Shawn covered himself tightly very early in the morning, wore a black backpack, and then headed toward the hotel.

He found zombies around here become more on the way, and the smell of humans became stronger, too. He would rather not use the aroma which made him hungry to describe people, so he called it as the smell of humans.

Based on the smell, he was certain that lots of people had come to the hotel lately. The smell was so strong that there must have been dozens of people at least.

Hesitating for a while, he turned a corner, went to kill a couple of zombies first, collected enough crystal cores and cleaned them, and then hit the road again.

Coming to the entrance of the hotel, he caught an even stronger smell of humans. Then, he found there was an isolation zone around, and stuffs were piled up in the isolation zone to block zombies outside. And the gate of the hotel had been closed, which was left open as he left. With Ed’s physical conditions, it was impossible for him to come down from the eighteenth floor, close the gate, and then go back to his room. So it must have been done by those survivors coming to the hotel.

He sighed, and it was not easy to come inside now. He didn’t know whether Ed had been caught or he was still alive. If not, it would be a waste for him to come.

“Hey! You. What are you doing over there?”

Shawn frowned, looked toward the sound, and found a man sticking his head out of a room on the second floor and looking at Shawn.

“I lived here before.” Said Shawn. He was planning to say he was looking for someone here. On second thoughts, he put it another way. If Ed had been killed by these people and he claimed that he was looking for someone, maybe he would be treated as Ed’s companion and killed by them, too.

“Before? When?”

“Three days ago. I went out to look for food, and come back now.”

“So you know the man living in the presidential suite on the eighteenth floor?”

“We met a couple of times, but we are not acquainted with each other.”

The man retracted his head after Shawn said. After a while, he stuck his head out of the window and said, “Now one to sixteen floors of the hotel belong to us. Hand over half of your food if you wanna come inside. Otherwise, walk away.”

Immediately Shawn captured some information from what the man said.

They said one to sixteen floors belonged to them, which meant they had searched all the floors. Maybe even the seventeenth and eighteenth floors had been searched, too. However, they dare not occupy the seventeenth and eighteenth floors because of Ed.

If so, Ed should still be alive and have power to terrify them. It seemed that Ed was rather strong. Unfortunately, Shawn had turned into a zombie. Otherwise, he would have ridden Ed’s coattails.

At the moment, Shawn’s thoughts synchronized with Ed’s before. They both wanted to ride each others’ coattails.

“I’m talking to you! Hand over your food, or get the fuck out of here!”

Shawn took a glance at the man and said, “The food belongs to Ed. You dare to take it? Don’t play trick, and I have my way to contact him. He will come down immediately once I contact him.”

Shameless, the man whispered. The guy wrapped into a Chinese rice dumpling dare to deceive them! However, thinking of the man, calling himself Ed, living in the presidential suite, he shuddered, and balefully said, “Wait in the entrance, I’ll open the door for you!”

Shawn went to the gate of the hotel as what the man said. Soon, the gate was opened.

“Go upstairs now! Don’t come down!” The man said and left.

Shawn had a look around, and found the lobby was empty. However, he felt several size-up or malicious eyes. The rest people must have hidden up.

He didn’t care too much. As long as Ed was there, they dare not to touch him for the moment. Besides, he could still take them down even if they were aimed at him.

He was a zombie. If these people were not nice to him, he wouldn’t mind turning them into zombies, and then controlling them.