You were supposed to hoard supplies, why the heck did you hoard zombies!

The partnership between the two had thus shattered.

It was at this time that Chen Bingjiang revealed his ruthless side.

The owner of a restaurant on the fourth floor who had refused to open the storeroom was doused in hot oil by him on the spot and scalded to death alive.

Then, after opening the storehouse, he used the resources inside to quickly woo a group of hot-blooded young men.

Finally, he led these men all the way upstairs, seizing the top floor first.

There were not only dozens of restaurants there.

There was also a machine room and a control room.

By the time Xu Lin reacted, most of the people who had been organizing the crowd with him had already switched allegiance to those above.

Most of those left by his side were either compassionate or too timid and cowardly.

At the same time, another person appeared upstairs.

Zheng Youcai.

The owner of a hotpot restaurant.

This man had spent many years in the mall and was quite popular.

When the chaos had just begun, he immediately organized his staff to protect his own storehouse and then led people to help other shops.

In the end, he united all the shop owners on the sixth floor.

And he became the controller of the sixth floor.

Xu Lin, after all, was a police officer.

Though he had decisively sealed the escalators during the chaos.

But deep down, he was a man of integrity and kindness, naturally incapable of doing the kind of murderous looting that Chen Bingjiang did.

All he could do was to try to distribute the resources of the fourth floor evenly to everyone.

But due to the large number of survivors, and Chen Bingjiang having taken away a lot of resources on his way up, the remaining resources were quickly depleted.

In the face of hunger, the authority of the security bureau was no longer enough to suppress these survivors.

It didn't take long for a new riot to break out.

Countless men and women rushed into the warehouses of several restaurants, frantically grabbing the remaining food until Xu Lin shot dead a man who was taking advantage of the chaos to abuse a woman.

Only then did people remember something.

All personnel from the security bureau were armed.

And when the gunshot rang out, it was as if a gate to hell had opened.

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Xu Lin did not stop.

He then shot dead three more people in quick succession.

They were the leaders of the plundering, and also the most frenzied survivors.

The crowd paused for a moment, then scattered in disarray, with cries and pleas for mercy sounding like a mournful and desolate accompaniment, making the whole scene even heavier.

After killing these few people, Xu Lin immediately rushed upstairs to the fifth floor with his gun.

Zheng Youcai promptly gave up half of the fifth floor.

And thus the two formed an alliance.

After hearing all this, Zhang Ye and the others fell somewhat silent.

Was this a retelling of the Three Kingdoms?

A mall.

Three bosses.

And a free zone?

Downstairs there were so many zombies posing a threat.

But upstairs, instead of uniting, everyone was doing their own thing, fighting over territories and resources with vigor.

Seeing the four of them silent, Wang Hu thought they were frightened by his description and immediately forced a smile, saying:

"Brother."

"How about this?"

"As long as you let the three of us go."

"I'll talk to the boss, and he definitely won't hold you accountable, okay?"

Du Chao, without saying another word, raised his hand to slap him.

Zhang Ye stopped him with a look.

Looking at the three obviously thuggishly dressed men in front of him, then around, he asked in a low voice:

"This escape route, is it also controlled by your boss?"

Wang Hu looked at Zhang Ye fearfully but shook his head.

"No."

"Everyone has keys."

Ai Bing couldn't help but feel a bit impatient upon hearing this, and asked curiously:

"Then why don't you leave?"

"The zombies downstairs—"

But she stopped mid-sentence, as if she had already figured out the answer herself.

There were indeed over a thousand zombies at the bottom of the building.

And outside?

There were, too.

And not just a thousand.

It was tens of thousands, perhaps even hundreds of thousands.

Just the urban district of Sanjiang City had several hundred thousand people, and with the addition of several development zones, the population might have already reached over a million.

This meant that at this moment, there were at least several hundred thousand zombies wandering throughout the city.

In comparison with these, the thousands of zombies on the first floor of the shopping mall.

Were not worth mentioning.

Whether it was Chen Bingjiang or Zheng Youcai and Xu Lin.

Being trapped in this shopping mall, there were only a few things they could do every day.

And observing the outside situation was one of them.

Or rather, it was right here in this building that they had witnessed the fall of the entire Sanjiang City.

The once bustling streets had become ruins in an instant.

Resurrected corpses roamed among the wreckage of countless car accidents.

They had no place to escape to.

All they could do was wait here for rescue.

And even this glimmer of hope was slowly being extinguished as time passed by.

Despair and fear were taking over everyone in the building, turning these people, already on the edge of life and death, into ticking time bombs, ready to explode at any moment.

Ai Bing's expression had darkened completely.

She hung her head, and there was a broken kind of beauty about her.

Blondie couldn't help but take a few more glances but suddenly noticed that Zhang Ye was staring at him with an icy expression.

Shit, the kid had noticed him!

Just as his heart started to panic, he suddenly heard a voice say:

"Those who died outside, they were your people?"

Blondie was taken aback, and his expression immediately became cautious.

"Outside?"

"Brother, are you talking about—"

He hadn't finished speaking when a companion interjected:

"Tsk, just three idiots from the fourth floor."

"They weren't our people."

"Can't even bring back a pack of cigarettes from outside, and they think they can mix with our boss?"

Blondie, upon hearing this, glanced at Zhang Ye with a sudden flash of understanding in his eyes.

So, this group of people had come in that way.

Damn it.

If he had known, he wouldn't have let them take the keys out.

Thinking this, his gaze swiftly swept over Zhang Ye and the others a few times.

More than twenty fully armed, strong men.

Perhaps with the boss—

Blondie suddenly had an idea.

But just as he was about to speak, he saw the stairway door being knocked open, and a gaunt middle-aged man walked in.

"Blondie, those three—"

The man had barely spoken when he saw the Blondie he was looking for squatting on the ground.

At his side were a dozen shadowy figures.

With police badges hanging from them.

The middle-aged man's face lit up with joy, and he started to walk towards them.

But upon seeing their stance, he was suddenly startled.

His right hand quickly reached for his waist.

"Who are you!"

"Where did you get your equipment from!"

The dark muzzle of a gun was pointing directly at Zhang Ye in the middle, causing Ai Bing to blink with a moment of panic, her body subconsciously moving to shield him.

She was on the employee roster.

Wang Hu and Du Chao beside her reacted even more quickly.

Almost simultaneously, they stepped forward, shielding both Zhang Ye and Ai Bing behind them.

The bodyguard zombies around them immediately raised their shields as well.

The atmosphere in the stairwell became instantly tense.

But just then, the middle-aged man suddenly saw the young man surrounded in the middle saying:

"Are you Inspector Xu?"