Rebirth before Apocalypse: My Whole Family are Bigshots!-Chapter 262: The Great Social Death Scene

Zombie Emperor Zhang Yiming walked briskly. Although he could walk side by side with Bai Xiqin and her companion, he chose to walk ahead of them.

He was doing his best to restrain himself, but a nearly tangible aura of malice still lingered around him.

On the street, some blank-eyed zombies avoided Zombie Emperor Zhang Yiming from a distance. Despite lacking consciousness, they still trembled in fear of this Emperor.

Bai Xiqin touched the wooden box at her waist, feeling a bit uneasy.

Normally, walking down the street would mean facing snarling zombies baring their teeth at her.

That’s when she would collect Crystal Cores.

However, this arrangement worked too.

With Zhang Yiming here, Bai Xiqin felt it a bit impolite to extract Crystal Cores in his presence.

They walked two streets, and the air faintly carried the scent of gunpowder.

The path forward was clear.

Soon, they arrived at the explosion site.

In front of a small supermarket, hundreds of zombies were howling, their decayed fingers continuously pounding on the door, ready to break in at any moment.

There was a deep pit at the entrance, with black smoke still slowly drifting up.

Around the pit were the corpses of zombies. Some horribly disfigured zombies had lost arms and legs in the blast, yet still clawed relentlessly at the supermarket’s doors.

Besides the zombies’ bodies and limbs, there was a particularly prominent corpse.

His upper body was so shattered from the explosion that it was unrecognizable, though one could vaguely discern that he was dressed in a police uniform.

In his final moments, he used his insignificant strength, trying to protect the survivors inside.

But the apocalypse was too cruel.

One person’s strength alone could not change the entire world.

The supermarket’s door was made of glass, stained with black claw marks, and from outside, one could see the terrified faces inside.

The moment Bai Xiqin and the others stood at the entrance of the small supermarket, all the zombies froze in place, trembling.

They faced the supermarket, with their Emperor at their backs.

All they could do was tremble, lacking even the courage to turn around. Even as zombies, facing their Emperor, they dared not show any ferocity.

The people inside the small supermarket huddled together, trembling, expecting the zombies to break in at any moment, but witnessed an unbelievable sight.

All the zombies stood frozen, trembling in place.

"Xiao Niu?"

A surprised voice suddenly came from inside the small supermarket.

Bai Xiqin looked towards the small supermarket, feeling a slight familiarity with the voice.

Zombie Emperor Zhang Yiming frowned, his eyes full of gloom as he gazed at the small supermarket.

Seeing the zombies at the entrance trembling, Bai Xiqin hesitated.

These zombies seemed to obey Zhang Yiming, and she wondered if extracting their Crystal Cores might make Zhang Yiming feel cold-headed.

Noticing Bai Xiqin’s conflicted expression, Zombie Emperor Zhang Yiming’s lips curled slightly.

An invisible brainwave directly acted upon the zombies.

They were just low-level zombies!

The Zombie Emperor came from ten years in the future.

Thump~ thump~

All the low-level zombies instantly knelt on the ground, their knees hitting the ground with a sharp cracking sound.

Clearly, their kneecaps had shattered.

Their Emperor commanded them to leave.

But they were too afraid, kneeling directly on the ground.

Orders could not be defied.

So, some disfigured zombies knelt on the ground, anxiously crawling in another direction.

Black blood smeared on the ground, and bits of decayed flesh occasionally fell off.

Even so, they crawled outwards, trembling.

They did not dare pause for even a moment.

But they were too frightened, their kneecaps shattered, making crawling extremely difficult.

Stiff fingers couldn’t efficiently carry them away.

A minute was enough to move only fifty centimeters.

They looked rather pitiable...

"Hoo hoo..."

The low-level zombies were anxious, but didn’t dare stand up, so they crawled while softly whimpering.

It was as if they were being bullied.

Their hoarse sounds were akin to the humans’ whimpering...

A bunch of low-level zombies whimpered timidly, scrambling to crawl away as fast as they could.

It looked less like a Zombie Emperor and more like a bully picking on the weak.

Zombie Emperor Zhang Yiming: ...

A major social faux pas.

The situation had become a bit awkward. Zhang Yiming had intervened, while Bai Xiqin and Leng Yebai stood aside watching.

Zombie Emperor Zhang Yiming acted, but these zombies were too fragile. He only released a slight brainwave to have them leave, yet they acted like he had violated their ancestral graves.

Zombie Emperor Zhang Yiming gazed at the sky, his peripheral vision catching sight of Bai Xiqin. He felt his image had somewhat collapsed.

The people inside the small supermarket stared wide-eyed at the zombies kneeling on the ground, not daring to breathe.

Even though those zombies now looked like bullied kids, they had almost broken the supermarket’s door and turned everyone into food just moments ago.

Five minutes later, the hundred or so zombies finally crawled out of the vicinity of the supermarket entrance.

Bai Xiqin and the others walked over, standing at the entrance of the supermarket.

The zombies hadn’t gone far, still slowly crawling outwards, so the people inside didn’t dare open the door.

Even though those zombies seemed easily bullied, they had almost broken the supermarket door, nearly turning everyone into a meal.

"Xiao Niu, it really is you!"

A boy with glasses, scholarly in demeanor, looked at Bai Xiqin at the entrance with delight.

"Zhao Hai?" Bai Xiqin was a bit surprised.

She didn’t expect to run into an old classmate and ex-boyfriend here.

Yes, indeed, an ex-boyfriend.

Before Leng Yebai, Bai Xiqin had boyfriends.

Ahem, and not just one.

Being beautiful, Bai Xiqin often received love letters and notes from boys.

She couldn’t even manage the influx, it was too much trouble.

A student life without romance wasn’t perfect.

Among the many admirers, Bai Xiqin found boys that made her heart flutter.

And naturally, she entered into relationships.

However, Bai Xiqin wasn’t the clingy type, nor did she get too attached.

Thus, even in a relationship, it was usually just holding hands, as Bai Xiqin didn’t like physical contact with others. Holding hands was rare.

She was inclined towards a Platonic love.

In all her relationships, none lasted over a year.

...They all ended with Bai Xiqin being dumped.

"It’s been so long... how have you been?"

Zhao Hai glanced at Leng Yebai beside Bai Xiqin, his eyes dimming slightly.

He had been the one to propose the breakup, indeed, but he didn’t really want to break up. He just felt Bai Xiqin cared too little for him, wanting her to care for him more.

While others enjoyed kisses and hugs in relationships, he had only held hands twice.

...He never expected they’d really break up.

Afterwards, he considered reaching out to her.

He even had their class president, Xiao Niu’s middle school crush——Zhang Yiming, deliver a letter and gift for him.

In the end, Zhang Yiming told him Xiao Niu didn’t take it and hadn’t even glanced at it.

Zhao Hai sighed. Was the gift too small?

Did Xiao Niu find it too trivial to untie?

Even now, he didn’t know where things went wrong!

Just an offhand breakup mention led to an actual split, with no chance to win her back.

Too tragic!