn’t they send a lot of cars into the city to rescue many big shots and their families?”

“Hmph .” One person sneered, “How many people died when they entered the city? If the urban area is so easy to enter, would they offer such good conditions this time? I can’t even drive the car on the road here, I don’t even know if I can go back alive…”

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“I don’t know how those teams are doing?” One person suddenly asked again.

“Who knows? I dare not say anything about other teams, but the Zombie Killer’s team is full of veterans. If the other teams are all dead, they may also be able to escape.”

“Hmph, it’s not the veterans Didn’t you see that they just entered the urban area, and when everyone was having a meeting to discuss whether to act together, they dumped the large wave of zombies to others and got in first!”

“Exactly! Our team suffered such a serious loss this time when they took the lead!”

“Hey, tell me, if you can kill all the zombies and dig out the crystal nuclei, it’s better than going back empty-handed?”

“That’s true, but no matter how many we kill, there are still more below, how will we pick up the nucleus?”

“We can try to kill them all! When the end of the world began, my wife was killed by these disgusting things!” A man suddenly stood up, walked to the side, held a gun, and started pouring out bullets. 

“Don’t be impulsive!”

“You’re stupid! How will you get back alive if you waste all of the bullets!?”

“If you don’t want to die, hand in your gun! Don’t go crazy here! Do you think you haven’t attracted enough zombies?!”

…

Wei Xuan carefully observed the roof of the small second-floor building with binoculars and then dragged Du Hang to hide deep in the room.

Although he wasn’t very afraid that those people would find him peeping here, after all, even if there were some survivors in the city in the last days, it wouldn’t be big news. But he was worried about causing trouble—what if those people thought that the place where he and Du Hang were hiding was relatively safe and insisted on coming and hiding in this building? Du Hang’s situation must not be exposed.

And once the people who went to the city looking for supplies found that there were still survivors somewhere, they would either ignore them, or they might find a way to break in and snatch the various supplies collected by the survivors inside. Even before, people used to kill or frame others for money, it wasn’t too unusual even amongst companions. 

In his previous life, Wei Xuan did not go to the city with people too many times, more often he found an excuse to go out of the city, and then deliberately separated from people, but even so, he had seen many similar situations. It’s just that there are too many zombies in the urban area, and the situation is even more dangerous. Therefore, the frequent occurrence of such things has gradually evolved from the surrounding areas of the city to some small counties and even villages.

The matter of scrambling for supplies between small bases is often mentioned by well-informed people. This is also the main reason why Wei Xuan has been trying to hide his whereabouts.

Of course, it is still the early days of the end of the world, and most people who go out to collect supplies are not so frenzied.

Therefore, Wei Xuan tried to reduce the possibility of being discovered by them as soon as possible after observing their situation. However, because these people are hiding not far from here, he still needs to observe and determine their course of action before making any plans. After all, who knows when they’ll leave? And where they are going in the city? 

After thinking for a while, Wei Xuan changed the room this time, went to a window with shutters next door, and then carefully observed those people. Those people are not too far from the building where he and Du Hang are hiding, so standing here he can see the general appearance of those people. What surprised him is, that among the people on the opposite side, there are several who looked slightly familiar.

Among them, a man with a height of 1.9 meters lying on the ground seems to have teamed up with Wei Xuan once in his previous life, but because Wei Xuan deliberately separated after leaving the city, he has nothing to do with that person. 

The other is a middle-aged man with a very old appearance. He is dry and thin, his skin looks a little yellow, and his body is slightly bent. Wei Xuan was a little more familiar with that person, and he seemed to have cooperated with him when forming a team. It was just because Wei Xuan usually kept a low profile when he went out to act, and that person was also inconspicuous.

In addition to these two people who can be sure that he should have worked with him, one or two of the remaining people are slightly familiar. But in the apocalypse, the people you met in the early apocalypse are very likely that after two or three years, the difference in appearance between each other will suddenly become huge, unless the other person’s facial features are very individual and characteristic, otherwise it is hard to remember. Now Wei Xuan can have a slight impression of some people, which is already very good.

Seeing someone he suspected to have dealt with in his previous life, Wei Xuan began to think hard, but no matter what he thought, he couldn’t remember whether he had participated in the search operation in the city like them these days – because Du Hang couldn’t go to the human base, Wei Xuan is more worried about his situation outside, so every time he goes out of the city, he will take him outside for at least a period of time before returning to the base when he has a chance. Therefore, it is very likely that he was not in the base at all when these people participated in the activity of entering the city, let alone entering the city with them.

“It seems that we can only stay here temporarily today, and hope that those potato sprouts will not spoil after another day.” Wei Xuan looked at his and Du Hang’s backpacks with some worry. Because of the burning of the land yesterday, although he also planted some potatoes in other places, he deliberately reserved some and planned to plant them on the green belt after the temperature of the land dropped, but when these people appeared today, he had no choice but to nest here obediently and wait for them to leave.

Those people obviously hoped to leave as soon as possible, but unfortunately—there were more and more zombies downstairs, and even a few of them climbed up from the roof when they came. Now it is very difficult for them to get out.

And Wei Xuan didn’t dare to act rashly at this time – Du Hang beside him had been lured by those delicious breaths of living beings and couldn’t wait any longer. Wei Xuan could only take out the snowflakes he carried with him to comfort him while recalling some memories from his previous life—by the way, did he meet the following people in the base after this mission? Or did he meet them before that? I don’t know whether their operation was successful or not.

Among them, the tall man must have worked with him in the early days, but he didn’t seem to have any impression of him in the later period. The other people were only slightly familiar because of their appearance. After seeing them running around in the apocalypse, their appearance became more and more ragged, so they leave only a slight impression.