Survival in the Apocalypse: Max Level Drop Rate with Abundant Resources

The sky is bright.

In an uninhabited residential building in the north of Xinghui City, Liu Xinghui was already dressed and sitting on the edge of the bed. She was dressed in men's clothes, but she didn't care about that at the moment.

These were all supplies that Shen Xi obtained from killing the rotting corpses. He had previously thrown away all the women's clothing he had obtained, thinking that he would not need it. He never expected to encounter such a thing.

At this moment, Shen Xi stood by the window, listening to Liu Xinghui describe the layout of Xinghui City.

"The City Lord's Mansion is divided into three courtyards, front and back." Shen Xi handed her a banknote, on which Liu Xinghui drew a simple diagram. "The front courtyard is the office area, the middle courtyard is my residence, and the back courtyard is the guard battalion's garrison. If Gu Zhengxiong takes control of the City Lord's Mansion, he will definitely turn the middle and back courtyards into a temporary command post, as they are located at the back and are convenient for dispatching personnel."

Shen Xi nodded, her gaze falling on the sketch she had drawn.

"The city garrison is stationed in the south of the city, and the military region is in the west. Gu Zhengxiong was able to control the situation so quickly because of a coordinated attack from within and without," Liu Xinghui gritted his teeth. "That bastard Zhao Dezhu, he's been with me for ten years, and yet..."

"Zhao Dezhu?" Shen Xi raised an eyebrow. He only knew that Gu Zhengxiong had seized Xinghui City in his previous life, but he didn't know the specifics of how he did it.

"My deputy, the deputy commander of the city defense forces," Liu Xinghui took a deep breath, "his daughter is sick and needs imported medicine. Gu Zhengxiong must have bribed him with that."

Shen Xi was silent for a moment, then suddenly asked, "What is Gu Zhengxiong most worried about right now?"

Liu Xinghui was taken aback, then thought for a moment: "What he's most worried about is that I'm still alive. As long as I'm alive, half the people of Xinghui City will not submit to him. He will do everything in his power to hunt us down, while simultaneously trying to stabilize the situation as soon as possible."

"What will he do?"

"Make an example of him." Liu Xinghui's eyes turned cold. "Zhao Dezhu, that traitor, is useful to him now. Once the situation stabilizes, he will definitely use Zhao Dezhu as a warning to those who don't obey."

Shen Xi nodded, a cold smile playing on her lips.

Just as he guessed.

In his previous life, Gu Zhengxiong was just like that. He would greet people with a smile when he needed them, but once he was done with them, he would kick them aside and even eliminate them completely.

"You wait here," Shen Xi suddenly said.

Liu Xinghui was taken aback: "Where are you going?"

"The City Lord's Mansion." Shen Xi picked up the Corrupted Bone Battle Axe. "Let's go check out the situation."

"Are you crazy?" Liu Xinghui stood up abruptly, his brow furrowing as his body ached. "The City Lord's Mansion is full of Gu Zhengxiong's men now. You're going to your death alone?"

Shen Xi glanced at her indifferently, but Liu Xinghui's words stuck in her throat.

She suddenly remembered how this person had fought off the pursuers last night; a dozen people, all dead in a matter of seconds.

"I won't die," Shen Xi said calmly. "Wait here, I'll be back before dark."

After saying that, Shen Xi left some food and drinks behind and went out.

"Watch out!" Liu Xinghui blurted out these two words as if possessed. Standing by the window, he watched the figure disappear at the end of the alley.

……

City Lord's Mansion.

Shen Xi did not approach from the main entrance.

He circled around to the east side of the mansion, where an old residential area was densely packed with buildings and narrow alleys. Climbing to the rooftop of one of the six-story buildings, he could overlook the entire city lord's mansion.

In the morning light, the outline of the city lord's mansion was clearly visible.

The front courtyard office area was empty, with doors and windows tightly closed. In the pavilions of the middle courtyard, figures could be vaguely seen moving about. The guard battalion's barracks in the back courtyard had now been turned into a military vehicle parking lot, with dozens of military off-road vehicles neatly lined up.

Shen Xi's gaze swept across every corner.

Four heavily armed soldiers stood guard at the entrance to the main hall of the intermediate court. At each of the four corners of the courtyard wall, there was a sentry post with a machine gun mounted. Snipers patrolled the rooftops.

High security.

But Shen Xi didn't notice these things.

His gaze fell on the side rooms on both sides of the north courtyard.

Soldiers were going in and out, carrying boxes and supplies. But what was most striking was the soldiers' equipment.

It's not ordinary military equipment.

It is specially made.

They wore black combat uniforms with a golden lion emblem on their chests. Their weapons were far superior to those of ordinary soldiers. Their movements were synchronized and perfectly coordinated, clearly indicating an elite force.

Shen Xi's pupils contracted slightly.

Lion Legion.

In the previous life, this name became famous in a very short time after the apocalypse.

They were not ordinary troops, but Gu Zhengxiong's elite force, meticulously crafted. They were the best equipped, the most rigorously trained, and the most ruthless in combat.

Their leader was Gu Zhengxiong himself.

The Lion God of War in his previous life.

Shen Xi slowly clenched her fist.

In his previous life, he had dealt with Gu Zhengxiong. Back then, because of Gu Yungui, the two had met a few times. Each time, Gu Zhengxiong always had that arrogant attitude, looking at him as if he were a dog.

Gu Zhengxiong couldn't possibly have been unaware that Gu Yungui later killed him.

It's even possible that he instructed them to do it.

Shen Xi took a deep breath, suppressing the murderous intent surging within her.

Now is not the time to take action.

He continued to observe.

The door to the main hall of the Intermediate People's Court was half open, and through the crack in the door, one could vaguely see a person sitting inside.

He was around fifty years old, with a square face, thick eyebrows, and sat upright like a pine tree, dressed in a military uniform.

Lion Warrior, Gu Zhengxiong

Shen Xi stared at that face, a cold glint flashing in her eyes.

This is the person.

In his previous life, his son killed him.

In this life, he is still hunting him down.

It's time to settle both old and new scores.

Just as Shen Xi stared at Gu Zhengxiong...

In the main hall, Gu Zhengxiong suddenly raised his head.

Those deep eyes were staring straight in the direction where Shen Xi was!

Shen Xi felt a chill run down her spine and immediately ducked down, hiding behind the rooftop railing.

"I almost forgot, Gu Zhengxiong has been in the military for so many years, how could he not sense the killing intent?"

Inside the guard battalion.

Gu Zhengxiong stared at the residential buildings in the distance, his brows furrowing slightly.

"Commander, what's wrong?" the adjutant next to him asked.

Gu Zhengxiong was silent for a moment, then slowly said, "Just now... there was a murderous aura."

The adjutant was taken aback: "Killing intent?"

"Very faint, gone in a flash." Gu Zhengxiong stood up and walked to the window. "But it definitely exists."

He stared at the cluster of residential buildings, his eyes deep and unfathomable: "Someone is watching me. And that person really wants to kill me."

The adjutant's expression changed: "I'll send men to search immediately!"

"No need." Gu Zhengxiong waved his hand. "For someone to be able to sense killing intent from such a distance, they're no ordinary person. By the time you get there, they'll have already run away."

He turned around and walked back to the table.

"Pass down the order to increase security. No one is to leave the premises without my permission."

"yes!"

"And one more thing," Gu Zhengxiong paused, "tell Yunfei to stay obediently in the manor these next few days and not to go anywhere."

The adjutant hesitated for a moment, then quickly replied, "Yes, sir!"

On the rooftop in the distance.

Shen Xi huddled in the shadows, knowing he had been discovered.

Although it was only for a moment, that old guy was too perceptive; he truly deserves to be a top-tier expert in the future.

However, he also confirmed one thing: Gu Zhengxiong was a true powerhouse, not the kind from a post-apocalyptic survival game, but someone who had fought his way out of mountains of corpses and seas of blood.

"interesting!"

The feeling of seeing an old friend stirred a surge of excitement in his usually calm heart, but not the same excitement he felt last night. It was more like the feeling of a hunter seeing his prey.

……

East wing of the central courtyard.

Gu Yunfei was sitting at the table, listening to his subordinates report on the search and arrest situation.

"...The abandoned area in the north of the city is too large, and we don't have enough manpower. We've only searched about a third of it. The brothers are still continuing, but I estimate..."

"Useless." Gu Yunfei interrupted coldly, "With so many people, you can't even find a single woman."

The subordinate lowered his head, not daring to utter a sound.

At this moment, the adjutant pushed open the door and came in: "Young Master Gu, the commander has ordered that you stay obediently in the mansion for the next few days and are not allowed to go anywhere."

Gu Yunfei frowned: "Why?"

"The commander didn't say, he only said to increase vigilance."

Gu Yunfei was silent for a moment, then waved his hand and said, "I understand."

After the adjutant left, Gu Yunfei's face darkened.

You're not allowed to go anywhere?

Wouldn't that just leave him waiting around?

He stood up and paced back and forth in the room.

Liu Xinghui's face kept flashing through his mind. Her mature body, her delicate features, and the way she looked in her nightgown in the City Lord's mansion hall last night…

Not reconciled.

That woman should have been his.

Gu Yunfei stopped in his tracks, a sinister glint flashing in his eyes.

Since we can't go out, let's find some fun within the manor.

"Someone come here."

Two soldiers entered in response.

"Go, find me some women," Gu Yunfei said coldly, "young and beautiful."

The two soldiers exchanged a glance, hesitating, "Young Master Gu, this..."

"What? My words don't carry any weight?" Gu Yunfei's eyes turned cold.

"No, no!" the soldier quickly bowed his head. "I'll take care of it right away!"

A moment later, five young women were led into the side room.

They were all former servants of the city lord's mansion, around twenty years old, and all considered pretty. Now, brought here, they were all trembling with fear, huddled together.

Gu Yunfei looked them over, a look of satisfaction flashing in his eyes.

Although not as good as Liu Xinghui, it's good enough.

"Good, keep them all." Gu Yunfei nodded in satisfaction.

Several women were so frightened that they knelt on the ground, begging for mercy: "Young Master Gu, spare our lives! Young Master Gu, spare our lives!"

Gu Yunfei ignored them, walked to a corner, and lifted a tarpaulin.

Under the tarpaulin was an iron cage.

Inside the iron cage, there was a rotting corpse.

It was a female corpse, probably in her early twenties when she was alive, dressed in servant's clothes. Now she was locked in a cage, her cloudy eyes rolling around, and she was emitting low growls.

Upon seeing the rotting corpse in the cage, the women screamed in terror.

"Shut up!" Gu Yunfei shouted coldly.

The screams stopped abruptly, leaving only suppressed sobs.

Gu Yunfei squatted in front of the iron cage, staring at the rotting corpse, his eyes flashing with an eerie light.

"The post-apocalyptic game says that being bitten by a zombie can lead to infection," he muttered to himself. "But what is the infection process like? How long does it take? Is there any way to resist it?"

He stood up and looked at the trembling women.

"Come on, ladies, today we're going to do an experiment."

Several women, their faces ashen, frantically kowtowed, crying, "No! Please don't!"

"Throw two people in and see!" Gu Yunfei ignored him and gave the order directly.

A member of the Lion Legion, expressionless, opened the iron cage door, grabbed the two closest women, and shoved them inside!

"ah……!"

A scream rang out.

Gu Yunfei stood outside the cage, watching everything that was happening inside, a cruel smile curling at the corner of his mouth.

Inside the cage, the rotting corpse smelled the scent of a living person and pounced on it!

The two women struggled and screamed, but there was nowhere to escape from the narrow iron cage.

The teeth of a rotting corpse were biting into a woman's neck.

Blood spurted out.

The woman's struggles grew weaker and weaker until she finally stopped moving altogether.

Gu Yunfei stared at the corpse, his eyes unblinking.

Time passed second by second.

In the end, the woman died completely, but did not decompose into a corpse.

"It didn't turn into a corpse? It seems that not everyone who gets bitten will turn into a corpse." Gu Yunfei was somewhat surprised.

After killing the woman, the rotting corpse instantly pounced on the remaining woman in the iron cage!

"ah……!"

Another scream rang out.

Gu Yunfei watched all this with excitement in his eyes.

"Interesting," he murmured. "Really interesting."

He turned around and looked at the three women remaining in the corner, his smile as radiant as a devil's.

"Don't be afraid, there are still many experiments to be done."