Chapter Ninety-Eight: Death Sacrifice, the Intelligent Zombie Appears!

At that moment, one of the men beside the CEO had remained silent the entire time. Only after every member had gone did the corners of his mouth lift into a smile so inscrutable it seemed to conceal a secret known only to him.

Once Chen Yi had arranged his people, he began to think about expanding his stockpiles by force.

By present counts of supplies aboard the warship and the Kunpeng on Shanghai Island, those provisions were nowhere near enough to cover the monthly consumption of thirty to fifty people.

For that reason, Chen Yi began planning to travel to new islands to seize resources, while also gathering materials that could be used to make weapons.

Although the people on the warship had already sworn allegiance unto death, Chen Yi would not so easily trust that they harbored no ulterior motives. So before setting out, he chose the most dependable among those who had followed him from the beginning: Hu Sanhan, Lu Kai, and Sun Dawei.

Because he did not intend to take Chen Yaxi along, Chen Yi specially arranged for Chu Yunxi to keep the little girl company. Based on Chen Yaxi and Chu Yunxi’s ability to hold the line, he ultimately decided that Hu Sanhan and Sun Dawei would remain behind to oversee the people aboard the ship, while he and Lu Kai would take ten Newborn Island warriors and thirty warriors from the warship to scout the surrounding seas.

Once the kayaks were lowered, Chen Yi and the others he had chosen rapidly descended by rope.

Chu Yunxi stood at the bow to see them off, then immediately let her smile fade and fixed a cold gaze on everyone aboard.

“From this moment on, everyone is under my command. No one leaves the warship without my approval!”

“Why should we listen to you?” someone shouted at once.

A crowd quickly erupted into angry cries.

“You’re just a woman. Why do you have so many demands?”

“There’s no why!” Chu Yunxi drew her pistol, and the entire deck fell silent in an instant.

Beside her, Chen Yaxi stuck out her tongue.

“If you’d known, wouldn’t it have been easier just to behave?”

When they finally quieted down, Chu Yunxi turned to Hu Sanhan and Sun Dawei.

“Brother Hu, Brother Sun, I need you to keep watch over both sides of the warship at all times. I’ve made a detailed record of the sea zombies’ mobility. Their climbing speed is slow, but their methods of killing are cruel. You must take care to avoid them!”

Hu Sanhan nodded.

“Understood. Leave it to me. You can rest assured!”

Meanwhile, Chen Yi and the others were heading toward a desolate island thirty kilometers ahead of the warship’s bow.

This barren island was, so far, the only place that showed no strange changes, which was precisely why it aroused suspicion.

“Boss.”

Lu Kai spread his arms and craned his head forward. “Why is there not even the slightest trace of a fight here?”

“Everyone, be careful.”

Chen Yi’s expression was grave.

“From what I’ve observed, if this isn’t some secret military base, then it may very well be the zombies’ main nest.”

“Holy hell!”

Lu Kai sucked in a sharp breath and looked at Chen Yi with uncertainty.

“Boss, we’re still going in? Aren’t you afraid we’ll really die in the hands of those zombies?”

Chen Yi turned to him and gave a faint laugh.

“If we were afraid, why would we have become the Newborn Squad?”

Realizing what Chen Yi meant, Lu Kai nodded as well.

“Fine then. I’ll risk my life to keep you company!”

Just then, lightning flashed and thunder rolled across the sky; clearly, another heavy rain was about to arrive.

To prevent the people around him from suffering unnecessary energy contamination, Chen Yi released some toxic light fused with ant genes, creating a powerful magnetic field around them in hopes of protecting those nearby.

As the kayaks continued forward, Lu Kai suddenly felt that something was wrong.

“Boss, why do I feel like our direction is right, but the farther we go, the more distant the destination becomes?”

Those words immediately put Chen Yi on alert.

He gripped his blade at once, staring at the man paddling the boat, his eyes cold.

“Where are you trying to take us?”

The one rowing the inflatable boat said nothing, merely kept moving.

Chen Yi did not hesitate. With a flash of his hand, his blade fell, severing the other man’s head.

At the same time, Lu Kai and the others made their move as well.

Yet after these people were killed, Chen Yi and Lu Kai finally realized that they were not human at all, but zombies!

Clearly, the appearance of the scarlet rain last time may have pushed the zombies to an even more formidable stage of evolution.

“Damn it!”

Lu Kai drew a sharp breath.

“Boss, if the ones here are zombies, then on the wife’s side…”

At that same moment, Chu Yunxi and the others were also plunged into a desperate situation.

Those who had seemed perfectly normal had in fact already begun to mutate, and the murderous glint in their eyes was now unmistakable.

“Sister, what do we do now?”

Chen Yaxi tugged at Chu Yunxi’s arm in worry, muttering to herself.

Chu Yunxi clenched the loaded weapon in her hand, her gaze icy.

“Kill them. Since Chen Yi isn’t here, we have to hold the warship properly ourselves. These zombies have managed to hide here so stably for so long; they are no longer ordinary.”

Hearing Chu Yunxi’s orders, Hu Sanhan and Sun Dawei immediately showed approving looks.

“All right, then let’s act at once!”

With that, Hu Sanhan and Sun Dawei led the people on their side who had not mutated and began moving swiftly.

At this point, Zheng Xiaoda was also considering whether to join the fight.

Seeing that no one had the mind to pay attention to him, General K was secretly delighted.

He slowly edged toward a corner, rubbing his hands along a jagged surface, trying to seize the chance to escape.

The next second, the black muzzle of a gun was pointed squarely at him.

Xiao Zhang cast a cold glance at General K, finding his behavior nothing but ridiculous.

“Old K, do you think no one can see through your scheme? I told you before, I won’t give you any opening!”

The moment his plot was exposed, Old K was instantly consumed by rage.

“Why! Xiao Zhang, you should know that opposing me will bring you no good…”

Xiao Zhang cut his throat with one stroke of the blade, eliminating him on the spot.

Dealing with such a verbose man, Xiao Zhang had not the slightest hesitation.

Yet it was precisely this kind of ruthlessness that left everyone staring in shock.

Chu Yunxi’s expression grew even darker.

“Who exactly are you?”

Xiao Zhang licked the blood from his blade and gave a mocking smile, shaking his head.

“Who am I? Of course I’m the one who came to bring all this to an end. I had originally wanted to play with all of you a little longer, but it seems there’s no need now.”

As everyone looked on in astonishment, Xiao Zhang’s face split open.

As that face peeled away, a hideous countenance covered in mottled markings was revealed beneath.

“A zombie!”

Hu Sanhan went deathly pale.

“It’s a zombie!”

The man sneered.

“What’s so strange about that? From the very beginning, I’ve been approaching you all under the identity of Xiao Zhang, only to find that every single one of you is as stupid as a pig.”

How could this be?

Chu Yunxi’s brows tightened.

This fellow before them could actually speak?

The zombie man gave a low laugh, his eyes turning even colder.

“Strange, isn’t it? I’m only a mere zombie, so how can I think? I’m sorry to disappoint you all, but the zombies of today are no longer the dull-witted creatures you imagine them to be.”