Pregnant During An Apocalypse [BL]

Chapter 309: Chapter 310 – The Shadow in the Sky

Yunfeng moved like a predator loosed from its cage, silent and sharp-eyed, his steps barely cracking the earth beneath him. His chest rose and fell with a controlled rhythm, every breath carrying both his fury and his purpose. He followed the faint imprints left behind by the infiltrating agent, the one who had dared to sneak into their lives, who had come close—too close—to harming the fragile family he was building.

The trail wound outward from the ruined house, away from the remnants of the fog Hana had conjured, past crumpled drones and abandoned weapons. Yunfeng’s sharp senses picked up more than footprints: broken blades of grass, small dents in the soil, the faint stench of gun oil. The scent of an outsider lingered on the wind, acrid and wrong.

A guttural shriek snapped his focus forward.

Shadows staggered across the path—low-grade zombies, twisted remnants of the outbreak, their milky eyes snapping toward him. One lurched forward, drooling thick ropes of saliva, clawed hands swiping at the air.

Yunfeng didn’t even flinch.

His gaze slid to the side, where a snapped length of wood jutted out of the earth, and with one swift motion he tore it free. The zombie lunged. Yunfeng sidestepped, driving the jagged end into its skull. Bone cracked; the creature dropped like a puppet with cut strings.

Another rushed him, shrieking. Yunfeng’s grip tightened, the veins in his arm tensing, and with a fluid spin he swung the wood like a hammer, splitting its head in a sickening crunch. Two more crawled from the shadows, but their sluggish movements were no match for the precision of his rage. One by one, they fell—silent, motionless, no longer an obstacle.

Wiping the blood-slick wood against the dirt, Yunfeng’s jaw tightened. These aren’t the real enemies. They’re just leftovers, scraps tossed into this cursed city. His heart thudded harder. The real threat was ahead.

The base loomed near a lake, the black water reflecting faint glimmers of moonlight. But by the time Yunfeng emerged from the treeline, chest heaving, he knew he was late.

Engines roared overhead.

Choppers rose into the night sky in quick succession, their blades beating the air into a storm. Cargo crates dangled beneath some, soldiers clung to the rails of others, rifles glinting under the floodlights. They were leaving, abandoning the compound after tearing through his peace. Yunfeng’s teeth ground together as his eyes darted from one helicopter to the next—searching.

Then he felt it.

Not sight, not sound—a presence.

His gaze snapped upward, locking onto the shadow seated inside the largest chopper. The man wasn’t moving, wasn’t shouting orders or holding weapons like the others. He simply sat, half-hidden in the cabin’s darkness, his form carved in stillness. But from that stillness radiated something suffocating.

A gaze. Cold. Piercing.

It cut through the whirling fog, the distance, the chaos of retreating soldiers. It speared Yunfeng straight in the chest, rooting him in place. He felt exposed, as if every secret, every weakness, every scar in his soul had just been unraveled by those unseen eyes.

The breath shuddered out of him. It’s him.

This was no ordinary commander, no disposable agent. This man was the architect—the one orchestrating the nightmare around them. A threat not just to Yunfeng’s survival, but to the fragile family he had vowed to protect.

Yunfeng’s hand trembled—not with fear, but with unchained fury.

His hair, pale as snow under moonlight, rippled in the wind kicked up by the choppers. His eyes—shards of blue and green light—blazed as the void within him stirred. Power crackled down his spine, a storm surging to his fingertips.

He seized a half-destroyed car nearby with nothing but his will. Metal groaned, wheels scraped against the cracked pavement as the vehicle rose into the air, suspended like a toy in invisible hands. Yunfeng’s arm whipped forward, his eyes glowing brighter, and the car shot toward the fleeing chopper like a meteor.

The night split with the sound of screaming steel and the deafening whoosh of displaced air.

For one impossible second, he thought it would strike true.

But no.

The distance was too great. The timing—just off. The car arced short, slamming into the dirt beneath the retreating aircraft.

A violent explosion ripped the ground open. Fire and ash belched skyward, painting the lake’s reflection in a veil of burning orange. The heat scorched Yunfeng’s skin, the blast wave shoving him back several steps until his heels dug into the earth.

Through the flames, his eyes strained, desperate.

There.

In the flickering firelight, the man in the chopper shifted just enough for Yunfeng to see his face. Not fully—just the edge of it. A thin mouth curved upward. A smile.

It was not a grin of triumph, nor mockery. It was worse—an acknowledgment. A predator recognizing another predator.

Yunfeng’s chest twisted, rage and helplessness colliding like thunder. He reached again for his power, but the chopper was already ascending higher, swallowed by smoke and night.

The beating of the rotors faded into the distance. The smile lingered in his mind.

He stood there amidst the embers, chest heaving, wood staff splintered in his fist, every fiber of his being screaming at the unfairness of it. He had faced zombies, soldiers, death itself, but that man—the man in the shadows—felt like a threat beyond all of it.

And Yunfeng knew one thing with bone-deep certainty:

The game had changed.

The enemy had seen him, marked him, and would not forget him.

Yunfeng felt the heat of the explosion in his bones long after the smoke cleared. The chopper had gone, the man in the shadow had smiled and vanished into the night, and for one hollow second Yunfeng’s body had been all ache and failure. Then the ache turned into a hard, clean kind of anger — the kind that sharpened his senses and steadied his hands.

He pushed through it. He could not let the anger swallow him; he had to make it into something practical. He had to be ready. He had to take that man down before he could hurt any of them again.