Luo Luo had seen pythons at the zoo and in Thai amusement parks, but never one so thick and long.
It looked to be half a meter in diameter and about two meters long. Despite its beautiful golden color, it still made people's scalps tingle.
Chang Kai Tong stared and asked, "Sister Nuan, if they fight, who do you think will win?"
"Hard to say."
The rat swarm had the advantage of numbers, while the other side had the advantage of strength.
The Rat King was already suffocating. Once the Rat King died, these smaller ones would naturally scatter.
But before a victor was decided, it was hard to tell who would fall.
An Nuan, however, felt a pity for the crystals.
The Rat King would likely produce a crystal. Whether it swallowed the python or the python ate it, it would absorb the other's crystal power and become stronger.
This was the law of the jungle in the apocalypse, survival of the fittest.
"They won't chase us for now, let's rest a bit."
An Nuan returned to the cabin and found a clean spot to sit.
Juanzi nudged against her.
She roughly ruffled Juanzi's head.
"The rats have gotten so big, you need to step up your game, you can't lose!"
Juanzi: Just you wait!
An Nuan brought out a few bottles of water, chocolate, and biscuits to replenish everyone's energy.
She especially gave Hai Chang Feng a bottle of collagen.
He gave a wry smile, "Boss Nuan, I can understand the zinc supplement, but what's with the collagen? Are you afraid my skin will sag!"
"I'm afraid you'll lose too much blood and your skin will deteriorate, making you look old!"
"Little Nuan is right. If you supplement more collagen, maybe the female zombie will go easy on you!"
Hai Chang Feng's mind conjured images.
He shivered with disgust and immediately bit open the cap, drinking the contents.
The yacht traveled for less than half an hour before reaching the entrance of Qianhua Department Store.
The first floor was submerged, and the main entrance was completely blocked.
Hai Chang Feng found a large glass window of a fast-moving consumer goods store and smashed a hole with a fire hydrant.
Luo Luo immediately used her vines to widen the opening, allowing half of the yacht to enter.
Chang Kai Tong went ahead to check the path. "Sister Nuan, the second floor is intact, but it's frozen inside, and the ground is covered in ice."
An Nuan took out snow shoes for everyone to change into, making it easier to walk on the ice.
As soon as she got down, she collected all the items from the Zara store into her space.
Previously, An Nuan thought there were only her and Luo Luo in their little nest, so she had stocked up on food and supplies for two people for a hundred years.
Now that there were two more men, and the cat had grown, she didn't feel like doing laundry after killing zombies.
The consumption of clothes, food, and cat litter and food had all exceeded her previous estimates.
An Nuan decided to start collecting anything useful into her space from now on.
If she didn't take it, someone else would eventually.
"Sister Nuan, look below!"
The center of the mall was hollow. It was now flooded, and the water level was about half a meter below the second floor.
Various debris floated on the surface of the water.
And also, drowned and bitten people.
They were bloated, their deaths already gruesome, and the bloating made them even more disgusting and eerie.
Chang Kai Tong had seen many shocking scenes, but for some reason, seeing this scene in the mall made him feel a chill.
Luo Luo asked, "Will there be zombies inside?"
Hai Chang Feng asked, "Do zombies need to breathe?"
If they didn't need to breathe, then underwater would be very unsafe.
An Nuan shook her head.
She had seen zombies that could swim, but not zombies that could walk underwater.
However, this was limited to zombies below rank five.
An Nuan hadn't had the luck to spar with rank five or higher zombies, nor did she want to.
An Nuan said, "Let's stay away from the water for now. Even if there are no zombies, dealing with a few异种 (mutants) would be troublesome."
"You're right."
Luo Luo clung to An Nuan. She didn't want to encounter cockroaches again, let alone pythons...
Everyone walked to Building B. This area was not open, and the water below did not seep here.
Luo Luo asked, "Should we play the audio?"
"Over a thousand zombies, and no floor barriers. What if they all charge at us? Can we handle it?"
Chang Kai Tong and Luo Luo both shook their heads.
Hai Chang Feng looked around and said, "Even though the mall is huge, over a thousand monsters should make some noise. Why can't I hear anything?"
"I also find it strange. I've seemed to hear sounds since a while ago, but I haven't seen anything."
"Meow~"
Juanzi was hanging around Chang Kai Tong's neck, pointing a paw in one direction.
They followed Juanzi's direction and saw a luxury goods counter.
The transparent roll-up door was pulled down, blocking more than twenty rank-one zombies inside.
"Good luck!"
An Nuan instructed Chang Kai Tong and Hai Chang Feng to open the roll-up door.
As soon as the door opened, zombies swarmed out. An Nuan easily eliminated a group with her Devour ability.
Hai Chang Feng witnessed her magic trick for the second time, but each time he found it astonishing.
"This move is awesome!"
"What's awesome? It's a wasted effort!"
More than twenty zombies, not a single crystal. She was furious!
They were not as good as that group of rats.
An Nuan frowned. "Qianhua Department Store is as large as five football fields. It will take too much time to find a thousand zombies. Let's split into two groups to speed things up."
"Little Nuan, I don't want to be separated from you!"
Luo Luo clung to her, their faces touching. The two girls' affectionate display made the two men feel a bit awkward.
An Nuan also pressed her face against Luo Luo's. "You and Xiao Tong stay together, bring Juanzi, and sweep floors two and three. I'll go with Hai Chang Feng for floors four, five, and six."
Hai Chang Feng currently had no offensive power, so staying with An Nuan was the safest option.
Everyone agreed with An Nuan's arrangement. The two groups, each with a cat, began to sweep the floors.
Chang Kai Tong was lucky; he encountered a few small zombies early on and easily dealt with them.
Luo Luo extended her vines to scout various areas, and as soon as zombies were lured out, she wrapped them up.
Some had their heads twisted off by the vines, while others had their heads severed by the laser dagger.
Luo Luo laughed, "This dagger is so useful!"
"Sister Luo Luo, you look so cool when you chop off their heads!"
"Little brother, you too! When you hook your fingers like that, even I'm getting smitten!"
Luo Luo said with a smile as she cleaved open zombie heads.
After killing more than forty zombies, she had to thoroughly mess up each head before finding eight crystals.
An Nuan's side was not optimistic either.
On the fourth floor of Building C, over a hundred zombies were milling around.
Hai Chang Feng's face turned pale, and he tightly hugged Dai Dai.
"Hide in the Cha Bai Dao. I'll find you after I finish them."
"Boss Nuan, please be careful."
Hai Chang Feng, holding Dai Dai, hid in the milk tea shop.
An Nuan had allowed him to bring the cat.
Since he had no offensive capability, having Dai Dai protect him was the best choice.
As soon as Hai Chang Feng entered, he saw a dead store clerk on the ground, covered in insects.
Hai Chang Feng suppressed his nausea, took a watermelon knife from the corpse's hand, and shook off the bugs.
He was useless now; the only thing he could do was not be a burden.