I’m A Wasteland Giant

Chapter 37: Xing Yuan Tower

Xing Yuan County was a part of Nan Yuan City, and because of its proximity to the capital city, the resident population of this county was very small.

The most prosperous area was a street that ran north and south. The tallest building on this street was a twelve-story hotel called Xing Yuan Tower. Apparently, the number of locals couldn’t fill up the many rooms, so the hotel used only the bottom six floors as rooms, while the seventh floor was an internet cafe, the eighth floor a gym, and ninth to twelfth floors rented to companies for offices in a different layout.

At that moment, the first and second floors of the fire escape in the hotel were blocked by a mountain of tables and chairs, as well as locked from the outside.

This was done by the people who didn’t leave the building in time the day before!

After the news blew up the day before, not everyone went home. There was a company upstairs that was completely unaware of what happened. The company was pretty strange as well, where they would collect the cell phones of every employee in the morning and only return them at the end of the day. The boss said that the purpose of doing so was to prevent employees from skiving from work. As a result, a group of employees and their boss were locked in the building.

In addition to the employees of this company, there were several other people stranded in the internet cafe on the seventh floor.

A ludicrous scene happened yesterday.

“Run, the end is near!”

“Attack the tower! Attack the tower!”

“Run! The world is coming to an end!”

“Got it. Brothers, jump the airfield!”

“Big Brother Dog, are you not gonna run too?”

“Where can I run to? Don’t leave! Play the game with me!”

Just like that, a group of internet-addicted teenagers and a few hooligans stayed behind in the cafe.

Unlike yesterday, when the place was in full swing, the internet cafe was somewhat dead today.

Four skinny boys sat in a corner of the cafe, and they were the same internet addicts who stayed behind to play games the day before.

At the bar, three hooligans sat at the computer table with cigarettes in their mouths, puffing hard.

Not far behind them, in a vacant space next to a messy pile of tables and chairs, a pale and lifeless female corpse lay there, exuding a rotten smell.

She was the young receptionist of the front desk of this internet cafe, and didn’t leave here yesterday for some reason and had already turned into a corpse.

“Big Brother Dog, is it really okay? There has been no movement downstairs for a long time…” A man with a dragon tattooed on his arm looked at the man with a look of apprehension.

“Yeah, is doomsday over? Will the police come after us?” Another hooligan added hastily.

Big Brother Dog glared at them fiercely. With a grimace, he stretched out both hands and slapped the two lackeys on the head.

“Damn it. You didn’t think of the police just now but now you do?”

After he said that, he took a strong puff of smoke and added: “When the night comes, throw this corpse down!”

He was a little worried that doomsday had ended and afraid that the police would look for them after everything returned to normal.

“So, what about those guys…”

The tattooed man pointed to the four skinny boys squatting in the corner of the internet cafe, and used his hand to make a gesture at his neck.

Big Brother Dog’s eyes turned cold. He exhaled a few sharp breaths and his bloodshot eyes regained their calmness. He shook his head, saying: “Don’t need to hurry. We’ll decide at night!”

At the same time, some sounds were suddenly heard from the stairwell outside the internet cafe.

Big Brother Dog and his two men stopped at once. They lifted their respective machetes and quietly edged toward the door.

Thump, thump, thump…

Even though the footsteps were soft, it could still be heard very clearly from the inside.

The footsteps belong to a human!

The three men immediately sighed with relief.

At the same time, they tightened their grip on their machetes and fixed their gaze on the glass door of the internet cafe.

After listening for a while, the sound of footsteps from upstairs got increasingly closer.

Soon, the footsteps stopped on the seventh floor. The owner of the footsteps took two more steps ahead, as if he saw the lights from inside the internet cafe, leaning on the glass door and peeping stealthily.

After looking for a few seconds and not finding anything unusual, the man behind the glass pushed the door open.

“Don’t move!”

Just as he walked in, a knife was placed across his neck, and three men showed up around him.

“I’m a human! I’m a human! Don’t hurt me!”

The man at the door, dressed in a suit and had a greasy hairstyle, was bewildered by the sudden appearance of the knife and hurriedly explained.

Seeing that the visitor was a wimp, Big Brother Dog sighed with relief and pulled him in with one hand, saying viciously: “I know you’re a human. Now, tell me where you came from!”

The man in the suit quickly explained: “I’m an employee of the company on the twelfth floor. I came down to find some food…”

“Twelfth floor? You guys didn’t leave yesterday?”

“No, our cell phones are usually locked away by the boss in the morning. We only heard about the news after work and it was already too late!”

“How many of you are there?”

Hearing that there are other people in the building, Big Brother Dog immediately tensed up. However, at the thought of his awakened supernatural power, he was quickly relieved.

“There’s 16 of us in total, including our boss…”

“Is there a woman?” At that moment, the tattooed man interjected.

“Damn you!”

Big Brother Dog raised his hand and made a face like he was going to hit him.

The scared tattooed man immediately shrunk. Big Brother Dog eventually didn’t land a blow, but shifted his gaze back to the man in the suit and waited for his answer.

The man in the suit already had a bad feeling at that point. He squirmed and said with a shaky voice: “Yes, we have five female colleagues up there… No, there’s six of them, including a cleaning lady!”

“Are you f*cking kidding me? What rich company are you working for, that can afford to hire a cleaning lady?” Big Brother Dog lifted his stout arm and slapped the man in the suit.

The man in the suit stumbled. He ignored the red, burning swell on his cheek and hurriedly explained: “No, the cleaning lady works for the gym on the eighth floor. She doesn’t have a cell phone either. Yesterday we bumped into her on the first floor and went up to the twelfth floor together…”

After some explanation, Big Brother Dog and his gang learned that these people had only heard about the devastating news after ending work and when the sun was about to set. However, it was too late for them to leave, so eventually they went to the first floor to block the stairway and took the elevator back up.

Big Brother Dog was taken aback, and once again his face grimaced: “You trying to trick me?! Since the stairway is blocked, how did you guys manage to get back up…”

“We blocked the stairway on the first floor and took the elevator on the second floor to go up…”

“Then why didn’t you block the elevator too?”

Upon seeing that the three hooligans weren’t to be trifled with, but were rather unintelligent, the man in the suit patiently explained: “We have researched that the insects have long bodies, so they can’t board the elevator up. Besides, we’ve also blocked the elevator door on the twelfth floor to ensure that the elevator can’t go down either… Uh, anyway, the elevator has already broken down!”

“What kind of a company are you working for?”

“A customer service center for cylinders…”

Big Brother Dog snuffled and said: “Bring us up there to take a look!”

Saying that, he turned around again to the four internet-addicted teenagers squatting in the corner together and yelled: “The four of you, come with us!”

Soon after, a group of eight people walked up the stairs toward the twelfth floor.