Chapter 14 Gathering Strength

Li Chenzhou had already left the shopping mall. He paid no attention to the father and son; in his opinion, people like them wouldn't even survive three days in the apocalypse before they did themselves in, saving him the trouble.

"Hey, brother! Wait a moment!"

Just as he walked out the door, a voice came from behind. Li Chenzhou turned around and saw the man from the second floor earlier. The man stopped as soon as he saw Li Chenzhou halt, raising both hands to show he meant no harm.

"Something?"

Li Chenzhou asked, looking at the man.

"Brother! From what you said earlier, you seem to know a lot about this world?"

The man slowly lowered his hands, looking at Li Chenzhou as he asked, "For example, you knew those zombies were being summoned and wouldn't be alarmed by us. If you hadn't said so, we might not have dared to come out!"

"That's because we've encountered guys who can summon zombies before!"

Li Chenzhou said, then pointed in the direction he came from, "We escaped from there. We encountered two very strong zombies on the way, and a mutated cat. They were all very powerful!"

"Then… how did you kill them?"

The man asked immediately.

Li Chenzhou didn't answer, but simply took out his pistol and showed it to the man.

Seeing the pistol, the man immediately fell silent.

"If you want to survive, try to stick together and leave the city as soon as possible. The wilderness will be relatively safer. Although there are no buildings to shelter you, there also won't be zombies and mutated beasts that can suddenly jump out of corners and pounce on you!"

Li Chenzhou put away his pistol, pointed at the mall, and said to the man, "My suggestion is that you can organize the people here, collect some weapons, food, and water in the mall, and then leave together. Don't walk between buildings, take the highway. With so many of you, you can move the vehicles blocking the road.

"Also, take more cars out. Once you're outside the city, these cars can not only provide you with a place to sleep temporarily, but also be used as walls!"

With that, Li Chenzhou turned to leave.

"Brother! Since you suggest sticking together, why don't you join us?"

The man looked at Li Chenzhou's back and asked again, "If you're willing to stay, I think many people would be willing to follow you!"

"I already have a team!"

Li Chenzhou replied, then hesitated for a moment and added, "The enhanced zombies are very powerful, with very high defense. It's difficult to kill them with cold weapons. It's best to find firearms. After killing them, you can find a crystal nucleus in their brains. Clean it and put it directly in your mouth to absorb. That thing can make you stronger!"

Watching Li Chenzhou's departing figure, the man didn't stop him. He just shouted at Li Chenzhou, "Thanks, brother. My name is Luo Hong. I hope we can meet again in the future!"

"Li Chenzhou!"

Li Chenzhou didn't turn around, but just raised his arm and waved, stating his name.

Watching Li Chenzhou walk towards Duan Lei, Luo Hong sighed and then turned back to the mall…

"Boss! When are we leaving?"

At this time, Zhao Dahai on the twentieth floor had finished venting and was frowning as he looked downstairs. Xiao Lü, standing to the side, asked.

"After that kid leaves!"

Zhao Dahai said with a gloomy expression.

The mist from earlier had filled Zhao Dahai with deep fear. He felt that if he hadn't decisively let go of the girl, they would probably all be corpses now.

Therefore, he absolutely didn't dare to appear in front of Li Chenzhou before he left.

"Boss! With so many of us, that kid wouldn't dare to attack, right?"

Xiao Lü leaned out to look below.

From their position, they could see that many survivors had appeared in other blocks below, and some had already begun to scavenge supplies and load them into vehicles, preparing to leave.

"Hmph! We have a lot of people?"

Zhao Dahai sneered, "Do you think those guys can really be counted as our people? If they encounter that guy and see that he's stronger than us, they'll turn into his people in the blink of an eye!"

"Boss, it's that guy, he's leaving!"

Just then, Guo Jianyong, who had been leaning out the window and looking down, suddenly spoke.

From his angle, he could just see Li Chenzhou and Duan Lei get into a van at the entrance and drive away…

"Are you sure it's him?"

Zhao Dahai rushed over, but at this time, he could only see the car and couldn't clearly see who was inside, so he asked.

"I'm sure! He still has that knife in his hand!"

Guo Jianyong nodded immediately.

Hearing Guo Jianyong's words, Zhao Dahai stared intently at Li Chenzhou's car, confirmed the direction he was leaving, and then turned to look in the other direction.

He also had to leave the city, but he had to choose a direction opposite to Li Chenzhou's.

He hadn't truly subdued the people around him yet. Before stabilizing his position, he absolutely didn't want to encounter Li Chenzhou again!

"Let's go! We'll also prepare to leave. First, go to the mall to collect some supplies, and gather all the people who can drive!"

After finding a seemingly clear road on the other side, Zhao Dahai looked back at the direction Li Chenzhou and his team had left, and seeing that the car had driven far away and shouldn't be coming back, he then spoke, turned around, and led everyone out of the room.

However, Zhao Dahai didn't know that the first to sixth floors of the mall, which had previously been occupied by zombies, had become very lively due to Li Chenzhou's appearance.

Except for the cinema on the sixth floor, which no one bothered to visit, people were constantly moving supplies from the other floors, and in the very center of the atrium on the first floor, the one holding a large loudspeaker and desperately shouting commands was actually Luo Hong.

After Li Chenzhou left, Luo Hong immediately returned to the mall. The mall was naturally in chaos at this time, and Luo Hong immediately rushed over, grabbed a large loudspeaker, and shouted loudly to the crowd, "Everyone! That brother who killed hundreds of zombies here earlier and then left, he's actually a transmigrator! Have you all read apocalypse novels? The kind written in those novels!"

Hearing his words, those people immediately stopped what they were doing. A transmigrator?

"Hey! Those brothers, you don't need to bother. Brother Chenzhou has already said that there are indeed crystal nuclei in the brains of zombies that can make people stronger, but only enhanced zombies have them, these ordinary zombies don't have them!"

Luo Hong also pointed at a few people who were surrounding the corpses of several zombies, using things to break open the zombies' heads and stomachs, searching inside.

These people had obviously read apocalypse novels, so they wanted to see if there was the kind of substance in the brains of these zombies that could make people stronger, as described in the novels.

And Luo Hong's previous words also originated from this. He deeply believed in what Li Chenzhou had told him before, so he decided to gather all the people in the mall together and rush out of the city to establish a base outside.

But he knew in his own heart that he simply couldn't bring all these people to his side. Why would people listen to you?

Therefore, he thought of Li Chenzhou, who had already left. This guy had killed so many zombies earlier, and his strength was quite formidable. However, if he wanted these people to follow him wholeheartedly, then Li Chenzhou couldn't be an ordinary person.

Thus, Luo Hong had a whimsical idea and directly gave Li Chenzhou the identity of a transmigrator. With this identity, he was definitely the protagonist in the novels, and naturally it would be easier to convince and follow him. Anyway, that kid had already left and couldn't hear his words, so he could say whatever he wanted…