Northward Journey - Revenge

Lin Chen was no longer delayed.

Use spatial teleportation directly!

When he reappeared, he was standing on a quiet street behind the hotel, filled with abandoned vehicles and roaming zombies.

He chose a direction and started running at high speed. At this moment, his heart was burning with excitement, the anticipation of finally getting his revenge.

He casually added all the goods from the large shopping malls and supermarkets along the way to his space.

Each sudden appearance and disappearance stirred up whispers and commotion among the few survivors, and some even posted images of him appearing and then losing all his supplies online, which were widely circulated.

The icy rain could not extinguish the ever-burning flame in his heart—a flame of revenge, and a resolute determination to sever ties with past nightmares.

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His goal for this trip was clear: to first go to a large-scale, modern frozen food storage center north of Guangzhou.

Fragments of memories from a past life surfaced clearly at this moment:

Heilong, whose real name is Xie Long, was just an ordinary long-haul cold chain driver before the apocalypse, ruthless and slick with the ruthlessness of the common people. On the day the blood rain fell, he was driving his truck, fully loaded with frozen goods, to this cold storage.

The mutation trapped him in this fortress built of steel and low temperature, and even more "luckily," he was drenched in the first rain of blood.

Ironically, while the vast majority of those caught in the rain turned into zombies, Xie Long survived and awakened a rare A-level speed ability.

With this divinely granted ability, he hunted down the slow-moving early-stage zombies in the perilous cold storage area and quickly gathered together more than ten workers and security guards who were also trapped. The massive amount of meat and seafood stored in the cold storage became the hard currency of the apocalypse: food.

Using food as bait and speed as leverage, his power snowballed. Xie Long was ruthless and tyrannical, quickly seizing several blocks around the frozen food warehouse as his private property, gathering a group of fearless and unscrupulous outlaws, becoming a terrifying bandit force in the North District.

In his past life, Black Dragon had repeatedly tried to recruit Lin Chen, who also possessed A-level superpowers. However, Lin Chen despised the group's vicious and unscrupulous behavior and resolutely refused. This offended Black Dragon, who considered it an act of ungratefulness and harbored resentment ever since, repeatedly hunting down and intercepting Lin Chen and his companions.

Lin Chen knew he was by no means a saint.

After struggling for five years in the apocalypse, for survival and resources, he too had the blood of many of his kind on his hands.

But he adhered to his ironclad rules: in the struggle for survival resources, life and death depended on one's own abilities; killing opponents was also a matter of course. However, he never tortured or killed for pleasure, and he would never wield his sword against ordinary people who had never offended him, especially women and children.

That went beyond the boundaries of survival competition; it was utter bestiality, the final trampling of humanity.

And the Black Dragon? It is a complete beast, a demon in human skin.

The blood debts related to his gang in his past life still fill Lin Chen with a physical aversion and rage when he thinks about them.

Young and middle-aged men: those who are strong and healthy or suspected of having superpowers are all forcibly abducted and "recruited". If they hesitate or resist even slightly, their limbs are broken and they are thrown into the zombie horde, left to watch them being devoured alive.

The old, weak, sick, and disabled were not even qualified to be cannon fodder in the eyes of the Black Dragon; they were directly fed to the zombies and then their crystal cores were taken.

Women: They suffer the darkest fate. Those with even a little beauty are "selected" by the Black Dragon and his core leaders, becoming playthings and suffering inhuman torture day and night. Those with average looks suffer an even more tragic fate, being regarded as disposable "consumables" or "prizes," given to henchmen, or even becoming "goods" in trade with other forces.

In the territory controlled by the Black Dragon, the atmosphere was utterly dark, hopeless, and crushed the last vestiges of human dignity—a veritable hell on earth.

For many who fell into his hands, death became a release.

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Time continued to move forward.

About two years after the apocalypse, the global climate changed dramatically, and sea levels rose sharply for unknown reasons, with coastal cities bearing the brunt.

Guangzhou was gradually eroded by the sea and the sea monsters that followed, making it no longer suitable for human habitation.

After two years of chaotic fighting and annexation, the remaining major forces in Guangzhou had a clear power structure.

The prevailing opinion was to migrate to the northwest inland, with the target being the Sichuan-Chongqing region, considered a strategic rear area. Its complex terrain, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and relatively abundant resources made it a place of hope for rebuilding order.

However, the black dragon once again revealed its eccentricity and ambition.

He refused to follow the mainstream to Bashu and compete with other heroes. Instead, he made a surprising decision: to lead his core followers westward, heading straight for Mingcheng near the southwestern border!

His ambition was obvious: better to be the head of a chicken than the tail of an ox! Knowing that it would be difficult to quickly dominate in the Sichuan Basin where giants were everywhere, he simply chose the Mingcheng area, where power was relatively weak and the environment was complex, in an attempt to carve out a territory and establish himself as a local emperor!

Lin Chen, Zhao Kai, and Li Qiang, in their previous lives, also ended up in Mingcheng, not by choice, but due to a melodramatic and unexpected disaster.

That was about two months before the fall of Guangzhou.

During a search for supplies, the three-person team unexpectedly rescued a young woman fleeing from pursuers in the ruins on the outskirts of the city. She was stunningly beautiful and possessed a unique charm—it was Li Ya!

Initially, Zhao Kai, seeing her stunning appearance, was overcome with passion and suggested taking action. The three of them joined forces and repelled the first wave of pursuers.

They initially thought they had simply rescued an ordinary girl from a small force. It wasn't until the scale and intensity of the second raid that they realized they had stirred up a hornet's nest!

Li Ya's true identity is actually the only son of the leader of the official shelter in Yangcheng, the "private property" of a cruel and domineering playboy! Her escape is nothing short of a slap in the face to him.

Faced with the encirclement of the elite combat team under the Second Young Master, Lin Chen and his two companions fought desperately but were outnumbered and gradually fell into a deadly situation.

In a critical moment, Li Ya, with her fierce temperament, threatened suicide, holding a dagger to her throat and using her life as a bargaining chip to carve a path to survival for Lin Chen and the other two. This is one of the reasons why Lin Chen favors her so much in this life.

For the next two months, the three fled into the area where the enemy's forces were weak—the territory of the military in the south of the city—hiding and hiding to escape the endless bounty and pursuit.

As the crisis of rising sea levels loomed, the entire city of Guangzhou descended into a final frenzy and chaotic migration. Only when the forces to which the Second Young Master belonged decided to relocate to Sichuan and Chongqing did they finally have a chance to catch their breath.

With no way forward, the three decided against going to Sichuan and Chongqing. Left with no other choice, they joined a group of scattered survivors and fled westward. Eventually, by a twist of fate, they also arrived in the territory of Ming City.

Then came the cruelest joke of fate—under the black dragon's influence, a fatal betrayal led to the team's destruction and his rebirth...

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"call--"

A biting wind, carrying blood-red rain, lashed against Lin Chen's face, pulling him back to reality from the churning memories of his past life. He stopped at the edge of the rooftop of a thirty-story building, the city's silhouette blurred and chaotic in the rain below. The iconic, massive rectangular cold storage complex in the North District was now visible on the horizon.

"Ah!!!" Lin Chen couldn't help but roar loudly, his voice shaking the surrounding area!

A chilling killing intent, like a tangible cold current, slowly condensed and settled in his eyes.

Having been reborn, possessing foresight, the Primordial Creation Pearl, and multiple top-tier superpowers... how could he possibly endure the humiliation and suffering of his past life again? How could he possibly allow an enemy like the Black Dragon to have a chance to live?

The liquidation began in this cold, frozen warehouse.

Lin Chen took a deep breath of the damp air, which smelled of rust and decay, and his figure disappeared again from the edge of the rooftop.

The next time he flashes, he will cut straight into the depths of that seemingly silent but actually bloody and sinful steel jungle, like a sharp blade.