Apocalypse Rebirth: Beauties Surround Me

Chapter 70: Facing it head-on was too dangerous

"Screech!"

The armored truck emitted a loud brake sound, coming to a steady stop in front of a residential building.

"Don't move! I'll take care of the zombies behind!"

Elijah instructed, grabbing the two short-handled hammers from the passenger seat and jumping out of the car.

Starting from the residential area, they followed the planned route and smoothly made their way to the school, parking in front of Charlotte's house.

The only trouble was attracting many zombies along the way, intermittently following them.

Although many were lost along the way, there were still a dozen or so when they arrived at the school.

"Will he be in danger?" Bella was very worried, pressing against the glass to look outside, but due to the angle, she couldn't see much.

"Don't worry, Elijah will be fine!" Daisy reassured her gently.

This was Bella's first time going out since the virus outbreak.

She saw that there wasn't a single person outside, only zombies and congested vehicles everywhere.

The entire city had become much more dilapidated than she remembered, completely different from her impression.

Fortunately, Daisy was there, constantly talking, which kept her emotions stable, but she was becoming more and more dependent on the two of them.

If she were alone, she really didn't know how she would survive.

Outside the car, Elijah saw the zombies rushing towards him, wielding the hammers.

His movements were agile, and his strikes were fierce, effortlessly dispatching the zombies one by one.

Charlotte, on the second floor, witnessed the whole process.

It was her first time seeing Elijah hunting zombies.

Although Elijah's movements seemed erratic, relying entirely on instinct, Charlotte's focused gaze held a hint of admiration and a desire to try it out herself.

"This guy seems to have figured out the zombies' movements, even forming instincts. So he's always able to avoid zombie attacks at critical moments and effortlessly take them down with a single blow. It seems extremely dangerous, but in reality, he's in complete control. I wonder if he can maintain this level when fighting humans!"

Charlotte lightly bit her lip, tightening her grip on the knife.

After watching him completely eliminate the zombies, Charlotte looked away and walked downstairs.

"Daisy, come down and help!"

Confirming there was no danger, Elijah let Bella stay in the car while Daisy helped with the dismemberment, gaining a few more corpse cores.

Charlotte also opened the gate and began to move weapons outside.

After cleaning up the bodies and clearing the road, Elijah and Daisy also helped.

Soon, all the weapons were loaded.

Besides weapons and accompanying maintenance tools, Charlotte didn't bring much personal stuff.

"Is everything loaded? If it is, we'll set off!"

"All set!" Charlotte replied lightly, sitting in the back row with Daisy.

Elijah started the car, and Bella and Charlotte introduced themselves to each other.

Elijah didn't return by the original route; there must be zombies still following them.

He took a different route, circling around and returning to the school gate.

"Uh-oh!" As they approached the school gate, Elijah's expression turned grim.

"The group of zombies we led away from the school gate has returned!"

"What?" Daisy leaned forward against her seat.

Sure enough, she saw many zombies blocking the school gate again.

"Maybe we made too much noise when we entered and attracted them back!"

"What do we do now?"

"We can't stop here, or more will come. Let's go all out!"

With a determined expression, Elijah stepped on the gas pedal forcefully.

The engine roared, and the armored truck accelerated suddenly.

The zombies ahead turned their heads towards the sound.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

Before the zombies could react, the armored truck had plowed into the group, knocking down several zombies in quick succession.

The horde immediately boiled over, and the rest of the zombies all crazily rushed towards the armored truck.

Elijah focused intently on the steering wheel as the armored truck, amidst the jolts from crushing the zombies, successfully burst out of the school gate and onto the main road. Suddenly, his vision cleared.

"We've broken through the zombie horde! Thankfully, there aren't too many zombies around, only about fifty or sixty!"

There were only a few zombies ahead, and as long as he had a little more time, he could shake off the zombies chasing them from behind.

At that moment, a figure suddenly darted out from the left side of the road and violently collided with the rear of the armored truck.

The tremendous force caused the armored truck to lose control, almost flipping over. Fortunately, Elijah remained calm and managed to stabilize the vehicle.

"What was that?" Bella exclaimed, while Daisy and Charlotte looked outside with solemn expressions.

Now that the car was tilted due to the recent encounter, they could see from the side window the original rear of the car.

In front of the chasing zombie horde, a tremendously muscular figure was lying on the ground, shaking its head as it got up.

Although this figure vaguely resembled a human, its hands and legs were disproportionately muscular, bulging more than its head, and its clothes were almost torn apart, indicating the exaggerated muscles underneath.

"Damn, it's an awakened strength-type mutant zombie!"

Elijah took a quick glance and immediately adjusted the direction, accelerating the car abruptly.

He understood that it was this creature, with muscles but no brains, that had just used its body to crash into his car.

Strength-type mutated zombies were the ones Elijah least wanted to face.

Unlike Abigail and perception-type mutated female zombies, their abilities were indeed powerful, but their physical strength didn't change much.

But that thing just now was different.

It possessed extremely abnormal strength and physical abilities, decent speed, and strong defense due to its exaggerated muscles.

The only downside was its underdeveloped brain.

Facing it head-on was too dangerous; ambushes or long-range attacks were the best methods.

But now that he was driving, this was the thing he feared the most.

"Brace yourselves; it might get a bit bumpy!"

Elijah warned, then saw in the rearview mirror the mutated zombie accelerating and leaping towards them.

Elijah had just started, and the speed hadn't picked up yet.

As the mutated zombie was about to strike, Elijah quickly turned the steering wheel.

The armored truck swayed left and right like a drunken person, narrowly avoiding the attack. discover-MVLeMpYr-novels

Missing its target, the mutated zombie crashed onto the road, creating a depression in the asphalt and forming spider-web-like cracks.

Elijah was speechless, thankful that they hadn't been hit.

He pressed down on the gas pedal, accelerating with all his might.

The mutated zombie behind shook its head, feeling a bit dizzy from the rebound, then turned its gaze back towards Elijah's group and resumed its pursuit.

At this point, Elijah finally breathed a sigh of relief.

They had finally managed to pick up speed.

Although the zombie had just gotten closer, it was quickly pulled away again.

Despite its speed, it ultimately failed to catch up with the speeding car, gradually falling further and further behind.

"Phew." Elijah finally felt he could relax a bit.