"This is..."
When Zou Keke opened the teleportation gate, she retrieved her backpack as well.
She surveyed her surroundings and immediately started rummaging through her backpack.
Soon, she took out a paper map, spread it flat on the ground, and began comparing it to the environment.
The two of them appeared on the rooftop of a tall building.
From here, the surrounding streetscape was clearly visible.
While Zou Keke was consulting the map, Zhang Chen slowly walked to the edge of the rooftop and looked around.
He saw that only a small number of buildings in the entire city were emitting smoke. The exteriors of the buildings were pitch black, and most structures were intact.
The roads were filled with parked vehicles.
Between the vehicles, scattered along the various roads, were a few disheveled zombies wandering aimlessly. Some were banging their heads against walls, while others were constantly twitching and vomiting.
"A zombie apocalypse... have I returned to the beginner's village..."
Zhang Chen took a deep breath.
The air at a high altitude was relatively fresh, lacking the scent of blood.
If people living in the apocalypse now could reside here, it would be no different from paradise.
Zhang Chen activated Absolute Vision.
The cars on the ground, as small as ants, instantly appeared as if they were right before his eyes.
Zhang Chen observed carefully. The car windows only had a thin layer of dust.
It seemed that, as Zou Keke had said, the zombie outbreak here had only occurred a few months ago.
In that case, there must be abundant supplies throughout the city!
Thinking of this, Zhang Chen couldn't help but smile slightly.
These supplies would be rare commodities for survivors in the apocalypse, especially for the轮回者 (lúnhuí zhě -轮回者) of the first two cycles. It was a sure way to make a substantial profit.
At this moment, a line of prompts slowly appeared:
[You have passively traversed to a parallel world. Your duration of stay has been significantly extended. The biological energy level of this parallel world is 1. Remaining time: 239 hours, 59 minutes, 23 seconds...]
Passive traversal?
This meant that if Zhang Chen traversed through a spatial rift initiated by the Progress Faction or through Xiao Ruan's abilities, it would be considered active traversal.
But this situation, where he didn't do anything and was brought along by someone from another world, was called passive traversal.
Passive traversal allowed for a longer stay than active traversal?!
In other words, when the natives actively invited survivors from this world to find them in the main world, they actually desired a longer stay here?!
This made everything clear!
Who would want to live in a world rampant with monsters? If one could linger in a parallel world with negligible danger for a long time, wouldn't that be a wonderful thing!
It had to be said, Zhang Chen had a lot to learn from the Progress Faction when it came to taking advantage of opportunities.
"Found it!"
Zou Keke shouted, excitedly coming over to Zhang Chen and pointing at the map.
"We are currently at Heyu Tower. Our base is set up at the stadium!"
"It's five kilometers from here, so we need to find a car!"
As she spoke, she took out a telescope from her backpack and looked at the ground.
Soon, she pointed to a taxi with its door open at the corner.
"The taxi driver has turned into a zombie. The keys must still be in the car. We'll take a detour through the building to avoid the zombies on the road."
"Once we get inside the car, we'll be safe!"
Zhang Chen smiled and shook his head, saying,
"The driver turning into a zombie indicates that the car was not turned off when he died."
"Think about it, if a car remains in a running state for months, do you think there would still be any gasoline? Or would the battery still have power?"
"Ah... this... I didn't think of that..." Zou Keke was stunned and said blankly.
"Alright, don't trouble yourself with that. Are you afraid of heights?"
Zhang Chen suddenly asked.
"Afraid of heights? I'm not afraid of heights..."
As soon as Zou Keke finished speaking,
She felt a strong and powerful arm wrap around her back, and with a slight exertion of force,
Her entire body suddenly lifted into the air!
"Ah!~"
Zou Keke exclaimed in fright, closing her eyes.
She tightly hugged Zhang Chen with both hands.
"Uh... you said you weren't afraid of heights?"
Zhang Chen asked as he floated in mid-air.
"Yes... I'm not afraid of heights on roller coasters... but this is being flown like a person... this is the first time I've encountered this situation... I'm a little scared..."
"You... you must not let go!"
Zou Keke was so nervous that she was almost wrapping her legs around Zhang Chen.
"If I wanted to kill you, would I need to go through all this trouble?"
"You need to open your eyes and see which direction the stadium is. If you don't guide me, how can I fly?"
Zhang Chen said helplessly.
"Oh, oh, right! The stadium is... in the direction behind me!"
Zou Keke said.
Even though she was supposed to be guiding, she hadn't dared to loosen her grip at all during the journey.
She was afraid of falling.
Thus, they relied entirely on Zou Keke's eyes for direction.
Fortunately, they didn't fly for long. After passing by a cluster of tall buildings, the stadium appeared in their sight.
This relieved Zou Keke from the difficult task of desperately turning her eyeballs.
Hovering in mid-air, they saw the stadium below, which looked like a matchbox, surrounded by dense crowds of zombies.
Based on Zhang Chen's experience, these zombies should number over a hundred thousand.
"Yes, True God, this is our camp. Before I left, someone discovered a massive horde of zombies surging towards us."
"I don't know if we've arrived in time. I hope everyone at the camp is okay!"
Zou Keke said worriedly.
"That's simple. Eliminate these zombies, and then you can go in and look slowly!"
Zhang Chen said calmly.
"No, True God! If the zombies break through our defenses, our people might be fighting a desperate battle!"
"Every minute we can buy now might save... a... life... ah..."
Just as Zou Keke uttered the words "might save,"
Zhang Chen casually snapped his fingers!
The remaining words were spoken by her in shock and fear, her voice trembling slightly.
*Snap!*
*Boom! Whoosh...*
In an instant!
Clusters of white mist billowed out from the stadium, then like a large stone thrown into a calm lake,
They created ripples.
Any zombie touched by the ripples instantly disintegrated into white mist and dissipated.
Soon, the energy annihilated the hundreds of thousands of zombies surrounding the stadium, but it didn't dissipate. It continued to spread rapidly outwards.
Zombies on the streets vaporized one after another.
In buildings, in cars, in sewers...
Wherever the invisible energy wave passed, clouds of white mist arose.
From high in the sky, almost the entire city seemed to be enveloped in white mist...
*Hiss...*
Zhang Chen gasped, drawing in a breath of cold air.
This world was more fragile than he had imagined!