Chapter 367: Chapter 367: Locating the Zombie Leader
"Hmph!"
Kate suddenly felt a little empty inside, unsatisfied with having just had a small taste of it for the first time.
But still, she was too shy to ask him to do it again. Even though she could see his cock was still rock solid since Xiaoyun himself never even came close to cumming.
"What are you sitting there for? We still have a lot of work to do. It's not even past noon yet."
Xiaoyun asked after noticing Kate just sitting on the bed when he had already dressed in his regular clothes.
"You really are an idiot..." Kate murmured as she began to dress up after her leg finally recovered.
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When the two headed out, it was their last time entering that hotel as they packed everything up and destroyed all the evidence of their presence.
"Where are we going now?" Kate grumpily asked, her voice still sounding a little irritated from earlier.
But Xiaoyun doesn't notice it at all, as most of his attention is focused on the map on his phone.
"To the city center," Xiaoyun replied as the two of them turned on their invisible cloaks.
After walking for a bit, the two realized it would take forever to get there. So, they changed their tactic by grabbing two abandoned bikes and starting to bike down the street.
As they passed the zombies, most of them thought they had moved closer to the bike to check. But after noticing it was moving with nothing on it, they all left with no interest in attacking it.
At the same time, seeing a bike in front made it much easier for them to tell where each other was.
But it wasn't without its trouble, as the invisible cloak was fully attached to the body, which made it a little hard to tell if their arm or knee was going to bump into something.
Fortunately, the two made it without much harm. They finally arrived near the bustling part of the city, where skyscrapers and office buildings surrounded them.
"You see anything in the front?" Xiaoyun asked through the mic.
"Nope, everything looks normal," Kate replied calmly as if she had gotten over it by now.
"Let's find somewhere tall to see where all the zombies are located."
After biking for a while, the two parked their bikes near an office building, from which they had a full view of the city center.
As they went inside and began climbing the stairs, they were surprised to find the building empty.
But they didn't think much of it, dismissing it as zombies just leaving for another part of the city when they finally arrived at the roof.
"You see anything?" Xiaoyun asked again as he looked around the southern part of the city, only to find zombies scattered throughout the city.
"Nope. The only thing unique is some mutant zombies and a few hordes located in the north," Kate replied.
With no results, Xiaoyun handed her a binocular, allowing them to carefully examine every part of the city for the unique zombie leader.
After looking for almost one hour straight, Kate finally found something suspicious. It wasn't the zombie leader they were looking for.
Instead, it was zombies that looked way too human-like, almost as if it was wearing its skin to get past all of them.
"Xiaoyun, come over here. Something is off about those zombies."
"Really? What the... That isn't a zombie. No zombie walks that fast in a straight line." Xiaoyun murmured.
"Yeah. That's what I thought, too. You think it's human underneath those zombie skin?" Kate suggested.
"Could be... I guess it's just a way for some people to survive in this city."
As the two shifted their attention back to looking for the zombie leader, they couldn't find it even as the sun began to set on the horizon.
"We should probably start finding somewhere to sleep for the night... How about that apartment complex." Kate suggested as she pointed up west.
"Sure."
The two quickly returned to the ground floor, turned back on their invisible cloaks, and biked all the way to the apartment complex.
To their surprise, not a single zombie passed the main gate, and all of them stood outside, wandering as if there was some sort of invisible barrier.
"I feel like we shouldn't go here anymore," Kate whispered through the mic as she started having a bad feeling.
"We're going in... Maybe we can find something suspicious about this building."
As the two parked their bike by the front entrance and quickly jumped over the gate, they began slowly approaching the first apartment complex building.
With a short peek, Kate reported back with zero zombies in sight still. So the two slowly headed inside as they began carefully examining their surrounding.
The first thing they immediately noticed was that all of the mailboxes were flipped open, and every single door on the first floor was opened as well.
But it wasn't through brute force. Instead, it was opened by someone either locking and picking it up or having a key for all of them.
The next floor was the same, with all of the doors opened and not a single person inside. Food way past the expatriation date lay on the tables, all opened.
Interestingly enough, the two noticed almost every item with paper was gone, with only blank ones remaining scattered on the floors.
"Who's taking all the paper like this? What are they trying to do?" Kate wondered as they headed to the third floor.
"I don't know... But it's certain that no human ever came here. Nobody would leave water and food without taking it for themselves."
The two immediately became more alert, resulting in a single conclusion that they never wanted to be true.
"A zombie knowing how to use a key and open a door? No way they can do that." Kate argued after clearing the third floor.
"But then how else would all these be open like this? Surely it's not some invisible cloak user just like us." Xiaoyun argued back as they headed to the fourth floor.
Kate didn't argue back any further, but the two of them remained silent as they waited for the truth to be revealed.
After searching the entire apartment, they couldn't find anything useful to help them discover why the doors were open, and the paper was missing.
So they headed straight to the second apartment, only to find nothing there besides everyday items.
But just as they entered the last apartment complex, they could hear a low crying sound coming from the upper floors.
"Xiaoyun, are you sure we should go inside this building?"
Kate stopped because she felt extremely concerned about what was about to unfold, especially since the front entrance was covered in dried blood stains.
"We're invisible. No zombies had ever found us out. Just remain silent, and I'll give you the signal to move with my hand."
The two slowly headed upstairs with their hands held together, making sure not to bump into each other on accident as they made as little noise as possible.
After reaching the second floor, a single door on the entire floor was closed. The same room where the crying sound came from.
The door itself was covered in blood, with piles of corpses all lying on the floor. All of them coincidentally without their head.
"I-I really think we should go back..." Kate nervously whispered through the mic.
"No, we had already come this far. I'm not stepping back now." Xiaoyun replied as he pulled out his pistol, with a grenade ready on the side.
Kate hesitated for a second, but she eventually stepped up to lockpick the door before being pulled by Xiaoyun.
With the door unlocked, Xiaoyun slowly turned the doorknob and pushed it inward, letting it swing on its own as they both peeked behind the door.
To their surprise, only a baby was inside, crying in a crib. Still, the two were extremely cautious as it made no sense that a baby alone would survive in the outbreak.
But after searching the entire house, the two didn't find any other living thing inside.
However, they found all the paper and books lying on the floor and the tables, stacked up into almost a tower.
More importantly, they found a lockpicking tool right next to a book with the title 'From noobs to Pro, how to Become a Locksmith.'
"Xiaoyun... I don't think this baby is a zombie." Kate whispered through the mic as she took a closer look at the baby.
"It doesn't make sense... Wait, maybe the owner of the house hasn't come back yet——"
Just as Xiaoyun was about to finish talking through the mic, footsteps echoed from the outside.