Chapter 3

Under the intense pain, Chu Nan was both shocked and terrified, letting out a scream. He picked up a stone nearby and smashed it down with all his might.

With a "pu" sound, blood and brain matter splattered.

Chu Nan continued to smash the monster's head with all his strength.

Soon, the young man loosened his grip, as his head was completely smashed by Chu Nan, like a rotten watermelon.

In the smashed head, Chu Nan saw the prominent reddish-brown bean-like object again. A faint red thread shot out from it, flowing into his body, turning into a warm current that flowed into his brain.

Chu Nan could clearly feel that this warm current flowed into the reddish-brown bean-like object in his brain, where the faint warm current turned into two threads, slightly more than before.

The young man, whose head was completely smashed by Chu Nan, lay on the ground, motionless, clearly dead.

Dropping the stone covered in blood and brain matter, Chu Nan stared blankly at the bloody scene. The shock of the night had made him somewhat numb, and he no longer felt the urge to vomit. Instead, he was thinking about the strange sensation he had felt in his brain.

"San Yan and the others, who were clearly dead, turned into monsters. Killing such monsters, the bean-like object in their heads releases a warm current into the body. This feeling is real, not an illusion... What's going on? Why did everything become abnormal after the earthquake? They became abnormal, and I became abnormal too. What is this thing I feel in my head..."

Chu Nan clutched his head. Although San Yan and the young man had become monsters with strength several times that of ordinary people, they were slow and their actions were simple, which allowed Chu Nan to kill them both.

"Rustle... Rustle..."

Suddenly, sounds came from all directions. Chu Nan looked around and was horrified to see that there was movement under the rubble everywhere. Bloody hands were reaching out, or soil and rocks were being moved, as something was trying to crawl out. Some people, with their intestines dragged out, had twisted and stiff faces, struggling to crawl out from under the concrete.

Everywhere, these people who had turned into monsters were waking up and crawling out of the ground.

Chu Nan was terrified, and the words "zombies" and "undead" popped into his mind.

He didn't know the reason, but he was sure that after the earthquake, the dead had become strange, turning into monsters like those in novels and movies. Based on his guess, the reason they could still move after death was related to the reddish-brown bean-like object in their heads.

"Zombies and undead, aren't they fictional things in novels and movies? How... how could they become real? Are all these dead people really going to turn into zombies? This... this isn't like a scene from a horror movie..."

Chu Nan was filled with fear, ignoring the pain in his body, and rushed out. He couldn't handle even one such monster, let alone a group of them.

Just as he climbed over a pile of concrete and rebar, he heard a scream from the other side.

It was a human voice.

Chu Nan turned his head and saw three figures struggling not far away.

A man with his left arm and chest smashed, was using his right hand to grab a middle-aged man covered in blood, his mouth firmly biting the middle-aged man's neck.

On the ground, another person, with half his head smashed, had dragged the middle-aged man's legs, his mouth also firmly biting the middle-aged man's leg and gnawing on it.

The middle-aged man struggled desperately but was caught by two dead people who had turned into monsters, unable to escape. He let out a desperate and terrified scream.

Chu Nan recognized the middle-aged man; it was Tang Sanli, the head of the cell he was in.

Tang Sanli, like Chu Nan, was covered in blood but not fatally injured, and was still alive, screaming.

Without hesitation, Chu Nan rushed over.

Compared to the monsters and the fear around him, the bullying by Tang Sanli in the past was nothing.

Saving one person would at least give him a companion, reducing his fear.

Chu Nan picked up a stone and rushed over, smashing it down on the person who had squeezed out half his body from the rubble.

This person, who was biting Tang Sanli's leg, bit through flesh and blood but didn't know how to dodge. The stone hit his already smashed head, turning it into a mess with a "pu" sound.

Chu Nan lifted the stone and smashed it down again with all his might.

This time, the person went limp, and Chu Nan felt a faint warm current flow into his body, entering the hollow bean-like object in his brain, making the warm current inside a bit stronger.

Tang Sanli, who thought he couldn't escape, saw Chu Nan rush over and kill one of the monsters, and hope surged in his eyes. He struggled with the person biting his neck, trying to pull him off.

He called out hoarsely, "Save me—"

His neck was already bleeding profusely, but fortunately, the vital areas like the throat or the major arteries in the neck were not bitten.

Chu Nan lifted the stone, intending to smash the head of the person biting Tang Sanli's neck, but suddenly, this person let go and pushed Tang Sanli, using a lot of strength. Tang Sanli involuntarily collided with Chu Nan, who grunted and was thrown back, the stone flying out of his hand.

Tang Sanli screamed as the stone hit his foot.

The person, who had only one arm and had turned into a monster, left Tang Sanli and pounced on Chu Nan, who was lying on the ground. He extended his arm and grabbed Chu Nan's throat.

The grip was extremely strong, and Chu Nan instantly felt suffocated, unable to breathe, his face turning purple, and his throat making gurgling sounds, almost being twisted off.

With a "bang," the monster that had grabbed Chu Nan's throat fell to the ground, his face slightly twisted, and his head turned to the side. It was Tang Sanli, who, despite the pain, had lifted a large stone and smashed it heavily on the back of the monster's head, blood splattering.

At the critical moment, Tang Sanli didn't abandon Chu Nan and run away. He gritted his teeth, lifted the large stone again, and with a roar, smashed it down heavily.

The one-armed person, who had turned into a monster, although much stronger than ordinary people, clearly lacked much thinking ability, and let go of Chu Nan's throat to grab Tang Sanli.

Chu Nan, who had almost suffocated and was lying on the ground, caught his breath. Having killed three such monsters in a row, his courage had grown. He suddenly grabbed the monster's extended arm and pulled it hard, shouting at Tang Sanli, "Quick!"

Tang Sanli lifted a large piece of concrete and smashed it on the monster's head.

This time, he used all his strength, and the monster's eyes burst out, and his skull cracked, brain matter splattering everywhere.

After this blow, the monster finally lost all its strength and fell to the ground.

Tang Sanli, using too much strength, fell heavily to the ground.

Chu Nan saw clearly that a faint red thread shot out from the smashed monster's head, but this time it didn't head towards him but towards Tang Sanli, entering his body.

"Ah—" Tang Sanli suddenly clutched his head and screamed, "It hurts, what... what is this?"

Tang Sanli felt the same as Chu Nan had before, his head feeling like it was about to split. He slowly began to feel a reddish-brown bean-like object in his head, which was hollow but had a faint energy flowing inside.

Listening to Tang Sanli's screams gradually stop, Chu Nan sat beside him, looking at the dark night and the rustling sounds coming from the distance, his mind in chaos, filled with fear.

"We... we need to leave here quickly... After the earthquake... the dead people, for some reason, have all turned into monsters."

Chu Nan's words made Tang Sanli lower his hands from his head, shivering. Although he was a drug dealer and a tough guy, he had never encountered such a strange situation. Tang Sanli was covered in injuries, especially his neck and legs, which were bitten and bleeding.

"Damn... What... what's going on? Is this a zombie outbreak? Could it be that too many people died in the earthquake, and their resentment concentrated in this place, causing a zombie outbreak?"

Tang Sanli, who was very superstitious, felt the pain in his head lessen and quickly got up, saying, "Quick, let's leave here. This must be a zombie outbreak."

He knew Chu Nan was from his cell, but he couldn't remember his name.

Although Chu Nan was terrified, his logical thinking, as a college graduate, told him that the reason the dead people turned into zombies was due to the power of the reddish-brown bean-like object in their heads. Both he and Tang Sanli had this object, and killing such zombie monsters would absorb a thread of energy from them.

Moreover, whoever killed the monster would absorb the energy.

However, they couldn't use the power of this energy, unlike the zombies, whose strength had greatly increased.

"Will something change if the hollow part of the bean-like object is filled with energy?"

Chu Nan thought. Before the earthquake, everything was normal, but after the earthquake, the whole world seemed to have changed. The moon had a faint blood color, and the dead turned into zombies, with a bean-like object in their heads, regardless of whether they were alive or dead.

"Was this bean-like object already there, and we just started sensing it now? Or did it suddenly appear in our heads after the earthquake?"

Chu Nan didn't know and didn't say much to Tang Sanli. He just followed him, trying to escape from this terrifying place as soon as possible.

The earthquake had left ruins everywhere, and rustling sounds came from all directions. Tang Sanli and Chu Nan avoided these sounds and fled towards areas where there were no sounds.

These sounds were not from living people but from the dead buried underground, who had turned into zombies and were struggling to crawl out.

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