I Build a Floating City in the Apocalypse – Chapter 38

Chapter 38

Bang!

The shattering glass startled Fang Bai awake from his sleep. The sky was still dim. His Mental Power instantly detected a gorilla-like large zombie smashing through the glass, lunging directly at him from the windowsill.

Fang Bai was shocked, his mind snapping to alertness. He pressed his hand against the bedboard and pushed off, leaping to the foot of the bed. Almost the moment he left the bed, the gorilla zombie landed on it, its sharp claws tearing through the quilt and mattress.

“What’s going on? Who attracted a zombie here?

Weiye Company?”

This thought was the first to flash through Fang Bai’s mind, his eyes revealing a hint of anger. He grabbed a nearby stool and smashed it hard against the large zombie.

Bang!

The stool was flung aside, leaving no mark on the large zombie’s tough skin, not even a scratch.

Fang Bai’s face darkened. He twisted his body and dodged the large zombie’s pounce.

He had collected a large amount of muscle movement data on large zombies yesterday. Although this large zombie was quite a bit stronger, its movement patterns remained unchanged.

While Fang Bai’s attributes were inferior to the large zombie’s, he could avoid being touched even once in the small hotel room, as long as he could predict the direction and type of the zombie’s attacks.

After dodging a few times, Fang Bai found an opportunity to pick up the Bone Armor by the bed and equip it.

Then, he found another opportunity to grab the chopping knife.

Afterward, as if toying with it, Fang Bai accurately and timely dodged each of the large zombie’s attacks, while the large zombie accurately and timely slammed its neck against Fang Bai’s blade every time.

After a few rounds, a gruesome wound had been ground into the large zombie’s neck. Fang Bai gripped the knife with both hands and slashed down fiercely.

Bang!

The large zombie fell to the ground, its head rolling. Fang Bai immediately followed up with a knife to its temple, killing it.

A gust of cold wind blew in through the broken window, and Fang Bai felt a chill on his body. His clothes were soaked with sweat.

“Fortunately, I only took off the Bone Armor before going to bed yesterday. I didn’t even take off my shoes.”

Fang Bai’s face was grim and uncertain. He picked up all his equipment and walked towards the windowsill.

“I’m going to see what’s going on.”

Fang Bai was quite angry after this incident early in the morning.

But when he reached the windowsill and looked out, the anger in his heart vanished without a trace.

Before Fang Bai’s eyes, the zombies that had been gathered in a group, slowly wandering in one place, had all left their locations.

They seemed to be no longer satisfied with waiting in one place. Led by large zombies, they began hunting, chasing sounds and scents.

As Fang Bai watched, he saw several gorilla-like large zombies climb to the third, fourth, or even sixth and seventh floors, smashing windows and climbing into people’s homes.

This “can-opening” behavior would soon be followed by screams from inside.

The ordinary zombies following the large zombies roared from below. Occasionally, the large zombies upstairs would throw down a mangled corpse, and the zombies below would immediately scramble for it.

The zombies that snatched the flesh and blood grew rapidly. They stood beside the building, climbing and falling repeatedly. Their arms gradually lengthened, and their palms became wider.

They were evolving!

Adaptively evolving!

Fang Bai felt a chill in his heart as he watched this scene.

The fourth day!

It was only the fourth day of the apocalypse, and the zombies had already evolved to this extent.

He had originally thought that as long as he stayed at home and relied on the house, he could at least survive safely for ten days to half a month, until the food ran out, and then a large number of survivors would die when they went out.

But the scene before him jolted Fang Bai awake. His dry throat murmured,

“The ones that can climb into houses are all large zombies, with Strength attribute points of at least ten or more, and their Constitution attribute points won’t be bad either. The best among them definitely have more than ten points as well.

Facing large zombies with more than ten points in two attributes, ordinary survivors who haven’t leveled up, or even ordinary survivors at a normal level, have no resistance at all.

And these large zombies have also learned to throw the people they can’t finish eating to the ordinary zombies, promoting their growth and evolution…”

Fang Bai suddenly felt a suffocating pressure.

The world where he could easily farm monsters and level up had been dyed blood red and shrouded in shadows overnight.

Screams echoed in Fang Bai’s ears. He heard sounds from the roof and his Mental Power clearly saw the zombies trying to sneak attack from above. The suppressed Fang Bai slowly retreated, drawing his bow and nocking an arrow.

“Roar!”

Whoosh!

A zombie roared and leaped from the top of the windowsill, but before it could land, an arrow pierced its brain through its eye socket.

Bang!

The large zombie crashed to the ground. Even the experience points gained couldn’t dispel the oppression in Fang Bai’s heart.

Fang Bai silently picked up the dropped copper coins and turned to leave.

But he suddenly stopped, realizing a problem.

“I was staying in a room on the third floor, with no sound or light, yet the zombies could still find me and break the window to attack. This level of perception is incredibly absurd.

And if I go out with this level of perception…”

Fang Bai couldn’t help but shudder.

“I’ll definitely die if I stay outside all the time.”

Fang Bai had a clear understanding of himself.

His archery accuracy now exceeded seventy meters. If he stood still, with his current visual judgment ability, he could directly kill two or three large zombies.

If the large zombies were slower than him, he could kite them to death in an open terrain with no obstacles, no matter how many there were.

But if the large zombies were slightly faster than him and had already chased him close, then Fang Bai was very sure and confident.

One zombie, the zombie dies.

Two zombies, Fang Bai dies from exhaustion.

Three zombies, Fang Bai dies.

Especially the third point. With two zombies, Fang Bai might still be able to jump around between them, taking his time to kill them one by one or being chased by the zombies until he loses his stamina and dies from exhaustion.

But with three, Fang Bai might be able to hold on for a while, but he would inevitably be torn to shreds or infected and turned into a zombie.

“The only way for now is to hold down a position, relying on a building, with a place to rest and a place to defend. Anyway, I don’t have anywhere I want to go, so staying here isn’t a bad idea either.

I don’t know what will happen in the future, but let’s hunt zombies here and level up to level ten first.

Maybe after reaching level ten and changing jobs, I can find a way to break the situation.”

Fang Bai looked back at the broken windowsill, left the room, and started searching the hotel with the universal room card.

Soon, Fang Bai successfully found a windowless room. After entering and putting some things away, he left the room and came to the window of a room with a window again.

He looked at the gorilla-like zombies climbing and searching on the security windows of the neighboring residential building, about a hundred meters away from him.

Fang Bai knocked on the windowsill with a stick and whistled.

“Psst, psst, over here, over here, there’s delicious food here, come on.”

The large zombie, alerted by the sound, turned its head, its scarlet eyes without eyelids staring at Fang Bai.

“Roar!”