Chapter 9: At the Crisis

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

Not far from Bai Yunyou’s shop,

Lu Linyan and Ling Xuanwei turned right and entered an alley by the roadside. The zombie following behind them rushed in to avoid losing them. How could it have thought that the ever-changing and cunning humans would hide at the entrance to ambush it?

“Ha!” Lu Linyan shouted from the side. He pulled out the long saber on his waist and jumped up. The long saber was imbued with fire as it slashed at the zombie’s head.

The zombie quickly dodged to the side, but Ling Xuanwei had already made preparations. She activated her mental power and controlled the zombie’s movements with her telekinesis. The zombie felt a fatal fear from the attack that rushed towards it. Its instincts told it that if it could not dodge, it would definitely die.

In its fear, it could only struggle desperately. Just as the blade was about to land on its head, the psychic shackles were broken by it. However, even so, it still lost its leg, which is most important to a Speed-type zombie.

The short legs landed on the ground, and green mucus splattered. The already dense smell of decay instantly multiplied several times, and the flames on the blade almost burned half of the zombie’s body.

Without a doubt, with such an injury, even if he did not die now, he would be eliminated sooner or later in the competition.

It roared in grief and indignation. It stretched out its tongue and wrapped it around the street lamp by the road. It retracted its tongue and dragged its body to escape.

Ling Xuanwei heaved a sigh of relief, but then she looked vexed. “I’m sorry, I didn’t control it.”

She was only Level 3 now, and her strength was still too weak. If she had been at that time, that Strength-type zombie would not have been able to move a single step. Ling Xuanwei closed her eyes tightly and clenched her fists.

“It’s alright. You’ve already done your best. Besides, we didn’t fail,” Lu Linyan comforted.

After all, at the very least, the Speed-type one would not be able to follow them anymore, and the Strength-type one would not be able to track them at all.

Perhaps it was because of his bad luck, the ground trembled slightly, and the roar that belonged to the zombies did not mean that the Strength-type creature had already caught up.

Lu Linyan had just leveled up to Level 4 not long ago. In terms of level, he was already lower than the Level 4, almost-Level 5 zombie, and his Earth-type abilities countered fire power to a certain extent. At that time, he didn’t dare to fight it head-on when he was at full power, let alone now, when he didn’t have much power left.

“Let’s go. Let’s hurry up now. We’ll be out of danger if we escape for a distance.”

Lu Linyan pulled Ling Xuanwei and ran out of the dead end.

“Ok.”

Unexpectedly, the Strength-type zombie was already very close. As soon as the two of them came out of the alley, its figure was immediately exposed to their vision. It immediately raised its iron rod and smashed at them, but it was blocked by the trees beside it.

With a bang, the tree fell to the ground.

“Run!”

In the shop.

Boom—

Another loud bang came from outside.

Yun You narrowed her eyes. What’s going on? It can’t be thunder again, right? She went out to take a look. With this thought in mind, she carried the fruit tea that had just been completed and left the kitchen.

“Meow,” Big Orange said, and followed.

At this moment, on the second floor, because Han Qichuan was injured and had just detoxified the poison, he was a little weak. After eating the bread Yun You brought up, he fell asleep again, not affected by the commotion outside at all.

Yun You placed the prepared fruit tea at the front desk. According to the general direction of the previous sound, she walked towards the glass wall in confusion and looked out. If she didn’t look, she wouldn’t know. She was shocked.

A huge creature that looked to be nearly three meters tall was knocking around with an iron rod in its hand. There was a fallen roadside tree behind it. From the traces, it was undoubtedly broken by it with a steel rod.

Although Yun You knew that zombies could not approach the shop, she could not help but feel her heart palpitate when she saw such destructive power.

Although she was immune to abilities and zombie viruses, she was not particularly afraid of zombies from the bottom of her heart. For someone living in the danger of this apocalyptic plane, she was confident.

However, that was before today. The shop was very safe, and the system’s credibility was guaranteed. However, it was impossible for her not to go out, such as the Prism Fruit mission mentioned by the system.

With the level of destruction of the zombie outside, even ten of her might not be enough to be hammered by it.

“This won’t do. I have to recruit a bodyguard in the future. He has to be trustworthy and strong,” Yun You muttered to herself.

Suddenly, a figure flashed across her mind. Han Qichuan, I wonder if it will work? Forget it, I’ll think about it later!

Yun You focused her attention on the outside again. Only then did she see clearly that there was a man and a woman running in front of the giant zombie. The clothes and camouflage on them should be able to confirm that they were from a base.

Yun You was a little worried just now, but when she saw the fire in the man’s hand, she felt relieved. It turned out that he was an ability user, and the giant zombie couldn’t catch up to them. She was worried for nothing.

Big Orange was also on the sofa, licking its fur. It was only interested after taking a look.

In its words, why were these ugly fellows looking at it? Wasn’t my dried fish delicious?

However, after a while, Yun You’s voice rose to a higher pitch, and her eyes were filled with shock.

“I-Big Orange, why didn’t you say that zombies can have abilities too?”

Big Orange was so frightened that its entire body trembled. It glanced at Yun You resentfully and continued to lick its fur. In the end, it looked at Yun You helplessly and said, “Meow, I thought this kind of general knowledge was on file. Moreover, this has nothing to do with you, since it’s useless against you.”

“…”

Outside.

The giant zombie was completely provoked by the two of them. It condensed its Earth power and extinguished the fire on its body. Then, it condensed obstacles in front of the two of them.

Although the two of them were in a sorry state, they still barely dodged it.

“Can you still hold on? We’re about to leave the range of its ability. I plan to use all my ability to blur its vision. Then, we’ll make the final sprint and rush out,” Lu Linyan said to Ling Xuanwei beside him.

“Alright, I can hold on. I’ll try my best to move and reduce the mud barrier in front.” Ling Xuanwei nodded in response.

“I’ll count to three, two, one.”

“Three, two, one!”

Lu Linyan turned around. A terrifying wall of fire formed in front of him and flew towards the zombies. The high temperature flames distorted the air and disrupted his vision. At the same time, it could block the zombies’ footsteps.

However, not long after, under the cover of the soil, the flames were extinguished. However, because of the hot air, the dried soil was swept into the air, forming a dust barrier.

Hearing the angry roars of the zombies behind him, Lu Linyan’s lips curled up slightly. It seemed that he had succeeded.

Boom, crack—

Lu Linyan looked back strangely. The ground had cracked. There was no doubt that this was the ability of the Earth-type zombie. It seemed like it had just learnt the skill. Were they so unlucky?

“I have to get out of its range quickly. I should be more than ten meters away!”

However, the speed of the crack was too fast.

“It’s too late.” Ling Xuanwei was in despair.

It was too late. Could it be that her rebirth had ended just like that? She had only done a little of what she had planned to do. She was unwilling, but it seemed that this was the only way.

Ling Xuanwei used her last special power and used her Psychic power to push Lu Linyan out of the range of the zombie’s ability.

“Ling Xuanwei!!” Lu Linyan shouted anxiously.

Ling Xuanwei staggered and fell to the ground. The corners of her eyes were a little red. She closed her eyes and thought to herself, Goodbye, Captain.

Desperately, she waited for the crack to swallow her.

Ling Xuanwei lay on the ground and waited to fall. Time passed minute by minute, but the crack actually stopped half a meter away from Ling Xuanwei.