Huang Wen spent his journey toward the memorial hall in the same manner, studying when he restored his stamina and practicing until his stamina close to depletion. However, now after he received the passive skill Martial Art, he began to study the sword technique and use his sword. Using sword, he killed more zombies in each round, compared to the previous day.

During these times, he killed hundreds of ordinary zombies, met with two evolved zombies and killed them all as well. His level jumped by leap and bound within a day. The 5% bonus from martial art skill was small, however the effect in a battle against the mindless zombies is shown. Huang Wen acknowledge this fact too, he knew against the mindless zombies he might seem like a god of war, but if he met another demon as strong as Baihu then he would find himself in trouble. That's why he never relaxed in his training.

Due to his diligence he nearly broke through 1 more level and collected many coins that he stopped to care.

His current stat was :

"Name : Huang Wen

"Level: 19 (245/270)"

"Class: None"

"Title: None"

"Strength: 10 (10)

Agility: 30 (31)

Vitality: 12(12)

Stamina: 15/15 (15)

Spirit: 19/19 (19)

Health: 11/11 (11)"

"Active Skills : Fireball lvl. 2."

"Passive Skills : Third Eye lvl. 1, Bloodlust lvl. 1, Martial Art (Style : Xing Yi Quan) lvl. 1"

"Equipment :  Baihu's Bastard Sword. Generic boot (Agility +1)"

Only 25 more points of experience to breakthrough another level.

Within two days and two nights, he finally arrived, from afar Huang Wen could see the road was well barricaded, tens of men defend the wall. He decided to investigate the location and quite surprised to see that with the memorial hall at its center, the defended area itself was spanned over almost tens of other building surrounding it.

"They could contain thousands of people...", he was flabbergasted.

"Who is in charge there? Don't tell me Zhang Xuan's father actually is in charge...", after seeing the scope of his destination, Huang Wen decided to postpone his visit for a while.

"Now... should I go to see them?...", he wondered.

Suddenly he felt so small and didn't dare to compare himself to Zhang Xuan, he wondered, 'Will her father accept me as I am now?'

'I was thinking that I'm so great after killing Baihu but if they didn't help me back then. I would be dead by now. Zhang Xuan's father, he managed to build such base. Obviously, he's not an ordinary man. He fought like a tiger, perhaps as strong as Baihu. While I had nothing but a couple of skills and have nothing aside from that.Won't he laugh at me if I propose Zhang Xuan?', he smiled bitterly.

'Perhaps I just have to forget it all....'

Huang Wen closed his eyes and rest on the floor. He stayed like that for an hour. Suddenly he opened his eyes.

"I still have enough provision for another two days..."

"No... I promised Zhang Xuan. Whether her father accepts me as his son in law or not, it wasn't my business. If he does reject me, than that's just fine. As long as I keep my promise. Perhaps that would be even better, marrying Zhang Xuan means I will be chained to her and her father forever."

Thinking about Zhang Xuan stirred his desire. He was getting used to it now. His desires for girls would lessen even disappeared when he was in battle but any thoughts or memories about one of the girls, especially Zhang Xuan, would stir this desire.

He wondered if it was his own desire or not, but it would be a lie to say that he never had such desire before he absorbed the perverted demon. After some thought, Huang Wen decided that it was normal that he wanted it more after experienced it. Should have nothing to do with the perverted demon's residue. He never heard any voices again and after a while, he couldn't detect any presence of the demon's residue within him.

Thinking about Zhang Xuan and reminisced their experience together, he hastily walked toward the base.

---- o ----

Let's go back to three days ago, when Zhang Xuan finally met with her parents. There were many tears flowed, laughed, lots of hug and kisses. Zhang Xuan's mother and little brother had been waiting for days, filled with worries. Zhang Xuan's mother even fought with her husband because he delayed the rescue for days but Zhang Hu have good reason.

First he consolidated his position within the group of survivors. Since many of them were saved due to his fast action that day, it was easily done. Using that power he saved his best friend, Fan Zheng and his family as well. In fact it causes Madam Zhang Hu to be angry, because Zhang Hu chose to save Fan Zheng first but Fan Zheng is like his own brother and their location is much closer. Zhang Hu also believed that he will need Fan Zheng's strength to save Zhang Xuan.

Next he led his men to secure several areas including several mini markets and the city's police station. When they secured the police station, they also manage to recruit 7 police officers. He needed to consolidate his power within the group once more, since those police brought with them some form of authority in this emergency situation. Fortunately none of those 7 are of high rank, the highest one only a sergeant. After a lengthy discussion, they agreed to share power, with Zhang Hu still lead the group.

He did it all in a day.

Only after he secured food and weapon for his men, that he started to form a rescue group.

The next two days he began to lead his group to save Zhang Xuan, but he knew that he won't be able to do that within a day. Many of the roads to the dormitory were blocked by wreckage. Aside from zombies to several local thugs who took advantage over the situation and made it worse.

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Zhang Xuan didn't want to go and rescue his daughter without enough preparation, only to return and find he lost his wife and his son.

In the second day, he cleared the road and at the same time rescue more survivors to enlarge his group. He formed three groups, one was led by him, one was led by Fan Zheng and the third one was led by the police sergeant, named Zhang Tian Yi. They focused on saving the family of the members of their group, based on the distance between their base to the location where they expect to find them.

Zhang Hu's wise and selfless decision, although it made his wife dislike him, it turned out made the rest of the member of the group to respect him more. Even the polices, since some of their family were saved due to Zhang Hu decisive action.

That was why, it was not until on the fifth day that Zhang Hu led his men toward the Yun Hua's dormitory. His wife couldn't hold her worries anymore after they couldn't contact Zhang Xuan through her mobile. After two days of fighting between the couple, even the member of the group asked Zhang Hu to lead a group to save his daughter.

Through these events, we could see what kind of man this Zhang Hu is.

When Zhang Xuan and her friends arrived, the small group already turned into a large group consist of 1200 survivors. Considering the overall population of Fuzhou before the event that reach millions, it wasn't a big number but considering the situation it was a great achievement.

Many of the survivors, if not all of them, followed Zhang Hu reverently. After all Zhang Hu was the one who saved them or led the group who saved them. Those who arrived later even more, because they saw how the situation gotten worse day by day. The small area now became a safe haven within Fuzhou.

That day when Zhang Hu brought Zhang Xuan to see his wife, you could say that it was his happiest day. For those who have a wife and experience days when your wife abuse you for your incompetence, surely you can imagine what it was like for Zhang Hu. This morning at the base was hell. Now it was paradise. He watched the scene between his wife and his daughter in satisfaction. He left the room and went to see his best friend Fan Zheng.

"About this new information, what do you think of it?" Zhang Hu asked Fan Zheng.

There were only two of them in the room.

"Demons... as hard as it is to believe such thing. Your daughter saw it with her own eyes. So there is no question about it.", answered Fan Zheng.

"How about other information, that boy said he got from interrogating a demon? The only source for our information regarding that safe place is that boy, Huang Wen. I'm not sure whether we could trust him completely or not.", Zhang Hu asked.

"In my opinion we could trust him. He saved your daughter and her friends. If I'm not making any mistake, it seems that he had his eye on your daughter as well. You know how boy behaves once they're struck with love. Any information is coming from him surely be true.", Fan Zheng chuckled.

"Tsk... in this situation... if we're not in this situation then I'll absolutely teach him some lesson.", Zhang Hu grumbled.

"Ha...ha...ha..., Zhang Hu my bro, you should be happy instead. You find a good son in law without much work. Congratulation... congratulation...", Fan Zheng laughed and cupped his palm to congratulate Zhang Hu.

"Hmm... well he isn't that bad. I hope he is one of good character.", Zhang Hu smiled.

"We all know Zhang Xuan, if he isn't any good, she won't show any affection toward him.", said Fan Zheng.

"That's the problem. I know Zhang Xuan more than anyone else. She could be pragmatic if the situation made her. I wonder if..."

"Don't think too much about it. You could ask Zhang Xuan later. Now that she is safe. Surely, she would be able to make her decision freely. You will learn how she truly feels then. We better focus on the more important affair.", Fan Zheng said seriously.

"Hmm... the problem is, according to their story, we could earn experience and then gain a level by killing those zombies. We killed probably hundreds of them already and never experience such thing.", said Zhang Hu.

"Maybe because we don't use weapons from this new world, we mainly use guns to kill the zombies. Those kids said they use the wooden staff to kill the zombies and only afterward they got those swords. They also got it from killing zombies and demons. Perhaps there is something in those weapons that give us ability to absorb whatever it is that made them stronger. They grew stronger. That can be proved. Now we only need to find how.", said Fan Zheng.

"You're right. First, we'll borrow their weapon and see if we can experience the same thing. Once we gain the skill to see those demons, we'll capture one and interrogate it, see if that Huang Wen boy tells the truth.", after a while Zhang Hu replied.

"Hmm... " Fan Zheng nodded his head.

"But let's keep it as a secret for now. If its true that we could grow stronger just by killing zombies, I want to level up few more levels before any of our men know about this. Some people might have an idea to get stronger and take my position. Who knows there might be those wooden staff lying about. After all, everyone got one.", said Zhang Hu.

"Of course, we should do it secretly. Say, let's held some sort of celebration for having the girls safely. We'll invite our men. While they're there, we could secretly sneak out and do this little experiment. If we do earn experience, then we could keep doing it until we breakthrough several levels.", said Fan Zheng.

"Hmmm... okay. Let's do that. I'll tell my wife and the girls now.", Zhang Hu nodded and readied to prepare the party.