At the same time, the woman also saw Zhang Chen.
Upon seeing Zhang Chen, who appeared as if a god of slaughter had descended, a trace of fear flashed across her face, and she said tremblingly:
"Please... don't... don't kill me..."
"I'll do anything you want me to do..."
"I... I know how to serve people... and I promise I will never betray you..."
An idea struck!
He then threw the half-empty bottle of purified water, which had been abandoned, to the woman.
This was the water Wang Jiran had left.
Zhang Chen certainly couldn't drink it.
But it would be a waste to throw it away!
It was better to do the woman a favor!
"Drink this water first, I won't kill you!"
Zhang Chen said indifferently.
"Thank you, thank you!"
"Then... can you help me get down from the tree?!"
"I will repay you handsomely, I'll do whatever you want!"
The woman said, trembling slightly.
She quickly began to express her loyalty.
"I will let you down, but not now!"
"You will stay on this tree today, for one night!"
"I promise I will let you down tomorrow!"
Zhang Chen said.
"Ah? I... will spend the night on the tree?"
The woman repeated nervously.
But seeing Zhang Chen's sharp gaze, she was so frightened that she swallowed back her pleas.
"Then... alright... I'll spend the night here..."
Zhang Chen paid no further attention to the woman.
He first went to search the supermarket at the main entrance of the residential complex...
There was indeed nothing valuable left here.
Anything of value had been taken by Wang Jiran.
The remaining supplies were either expired or had been corroded by a type of red mushroom.
Everything on the checkout counter had been thrown onto the floor, and the two counters were pushed together.
It was evident that Wang Jiran had spent the night curled up on the tabletop, which was 1.5 meters long and 1 meter wide, last night.
On such a narrow table,
Not only could he not straighten his body,
But he probably fell off the table with every turn in his sleep!
It was truly a mystery how Wang Jiran had managed to survive the night!
It was certainly not as comfortable as Zhang Chen sleeping on a soft mattress in a quiet bedroom!
Zhang Chen then searched a few of the adjacent shops.
There was nothing useful!
The same was true for the steamed bun shop; all the food inside was covered in red mushrooms.
Any food not vacuum-sealed had been contaminated!
Zhang Chen returned to the main entrance of the residential complex.
The main entrance was separated from the outside by a metal guardrail.
The guardrail was very sturdy, about one meter fifty-six in height.
Zhang Chen grabbed the railing with both hands and shook it forcefully.
The guardrail only vibrated slightly.
The entire main entrance had only one small access gate for entry and exit, which required swiping an access card.
This door was currently open.
The magnetic lock of the access control system seemed to be broken.
There was no suction.
As soon as the small door closed against the door frame.
After a short while, it swayed open by itself again.
Zhang Chen took out a chain lock from his storage space.
He wrapped it around the small door and the door frame twice, shortening the chain lock to its shortest length.
Then, with a "click," he locked it!
With this, the main entrance of the residential complex formed a defensive line, perfectly blocking external zombies outside this perimeter!
Zhang Chen's plan was simple.
Even if the woman screamed loudly, she wouldn't attract more zombies.
Actively attracting zombies was too dangerous...
So, it was better to wait for the zombies to come to them!
At night, zombies could identify humans by their scent!
The woman on the tree served as a natural lure.
She could attract all the zombies outside the complex to the wall.
The next morning, Zhang Chen could simply resolve the zombies one by one from behind the wall.
Safe, efficient, and a considerable number of them!
At this moment... the sun had already begun to set.
There were about two more hours until the sun completely disappeared behind the buildings!
No time to waste!
Zhang Chen checked the "Sharpened Tang Saber Design Blueprint" in his storage space.
It required 10 metal weapons and 10 energy cores!
Energy cores were not a problem; where there were zombies, there were energy cores!
The current issue was the 10 metal weapons.
Zhang Chen now had four cleavers, one fruit knife, and one fire axe.
This amounted to 6 metal weapons.
He still needed to find 4 more!
Zhang Chen shifted his attention to the keychain he had just collected.
This keychain was peculiar.
It wasn't like a typical keychain found on a person, which might have house keys, access cards, company keys, car keys, etc...
It was a large bunch of keys of different types all strung together!
This keychain had five keys on it, and each key looked exactly the same!
They were all wrapped with tape and labeled with numbers.
Hiss... these keys all look like door keys.
Zhang Chen felt a sense of familiarity as he looked at these keys.
Could it be that this zombie was a landlord?
Carrying the door keys to 5 apartments?
As Zhang Chen gazed at the keys, a prompt reappeared:
[Your luck is excellent. These are the keys to one building in Building 8. You should really buy a lottery ticket... if there were any lottery tickets in this world anymore...]
They were indeed the keys to one building in Building 8?!
Zhang Chen rejoiced inwardly!
He could directly clear out an entire building!
He quickly fumbled his way towards Building 8.
Building 8 was different from the other residential buildings.
It was situated independently on a small island.
It was surrounded by water on all four sides.
There was only one stone bridge for access!
The island was as large as a football field.
Small gardens with various colorful flowers were planted around the building.
This place was excellent, easy to defend and hard to attack!
It could be used as a strong base in the future!
[There are no zombies here, but there is a hungry little cutie!]
The prompt appeared again.
A hungry little cutie?
What was that?!
Zhang Chen was startled.
But the prompt only showed this much, with no further content!
Never mind, since it's called a "little cutie."
It probably wouldn't pose any threat!
Let's go in first!
Zhang Chen swiped his access card and walked in.
The air was fresh, with no smell of blood or the stench of decaying zombies!
The ground was clean, with no bloodstains!
Building 8 was a large unit with only one entrance!
One household per floor!
There was an elevator and a fire escape stairwell!
Zhang Chen opened the doors of each unit one by one according to the key numbers and searched around.
The layout and decoration of these units were almost identical.
It seemed they had just been renovated, with new furniture and appliances.
The zombies had broken out before anyone could move in.
Therefore, the refrigerators were empty, with no food or purified water!
However, the kitchenware was quite complete.
Zhang Chen searched from the first floor to the fifth floor and collected 10 cleavers and 5 fruit knives.