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When Jia Chensheng woke up after a nap, the members of the Yinhua Guild were sitting together talking.
As he walked over from a distance, he heard Ning Su’s name.
Only then did Jia Chensheng remember something important. After arriving here last night, he saw another version of himself. In his shock, he forgot to tell Shi Tianzhu that he had seen Ning Su.
“Are you talking about Ning Su?” Jia Chensheng asked.
Yin Qingmo nodded. “When I woke up, Ning Su was gone.”
“Ning Su came here?” Jia Chensheng said in surprise. “Which guild is Ning Su from? Is he from the human faction?”
“Ning Su is from our Yinhua Guild. He came to the base with us yesterday,” Xia Ke said.
Jia Chensheng glanced at Shi Tianzhu and said, “I saw him with a zombie faction player yesterday. He should be from the Yongming Guild. He ended up leaving with the Vampire.”
Shi Tianzhu did not look surprised.
Yin Qingmo and Xia Ke were stunned for a moment. They both knew about the setting of this instance, where there are “two versions of oneself,” so they immediately understood that one of them must be Zombie Ning Su, the Ning Su from the past.
“Which one is the past Ning Su? It’s completely indistinguishable.”
Yin Qingmo and Xia Ke had not interacted much with Ning Su before and did not know him well. At the time, they did not expect there would be two Ning Sus, subconsciously treating him as Player Ning Su, thus missing any doubts.
Looking back now, they started to sense something.
Yin Qingmo said in surprise, “Is it the one who came back with us?”
Shi Tianzhu nodded.
For some reason, when she first saw that Ning Su, she immediately recognized him as the Ning Su from before entering the instance.
Maybe it was because of his eyes.
His eyes held a deep wariness towards people, and a trace of restraint.
Shi Tianzhu suddenly remembered that in the <Manman> instance, a six-year-old boy had sulkily walked into her room and told her he hated humans.
Looking again at the wariness in those eyes, Shi Tianzhu felt something indescribable.
At that time, she had given the six-year-old boy a piece of strawberry cream cake.
Yesterday, she did not let the young man drink porridge, but also gave him a piece of strawberry cream cake.
She asked him, “Where are Gui Sheng and Feifei?”
Previously, Yin Qingmo and the others hadn’t seen the two children and had asked him if he had put them in the system space.
So, he answered seemingly without issue, saying he had put them into the system.
The problem was he had no reaction to the name “Feifei.”
Manman had a nickname, ‘Ah Fei’. There’s Manman and Ah Fei, but no Feifei.
Moreover, an important point was that Ning Su treated the two children as normal people with souls, not as tools or weapons. He wouldn’t generally put them into the system space unless there was danger.
At that moment, Shi Tianzhu confirmed he was the former Ning Su, the zombie Ning Su.
Jia Chengsheng said, “Why didn’t you lock him up? If he encounters danger outside, wouldn’t Ning Su be in danger too?”
Shi Tianzhu remained silent.
Yin Qingmo said, “We didn’t expect him to run away. He seemed quite happy eating here. But it’s indeed dangerous. We need to go find him.”
“Aren’t there players going out to find human survivor bases? Let’s have them look for Ning Su each time they go out.”
Speak of the devil.
As Yin Qingmo was speaking, a player from the Hongyu Guild ran over. “We’ve found them!”
The Hongyu Guild managed the base’s information network and had players skilled in reconnaissance.
Before Jia Chengsheng arrived, two members of their guild had found Shi Tianzhu here, and Shi Tianzhu had asked them to take people to find the city’s human leader.
Before entering the instance, their guild had likely decided to ally with players of the same faction, so the two agreed readily and went to do it seriously.
“We found the human survivor base and contacted their leader. They are willing to negotiate cooperation with us.”
Jia Chengsheng said, “Great! This greatly increases our chances of success.”
Uniting all the humans in the city was the most crucial step. They didn’t waste time and immediately set off for the human survivor base.
The human survivor base wasn’t far from them, located in the university town in the south of the city.
They hadn’t entered the instance at the outbreak’s start, so the base already had a relatively complete infrastructure. Before entering, zombie detectors scanned them three times before being allowed in.
Once confirmed not to be zombies, the people’s attitudes became much friendlier, and they were directly taken to see the base’s leader, the base chief.
As a few players entered the living room, they saw a man with his back turned to them, looking up at the city map on the wall.
He was very tall, wearing a simple loose white shirt and a pair of casual dress pants.
The material of the pants was unclear, but they were dark and stiff, making his long legs appear even more slender and straight.
Shi Tianzhu was momentarily stunned by his back view, and again when he turned around.
This time, she was taken aback by his appearance—it was too ordinary.
It didn’t match the impression he gave off at all.
He raised his eyes to look at them and spoke in a calm voice, “Are you joining us in the zombie hunt?”
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Ning Su woke up early that morning without needing anyone to call him, rising earlier than anyone else.
When the Vampire and the human pupa master came out, he was digging up the blood vine on the prison wall.
“...”
The human pupa master asked, “What are you doing?”
Ning Su replied, “I’m taking it with us. We can use it to fend off zombies and fill our stomachs on the way.”
“?”
Finding the zombie king was urgent, and after Guo Xiao’s death, the Black-clothed Azan had instructed the human pupa master to go with the Vampire.
The human pupa master said, “Are you crazy? If you want to take that thing, carry it yourself. Don’t take up space in the car.”
Ning Su agreed, “Alright!”
When everyone had gathered, Ning Su finally managed to pull the blood vine out of the ground.
He almost brought the wall down with it.
“...”
A straightforward feeling of having the corner of the wall dug out.
They hadn’t found the zombie king all day yesterday, but they had figured out where the zombies were most active and gathered the most.
This time, they set out with a zombie.
Ning Su noticed a Gu insect in the ear of the zombie.
It was a zombie controlled by a Gu insect.
And it was a high-level zombie.
They followed this zombie towards the northern part of the city, where there were more zombies.
The small truck moved slowly, following the zombie into the increasingly crowded northern outskirts of the city.
Along the way, they clearly felt that zombies did not have the complex hierarchies humans did; there was only a natural suppression among them.
From low-level zombies to high-level zombies, there were layers of suppression that could not be resisted.
The human pupa master and the Vampire grew increasingly tense, as they too felt this suppression.
Especially the Vampire.
The familiar, overwhelming urge to kneel.
All the zombies on the suburban road turned to look at them, their dark, lifeless eyes devoid of any vitality.
Amid this tension, they smelled a strange aroma of spicy beef instant noodles.
At the end of the zombie crowd, there was a figure squatting on the ground eating instant noodles.
That back was neither strong nor terrifying; the loose white t-shirt outlined the silhouette of their spine.
Along the way, they discovered that the more human-like a zombie appeared, the more powerful it might be.
The human pupa master and the Vampire were the first to jump off the truck.
The Vampire tentatively spoke, “Hello, do you understand human language?”
“……”
The person eating instant noodles slowly turned their head while holding the noodle cup, and their frozen peach blossom eyes clearly expressed their current thought.
Are you polite?
The human pupa master and the Vampire were completely stunned.
After everyone got out of the truck, Ning Su moved the blood vine from his head, and after three children emerged from under the vine, he placed it aside and jumped down from the truck.
There was a moment of silence, with both humans and zombies watching him.
Then, as their eyes met, Ning Su saw the Zombie King they were looking for.
“……”
I'm sure she didn't expect that 🤣
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