His scalp tingled.

The pain from the wounds on his calves and waist seemed to vanish.

When he saw the blood gushing out, trickling and dripping onto the water’s surface, he understood why the Zombies behind him had locked onto him instantly.

So he ran for his life, splashing through water that came up to his waist.

But in water, with all that resistance plus the wounds on his body, his speed really wasn’t great.

And the Zombies behind him, soaked through by the rain and now wading in the water, were actually moving even faster than he was.

.......

Still in Guangdong Province.

Guang City.

The original six‑star luxury hotel building had taken a direct hit from the typhoon.

Every pane of glass was shattered, everything inside had been blown all over the place.

Some non‑load‑bearing walls had collapsed.

Floors above thirty meters had basically been stripped to the bare frame, leaving only the load‑bearing columns and a few shear walls.

In the restroom on the top floor, Brother Dong was curled up in the bathtub under a load‑bearing wall.

The whole bathtub was fixed to the load‑bearing wall.

Brother Dong was lying on his side, not daring to let a single inch of his body stick out.

The moment he stuck his head out just now, the wind had almost ripped his head clean off.

Because the load‑bearing wall behind him blocked the typhoon, and the bathtub helped shield the remnants of the wind, as long as he didn’t poke his head out, he wouldn’t get blown away.

The howling typhoon sounded like someone scraping a steel plate with razor blades—shrill and frantic.

He clamped his hands over his ears and pressed his body down as low as he could.

The typhoon had been raging for over a dozen hours now, with no sign of weakening.

He had spent those hours in a constant state of dread, hadn’t eaten a bite, his stomach growling, hungry, exhausted and terrified.

He’d blacked out twice, and every time he came to, the sight around him scared the hell out of him all over again.

This was torture of the soul, not just the flesh.

The little underling hiding in another restroom hadn’t been so lucky.

The wind force here was insanely strong, beyond a Level‑25 typhoon.

It just so happened that the spot where the underling was hiding only had one load‑bearing wall, not nearly sturdy enough.

After he finished taking a dump, he heard the wild pounding from outside and the shrieking wind.

Clueless, he opened the door without any preparation, and in an instant, the wind took him.

He got to enjoy the fun of "flying" in the sky for a bit.

The typhoon blew him up to a height of a thousand meters, his whole body like a scrap of paper, fluttering in the wind.

From that height, his body spinning wildly, he stared at the ground getting farther and farther away.

He couldn’t help feeling confused.

"Am I dreaming?"

Back in his childhood, he’d had dreams like this.

He’d be lifted by a gust of wind and drift along.

But in those dreams, he always flew hugging the ground, he’d never gone up this high.

Whoo—

The typhoon’s impact was insanely fast, carrying him along like he was on a high‑speed train, except this train had no shell, so at that speed his body was being crushed by the pressure.

The wind’s path was bizarre: sometimes it blew him upward, sometimes in just a few seconds he’d drop to a hundred meters, then in a few more seconds he’d be flung up to several thousand meters.

A flying man in midair.

Up there he saw cars, even a tree, a whole building, a table lamp, a toilet......

That made him even more convinced he was dreaming.

After all, how could you see scenes like this in real life? And to be honest, aside from the fact that it was a bit hard to breathe, it was actually pretty fun up here.

After drifting a dozen or so kilometers in the sky—only a few minutes, really—

As he passed over a hillside, some pressure change slammed into him like a giant hand and slapped him hard toward the mountainside forest.

From two thousand meters up, he plummeted to one meter above the ground.

It only took five seconds.

He was unlucky: at the exact spot where he dropped, he smashed into a tree that the typhoon had snapped in half.

The broken tree had been sheared into a sharp spike.

Driven by the massive force of the wind plus gravity, his body was brutally impaled by that trunk as thick as a man’s head.

His consciousness went fuzzy.

In the instant his body was pierced through and slammed into the ground—

A thought suddenly flashed through his mind: This shit... this really doesn’t feel like a dream, fuck...

Unfortunately, he didn’t have time to get a single word out.

His life was gone.

.....

Big Camphor Tree Base.

Waa, waa.

A baby’s cries rang out.

Everyone on the second floor of the basement turned their heads toward the sound.

It was Li Ke’ai crying.

Li Yuan, who was holding Li Ke’ai, flushed red and quickly handed the baby to Ding Qingqing.

Ding Qingqing’s face reddened too, and she took the child into a room next door.

In this basement, water, food, and first-aid kits were all fully stocked.

There was even a screening room next door where they could watch movies.

In the hall there was a pool table, a small ping‑pong table, and on the first basement floor some gym equipment and so on.

But right now, no one was in the mood to play.

The typhoon had everyone on edge.

Watching the surveillance screen, with that typhoon rain coming down like a flood, was suffocating.

The power of nature was this terrifying.

Even floodwater didn’t move this fast.

But the typhoon’s speed was insane.

They could only watch as the trees outside Big Camphor Tree Base were destroyed.

Suddenly, Li Hang pointed at a spot in the upper right corner of the big screen.

He shouted, "Big Bro, look, what’s that?"

Li Yu, who had been spacing out, snapped his head up and looked over.

Although that camera was tucked in a gap in the wall, protected on both sides by the fence, the rain falling from above still blurred the screen so it was hard to see clearly.

On the monitor, it looked like a human‑shaped shadow was being slammed against the wall by the wind.

Right after that—

Bang bang bang bang!

A dozen human‑shaped objects were blown by the wind and smashed heavily into the middle section of the wall.

Li Yu’s heart sank the moment he saw it.

If he was right, those things were Zombies!

So on the tenth hour of the typhoon, this scene finally showed up?

"Those are Zombies—the typhoon blew them up and they’re slamming into the wall!"

Li Yu’s tone was heavy, tinged with a kind of suppressed dread.

Hiss~

Hearing Li Yu’s answer, everyone in the room sucked in a cold breath.

"Zombies!"

Of course—typhoon this fierce was bound to blow Zombies into the air.

The question was, would the Zombies get blown into the base?

That thought seemed to occur to everyone at once.

Feeling all the eyes on him, Li Yu naturally knew what they were worried about.

So he said, muffled, "I don’t know if Zombies will get blown in either! Xiao Hang, use the walkie‑talkie to contact everyone, tell the whole base about this. At the same time, send this message over the military radio to Old Bi, have him get ready in advance."

Li Hang’s hands trembled a bit at that.

He picked up the walkie‑talkie and one by one notified Old Qin, Luo, and Lao Yi in the Outer City.

Lao Yi in the Zombie Generator room in the Second Outer City.

Zhou Weiguo at the ranch.

Dapao and Yang Tianlong in the Underground Plantation.

......

Seeing Li Yuan, Father Li and the others slowly stand up and pick up their guns, Li Yu shook his head and said, "Relax, this place is even safer than the Bunker."

With that, he walked over to a corner of the second basement floor.

He pulled a remote control out from under a table.

Then he pressed the red button in the middle.

Beep—

At the stairwell to the first basement floor—

The seamless stairs suddenly sprouted a steel plate forty centimeters thick, which slowly slid out and sealed off the entire staircase.

Thud!

Once the basement was completely sealed, Li Hang, who had run down to B1 to check after hearing the noise, stared, baffled, and asked Li Yu, "Big Bro, this, this... how come I didn’t know about this?"

The rest of the family rushed up to take a look too, all equally amazed.

They’d been living here all this time, yet they’d never noticed this thing existed.

Li Yu just smiled, not answering.

He thought to himself:

You have no idea how many things you don’t know about.

He also glanced at the room that served as the screening room, then at the Meditation Room.

He’d left a lot of backup plans.

Those contingencies made sure that even if they took the worst hit imaginable, he could still get his closest family through it alive—and living comfortably.

......