Chapter 203 - 188: Lawyer Ji

Chapter 203: Chapter 188: Lawyer Ji

After breaking through the final barrier, Yu Dong and Shen Xinyi’s relationship progressed by leaps and bounds.

Shen Xinyi could finally express her love for Yu Dong.

However, they still hadn’t moved in together.

Yu Dong hadn’t figured out how to talk to Liu Ye’ye about this. He couldn’t bear to hurt the girl who had unconditionally trusted him for three lifetimes.

But it’s hard to have the best of both worlds.

Yu Dong didn’t know what to do.

So he chose to kill zombies as a temporary escape from the problem.

"We’re heading west, straight for the research institute!"

On the twelfth day of the apocalypse, the combat team set out again, full of energy after a two-day rest. They headed west along Binhai Avenue, clearing out zombies.

After the heavy rain, zombies gradually wandered out from their various shelters.

Fortunately, the road west had few large, concentrated commercial buildings or residential complexes. It was pure suburbia, with only some small attractions like ordinary seaside bathing areas, a few villages, and farmland along the way.

The zombie density wasn’t high, so clearing them out was very simple.

However, fewer people and buildings also meant fewer supplies.

After Huang Zhiqiang officially took over the logistics team, he merged his original small scavenging team into it. The pickings along the way were slim, and some of the small supermarkets had already been looted.

The pack rat wasn’t happy.

Despite the low number of zombies, Yu Dong had the combat team on high alert. He mostly stayed out of the frontline fighting, instead keeping his eyes on the high ground around them, watching for sneak attacks from climbing zombies.

In his previous life, Yu Dong knew that climbing zombies started appearing right after the heavy rain.

「Four days later, on the 15th day of the apocalypse.」

Yu Dong and his team cleared the 8-kilometer stretch of Binhai Avenue and successfully reached the research institute.

Looking at the distinctive complex, which looked like three half-spheres placed on the ground, everyone in the combat team let out a satisfied sigh of relief.

"We’re finally here. I’ve been on edge for four days... terrified one of those climbing zombies the boss talked about would jump down and get me."

"Tell me about it. I even spent 200 points to have Master Sun make me a set of shoulder and neck guards, specifically to protect against attacks from above."

"And the damn things don’t even show up. It’s been making me jumpy every day. I’d rather just fight one. Let me kill one already."

"Show your health bar already, stop hiding all the time."

In those four days, Yu Dong’s group hadn’t encountered a single climbing zombie.

Zhao Youcai asked, "Dongzi, where did you run into climbing zombies in your past life? Do they only show up in special areas?"

"The first one I encountered was in that bank, and the first time I heard about them was from the military..."

Yu Dong recalled the two conditions for mutation that were officially announced in his past life: carnivory and congregation.

"It seems the population density here is relatively low, so the zombies are less concentrated. That first wave of transformations at 7 o’clock caused fewer deaths, so the zombies ate fewer people, which means the chance of mutations is also lower."

Zhao Wenjie: "Makes sense!"

Yan Yikai walked ahead to the research institute’s main gate. It was an incredibly tall gate, an estimated five or six meters high, and made of very sturdy steel.

Moreover, the gate was covered in metal spikes.

"Whoa, these guys are well-prepared. Normal zombies can’t get in, and if a climbing zombie tried to crawl up, it would just impale itself..."

Yu Dong glanced around. The walls surrounding the research institute had similar modifications, which were extremely effective against climbing zombies.

"Mm, Lawyer Ji’s defenses are pretty good. Knock on the door."

Yan Yikai knocked on the door. A camera above the gate swiveled to focus on the group. Three seconds later... with a HISS of compressed air, the heavy gate slowly slid to one side.

"Holy shit, an electric gate? Aren’t they living a little too well?"

Yan Yikai raised his crossbow and jogged inside, taking small steps. After a quick look around, he signaled to the others behind him:

"Clear!"

After checking that there were no zombies outside, Yu Dong and the others parked the semi-truck at the entrance, blocking the gate.

"Start unloading."

Huang Zhiqiang and the logistics team unloaded barrels of diesel fuel from the semi-truck and rolled them inside.

There were also some weapons for Lawyer Ji, which Yu Dong had brought along as well.

spears, 5 repeating crossbows, 500 crossbow arrows, and 20 Molotov cocktails.

These were weapons Yu Dong had brought for Lawyer Ji on his own initiative.

Although Lawyer Ji hadn’t asked for them, he wanted to help increase the defenses here—not just to help this small settlement, but also to protect their biologist, Meng Dongqing.

She was currently the only high-level talent on Yu Dong’s side specializing in biology.

In addition, they also unloaded a wooden crate as tall as a person, from which whimpering could be heard.

Meng Dongqing stepped out of the vehicle, looked at the research institute, adjusted her glasses, and a scientist’s smile graced her lips.

"Finally, I can get a good look at this zombie virus..."

As they were unloading, the electric doors of the three hemispherical buildings inside opened, and people started walking out—more than 40 in total.

The man in the lead was a middle-aged man of average height with some wrinkles on his face. He was wearing a red suit, which, instead of looking strange, gave him a unique and powerful presence.

It was like... in an FPS game when you run into a guy using a female character in a weird outfit. You just know he’s a goddamn max-level expert.

"Hey! We’ve been waiting for you, Mr. Yu."

Ji Luo ran over with his hand outstretched, enthusiastically grabbing Yu Dong’s hand and shaking it firmly.

Yu Dong felt his warmth and immediately felt much closer to him. After all, they had prepared for this together before the apocalypse, and Ji Luo had helped a great deal with various contracts and company operations.

But things were different now. Xufeng had become a zombie, while Ji Luo, against the odds, had survived and was so close to them.

"Yeah, it’s already been 15 days since the apocalypse started. I really didn’t expect you to have developed things so well here... I thought you’d just be living here by yourself for a while, waiting for me to take you back."

"Waiting isn’t my style. As long as I’m alive, I have to keep moving. You prepared such a great environment for me. If I didn’t make good use of this window of opportunity before the zombies evolved to expand my influence... it would be a complete waste of the ’reborn’ information you gave me."

Huh?

’Yu Dong swore he had never told Ji Luo anything about using the first ten days to kill zombies and expand. He had only told him what would happen next in Yanhai City and how the zombies would evolve. Most of the time, it had just been Ji Luo asking questions and him answering. He never imagined Ji Luo would actually go out and kill zombies; he’d expected him to just guard the supplies they had prepared and wait for their rescue. But he hadn’t expected Ji Luo to take the initiative and grow the research institute into a group of over forty people.’

Yu Dong looked at the people behind Ji Luo. They all respected him immensely; no one interrupted him while he spoke, and their positions showed he was the center of their group.

Clearly, Ji Luo’s word was law here.

"Lawyer Ji... you’ve done well. Very impressive."

"It’s mainly thanks to your information. Once you understand the zombies, they aren’t so scary. It’s just like us litigating a case—as long as you have the right information, you can win every time."

Yu Dong nodded and then signaled to Huang Zhiqiang.

"Bring the weapons over."

After the weapons were brought out, Yu Dong said to Ji Luo with a smile:

"You may have survived the initial phase, but your defensive strength is surely still lacking. These professional weapons can help you clear zombies more effectively, especially the Molotov cocktails... This stuff is really useful. If a large horde of zombies ever surrounds your gate, you can toss these out to eliminate them..."

Yu Dong proudly explained his weapons, adding that Ji Luo could have them for free.

After listening patiently, Ji Luo thanked Yu Dong, "Thanks, Mr. Yu, but... we don’t lack for weapons. You can save these for people who need them more, to help them gain the strength to fight zombies."

"Huh???"

Yu Dong was a bit puzzled.

Ji Luo called to someone behind him, "Wu Xiu, bring out some of our weapons to show Mr. Yu."

A large, heavyset man went into one of the buildings and brought out several 3-meter-long great spears, which looked extremely imposing.

Yu Chengfei’s eyes lit up.

"Liuhe Great Spears! Nice!"

’This is what I’m used to using, not some short little spear less than two meters long.’

The heavyset man tossed out several of them, then carried out a number of longbows and large crossbows, followed by many quivers of arrows.

"There’s a Crossbow Club near here. We took all their equipment."

"I see... In that case, we’ll take the spears and crossbows back. You should keep the Molotovs, though."

"Oh, we have even less need for those."

Wu Xiu carried out a wooden box from inside. It was filled with various types of detonators, explosive charges, and bombs.

"The owner of the local fireworks factory is an expert at making this stuff. We took over the fertilizer plant not far from here, so we have plenty of explosives, including silent incendiaries."

"Oh, right, a few days ago we also took over the small fishing harbor to the south. There are a few boats there, plus a seafood farm. We’ve been eating so much shrimp and fish lately we’re about to get gout... When you leave, I’ll have someone catch a few crates of live ones for you to take back."

Ji Luo cheerfully described their situation while Yu Dong and his team listened, completely stunned.

’Seriously, dude? How the hell did you level up so fast??? Are you playing this like you’re a reincarnator too or what???’