While Dudian was deep in thought, a large number of footsteps suddenly came from behind. He turned around and saw that Scott and Mia had arrived with a large group of scavengers. Scott and Mia, who were running at the front, left the others far behind. Their speed was extremely astonishing, like a human cheetah. They covered a distance of over a hundred meters in the blink of an eye and came in front of Dudian and the other three.
"What's going on?" Scott asked hastily.
Seeing them appear, the tightly strung tension in Dudian's heart relaxed. He quickly said, "It's a walking corpse!" As he spoke, he pointed towards the street at the corner.
Scott and Mia's expressions changed. When they tilted their heads to look, they happened to see the two scavengers dragging the unconscious Aaron out from the street entrance. They also saw Scott. Infinite joy immediately appeared on their sorrowful faces, and they quickly said, "Help! It's a walking corpse. Save Pis quickly!"
Scott and Mia rushed over immediately. They immediately saw the female walking corpse gnawing on the chubby young man. The expressions of the two of them changed. Scott immediately drew out his short sword and said grimly, "Prepare for battle. Let's work together to kill it, or it will keep following the scent we leave behind!"
At this time, Mia saw the unconscious Aaron, and her pretty face turned pale. She said in a trembling voice, "His, his injury is?"
One of them quickly said, "He was bitten by that walking corpse. When we rushed over, we saw him resisting."
Hearing this, Scott, who was preparing for battle, changed his expression. Gritting his teeth, he said, "Kill him immediately before he's infected. Otherwise, we'll have to face two Undead Walking Corpses!"
"This, this..." The two of them looked grim when they heard this. They weren't newbies who were scavenging for the first time. They already knew that being bitten by a demonic creature outside the Great Wall would result in infection. However, knowing it was one thing, but it was really hard to harden their hearts to kill a former scavenging companion, a living person, with their own hands.
"Can't we save him?" One of the tall young men looked at Scott. "Maybe he can hold on..."
"Stupid!" Scott interrupted him with a furious shout, his face full of anger. "If you want to die, then carry him and leave. Otherwise, kill him immediately!"
At this time, another young man said in a trembling voice, "The walking corpse is coming."
Scott was startled and quickly focused his attention, staring closely at the female walking corpse. She had abandoned the prey in her hand, and her emerald-green eyes landed on them. She swayed and rushed towards them at an incredibly fast speed.
"So fast!" Scott was shocked in his heart but didn't retreat. He gritted his teeth and stepped forward to fight.
With a bang, Scott kicked out first, hitting the female walking corpse in the abdomen. The latter didn't show any intention of dodging and was immediately kicked to the ground. Scott seized the opportunity and quickly approached. Seeing that she was getting up from the ground, he immediately kicked again, hitting her in the face.
The tip of the steel boot hit her chin, knocking her down again.
"Die for me!" Scott let out a low growl and raised his short sword to stab at the female walking corpse's face. With a puff, the short sword pierced through the center of her face. The female walking corpse let out a dry roar from her throat, and her whole body twitched violently. She kept twisting and struggling on the ground, but her head was pinned firmly to the ground by Scott. After struggling for a while, she gradually stopped moving.
Seeing this, Scott finally let out a sigh of relief and slowly pulled the short sword out from the bones of her cheek. It was stuck quite tightly, and when he pulled it out, he lifted the female walking corpse's head off the ground, as if she had come back to life, scaring the two young men watching from behind.
When Dudian saw this scene, he immediately knew that his guess was right. At this time, the other scavengers also rushed over. Seeing the several bloody corpses at the scene, their faces all turned very pale.
At this time, Scott turned around and saw that the two young men still hadn't taken action. He couldn't help but rage: "Do you want to die? You're still keeping him alive. When he wakes up again, he'll bite you to death first!" After that, he walked up to the two of them with the bloody sword in hand. He looked down at Aaron, whom they were holding, took a deep breath, gritted his teeth, and stabbed out with the sword, piercing through his throat. He twisted the short sword and cut off his head.
Blood spurted out like a pillar.
The two of them turned pale, their legs went weak, and they kept retreating.
Scott looked at them coldly, shook the blood off the sword, and said coldly, "This is the law of survival outside the Great Wall. You can't learn this from your instructor. Either adapt or die!"
As he spoke, he glanced at Mia, who was standing beside him with her head lowered in silence, and let out a sigh. He turned back to the other scavengers and said, "Light a fire and burn the corpses here. Don't let the smell of blood attract other demonic creatures that haven't been cleared."
Among these scavengers, many were newbies like Dudian's group. Seeing such a real and cruel scene at this moment, their faces turned deathly pale, and they kept retreating. One of the short children said in a terrified voice, "I, I want to go home. I don't want to scavenge anymore. I don't want the money anymore..." After that, he turned around and ran away like crazy.
Scott said angrily, "Catch him back for me!"
Immediately, two scavengers from the consortium chased after him.
At this time, one of the scavengers suddenly opened his eyes wide, raised his hand tremblingly, and pointed behind Scott, saying, "B, boss, they, they're standing up..."
Everyone was shocked and quickly looked over.
Dudian immediately saw that at the store in the distance, the young man who was the first to be bitten and another female scavenger beside him, whose life or death was already unknown, were actually struggling to sit up straight at this moment. As they sat up, their heads tilted back as if their necks were broken, looking up at the sky. Then, under the gaze of everyone, their heads slowly and stiffly turned, as if the tissues inside were quickly adapting.
"Damn it!" Scott's face looked grim. He growled in a low voice, "Everyone, get ready to follow me!" With that, he took the lead and rushed forward.
Mia gritted her teeth and followed first. The other scavengers from the consortium hesitated for a moment and then quickly chased after them. As for several of the newbies in the same batch as Dudian, they stared blankly at this scene, and some of them sat down on the ground with their legs going weak.
Dudian had witnessed Scott's skills earlier and estimated that he and Mia should be able to deal with the two transformed walking corpses. So he immediately gripped his short sword and followed.
Mekin, Zach, and Sham saw Dudian rushing out and quickly grabbed him, saying, "Are you crazy?"
Dudian said quickly, "I'm going to destroy the other two corpses to prevent them from also transforming into walking corpses and coming back to life."
The three of them were taken aback and immediately said, "We'll go too."
The four of them ran behind the scavengers from the consortium and came to the corpses they had passed by. These two corpses were those of the handsome young man and the chubby young man. Dudian looked at the corpses at his feet. After hesitating for a moment, he gritted his teeth and slashed at their necks with the short sword.
After all, having received two enhancements, his strength was twice that of an ordinary adult. The sharp short sword easily cut through their cervical vertebrae.
Dudian's heart was pounding wildly. Although he knew that they were already dead, when he slashed, he still felt a sense of guilt and fear as if he had killed someone. His hand holding the short sword trembled slightly, and he kept comforting himself in his heart. Just then, he suddenly heard a terrified scream coming from the front. He quickly looked back.
He saw that over a dozen scavengers from the consortium who were running in the front, including Scott and Mia, all had terrified expressions on their faces and turned around to flee in a panic towards them.
And through the gaps in their fleeing figures, Dudian suddenly saw that from the street in front of them, over a dozen figures were staggering towards them... They were all walking corpses!