The post-apocalyptic world has a space full of supplies.

Chapter 103 Time Stop

Gu Nanfeng felt a sense of familiarity with this feeling. He remembered the day they ran out of the dormitory, just like now, when all the zombies suddenly stopped moving.

The zombies in the snow beneath their feet still had their hands outstretched. The building where Wei Cheng and the others lived had just collapsed, turning into countless rubble. Smoke and dust rose with the snow mist, and had not yet settled.

The world, except for the three of them, has come to a standstill.

"Boom..."

A rumbling sound like a motorcycle came from the neighborhood. Gu Nanfeng looked up and saw Lu Yuan riding a snowmobile towards them, with an unconscious person tied to his back with clothes.

Without time to say more, Lu Yuan released two more snowmobiles from his spatial storage. Qin Yuan carried Wei Cheng, and Gu Nanfeng rode in one. The three vehicles quickly left the zombie encirclement.

Not long after they left, time resumed, and the zombies were still ramming into the other buildings in the community. Gu Nanfeng sensed that the reddish-brown energy clusters in the community collided with the grayish-black energy clusters in the zombie horde, but he didn't have time to investigate carefully before their car drove out of his current maximum detection range and they fled frantically into the night.

ten minutes ago

Seeing the buildings on the outskirts of the residential area begin to shake violently, and then seeing people frantically running out of the building across the street, Lu Yuan immediately realized something was wrong; the residential area was no longer safe. So he took out several sets of winter clothes from his spatial storage, preparing to put them on for himself and Du Wenqing, and then escape from the building first.

Just as he finished putting on his winter clothes, layer upon layer, and was about to help Du Wenqing get dressed, he suddenly felt that something was wrong in the guest room.

He carefully opened the door, but the light that had been on in the room was off, and the room was pitch black. Except for a short distance from the door, he could not see anything in the depths, but he could vaguely sense a dangerous aura emanating from there.

Lu Yuan instinctively glanced in the direction of the medical machine. The light in the living room could faintly illuminate the guest bedroom. Lu Yuan saw that the medical machine's hatch was open. He summoned the spatial interface and tried to recall the medical machine.

Sure enough, the medical machine was able to retract into his spatial storage, which meant Du Wenqing was no longer on it. Ignoring everything else in the room, he took a few steps back into the well-lit living room, but the person in the guest bedroom didn't follow. Lu Yuan didn't dare think further and immediately opened the door and rushed out without looking back.

Just as Lu Yuan rushed downstairs and jumped onto the snowmobile he had just taken out of his spatial storage, the floor-to-ceiling windows and the brick wall they had painstakingly built in the seventh-floor living room collapsed with a loud bang. Lu Yuan turned around and saw Du Wenqing standing there in the snowstorm.

Lu Yuan wanted to call Du Wenqing to run together, but for some reason, although he was slightly nearsighted, he could now clearly see Du Wenqing's bloodshot eyes. Something was wrong with him. Although he didn't go berserk like he had before, he was definitely not in a conscious state now.

Knowing his own situation, Lu Yuan decided to go out and find Gu Nanfeng and the others first. It would be safest to come back and take Du Wenqing away with them.

Thinking this, Lu Yuan was about to ride his snowmobile outside when suddenly a person fell down in front of him. He recognized the person; he was a doctor from Wei Cheng's building. Perhaps because it was too cold, the person was not very conscious, but fortunately, he could still move on his own. Lu Yuan helped him to the back of his vehicle, wrapped him in a winter coat, and then used another coat to secure him to himself.

The moment Lu Yuan started his car, Du Wenqing leaped down from the seventh floor. He was incredibly fast, baring his fangs and charging menacingly towards Lu Yuan. He was clearly after Lu Yuan. Lu Yuan had no time to react, and just as Du Wenqing's hand was about to strike Lu Yuan's face, time froze...

Or perhaps time stood still for Du Wenqing...

Lu Yuan paused for a moment amidst the dust and snow of collapsed buildings. He stared blankly at Du Wenqing in front of him. Du Wenqing's eyes were bloodshot, his teeth were inexplicably sharp, and his fingernails were thin and long, almost cutting Lu Yuan's face. Lu Yuan could clearly realize that this was no longer the Du Wenqing he knew.

The doctor behind him coughed twice, and Lu Yuan finally snapped out of his daze. He looked at Du Wenqing one last time, took out his phone from his pocket and took a picture of him, then rode his snowmobile out of the community.

Lu Yuan was lucky; he ran into Gu Nanfeng and Qin Yuan, who were rushing back, at the entrance of the residential area. This meant he didn't have to worry about finding them. Wei Cheng was with them, but the person who had been with Wei Cheng was no longer there.

Qin Yuan and Gu Nanfeng assumed that Lu Yuan was carrying Du Wenqing, so the three of them didn't hesitate, got on the snowmobile that Lu Yuan had taken out, and fled the neighborhood without looking back.

Once Gu Nanfeng could no longer sense anything amiss, the three cars found a corner where they could shelter from the wind and snow and stopped.

Qin Yuan helped Lu Yuan put down the person behind him, and only then did he realize that it wasn't Du Wenqing. He immediately turned to Lu Yuan and asked, "Where's Lao Du?"

"Du...Du has mutated." Lu Yuan gasped for breath. Although the snowmobile was easier to balance and control than a motorcycle, he had indeed been riding it very dangerously.

"It mutated?" Qin Yuan was a little angry. "It mutated and you're just going to ignore it? Old Du always takes such good care of you!"

“Could it be…” Gu Nanfeng remained calm. He briefly explained what he had sensed to Qin Yuan before, and then continued, “If that’s the case, then the reddish-brown energy I sensed is the mutated Captain Du.”

"Mmm-hmm-hmm." Lu Yuan nodded hurriedly, "If time hadn't stopped for that instant, Captain Du's claw could have torn my head open."

"That's probably why his abilities are different from ours," Gu Nanfeng said, then turned on his watch phone to check their location, but the phone was frozen and wouldn't turn on.

Qin Yuan was very unhappy. After all, he hadn't seen Du Wenqing's appearance with his own eyes and was still worried. He got on his snowmobile, ready to go back and check on him, but Gu Nanfeng rationally stopped him.

They were outdoors, and the temperature was incredibly low. The three of them with superpowers were alright, but Lu Yuan and the doctor were shivering from the cold. If they couldn't find a place to shelter from the wind and snow so Lu Yuan could set up heating equipment, or a place to park Lu Yuan's RV, Lu Yuan and the doctor might soon be saying goodbye to this world.