Dazhuang landed heavily on the ground, like a great roc spreading its wings, sweeping across the space. The moment he touched down, two scythes were simultaneously released. In an instant, cold light flashed, flesh and blood flew, it was truly like the rebirth of the Martial God, fiercely savage!

Hu Xiaodong was already drenched in cold sweat from the opponent's sudden move. In his shock, he could no longer care about anything else and quickly waved to Wu Chao at the bottom of the passage, signaling him to come up and guard the place.

After giving the necessary instructions, Hu Xiaodong didn't dare to hesitate even a little. He got up, took a few sprinting strides, and leapt onto the opposite rooftop with ease.

Under the sunlight, two zombies knelt powerlessly on the ground, while Dazhuang, with a blank expression, pulled a scythe out from one of their skulls. Instantly, blood splashed through the air, creating an extremely gory scene.

Watching Dazhuang, who looked as if he had fallen into a dye vat, soaked in blood, Hu Xiaodong exhaled lightly with lingering fear, then walked over to him, asking with concern, "Are you okay?"

"I'm fine!" Dazhuang replied bluntly as expected, not even glancing at Hu Xiaodong. Instead, he turned and began to go downstairs, but...

"Wait!" With a low voice, Hu Xiaodong quickly stepped forward, his face solemn like a clay sculpture, "Dazhuang, I don't care what you're thinking right now or what you plan to do! But please always remember that you, me, and little Wu are a team! Everything you do concerns our lives and deaths! So please communicate with us before you act! Also, let me remind you once more, we're here for the women and children at the plant! If we can't go back! Then they..."

Without needing heavy words, Hu Xiaodong didn't finish his sentence because he believed the man in front of him should understand his meaning.

Under the blazing sun, Dazhuang stood with his back facing them, no one could see his expression at the moment, nor could anyone know what he was thinking, but his reply moments later clearly expressed his attitude.

"My next step... is to go down this way!" Lifting his broad fingers, Dazhuang pointed to the entrance in front of them.

"Whew~" Hu Xiaodong unconsciously exhaled, evidently not displeased with the man's response.

He quickly walked forward, grabbed the handle of the entrance, and then gently lifted it.

"Creak," the sudden metallic friction sounded like the horn of hell, startling Hu Xiaodong into stopping his action instinctively.

That was close! His heart pounding incessantly, Hu Xiaodong steadied himself a little, then peered inside through the slightly opened gap.

In the dim passage, a few rays of sunlight slanted onto the concrete stairs. A diagonal bloodstain at the corner of the stairs was particularly conspicuous, and upon closer inspection, you could find sporadic blood droplets on the surface of the staircase, likely from one of the five upstairs.

"How is it? Can we go down?" Rarely, Dazhuang actually took the initiative to ask a question, which somewhat surprised Hu Xiaodong.

He hesitated for a moment, then shook his head slightly, saying truthfully, "Due to the angle, I can't see clearly what's underneath. This way~ I'll go down first to check the situation. If there's no problem, I'll signal you, then you come down! Otherwise, we'll withdraw immediately!"

With a slight raise of his eyebrows, Dazhuang clearly couldn't quite accept the man's proposal, but after weighing it for a few seconds, he forcefully suppressed his urge to object and silently nodded.

With Dazhuang's consent, Hu Xiaodong stopped hesitating, directly pulled open the cover, and entered the dim staircase with his compound bow.

Inside the staircase, the silence was somewhat terrifying. Due to the architectural design flaws, the lighting here was almost non-existent!

It was truly a strange life experience! Outside, the sun was bright and scorching, but inside, it felt like the icy and boundless abyss of hell.

Despite only about ten or so steps, it took Hu Xiaodong a full five minutes to walk down them!

Descending into the darkness, Hu Xiaodong was completely engulfed. He could faintly smell the scent of corpses in the air, but due to the poor lighting, he couldn't determine if there was any danger around.

He had no choice but to use the last resort. Stepping back a couple of steps until he was within reach of the rooftop light, Hu Xiaodong slowly unsheathed the cleaver from his back.

The shiny blade appeared particularly chilly in the dim staircase, the icy edge glistening ominously like a small ghost of death.

Lightly tapping the wall twice, Hu Xiaodong gripped his cleaver and watched the darkness ahead intently.

In a state of full alertness and concentration, he waited for a moment. Except for a few inexplicable noises that came from unknown directions, the anticipated "ghostly shadow" did not appear.

Breathing a sigh of relief, Hu Xiaodong reattached his blade and waved to Dazhuang, who had been anxiously waiting on the rooftop for what felt like "a long time." Dazhuang immediately understood and climbed down.

The two, one after the other, groped their way smoothly to the bottom, and after bypassing a narrow passageway, a sliver of light finally broke through the darkness.

Under the light penetrating from the top, Hu Zhuang and his companion saw the security iron door in front of them.

There was no question about what lay behind this iron door; Dazhuang knew all too well. In the past, when his kids had a fever or cough, he had often brought them here. So...

Without any experience, Dazhuang strode over, thinking that opening this door would mean obtaining medicine and antibiotics; opening this door meant the women and children's illnesses would be healed. He never considered the consequences of recklessly opening the security door.

His hand was already on the door latch when Hu Xiaodong suddenly realized, his eyes opened wide, and the "no" in his mouth hadn't yet left when a "click" sounded.

His heart plummeted, watching as Dazhuang gradually pulled open the door, Hu Xiaodong could only silently pray, praying that the scene behind the door wasn't as he feared...

However, today fate clearly wasn't on the side of the survivors because just as Dazhuang opened the door halfway, a rubbing black shadow aligned perfectly with Hu Xiaodong's eyes...

"Close the door!" he yelled and instinctively dashed forward, his sturdy body crashing into the door with a heavy "bang," but the result...

"Crack!" A crisp sound of bones breaking, a crushed corpse hand precisely jammed into the almost closed door gap.

Hu Xiaodong ultimately came a step too late; the corpse hand's intervention not only thwarted his plan to close the door but also stirred up the horde of corpses behind the door!

The threat of death was imminent!

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