Chapter 1 The Oddity of Qi City

Li Chenzhou and the others had already noticed that the density of zombies in Qi City was not high. This didn't seem strange to the Gray Bears, but Li Chenzhou knew there was definitely something wrong with Qi City.

A city district should have at least several hundred thousand people. After the apocalypse, the ratio of zombies to humans would be roughly 6:4 or 7:3.

But now, they could only kill tens of thousands of zombies when clearing a district. Although it sounded like a lot, it didn't match the real number of zombies at all.

However, Li Chenzhou wasn't worried. He didn't plan to rush directly to the city center. Instead, he would advance steadily and clear a path to the central urban area. This was the safest approach.

After experiencing the Corpse Demon in Qing City, Li Chenzhou no longer relied on his previous life's experiences, as they were completely irrelevant. Therefore, he preferred to be cautious and slow rather than take risks.

Although the instructor had said that the Devourers wouldn't arrive until five years later, who knew if they would come early? The Corpse Demon might be one of the Devourers, or at least an intelligent lifeform of the same caliber as the Devourers.

Now that a Corpse Demon had already appeared, no one could guarantee that a second one wouldn't appear in Qi City! Especially now that he could sense something was off about Qi City.

Because of Fatty's taunts and the low zombie density, they were clearing the area very quickly. This time, they didn't circle around like they did in Qing City. Instead, they chose a route and headed straight for the city center.

So, by evening, Li Chenzhou and the others were already close to the central area of Qi City.

However, what they found strange was that the zombie density hadn't changed. It was still sparse, and they hadn't encountered any enhanced zombies of any type!

All the zombies were ordinary zombies. They rarely saw any mutated beasts in Qi City, as if the apocalypse in Qi City was a step behind!

"Stop for a moment! Wait here!"

Just as Duan Lei was driving the Dark Blood forward, Li Chenzhou suddenly signaled Duan Lei to stop because he saw a light spot approaching him on his attribute panel!

The light spot represented his follower, and among his followers, only two were not by his side: Zhang Hu and Sun Qiang, the one newly recruited at the stronghold!

Zhang Hu was in Qing City, trying to destroy the Corpse Demon's light cannon, so he naturally wouldn't be here. Therefore, the follower approaching him was naturally Sun Qiang.

7, Sun Qiang, Loyalty: 10, Combat Power: 19.

Li Chenzhou subconsciously looked at Sun Qiang's information. To his surprise, this guy's combat power was 18 before, but in just two or three days, it had become 19.

Li Chenzhou had only given Sun Qiang one evolutionary potion, so he was only a level one evolver, and his maximum attribute value was only 20.

"Did this kid eat a mutated creature?"

Li Chenzhou muttered to himself.

He didn't know what Sun Qiang was looking for him for. Normally, Sun Qiang would only look for him for one thing: evolutionary potions!

He had told Sun Qiang that he could ask him for an evolutionary potion for every thousand zombies he killed, and the evolutionary potion he had given him before was considered a debt. So, if Sun Qiang wanted to ask him for an evolutionary potion, he would need to kill at least two thousand zombies.

There was a flaw in the follower panel: although the follower's killing of zombies would increase Li Chenzhou's kill points, the details of this kill point increase would not be displayed.

In other words, Li Chenzhou didn't know how many kill points each follower had added to him. Like when Zhang Hu slaughtered the rat swarm, it had given Li Chenzhou a large number of kill points. But it was only because of the sudden surge that Li Chenzhou realized that Zhang Hu had killed a large number of zombies or mutated beasts.

But now, they were slaughtering zombies every day, and Zhang Hu was definitely earning kill points as well, so Li Chenzhou had no idea how many zombies this guy Sun Qiang had killed!

"Sigh! The system still has flaws! It's a pity I can't find customer service!"

Li Chenzhou shook his head regretfully. He really hoped the system could strengthen the follower panel.

The current follower panel only had the name, loyalty, and combat power. Even the follower's talents and skills had to be asked by Li Chenzhou himself. The panel wouldn't display them, and even the combat power was just the follower's highest attribute, without even showing the type. This was really a pain in the ass!

Just as Li Chenzhou was feeling depressed, Sun Qiang's figure appeared, and it was in the street ahead of them.

Duan Lei was stunned when he saw Sun Qiang. He looked back at Li Chenzhou and asked,

"Did you send him?"

Sun Qiang came from the opposite direction, so he naturally came from the city center! So, the moment he saw Sun Qiang, Duan Lei thought that perhaps Li Chenzhou had asked Sun Qiang to scout the city center.

Although they were all followers, Sun Qiang was clearly not a member of their team. Therefore, it was reasonable for Li Chenzhou to let him scout out potentially dangerous areas—it wouldn't hurt if he died, would it?

"No!"

But Li Chenzhou shook his head. He had just had a whim and gave Sun Qiang an evolutionary potion, then told him to kill zombies. Anyway, he still had a follower slot, so of course, he wouldn't ask anything of him.

After answering Duan Lei, Li Chenzhou directly appeared outside the vehicle, looking at the rapidly approaching Sun Qiang.

"...Boss! I...I have something I want to tell you!"

When he saw Li Chenzhou, Sun Qiang stopped. He looked at Li Chenzhou and hesitated before deciding to call Li Chenzhou "Boss".

"Is it about the city center?"

Li Chenzhou asked calmly.

"You know?"

Sun Qiang was startled when he heard Li Chenzhou's words.

"Come in first!"

Seeing Sun Qiang's expression, Li Chenzhou's expression remained unchanged. He beckoned to him.

Li Chenzhou didn't know anything. He just heard Sun Qiang say that he had something to tell him, and since he came from the city center, he asked him that question.

He didn't expect to hit the nail on the head, making Sun Qiang think that he already knew something. Since that was the case, Li Chenzhou would naturally not take the initiative to expose it.

"Tell me first! What did you see?"

After entering the RV, Li Chenzhou took Sun Qiang directly into the living room. Then he sat on the sofa and looked at the dazed Sun Qiang.

"This..."

Sun Qiang carefully looked at the living room and the many doors next to it. His expression was quite strange. Seeing that Li Chenzhou didn't seem to be planning to explain, he didn't dare to ask any more questions. He had to come to Li Chenzhou, but he didn't dare to sit down. He just bent over and looked at Li Chenzhou and said:

"In the city center, I saw a group of people. They said that there are very powerful zombies there, underground!"