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Ning Su lay on the ground in a daze for a moment, still not reacting, when he heard someone shout, “Run!”
The Vampire ran first.
Similarly fanned out by Jia Chensheng’s fan, Guo Xiao, like Ning Su, was momentarily dazed, seemingly not understanding why they needed to run.
As soon as he stood up, a fireball hit him, immediately engulfing him in flames.
A group of people rushed into the supermarket, all raising their weapons towards him.
He wasn’t entirely dumb; he immediately understood what was happening, cursed, and jumped out of the window to run away.
Ning Su, who had been knocked to the ground by Jia Chensheng’s fan, got up in a daze, reacted in a second, and also jumped out of the window to follow.
Two children, one holding a long string of lollipops and the other carrying a box of sausages, ran after him and quickly disappeared.
Guo Xiao, engulfed in flames, was running frantically while emitting a piercing scream.
He was making noise to attract zombies to stop Jia Chensheng and his group’s pursuit, but he was also genuinely in excruciating pain.
Fortunately, there was a lake not far ahead, and he leapt into it.
Ning Su looked back; zombies had already been drawn over, forming a large, dark mass, and the human faction players hadn’t caught up.
He threw a set of clothes he had just taken from the supermarket to Guo Xiao in the lake, stood in front of his daughter, and asked him, “Are you okay?”
“Thanks,” Guo Xiao said, his face twisted in pain. He was severely burned all over and now soaking in water, what he’s feeling could easily be imagined.
Pretending not to understand, Ning Su asked, “What’s going on?”
Guo Xiao said, “We are zombie faction players. The zombies here don’t attack us; they attack human faction players. Similarly, the humans here don’t attack human faction players; they attack us zombie faction players.”
With an ugly expression, he added, “That group just now should have been a human squad.”
Ning Su nodded. “Ah, I’m getting scared again.”
He looked towards his thigh.
Guo Xiao glanced at the chaos there, “We need to go quickly, find the Vampire.”
Ning Su readily agreed, as Shi Tianzhu had asked him to keep an eye on the Vampire, “Okay.”
He said, “I saw the Vampire heading in another direction.”
Guo Xiao smiled, trusting Ning Su even more. “I saw it too.”
He had run in this direction because there was a lake here.
He looked towards the increasing chaos, surprised by the growing number of participants and the expanding range.
Guo Xiao said irritably, “If I weren’t injured, there wouldn’t be a need to find the Vampire; this would be such a great opportunity to collect heads.”
Many members of the Yongming Guild love killing players during competitions. Besides the inherent bloodthirstiness and ranking, another reason was the reward.
The rewards in competition dungeons were much greater than in regular dungeons, distributed based on ranking and the number of kills.
So, in the individual competition finals, even if one didn’t make it to the top five like the human pupa master, the rewards she got were still very generous.
Guo Xiao: “Let’s go. After all, it’s only the first day, and there will be many more opportunities later on.”
They didn’t waste time and took a detour to run forward.
After passing by Jia Chengsheng’s group, they encountered another team ahead, but this team was being chased by zombies, clearly the original inhabitants of this world.
Guo Xiao wasn’t afraid of the people being chased by zombies at all. In his frustration, he even killed one of them.
Ning Su glanced over there and suddenly froze.
That team was hiding in a restaurant, and a person could be seen through the restaurant’s glass door.
Not quite like a human, but also not like a zombie.
Wearing a school uniform, ‘her’ long hair half-covering a face that was horribly rotting, with eyes void of any light or hope.
Guo Xiao: “What are you standing there for! Run!”
Ning Su pursed his lips, dashed into the store, grabbed the high school student’s hand, and quickly ran forward.
That hand was also terribly rotting, with a sticky, foul-smelling mixture of blood and pus.
Ning Su’s face was dirty, like a little kitten, but the back of his hand was clean. The hand holding the high school student’s hand was well-defined, pale, and beautiful.
The rotting high school student stared at that hand. Amidst the zombies’ hoarse roars and the crowd’s terrified screams, ‘she’ was pulled forward.
‘She’ looked up and, on the boy’s dirty face, saw those clear and beautiful peach blossom eyes reflecting the rosy sunset.
They sprinted through the desolate, ruined streets.
Finally stopping inside a hotel entrance, Guo Xiao looked at the rotting person Ning Su had brought and asked, “What exactly are you doing?!”
[I really don’t understand this Ning Su.]
[What is he doing? How did he get selected for the guild competition finals?]
[And he called himself the Yinhua Club’s trump card. What a joke.]
At this moment, many more people suddenly switched to viewing Ning Su’s perspective.
Those who had been watching just for his looks or out of curiosity to see someone courting death were baffled when they saw these comments.
[Found him, found him. There really is a Ning Su. Hey, where is this?]
[Holy crap! What’s going on? This instance is insane.]
[Is it really true? Is this player Ning Su?]
[??? What’s going on? What are you newcomers talking about?]
[Why don’t I understand?]
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Five hours into the dungeon.
The sky was still covered with a vast sunset before nightfall, casting the whole world in a dusky glow.
The twilight world was always in a state of dusk.
The doctor, Yin Qingmo and Xia Ke were resting behind a giant rock.
Yin Qingmo peeked forward. “No zombies or players are appearing. Let’s take a break and eat something to replenish our energy.”
Xia Ke took out some food from her storage item. “I grabbed some bread, sausages, and chocolate from a store earlier.”
Xia Ke had hastily packed quite a variety of food. Besides what she mentioned, there were also spicy strips, candies, bottled water, and even two self-heating hot pots.
After running for five hours, both of them wanted something hot and soupy to eat.
Yin Qingmo looked around again. “Zombies should only be sensitive to the smell of blood. It’s fine, let’s eat.”
Xia Ke said, “Alright.”
While the two were gnawing on bread and eating sausages, a tempting aroma started wafting from the self-heating hot pot.
Yin Qingmo, who was chewing on a sausage, suddenly froze.
A few seconds later, Xia Ke also stiffened, a bead of sweat rolling down her forehead.
Someone had approached them, and they hadn’t realized it until that person was standing right behind them.
It must be a very skilled player or a zombie.
They were standing right behind them.
Dozens of seconds passed, but the person behind them didn’t make a sound.
Far from relaxing, the two grew increasingly tense, not daring to move an inch.
They feared that any movement would cause their heads to be cut off.
The silence was terrifying.
In this quiet atmosphere, a sound rang out.
Like... a stomach growling?
The sound wasn’t very loud, but because it was so quiet at the moment, it clearly reached the ears of the two people.
Xia Ke heard it but wasn’t very certain.
Yin Qingmo was sure it was a stomach growl, although it was somewhat strange.
He squeezed his hands, slowly turned his head to look behind him.
“Ning Su!” He let out a sigh of relief and didn’t know what to say, “Why did you scare us like that? You almost scared us to death!”
“I heard your stomach growling. You must be hungry. Come and eat.”
When Xia Ke heard this, she also turned her head in relief.
Standing behind them was indeed Ning Su.
The young man was wearing a loose white t-shirt, the collar crookedly drooping on his collarbone, and washed-out ripped jeans.
For some reason, his expression seemed a bit stiffer than before entering the instance, and small black veins were faintly visible on his neck and forehead.
His slightly glazed peach blossom eyes blinked non-stop as they stared at the self-heating hot pot.
He swallowed saliva.
“Why did you change your pants again?” Xia Ke saw him swallowing saliva and wanted to laugh. She handed him her own self-heating hot pot. “Are you hungry? Come and sit down to eat.”
The young man stared at the hot pot for a long time, then finally glanced at the two of them. “Okay!”
