Apocalypse: The Stronghold System

Chapter 025: Leaving the Hotel

Fan Chen turned to look at the man and asked, "Are you sure? It's too fast, not half a minute. You can talk about it with your wife, we'll wait outside."

Although Fan Chen needed manpower and wanted to complete the mission, he did not want to just accept people, he wanted the person he received to really want to come without coercion. As for why he had been pushy, he simply did not want the man to fight back, and instead was injured in front of his wife and children.

Even though Fan Chen had already asked Fu Shen not to kill, Fu Shen was still professional and had high strength. If he allowed Fu Shen to continue attacking, perhaps the man was no different from those who were paralyzed in bed.

The middle-aged man was stunned, then he nodded and said, "Alright. I'm Ming Xuan, I won't be long."

Fan Chen walked out of the room, and leaned against the side wall of the door. He returned wearing Smart Glasses, observing the direction where the emergency stairs were located. "The door there can't last long."

Fan Chen turned his head to look at Fu Shen who was standing straight. "Fu Shen, come to the emergency stairs, clear all the zombies blocking the way."

Fu Shen nodded, he picked up all the weapons left outside the room. Then he left, heading for the emergency stairs.

Meanwhile, Ming Xuan was still discussing with his wife who was hugging her son and daughter.

"Are we really following them?"

Ming Xuan sighed and said, "We have no choice. If it's just me, it's probably okay not to follow them, but I have you guys, I have to live you guys well."

The wife was silent with tears in her eyes, her lips trembling. "But ..."

Ming Xuan raised his hand. "Enough, I know what you're worried about. But look at our kids, they need a safe place. Going to Wood Town? I don't know if it's still safe there, and maybe the Mayor there made the same decision as here, dumping all the citizens."

"What if they're bandits?"

Ming Xuan was speechless when she heard the question from Yan Hanyu. He himself had already guessed in that direction at first, but the moment he saw Fan Chen, he knew that. Having Fanyue Corp as a background with a large annual income, was unlikely to be a bandit.

"The son of the owner of Fanyue Corp, will he become a bandit?"

Hearing that, Yan Hanyu was stunned. He tilted his body to look at Fan Chen who was standing outside.

Yan Hanyu looked back at Ming Xuan and said, "Why didn't you say that from earlier? I'm coming!"

Ming Xuan knew it would be like this when she mentioned about Fanyue Corp. His wife, greatly admired Yun Mingyue, and was eager to meet, but to this day had never once met, even if met, only one side, where Yan Hanyu could only see from afar.

Fan Chen scanned the hologram of the hotel building, and looked at Fu Shen who kept killing zombies. The zombies came from the lower floors, for the zombies on the upper floors had already been completely cleaned up.

"Have you?" Fan Chen raised his Smart Glasses and turned his head back when he heard footsteps.

"It." Ming Xuan nodded.

Fan Chen smiled faintly, then went back wearing the Smart Glasses and went towards the emergency stairs. "We go down and go to the bank."

"Bank?" Ming Xuan frowned, she could guess why they should go to the bank, but she still asked, "For what?"

"Developing a Refuge needs resources, and money can be used to buy those resources."

Ming Xuan knew that, but he thought that currency was already useless under these circumstances. The currency had fallen during the First Disaster, let alone now in the Second Disaster, no fool would want to exchange precious resources for paper. Although confused and full of question marks, but he remained silent.

Fan Chen brought the two who were carrying Ming Yuzhao and Ming Yuyu to the emergency stairs.

When he arrived and saw what was on the stairs, Ming Xuan trembled with wide eyes. He didn't expect to find any zombie corpses piling up here, even though he had already seen them along the way, but in the corridor was nothing compared to here.

Fan Chen heard the cries of the children, but he ignored them and continued down the stairs. He didn't have to worry about the zombies on each floor because it had been cleaned up before the ride, and now only needed to clear the zombies that had climbed through the emergency stairs.

"Fu Shen is so fast, he's already on the third floor." Fan Chen turned his head back to look at Ming Xuan and said, "I go first, all the zombies have already been cleared up to the third floor. You can slow down, but don't take too long, we have to hurry."

"Crazy!" Ming Xuan shouted in admiration when he saw Fan Chen who immediately jumped up.

Fan Chen was free-falling, and he saw the figures that showed the floor on the wall starting a countdown quickly. When he saw the number four, he stretched out his hand, he felt pain in his shoulder and elbow due to the sudden force of inertia. But he still forced himself to swing, landing on the third floor behind Fu Shen.

Fan Chen took out a Healing Liquid and healed the pain in his body.

The reason why he wanted to quickly descend was not only because he wanted to help Fu Shen clean up the zombies, but also wanted to take out Conquest Knight XV secretly.

"Fu Shen, I think it should be quick."

Fu Shen nodded, but did not reply and continued shooting.

Fan Chen looked up and shouted, "You guys who are on top, hurry down, the ground floor is on fire. If it's too long, we can be roasted!"

Fu Shen turned his head to look at Fan Chen who was still at the top. "Captain, the second floor is clean. We're going down to the ground floor."

Fan Chen nodded, he went to follow Fu Shen who was still trying to clear the way. These zombies came from the second-floor corridor, and some entered from outside, even though the ground floor was on fire, but with the masses that kept coming, the fire could not burn everything.

Arriving at the emergency staircase connecting between the second floor and the first floor, Fan Chen saw a fire that was still burning with thick smoke. He could faintly see many figures within the fire walking towards the emergency stairs, but then the figures fell down.

Fan Chen directed his hand forward and took out Conquest Knight XV with the right door leading to the emergency staircase.

"Fu Shen, you take over, I want to see the state of the bank."

Fu Shen nodded, he leaped onto Conquest Knight XV and fired a streak of shots. Hundreds of ammo was spent, he changed his magazines and re-opened fire non-stop.

Fan Chen looked at the cityscape from the Penetrating View Drone that flew hundreds of meters from the ground level. "The city is completely paralyzed! Many buildings were destroyed, humans had already completely disappeared from here, all the remaining soldiers could not fight back due to lack of ammunition and died. Coupled with the arrival of the Mutant Beasts, the destruction inflicted was truly unimaginable!"

Fan Chen looked back and said, "You guys come, get in the car!"

Ming Xuan was shocked when she saw Conquest Knight XV, but she did not have time to admire the armored car in front of her.

Fan Chen opened the two doors, then he jumped into the front door and shouted, "Fu Shen! Coming in!"

The door on the left opened, and Fu Shen who was on top instantly jumped up, swinging into the car.

Fu Shen wasted no time, he turned on the car and stepped on the accelerator.

There was a slight vibration as the car drove as there were still corpses that had not completely burned down, making the hotel floor difficult for cars to pass through.

Fan Chen pressed the button already taped on the dashboard to activate the rocket-propelled grenade on top of the car.

With a thunder-like sound, the rocket-propelled grenade shot towards the glass wall, smashing it into pieces. But not stopping, Fan Chen again pressed the button to open a path that was blocked by the zombie wave.

Fan Chen fired a rocket-propelled grenade until all the ammunition was spent, then he stood still and leaned against the chair. He handed the next task to Fu Shen, he believed they could leave here as long as it could find a bank, and took all the money there.

"There's cash and gold." Fan Chen muttered. Translucent View drone has entered the bank, even found a place where the safe is stored, there is a satisfactory amount of cash. There ¥3.000.000.000. "I can buy a helicopter, and I can leave town."

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