Chapter 1: The Beginning
A line of twelve people marched forward on a dilapidated gravel road, with many tall alien plants growing along the roadside. The group's morale was high; leading the way were two robust men over 180 centimeters tall, one with a rather ordinary face and sharp facial features, the other with a somewhat handsome appearance - Liang Jing and Jia Yu-jin, and this team was indeed Liang Jing's group.
At this time, Liang Jingzheng and Jia Yukin were discussing this matter, only to realize that they had become lost after successfully rescuing Jia Yukin and awakening her. Indeed, the two groups of people had been fleeing in a panic for several days, first from the mouse tide and then from the "Dragon" monster, without knowing exactly where they had run to. As a result, while following the direction of the sun, they became lost and did not know their current location. Since no one in the group was familiar with Jiangnan Province, they could only continue walking along this rural sandstone road, hoping to encounter villagers or reach a larger city.
"Originally, I was going to go to K City to check out the situation and gather some information, but now I'm completely lost there." Liang Jing felt a bit depressed. They had been walking for three days, but hadn't encountered any humans, and his own strength hadn't made a breakthrough, still stuck at 13 points. It could be said that this trip was very unlucky, encountering many strange creatures, but none of them were elite monsters. Ordinary monster life sources had little effect on increasing his power, so he could only rely on continuous hard training to slowly improve. On the other hand, Zhang Hu and others had been fighting these ordinary monsters along the way under Liang Jing's orders, wearing a set of leather armor and wielding short knives, while Liang Jing stood by and put on a show. At first, it was uneventful, but they made great progress and changes, becoming more fierce and heroic.
"Let's find other living people to ask, China is so big and you can't even find one living person." Jia Yujin was also very frustrated. He didn't study well himself and was locked up in prison early on, so he knew very little about the outside world, and had even lost touch with it. Even computers and the internet were just legendary things to him.
"Hmm, it's like this now. Without transportation or communication, it's really troublesome. We don't know any news from the outside. This world feels more backward than ancient times in terms of transportation and communication. Perhaps the survivors are all wondering where to go to find a safe place to live. Cities with military bases are definitely the first choice."
Mooooo...
Bang! Bang!
Just then, a loud cowbell sound came from the front, followed by two consecutive gunshots and human chaos. Liang Jing and others in the team couldn't help but feel a shock, they hadn't seen other humans for many days, how could it not be exciting? Humans are social animals after all.
Liang Jing let everyone and the Toxic Ripper stay behind to be on guard, while he and Old Jia quickly moved forward to take a look at the situation before deciding what to do. It's better not to act rashly when you don't know what's going on. After this period of time, everyone had become accustomed to Liang Jing's orders, so they put down their luggage and rested while being ready to fight at any moment. As for the Toxic Ripper, who was also wearing a brown-red leather armor, he was wandering around near everyone, but it was unknown why he didn't seem to be afraid of sunlight like the mutated Black-backed Dog (zombie). At least, now that he was wearing the leather armor, he didn't show any abnormal behavior under the sun.
When Liang Jing and the others turned a corner, they saw a large group of human survivors in front of them. There were men and women, old and young, some dressed in suits with an urban white-collar look, while others wore tattered camouflage uniforms like migrant workers. Some even looked like successful people with big bellies. There were also many more elderly people, children, and women, all looking panicked and confused, as if they had been overwhelmed by the changes in the world over the past few days.
Mooooo!
Mooooo!
Pfft!
"Oh no, another cow monster is coming!" a man in his twenties shouted loudly with a look of horror.
"Don't rush! Take aim and fire, I don't believe these monsters can really be immortal." A middle-aged man with a somewhat gloomy expression looked at the giant bull monster that was hit by bullets, but it seemed to be fine, its eyes dark red, and even more frenzied, trampling on the flames of anger towards him. His voice was low and slightly hoarse, but his hand holding the 56 semi-automatic rifle tightened, obviously not as calm as he seemed.
"Big country, give me the aiming point to hit his vital parts, others get ready for blocking and defense." The gloomy man once again emphasized the aim of hitting to his partner on one side, letting more than a dozen men holding chopping knives, steel pipes, fire axes and other cold weapons around him prepare for battle with the giant cow monster.
On one side, more than a dozen men suddenly turned pale, oh my god, looking at the full body covered with thick and long yellowish-white hair like a yak, over 3.5 meters tall, and more than 7 meters long, like an ancient giant beast heavy truck, flashing devil-like dark red eyes rushing towards this side, those thick and hard iron hooves making a loud "Dong Dong Dong" sound on the road, striking the heart, the ground was shaking, how could they fight with their broken copper and iron in hand, their hands holding weapons were trembling, no one dared to confirm whether they could survive if this giant beast hit them once, let alone it's not just one; at the same time, in their hearts, they scolded the middle-aged man with a gloomy face, but on his face, he didn't dare show any dissatisfaction.
Bang! Bang!——
As another cow monster appeared, the gloomy man and his partner, Da Guo, held their Type 56 semi-automatic rifles and fired continuously, shooting bullets. The cow monsters were running too fast, and if they didn't shoot, they would lose their chance. With the continuous gunfire, the people behind them seemed to relax a lot, apparently having had similar experiences before. The sense of security brought by these gunshots was quite sufficient for them. However, the cow monster they faced this time was not comparable to the previous monsters...
Mooooo!
Only to see that with the sound of gunfire, two Type 56 assault rifles fired off all 20 rounds, but because the cow monster's running speed was too fast, only a few bullets actually hit the cow monster, and they only barely broke through its skin, penetrating about one centimeter into its flesh. For a cow monster with thick skin and meat, this didn't count as any real harm, just immense pain and blood staining its fur red, making the two massive cow monsters even more furious, bellowing loudly, snorting air from their noses, their twin horns growing longer and sharper after mutation, black and ominous, seemingly able to pierce through everything, charging rapidly towards the direction of the crowd...
No good!
Looking at the giant cow monster that was shot in the neck but seemed to be fine, the gloomy man could no longer remain calm. Because of their gunfire attack, the cow monsters were now charging towards them; his current weapon couldn't cause any harm to the enemy, and his trump card had completely lost its effect. This was a life-or-death situation, no, it was a dead-end situation! He could no longer keep his composure, and his face suddenly changed color.
"Hurry, you guys hurry up and stop them, give us some time to reload." The gloomy man gave a signal with his eyes to his partner on the side, at this point he couldn't care less about anything else, pulled out his leg and ran towards the back of the crowd, letting these usual followers who were also doing quite well for themselves go die, in order to give himself some time to escape, thinking in his heart that previously when following him they had good food and drink, now it was time for them to make a contribution.
As for the people behind, they are also being used by him. He thinks that now no one can save them, and all that awaits them is the result of being slaughtered. It's not worth going to die for them, it's better to let them contribute a little more, to give himself some time; after all, he only became the 'guard' of this survivor team because he saw the best food and women here. If possible, take action, but don't think about really sacrificing yourself, death is not an option, only wealth matters. He just glanced at his own women in the team with a hint of pity, but didn't stop moving forward. The big country itself isn't a good person either, now following this old leader and having food and drink is enough, and there won't be any opinions.
Mooooo!
Kill!
The dozen or so men in front were completely unaware of the current situation, some thought that if they were brave enough, they might gain the appreciation of the gloomy man, and maybe even be granted a beauty to play with. They took the lead and charged forward, while others followed out of instinctual fear, and the more cunning ones trailed behind, ready to flee in multiple directions if things went wrong.
