Chapter 11 Waste?

This was an old residential area with only five-story buildings. The area was quite chaotic, with vehicles parked haphazardly, completely blocking the roads. Everywhere one looked, there were bloodstains, already dried but still shocking.

Many of the cars still held trapped zombies, and the woman's building was surrounded by twenty or thirty crazed zombies!

There was a security room at the entrance of the complex, the door open. Zhang Hu knew to look inside first, making sure there were no zombies before entering the complex.

But when he saw the twenty or thirty zombies below the woman's building, he stopped abruptly.

He had witnessed the agility of those zombies yesterday. He figured that he and Li Chenzhou could handle two or three zombies, but twenty or thirty…

Li Chenzhou was also observing the residential area. He noticed that there were still quite a few survivors in the area, hiding by the windows and watching them.

The horde of zombies below the woman's building had obviously taught them to remain silent. Even when they saw Li Chenzhou and Zhang Hu, two people with weapons, they still didn't shout, but simply stared at them.

"Broken Boat! What… what should we do?"

Zhang Hu also saw those silent people watching them from behind the other windows. He hesitated and looked back at Li Chenzhou, asking.

"You want to save them?"

Li Chenzhou looked at Zhang Hu, suddenly smiled, and asked.

"We… we can't just stand by and watch them die, can we? They definitely can't get out without help!"

Zhang Hu turned his head, his eyes sweeping past the windows, and gritted his teeth.

"Alright! Then I'll let you see what happens when you don't want to stand by and watch them die!"

Li Chenzhou suddenly sighed, patted Zhang Hu's shoulder, who didn't quite understand, and then looked around, sizing up the security room next to him, which was only about fifty square meters but a full three meters high.

"Wait here for me, don't do anything unless you see a zombie charging at you!"

As he spoke, Li Chenzhou stepped into the residential area.

"Come here quickly, come here! We're here!"

Seeing Li Chenzhou finally enter, the woman who had been urging them in a shrill voice became even more anxious.

Li Chenzhou didn't even look at her. He went straight to an SUV on the outside, glanced at the driver who had turned into a zombie, and took out a small set of tools he had found in the convenience store from his bag. While paying attention to his surroundings, he inserted two metal prongs into the car door.

In a few quick moves, he unlocked the door, pulled it open, and the instant the zombie inside stretched its head out, Li Chenzhou's dagger pierced its skull.

He tossed the corpse out of the car, then got in, started the engine, and drove it behind the security room. Li Chenzhou pulled out the key, got out of the car, and pointed to the roof, saying to Zhang Hu, who was looking at him in astonishment, "Climb onto the roof of the car, and then get onto the security room roof!"

"Oh!"

Zhang Hu nodded quickly, climbed onto the roof of the SUV, and then climbed onto the roof of the security room!

Li Chenzhou entered the security room, searching around, and soon dragged out a steel bar that was more than two meters long.

He handed the steel bar to Zhang Hu on the roof. Li Chenzhou started the SUV, adjusted its position, then parked, turned off the engine and got out. He climbed onto the roof of the SUV, leaped up, grabbed the edge of the roof with both hands, and climbed up. Then he took out the key and pressed it twice.

"Di di di di di…"

The SUV's alarm went off instantly, and almost at the same time, the woman who had been shouting actually shut her mouth.

Of course, she knew that the zombies downstairs had been attracted by her voice, but she had realized it a little too late, and her neighbors weren't willing to help lure the zombies away, so she had decided to go all in.

Now that someone was making noise to lure the zombies away, she certainly wouldn't shout and attract the zombies back. Instead, she looked at the horde of zombies rushing towards the security room with a beaming smile, whispering to her husband, "Haha! What do you think, Old Wu? I told you, there are always a few hot-blooded young people like this. As long as I shout, they'll get a rush of blood to the head and dare to do anything. They're much better than those neighbors who are like shrinking turtles.

Tsk tsk, when we snatched their basketball court to dance in the past, they didn't have this kind of temper. They didn't dare to fight us at all, just watching us with longing eyes. Now… hehe! Quick! Hurry up and pack your things. While they're attracting those monsters, we have to sneak away quickly!"

"..."

The old man next to her looked at his smug wife and shook his head with worry.

Watching the zombies, like hurdlers, quickly climb over the vehicles and rush towards them on the roof, Zhang Hu found that his body couldn't help but tremble.

Although he had told himself countless times that the apocalypse had arrived, and that he would be facing a tide of zombies in the future, his ability to accept it was clearly not as strong as he had imagined.

"Zombies don't feel pain. They can make any move without hesitation, and they have infinite stamina, always maintaining their peak condition. When they run, they always use the speed of a hundred-meter sprint. What we call explosive power is just normal for zombies."

Li Chenzhou stood at the corner of the roof closest to the SUV, wrapping a dagger tightly to one end of the steel bar with tape, while watching the approaching horde of zombies, saying, "So, when you see a zombie, never try to run away - you can't outrun them at all.

The best way is to use the environment around you to kill them all! Because even if they can maintain their peak condition, their physical fitness is still about the same as ours. Places you can't get to, they can't get to either!"

As he spoke, Li Chenzhou tested the sturdiness of the dagger, nodded with satisfaction, picked up the steel bar, lowered it, and stabbed it into the eye of a zombie that had run to the bottom of the security room and was jumping up trying to reach him.

"Puff!"

The dagger at the end of the steel bar easily pierced the zombie's eye socket, reaching its brain. The zombie's movements stopped instantly, and then its body collapsed to the ground.

The death of the zombie didn't cause any change in the other zombies. They didn't care about the life or death of their companions, and the stench of zombie blood wouldn't attract their kind at all. The gathered zombies still surrounded the security room, like fans surrounding a high platform at a concert, waving their hands wildly and futilely at Li Chenzhou.

"Here! You try!"

After killing the zombie and seeing that he currently had only four slaughter points, Li Chenzhou stopped, turned back to Zhang Hu, and said. Zhang Hu handed the baseball bat in his hand to Li Chenzhou, took the steel bar, looked at the zombies below, swallowed hard, and then thrust down with both hands gripping the steel bar.

"Puff!"

The dagger accurately pierced the forehead of a zombie with its head raised. The zombie immediately fell backward, and Zhang Hu's body suddenly leaned forward from the force.

Zhang Hu was startled and quickly squatted down, grabbing the edge of the roof to steady himself, sweat beading on his forehead. His other hand was still tightly gripping the steel bar with the dagger attached, and he looked up at Li Chenzhou.

At this moment, Li Chenzhou was sitting on the very edge of the roof, his legs dangling down, teasing the zombies below. He was constantly picking up the gravel beside him and throwing it into the mouths of those zombies that were constantly roaring. He looked… almost as relaxed as someone sitting by a pond, feeding koi.

Zhang Hu couldn't help but be stunned. He subconsciously looked at the blood-red eyes and ferocious faces of the zombies below, and then at Li Chenzhou, who didn't have a trace of fear in his eyes. He suddenly felt that the fear and panic in his heart was slowly disappearing.

He took a deep breath, then imitated Li Chenzhou, sitting on the edge of the roof, dangling his legs outside, then lifted the steel bar and gently poked a zombie below:

"Puff!"

The dagger went straight into the zombie's right eye, and the zombie's roar stopped instantly, then its body collapsed directly to the ground.

Zhang Hu looked at the zombie's corpse, then lifted the steel bar again, looking at the dagger covered in thick black blood. He suddenly swallowed, a look of excitement in his eyes. He lifted the steel bar and killed another zombie.

"How is it? Once the fear in your heart disappears, they suddenly become very easy to deal with, right?"

Li Chenzhou turned his head, looked at Zhang Hu, and smiled.

"Yes!"

Zhang Hu now understood Li Chenzhou's intention. He turned to him, grinned, and nodded vigorously.

"Alright! Let's rest for a while. These zombies are still useful. Don't kill them all! And it's a waste to kill them now!"

Just as Zhang Hu was about to kill a few more zombies with relish, Li Chenzhou suddenly stopped him and said.

"Waste?"

Zhang Hu looked at Li Chenzhou inexplicably.

Li Chenzhou didn't answer, but simply pointed to the residential building next to them.

Only then did Zhang Hu remember that he had originally come to rescue people. He had been too excited about killing zombies just now and had forgotten about it. So he quickly looked towards the residential building, but was stunned to find that not only the yelling woman from before, but even the people hiding behind the other windows had all disappeared. Not a single one could be seen.

"Where… where are they?"

Zhang Hu said in astonishment.

"In old residential areas like this, although there is usually only one main entrance for vehicles to pass through, there must be other doors for residents to enter and exit. They should be over there. Just now, I saw a lot of people running behind that building!"

Li Chenzhou pointed to a building in the fourth row on the right front.

"You mean… they all ran away?"

Zhang Hu looked at the direction Li Chenzhou was pointing with a complicated expression.

"Yes!"

Li Chenzhou nodded:

"Hu Zi! This is the apocalypse. Not everyone can bear to watch others get trapped. For most people, their own lives are the most important!"

"Did you know this would happen?"

Zhang Hu looked at Li Chenzhou.

"Yes!"

Li Chenzhou nodded, then turned to look in the direction of that building:

"And I also know that they will be back soon! The zombies in this world are not just the ones below us!"

"Ah!"

Before Li Chenzhou could finish speaking, a familiar scream came from the distance, followed by the howls, curses, and shouts of countless people, and they were actually gradually approaching…