The car finally arrived at a dilapidated, abandoned hotel before dark.
There were very few zombies gathered around here.
Yan Qingdou and his group didn't even need to make a move. Li Xichen led Brother Zhong and the others, and within ten minutes, they had cleared a safe perimeter.
Lao Yu pulled an old paper map from his pocket.
He tapped on it.
"Here, we are still over a hundred kilometers away from Chujiang City."
Gu Man glanced at it and said arrogantly,
"Is this torn map of yours even accurate?"
Sister Wan gave her a cold glare but said nothing.
Pei Ruoxue, however, spoke up,
"Our phones ran out of battery a long time ago. We can't use real-time navigation, so we have to rely on this tourist map."
Brother Zhong tried to smooth things over,
"Alright, alright, let's just get a good rest tonight."
Thick dust had accumulated on the glass windows of the hotel's front doors, and the marble outside was stained with some sticky liquid.
It was completely ruined.
Chu Liuyue's footsteps paused.
Li Xichen followed closely behind her, not leaving her side for even half a step.
"What's wrong, Sister Xiaoyue?"
Chu Liuyue looked up at the building in front of them.
"Something isn't right."
"What isn't right?" Gu Man walked past them, giving a mocking look upon hearing this. "You're so timid. So what if you have superpowers?"
After saying that, she tried to pull Zhou Yuan inside with her.
Zhou Yuan reacted quickly and dodged her.
His eyes seemed to convey a clear message.
Stay away from me.
Gu Man then looked at Yan Qingdou and softened her voice.
"Senior Yan, let's go inside first."
Yan Qingdou also stopped his footsteps and turned to look at Chu Liuyue.
He said softly,
"If Yueyue says something isn't right, then something isn't right."
Seeing them all standing at the hotel entrance, Gu Man couldn't help but scoff and said,
"It's already dark. If you don't go inside, are you just going to stand out here in the cold wind?"
She grabbed Pei Ruoxue, who was beside her, and looked at Brother Zhong and the others.
"What do you say?"
"Are you not going in either?"
Brother Zhong and the others looked at each other in dismay.
Lao Yu and his wife exchanged a glance and said, "We'll listen to Xichen."
Seeing that the group was stuck in a stalemate was an issue.
Brother Zhong took the initiative to say,
"Alright, then I'll go in first and scout the way for you."
Gu Man gave him an arrogant glance and nodded.
"At least you know what's good for you!" Seeing Pei Ruoxue shrinking back in fear, she tightened her grip on her arm and said, "Are you not coming with me?"
Pei Ruoxue instinctively looked at Li Xichen.
But she saw that his gaze was entirely fixed on Chu Liuyue in front of him.
She bit her lip and said,
"I'll go with you."
The three of them entered the pitch-black hotel one by one.
Outside the door.
Yan Qingdou narrowed his eyes and asked,
"Yueyue, did you sense something?"
Chu Liuyue turned around to look at the area of cleared zombies nearby and said,
"Haven't you noticed that no matter how much these zombies wander, none of them dare to enter this hotel?"
"This means..."
"There is something even more dangerous inside the hotel."
She had intentionally kept quiet just now.
Just to let Gu Man seek her own death.
As soon as she finished speaking.
A piercing scream echoed from the pitch-black hotel lobby.
"Ah—"
Immediately after, Gu Man scrambled out, her face pale as she dashed toward the door.
Seeing this, Lao Yu immediately stepped forward and asked nervously,
"Where is Brother Zhong?"
Gu Man was so terrified that she didn't dare say a word, just waving her hands frantically.
She panted heavily.
"Run, run away."
Suddenly, a sharp, high-frequency sound wave that exceeded normal volume rang out. Everyone present instinctively covered their ears.
Li Xichen did not retreat; instead, he stepped forward.
He shouted Brother Zhong's name loudly.
Three seconds later, the sound of hurried footsteps rang out.
It was Brother Zhong, his face deathly pale, dragging Pei Ruoxue, whose legs had turned to jelly and couldn't walk, as he limped out.
His superpower was fully activated, and all the tables and chairs pulled by his magnetism crashed into the dark corners behind him.
Yet it could only barely slow its progress.
When it got closer, everyone saw the behemoth in the dark corner.
A black cat the size of a tiger paced out of the darkness. Its body was robust, muscles bulging and rippling beneath its black fur.
Its head was massive, but its ears were incomplete.
One side had only a stub left, revealing the eerie white bones and dark red flesh inside, while the other side drooped.
Its eyes emitted a bizarre, ghostly glow, with no whites or pupils.
Its mouth was wide open, exposing two rows of sharp fangs.
Lao Yu gasped.
He exclaimed,
"Good heavens! How is this a zombie cat? This is clearly a big black tiger!"
On the other side, Brother Zhong finally managed to sprint to the group. He threw the weak Pei Ruoxue to Gu Man and said,
"Quick, run!"
"This hotel is its territory, and we accidentally trespassed!"
Gu Man, however, stepped back first.
Watching helplessly as Pei Ruoxue fell to the ground.
What a joke.
If she cared about this stupid woman, she wouldn't have run so fast just now.
In the end, it was Sister Wan who couldn't stand it and pulled Pei Ruoxue up.
The group stepped back step by step.
Cautiously watching the approaching zombie black cat.
Gu Man pointed at Pei Ruoxue and couldn't help but complain,
"It's all her fault. If she hadn't suddenly screamed, she wouldn't have provoked the zombie cat."
Pei Ruoxue's face was deathly pale. She breathed heavily, unable to speak.
But her eyes glared widely.
It was clearly Gu Man who stepped on the black cat's tail first. As a result, when the black cat twitched its muscles and prepared to get up, Gu Man grabbed her and threw her backward.
Wanting to delay the zombie cat's attack.
If Brother Zhong hadn't used his magnetic superpower to block the black cat's attack, she would have been bitten to death.
She was so terrified that her body went limp without a trace of strength.
Brother Zhong had to drag and pull her just to bring her back.
The air reeked of a nauseating, fishy stench.
With every breath the zombie black cat took, hot air carrying a rotten stench blew from its bloody maw.
Its tongue was not the pink and soft kind of an ordinary cat, but had become long and black, covered in thorny barbs.
Terrifying and dangerous.
Zhou Yuan, Yan Qingdou, and Li Xichen blocked her front.
Chu Liuyue tilted her head slightly, staring at the black cat.
The zombie black cat's walking posture was a bit strange, limping along.
It suddenly stopped in its tracks.
It tilted its massive head and used its hollow eyes to look at Chu Liuyue.
Everyone was stunned.
Gu Man couldn't help but curse,
"Yuan, Senior Yan, are you idiots?"
"Chu Liuyue wants to rush to her death on her own. Why are you still standing in front of her? Hurry up and run!"
But the two men turned a deaf ear to her words.
Yan Qingdou narrowed his eyes, glanced at the black cat, and then at Chu Liuyue.
He said,
"Do you know each other?"
Chu Liuyue didn't answer.
She merely signaled them to step aside.
She took a proactive step forward, stared at the massive zombie black cat, and tentatively said,
"Mimi?"
Some emotion seemed to reveal itself in the zombie black cat's hollow eye sockets.
Its tail was thick and long, like a giant black python, wagging happily behind it.
The fur on its tail was just like the rest of its body, messy and filthy.
"Awooo—"
It suddenly let out a cry, its voice surprisingly carrying a hint of sweet affection.
