Basically, all members in the group sent similar expressions.
This group could be called the "Thumbs Up Group."
But it had to be said, because of the group's existence, everyone's relationship had invisibly become much closer. When they were idle and had nothing to do, they would chat in the group.
Lei Dui: "Fellow group members, the communications team, considering that everyone might be bored during their leisure time, has deliberately worked overtime to create a small game for everyone called Goat a Goat. I heard them say it seems only those with an IQ over 100 can pass. There's also a ranking system. Everyone can give it a try and see who has the highest IQ."
Xu Zeyang: "In terms of IQ, no kidding, I don't think I'm inferior to anyone."
Guan Hao: "A bit interesting."
Vuong Khai: "@Guan Hao, want to compete?"
Zhu Cheng, seeing the direction of the messages in the group change a bit quickly, looked rather helpless. Why didn't they continue chatting based on his topic? He had already said so much. Shouldn't the chat direction in the group revolve around what he said and start a round of positive, uplifting remarks?
Such a good lead actually got linked to a game.
This was not what he wanted to see.
At this moment.
Lam Pham memorized the location of the leashed Screamer Zombie, then went to other places to hunt zombies. Of course, while hunting, he was also looking for Screamer Zombies.
Although he had already captured one Screamer Zombie.
But based on past experience, if he endlessly used the Screamer Zombie's voice to attract zombies, it would easily damage the Screamer Zombie's throat, making it unable to make a sound.
His idea was very simple.
If he considered Hoang City as the center of a circle, he just needed to catch enough Screamer Zombies. When he wanted to clean up, he would take the Screamer Zombies and expand outwards. However, on the way of expansion, he still needed to catch more Screamer Zombies, as the range of a Screamer Zombie's voice was limited.
This was very suitable for early-stage cleanup. When the cleanup reached a certain range, the role of the Screamer Zombie would become minimal.
"Poof poof!"
In a very short time, he had already hunted hundreds of zombies. Although the number of zombies in the wild couldn't compare to those in the city, there were still quite a few.
Today, he was like a ruthless assassin, wielding a sword with the most warmth, hunting the coldest, emotionless zombies.
From the beginning of the apocalypse until now.
His sword-wielding movements were already ingrained in his bones.
He had hunted countless zombies. Any other survivor who had hunted so many zombies would have become cruel and brutal.
But Lam Pham was a special existence. The more he killed, the brighter the light in his heart seemed to shine, radiating a dazzling brilliance.
Two days later!
During these two days, Lam Pham had been accelerating the process of clearing zombies.
At this moment.
He appeared in a town closest to Hoang City.
Xuyen Hai Town.
In the past, the leaders of Xuyen Hai Town felt that their place was developing very well, with its own port. Its overall GDP was no worse than some county-level cities. Always being called a town seemed a bit lacking in ambition; they had to open up their horizons.
He preferred Xuyen Hai Town to be called Xuyen Hai City.
If that wasn't possible, being called Xuyen Hai County was also acceptable. But the leaders of Xuyen Hai Town really didn't expect the leaders of Hoang City to be such damned old foxes.
Xuyen Hai Brother: Big brother, I want to move up. Will you support me or not?
Hoang City Big Brother: Your GDP is so high, you can do it even without my support.
Xuyen Hai Brother: Okay, with big brother's words, I'm thinking of competing.
Hoang City Big Brother: I'm up for re-election this year. Xuyen Hai little brother, you'll have to suffer for a few more years. When I retire, I'll invite you fishing, and I'll support your advancement. But you have to wear a helmet.
Xuyen Hai Brother: ...
Now, Lam Pham appeared on the rooftop of a star-rated hotel in Xuyen Hai Town, one foot on the edge of the rooftop, looking down at this Xuyen Hai Town, which had already been occupied by zombies.
Even with a simple glance.
He saw many evolved zombies.
"Sure enough, just as I thought, without external cleanup, once zombies achieve stable development, they will evolve at high speed. And after that thunderstorm, these guys are even more terrifying than imagined."
Carrying Frostmourne, he looked like a lone warrior walking in the apocalypse, coming to a strange place to clean up all the sins here.
Xuyen Hai Town had a seaport, its scale much smaller than Hoang City's, but its output value was not to be underestimated. This small town had a population of over three hundred thousand.
"I wonder if there are any lucky survivors."
In his heart, the probability of this was likely very low, but no matter what, always holding onto some hope was a good thing. Xuyen Hai Town was very close to Hoang City; the distributed Zombie Illustration Book should have reached here.
Lam Pham took a deep breath, and a powerful voice erupted, "Hey, come on out."
"Meow meow..."
"Meow meow..."
Xuyen Hai Town, which had been quiet for a long time, became lively. Suddenly, the roars of zombies came, accompanied by the sound of running footsteps approaching from afar.
Hearing the sound, the zombies went completely crazy. To them, sound was the best lure.
Some zombies ran fast, smashing through windows in front of them, jumping down from numerous high buildings.
Large numbers of zombies also appeared at road intersections.
Densely packed, in endless waves.
"Strength-type zombies, speed-type zombies, predators..."
Lam Pham observed, and even saw a mutated zombie in the horde.
This mutated zombie had a very strange and irregular body shape, asymmetrical. A large head grew on its right shoulder, with bulky tumors on the head. It was even more violent than other zombies.
"Come on, it's always a familiar scene, but I'm used to it."
Lam Pham reached out and grasped the hilt of his sword. Frostmourne's silver-white blade slowly emerged. Listening carefully, one could almost hear Frostmourne vibrating slightly.
He descended. In an instant, silver-white light flickered. That figure, like a ghost, shuttled through the zombie horde, continuously reaping the lives of zombies.
Xuyen Hai Town Docks.
A yacht was docked, not a small one.
And on the yacht lived several survivors.
A total of four survivors, three men and one woman. One man and one woman were a couple.
Of the other two male survivors, one looked to be only eighteen or nineteen, a university student.
The other, in his twenties and wearing glasses, was a trainee lawyer.
This yacht was not theirs, but belonged to ordinary people who had fled here after the apocalypse broke out.
At this moment.
"Haha, there's stuff, there's really food!" The university student survivor looked extremely excited. He jumped into the water and pulled up a crate; there was indeed food inside.
The trainee lawyer wearing glasses was also very excited.
Because the two of them belonged to the same group and had always been helping each other.
And the couple on the side, seeing the crate full of snacks, were already numb with envy.
When they first fled to the yacht, it was fine at the beginning. The yacht had a lot of supplies. They originally thought of taking the yacht to find a place without zombies.
But they searched the entire yacht and couldn't find the keys. They could only stare blankly, hiding on this yacht.
From abundant supplies at the beginning, everyone discussed what to do. But as days passed, supplies dwindled. From an initially friendly relationship, it developed into mutual vigilance and hoarding of food.
Until now, two distinct relationships had formed.
The couple was together.
The university student and the lawyer were together.
The couple's man was famished. Seeing them obtain a crate of snacks, he had some thoughts, "Gao Shang, can you give us some?"
The one called Gao Shang was the trainee lawyer.
He should have had a bright future, but with the arrival of the apocalypse, everything he had turned to ashes. He could only hide here like a bedbug.
Thinking of all sorts of ways to survive.
Gao Shang opened a bag of potato chips of unknown age and frantically stuffed them into his mouth, while looking at the couple's man, "You want to eat, right?"
"Now is very realistic." As for why he allied with the university student, it was because the couple's man looked relatively strong. He was afraid of accidents, so he allied with the university student. If anything happened, he would have help to deal with the couple's man.
The couple's man was truly starving. After the supplies ran out, they had been fishing on the yacht. But as the bait was used up, it was basically impossible to catch fish.
Now they hadn't eaten anything for three days, relying only on distilled water to stave off hunger.
The university student tugged at Gao Shang's clothes and nodded at him suggestively.
In an instant, Gao Shang seemed to understand something.
"It's not impossible for you to want food. Give us your girlfriend," Gao Shang said.
Hearing this, the couple's man's expression suddenly changed completely, "Impossible."
No man would allow such a thing to happen. Not even lashing out was considered relatively rational.
Not to mention the couple's man's wrong expression, even the couple's woman was the same. She hid behind her boyfriend, looking at them with fear and anger.
They had communicated before. The university student was a student at a prestigious university, and the man with glasses was a trainee lawyer. Both had received higher education and were outstanding in terms of ideology and morality.
But as supplies became scarce and everyone became wary of each other, she understood that ideology and morality had nothing to do with what kind of education one had received.
You could say they were smart, liked to study, or were learning machines.
But you absolutely couldn't link ideology and morality with achievements.
Now, hearing such words, she felt even more disgusted.
"It's the apocalypse now. How long we can live is an unknown. If you want to possess her, that's up to you. If you want food, you can only find it yourself. But look, it's all zombies outside. Where can you find it? People have to be realistic. Some things don't need to be taken so seriously. We can swear, just once, treat it as a transaction. We'll give you one-third of the food. Eat sparingly, and you can live at least half a month longer. Maybe within this half month, we can leave this damn place?"
Gao Shang adjusted his glasses, eating snacks while trying to persuade them.
"Impossible," the couple's man refused, but his refusal seemed a bit hesitant.
Gao Shang said, "Is your girlfriend beautiful? So-so. Before, we might not even have looked twice. You've played with her enough. What's the big deal? Why not use her to exchange for some supplies? Don't you think surviving is the only hope?"
"Besides, when we're full and our strength gradually recovers, your bodies will become weaker and weaker. Do you think you can protect her then? Is it really meaningful to use your life to protect your so-called dignity?"
Gao Shang noticed a change in the couple's man's eyes.
It wasn't that he couldn't be persuaded.
It was his last shred of dignity at play.
Sure enough.
These words made the couple's man not refuse as firmly as before.
Instead, he stared intently at the crate of food.
He felt that Gao Shang made sense. In his current situation, if they really recovered their strength, forget about food, whether they could survive would be a problem.
No one dared to underestimate those who had survived until now.
Whether it was mentally or emotionally, they had reached the brink of collapse.
The couple's man turned his head to look at his girlfriend cowering behind him.
The couple's woman looked at her boyfriend's gaze, her heart skipped a beat, and she retreated in disbelief, "You... You're going to agree with them?"
They had known each other for seven years, together since university. If the apocalypse hadn't broken out, they might be married by now. Although her parents had always disapproved, thinking his hometown was too poor.
But she hadn't listened, thinking that as long as he was good to her, it was fine. And what did it matter if his hometown was poor or not? They would work hard together.
"Lan, just agree. I promise I won't despise you. With one-third of the supplies, we can live for a long time, really."
The couple's man had been persuaded by Gao Shang.
In fact, if such a transaction had been proposed earlier, the couple's man would probably still have agreed. It was just that he had a paper-thin dignity in his heart. A gentle touch, and that last shred of dignity would shatter.