Chapter 107 Strange Mall

Seeing Zhao Dahai take the lead, Sun Qiang quickly followed. After advancing a distance in the square, Sun Qiang stopped Zhao Dahai.

"Alright! This is about right. The main entrance is right there, and the atrium is just a few meters inside the main entrance. Let’s control things from here and see what's happening in the atrium first!"

"Okay!"

Zhao Dahai nodded. Subsequently, the two released the remote-controlled car and drone again. But what was frustrating was that the mall’s main entrance was closed. Not only were the small doors on both sides closed, but the revolving door in the middle was also sealed shut.

"Damn it!"

The continuous setbacks made Zhao Dahai a little impatient. He cursed and then said:

"Wait a moment, I'll go get someone and have them open the door!"

"No need! We can just walk back a bit! The side door is connected to the main hall!"

Sun Qiang stopped him. Then the two once again controlled the drone and remote-controlled car, entered the mall from the previous side door, and then controlled them to move towards the main entrance!

On the way, Sun Qiang and Zhao Dahai paid close attention. The mall was very quiet, without any moving objects, be they survivors, zombies, or animals. Only bloodstains could be seen everywhere on the ground, as well as the messy shops, overturned shelves, and scattered goods, telling of the chaos here when the apocalypse arrived!

"It seems that the more prosperous a place is, the harder it is for humans to escape!"

Looking at the scene inside the mall on the screen, Sun Qiang said with a sigh. At the same time, he felt a little fortunate. He had actually worked as a security guard in this mall before, but was later fired for offending someone, which was why he changed jobs.

According to this location, if he was still working here when the apocalypse started, he would probably be dead by now!

Even when Liu Jinshan and the others rescued people, they had not ventured this far into the city! Moreover, on the day he was rescued, Liu Jinshan and the others ventured only about a kilometer further into the city before returning.

In other words, if his work location was one kilometer further into the city, he probably wouldn't have been rescued by Liu Jinshan's garrison regiment.

"That's right! The more prosperous it is, the more people there are, the greater the density. After the apocalypse arrives, it will naturally be more difficult to escape. Look at these roads, they are now completely blocked by cars! Without a car, relying on two legs to run through the zombie-filled streets? Even we probably couldn't escape now!"

Hearing Sun Qiang's words, Zhao Dahai also said with emotion:

"Especially those who work in this kind of place, most of them are human elites, like white-collar workers or something. They may be elites in a normal society, but in the apocalypse, their survival ability is the worst. People who do physical labor are more likely to escape!"

Zhao Dahai's feelings were based on personal experience. Most of the people he rescued were white-collar or even gold-collar workers, but these guys simply didn't have the courage to kill zombies.

If it weren't for them, the installation workers, those white-collar workers would only be able to hide in the building and wait for death, and would not have the courage to escape, let alone those in the most prosperous areas of the city center.

Actually, his location in Qing City wasn't in the city center, but it was quite prosperous. It was just that the Zombie King summoned all the zombies, causing them to concentrate there, and they wouldn't attack people on the way, which allowed him to escape with people!

"Here we are! It's just ahead!"

Just as Zhao Dahai was sighing, Sun Qiang suddenly spoke to remind him. At the same time, he aimed the drone's camera at the atrium skylight, tapped the screen and said:

"This is the atrium. From here, you can directly see the situation below. Wait a moment, I'll see if I can find any strengthened zombies in the atrium, and then we'll talk!"

"Okay!"

Zhao Dahai nodded and stopped his remote-controlled car. The drone flew directly to the atrium skylight and pointed the camera downwards...

"Huh? Nothing at all?"

To their surprise, after looking down from the atrium, they didn't see a single zombie. The three-story atrium below was completely empty, no different from the first floor, also a dead silence!

"That's the stairs. Have your car go down and take a look. I'll check upstairs!"

Sun Qiang frowned and said. At the same time, he controlled the drone to rise directly into the air and fly upwards.

Although Zhao Dahai and the others had already observed this place from the surrounding buildings and didn't find any zombies on the upper floors of the mall, so they concluded that the zombies were all hiding underground, after all, from the outside, it was impossible to see every corner of the mall clearly!

Subsequently, the two, one above and one below, controlled the drone and car, and began their respective searches. Ten minutes later, the two stopped and looked at each other, their faces filled with solemnity.

Because... whether upstairs or downstairs, they didn't find anything. Besides the bloodstains and the mess, there were no zombies, no humans, no active creatures – not even a fly.

"Something's not right!"

Zhao Dahai couldn't help but frown. There were so many bloodstains on the ground, but there were no other creatures. At least, he should have seen some flies, right? Before, in other places, the things they saw the most were flies.

After all, this was the apocalypse, and there were bloodstains everywhere. Flies liked this stuff the most, so no matter where they went, they could hear that annoying buzzing sound.

But in this mall, they didn't even see a single fly. No, they didn't see any living creature at all. It was as if this mall was a forbidden zone for life.

"That's right! Something is definitely wrong!"

Sun Qiang also nodded, agreeing with Zhao Dahai's words:

"Even in the desert, you can see some insects or something, but in this mall, there's nothing alive. Did you see the pet shop I went into just now? It's all empty, including the fish tanks!!!"

"Yeah!"

Zhao Dahai nodded. Just now, Sun Qiang had deliberately controlled his drone to enter a pet shop and took a careful look inside.

It wasn't that messy inside, but there were no creatures left. All the cages, glass cabinets, and other containers for pets were all empty.

Especially the huge fish tank, the water was still inside, and the artificial rocks were still there, but there wasn't a single fish in it. You could say that those pets might have run out on their own, but what about the fish? The fish couldn't have run out on their own, right?

"Brother, should we retreat? This place is too weird!"

This bizarre situation made Zhao Dahai start to retreat. Although he had previously made up his mind to stay in Qi City, he was still frightened by this completely incomprehensible strange situation and prepared to change to another city...