Having already fled a considerable distance, Song Yu and Xiao Hei listened to the faint, overlapping roars of zombies intermingled with human screams, feeling a lingering sense of dread in their hearts.
Song Yu’s body was also stained with the blood of those players, and a small pack of zombies pursued them relentlessly behind, blocking off the path in their wake with airtight density.
The moment they turned back around, they would immediately lay eyes on the ferocious, twisted zombies trailing right behind them!
The most terrifying part was that the population of Tier 3 and Tier 4 zombies spiked dramatically at night. These zombies couldn’t be compared to low-tier ones; most of them carried superhuman characteristic attributes and operated in packs.
Under normal circumstances, any zombie above Tier 4 would command roughly a hundred low-tier kindred spirits.
Song Yu and Xiao Hei were currently being hunted down by over a hundred zombies, and human and dog sprinted at breakneck speed!
Inside the enclosed passageway, the beam of the flashlight swung back and forth as the two of them quickly arrived at a storm drain exit.
Song Yu squatted halfway down, and Xiao Hei immediately scrambled up, pressing its weight onto Song Yu’s back.
Xiao Hei genuinely had no way of scaling the ladder of the storm drain on its own; Song Yu had to carry it piggyback.
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Don’t let Song Yu’s fragile, delicate appearance fool you—she actually packed a bit of strength.
Back when Xiao Hei had contracted canine distemper and finding a vehicle in the dead of night proved impossible, it was Song Yu and her grandmother who carried Xiao Hei step by step into the city on their backs to find a veterinarian.
At the time, the silly dog had thought it was going to die and had dug its own pit to lie down inside.
Song Yu and her grandmother stubbornly spent money to cure it, forcing the two of them to tighten their belts and scrimp for over half a year afterward.
Back then, Song Yu and her grandmother saved Xiao Hei; now, it was Xiao Hei and Song Yu’s turn to save her grandmother.
Feeling the heavy, weighty burden pressing down upon her back, Song Yu gritted her teeth and scrambled upward!
The iron ladder had long since rotted and rusted beyond measure, barely capable of bearing the combined weight of the two of them.
Suddenly! A rung beneath Song Yu’s foot snapped instantly!
The sharp, jagged edge sliced open Song Yu’s ankle, and fresh blood immediately welled up, yet she behaved as though nothing had happened, maintaining her original pace unchanged.
“Wu—”
Xiao Hei gently nudged Song Yu’s ear, emitting a whimper filled with heartbreak.
“I’m fine.”
Though Song Yu was clearly the one who had sustained the injury, she was still taking the time to comfort Xiao Hei.
The roars of the zombies behind them grew closer and closer, yet from start to finish, neither Song Yu nor Xiao Hei turned back once.
With claws scraping against the metal rungs—
Song Yu rapidly climbed to the very top rung of the ladder, and Xiao Hei stepped onto Song Yu’s back, using its head to shove upward against the heavy manhole cover.
It vaulted out of the storm drain first, emerging onto a street crowded densely with a massive cluster of zombies.
Xiao Hei’s sudden appearance instantly drew the attention and focus of all the zombies toward it. It bolted frantically toward the direction with the sparsest zombie population, luring every single zombie on the street away!
Song Yu didn’t pop out of the storm drain immediately; the climbing speed of the zombies below was terrifyingly fast. Her heart hammered violently against her ribs, yet she suppressed her emotions and waited patiently.
Not until the commotion from the zombies above subsided did Song Yu leap out of the ground in a single motion, slamming the manhole cover back into place.
The edge precisely snapped off the arm of a trailing zombie.
Enduring the terrifying, close-range stare of those red eyes locked onto her from the manhole gap, Song Yu calmly stepped right over them, swiftly scanning the surroundings to locate a suitable defensive hideout.
She didn’t go searching for Xiao Hei, knowing full well that once things grew safe, Xiao Hei would track her down on its own accord.
Nighttime zombies were perpetually active. Before Song Yu could even step inside a building, zombies came rushing furiously toward her!
Fortunately, Song Yu had prepared in advance, raising her hands to blast the zombies with a few rounds from her nail gun.
The zombies instantly dissolved into a beam of light and vanished.
Song Yu swiftly ducked inside a house, then set to work rapidly scrubbing away the bloodstains clinging to her.
It took a full 10 bottles of mineral water to completely purge the blood from her person. Song Yu conveniently swapped into a fresh set of clothes and applied a roll of medical bandages to restore her health pool.
The clothing didn’t fit particularly well, but Song Yu had zero other options.
Song Yu didn’t let those bloody washings go to waste, packing them all up to carry along with her.
Blood held a fatal attraction for zombies, proving even more effective than living humans.
Even though these bloodstains had been diluted by mineral water, they could still exert a certain degree of operational utility.
While checking her health status, Song Yu discovered a newly appended negative buff on her person.
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“…”
This news was hardly ideal, leaving Song Yu with a mild headache.
Still, she didn’t indulge in complaints or cursing; when a problem arose, one solved it—negative emotions solved absolutely nothing.
She immediately pulled out the map, utilizing the moonlight to examine the operating zone of this Dr. Zhong.
It was quite a distance away.
If she maintained a relentless march straight through the night, she should manage to reach her active zone within the 24-hour window.
The wound on her ankle had stopped bleeding under the effects of the bandage and was healing slowly, failing to impede her journey.
While waiting for Xiao Hei to return, Song Yu didn’t waste time either, swiftly sweeping the room for supplies and collecting every potentially useful item into a single pile.
To be carried along the moment Xiao Hei returned.
Bottles, buckets, wooden cabinets, plastic sheeting—Song Yu bypassed not a single thing.
One never knew when these miscellaneous items might come in handy.
Previously, restricted by her backpack slots, Song Yu lacked the capacity to lug around too many goods; now, with Xiao Hei’s spatial storage available, she had no excuse not to put it to full use.
Shuyuan’s place allowed for expanding Xiao Hei’s storage capacity; once she finished trading for Eternal Companions and the Animal Awakening Potion, should she have spare favorability points remaining, Song Yu intended to invest them into this upgrade.
Having finished tidying up the room’s supplies, Song Yu inspected the inheritances and talents dropped by the players.
These two players were genuinely impoverished; each individual possessed a single solitary backpack slot!
And the slots were packed with nothing more than compressed biscuits and instant noodles.
Having just finished clearing out those two exact items, Song Yu found herself running right into them again.
She felt a mild twinge of heart-stent-level exasperation.
“…”
Never mind, she’d check out the talents instead.
Compared to their depressing inheritances, the talents of these two players looked slightly more eye-catching.
[Talent – Three-Finger Art LV.1 (0/50): Can randomly pilfer any single piece of supply from a living entity.] [The theft success rate stands at 5%; each successful attempt grants 1 experience point, and the action can be executed 3 times daily.]
[Talent – Street Ruffian LV.1 (0/50): Blade-type weapon damage boosted by 5%.]
These two talents were genuinely top-tier quality!
Particularly that Three-Finger Art!
This talent was extremely specialized; its description meticulously itemized the theft success probability for every single category of resource.
Including backpack slots, though the probability for backpack slots was exceptionally low.
Naturally, this talent came with a drawback: once an attempt failed, the target possessed a very high probability of detecting the theft.
Should a thievery attempt get exposed, the fate awaiting a practitioner of Three-Finger Art could well be imagined.
Yet for Song Yu and Xiao Hei, this talent practically amounted to a heaven-sent divine skill!
Since both Song Yu and Xiao Hei counted as players, they could farm talent levels completely off each other!
Once this level was farmed high and the success rate climbed, the scope of targets available for pilfering could be expanded indefinitely.
For instance, NPCs.
Or even… high-tier zombies!