Chrysalis

Chapter 333: Arriving at the Upper City District

Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations

At about four or five pm, the motorcade entered the center of Hangzhou City.

“This… Are we heading to the zombie city Hangzhou?” The people who had applied for the job by themselves were a little panicked. Seeing more and more zombies around, these people all showed fear in their eyes, especially those commoners.

“We… We don’t want to go! We don’t want to go!… We want to go back! You lied, like everyone else said! Did you bring us here to use us as baits?”

“He’s right! We won’t go there with you!”

Chen Yuting’s teammates didn’t shout loud along with them, but they had panicked as well. Only a few of them stayed fearless.

“Hah, calm down… These are nothing but zombies. If a zombie attacked you, you only need to smash its head. If two zombies attacked you, you’ll just have to smash their heads too. This is better than being starved in the base.” A muffled voice was heard.

People turned to the source of the voice and saw a man who was at least six feet and three inches tall. He had bushy eyebrows and large eyes, square face and a Roman nose. His hair were in a flat top which wasn’t flat at all. Clearly, that hair weren’t cut by a professional barber.

The others stared at him and one of them said loudly, “You… You have a superpower! Of course, you’re not afraid of zombies! You can pick up any mission in the base, and then you’ll have food to eat. Will you ever be starved?”

The tall man shook his head and responded honestly, “Ugh… The money I earned from missions was never enough for me to feed myself… I didn’t dare to come out alone, but the others wouldn’t team up with me.”

At that point, a bland voice joined the conversation, “Why are you so nervous? Look carefully, those zombies don’t dare to approach us. Haven’t you realized that?”

The others turned to where that voice came from and saw a young man wearing an old pair of square glasses, sitting aside with his arms crossed before his chest. He was observing the road through his glasses. After he said what he did, he raised his head to glance at Lin Yu and his teammates who were quiet the whole time, then turned his eyes away.

After hearing his words, the others all calmed down a little and also looked outside the window, as though they were influenced by this young man’s composure. While observing, they found that the zombies on the road didn’t bare their teeth or spread their claws to crazily charge at the motorcade, but all paused briefly after spotting the vehicles, then turned and quickly ran away.

“Eh? Ugh? It’s real! They all ran away! Why?” the tall man looked around with surprise.

“Look this way, these zombies ran away as well!”

“No wonder the journey has been so peaceful so far. We haven’t encountered any zombies yet.”

Lin Qiao, who sat in the front, glanced at the people back there, then turned around.

At the front, Lin Feng and Chen Yuting arrived at the government building in the Upper City District after half an hour of driving according to Lin Qiao’s map. They did spend a long time to get to this place because the roads were all jammed. Their vehicle was too large to drive through the narrow roads, so they had no choice but to get off the car and push away all the abandoned vehicles on the road, then drive through.

Therefore, they spent a great effort to drive to the government building. Thankfully, their vehicle was loaded with people. In the jammed sections, they sent some soldiers to clear the way, or directly used their powers to do that.

However, this place wasn’t their destination; it was the Victoria Hotel, which was further away. They were only passing by this area.

Before arriving at the hotel, Lin Qiao suddenly stood up and leaped out. She leaped on the vehicle at the front, then continued leaping forward until she landed before Lin Feng’s vehicle.

“Wait here!” Lin Qiao stopped the vehicle in the middle of the road and said to the people in it, then turned and walked toward the hotel which was by the roadside.

Xiao Yunlong stuck his head out of the window and said, “What is she doing?”

Chen Yuting shook his head.

“Um… Clear away zombies?” Lin Feng speculated.

The others looked at him, wondering why Lin Qiao would clear away the zombies alone. Wouldn’t more people complete the work faster?

“In fact, the zombies nearby have mostly escaped,” Lin Feng continued, “I guess she’s just going to drive out the ones which are still hiding in the hotel. Think about who she is. Once she releases her vibe, those zombies would run away. She doesn’t even need to do anything else.”

Xiao Yunlong and Chen Yuting nodded. They had actually remembered what Miss. Lu was right after they had asked that question without hesitation.

Lin Qiao walked into the hotel. The hotel building wasn’t tall, but was quite large, with over two-hundred rooms, and was quite nicely decorated. Once the solar power equipment was connected with the power supply of this building, this place would be good enough for people to live in.

In front of the hotel was a commercial plaza. The geographic location of this place was not bad.

This place was crowded with zombies before. However, after sensing the arrival of Lin Qiao’s motorcade, they all fled as quickly as possible.

Lin Qiao entered the hotel building and walked around in it. When she was doing that, the people outside saw a few zombies jump down from the windows of some hotel rooms.

About ten minutes later, they saw Lin Qiao walk out.

She stood on the broad road before the hotel and waved at the others, “All clear, get off!”

Xiao Yunlong and the others drove the vehicles over, then all the soldiers got off.

After that, Lin Qiao said to Xiao Yunlong, Lin Feng, and Chen Yuting, who had walked up to her, “We’ll be staying in this hotel before the construction work is done. There are over two-hundred rooms, which should be enough to accommodate all our people. Any different thoughts?”

The three shook their heads. She was the one who chose this place, so they had no reason to disagree with her even if they wanted to. After all, she was the one who secured the absolute safety.

What if she decided to turn and leave if they didn’t agree with her? Once she left, the zombie crowd nearby would become a true nightmare. Those were tens of millions of zombies. Even if those zombies did not kill them directly, they would make them die from exhaustion.

As no one objected, Lin Qiao nodded and continued, “There’s another thing… Leave all the top-floor rooms for us. Tell the others to not go up there. You know why.”

The three glanced at each other, then nodded knowingly.

After that, Lin Qiao turned around and abruptly hopped onto a treetop, then directly leaped onto the roof of the hotel building. Lin Feng and the other two turned back to gather their people, then led them into the lobby of the hotel.

Lin Qiao stood on the roof and flashed into her space, preparing to send Qiu Lili and Mengmeng out. However, right after she steadied herself, her body was coiled by a few jade-white vines.

Viney seemed to have been waiting for her. ‘Mama, Mama, Viney wants to upgrade… Please find me large energy nuclei…’

Lin Qiao looked at her with surprise, saying, “Eh? Didn’t I just give you a bunch of level four and five zombie nuclei? Weren’t those enough?”

Viney responded with discontentment, ‘No, those were far from enough… And I’ve given the energy to the new girl…’

While speaking, Viney pulled out a vine and pointed at Shen Yujen.

Liu Jun glanced at Shen Yujen, seeing that she was sitting in front of Liu Jun and Qiu Lili, looking a little overcautious. It seemed that she didn’t dare to move without permission.

It was probably because she had been completely suppressed by Qiu Lili’s vibe, as the latter was too close to her.