21: Chapter 21 A Stunningly Beautiful Woman

Without time to think, Chen Ye's gaze fell upon a handgun beside the corpse of an Armed Police officer.

In the early days of the apocalypse, before Superpowers had become widespread, firearms were the ultimate combat power.

He stepped forward quickly to pick up the handgun, but upon removing the magazine, he found it completely empty.

"Damn it, I thought I'd struck gold!" Chen Ye's mood instantly plummeted from joy to rock bottom.

However, he didn't give up, crouching beside the corpse to search quickly.

Finally, in the tactical vest of another Armed Police officer, he felt a fully loaded spare magazine and something that looked like a smoke grenade.

"Not bad luck."

A glint of joy flashed in Chen Ye's eyes as he quickly loaded the magazine, chambered a round, and tucked the handgun and smoke grenade into a concealed spot at his waist.

With a firearm, he had gained another layer of confidence to survive in this restricted zone.

"Quick! Hurry and hide! Otherwise, that woman is coming!"

A hurried, low shout suddenly came from the entrance of the residential unit not far away.

Chen Ye turned his head sharply, only to see the injured man who had been running away earlier, poking half his head out, his body tightly hidden behind the unit door.

His eyes were darting around in terror, his gaze locked firmly onto Chen Ye.

"What woman?" Chen Ye asked subconsciously, his voice sounding slightly clear in the silent Residential Community.

The man's expression changed drastically, and he hurriedly made a shushing gesture at Chen Ye, his hands waving incessantly.

His tone was trembling with nervousness: "Keep it down! If you don't want to die, get in here quickly! Hurry!"

Chen Ye frowned slightly.

Looking at the man's expression of extreme fear and glancing at the corpses covering the ground, his inner suspicions grew even stronger.

He put away the handgun, lowered his profile, and walked quickly toward the unit door.

He wanted to see exactly what kind of terrifying secret was hidden in this restricted zone.

As soon as Chen Ye stepped into the building's hallway, his arm was suddenly grabbed by a plump, warm hand.

The fatty used a force that was both urgent and light, carefully pulling him into the shadows at the corner of the stairs.

Then, tiptoeing with his round body, he gently closed the unit door, keeping the sound of the door closing almost inaudible.

The hallway was dim and damp, with thick fog seeping in through the door cracks, mixed with a faint smell of blood, making it suffocatingly oppressive.

Only then did Chen Ye see the other person's appearance clearly.

He was nearly 1.8 meters tall, broad-shouldered and thick-waisted, weighing over two hundred pounds.

His round, fat face was stained with mottled blood, and his small eyes darted around, revealing a sense of cowardice mixed with clever cunning.

He looked like the type best at maneuvering in the apocalypse.

"Brother, keep quiet! Don't attract that menace over here!" The fatty lowered his raspy voice, his fat face leaning close to Chen Ye, his breath full of panic.

Chen Ye calmly shook off his hand, frowned slightly, and asked in a low voice: "Who is the woman you're talking about? And who are you?"

The fatty patted his round chest and quietly introduced himself: "My name is Zhang Lei, a lifelong resident of the Guangming Residential Community!"

"As for that woman... I don't know what kind of monster she is, damn it!"

Zhang Lei's fat face showed lingering fear, his fat trembling as he recalled with trepidation:

"I originally wanted to climb the wall to escape, but I saw that woman standing in the center of the square. With a light wave of her hand, over a dozen living people behind her, as if possessed, charged forward with red eyes, disregarding their lives."

"They slashed at everyone they met, killing on sight! Even the SWAT team was surrounded and killed by them!"

Chen Ye's pupils shrank suddenly, and a storm surged in his heart.

Controlling living people?

In his previous life, he had indeed seen puppet-type Superpowers, but most of these Superpower users controlled animals and beasts.

To control humans with sound minds, one must reach the sixth stage of Superpower!

But the apocalypse had only just begun a few days ago; how could a sixth-stage powerhouse possibly appear?

Furthermore, the opponent was a human who slaughtered her own kind at will... This completely defied common sense.

"Even if she's taking revenge on society, she shouldn't kill so many people, not even sparing the police." Chen Ye muttered to himself, appearing calm on the surface.

His wariness of this mysterious woman deepened even further in his heart.

Zhang Lei, however, didn't care, scratching his fat face and guessing blindly: "Maybe she was dumped by a scumbag, had a mental breakdown, and just decided to take everyone down with her!"

"When a woman goes crazy, what won't she do?"

Chen Ye was speechless; this fatty's train of thought was so bizarre that it left him with nothing to say.

"What does that woman look like?" Chen Ye didn't want to dwell on meaningless speculation and went straight to the core question.

As soon as her appearance was mentioned, Zhang Lei's previously terrified small eyes instantly lit up.

They narrowed into slits, his face full of lewdness, and he almost drooled.

"That woman, she's absolute perfection!" Zhang Lei lowered his voice, his tone full of lecherous envy.

As he spoke, he used his hands to make exaggerated gestures, "Her figure is top-notch, she wears so little, those two mounds on her chest are so white and big, swaying as she walks, it steals your soul away!"

"And she's as beautiful as a fairy; anyone who sees her gets dazed!"

His drooling appearance made it seem as if he had already thrown the corpses on the ground and the life-or-death crisis to the back of his mind.

Chen Ye's face darkened, and he sternly scolded: "What time do you think it is? Are you still thinking about this nonsense? Aren't the corpses all over the ground enough to wake you up?"

He really couldn't connect the ruthless demon who manipulated humans into killing each other with the stunningly alluring femme fatale Zhang Lei described.

Zhang Lei, however, pursed his lips, wearing an "you don't understand" expression: "Brother, you haven't seen her! If I could really have a good time with her for one night, even if I died right after, I'd be satisfied!"

Chen Ye glanced impatiently at the wounds on his body and said coldly: "You should worry about whether you can survive today first; don't end up as a corpse on the ground before you get your 'good time'."

"Hey, you're right!" Zhang Lei immediately wilted.

Chen Ye didn't pick up on his comment, but looked down at his leg and asked: "Was your leg injured at that time?"

Zhang Lei rubbed his calf, "My leg was just from falling while running away earlier, it's nothing major, just a bit of scraped skin."

Chen Ye pointed to the blood on his face, his brows knitting tighter: "And what about the blood on your face and leg?"

Zhang Lei was instantly a bit embarrassed, scratched the back of his head, and chuckled:

"Well, you see, when I saw the fighting break out, I lay on the ground and played dead. This blood is someone else's that I just smeared on myself. If I hadn't played dead, I would have been dead long ago!"

Upon hearing this, Chen Ye viewed the fatty with a bit more scrutiny.

He looked greedy, lecherous, and cowardly, yet he understood how to survive in the apocalypse better than anyone.

Playing dead, smearing blood, hiding in the shadows—every step was key to survival.

But deeper suspicion followed.

For an ordinary resident, it was clearly safest to lock the doors and windows at home right now; why would he risk his life to run out?

Seeming to see through Chen Ye's doubts, Zhang Lei hurriedly explained:

"I'm just like everyone else, I just wanted to escape this hellhole! Who knew that as soon as I stepped out, I'd run into this massacre!"

Fearing Chen Ye wouldn't believe him, Zhang Lei leaned in and lowered his voice mysteriously: "Brother, you look like an honest person, not a bad guy, so I'll tell you a secret."

"I've already awakened a Superpower! If you follow me, I guarantee you'll get your share of the benefits!"