Chapter 11 Escape from the City Center
Chapter 11 Escape from the City Center
Once people got onto the public transport, chaos crupted.
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Arge number of elderly people copsed on the buses. As soon as they stood, there was nowhere for the other passengers to escape.
A few fortunate ones reached their workces, just like Laura had.
Some of them had their own cars or used electric bikes. They made it by sheer luck, only to find that the gates were closed for the day.
As they gathered in small groups, confused, they saw someone stumbling toward them, covered in blood.
This marked the start of the apocalypse.
When everyone saw this, they immediately assumed it was a fight or that danger had arrived.
Kind–hearted people tried to help, only to be bitten by zombies.
This was happening everywhere in the city.
The entire ce was crumbling to ruins.
Theresa understood that this was just the beginning.
There were still many people who had not yet left their homes.
Now was the best time to leave, while everyone was still caught off guard.
If they waited too long, a mass exodus would begin, and the entire transportation system would copse.
“Help…”
At that moment, a young woman appeared in front of Theresa with her arms outstretched.
On the side of the road, her boyfriend was supporting an elderly woman who had fallen.
“Stop the car! Someone has fainted. Please stop and take her to the hospital!”
The woman stood in the middle of the road, trying to block the car.
The new car was driven by Theresa. The woman found it odd that there were so few cars around today, and all the emergency numbers were unreachable.
She had waited a long time before Theresa passed by.
Without a choice except to try to stop the car herself, the woman stood in the middle of the road.
Theresa looked at the woman with cold eyes and pressed the elerator to the floor.
<i>Whoosh</i>.
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Honey, are you abrigin?
Thar Thave never seen anyone like that. Not only did she refuse to help, but she didn’t even show down. She almost hit me
You must be careful when trying to stop a car. There are so many selfish people in the world. How many are as kind as we are? You should take a picture of it and post it online. Shame her… Aah!”
The man, who had been speaking, suddenly screamed.
His neck had been bitten deeply.
The one who bit him was the elderly woman he had been helping, who had just regained consciousness.
The woman’s eyes opened, gray and cloudy, and she bit into his neck.
Blood gushed out in bright red sprays.
“Honey!” “The woman quickly stepped back, then ran forward to strike the elderly woman with her bag.
“Let go of my husband!”
She kicked and hit the zombie woman, and as soon as the zombie let go of her husband, she quickly pulled him up.
“Honey, let’s go to the hospital… Are you alright?”
The woman supported her dear with one hand while continuing to fend off the elderly zombie that was slowly rising from the ground.
She realized that no matter how hard she hit, the elderly woman remained unaffected.
What was even more terrifying was that the zombie’s limbs were twisted in unnatural angles.
Her face was pale and lifeless, and her gray eyes were empty. Her mouth hung open, showing missing teeth, filled with blood.
She looked just like… the zombies from TV shows.
At that moment, the woman was ovee with terror.
Was this really a zombie?
At that moment…
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Someone beside her suddenly knocked her to the ground. Her husband, now a zombie, bit down on her
neck.
“Aah! Dear…”
“Dear… it’s me…”
The old zombie woman from carlier lunged at her, tearing open her abdomen. The zombies cagerly devoured her flesh.
As her intestines were violently ripped out, thest thing she saw was the tailpipe of a speeding car.
It was the car from earlier, the one that didn’t stop.
Theresa saw the woman being knocked down and torn apart in the rearview mirror, but she quickly turned her gaze away.
Kindness? Enthusiasm?
Sorry, those things could only be found in paradise.
Here, it was hell.
Theresa pressed the elerator.
Vroom.
Boom.
<i>Bang</i><i>! </i><i>Bang</i><i>! </i><i>Bang</i><i>. </i>
As she sped forward, Theresa noticed the road conditions getting worse.
Arge number of vehicles and people were fleeing in the opposite direction.
At an intersection ahead, several cars had overturned, blocking most of the road. As Theresa weaved through the wreckage, she saw groups of zombies hanging around the open car doors, attacking the drivers and passengers inside and greedily tearing into them.
Screams filled the air as blood flowed.
As Theresa passed, the zombies seemed to sense fresh prey and began chasing her car.
Everything that moved would be their target.
The entire intersection was in chaos.
Theresa frowned.
Something about this felt off.
How could there be so many zombies?
Suddenly, Theresa saw arge red cross ahead.
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Darn, there was a hospital.
She had been wondering how the situation had escted so quickly on this road.
It turned out there was a hospital.
Bang! Bang! Bang
Theresa plowed through a dozen zombies charging at her and sped through the intersection.
The hospital was a disaster zone, but once she passed it, she would be safe.
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On the left side of the intersection, zombies were pouring out of several entrances. Upon seeing Theresa’s car approaching, they lunged at her vehicle inrge groups.
The fastest was a blood–soaked female zombie in a nurse’s uniform. She crashed through the guardrail on the left and lunged at Theresa’s car.
<i>Bang</i>.
A bloody hand mmed against the windshield.
The female zombie opened her mouth wide and let out a howl before she began biting at the ss. At such a close distance, Theresa could clearly see her grotesque face.
Her nose waspletely chewed off, leaving a gaping ck hole. Her right eyeball dangled precariously from its socket, on the verge of falling out. Her mouth was half torn open, exposing the bone beneath, while the other half still bore traces of the shiny lip gloss she had applied earlier that morning.
Howl.
Frustrated after failing to bite through the ss, the nurse zombie stretched her grotesque mouth even wider. With a fierce tug, she tore a massive gash across her already mutted face, resembling a cartoon character with a mouth unnaturally ripped open, and resumed her assault on the ss.
<i>Screech</i>.
Theresa mmed on the brakes.
With a wless spin, she executed a 360–degree turn, hurling the zombie away and shaking off the swarm of others attempting to pounce on her.
Zombies? There was nothing to fear.
She had killed too many of them.
Theresa pressed the elerator again, and with a roar, she sped forward, breaking free from the hospital
area.
Just as she passed another intersection, on the brink of escaping the hospital zone, there was a loud boom.
A massive 22–wheel truck had lost control and collided with a small car in front of her, blocking the road ahead.
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There was no way to avoid it.
Boom.
Crash.
The deafening sound of vehicles flipping over.
Theresa’s head violently snapped back.
It was from the airbags.
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At that moment, the massive truck overturned in the middle of the intersection, crushing several small cars beneath it andpletely blocking the roadway.
Theresa’s car was just inches away from being trapped under one of the truck’s giant tires.
After she narrowly avoided the crash, Theresa’s head throbbed from the airbag impact as she pped it in frustration and tried to restart the car.
“Darn it!”
The car broke down.
Theresa had not thought about fixing it. First, there was no time. Second, she had little money. Third, after spending so much time in the apocalypse, she knew she would not really need the car.
She would have the car but no fuel.
Fuel had be an incredibly scarce resource in theter stages. It was needed for so many things and using it for a car was a luxury,
Theresa had be ustomed to walking short distances, using modified bicycles and other vehicles for medium distances, and avoiding long trips
Who would want to go that far?
In the apocalypse, traveling long distances was a death sentence.
As a consumable, a fuel–powered car was not one of Theresa’s essential investments.
Darn it! She was in real trouble now that she did not have a car.
Howl.
The sound of rustling grew louder from outside.
Theresa rubbed her head inside the car. Once her mind cleared, she calmly surveyed her surroundings, unbuckled her seatbelt, and opened the car door.
As she got out, she pulled out a shovel.
A knife was useless against zombies.
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Its thin de and narrow surface made it difficult to pull out once lodged in flesh.
However, a shovel…
<i>Thud</i>.
Theresa swung the shovel down, crushing the head of an approaching elderly zombie.
Next, she kicked it.
Swoosh<i>. </i>
The shovel’s head sank deep into the zombie’s skull.
It severed the brainstem.
With that, the zombie was thoroughly dead..
She spun the shovel in her hand, slightly disappointed, and pulled it out, moving on.
This was only the early stage, so zombies did not yet have crystal cores in their brains.
This allowed her to kill with greater brutality and efficiency.
<i>Thud</i><i>! </i>Thud<i>! </i>Thud.
<i>Thud</i><i>! </i>Thud<i>! </i><i>Thud</i><i>. </i>
<i>Thud</i><i>. </i>
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Theresa found an area with fewer zombies. Swinging her shovel, she charged forward, clearing a path through the wreckage at the back of the crash site.
By now, most of the zombies had clustered at the front of the crash, drawn to the thickest pools of blood. Theresa swiftly and silently moved through the area, taking advantage of the still–limited number of
zombies.
She smoothly made her way through, breaking free from the crash site.
Just as she was about to escape the area, she heard screams from a nearby vehicle that had also been hit but the people inside were still alive.
It was a very expensive sports car.
“Ah! She’s murdering them!” the woman in the passenger seat screamed, trembling as she clutched her boyfriend’s hand, terrified by the sight of Theresa killing other humans.
Theresa coldly nced at their car.
The car’s airbags had deployed.
She turned her gaze away.
A useless car.
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Just like the people inside.
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Theresa kept moving forward. She still needed to find another car to leave in or at least run on foot out of the city.
At that moment, the door of the car behind her opened.
“Can you take us with you?”
The young man in the driver’s seat opened the door and hurriedly called out to Theresa for help.
“Take us to a safe ce, and I will pay you! My father is the chairman of Optima Group, and my family has plenty of money! Whatever you need, I will give it to you!”
Theresa did not even bother ncing at him, continuing to move forward.
“Honey, what are you saying to her? She’s a murderer! She’s killed so many people! We need to call the police and have her arrested!”
“Shut up!” the man snapped, seeing that Theresa did not even look back as she darted onto a small path. He quickly grabbed her hand and followed Theresa.
<i>Thud</i><i>. </i>
<i>Thud </i>
<i>Thud</i><i>. </i>
After getting rid of five zombies, Theresa finally left the hospital area.
It was a small alley in a residential area.
At that time, the residential area had not experienced arge–scale zombie outbreak because most people were trapped in their homes.
Theresa walked through green spaces and other uninhabited areas. asionally, she came across a few zombie sanitation workers or joggers, but they were easily dealt with using her shovel.
As she walked, she kept searching for a vehicle.
Unfortunately, she did not see a single car.
Her two followers tailed behind her.
“Honey, this road is so difficult to walk on. I can’t move in these high heels!”
“Then get lost!” The man was losing his patience.
After being scolded, the woman’s face quickly turned to one of sorrow. She tried to act cute in hopes her boyfriend would feel sorry for her. “Honey!”
However, instead of the usual response, she was met with an irritated shout.
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Upon hearing this, the woman’s once charming face stiffened. She bit her lip, looking ahead at Theresa. who was quickly taking out zombies with each swing of her shovel, and her boyfriend, who had abandoned her to follow Theresa. She said nothing more, limping in her high heels to catch up.
Theresa cut through the side greenbelt, clearing zombies as she went. Then, she finally spotted a delivery truck with an ajar door in front of a convenience store.
A
way out.
If she still couldn’t find a vehicle soon, she would have broken into a dealership and stolen one.
Without a second thought, Theresa ran toward the truck, and the couple quickly followed behind her.
When Theresa reached the truck, she was pleasantly surprised to find the keys still in the ignition. The driver was nowhere to be seen.
She quickly nced at the convenience store behind her.
It was now empty. There was no one inside, only blood sttered across the counter.
It seemed the store hadn’t been spared from the chaos. Someone must have turned, causing everyone else to flee.
After grabbing the keys, Theresa followed her usual practice of never leaving empty–handed and rushed into the store to grab what supplies she could.
She knew that spending just an extra half minute clearing the store would save her hours of effortter, making it much easier to gather the same supplies.
In the apocalypse, it wasn’t just about the seconds you had now, it was about what you could secure for the future.
Things would only get harder from here.
No one could ever have too many supplies.
Theresa made a quick decision, using the heel of her foot to steer her course, and began collecting items.
By the time the two trailing behind her entered the store, it was nearly empty, with only the front counter still holding anything.
Theresa did not bother with the shelves. The store was small, so she made two quick rounds and cleared out everything she could carry.
There were all kinds of snacks, daily necessities, and even her favorite convenience store treats, like rice balls, sushi, boxed meals, bread, cakes, and ice cream.
Most of the drinks were already gone.
“Is this a newly opened store?” the woman gasped, running in, and seeing the nearly empty shelves.
Theresa knew she had been followed. As she prepared to leave, she openly grabbed two bottles of water,
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before heading outside while the couple watched her.
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“Hey! You didn’t pay for that! You also took everything! What are we going <i>to </i>do now?” the woman yelled,– displeased.
The man beside her shouted back at her, “You’re insane!”
After cursing her out, the man tried to catch up with Theresa. “Miss, can you take us with you? Take me to Monroc Manor in Westvale! If you do, I’ll give you money! One million!”
Theresa got into the truck and mmed the door shut. This time, she spared the time to ask, “Do you still think money matters now?”
The man’s face darkened.
Money was useless now. It meant nothing.
He watched helplessly as Theresa drove the delivery truck away.
“Honey, look! She doesn’t care about you. No matter what you say, she won’t listen. We should call the police!”
“Idiot! Do you think the police or money still matter now?” the man angrily shouted.
Forty minutester, Theresa sessfully made it out of the city and onto the suburban roads.
As she ventured farther from the city, the streets grew noticeably clearer of zombies.
The outskirts seemed untouched for now.
<i>Screech</i>.
Theresa stopped the truck in front of her warehouse.
<i>Woof</i><i>! </i><i>Woof</i><i>! </i><i>Woof</i><i>! </i>
Summer sensed her arrival and excitedly barked at her.
Theresa approached and rubbed Summer’s head. “Good job.”
She brought Summer along and loaded up the rest of the supplies from the warehouse into the truck.
These were the items she had picked up the day before from the farmer’s market and the supermarket.
With a simple wave of her hand, she stored all the packed supplies in her domain.
Her domain was capable of storing the chickens, ducks, andmbs she had acquired the day before.
Thinking about this, she tried to add–Summer into the domain too.
However…
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<i>Woof</i>! <i>Woof</i><i>! </i><i>Woof</i>!
It didn’t work.
She quickly realized the system could only store low–intelligence, food–bearing creatures. A dog wouldn’t qualify.
That meant living humans definitely couldn’t be stored in there either.
Theresa wasn’t too disappointed. It would have been nice if the feature worked, but it wasn’t essential.
After all, she believed her own strength was her true power.
The system was a helpful tool, but she couldn’t rely on it too much.
She needed to use it to enhance her own abilities, making that power truly her own.
If the system disappeared or malfunctioned, she would be finished.
After clearing out the warehouse, Theresa closed the door and left with Summer.
She headed straight for her bunker.
Back to her apocalyptic sanctuary.
One hourter.
Theresa copsed onto the incredibly soft cloud couch she had taken from the mall. She opened a bottle of soda and heated up the steak, shrimp, and other delicacies she had brought from the Michelin restaurant. With Summer beside her, they sat in front of therge TV, watching thetest news.
“Breaking news.
“This morning, there have been reports of widespread injuries. Let’s join our reporter at the scene for further details.”
In the live broadcast, a reporter moved toward a section of the area blocked off by police tape.
In the broadcast…
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