Fortunately, the previous Lucie did a lot of homework and prepared several different weapons. This allows the reborn Lucie to handle them with ease. These incendiary rounds prove to be the most effective weapon against zombies.
Two zombies near the gas station convenience store are hearing the commotion and quickly running out. "Bang! Bang!" Lucie is firing two shots, swiftly taking care of them.
Afterward, she is filling the car with gas and grabbing a nearby gas can, preparing to fill two more cans with gasoline for the road. She intends to head north all the way, and she has no plans to make any unnecessary stops along the way.
After entering the convenience store next to the gas station, she opens a bottle of milk for the obedient Charlotte. This is their third supply stop. Finally, she grabs some supplies and prepares to leave this area.
Lucie watches as Charlotte drinks half the bottle of milk, then returns to the convenience store from the car. She walks up to the counter, intending to find some bullets in the drawer. Suddenly, a shotgun is pressed against her waist.
"Don't move!" The person holds the gun, commanding with a stern tone. Lucie subtly shifts her stance, swiftly grabbing the gun from his hand and pressing the muzzle against his forehead.
"Don't kill me, please! Don't kill me!" Lucie looks at the person before her, her gaze softening. Olivier—how could she not recognize him? Despite all the hiding and running, fate has led her to encounter someone familiar.
In the previous life, she encountered Olivier on the street. Back then, he and his friends were smoking outside a tobacco shop when zombies suddenly attacked them. As he fled, Lucie saved him from the impending danger.
In this life, Lucie's goal is clear – to reach the safe house in the north as quickly as possible with Charlotte. Therefore, she deliberately bypassed several heavily affected areas and avoided locations where she might encounter familiar faces from her previous life. Before encountering Olivier in the previous life, Lucie had also saved several people. However, in this life, she has not encountered those individuals yet, and surprisingly, her journey is a month faster than in the previous one.
At that time, she rushed back to the apartment in less than two weeks, and the zombie virus had spread to the north. However, at her current speed, she should be arriving in the north almost two months ahead of the zombies. Two months will be the golden survival period for her and Charlotte. She must catch the first rescue capsule heading to the center of the universe.
Olivier watches as Lucie's gaze turns increasingly cold, and fear surges to the extreme in his heart. Lucie holsters the gun aimed at him and casually unloads the bullets. Then, she swiftly moves towards the shelves, gathering the supplies she needs.
Turning around, she coldly says to Olivier, "If you can't use a gun, don't attempt it." Then she walks up to him. "Are there more bullets here?"
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"No... there isn’t…" Lucie sees his evasive gaze and hears him speaking hesitantly. Her gaze is ice-cold, Olivier is still so selfish.
Lucie walks straight to the storage room at the back, pulling out a large quantity of bullets from the shelves. As Olivier's eyes keep darting towards this direction, avoiding eye contact, she figures out that the bullets must be behind this door.
As Lucie finishes packing and prepares to leave by car, Olivier follows behind, pleading with Lucie to take him along.
Lucie drives away without looking back. Just as Olivier is about to run after the car, Lucie fires a shot at his feet before stepping on the gas. Startled, Olivier raises his hands, afraid to make any sudden moves. By the time he gathers his senses, Lucie is already far down the road.
Lucie drives north without a care for Olivier's fate or the pleas of anyone she encounters along the way. Her only focus is on reaching the safety shelter in the north with Charlotte.
In the previous life, she helped too many people, paying the price for their foolishness and impulsiveness. Countless times, she put herself in danger, teaching them how to use guns, imparting survival skills, leading them through zombie hordes. When someone was injured, she would lead the team without hesitation to hospitals, collecting supplies.
She shared her home's food with them, but this greedy group managed to deplete several years' worth of her supplies within a few months. It was the greed that surfaced when people were desperate, but consuming too much after prolonged hunger could lead to being overfed and dying.
In the end, with unwavering determination and the scarce kindness she retained in this apocalyptic escape, she led them aboard the rescue capsule. However, instead of showing gratitude, they not only betrayed her but also callously pushed her out of the rescue capsule as it journeyed toward outer space.
The sun and moon cycled through numerous phases, and Lucie, accompanied by Charlotte, traveled northward in silence. She avoided interactions and conversations with anyone along the way.
Finally, they are reaching the frigid north. At this moment, Lucie's consistently tense nerves are slowly easing. She is even arriving half a month earlier than expected.
But she doesn't have time to rest. After settling Charlotte, she finally has the time and energy to open her computer. Entering financial accounts and passwords, she invests all the money in her account into a recently emerged aerospace company, spending a fortune to buy their stocks.
No one has noticed this company yet. Lucie calculates the time, the virus has just begun to spread, still concentrated in the south. It will take another two and a half months to spread to the central and northern regions. This new aerospace company is a venture established by the wealthy to survive in this new world.
On the surface, it appears to be a regular aerospace company. In reality, they are leveraging existing aerospace technology to create a new type of rescue capsule within the span of two and a half months. Lucie can't help but think her previous self had good luck – the house she bought in the north happened to be the base where they constructed the rescue capsules.
This base has been established for five years. During the virus development, they began working on it. Initially, their goal was to create an elite version of the perfect human. They hoped these individuals would work diligently, creating value for the factories and businesses of the wealthy permanently, replacing the inefficient, lazy, and low-efficiency workers.
However, things took an unexpected turn, and the virus got out of control, turning the elite human project into a zombie virus. The "Human Elite Program" transformed into the "Human Cleansing Program." At this point, the situation was beyond the control of a single research institute or nation, posing a threat to the lives of all humanity on Earth!
Lucie has been waiting for two months, spending each day in anxiety. She observes as the stock price of this new aerospace company, which was once obscure, skyrockets to the top of the world in a mere two months. She knows her opportunity has arrived; now, all she has to do is wait for a phone call.
At this moment, the phone is indeed ringing. Currently, they are summoning all major shareholders for a meeting and inviting them to board the rescue capsule, embarking on a journey to space together.
Lucie's hand, which hung up the phone, was still trembling. It turns out the wealthy had already escaped at this point. In the previous life, Lucie and other survivors fought with zombies for four months upon reaching the North before finally anxiously waiting to become the first batch of rescued survivors…
Lucie and Charlotte have been living in the space station for a month, while the zombie virus has already taken over the entire Earth.