Close Combat

Finnegan and Dominic stayed in room 7.

Bruce and Cynthia lived in room 8!

So, for her own safety, Joanne could only stay in room 9, diagonally opposite to Bruce.

Jerald couldn't stay with Joanne, of course, so he could only sneakily stay with Ignacio in room 5.

Dim candlelight gently flickered in room 8008.

Cynthia's ability consumption today was not significant, so she used her ability to clean her body a bit.

At this moment, she had changed back into her own T-shirt and pleated skirt.

Kneeling beside Bruce, she reported to him what had just happened outside.

"Bruce, Teacher Joanne just had Dixon and the others take the leftover food downstairs."

"Let her do it!"

Bruce lay on the bed, hands behind his head, looking at the ceiling, seemingly indifferent. "Those things tend to go bad at night anyway."

"As long as they're not given to those guys from Manager Heywood's team, it's fine..."

There was quite a lot of cooked food taken from the kitchen last night.

The whole team didn't finish eating for the whole day.

Even Bruce, as bad as he was, wouldn't force Joanne to throw those things away.

"Yeah, I told her not to give it to Manager Heywood..."

"That's good!"

Bruce closed his eyes and reached out to pull Cynthia into his arms.

Since the two had engaged in close combat in the afternoon, this time Cynthia didn't resist at all!

"Let's sleep!"

Bruce didn't care about Manager Heywood at all.

Because as an antagonist boss, unless he was too reckless, it was basically impossible for him to mess up outside the protagonist's scope.

Trash like Manager Heywood, no matter what tricks he used, Bruce could easily crush him.

Haven't you heard that in front of absolute power, all tricks are just clouds?

"Honey, can we... survive?"

"With my strength, what do you think?"

"You... you'll protect me, right?"

"Rest assured, be my woman, and I promise you'll live longer than others."After saying this, Bruce blew out the candle on the bedside table.

Hmm!

It was a pleasant night.

With the beauty in his arms, the soft touch made Bruce's mind wander.

This pleated skirt... really convenient... Bruce had to admit, he was shameless.

In just two days, he had completely made Cynthia his woman.

Her innocent face, fair legs, perfect figure!

This existence that every man longed for had become Bruce's exclusive possession?

Bruce knew that in the apocalypse, beautiful women were trouble.

To protect such women from being snatched away by others, he could only continue to grow stronger.

This wasn't love!

Just a man's simple desire for possession.

"Hey, did you all see the food in their room just now?"

"I saw it."

"I saw it too!"

Derrick, full name Derrick Patterson.

He was part of a tourist group from another city.

Dragon's Roost was just a temporary stop on their journey.

Originally, they were supposed to stay at this hotel for one night and leave Dragon's Roost by bus at 10 a.m. the next morning.

Who knew that when they woke up, the whole world had changed?

This tourist group consisted entirely of elderly people.

After some of them were bitten to death, only about ten of them were left.

Since they were unfamiliar with the area and all were elderly with low combat power, they needed someone to rely on.

Seeing how powerful Bruce was, they wanted to join him.

Who would have thought they would be turned away?

After leaving, they were all filled with indignation towards Bruce's actions!

"I knew there wasn't much food in the restaurant downstairs, turns out they took it all?"

"It's outrageous! That food belongs to the hotel, why do they think they can claim it for themselves?"

"Exactly, these young people are getting more and more unreasonable!"

"We haven't even had our dinner yet, and they act like there's still plenty for them to eat?""Their room is filled with so many containers of food, I'm sure they can't finish it all."

"Come on, let's go ask Captain Jamal and Manager Heywood."

The others were very reluctant, especially Derrick, who had threatened earlier.

But what was the point?

When they heard from Captain Jamal that Bruce had thrown two people downstairs.

None of them dared to speak up.

After all, in this hotel, Bruce was the strongest.

Now that this strongest person dared to kill, what could they do to him?

Either speak nicely, or don't provoke him at all.

In either case, they could only choose the latter.

And Bruce guessed right.

Manager Heywood was indeed displeased with him, but circumstances were stronger than individuals.

Even if he knew Angela had joined Bruce's team.

And knew Bruce's upstairs room might be stocked with a large amount of supplies.

But he dared not scheme against Bruce again!

Because nobody is unafraid of death...

This is the second night of the apocalypse!

Most humans are still living in fear this night.

And this night, the outside world has added some other things.

On a tall building in a certain residential area!

Countless giant bats are taking turns crashing into the windows of a residence!

One after another, making the survivors hiding inside tremble with fear.

These bats came on the first night.

But there are few humans who know about them.

But tonight, these giant bats, which usually hide during the day, have started their own hunting.

"What the hell is going on?"

"B-Bats?"

"Oh my god, such big bats..."

"These monsters... why are they crashing into the glass?"

"Damn it, if they crash a couple more times, the glass will break..."

"Quick, get weapons!"One of the men shouted loudly.

But his realization came too late.

Boom! Crash!

As soon as he finished speaking, a huge bat had already smashed through the living room window.

The man grabbed a mop and tried to rush over to drive the bat out.

However, a second bat followed, flying in through the shattered glass.

Then a third, a fourth!

Once inside, they attacked anyone in sight without any mercy.

Soon, the room was filled with heart-wrenching screams.

Moments later, the screams ceased.

Only the sound of feasting remained.

And the corpses and bloodstains littered the floor.

The survivors, until their deaths, couldn't comprehend why bats don't navigate using sound waves for hunting.

Why would these giant bats crash through the glass into the house?

That night, some human residences were breached by these giant bats.

Many survivors met gruesome ends at the hands of these bloodsucking creatures.

As the cruelty and slaughter continued, the sun rose slowly on the third day of the apocalypse.

On this day, Bruce's team began to get organized.

He first separated Finnegan from Ignacio's group.

Then he tasked him with making protective gear against zombie bites along with Jamie and a few women.

Ignacio led a small team to search for water sources.

Rivers in the city center, neighborhood pools, reservoirs, park ponds, became their targets.

Meanwhile, Bruce himself, accompanied by Cynthia, one of the bodyguards, and two war pets, set out to find Malachi.

As time passed, three days later,

On the seventh day since the apocalypse began,

Ignacio and Finnegan rejoined Bruce's team.

On a morning at the playground behind Dragon's Roost University,

Countless large black beetles with jaws like pliers were tearing into the rotting lizardman corpses.

These beetles were called corpse beetles.

Their shells were as black as ink, resembling the legendary corpse flies.