Luo Luo had seen them at the zoo and at a theme park in Thailand, but never one this thick and long.
Visually estimating, its diameter was half a meter and its length around two meters. Despite its beautiful golden color, it still made one's scalp tingle.
Chang Kaitong asked blankly, "Sister Nuan, who do you think would win if they fought?"
"Hard to say."
The rat swarm had the advantage of numbers, while the opponent had the advantage of strength.
The Rat King was already suffocating. Once the Rat King died, these smaller ones would naturally scatter.
However, before a victor could be decided, it was truly uncertain who would fall.
An Nuan only felt a pity for the crystals.
The Rat King would most likely produce a crystal. Whether it swallowed the python or the python ate it, both would absorb the opponent's crystal power to become stronger.
This was the law of the jungle in the apocalypse, survival of the fittest.
"They won't chase us for now, let's rest a bit."
An Nuan returned to the cabin and found a clean spot to sit.
Juanzi nudged against her.
She roughly ruffled Juanzi's head.
"The rats have grown so big, you need to be ambitious and not lose!"
Juanzi: You just wait!
An Nuan took out several bottles of water, chocolates, and biscuits to replenish everyone's energy.
She particularly gave Hai Changfeng a bottle of collagen.
He forced a smile. "Nuan Total, I can understand supplementing with zinc, but what's with the collagen? Are you afraid my skin will sag!"
"Aren't I afraid you'll bleed too much and your skin will worsen, making you look old!"
"Little Nuan is right. If you supplement more collagen, maybe the female zombie will go easy on you!"
Hai Changfeng could already picture it.
He shivered with disgust and immediately bit open the cap, drinking the contents.
The yacht sailed for less than half an hour before reaching the entrance of Qianhua Department Store.
The first floor was flooded, and the entrance was completely blocked.
Hai Changfeng found a large glass window of the fast-moving consumer goods section and smashed an opening with a fire hydrant.
Luo Luo immediately used vines to widen the opening, allowing half the yacht to enter.
Chang Kaitong scouted ahead. "Sister Nuan, the second floor is intact, but it's frozen inside, and the floor is very icy."
An Nuan took out snow boots for everyone to change into, making it easier to walk on the ice.
As soon as she disembarked, she collected all the goods from the ZARA store into her spatial dimension.
Previously, An Nuan thought there were only two people in her little nest, so she had stocked up for two people to live in for a hundred years.
Now that there were two more men, and the cat had grown, and she didn't want to wash clothes after killing zombies.
The consumption of clothing, food, and cat litter and cat food had exceeded her initial estimates.
An Nuan decided to start collecting anything useful into her spatial dimension from now on.
If she didn't take it, others would take it later anyway.
"Sister Nuan, look below!"
The middle section of the mall was hollow. It was now flooded, and the water level was exactly half a meter below the second floor.
Various debris floated on the water's surface.
And also, drowned and bitten people.
They had bloated. Their corpses were already gruesome, and after bloating, they were even more disgusting and chilling.
Chang Kaitong had also witnessed many shocking scenes, but for some reason, seeing this in the department store made him feel a bit uneasy.
Luo Luo asked, "Will there be zombies inside?"
Hai Changfeng: "Do zombies need to breathe?"
If they didn't need to breathe, then underwater would be very unsafe.
An Nuan shook her head.
She had seen zombies that could swim, but not zombies that could walk underwater.
However, this was limited to those below Tier Five.
As for zombies above Tier Five, An Nuan hadn't had the good fortune to fight them, nor did she want to.
An Nuan said, "Let's stay away from the water for now. Even if there are no zombies, it would be difficult to deal with a few异种 (mutants)."
"You're right."
Luo Luo clung to An Nuan, not wanting to encounter cockroaches again, let alone pythons...
They walked to Building B. This area was not interconnected, and the water downstairs did not seep into this section.
Luo Luo said, "Should we play the audio?"
"Over a thousand zombies, and no floor blocking them. What if they all charge at us, can we handle it?"
Chang Kaitong and Luo Luo both shook their heads.
Hai Changfeng looked around. "Although the mall is large, over a thousand monsters should make some noise. Why can't I hear anything?"
"I also find it strange. I've seemed to hear sounds from the beginning, but I haven't seen anything."
"Meow~"
Juanzi hung on Chang Kaitong's neck, its paw pointing in one direction.
They followed Juanzi's direction and saw a luxury goods counter.
The transparent roller shutter door was pulled down, blocking over twenty Tier One zombies inside.
"Good luck!"
An Nuan directed Chang Kaitong and Hai Changfeng to open the roller shutter door.
The moment the door opened, zombies swarmed out. An Nuan used "Devour" and easily wiped out a batch.
This was the second time Hai Changfeng had seen her perform magic, but each time he found it incredibly impressive.
"This move is awesome!"
"What's awesome? It's a waste of effort!"
Over twenty zombies yielded no crystals, which was infuriating!
It was worse than those rats!
An Nuan frowned. "Qianhua Department Store is as large as five football fields. It will take too much time to find a thousand zombies. We'll split into two groups to speed things up."
"Little Nuan, I don't want to be separated from you!"
Luo Luo clung to her, their faces pressed together. It made the two men feel a little embarrassed.
An Nuan nuzzled back. "You go with Xiao Tong, and take Juanzi. Sweep floors two and three. I'll go with Hai Changfeng, floors four, five, and six."
Hai Changfeng currently had no offensive power, so being with An Nuan was the safest.
Everyone agreed with An Nuan's arrangement. The two groups, each with a cat, began their sweep.
Chang Kaitong was lucky. He encountered a few smaller ones at the beginning and dealt with them easily.
Luo Luo extended her vines to scout various areas. The moment she lured out a zombie, she would wrap them up.
Some had their heads twisted off by vines, while others had their heads severed by a laser dagger.
Luo Luo smiled. "This dagger is so useful!"
"Sister Luo Luo, you're so cool when you chop off heads!"
"Little brother, you are too. When you hook your finger, I'm almost falling for you!"
Luo Luo said, and with a smiling face, she cracked open the zombies' heads.
After killing over forty, she had to thoroughly mangle the heads of each one before finding eight crystals.
An Nuan's side was not much better.
On the fourth floor of Building C, over a hundred zombies were wandering around.
Hai Changfeng's face turned pale with fear, and he held Daidai tightly.
"Hide in the Cha Bai Dao store. I'll find you after I'm done."
"Nuan Total, be careful."
Hai Changfeng, holding Daidai, hid in the milk tea shop.
An Nuan had allowed him to bring the cat.
He had no offensive power, so having Daidai protect him was the best choice.
As soon as Hai Changfeng entered, he saw the store clerks lying dead on the ground, covered in insects.
Hai Changfeng endured his disgust, picked up a cleaver from the corpse's hand, and shook off the insects.
He was useless now. The only thing he could do was not be a burden.