Chapter 140 - Jaded adults
The fire had carved a path of destruction, reducing the zombies in its wake to little more than charred husks. Smoke curled into the sky, masking the sickly stench of rot with the acrid smell of burnt flesh and fuel.
Yunfeng and Jai didn’t waste a second.
He didn’t have time to think of his new found magical flames. All he could think of was a way out of this mess.
They dashed blindly through the smoke.
"This way!" Yunfeng dragged jai to the nearby high rise building. "we’ll go through the back door. The warehouse is close... we’ll make it"
Their dirty shoes pounded against the pavement as they rushed toward a nearby office building, its glass doors shattered and its once-pristine lobby smeared with bloodied handprints.
The place was eerily quiet with papers flying around sticking to mysterious blood stains in the ground.
Only a few zombies remained, sluggish and dazed, their bodies still twitching from the explosion’s impact. Jai took them out quickly—one clean shot to the skull, the sickening crack echoing through the deserted halls.
"let’s go through this way..." Yunfeng whispered, pulling him towards the service area.
They slipped into a side and walking carefully. The flickering emergency lights overhead cast eerie shadows on the walls, making every step feel like they were walking deeper into a nightmare.
A few minutes in they found an office room with the door slightly ajar.