A Tier 6 zombie.
Its health pool was greater than all the zombies Song Yu had encountered previously combined!
Song Yu wasn’t exaggerating in the slightest. With withered, wood-like, shriveled skin, the height of that Tier 6 zombie stood a full two stories tall!
Its health pool reached a staggering 5,000!
Not only that, but the creature even possessed a buff!
[Spring Returns to Withered Wood: When HP drops below 30%, instantly recovers 50% HP.]
Which meant that in reality, this zombie’s health pool exceeded 7,500!
With Song Yu’s small handgun, small nail gun, and crossbow all put together, they wouldn’t even be enough for that zombie to swat away with a single slap.
If you don’t run now, when on earth will you?!
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Still, this zombie hid itself craftily enough.
None of the players in this surrounding area had detected it, nor had it ever made an appearance before.
One could imagine what would happen if a player accidentally stumbled into its hiding spot…
Because of the emergence of the Tier 6 zombie, all the players in the surrounding area were fleeing in a wild panic.
Thanks to her talent-based stat bonuses, Song Yu was the fastest runner of the lot.
Even if the players behind her wanted to drag Song Yu down into the abyss with them, they had no way of catching up.
Song Yu wasn’t the type to sit around waiting for death either. If those players tried to pull the same stunt Brother Hu had attempted, their fate would only match Brother Hu’s.
Actually, it would have been fine if these players hadn’t popped out, but the moment they emerged, they instantly drew the attention and focus of the entire zombie horde directly onto themselves.
Naturally, those players trapped inside the apartment building needn’t harbor any hopes of escaping either.
Song Yu watched as the Tier 6 zombie smashed a wall to pieces with a single punch, snatching out the players hiding inside the apartment one by one.
Their fate could well be imagined.
To tell the truth, Song Yu’s behavior could be termed vicious; tactics where you injure the enemy by a thousand while self-destructing by eight hundred were the kind only she could pull off.
Among those players caught in the crossfire of the zombie wave, there were surely some who, just like her, had chosen to enter the game for the sake of their families.
Yet Song Yu still chose this exact method.
At this, Song Yu felt not a shred of psychological burden; her mood value didn’t fluctuate by even a fraction.
Under conditions of limited resources, even without needing to compete and fight over cash rewards, they stood in a life-or-death, kill-or-be-killed stance against one another.
Leaving aside the fact that NPC merchants could trade for supplies, those low-tier, easily slain zombies were fundamentally a form of resource as well.
To save her grandmother, she could spare no cost and stop at nothing.
Naturally, she also successfully reaped her retribution.
Because of the players’ sudden appearance, the zombies coming from all four directions grew frantic, blocking nearly every single route.
The players who had originally been fleeing in a single unified direction were scattered and broken apart by the zombie wave. Under Xiao Hei’s guidance, Song Yu sprinted toward a path with the fewest zombies.
Some quick-witted players, spotting the presence of Xiao Hei, immediately latched onto Song Yu’s trail and followed right behind her.
However, the speed of Song Yu and Xiao Hei wasn’t something ordinary people could keep up with.
Possessing the Sprint Athlete talent, Song Yu’s running speed was double that of a normal player.
Even so, a few players still managed to cling to Song Yu’s heels.
A small pocket of zombies followed closely behind them as well, spearheaded by a Tier 4 zombie.
Aided by the zombie horde, Song Yu found it extremely difficult to take it down, leaving her with no choice other than to keep running.
With the zombie pack tailing closely behind them, a player locked a vicious gaze onto Song Yu’s frail back, thrust out a hand, and violently grabbed hold of Song Yu’s backpack!
“Ah!!!”
A shrill, miserable shriek rang out—and it wasn’t Song Yu’s.
It belonged to the player who had attempted to use Song Yu as cannon fodder.
Xiao Hei’s eyes turned icy and cruel, its sharp canine teeth clamping viciously down onto his wrist as the audible snap of breaking bones echoed clearly in the air.
Yet even so, he had no intention whatsoever of letting go of Song Yu.
However, this player had forgotten one crucial detail.
This wasn’t reality, and Song Yu wasn’t some helpless little girl devoid of the power to retaliate.
Song Yu might look frail, but she was unquestionably a ruthless character.
Without a moment’s hesitation, she used her nail gun to shoot dead the player who had intended to use her as a shield. Talent cards and inheritances floated above the player’s corpse.
Ignoring those pitifully meager inheritances, Xiao Hei swiftly snapped up the two items in its jaws and continued leading Song Yu on the run.
Witnessing this scene, the surrounding players felt their minds and hearts shiver violently at the ruthless, decisive violence displayed by this human-dog duo.
They silently etched Song Yu’s appearance into their memories, resolving to give her a wide berth in the future.
This little girl looked all delicate and dainty, yet she threw down with such terrifying viciousness!
Song Yu couldn’t care less; once they exited the instance, nobody would remember anyone anyway.
In the next instance, their first impression of her would still be that of a skinny, incredibly easy-to-bully young girl.
That was, assuming they managed to survive.
This served as the game’s protective mechanism for players: once they exited the instance and returned to the real world, players’ memories and impressions of all the other players they had encountered within the instance would blur significantly.
Otherwise, if the hatreds generated inside the game were allowed to spill over into the real world, things would become exceedingly dangerous.
Gender, age, and appearance would all be rendered vague and indistinct, leaving behind only a faint, hazy impression.
However, the events and experiences themselves would not be forgotten.
Song Yu wasn’t afraid for herself, but she couldn’t afford to implicate her grandmother.
The game’s protection mechanism neatly resolved Song Yu’s worries, which was why she dared to act so unscrupulously inside the instance.
Running for who knows how long, the zombie wave stubbornly clung right behind Song Yu and Xiao Hei.
Xiao Hei had originally intended to lure the zombie pack away by itself, but unfortunately, its aggro-pulling charm wasn’t as potent as Song Yu’s.
After running halfway, it turned right back around and reunited with Song Yu.
Song Yu prepared to find a structurally sturdy building to wipe out the zombie swarm, only for human and dog to find themselves running into an increasingly desolate sector.
“Bang—!”
Before Song Yu could figure out how to deal with these zombies, a sudden gunshot startled her.
In the game, aside from NPCs, no other entity possessed the sheer extravagance to use live bullets to pick off zombies.
The old district, NPCs…
The Watchers Organization!
Song Yu’s eyes lit up, and she instantly swept her gaze toward the direction of the gunshot!
Sure enough, amidst a expanse of architectural ruins, Song Yu spotted a heavily equipped team of masked operatives.
They were raising their weapons to eliminate the zombies she had lured over. As the gunshots rang out, the zombies tailing her dropped one after another.
The insignia emblazoned upon their gear matched the insignia on that black box precisely.
Two small red laser dots appeared on the heads of Song Yu and Xiao Hei. Being thoroughly pragmatic, she raised her hands in surrender without a second of hesitation.
“I found a box at the edge of the city!”
“It has the exact same insignia as yours on it!”
Song Yu shouted out at the top of her lungs, explicitly stating her purpose for coming.
Sure enough, the moment Song Yu yelled those words, the red dots trained on her head vanished instantly.
The masked operatives signaled for Song Yu to approach.
Whether these people were friend or foe, Song Yu couldn’t be certain, but their gear was far too elite, leaving her with no privilege to refuse.
With Xiao Hei in tow and under the covering fire of the masked operatives, Song Yu successfully shook off the pursuing zombies and stepped into the ruins.
The moment she crossed into the ruins, Song Yu caught the heavy, pungent stench of blood.
Only then did she notice that quite a few among these people were nursing injuries.
It was glaringly obvious: they were facing a shortage of medical supplies.
“…”
Song Yu’s eyes flickered as she flashed a friendly, amiable smile.
Take a gamble and turn a bicycle into a motorcycle!
“Um, I happen to carry a tiny, teeny bit of medical supplies on me.”