After dealing with the situation on this side, Lin Yan lightly leaped over the fence.
Lin Yan was leaping on the rooftops, and the zombies below, hearing the sounds and smelling the scents, were chasing her. The spiritual spring water made Lin Yan's body more agile, and she had a better control over her movements.
Many actions could be performed, and moving on the rooftops was much safer than on the streets below.
Looking at the zombies attracted by her below, Lin Yan roughly understood the number of zombies in this area.
It was the early stage of the apocalypse, and the zombies had not yet started to move, only wandering around the places where they died. Once everyone in this area died, the zombies, lacking food, would begin to expand their range.
This small town did not have many people, but relatively speaking, there were still quite a few survivors.
Lin Yan had already tested it; in this world, one could practice internal martial arts, and with the aid of internal energy, external martial arts would progress faster.
Lin Yan's purpose for going out this time was only to pick up the children, so she did not prepare to fight the zombies.
She remembered seeing a school bus parked outside a house ahead. With this school bus, she should be able to bring all the children along, and the bus could also be used to block the road leading out of the house.
This way, even if zombies came, they could be separated and dealt with one by one.
When Lin Yan reached the school bus, she placed her hand on the door handle and pulled it gently. The door opened.
Lin Yan sat in the driver's seat. The sound of the vehicle starting attracted the attention of the surrounding zombies, but two legs could never outrun four wheels.
However, more and more zombies were attracted and started running behind the bus. Lin Yan saw the strangely shaped zombies running after the bus in the rearview mirror. Even though Lin Yan was not afraid, she still felt a prickle of unease.
Some of these zombies were missing limbs, some had half-broken necks, and some had half their faces gone.
Lin Yan was not scared. As someone who had studied medicine in several worlds, she was very curious about zombies that could still move despite such injuries.
She didn't know what this zombie virus was or why it caused such changes in people.
Chinese folklore also had creatures like Jiangshi, but Jiangshi were called so because their bodies became stiff after death.
However, the zombies in front of her, though not very agile, still had senses of smell and hearing. Moreover, the brain was their weak point, meaning a part of them was still alive.
But if they were alive, why were they beginning to decay, and why did the decaying parts have no effect on the entire individual?
However, this was not the time to ponder these questions. Lin Yan quickly drove the school bus to the first child's house.
Seeing the bus stop, the surrounding zombies swarmed over. Lin Yan drew her sword, opened the car door, and got out.
At the same time, she opened the carriage door. As soon as the carriage door opened, the children who had been waiting, carrying their prepared belongings, opened their house doors and ran towards the bus.
Lin Yan killed a few approaching zombies. Seeing that the children were on board, she quickened her pace, decapitated a few nearby zombies, and then ran back to the driver's seat.
"Sister, you're so amazing!" The boy looked at Lin Yan with sparkling eyes, filled with admiration and longing.
"Sister, are you a martial arts master? You're truly incredible!"
"You can follow me to learn martial arts in the future, and you'll become very capable too," Lin Yan said with a smile to the boy.
"Yes, I'll definitely study hard and strive to be as strong as you, Sister."
Lin Yan continued to pick up most of the children who were willing to follow her. The remaining ones, some too far away, others with too many zombies around, would have to wait until tomorrow.
There were nearly forty children on the school bus now. These children were initially panicky, especially when they saw so many monsters chasing the bus.
But as Lin Yan skillfully picked up more and more people, they gradually calmed down, waiting for Lin Yan to take them to the next location.
Every time Lin Yan got out of the bus, they would peek out the window, watching her actions. Although they didn't dare to make loud noises, they would quietly cheer her on every time Lin Yan took down a zombie.
Although many of these zombies were familiar faces to them, they also knew that these people had turned into man-eating monsters and were no longer the people they knew.
Seeing a familiar face, the children couldn't help but shed tears, their tears flowing again and again. The atmosphere inside the carriage was extremely somber.
Why had the world become like this? How were they, these children who knew nothing, supposed to live in this world?
On this afternoon, all the children seemed to have accepted reality and forced themselves to grow up.
They were all from the same town and knew each other. They comforted each other, and at the same time, they all fixed their gaze on Lin Yan ahead.
"Sister is so strong, we can definitely survive!"
They told themselves in their hearts.
Lin Yan drove them to the resettlement community and parked the bus by the fence, with the carriage door facing the fence.
Lin Yan did not open the door immediately. Instead, she asked the children to prepare themselves and told them that a particular railing was movable. At the same time, she assigned tasks to the children.
After speaking, she picked up her sword again, opened the car door, walked to the rear of the car, and faced the zombies head-on.
The current zombies were still of a lower level, making them easy to kill. In another week, the zombies would undergo their first upgrade, becoming more agile and stronger.
She had to gather everyone here before then and then search the surrounding villages for all survivors.
Although this resettlement community was not very large, it lacked proper lighting. The houses in each row were tightly packed, with only about three meters of passage between every two rows. As long as the passage into and out of the community was blocked, it would be safe here until the zombies evolved greater abilities.
The river next to the community was also a natural barrier. This place could accommodate them for at least a year. After a year, when the ability users had also upgraded, even if the zombies evolved, they could use their abilities to reinforce the area.
Although it was not particularly large, it could house thousands of people if they squeezed in.
The first child Lin Yan picked up was tasked with opening the carriage door. He was one of the older children, around fourteen or fifteen years old.
After opening the carriage door, he was the first to get out and, as Lin Yan had instructed, lifted the railing. The children inside then disembarked in an orderly fashion, one by one, squeezing through the gap in the railing.
The boy was the last one. After he entered, he put the railing back in place and called out to Lin Yan, "Sister, it's done! We're all inside!"
Lin Yan turned and saw that they had all gone in. She quickly killed the few zombies around her, then ran back to the driver's seat, reversed, and the zombies clung onto the school bus.
Lin Yan calmly reversed the school bus to the intersection, crushing quite a few zombies along the way. Lin Yan parked the school bus horizontally at the intersection, effectively blocking the entrance to the community.
Then, instead of opening the door, Lin Yan jumped out through the sunroof. After getting out, she killed the few remaining stragglers who were loitering outside the fence. Only then did she lightly tap the fence and jump inside.