Chapter 42 - 38: Judge by Actions, Not Intentions

Chapter 42: Chapter 38: Judge by Actions, Not Intentions

"Come on, come on! You think you’ve won? HAHAHAHA~ Do you have any idea how long I’ve trained for this day?"

Lin Xiaojun, who had been farthest from the blast, had immediately retreated a few steps. He hadn’t sustained any critical injuries and still retained most of his fighting strength.

Liangzi, on the other hand, had been completely oblivious when the bomb detonated behind him. He was thrown by the blast and severely injured.

Yu Dong remained silent, advancing on Lin Xiaojun with his spear in hand, his eyes filled with killing intent.

BANG! BANG!

BANG! BANG!

The zombies upstairs were still relentlessly pounding on the glass, making the long-silent complex as raucous as the Roman Colosseum.

Yu Dong thrust his spear!

Lin Xiaojun dodged and swung his baseball bat at Yu Dong, but the distance was too great; the bat didn’t even touch him.

Yu Dong retracted the spear and thrust again!

Lin Xiaojun scrambled to dodge, then seized an opening to lunge at Yu Dong again, only to be met by the point of the retracted spear. He had no choice but to back away once more.

After several exchanges, Lin Xiaojun was panting for breath without having even touched Yu Dong. His injuries were making his condition even worse.

Yu Dong, in contrast, was simply repeating the motions of thrusting and retracting his spear, his stamina still in peak condition.

An inch of length is an inch of strength. The difference between their weapons was too great!

Yu Dong thrust again with cold precision.

Steeling himself, Lin Xiaojun hurled his baseball bat like a projectile, knocking the spear aside. He then pounced on Yu Dong like a hungry tiger on its prey.

After tackling him to the ground, he whipped a folding knife out of his pocket and stabbed at Yu Dong’s waist!

Yu Dong grabbed the folding knife.

The blade scraped against his stab-proof glove, but the steel wires inside held firm, leaving Yu Dong completely unharmed.

The two began to wrestle, struggling for control of the knife.

Lin Xiaojun sneered.

"Do you have any idea how many years I’ve trained my arms? Do you know how strong I am? Do you know I can smash a zombie’s head open with a single swing? You want to test your strength against mine?"

Yu Dong squeezed the folding knife hard, slowly prying it from Lin Xiaojun’s hand.

Yu Dong’s terrifying strength completely shattered the power that Lin Xiaojun was so proud of.

"Why! How long have you been training? How much can you lift?"

"I’ve never trained. The weight I lift is life itself."

With a final burst of strength, Yu Dong wrenched the knife free and plunged it into Lin Xiaojun’s neck.

SQUELCH!

He yanked the folding knife out, and a spray of blood splattered across his helmet.

Lin Xiaojun could no longer speak the rest of his words as blood gushed from his neck.

His life gradually faded away.

’He still had so much to say to Yu Dong. He was supposed to stand before him as the victor, to tell him that even a Reincarnator was no match for him. He was supposed to wring every last secret from him and become the king of this new world!’

His life flashed before his eyes. Lin Xiaojun was dead.

Yu Dong turned his gaze to the heavily injured Liang Mian.

Liangzi had already crawled out from the pile of zombie corpses. He had just witnessed Yu Dong kill Lin Xiaojun with his own hands and was now scared out of his mind.

Groveling on the ground, he said, trembling:

"Bro-Brother Dong, I never meant to harm you. It was Lin Xiaojun... Lin Xiaojun forced me to do it."

"That day... that day Lin Xiaojun made me trick you into opening your door... I really wanted to leave him and join your team. I didn’t want to do it, I really didn’t. But you wouldn’t take me in, you didn’t want me... I had no choice but to stay with him."

"The woman in Building Three, she jumped on her own! I didn’t force her. I just wanted to have some fun... just a little fun. I was a virgin. I’d never been with a woman. I was sexually frustrated, I had no self-esteem, I was a nobody! I just wanted... to feel like a man."

"Brother Dong, I never wanted to hurt you. I really thought of you as a friend, I swear!"

"Spare me! I’ll only listen to you from now on. Tell me to kill someone, I’ll kill them. Tell me to save someone, I’ll save them. I’ll do whatever you say, anything at all!"

Liangzi looked as if he wanted to rip his heart out of his chest to prove his sincerity to Yu Dong.

Yu Dong just shook his head faintly.

"It doesn’t matter anymore, Liangzi. None of it matters... Zhou and Ye Ye are dead. I no longer have the heart to tell right from wrong."

"A person is judged by their actions, not their intentions. You have to take responsibility for what you’ve done."

"If you have a next life, try to be a good person."

SQUELCH!

Yu Dong drove his spear through Liangzi’s head, pinning him to the ground.

After the deadly fight, Yu Dong sank wearily to the ground and looked up at the third floor.

For a moment, it was as if he could see Liu Ye’ye with her drone and Zhou with his detonator, both smiling at him.

Zhao Yun was slumped on the ground, numb. She had just watched Yu Dong cut down three people as if they were nothing.

The collapse of her beliefs was more devastating than when the three of them had had their way with her.

CRASH!!!!

The glass on the upper floors shattered, sending countless shards raining down.

Immediately after, the zombies that had been trapped inside began to pour out of the windows, crashing to the ground. They scrambled up in contorted poses and rushed toward the smell of blood!

CLANG!

The steel bars blocking the underground garage of Building Three were smashed open, and countless zombies poured out from within, a black torrent erupting from the building!

"Damn it!"

Seeing this, Yu Dong mustered the last of his strength and ran for Building One.

But the massive pile of zombie corpses in front of the building was like a quagmire, slowing his return to Building One. By the time he reached the main gate and tried to refasten the chain, the zombies were already upon him.

RUMBLE~

The massive tide of corpses overwhelmed him.

...

...

Hot and noisy.

THUMP-THUMP~ THUMP-THUMP~ THUMP-THUMP~

The powerful beat, like a bolt of lightning splitting the night sky, instantly shattered the chaos in front of Yu Dong’s eyes.

"GASP! GASP! GASP!"

Yu Dong shot up from his chair!

He opened his eyes. He was at the Yanhai University freshmen orientation party.

"Here, Dongzi."

Huang Zhiqiang, who was next to him, handed him an ice-cold bottle of mineral water.

"Have a drink. Look at you, you’re drenched in sweat. What kind of intense dream were you having?"