Not a sound was heard inside the now bloody conference hall, Ju long was unaffected ignoring the scared looks and vomiting of the dozens of so people.

Ju Long entered the room were the three girls were, he wasn’t panicked by the naked appearances, who is he? a man that lived 20 years in hell, his mind was already that of tempered middle-aged man, how can a naked woman body still let him feel awkward.

He just felt the pulse of the woman lying on the floor and he frowned, she was already dead, maybe she couldn’t afford the torture and shock and she passed away silently, then he checked another one, she was just fainted but her state was equally not hopeful, the only one still conscious was the young girl but she was like a pitiful wounded cat curled in the corner trembling

Ju long covered the dead body, with a random blanket he found and the others with the clothes scattered around before leaving the room , he saw many cases like this in the apocalypse , judging by what happened he can conclude that the fainted woman would not live for a few days as for the college girl there is only two roads for her , she can end her life and her suffering or use the experience she had to change herself and embark on a the path of the strong.

Ju long wasn’t interested in what will happen he was already numb, things like what happened today, it is not a first but it would certainly not be the last time it will happen, even uglier acts and situations will appear.

Ju long remembered that some evolver enslaved more than one hundred woman and used them as playthings and toys, he even treated them worse than livestock and shut them in an abandoned factory, when the evolver finally died those tortured women didn’t even have the ability to sustain themselves, their eyes were like dead fish and couldn’t even speak anymore.

So, the fate of these three girls can only be said to be pitiful compared to others.

Returning to the hall, Ju long stepped toward his former teacher.

Seeing Ju long coming toward her, Zhao ruxue felt complex emotions, a mixture of excitement and fear.

Noticing her expression, Ju long sneered.

“teacher, are you afraid of me?”

“I…I …honestly a little”

“do you think that I should’ve spared them?”

“i. I don’t know, but killing is …”

Ju long expression became extremely cold.

“Teacher Zhao wake up, this is not the previous world you are living in, this is the end of the world, if it is not your luck that this three garbage didn’t notice you and if it wasn’t by chance that I came here I can guarantee that your fate should be worse than them”

“you …”

“in this era most women are weak and will become tools for others, if you are timid and can’t face what’s ahead then your end will be miserable”

Zhao Ruxue looked at Ju long expressionless face and lowered her head , in fact Ju long wasn’t the type to preach to others , on the contrary he didn’t care about others but he only did it because this woman was a benefactor and a good person who stood with him when he was at his worst so he wanted to remind her and make her change and adapt to this chaotic era that is only beginning.

To his surprise, Zhao Ruxue didn’t spend much time struggling with her thoughts, she was a clever woman, so she raised her head and her look became firm.

“you are right Ju long, cowering in fear and waiting for people help isn’t my style, I should become stronger to better survive!”

Zhao ruxue despite her embarrassed appearance finally thought things through and stood straight.

Ju long nodded in satisfaction and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, Zhao didn’t know why but when she saw him smiling at her she blushed, its only regrettable that she was covered with dirt or Ju long could have witnessed a true charm of a mature beauty.

“right I want to ask you something”

Zaho ruxue recover from her shy state quickly.

“yes, what is it?”

“did you notice some strange creature lurking in the street or inside the hotel?”

“creature? you mean those abnormal rats?”

Zhao ruxue was puzzled.

“yes, but not rats I mean another animal”

“no, we stayed here all the time, we only saw those people that changed into monsters and the rats, other things we didn’t see”

Ju long touched his chin and had a weird expression, but then he shook his head.

“nothing if there something it will surely appear at some time, its meaningless to waste energy thinking …”

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“hmm, what did you say?”

“oh nothing, I’m going to rest, don’t bother me”

While saying that glanced at the other people inside the hall and chose a relatively isolated room to spend the night.

Zaho ruxue understood his meaning and wanted to say something but in the end, she refrained to, her expression was very tangled.

Entering the room and closing the door Ju long directly sat cross-legged, he didn’t want anyone to see what he was going to do not even Zaho ruxue.

From his bag he took the collected a syringe containing the collected Barrisium and injected it without too much nonsense, like always it was in the position of the heart.

The Substance entered his metabolism and circulated making his body feeling some itch but nothing painful.

Meditating for some time he took the Geiger counter that he didn’t forget to take with him and test his radiation exposure.

“0.95 rem, another dose and I can finally break through to the first order”

Then thinking again about the corpse in the elevator, he felt a sense of foreboding, he instinctively felt that this hotel is not going to be safe for a long time but he didn’t have a choice and then he wasn’t going to say too long here so he pressed his uneasy feelings in his mind.

Ju long was really tired, the killing of sub humans and the horde of rats that put pressure on him made him mentally fatigued, so he chose a corner and leaned on the wall, his sword was placed on his lap.

One of the rules of surviving is learning to rest everywhere and, in any environment, another is to always stay alert even when resting, so people mastered the skill of half-sleeping.

In the apocalypse there is no truly safe place, every moment could change into a dangerous situation.

And like that the night passed, early in the morning the door was knocked, Ju long was already awake that was his habit he only needed fours hours to recover fully.

Opening the door, he found a Zhao Ruxue with swollen eyes looking at him with a smile while holding some snacks.

“good morning, I thought you would feel hungry so I brought you some snacks”

Ju long looking at the food in the hands of Zhao Ruxue and he somewhat felt moved, he knew by observing the state of the survivors that there wasn’t much food left, but she still gave him some.

<< she is still a kind woman>> he thought.

Seeing Ju long looking at her for a long time without saying anything, her face became red and she lowered her head.

<>

The atmosphere became somewhat awkward and ambiguous but then it didn’t last too long before a scream was heard.

“ahhhhh!”

Ju long gripped his sword and instantly appeared inside the hall, behind him was Zhao ruxue looking around with panic.

“what happened?”

Ju long saw that some of the survivors were in a state of excitement and dither.

Ju long grabbed someone and coldly questioned him, then he knew what exactly happened, it turned out that two survivors suddenly disappeared, an old man and a middle-aged woman, the floor where they rested was now covered with blood.

Ju long touched the blood with his fingers and noticed that it was still fresh, about three or two hours passed from the strange event.

Then he also noticed that some of the blood was also on the side window that was still open and the wall beside.

“mutant birds? …no, its not mutant birds there is no feathers left behind and the traces that are left are not compatible, if it’s not a mutant bird then it climbed from the window …hey is it … “

Then there was another commotion.

A young man was trembling with fear, he appeared to be a student of some university.

“I…I saw it !”

“calm down what did you see?”

Ju long looked at the young man and tried to calm him down.

“i…I couldn’t sleep at night so I …I saw it ,it…it was big , its eyes were shining green and it caught the old man and the woman with something that extended from its mouth before rapidly disappearing from the window , they…they couldn’t have the ability to scream …god we are all going to die …to die …to die”

At the end of his speech he became crazy and kept repeating the word “die” incessantly making the others feeling creepy.

Ju long expression became extremely ugly, he knew what was lurking in the hotel, the description of the young man confirmed his thoughts but he didn’t understand how could it appear in the urban area.

Among the survivors there was a staff belonging to the hotel, a cleaning lady, she was ordinary and slightly fat so the three scums weren’t interested in her.

Ju long caught her and began to ask questions.

“can people keep pets in this hotel?”

“why are you asking this”

“just answer my question “

The woman was scared and replied carefully

“yes, some of the clients are keeping pets”

“is there someone keeping exotic pets?”

“I... I don’t know…ahh I remember, the fifth-floor resident had some strange animals kept in a rectangular fish tank!”

Ju long now can be sure it’s a …

“ahhh monster !!!”

Without waiting for him to think a yellowish creature climbed from the window, its two green inverted pupils were gazing at the people, a longue blood red tongue was going in and out from its mouth, along its body full of scales black strips could be seen.

“Mutant lizard!”

Ju long spurted the words unconsciously, his forehead was full of sweat, it’s a mutant lizard like he said, a type of mutant reptile, its advantage was speed and its tongue was dreadful weapon, judging by its size Ju long concluded that its not far away from evolving to a first order beast.

Its size was the double of a mature crocodile, it had small but extremely sharp teeth, now Ju long knew what had bitten the corpse of the elevator, he should have concluded from the teeth marks, they were extremely organized and precise.

Everyone panicked and began to run away, Ju long didn’t have time to care for others, he knew that he was not its opponent with his current strength not to mention that he couldn’t even penetrate its hard scales, his sword was sharp, but his arms power was lacking.

So, he grabbed the frozen Zaho ruxue directly by the waist and rushed to the corridor living the hall without looking back.

Painful cries resounded continuously, he didn’t have to witness what happened to know the tragic and gruesome end the masters of the sorrowful voices had.

Ju long ran along the corridor and ignored the elevator, it wasn’t a wise choice to take the elevator now, with the power of the mutant lizard it could easily penetrate inside.

Ju long preyed that these people could at least win him some time to escape but then from the corner of his eyes he saw a huge shadow.

“are you fucking kidding me! one is already a nightmare and now there is two!”

Ju long felt extremely unlucky and cursed the eighteen generation of the resident who raised the exotic pets.

Now he was cornered, the stairs leading down was blocked by the second mutant lizard and making a U turn is a big no, he was sure that the first Mutant lizard was not far behind.

“what should I do? “

Ju Long was faced the biggest crisis from the time of his rebirth.