Apocalypse: I Have One More Keyword Than Others-Chapter 101 - Laozi has also mutated_1

Chapter 101: 101 Laozi has also mutated_1

Chapter 101: 101 Laozi has also mutated_1

Damn it!

Their moves are too fast!

In just over a day, my trap hasn’t even been activated yet, and these guys have already spread their nets ahead of me, learning not only from my last encounter but also from Mr. Zhao of the Qiao Family!

Heavenly Demon, Heavenly Demon?

What on earth did your teacher teach you, you’re all so impatient.

Yao Tong was frustrated, and so was Duge.

His keywords weren’t suited for the apocalypse, but some keywords were naturally a perfect fit for the apocalypse. Once they seized the opportunity and started growing, they’d grow very fast…

If I don’t start moving now, I’m afraid I’ll be the one getting eliminated.

Once a secret code becomes commonly known, nobody is trustworthy anymore…

The most crucial thing is, I still don’t even know what the main storyline of the world is yet.

…

After there were no more reports from Han Xuecai.

Duge stuffed bread and ham into his mouth in a few quick bites and stood up, instructing, “Tell the staff from the business and marketing departments to eat quickly. After lunch, take a short break, and then follow me to expand the market.”

…

Half an hour later.

Under Duge’s leadership.

More than fifty people from the business and marketing departments, driving over ten vehicles and armed with all sorts of weapons, rushed out of the underground warehouse.

…

By this time.

It had been almost half a month since the mutation of animals and plants had occurred.

Cities, being human gathering spots, didn’t have too many wild animals. The number of cats and dogs was limited. The major casualties were caused mainly by rats and various insects, such as cockroaches, mosquitoes, and even ants…

Cockroaches were in almost every household, and these little creatures had grown three to four times in size. The places where they used to hide could no longer conceal their bulk.

Mutations also triggered their ferocity, or perhaps, the dramatic increase in their size created a greater demand for food. In the darkness, these mutated creatures suddenly attacked sleeping humans.

The majority of the unprepared people were killed by them.

Rats lurking in the sewers now the size of small cats, gathered in groups—humans were no match for them…

Fortunately, the insecticides humans have developed still had some effect on these enlarged bugs, which is why there were still some human survivors.

Otherwise,

They probably would have been eaten to the bone in the first wave.

Then there were the plants. Many plants seemed to come to life, with branches and vines actively attacking humans or animals. After killing them, they would absorb nutrients from their bodies…

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The streets were devastating to behold; the air was tinged with a faint odor of decay. Dead bodies, or more accurately, skeletons, could be seen everywhere—whatever flesh they had was completely gnawed away by unknown creatures.

Rats could occasionally be seen scurrying through the skeletal remains, gnawing on femurs to sharpen their teeth. Startled by the sound of cars, they would turn to look but not flee. Perhaps seeing the strength of Duge’s convoy, they didn’t dare to attack.

On the branches of the roadside ornamental trees, one could occasionally see a corps or two not yet completely decomposed, and also the carcasses of rats, cats, and dogs impaled by the branches.

As cars passed by, the branches of these trees would whip around like tentacles, trying to grab the people inside.

But most of the trees were still and showed no signs of mutation.

…

All along the way, Duge was deeply shocked.

Watching apocalyptic movies on TV felt thrilling, but it’s only when you’re actually in the midst of it that you can feel the fear, the sensation that your life is in danger every single moment.

Gu Kun drove, swerving to avoid the branches, shamelessly crushing over the skeletons on the road, his eyes alertly scanning the surroundings, “Fortunately, most rats and bugs don’t like to move during the day. Otherwise, we’d all starve to death…”

“This goddamn world,” Yao Tong’s face wasn’t looking too good, he grumbled, “Brother Hu, you should have let me grow up sooner…”

Duge glanced at him but ignored him.

Their destination was a storage center about five kilometers away from the residential area, a logistics distribution point.

In half a month’s time, the large supermarkets might have been visited by countless people, and it wasn’t certain that there would be anything left to find. But the supply center had the most and complete resources; even if surviving people wanted to take them, they couldn’t finish taking them all in a short time.

Nearing the storage company’s intersection, the chaotic cars became more numerous, almost completely blocking the intersection. Dead bodies and dark red blood were everywhere on the streets, with dozens of stray cats and dogs either gnawing on corpses or basking on car roofs in the sun.

If the stray cats looked like little tigers, then those dogs were as large as lions.

…

Duge’s convoy startled those stray cats and dogs, which immediately turned their heads and charged towards them.

It seemed not only Duge had thought of the storage center, but others had too, including these cats and dogs, who had also taken to lying in wait here…

Screech!

Gu Kun noticed the situation ahead and immediately hit the brakes, then swiftly turned the steering wheel to make a U-turn: “Fuck, Brother Hu, we’re done for, can’t get through.”

The cats and dogs were obviously faster than cars in making a U-turn on a crowded road. In a short time, those mutated strays had charged to a distance of only seventy to eighty meters from them.

“Stop the car,” Duge ordered.

“Brother Hu, we can’t stop, we’ll all die if we do,” Gu Kun said.

“We can’t outrun them if we don’t stop; we may have a chance if we fight back.” Before taking over the body, Duge had seen the speed of these cats and dogs; he naturally knew that in this crowded traffic, the car could not outrun them. Instead of being picked off one by one in a chase, it was better to fight with all they had.

Gu Kun was stunned.

Duge had already pushed open the car door, jumped out, and stood in the middle of the road with a machete in hand.

Seeing this, Yao Tong followed suit, holding a sharpened steel pipe.

Seeing Duge and the others getting out of the car, Gu Kun cursed under his breath, shifted into neutral without turning off the engine, grabbed his machete, and jumped out too. Before he got out, he didn’t forget to shout, “Nobody run, grab your weapons, protect Brother Hu, let’s fight these damn dogs.”

The ten or so cars behind them, seeing the cats and dogs blocking the road, were all preparing to flee. But when they saw Duge jump out of the car.

Perhaps it was Duge’s courage that infected them, or maybe they thought they couldn’t be less than a gangster. The staff from operations and marketing got out of their cars one after another, brandishing various weapons, and stood behind Duge, each shaking uncontrollably.

“What’s there to fear?” Duge roared, “This is all meat, it’s our procurement supplies. With them, we can trade with more people. Beat them, and the storage center supplies are ours for the taking. Once we have these supplies, what can’t our company have? West Forest City can build a survivor point, and I can too…”

At this moment.

Duge just hated that his keywords weren’t bravery or slaughter; even reckless would have been good. Any of those keywords could have helped him make a name for himself in Yongan City.

Instead of being so passive!

Damn this kindness…

“Yao Tong, you promised to protect me, don’t go back on your word,” Duge turned and shouted at Yao Tong as the stray cats and dogs got closer, some of them already spreading out to flank them from behind, “You have to protect not just me, but everyone I brought here, then I’ll allow you to go back and act as you please.”

“Don’t worry, Brother Hu, I’d die before letting you die,” Yao Tong glanced at Duge, secretly delighted, ‘You son of a bitch, I won’t save you, hurry up and get killed by these cats and dogs, and when you’re dead, I’ll be the boss of the garage.’

He had toughened up all night, increasing his attributes considerably, and his senses were sharp, almost equal to a second-rate martial warrior. He believed he could handle these cats and dogs.

“Back to back, protect your necks; don’t give them a chance,” Duge shouted.

While speaking, a tabby cat nearly a meter long leaped towards Duge’s throat in an attack.

“Look out, Brother Hu!” Gu Kun saw it, whirled around, and stood in front of Duge.

Fuck!

This was loyalty!

Duge yanked Gu Kun away at the very moment the cat’s claws tore through his back and, with a fierce slash, cut through half of the tabby’s neck.

With a thud, it fell to the ground and didn’t move again.

At that moment, Yao Tong’s steel pipe had also skewered an orange cat, and he saw Duge swiftly kill a wolfhound with a backhand slash. His eyebrows jerked in surprise; fuck, how is this guy so quick?

After killing a cat and a dog, his face splattered with blood, Duge yelled excitedly, “Guys, don’t be afraid; fight them, I feel like I’ve mutated too. Everyone, try it; a mutation might be triggered at the brink of death…”