Chapter 135 - Downtown Plaza
However, Wei Xiao Bei had second thoughts, what if it was simply unable to touch anything.
Wei Xiao Bei derived this possibility from the fact that he could not perceive its presence.
However, he immediately questioned himself.
If it was unable to touch things, then where did the sound of footsteps come from?
Could it be an illusion?
In the end, Wei Xiao Bei sat there for more than 10 minutes with his mind swimming everywhere. Various guesses surged like a tide in his head, but were immediately overthrown by himself.
Wei Xiao Bei only stopped thinking about it when his mind began to hurt.
He rubbed the vein popping out of his head and felt warm. Wei Xiao Bei had been a bit overwhelmed, but he was still able to get over it quickly. If he had continued thinking, he might have turned into an idiot from overthinking.
Huge amounts of information whad been processed by his brain, resulting in a little bit of overheating.
Wei Xiao Bei took out a bottle of water and splashed his face, making him sober up.
I should not stay here!
Wei Xiao Bei understood this.
With a strange existence like that, he might be startled to death if it came back again.
Moreover, he could not just stay there for a long time. He did not come to The Dust World to sleep after all.
Thinking about this, Wei XIao Bei wore his backpack while holding the machete in his right hand as he slowly walked towards the door.
After a slight hesitation, Wei Xiao Bei placed his ear on the door.
In reality, he was worried that some sound would suddenly come from behind the door.
Luckily, he did not hear anything after carefully listening.
Wei Xiao Bei did not recklessly open the door. He retreated a bit and walked towards the window. Then he pulled open the curtains.
The building had 35 floors. In the residence district of Cui Hu City, the building could be considered as a high-rise.
Moreover, Wei Xiao Bei's room was on the 13th floor. However, when Wei Xiao Bei opened curtains, he appeared stunned.
What he never imagined, was that when he opened the window, the scenery was extremely different from reality.
The scene outside looked familiar. There was a water fountain ten meters away from the window. After careful inspection, he deducted that this place was the downtown plaza.
When he looked downwards, he saw the flat cemented ground just outside the window. In The Dust World, his room was actually on the first floor!
Wei Xiao Bei hesitated. He thought for a bit and then took a bottle of perfume from the makeup table, tossing it outside.
Clank. The perfume landed on the cement ground and broke into pieces, letting out a fragrant scent.
This really is the first floor!
Wei Xiao Bei did not hesitate anymore. He held onto the window sill with his left hand and jumped out.
When he landed on the hard cement ground, he finally let out a sigh of relief.
Although the sky was still a dull gray, it was still better than staying in that strange room. Going outside had uplifted his mood a lot. At the very least, he did not have to worry about suddenly hearing the terrifying sound of footsteps.
After turning around to take a look, he could not help stare blankly. His room that was originally on the 13th floor had suddenly become a building near downtown plaza fountain. Moreover, Wei Xiao Bei was familiar with the appearance of the building.
It was the apartment that he had been living in for the past year!
Although the window had changed, the entire structure was the same.
The familiar appearance of the building made him sweat.
What is happening here?
Is this part of the strangeness of The Dust World? Or does this have something to do with the strange footsteps?
Wei Xiao Bei felt his head ache.
However, he quickly turned his attention away from the apartment building.
The sound of someone asking for help came from afar.
This is the sound of a person! This sound feels familiar.
Wei Xiao Bei psyched himself up and charged towards where the sound was coming from.
Compared to the strange building, the familiar sound was without a doubt, more in Wei Xiao Bei's head.
In the downtown plaza, other than the apartment building, there had been no huge changes. In simpler terms, the fountain was full of holes and the business buildings around the place were wreckages, but other than that, there were no changes.
The sound was coming from the pedestrian street at the side of Cui Hu Department Store.
After determining the direction, he quickly moved towards the sound with the fastest speed possible.
The plaza was not considered big. At first, Cui Hu City's urban district was already not big, but after gradual development, they had built the Cui Hu Central Gardens beside it, turning the place into a downtown plaza.
As a result, the entire plaza did not exceed 80 meters in diameter. The building that Wei Xiao Bei came out from was around 20 meters from the edge of the plaza. Wei Xiao Bei quickly walked three strides and made it to the pedestrian street.
When he looked over, a fat youth was on the street, currently panting heavily as he ran towards Wei Xiao Bei's direction.
Around 10 meters behind him, there was a group of Zombies chasing after him.
Compared to the Zombies from Cui Hu University, the Zombies chasing after the youth was much faster. At the very least, they were almost at a normal human's jogging speed.
Moreover, the fat youth seemed to have run quite far and was about to lose strength.
Wei Xiao Bei carefully looked and couldn't help but shout, "Huang Kun!"
It was indeed Huang Kun, the junior high student who came to train in the Cheng Clan Dojo during summer break. Along with Wang Bo Cheng, Zhang Yu Long, the three of them made up the dojo's most hardworking students.
Because they were hardworking, Wei Xiao Bei had been fond of the three of them.
It was especially so for Huang Kun. Although he had been spoilt by his parents to the point of fattening him up, he was likable and good with words. Most of the people in the dojo were fond of him, resulting in him being nicknamed Chubby Huang.
"Big brother Wei?! Big brother Wei, save me!"
Hearing Wei Xiao Bei's voice, Huang Kun raised his head and shouted with relief when he saw Wei Xiao Bei.
However, because of this shout, he had let out the tension keeping his mind together and incidentally weakened his tired legs. Huang Kun, who heard the footsteps of the Zombies behind him, shouted again in fear.
Seeing this scene, Wei Xiao Bei rushed forward. Energy surged into his legs, and in just two strides he crossed a 20 meter distance.
At the same time, with the machete in his right hand, he hacked down on a Zombies who was about to bite Huang Kun's neck in half. He grasped Huang Kun with his left hand, and pulled him back. He ignored Huang Kun's startled voice and threw him backwards, "Chubby, hide far away!"
Before his voice came out, Wei Xiao Bei immediately readied his machete again and seized the opportunity to dive into the group of Zombies.
Although the Zombies were faster than the Zombies back then, Wei Xiao Bei was also not the same as back then. Wei Xiao Bei swung his blade like a fierce tiger coming down from the mountain, with a single swing cutting off 2-3 Zombie heads at a time.
In just three slashes, the Zombies closest to him had all fallen on the ground, clearing up more space.
After opening the space, Wei Xiao Bei's blade moved even more skillfully. The blade moved like the wind as it chopped down on Zombie after Zombie.
While hacking the Zombies, Wei Xiao Bei still had energy to look at his status panel.
The Zombies were still normal 1-Star Creatures, giving him 8 evolution points per head.
However, even if they were faster, their bodies were weaker. Everytime Wei Xiao Bei hacked down, he could not feel any resistance at all.
This might have been the case when comparing them to his strength, but the Zombies also had weaker bodies.
However, there were too many of them. There more than 700 of them.
Even if he could kill 2-3 per slash, he would still not be able to kill them all in such a short period of time.
Because the Zombies continued to surge forwards, Wei Xiao Bei had to put his machete to full use. However, some Zombies also moved passed Wei Xiao Bei's left and right, heading towards Huang Kun who had still remained close by, cheering for Wei Xiao Bei.
"Big brother Wei, save me!"
Although Huang Kun had the energy to cheer Wei Xiao Bei on, his legs had already weakened to the point that he could no longer continue run away.
Wei Xiao Bei's eyes had caught onto this scene. He did not dare tangle with the Zombies anymore and retreated. He then turned his blade on the other direction, hacking the two Zombies that were charging towards Huang Kun.
Afterwards, Wei Xiao Bei charged towards Hunag Kun's side, grabbed him with this left hand, and carried him on his shoulders.
His eyes flashed as he observed the surroundings. Seeing that the plaza was a bad place for a defensive battle, he could only hope that going into the department store would block the Zombies' attacks.
Thinking like this, Wei Xiao Bei charged towards the department store.
The shutter on the department store was currently closed, but Wei Xiao Bei did not stop moving. He hacked at the shutter and made the shape of a cross.
Afterwards, he concentrated all his energy in his left shoulders and knocked against the shutter. With a tearing sound, the old shutter could not endure the impact and the cross shaped cut tore open, sending Wei Xiao Bei inside.
However, Wei Xiao Bei never expected that there were rusted iron clothes rack behind the shutter. This time, his Iron Mountain Lean had almost turned Wei Xiao Bei into swiss cheese.
Huang Kun had already been shocked to the point that he could not speak. Even when Wei Xiao Bei placed him on the ground, he was still unable to say anything.
Wei Xiao Bie did not have the time to comfort him, but he slapped Huang Kun on the face.
Even though Wei Xiao Bei had not used much strength, because Huang Kun was weak, it had still left a bright red palm mark on his face.
"Go upstairs while still staying within my vision!"
Wei Xiao Bie spoke and kicked the clothes rack.
Creak! The ear-piercing sound of the friction occuring from metal immediately echoed. The iron racks acted like a fire truck as they were sent towards the shutter.
At this time, the Zombies that had already entered the torn shutter, were hit by the clothes rack. In an instant they had been turned into hotdogs on a stick. Finally, when the iron racks hit the shutter, it had pushed back the zombies and got stuck at the opening.
Wei Xiao Bei observed his surroundings and shook his head. The department store was too spacious. Although it had a check out counter, it would not be able to block the Zombies at all.
At this time, the Zombies outside caused an ear-piercing sound as they refused to give up, and tried to tear the iron rack apart.
The Zombies were quite strong. Although they were uncoordinated and sometimes even hindered each other, they were still able to slowly push away the iron rack.
Wei Xiao Bei turned around and walked up the escalator. There was currently no electricity, but the narrow escalator did not affect his speed at all. In just a few steps, he had reached the second floor.
At this time, Huang Kun appeared with an emergency hatchet in hand and hid to the side of the escalator. He was trembling while looking down on the ground.
What Huang Kun never imagined was that Wei Xiao Bei had actually feigned an attack on him. Because he did not see clearly, Huang Kun immediately chopped down.
Naturally, it was impossible for Wei Xiao Bei to be hit by it. His left hand moved smoothly and swiftly, seizing away the hatchet.
"Ah. Big brother Wei!"
Huang Kun finally saw him clearly. However, he slightly blushed as he thought about how he almost injured Wei Xiao Bei.
"There was no weight on the hatchet. It seems that you have gotten lazy after the summer break!"
Wei Xiao Bei berated him and pulled him up towards the third floor..
Huang Kun had been pulled by Wei Xiao Bei, but he became a lot calmer. When he recalled how Wei Xiao Bei imposingly massacred the Zombies, Huang Kun's eyes were full of reverence.
While he was in the dojo, Huang Kun had revered Wei Xiao Bei as an instructor whose moves he could not see. However, Huang Kun now, had been completely overcome.
Using his own words, big brother Wei was too strong and too domineering!
The amount of places that could block the Zombies inside the department store were not many, but they existed. For example, the path to the toilets from the third floor onwards was narrow and long, so the Zombies could only move in one by one.
However, Wei Xiao Be was bringing Huang Kun with him so he did not dare take any chances. They charged towards the eighth floor as he thought of a way to scatter the Zombies.
Cui Hu Department Store was only 10 floors high. The tenth floor was the office and the ninth floor was a warehouse. The eighth floor was the last level customers could access.
Other than a few clothes racks and models on this floor, most of the merchandise were worn out.
However, when they passed by the fourth floor, Wei Xiao Bei encountered a pleasant surprise. The fourth floor was men's apparel, so there were a lot of clothes. Although the clothes were worn out, they were all still a lot better than what he was currently wearing.
However, it was impossible for him to stop and search for clothes at this time, so he decided to do it later.
When they reached the eighth floor, Wei Xiao Bei finally took Huang Kun down from his shoulder. By the fifth floor, Huang Kun could not catch up anymore, so Wei Xiao Bei had no choice but to carry him.
Chapter 136 - Not Savage
Wei Xiao Bei was simply not willing to hide in the corridor to the toilet.
If it had been like that, Wei Xiao Bei would become trapped if the Zombies all rushed towards him.
Naturally, he was not afraid of the Zombies. Although 700 was a big number, he could kill them all if he did it slowly.
However, Wei Xiao Bei was afraid that a Licker might appear. Lickers had the ability to freely move through ceilings and had strong jumping ability. They even had their quick tongues which would be hard for Wei Xiao Bei to defend against while fighting the wave of Zombies.
All in all, the result of this might be Huang Kun losing his life.
Wei Xiao Bei would not accept this result.
The people Wei Xiao Bei had previously met were strangers or people who were hostile to him. He did not care or even feel guilty if these people died.
However, a familiar child like Huang Kun gave him the feeling that he needed to safely bring them out of The Dust World.
As a result of thinking for a while, Wei Xiao Bei guarded one of the escalators, while he dispatched Huang Kun to the other one.
Huang Kun was a bit afraid, but he had no choice but to go. They had already agreed that if Huang Kun saw a Zombie coming up the escalator, he would immediately run back.
Other than two escalators, there were two emergency exits at both ends of the floor. However, as long as the Zombies were not lured there, they would not use them while ignoring the main escalator.
Wei Xiao Bei stuck close to the escalator and looked down through the crack.
For Wei Xiao Bei, a few floor's distance could not affect his sight.
However, because the crack was narrow, the amount of things he could see was limited to just the escalator.
However, even if that was the case, Wei Xiao Bei could see that the Zombies were currently scattered on the first floor.
Naturally, there were also Zombies who were also heading up to the second floor.
However, because of their body posture, climbing up an escalator was a lot harder for them compared to a normal person.
As they climbed up, large amount of Zombies fell down. Only a few lucky Zombies had climbed up the second floor.
Seeing this scene, Wei Xiao Bei schemed. He planned to go down and take this chance to massacre them.
However, Wei Xiao Bei looked at Huang Kun on the other escalator, and could not help but shake his head. With Huang Kun there, he did not dare to go to far away.
The correlation between the Zombies movements and numbers was like a pyramid. From the second floor, the amount of Zombies that were climbing up had decreased once again.
As Wei Xiao Bei looked at the Zombies' climbing speed, it would take them more than half an hour to climb up to the eighth floor. As a result, he called Huang Kun back to his side and made a makeshift alarm with the clothes rack, placing it on the two escalators.
As long as the Zombies climbed up and hit the clothes rack, then the clothes rack would fall down the escalator and hit the level below, creating a huge sound to alarm them.
Naturally, only Wei Xiao Bei made it, while Huang Kun observed on the side.
After finishing their preparations, Wei Xiao Bei brought Huang Kun to continue upwards.
When they were on the ninth floor, Wei Xiao Bei had a headache as he looked at the heavily locked warehouse doors. The warehouse doors were only made of normal steel doors, but if Wei Xiao Bei wanted to open them, the amount of sound he would create would be enough to attract the Zombies' attention.
If there were a few Lickers inside the warehouse, things would also get uglier.
After circling the ninth floor a few times and observed the place, Wei Xiao Bei thought of a plan to use the ventilation ducts.
As a large department store, the air conditioning should come from a central air conditioning system. Moreover, if the central air conditioning system generated cold air, it needed to pass through every room in every floor. This was also the reason why spies in movies would mostly use the ventilation ducts to move through rooms.
As an electrician, Wei Xiao Bei was not a stranger to this.
With a jump, Wei Xiao Bei had caught onto the ventilation duct that was slightly protruding from the ceiling. With a light twist, the metal bars from the duct were pulled down. Afterwards, Wei Xiao Bei told Huang Kun a few things, passed him the backpack, and climbed into the ventilation duct like a monkey.
At this time, Wei Xiao Bei noticed that having a bigger body size was not a good thing. As he moved through the ventilation duct, it was easy for him to get stuck on turns and narrow places.
This was especially so when the great spear was still wrapped around his waist and the machete still in his right hand.
Naturally, this was not a problem for Wei Xiao Bei. The only thing was that the worn out ventilation duct had been further destroyed by him. A few dents appeared on the places he had a hard time on. Some places had even been directly torn by him.
Wei Xiao Bei quickly reached one of the warehouse. After he jumped down the ventilation duct, he saw that the room was filled with durable plastic bags.
Wei Xiao Bei pulled out his dagger and cut open a bag.
When he opened it, there were more than 10 pieces men's clothing inside.
Wei Xiao Bei could not help but smile when he saw this. Moreover, the contents were Adidas sportswear that came in matching sets.
Wei Xiao Bei searched for his size and immediately changed his clothes.
At the very least he did not look like a savage now.
Compared to the clothes that he had previously bought from a stall, these 1700-1800 yuan sports clothes were much more durable. He wore the clothes that tightly fitted him, but gave no resistance to his movements at all.
After changing clothes, Wei Xiao Bei walked towards the wall of the warehouse and hacked down with his machete.
Warehouses like this were not completely constructed with cement. They were only made with a special alloy with insulating foam outside. It was useful against thieves, but it was nothing in front of Wei Xiao Bei.
With a single chop, the wall had been torn. After a few more chops, Wei Xiao Bei lightly kicked it, creating a human sized hole.
Wei Xiao Bei walked forward to another warehouse. He looked around and found out that it was the warehouse for women's apparel. Moreover, a few of the clothes were decayed.
Next, Wei Xiao Bei followed the pattern and moved through the warehouses. He had found a few good things.
Nike shoes?
Wei Xiao Bei made one of the clothes into a rag and wiped his feet. Then he wore a pair of socks and then the shoes. He jumped and felt that they were not bad.
He wore a pair of branded sunglass and looked at himself in the mirror, feeling that he looked cool.
After busying himself for a while, he suddenly stopped. He bitterly smiled at realizing how selfish he was. Perhaps because he had suddenly found a lot of things in The Dust World, his commoner mindset had urged him to bring anything useful.
However, after thinkng a bit, there was no use for them even if he brought a lot back to his room. If he truly needed them, he could just come back since no one would probably damage them. Even if someone came, they would only be able to take a few things.
After thinking about this, he came to the warehouse door.
The warehouse door was a lot easier to open from the inside than the outside. After opening the door halfway, it did not budge anymore since it was locked by iron chains.
Wei Xiao Bei stuck out the machete on the crack and chopped down. With a crisp sound, the iron chains broke apart.
After opening the door, Huang Kun who was anxiously waiting outside was startled. Seeing Wei Xiao Bei, he was about to shout, but immediately closed his mouth as he recalled the Zombies downstairs. If he shouted, he could attract the living dead downstairs.
"Come here," Wei Xiao Bei signaled
Huang Kun eagerly ran over. When he saw Wei Xiao Bei's current appearance, he said, "Big brother Wei, you look cool! You look even cooler than Chris from Resident Evil!"
Chris?
Wei Xiao Bei knew that Resident was a game and also a movie, but he did not know who Chris was, so he asked further.
The following question Huang Kun asked made Wei Xiao Bei begin to doubt himself from then on.
"Big brother Wei, aren't you too old school?"
As it turned out, ever since the start of the new term, cinemas in Cui Hu City had been showing the science fiction flick, Resident Evil. Because there was a game that had already existed and many famous celebrities were involved, many young people and students all went to watch it. For the moment, those who had not seen the flick were called old school.
This made Wei Xiao Bei feel like he had a faint grasp at something. He felt that there was some kind or relation between this and The Dust World, but the proper reasoning was still hard to make out.
After thinking a bit, Wei Xiao Bei temporarily gave up getting to the bottom of it. He just let Huang Kun enter the warehouse and pick a few clothes.
While escaping together, Wei Xiao Bei had previously noticed that Huang Kun's clothes already had a huge tear.
Since there were a lot of clothes there, there was no need to feign humility.
Although Huang Kun's family was well off, it was the first time he saw so many clothes. He could not help but call out, "Big brother Wei, are all these clothes for me? This is the best!"
In the end, Huang Kun was still a child. He had been scared witless previously, but he was able to quickly recover. Wei Xiao Bei could not help but scold him with a smile, "Hurry up, how many can you wear anyway? If you don't hurry up, the Zombies below are going to come up."
These threatening words were better than anything else he could have said. When he heard Wei Xiao Bei, Huang Kun's back was immediately filled with cold sweat. He hurriedly found a set of clothes and shoes. After changing into them, he returned to Wei Xaio Bei.
Wei Xiao Bei did not let Huang Kun go guard the other escalator anymore, and instead, both of them returned back to the first escalator.
When he looked down, he saw that the Zombies were still moving upwards, and they were currently on the sixth floor.
Seeing this, Wei Xiao Bei was a bit worried. After all, a high class zombie like the Licker did not let out any sound when moving. If it truly hid in the department store, things would be bad.