Trembling At A High Altitude

The main entrance of the building was ajar.

Li Teng, bending over, carefully made his way inside.

Several corpses lay against the wall; although their blood had coagulated, they appeared to have died not too long ago on first inspection.

The hands of the corpses were tied behind their backs, their heads blown open, with traces of blood on the walls.

It looked like they had been executed.

Was it the NPCs from the rival faction, the Black Dragon Association, who had killed them?

After searching the bodies, he found only a dagger on one of them; the rest had nothing useful.

Once sure there were no living people on the first floor, Li Teng gestured for Liu Hui to come inside, and the two of them searched the ground floor as quietly as possible.

No guns, no ammunition, no food, nothing at all.

It felt as if it had been ransacked by someone.

Only in one corner did they find a flashlight without batteries.

Li Teng then went upstairs.

A corpse with a dagger in its back lay face down on the floor; the body also had a head injury, and the nearby floor was covered in blood, some of which had not yet clotted.

Li Teng approached and pulled the dagger out.

At that moment, the corpse let out a groan of pain, but it didn't sound like the groans of zombies.

Li Teng, fully on guard, turned the body over.

The 'corpse' barely opened its eyes, and at the same time, Li Teng received a plot prompt.

"They... they defected... taking... all the weapons... supplies... defected..." the man spoke a few words to Li Teng before he completely bit the dust.

After confirming there were no other living people on the second floor, Li Teng called up Liu Hui and handed her a dagger.

The so-called plot was all clear now.

It was about providing them, the two actors, with an initial dagger each, maintaining some semblance of balance in the most extreme sense of the plot.

The other side had sniper rifles, assault rifles, shotguns, even rocket launchers, armed to the teeth, but all they got was this little dagger.

"Are you confident about completing the mission?" After taking the dagger, Liu Hui finally took the initiative to discuss the plot with Li Teng for the first time.

"As long as you don't drag me down," Li Teng replied to Liu Hui, then climbed onto the rooftop, hiding his body as he looked around.

The snow hadn't stopped, and any tracks on the ground were quickly buried by the falling snow, leaving little to discern.

Li Teng went back inside the building.

The two had been walking in the snowy field for over three hours since leaving the camp.

In the icy snow fields, physical energy was drained considerably, but the outpost had no food.

No fuel to keep warm, either.

The director and the screenwriter clearly intended to wear them down alive.

Li Teng carefully examined the map and decided to take a chance on the next cluster of buildings.

Along the way or at the next cluster, they should be able to find food; otherwise, the script would be a death warrant—prey unable to survive no matter what methods they tried could not pass the automatic review of Film and Television City.

"We have just over two hours until dark. We must reach this area before nightfall, or else camping out at night would mean freezing to death," Li Teng laid out the map and shared his next plan with Liu Hui.

"Mm." Liu Hui raised no objections.

'Bang!'

Just then, a few hundred meters away, an explosion suddenly sounded.

It seemed as if there were faint screams, but it was hard to make out.

It appeared that someone had detonated a grenade or something similar.

"Damn!"

Li Teng cursed loudly and hastily climbed back onto the rooftop.

Sure enough, the blast awakened all the zombies buried in the snow on the approaching mountain road, as well as on the mountain road they were about to take.

After waking up, the zombies staggered toward the direction of the explosion for a while, then lost their target and began to wander aimlessly through the snow.

Outside the outpost, there were now at least a dozen zombies wandering about.

At this point, whether Li Teng and Liu Hui moved forward or backward, they would face dozens, even hundreds of awake zombies roaming the mountain roads.

In such a situation, they dared not leave the outpost.

To step outside was to face the possibility of being attacked by a dozen or even more zombies.

"It's all on purpose!" Liu Hui trembled with anger.

With a plot design like this, let alone the six hunters, they simply had no way to escape from this zombie-surrounded outpost!

The script was designed from the start to be a trap to kill them, nothing else.

Li Teng glanced at the eastern sky.

Dark clouds were overhead, and a violent snowstorm was slowly moving in their direction with the wind.

"Follow me, we must break out before it gets dark." Li Teng's face was ashen, but he had no other choice.

"Are we... going to leave the outpost?" Liu Hui's expression was one of despair.

Standing on the rooftop and looking around, the outpost was almost the only safe place left and could also provide shelter from the impending blizzard.

"This is a trap in the plot, if we don't leave now, once the blizzard hits, we'll never be able to leave and will end up freezing or starving to death here." Li Teng saw through the malicious trap from the weather changes and environmental setup.

The director and screenwriter combined the plot with weapon supply, the explosion a few hundred meters away, and the upcoming blizzard to create this nearly fatal trap, but they could also say they left a way out for the prey, which was to hurry and leave before the blizzard arrived.

If they didn't leave, then it was the actor's problem, dying would be in vain.

"How do we leave? Go downstairs to find death?" Liu Hui looked at the dozen or so zombies outside the outpost, on the verge of emotional collapse.

"If you want to survive, follow me closely and stop talking! If you stray too far from me, I won't be able to look after you." Li Teng said a few words to Liu Hui, then turned and walked down the stairs with his knife in hand.

If she were not Liu Yin's sister, he wouldn't even bother with her; by her attitude earlier, he would have left her behind while climbing the slope.

Liu Hui had no choice but to follow Li Teng down the stairs, wanting to see how he, now without any cheats, would have any good solutions to this situation.

If he really could survive and break through the zombie horde without relying on cheats, Liu Hui decided she would no longer hold prejudice against him and would treat him as she would a regular companion.

Outpost side, a dozen zombies roamed around, then, the fighting noise could attract even more zombies. Judging from the nearby hordes, dozens or hundreds were possible. Racking her brains, Liu Hui could not come up with a better solution to this difficult problem, to escape this predicament.

The two reached the ground floor.

To Liu Hui's surprise, Li Teng did not prepare to utilize the terrain and buildings for tactical kills of the zombies one by one.

After he pushed open the main door of the outpost, with the knife in a reverse grip, he charged directly toward the zombie crowd!