Apocalypse: I Can See Health Bars
Chapter 32: Or Lighter Than a Goose Feather

Chapter 32: Chapter 32: Or Lighter Than a Goose Feather

"Nice one!"

Seeing the leader turn back to face the enemy, Lin Fan couldn’t help but slam his fist on the windowsill in excitement.

Even for ordinary people, two zombies weren’t an insurmountable threat.

Let alone for four fully equipped people.

While ordinary zombies were strong, their skeletons weren’t much tougher than a human’s.

If the four of them coordinated properly, with one person holding off a zombie, it wouldn’t be difficult for the other three to take one down with a headshot without anyone getting hurt!

When the other two saw their leader turn back, they also stopped. One of them was about to put down the bag he was holding, but the other one reached out and stopped him...

The two didn’t speak. They just looked at each other as if they had made some kind of decision, then turned, picked up the bag the leader had dropped, and continued running toward the community fence!

The person at the rear of the group was overjoyed to see the leader turn back. He ran for his life, sprinting right past the man who had returned for him without a moment’s hesitation!

"This... How could they do that!"

Su Qing slammed the binoculars on the windowsill and said angrily,

But, still clinging to a sliver of hope, she frowned and continued to watch.

"Sigh..."

Although there were some twists, things ultimately went back to how they were.

He didn’t have much to say. He just sighed and said softly to Su Qing, "Easy there. If you break it, I’m docking your food."

Su Qing said nothing in response, just nudged Lin Fan hard with her shoulder before raising the binoculars to continue her tense observation.

The leader had just brushed past the man from the rear when he swung the steel pipe in his hand, smashing it toward the head of the nearest zombie!

The charging zombie was struck in the head by this powerful blow and sent flying backward, crashing heavily to the ground!

The heavy strike caved its entire cheek in!

[186/300]!

The blow to the head plus the fall backward cost it a full 114 points of Life Value!

"Tsk! Dammit!" Lin Fan couldn’t help but click his tongue in disappointment. ’You should have stabbed it!’

If he had stabbed it in the eye socket, it would have been an instant kill!

Perhaps finding the missed opportunity too regrettable, Lin Fan subconsciously overlooked the unique nature of his own "career."

Not everyone understood human anatomy so well, nor could everyone aim so precisely in a situation like that.

The leader, seeing he had felled a zombie with a single blow, was ecstatic!

He waved a hand back, signaling his companion to finish off this zombie while he went to deal with the other one. But when he turned around, the other three were already almost at the fence!

The man’s eyes looked ready to pop from their sockets! In his astonishment, he subconsciously turned to look back at them!

With the car alarm still blaring, Lin Fan couldn’t hear if the man shouted anything.

But you could imagine how he felt, turning back to find that his teammates hadn’t charged in to fight alongside him at all.

How he felt when even the person he had risked his life to save had abandoned him without a second thought.

"..." Even Su Qing fell silent, merely twisting Lin Fan’s arm wordlessly.

And this was precisely why Lin Fan had found his attack so regrettable.

This man clearly had some experience fighting zombies, but not much.

If he had stabbed with that strike, he would have instantly killed one. In the remaining one-on-one, he might not have lost...

But there are no ’what ifs’ in life...

Maybe he was cursing loudly, or maybe he was too stunned to say anything, but it no longer mattered.

The other zombie, which had been lagging slightly behind, had already pounced, sinking its teeth into his neck!

Blood sprayed out like a dark fountain, showering the zombie he had knocked down.

Aroused by the scent of fresh blood, that zombie also struggled to its feet and joined the feast...

Only when he saw the man’s Life Value drop to 0 did Lin Fan lower the binoculars.

Until the moment he died, the man never swung his steel pipe again. He just reached out with his other hand, grasping behind him, grasping for the distant figures of the people who had run away.

Perhaps, even at the moment he lost consciousness, he couldn’t understand why the comrades who had promised to fight alongside him would abandon him now.

Why, when they clearly could have won, did his teammates flee for their lives without a second glance!

’Why! We had the advantage!’

Perhaps it was with such a cry in his heart that he plunged into darkness.

Su Qing sat on the sofa, leaning back. She wanted to say something, but didn’t know what.

She understood the sting of betrayal and had experienced human selfishness firsthand, so she wasn’t foolish enough to ask why.

But having witnessed it happen with her own eyes, she still felt a knot in her stomach.

"All men must die, but death can be weightier than Mount Tai or lighter than a feather."

She just felt it wasn’t worth it for that man.

For teammates like that...

"You..." she began, looking at Lin Fan, at this man she trusted, but she couldn’t bring herself to ask the question.

Because she knew that once words of doubt were spoken, they would become a deep chasm between them that could never be filled.

"Of course I wouldn’t just abandon you like that... Am I stupid? I just wouldn’t take you outside in the first place..."

Seeing her hesitate, wanting to speak but holding back, Lin Fan decided to say it for her.

Although he also felt a little uneasy, Lin Fan wasn’t as emotional as Su Qing.

In the end, the four of them didn’t all make it back, and the one who didn’t was precisely the one least adapted to this world.

As they say, survival of the fittest.

The despicable got their food, Lin Fan got his data, and the person who couldn’t adapt to this world made his exit. A bright future for everyone...

’Still just a rookie. If that guy had just attacked differently that first time, he might have won...’

Watching that bloody and brutal drama at least confirmed that there were other people in the complex. There were at least three left, right?

Other people’s business was none of his concern, as long as it didn’t affect him.

"Time to eat, time to eat."

Lin Fan called Su Qing over to eat. In his eyes, nothing was more important than restoring Life Value.

Su Qing’s Life Value had recovered to [81/100].

Lin Fan’s Life Value had also recovered to [171/190]; one more night of sleep and he would be almost fully healed.

Coincidentally, the commotion caused by these people had given Lin Fan an idea. He now had a few thoughts on how to disperse the horde of zombies downstairs.

It didn’t matter what others did. Whether there were 100 living people in the complex or 1,000, it had nothing to do with Lin Fan.

Sustaining his life and improving his strength was the only true path.

...

After eating, Lin Fan, having cleared his head, began to organize his weapons.

Unfortunately, there was nothing in this old residential building that could truly be called a weapon...

Fire axes, large crowbars—there was nothing.

After the great battle with the banshee zombie, his curtain rod spear had been swung, stabbed, and used to grapple with that snake-like long arm. It now had dents in some places and was also slightly bent.

That was the nature of hollow steel pipes. When the tube was perfectly intact, its radial load-bearing capacity was immense. But once a dent appeared, it was irreversible.

And if it took another hit, the dented area would bend very easily.

Having already experienced the bone-chopper snapping on him, Lin Fan had no desire to go through a spear-snapping incident.

Lin Fan’s requirements for a weapon were now very simple, with only two criteria:

Hard enough!

Heavy enough!