August 1, 2025 in the desert region of the Middle East

The scorching sun relentlessly grilled the earth, and in the endless desert, the eyes were full of a vast sea of sand, the breeze rolled up the fine sand and whistled by, and the heat was visibly rising on the surface of the yellow sand. In this desert, it is the hottest season of the year, with an average temperature of nearly 50 degrees Celsius, and the surface temperature even exceeds the terrifying 70 degrees.

It's noon, and the scorching sun is raging unscrupulously on the desert, and a mirage is faintly visible in the distance in mid-air, but no one is in the mood to appreciate this wonder at this time. In the depths of this desert, known as the Land of Death, there would have been no human traces, but at this time, there were four figures wearing cloaks and driving a light all-terrain vehicle in the desert.

Ye Feiruo picked up the kettle, poured a mouthful of water into his mouth, and muttered dissatisfiedly: "Where did that damn orc go?" My aunt and grandmother came all the way here to suffer this sin, and if I found it, I would have to burn it for three days and three nights. Hum! ”

The all-terrain vehicle has six wheels, three rows of seats, and is open-topped, which is mainly due to the size of the mountain, not an open-top car that he can't sit in. The driver was Huang Lang, Ye Feiruo sat in the co-pilot's seat, Vincent sat alone in the middle row, and Dashan sat in the last row.

The scorching sun outside didn't seem to affect Vincent, he sat in the car without moving and listened to Ye Feiruo's complaints that he hadn't stopped since he entered the desert, and suddenly, he said lightly: "Check out, how far away we are from it." ”

Ye Feiruo heard Vincent's words, and finally gave up fighting with the kettle, and after clicking a few times on the car computer in front of her, two red dots slowly appeared on the monitor. She looked at the data on it and replied in a coquettish voice: "We can catch up with 120 kilometers, but the error of this radar is a bit large, and we only have a small chance of accurately appearing next to it." ”

Vincent nodded and stopped talking, perhaps understanding what Vincent meant, Huang Lang stepped on the accelerator under his feet, and the two engines of the all-terrain vehicle let out a roar at the same time, roaring into the distance.

Hundreds of kilometers away, in a position that Vincent and the others could not see with the naked eye, this was already the edge of the desert, and at this time, two Middle Eastern women in black robes were running forward quickly hand in hand. Suddenly, one of the slightly taller women tripped over the gravel on the ground and fell hard, and a slightly thin girl in front of her hurriedly turned around to help her up.

At this moment, between the ruins and broken walls not far from them, 5 or 6 zombies rushed out from behind the wall and quickly pounced in the direction of the mother and daughter. There is a clear difference between the zombies here and the zombies in China, perhaps because of the dry weather and lack of moisture, most of the zombies are relatively intact and have no signs of decay, but due to the serious dehydration, all the zombie skin is very shriveled, like a dried corpse.

The middle-aged woman who fell to the ground saw the zombies chasing after her, and hurriedly pushed the young woman away, shouting loudly: "Gria, go quickly, mom can't do it, you can't run away, you go quickly." ”

"No, I don't." Although the girl's voice was a little hoarse due to lack of moisture, it was very crisp and sweet, and I saw her pick up a wooden stick from the ground, bravely guarding her mother, quietly waiting for the zombies to approach. It's just that her slightly trembling body and the sweat that keeps overflowing from her palms betrayed the fear in her heart.

The zombie finally approached, looking at the shriveled face in front of her, the eyeballs bulging out of the eye socket, and the screaming zombie with saliva flowing from between the black and yellow teeth, Gria swung her wooden stick and slammed it at the nearest zombie. But her strength was too small, and the stick that had been exposed to the sun for a long time did not have a trace of moisture, it was too light, so the stick did not cause any damage except for deflecting the zombie's head.

Seeing that the food was in front of him but something stopped it, the zombie angrily grabbed the wooden stick and threw it to the side, and Gria was thrown out several meters away with the stick. She's just a weak woman, how can she withstand this blow? This hard fall made her fall angry, and she couldn't get up for a while. Seeing that the obstacle had been cleared, the zombies excitedly threw themselves on the middle-aged woman who was still lying on the ground, and one of the zombies bit the woman's thigh with a fierce bite.

With a "poof", the zombie's teeth bit deep into her flesh with the woman's screams, and crimson blood spurted out wildly along the wound. But the smell of blood was so luscious in the eyes of the zombie that it pulled excitedly, and a large piece of bloody muscle was torn off the woman's thigh. The gushing blood filled the wound in an instant, and as the middle-aged woman's painful struggle flowed onto the hot sand, the white bones in the deepest part of the wound could be faintly seen.

The zombies lay on the woman's body and gnawed on it, and the pieces of raw flesh they tore off the woman's body, and then chewed desperately and swallowed into their stomachs. Blood and minced flesh dripped from their mouths, staining the sand in front of them red, but the zombies became more and more excited the more they ate, and from time to time let out a muffled sound of contentment.

"Mother......" As soon as Gria got up from the ground, she saw that the 5 zombies were lying on her mother and eating excitedly, and even one zombie broke her stomach and was dragging out the large intestine in her abdomen and stuffing it into her mouth. Gria's screams attracted the attention of the zombies, who stopped eating, looked in the direction of Gria, and then sniffed carefully, perhaps smelling more delicious food, and the zombies stood up one by one and slowly walked in the direction of Gria.

"Ah......h She wanted to get up and run away, but her legs were weak and she couldn't stand up no matter how hard she tried, she couldn't help but tremble violently, and she could only crawl backwards with her hands and feet. Remembering the terrifying scene when the zombies were eating her mother just now, and then looking at the zombies that had already walked in front of her, Gria closed her eyes in despair, waiting for death to come.

However, the expected pain did not appear, only a muffled "bang" was heard, and the nearest zombie was smashed into the sand by a huge fist.