What's wrong with being a little arrogant in the apocalypse just to support my wife?

No one spoke in the car the whole way; everyone was lost in their own thoughts, maintaining a tacit silence.

Lu Yize was digging into the memories of his previous life spanning fifteen years.

However, in his previous life, he was immersed in hatred and focused all his attention on his enemies.

Being blinded by a single leaf, they could no longer see the other hidden, turbulent movements.

The only one who seemed agitated inside the car was Jiang Yue, whose gaze remained fixed on a certain direction outside the window.

It even kept sharpening its claws and letting out a wary growl from its throat.

The mutated dog, which had been moving at high speed, stopped, and the people in the car finally realized that something was wrong.

Fan Jian looked around, somewhat alarmed, and asked, "What... we haven't seen a single zombie?"

If the zombies died because of extreme weather, then there should also be zombie corpses lying on the road.

Instead of the current situation, where there is simply no zombie in sight.

Lu Yize looked at Jiang Yue, who was staring out the window as if summoned by something, and followed her gaze, frowning as he confirmed the direction.

Xian Wenrui, being observant, recognized the direction and asked in surprise, "Isn't that the city center base where we sent Purple Hair and Green Hair before?"

"Now that you mention it... it seems to be true?!" Fan Jian suddenly realized as well.

Zhang Wenjing, who was outside the car, also noticed something was wrong, and she rode her mutated dog closer.

"There are only a few scattered zombies within a three-kilometer radius, but they are all heading towards the city center base. What should we do next?"

Lu Yize restarted the car, his gaze fixed on the city center base. "Let's go take a look."

They came out to obtain the crystal core, so of course they couldn't just leave empty-handed.

The vehicle jolted, and the once flat road became rugged and uneven. There was no sign of any living person on this road, not even a shadow of a zombie.

The scorching sun hung high in the sky, and even through the glass, the heat could not be blocked.

The scorching heat following the extreme cold made even mutated plants unable to survive.

The mutated plants lay withered and grotesque by the roadside; as far as the eye could see, there was no sign of life, and the place was eerily quiet.

Driving on such a road inexplicably evokes a sense of fear that they are the only few people left in the entire world.

"What's going on here? I have a creepy feeling."

Fan Jian looked away and saw the few living people in the car rubbing their arms. He even felt that the zombie Jiang Yue didn't look so scary anymore.

Sheng Xue also looked away uncomfortably. "Faced with extreme weather, not only do humans need to find habitats, but zombies and mutated plants and animals also need them."

Even Xian Wenrui looked serious. "Our base is so remote, yet we are constantly attacked by people, zombies, and mutated plants and animals. Not to mention bases built in the city center."

In order to accommodate more people to be rescued, the city center base was set up in a place that was easily accessible to most ordinary people, while ensuring its own safety.

If the city center base were located in Lu Yize's area, most people would probably never reach the base and would become food for the zombies.

Thinking about the location in the city center, Fan Jian understood the key to the matter, but new doubts arose.

"The leader of the city center base? Isn't that the fire-type ability user whose head was chopped off by Brother Lu and whose ability core was extracted by Jiang Yue?"

"He actually set up the base in the very center of the city. Does he have the kind heart to consider the majority of ordinary people?"

"No way, it doesn't look like it."

Zhang Wenjing, who was riding a mutant dog outside the car, answered these questions.

“He wasn’t the leader of the city center base before. He was just the second-in-command in this area. After gaining superpowers, he turned the tables and rose to power.”

"Originally, the city center base was still connected with the upper-level base. For example, the initial supplies were all distributed as relief."

"However, as you all know, the world is too chaotic now. The upper-level bases have limited control over the lower levels. This person took the opportunity to exploit ordinary people and did a lot of evil things. He deserved to die."

"I see." After hearing her explanation, everyone understood.

As they approached the central base, Zhang Wenjing added, "Before they chose to attack your base, they had already split into two factions."

"The group that attacked you was one faction, and the other faction consisted mostly of the remaining confidants of the murdered top leader."

"The person now in charge of the city center base is very likely a close confidant of the former top leader."

Fan Jian still remembers his two close friends, who were also rich kids like him. "I wonder how they are doing now."

Besides worrying about them, Fan Jian was even more concerned about the current situation of his own family members; he didn't even dare to think about it too deeply.

In the end times, simply being alive is the greatest desire.

Compared to his melancholy and sorrow, Lu Yize had no relatives or attachments.

The closer Lu Yize got to the city center base, the more he could detect with his mental power.

At this moment, several hundred low-level zombies gathered outside the city center base, and they drove into the area of ​​the center base.

The moment they peeked out, they saw a group of people being attacked by zombies, among whom the purple-haired figure stood out.

Their small team of seven or eight was being besieged by dozens of zombies.

These zombies seemed to be controlled, attacking the location of their superpower cores with purpose and execution.

The three men were covered in crisscrossing wounds, some so deep that the bone was visible.

There was a scratch mark on the purple-haired man's face that ran from his brow bone to his neck, leaving his skin torn and bloody.

Ignoring their own pain, they stared resolutely at the approaching zombies.

At their feet lay not only hundreds of zombies, but also their comrades who had fought alongside them, unable to rise again.

Those people were already exhausted, their supernatural abilities depleted, and they were only hanging on by a thread.

Just as one of the zombies was about to pull out the purple-haired creature's ability core with its claws, an energy fluctuation appeared in the space around the group of zombies, rippling out circles of invisible water-like waves.

The zombies were all enclosed in a narrow, confined space.

The air inside the space gradually churned and vibrated, and the zombie's bones made a crisp cracking sound. The ever-compressing space squeezed the zombie into a deformed and twisted shape.

The sudden contraction of the air caused the temperature to surge violently, and the zombie's bones creaked under the constant pressure.

The air pressure inside the space continued to rise. Then, as if the space had reached its limit, a fierce force exploded outward, scattering the severed limbs and remains of the dozen or so zombies all over the ground.

The few people present, who had thought they were doomed, were stunned by the sudden turn of events.

It wasn't until the giant mutated dog pounced on the scattered, still-living zombies, and a protective water curtain rose from the ground that Purple Hair looked up in surprise.

Upon seeing the person not far away, he choked up instantly, his hoarse voice calling out a familiar name.

"Brother Lu!!"