Chapter 624: Chapter 624: The Woman Who Appeared Out of Nowhere

In a vast industrial park, Lin Xiuyuan was running swiftly.

He had just seen a Multi-Element Zombie dressed in white and green clothing above the distant wall, so without saying another word, he conjured an ice ladder and headed over there. In his haste, he had even forgotten to signal his approach.

But after running through several factory zones within the extensive industrial park, he still hadn’t caught sight of the Multi-Element Zombie. Instead, on his way there, he stumbled upon some zombie corpses.

Suddenly, the sound of metal colliding with the ground came from one direction, and Lin Xiuyuan didn’t hesitate to run towards the source of the noise.

“Heh heh, I’ve found you, you’re indeed here,”

Lin Xiuyuan said, looking at the Multi-Element Zombie wandering about in the open space behind a pile of metal barrels.

This meant they had dealt with another one.

Roar!

The wandering zombie immediately noticed Lin Xiuyuan, and a barrage of ice spikes smashed toward him. Lin Xiuyuan quickly formed an ice shield but almost tripped over a cloth bag at his feet.

The pink cloth bag lay silently on the ground, looking eerily clean as if someone had just passed by and dropped it there.

However, the zombie in front of him was the most crucial matter at hand. The ice shield blocked the metal spikes, and the zombie conjured several wind blades. Lin Xiuyuan jumped out of the way, and the wind blades hit the stacked barrels behind him, creating a series of noises.

Zzzap~

Lin Xiuyuan finally managed to locate and destroy the monitoring equipment in the zombie’s eyes. He didn’t like the idea of someone using his every move for observation.

Afterward, an ice ladder appeared on the open space. Lin Xiuyuan ran up the ice ladder, and suddenly, a long ice arrow appeared in his hand. He stabbed downward from above toward the zombie’s face!

Roar!

The zombie actually blocked Lin Xiuyuan’s attack with a metal shield!

“Not bad at all, a bit more powerful than the previous ones,”

Lin Xiuyuan also felt a surge of alarm in his heart. Was it true that these zombies’ integration with the Polycrystalline Cores varied, thus variation in their powers as well?

If they were allowed to evolve, they could become a significant threat, so he had to eliminate it today!

Just as Lin Xiuyuan was about to smash his ice spikes down on the zombie, a sudden appearance of a figure in front of him almost caused his ice spikes to hit the ground.

What’s going on?!

Why was there a living… woman in front of him?!

Where did she come from?

“Get out of the way!”

Although Lin Xiuyuan was extremely shocked and puzzled by the sudden appearance of the girl, the zombie was already lunging at them!

Jiang Yixiao was pushed behind by the young man in front of her, and an ice wall suddenly materialized in front of the young man. With a bang, the zombie collided against the ice wall!

And in the next instant, the ice wall grew long, sharp spikes that pierced right through the zombie that had hit it, turning it into a hive!

So strong! So amazing!

However, aside from shock, a fleeting intent to kill also passed through Jiang Yixiao’s eyes.

He had seen her secret!

“Whew, perfectly handled~”

Lin Xiuyuan looked at the now silent hive with satisfaction. An ice knife materialized in his hand, and he skillfully extracted several Crystal Cores from the zombie’s head.

“Why, why are you here!”

Jiang Yixiao demanded fiercely.

Lin Xiuyuan couldn’t help but find it somewhat amusing to see the thin, fair little girl trying hard to appear calm and composed.

“I’m killing it. Didn’t you see it’s a Multi-Element Zombie? This is our task for today. Besides, it was clearly you who suddenly popped up in front of me, okay?”

Lin Xiuyuan recalled the girl who had appeared out of nowhere and began to wonder, could she also have a space to hide in?

If she was an Invisibility Ability User, then the zombies wouldn’t have failed to smell her, and since the zombie had been lingering here when he arrived, it implied that someone had been here before and had likely disappeared suddenly, which would explain its behavior.

“So you did see it.”

Jiang Yixiao produced a Water Arrow in her hand and watched Lin Xiuyuan warily.

Before she had come out, she had sworn that anyone who discovered her secret must die!

Lin Xiuyuan conjured Ice Spikes in his hands, not to attack the girl in front of him, but rather the zombies gathering outside the door.

Roar roar roar!

Zombies swarmed in all at once, and Lin Xiuyuan quickly assumed a battle stance; there were probably over a hundred zombies, likely attracted by the noise of the fight just now.

Jiang Yixiao panicked. She had never killed so many zombies by herself before. Although she had traveled alone all this time, whenever she encountered danger, she would hide in her own little space. Now did she have to enter her space in front of this man?!

The secret of her space would surely be exposed!

Jiang Yixiao, nervously touching the Jade Thumb Ring on her neck, watched everything unfolding before her. It was a magical item given to her by her grandfather; although it was just a tiny piece of space, it had been her life-saving asset after the apocalypse.

She had once confided this secret to the only remaining family member in the apocalypse, her half-brother from the same mother, Ning Yang.

Although Ning Yang had initially been overjoyed and promised that they would make good use of the Jade Thumb Ring to survive the apocalypse, human nature is unpredictable, and Ning Yang changed later on.

The Jade Thumb Ring was snatched away by her brother, and she was locked up, but Ning Yang found out that he couldn’t enter the small space his sister had described. At that time, Ning Yang’s girlfriend suggested that maybe he could enter the space after Jiang Yixiao died, and her dear brother, after hearing this, actually planned to kill her!

Luckily, the base later suffered attacks from a Zombie Tide and Mutated Plants, and Ning Yang and his girlfriend died as well.

She fortunately escaped and took back the Jade Thumb Ring from her now-zombified brother Ning Yang, then quickly hid inside it.

She hadn’t had the chance to tell Ning Yang that as long as she took someone with her, they could enter the Jade Thumb Ring Space…

She cried for a long time in the space and survived on the supplies stored there. Along the way, she had encountered many groups, but she chose to travel alone.

If even her closest kin, upon learning the secret of the Jade Thumb Ring, wanted to kill her, she couldn’t trust this stranger before her eyes.

Suddenly, she was forcefully pulled into a cold embrace. Lin Xiuyuan killed zombies impatiently while shouting, “What are you daydreaming about, can’t you even dodge? If you can’t handle this, just hide in your space. Otherwise, I’ll have to cover for you too!”

“…”

So, he really did know she had a space, didn’t he?

This person… still needs to be killed, Jiang Yixiao thought with a frown.

Bang!

A Metal spike, aiming straight for her forehead, was knocked away by one of his Ice Spikes.

Lin Xiuyuan quickly dealt with the last Metal Element Series Zombie and couldn’t help but curse, “So stupid!”

After he had first entered Su Jin’s Wood Spirit Space, he had asked her why they didn’t just stay comfortably inside that space forever. Now, seeing this girl who was too dumb to even dodge an attack, he felt embarrassed by his previous thoughts.