Amidst the apocalyptic wasteland, especially set against the zombie backdrop of this instance, living creatures were an exceedingly rare sight.
Song Yu and her grandmother had raised Xiao Hei exceptionally well—it was robust, well-fleshed, and its fur shone with a sleek, glossy sheen.
The moment those players laid eyes on Xiao Hei, they couldn’t help salivating with desire. They hadn’t tasted fresh meat in a long, long time.
While they didn’t dare touch human meat, dog meat… was utterly mouth-watering.
The players exchanged a glance and immediately swarmed in a circle around Xiao Hei, their eyes flashing with greed.
They hadn’t taken Song Yu seriously at all, nor did they imagine Song Yu would possess the audacity to stop them.
The sharp blade flashed with a chilling, intimidating glare. Song Yu’s face darkened instantly as she stepped forward to shield Xiao Hei behind her.
“Yo-ho, little sister’s got quite a fiery temper, huh?”
The man grinned lewdly, wanting to step forward to tease Song Yu while continuously hurling provocations her way.
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“What’s the big deal? We can just split one of its legs with you later. Come on, help us together—”
The man’s voice cut off abruptly at the crisp sound of a bullet being chambered, accompanied by a pitch-black gun barrel pointing squarely at him.
Song Yu offered a faint smile. Gone was her previous timid, cowardly expression; instead, she radiated a sharp, ruthless aura.
“You—let me tell you, our group of brothers aren’t people you can scare so easily.”
“Don’t assume we don’t know the price of firearms. Can the bullets in your gun wipe out all of us?!”
Putting on a brave front despite his terror, the man raised his voice to yell and curse at Song Yu!
“You’re right about that; my gun only holds three bullets, so it definitely can’t kill all of you.”
“However, why on earth would I need to kill all of you?”
Song Yu tilted her head, her dark eyes locked tightly onto him as the smile at the corners of her lips deepened.
“I only need to make sure that you are guaranteed to die.”
“I trust that for the sake of your brothers, you wouldn’t mind making a selfless, heroic sacrifice of yourself, right?”
“This pistol boasts an attack damage of 50 points. The number of people I can take down with me shouldn’t be limited to just one, should it?”
Song Yu swept her gaze across the clearing, slowly threatening them word by word.
If they wanted to snuff out her and Xiao Hei, fine—a life for a life.
But would these people be willing to die themselves? How could that possibly happen?
“Little sister, don’t be so impulsive. We were just joking—just joking around, right?”
The player standing beside Song Yu exchanged a subtle glance with his companion, signaling for them to all rush her together.
Originally thinking there was only a dog, they hadn’t expected an unexpected bonus on top of it.
He simply refused to believe this little bitch actually dared to fire.
At the instigation of that player, the men on the left and right lunged violently toward Song Yu!
To their utter disappointment, Song Yu genuinely dared to fire.
Furthermore, she had more than one gun—a nail gun counted as a firearm too.
A loud gunshot rang out, and the player who had been charging forward froze in his tracks on the spot.
“You, you—”
He stared at Song Yu in unadulterated disbelief. She, she actually fired?!
This was murder!
Projected right alongside the bullet was a nail loaded inside the nail gun. The nail gun held a 7-round capacity, and Song Yu fired in rapid succession, scoring 3 clean hits.
Two players dropped dead on the spot.
Don’t let their burly frames fool you—their health pools weren’t necessarily thicker than Song Yu’s.
Though Song Yu’s health pool wasn’t particularly massive either.
Witnessing their fallen companions, the remaining few players hardened their expressions with ferocious intensity. People were already dead; if they turned and ran now, they’d be letting their comrades’ sacrifice go to waste.
Taking advantage of the split second Song Yu spent reloading, they grabbed their weapons and charged straight at Song Yu.
Xiao Hei intercepted them, positioning itself in front of Song Yu with bared fangs and extended claws, locking into direct, head-on combat with those two players.
The bite force of an eighty-catty dog was terrifying. Xiao Hei likely carried hunting hound lineage; living in the countryside surrounded by mountains on all sides with her grandmother, Xiao Hei had frequently scavenged and brought back ample game from the mountains to supplement Song Yu’s nutrition.
Boosted by talent bonuses, even in a one-on-two scenario, Xiao Hei didn’t fall into a disadvantageous position in the slightest.
Instead, the two players sustained numerous wounds inflicted by Xiao Hei, their health pools plummeting at a breakneck speed.
Song Yu had already finished reloading her bullets long ago. Confronted with a firearm, the surviving players harbored lingering apprehensions and didn’t dare approach rashly.
Yet barring absolute necessity, Song Yu didn’t want to exhaust all her bullets either. Under Xiao Hei’s fierce offensive pressure, the remaining players were all reduced to critical health.
However, Xiao Hei had also sustained severe injuries.
Shielded securely behind Xiao Hei, Song Yu remained completely unscathed, having lost zero health.
Suddenly, a player lingering in the rear quietly retrieved a crossbow from his backpack slot and aimed it straight at Song Yu.
Right at that critical juncture, a horrifying shriek of an eagle and roar of a tiger abruptly erupted beside the players’ ears!
Before the crossbow-wielding player could execute any reaction, a gaping maw already snapped his skull to pieces.
A massive silhouette trampled over the player’s corpse to manifest before everyone.
It was an exceptionally colossal white tiger, with a person seated right atop its back.
The sharp talons of a giant eagle circling high in the sky easily sliced open the arteries of the remaining players, sending blood spraying out like gushing water.
“What were you lot planning to do to that cute little dog?”
The man seated on the tiger’s back cast an icy gaze down at the players, his voice devoid of a single drop of warmth.
“…”
Song Yu was left speechless. This fellow must undoubtedly be Shuyuan, the beast tamer.
She could only thank him for his timing; had he emerged any later, she would have wiped out all these players herself.
As it stood… she had only managed to take out two of them.
Song Yu hadn’t missed seeing that player with the crossbow earlier, either.
Shuyuan possessed an androgynous face—exotic, mesmerizing, and exquisite to a degree that felt almost unearthly.
Particularly his cascade of silver-white long hair, paired with the white tiger carrying him, the giant eagle circling the skies, and the wild beasts lurking in every surrounding corner, made him look less like a beast tamer and more like a high priest.
Without waiting for those players to respond, Shuyuan casually flicked his wrist, and the remaining players aside from Song Yu and Xiao Hei were thoroughly decimated by the beasts he had reared.
The scene turned exceptionally bloody.
Maintaining a blank exterior, Song Yu quietly gathered the loot dropped by the two players she had killed, stowing them away into her backpack slots.
“You okay?”
Shuyuan’s attitude toward Song Yu was vastly superior to his treatment of those players, even revealing a rare, gentle smile.
A flash of stunned admiration crossed Song Yu’s eyes. This beast tamer was indeed strikingly handsome.
Not a single celebrity she had ever seen on television in the real world could hold a candle to his appearance.
“Poor child.”
The white tiger prostrated itself on the ground, and Shuyuan dismounted from its back, reaching out with a look of heartache to stroke Xiao Hei’s head.
Xiao Hei glared with vigilant suspicion at Shuyuan, holding its ground directly in front of Song Yu without yielding an inch.
“You’ve raised it wonderfully.”
Shuyuan lowered his gaze to flash a soft smile toward Song Yu, causing her to turn her face away.
Someone looking this bewitching definitely spelled trouble; they couldn’t possibly be a good person.
However, in the very next second, Song Yu completely inverted her assessment.
Only to see Shuyuan produce a professional-grade medical kit, immediately pulling out a roll of medical bandage to wrap around Xiao Hei’s wounds.
[Professional Medical Bandage (+30 HP)]
“!!”
Such a generous spendthrift!