Chapter 498 Move the Supplies!

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    The zombies had already reached the third floor… Who knew how much longer they could hold out before the zombies breached the middle floors?b‘ /b

    They had to move their supplies upstairs–fast!

    Desmond took the lead, walking ahead of the group.

    The further down they went, the closer they got to the zombie horde…

    The zombies writhed and surged below–like a bunch of starving goldfish feeding greedily in a pond, seemingly ready to burst out of the water and attack the humans at any moment.

    Leaping and iling wildly, they howled and shrieked non–stop–eager to bite off the fragile heads, rip open the vulnerable bellies, and scoop out the warm, pulsating innards of their prey.

    “Roar-”

    i“/iiHeh/ii! /iHeh! Hehi!/ii” /i

    i“/iiRoar/ii!/ii” /i

    Desmond descended the stairs with his heart in his throat.

    Surrounded by the stench of decay and the screeches of the zombies, he was the first to reach thending. He stuck close to the wall, skirting around the broken section of the staircase as he quickly ran into the fifth floor.

    There was an open–air terrace on the fifth floor. As the area was blessed with good sunlight, they had piled their meager supplies together and turned the ce into a farming area.

    Three rows of potted nts were arranged neatly on the terrace.

    Desmond grabbed the nearest and healthiest–looking pot of potatoes, then he turned to run back upstairs.

    The rest of his team members followed closely behind him, dodging the zombies as they rushed to move the crops.

    It didn’t matter if they were men or women; they frantically grabbed as many pots as they could carry.

    The zombies were swarming the floors below. There was no saying when the zombies would break through their defenses and reach the fifth floor.

    They had to move fast–and take what they could.

    Every single pot counted!

    Cecilia hung at the back of the group.

    When she reached the stairnding on the fifth floor, she immediately noticed a female zombie below… Its entire face had rotted away. Only a small patch of scalp and a tuft of hair remained on the back of its head.

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    The female zombie struggled free from the sea of corpses and lifted its head. Its lifeless, gray eyes stared directly at Cecilia, unblinking…

    “iRoar/ii!/ii” /i

    Then, it leaped out of the zombie pile.

    Its putrid mouth, recking strongly of rotting flesh, was split wide open to the back of its ears. Its face waspletely unrecognizable at this point. With the grotesque patchwork of flesh in varying degrees of decay covering its face, only the faintest outline of its original facial features could be discerned through

    the rot.

    ish/i!

    Its thin and skeletal hand glinted with a metallic sheen as it viciously swiped upward with great force.

    iScreech- /i

    The grating sound of ws scraping against ster pierced the air…

    The female zombie’s ws shed hard at the floor beneath Cecilia’s feet, making a sound that made one’s skin crawl, A deep five–finger w mark appeared at the edge of the step.

    Chunks of white ster crumbled and fell from the spot.

    Cecilia hurriedly stumbled backward and crashed into Juno, who was carrying a pot of potatoes behind her.

    “Cecilia!” Desmond snapped. Having reached the next floor, he red down at Cecilia.

    “It was Juno who dropped the pot!” Cecilia retorted sharply. “What does that have to do with me?!”

    “Cut the crap! You clearly bumped into her!” Wesley pped back.

    “I saw it too! Juno could barely carry anything to begin with, then you went and bumped into her!” Eli added. “I’ve never seen anyone as useless as you!”

    Cecilia clenched her fists in anger at those words.

    Juno, Juno, Juno… It’s always iJuno/ii! /i

    Everyone sides with heri–/inot a single iperson /iiis /iion /iimy /iside!

    “It’s okay, Cecilia” Juno hurriedly interrupted. “I’ll just go and get more.”

    Hearing that, Cecilia shook off Juno’s hand and strode off to the fifth floor in a huff.

    Theresa stood upstairs, quietly watching the drama unfolding below.

    iThere /iiaren’t /iimany /ipeople here, but there sure are many wicked schemes.

    Ten minutester, most of the crops on the fifth floor had been moved upstairs.

    At the same time, the number of zombies umting on the staircase was increasing rapidly…

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    There was a gap of approximately twenty feet between the third floor and the fifth floor. It was too high for the zombies to reach by jumping, but as the number of zombies increased… The tower of bodies gradually grew higher and higher, steadily closing the distance between the floors.

    After the first female zombie managed to scratch at the stairs, more and more zombies followed suit. They began leaping into the air to reach the fifth floor.

    Loud scraping sounds echoed throughout the stairwell as the zombies wed at the steps of the fifth–floor stairway. Each scratch stripped awayyers of white ster, exposing the dark gray concrete hidden underneath.

    “Roar!”

    Just as one of the men was carrying thest pot of potatoes upstairs, a zombie finally seeded after countless failed attempts.

    The zombie grabbed hold of the broken edge of the stairway and lunged upwards with its ws outstretched.

    One of its wstched onto the man’s ankle as he shuffled along the edge. Its sharp ws instantly pierced through his tendon.

    The zombie tightened its grip, its fingers sinking into the man’s flesh and ripping through muscle like a rubber band snapping against one’s nerve–sharp, precise, and sickeningly painful.

    “Ah-

    The man gave a blood–curdling scream of agony.

    His cry had barely left his mouth when his leg was violently yanked downward with brutal force. The pot of potatoes in his hand smashed to the ground, and his body plunged toward the depths below.

    As he slid down the stairs, he desperately grabbed hold of the stair railing and clung for his life.

    “Ron!”

    “Ron!”

    Desmond and the others froze in their tracks when they saw the man being dragged downward by the zombies. They watched in horror as more and more zombies pounced and swarmed around the man dangling in the air.

    Everything happened in the blink of an eye.

    The first zombie that had grabbed the man’s leg gave a low growl and sank its teeth deep into the man’s calf. As blood spilled from the wound, the scent of fresh blood instantly sent the entire horde of zombies below into a crazed frenzy.

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