6: Order collapses, darkness falls

The Bald Man felt secretly pleased when he saw Tian Ming compromise.

A hint of greed flashed in his eyes as he tore open Tian Ming’s biscuit and took a direct bite.

Compressed biscuits were as hard as rocks to begin with, but the diamonds Tian Ming had transformed inside were long and needle-like.

As he bit down hard, the Bald Man’s face instantly changed.

“Ow!”

The Bald Man cried out in pain, frantically spitting out the biscuit.

His mouth was full of blood, his upper palate pierced by the diamonds.

Tian Ming remained calm, his consciousness locking onto the diamonds in the Bald Man’s mouth, directly decomposing their structure and combining them with oxygen in the air to form carbon dioxide, disappearing without a trace.

“He’s mutated!” Tian Ming screamed in terror, backing away repeatedly.

With his mouth full of blood, the Bald Man indeed looked as if he had mutated.

This scream caused a strong commotion; the population density here was already high, and if someone mutated, only death awaited them.

“You little brat, you dare to screw with me!” the Bald Man roared furiously.

But he was also afraid, enduring the pain in his mouth, he raised his hands and said, “Don’t be scared, I just bit my mouth while eating, I haven’t mutated, this kid is lying.”

The commotion in the crowd subsided somewhat.

The guard walked over, glanced at the Bald Man, and said coldly, “For the safety of others, you must go out and get another blood test.

You can only come back in eight hours.”

“Why, officer, I haven’t mutated, I really haven’t!”

“Get out!” The guard directly raised the gun in his hand and pointed it at the man.

The Bald Man had no choice but to retreat, his heart filled with rage, he glared fiercely at Tian Ming.

Among the crowd, some people began to whisper, while Tian Ming sat there nonchalantly, expressionless, as if nothing had just happened.

Xiaoya’s incident left him with a lingering sense of unease.

But he also understood his current predicament; he would only be truly safe after enduring three days and entering a large shelter.

It was unknown how long this zombie virus infection would last, or how many people it would infect.

Just then, a commotion broke out in the crowd.

A fully armed guard suddenly collapsed, his body began to convulse, and black liquid flowed from the corners of his mouth.

Guards from other areas immediately stepped forward. Bang, bang, bang! The fallen guard, convulsing, pulled the trigger, and the automatic weapon spewed flames, mowing down a large area.

The crowd immediately fell into chaos, some screaming, some fleeing in all directions.

The mutated guard was dealt with by other guards, but more than a dozen people at the scene were still accidentally injured, and two were shot in the head, dying on the spot.

The crowd finally settled down with difficulty. Outside the Shelter, more and more zombies surged towards them.

The lights in the venue flickered twice and then went out, plunging the venue into darkness.

Several diesel generators were attacked by zombies, leading to insufficient power supply, and the searchlights outside also dimmed.

Without searchlights, the guard outposts were immediately surrounded by a large number of zombies.

Boom! A huge explosion, mixed with sky-high flames, erupted as the diesel energy point was hit by a stray bullet, causing a violent explosion.

Countless zombies poured in from all directions, directly entering the observation area through the breach.

Armed personnel immediately moved forward, but they only had light weapons.

Such events were happening all over the world, and transportation capacity was extremely strained, making it impossible to transport heavy weapons to every city.

Order began to collapse at the Donghai City Shelter.

Armed personnel charged to the front, blocking the first wave of zombie attacks.

Afterward, the outposts were engulfed in raging flames, and the diesel and gasoline at the energy point triggered several chain explosions.

Half of the square was engulfed in a sea of fire.

“Hold back these living dead, guide the public to evacuate, quickly!”

Several generators broke down, and the remaining ones sparked due to overload, and with a crackle and flash of sparks, the remaining generators also failed.

“Citizens, the zombies to the west were cleared during the day, so there are fewer zombies there.

Please evacuate in an orderly fashion from the west side of the square.

We will hold back those zombies for you.”

The backup power supply began to work, and large loudspeakers issued evacuation guidance.

Tian Ming emerged from the stadium; the flames to the east attracted a large number of zombies, while the armed personnel formed a defensive line, covering their group of evacuating civilians.

Perhaps the order of this world would disappear with the death of these brave and fearless heroes.

In the firelight, the muzzle flashes of light weapons flickered in and out of sight.

Soon, the zombie horde surged forward, colliding with the defensive line formed by those protecting them.

For a moment, the roars of zombies and the desperate screams of the dying intertwined, creating an incomparably tragic scene!

Tian Ming did not stop, evacuating with the crowd.

The city’s high-voltage substation was already full of zombies, and the entire city’s power system had collapsed.

In the pitch-black conditions, where could a group of people escape to?

Someone shouted, though it was unclear who.

“Don’t run anymore, everyone scatter and hide from the zombies in buildings.

Wait until dawn to leave the city together and await rescue.”

The scene was too chaotic; some people directly entered the buildings on both sides and climbed up the stairs.

Tian Ming also followed inside.

There was a faint light in the stairwell, from the fire emergency lights hanging on the wall.

The power of these emergency lights was almost depleted.

Tian Ming quickly moved a broken table to stand on tiptoe and took down an emergency light.

The principle of a rechargeable battery’s discharge process is the migration of metal ions in a liquid battery.

Charging is the reverse process using electrochemical reactions.

As long as the metal ions are returned to their original positions and become compounds, it’s done.

Tian Ming tapped the battery, instantly charging it, and the emergency light immediately brightened.

Fortunately, Tian Ming still remembered some electrochemical reactions; without the corresponding knowledge, he wouldn’t have known how to manipulate the position of atoms to charge the battery.

One man and two women appeared at the stairwell entrance; it was the Bald Man, accompanied by two girls.

Seeing the light here, they immediately rushed over.

The Bald Man didn’t know where he got a gun, it should have been taken from a guard.

They quickly chased after him, and when they saw the emergency light in Tian Ming’s hand, they immediately aimed the gun at Tian Ming.

“Give me the light!” the Bald Man shouted sharply.

He didn’t fire because there were only three bullets left in the magazine, and the Bald Man had checked; he wouldn’t foolishly waste a bullet on Tian Ming.

The two girls beside him were quite good-looking, and they decided to follow him to escape because the Bald Man had a gun.

Tian Ming stood still and slowly said, “I can give you the light, just don’t shoot.”

The Bald Man approached and snatched the light from his hand.

Tian Ming’s mind moved, and the Bald Man’s gun barrel was already welded to the bullet’s warhead; if he fired, the gun would surely explode.

The Bald Man smashed Tian Ming on the head with the butt of the gun.

Tian Ming’s head was bleeding, and he collapsed onto the stairwell.

Under the light, the Bald Man looked at the two girls with a lecherous expression and said, “Don’t be scared, follow big brother, find a safe room, and wait until dawn.

Big brother has a gun, I can definitely get you out.”

The two girls didn’t dare to resist and followed him upstairs.

In the stairwell, Tian Ming’s wound had already healed.

He suddenly looked up; the iron railing beside him was mostly corroded, and in his arms appeared a light weapon identical to the Bald Man’s.