103: Rain of Light Queen, Rain of Swords

Without a doubt, the events outside were absolutely the work of the Old Days Society, whose purpose was to create chaos.

But Tang Ping was somewhat puzzled as to how they managed to spread the Infected so widely within the Safe Zone.

“Infected?”

“If it’s just this, then the Old Days Society is hardly living up to its name.” An entity that could strike fear into numerous transcendent families couldn't possibly just be turning ordinary people into Infected on a large scale.

However, for ordinary people,

the sudden outbreak of Infected was already a disaster.

Perhaps they were insignificant to a Safe Zone with millions of residents,

but for a family, it was like the pain of being torn apart… “Run, Xiaohui, run!”

“Daddy, no, don’t bite Mommy, no, boo hoo hoo, Daddy!”

“Xiaohui.” The woman desperately hugged the man, letting him bite her shoulder, a strained smile on her face: “Xiaohui, go to Uncle Chen’s house. Your daddy is sick, and only Uncle Chen can cure him. Go find Uncle Chen quickly.”

The child was only three or four years old, not even as tall as a chair: “Okay, okay, Mommy, Mommy wait for me, I’m going to find Uncle Chen right now, Mommy wait for me!”

The child quickly left the room. The woman took a deep breath, looking at her husband who was gnawing at her: “Why is this happening? Why? Everything was fine just now.”

Not long after the little boy left, an explosion echoed from the room, and the entire window shattered outwards!

The little boy, who had just run downstairs and not far from his house, stared blankly at his home. Black smoke, like a terrifying giant beast, stretched its claws out the window, tearing apart his home.

Roar! An Infected lunged at the little boy!

“Xiaohui! Watch out!”

A muscular, short-haired man, his body swelling, rushed forward like a cannonball!

Wearing custom-made iron gauntlets on his fists, he threw a punch, and the head of the Infected, which had just transformed from a human, instantly exploded.

The man was very fast. As he blew open the Infected’s head, his body also perfectly blocked the child’s view. He then quickly turned, picked up the child, and left.

“Let’s go, Uncle Chen will take you somewhere safe!”

“Uncle Chen, where are my mommy and daddy?” The child seemed to realize something, burying his head in Uncle Chen’s arms.

The muscular man was silent, stroking the child’s head: “Be good, Uncle Chen is here.”

The man carried the child through the chaotic streets, heading towards the Transcendent Bureau in District 79 of the fifth ring of the Safe Zone.

District 48 of the fourth ring of the Safe Zone.

“Mom and Dad, don’t worry, I’ll be fine,” Zhu Yuxin comforted her parents.

The middle-aged woman held her daughter’s hand, tears in her eyes: “You must protect yourself, you must protect yourself.”

The man next to her was smoking. He knew he couldn’t help at all; the only thing he could do was not cause trouble for his daughter: “Don’t worry, I’ll take care of your mom. Go.”

Zhu Yuxin nodded firmly: “I’ll come back safely.”

She leaped out of the window.

Having taken the physique potion given by the principal, her physical quality had long surpassed that of ordinary people.

Below was the street, with newly Infected.

An Infected was lunging at an old woman. Although it had just turned into an Infected and was moving awkwardly, its speed was not much slower than a normal person’s. An old woman clearly couldn’t outrun it.

The old woman had already given up struggling, sitting on the ground. Beside her was a bag of snacks she had just bought for her great-granddaughter and grandson—peach crisps, mung bean cakes, and fried dough twists.

Nowadays, snacks rarely came in such packaging. The old woman suddenly recalled her childhood. She remembered that when she was little, before coming to Xingyao Safe Zone, her father used to take her to search for those packaged snacks. Her father told her that these were snacks from before the apocalypse, when food was abundant. She ate them then, and they weren’t tasty; they were said to be expired, but it was a taste she had sought her entire life, because her father died on one such journey. When she found him, her father was still clutching a few bags of instant noodles.

The old woman was very old; it was truly rare to live to this age in the apocalypse.

She had almost witnessed the entire history of the Xingyao Safe Zone.

She was a living history book.

But now, she was about to die.

The old woman’s face was very calm. She just tied up the oil paper to prevent blood from splattering on it later, which would make the snacks unappetizing.

Even if a stranger picked them up and ate them, it would be better than wasting them.

Her whole life, she couldn’t understand how there could have been an era, as her father described, where food was eaten freely—rice, flour, fruits, vegetables, meat, eggs. What kind of era was that? Did such an era truly exist?

Close to death, the old woman felt her thoughts suddenly clear.

She thought of many, many things, then slowly lowered her head.

Roar! A foul-smelling wind clawed at her; the Infected could tear apart the old woman in the next moment.

Bright, light-like flames blasted over! Instantly igniting the Infected!

Zhu Yuxin delivered a flying kick, sending the Infected flying. The light-like flames burned the Infected, dispelling the shadow that enveloped the old woman.

“Grandma, come with me, let’s find a place to hide first,” Zhu Yuxin reached out to pull the old woman.

The old woman’s body, which had been sitting, suddenly slumped.

Zhu Yuxin panicked and quickly tried to support her, but the hand she placed on the old woman’s arm instantly stiffened.

The old woman’s pulse had stopped.

She had passed away, her breath gone, leaving herself dignity before she left.

In this world, there was one less living history book belonging to ordinary people.

Zhu Yuxin was silent for a moment. The light-like flames in her hand incinerated the old woman inch by inch into ashes.

In this world, after death, people chose cremation because corpses could also turn into Infected, or be torn and devoured by Pollution Beasts, or even be parasitized by strange venomous insects and turn into monsters.

Cremation was humanity’s final farewell to this world.

The dust scattered into the wind, departing with Zhu Yuxin.

Zhu Yuxin drew the knife from her back and charged towards another Infected!

A hundred miles outside the Xingyao Safe Zone, a woman enveloped in light stood before a person cloaked in a white robe.

The cuffs and hem of the white robe were adorned with golden patterns.

The white-robed person blocked the woman’s path of return.

Yuguang Heavenly Queen’s eyes held a chilling glint. The warm light began to grow scorching, finally becoming blazing! Terrifying light pierced through metal and stone!

“Old Days Society, you scum!”

The light materialized, like raindrops, flying like sharp swords, attacking the blocker!

The white-robed person also made a move.

It was also a Heavenly King-level expert!

Dark water transformed into a tsunami, crashing in all directions.

“Today, you won’t be returning,” the white-robed person’s voice was hoarse.

He certainly wouldn’t allow Yuguang Heavenly Queen to return, because with Yuguang Heavenly Queen present,

the so-called Infected disaster would simply be a joke.

Yuguang Heavenly Queen’s gaze was icy cold, contrasting with the blazing light like two extremes.

“You think you can stop me?”

Instantly, rain fell from the sky. The rain was like light, and also like swords.