To test whether zombies could hear sound, Hu Xiaoguo picked up a power bank from her room, carefully climbed onto the rooftop, and threw it with all her strength.
The power bank traced an arc through the air before crashing onto the ground.
In the silent village, the noise sounded incredibly loud.
Instantly, it stirred the zombies throughout the village into excitement as they swarmed frantically toward the sound.
Standing on the rooftop hidden within the darkness, Hu Xiaoguo observed the zombies below without even daring to breathe too loudly, afraid of alerting them.
A thought immediately struck her.
She should block every door and window in the house.
Fortunately, Hu Xiaoguo’s woodshed was connected directly to the kitchen.
Every day, aside from eating, she slowly moved firewood and furniture to barricade the doors and windows.
Only one light admitting window in her second floor bedroom was left uncovered.
Hu Xiaoguo’s house also happened to be far from the city.
Driving from Dawan Village to the city took four hours.
Because of that, whenever her family went into the city, they always bought enough food and daily necessities to last six months to a year.
Seeds for various vegetables were especially essential.
Every trip into town, they would purchase more.
Aside from the farmland her family owned, the rooftop was also covered with vegetables.
So after the zombie outbreak, although Hu Xiaoguo never stepped outside again, she never lacked food or water.
However, one day, a year into the apocalypse, an outsider zombie suddenly arrived in the village.
That outsider zombie seemed to know there was still a living person there.
The moment it entered the village, it headed directly toward Hu Xiaoguo.
At the time, Hu Xiaoguo had been watering plants on the rooftop.
When she saw a pitch black figure, whether human or zombie she could not tell, rapidly rushing toward her from outside the village, she was so frightened that she hurried back into her second floor bedroom and locked the door.
Only then did she feel a little safer.
The outsider zombie stood at Hu Xiaoguo’s front door and immediately slammed into it without hesitation.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Listening to the repeated crashes against the door, Hu Xiaoguo’s face instantly turned pale.
A chill rose from the soles of her feet and shot straight to the top of her head.
“Could it be… that I, Hu Xiaoguo, am going to die today?”
While the outsider zombie had not yet broken through, Hu Xiaoguo trembled as she ran into the kitchen downstairs and found a kitchen knife.
Holding it tightly, she looked through the crack of the door at the terrifying zombie constantly ramming the entrance.
Tears continuously swirled in her eyes.
She did not want to die.
The repeated pounding echoed throughout the silent village.
All the zombies in the village heard the loud sounds and slowly began shambling toward the noise while letting out hoarse growls.
Crack… crack… BOOM… BANG…
The door finally broke apart under the outsider zombie’s assault.
Hu Xiaoguo had just been about to run upstairs with the kitchen knife when the barricade blocking the door crashed into her.
She fell to the ground and stared at the outsider zombie standing at the doorway.
Her entire body shook violently like a sieve.
The outsider zombie stood in the entrance.
Like a giraffe, it stretched out its neck and head to an absurd length.
Its empty eye sockets directly faced Hu Xiaoguo.
Seeing the horrifying and disgusting zombie before her, Hu Xiaoguo felt it was far more terrifying and revolting than the zombies in her games.
She was forced to smell the constant waves of rotten stench coming from its body.
She wanted to vomit.
But she did not dare.
The outsider zombie’s nose twitched.
Its neck shifted, adjusting the position and angle of its head before letting out excited growls at Hu Xiaoguo.
“AHHHHH!!!”
Hu Xiaoguo finally could not endure it anymore.
Closing her eyes, she screamed and wildly swung the kitchen knife forward.
Unexpectedly, her frantic slash struck the outsider zombie directly in the neck.
The attack instantly enraged it.
Its floating head remained suspended in place while its body immediately snapped back together with it.
Its elongated neck also returned to normal.
However, the thick layers of folded skin hanging around its neck looked utterly disgusting.
Hu Xiaoguo opened her eyes just in time to see the thick sagging flesh around its neck.
Unable to endure it anymore, she immediately began dry heaving.
The outsider zombie obviously did not care whether she was vomiting or not.
It directly stretched out both hands, grabbed Hu Xiaoguo’s head, and bit toward her face.
“AHHHHH!!!”
The rotten smell filling her nose, the pain digging into her very soul from her face, and the spraying blood combined together.
Hu Xiaoguo let out a scream so horrifying it sounded inhuman.
If she had still possessed even a tiny bit of courage to resist earlier, then after being bitten, only pain, fear, helplessness, and despair remained.
Her eyes widened as tears flowed down her face.
She was unwilling to die like this…
Just as the outsider zombie opened its mouth again and prepared to bite toward her eyes…
A Tang blade suddenly appeared horizontally before her face.
Clang!
The Tang blade blocked the outsider zombie’s open mouth and successfully saved Hu Xiaoguo’s eyes.
Following the blade upward, Hu Xiaoguo looked at its owner.
Brown combat boots.
Light gray combat clothing.
A white mask covering the face.
Hair tied high into a ponytail, revealing a smooth and full forehead.
Beneath it were a pair of icy eyes filled with killing intent.
Those eyes stared fixedly at the outsider zombie.
Hu Xiaoguo wanted to beg for help.
But the pain from her facial injuries made her unable to move or say a word.
Now she could only pray that the girl before her would quickly kill the outsider zombie.
The next second, furious at failing to eat Hu Xiaoguo’s eyes, the outsider zombie viciously thrust both hands toward Hu Xiaoguo’s abdomen.
Its hands had barely entered her stomach before they were severed simultaneously by the Tang blade.
Hu Xiaoguo spat out a mouthful of blood.
Her eyes widened as she slowly lowered her head and stared at the two severed zombie hands still embedded in her stomach.
Her eyes rolled back.
She fainted.
When Hu Xiaoguo finally woke up again, an entire week had passed.
During that week, Yan Qing had come every day to check on her condition.
Only after seeing Hu Xiaoguo wake up successfully did Yan Qing finally relax.
Yan Qing spent half a day explaining the situation at the base to Hu Xiaoguo, including the point system and mission system.
She told Hu Xiaoguo that now that she had awakened, she should take missions and support herself.
“Oh right, see what ability you awakened.”
Yan Qing picked up the kettle nearby and poured Hu Xiaoguo a cup of hot water.
“Thank you. Ability?”
After thanking her, Hu Xiaoguo accepted the cup with both hands and gently took a sip from the warm drink.
Yan Qing looked at Hu Xiaoguo’s confused face and instructed her to close her eyes and feel the ability inside her body.
A gentle breeze suddenly swept through the room.
Hu Xiaoguo opened her eyes, excitement filling them.
“I… it’s a wind ability? It’s a wind ability!”
After Yan Qing left the room, Hu Xiaoguo noticed the mirror on the bedside cabinet.
“My face… my face…”
Hu Xiaoguo continuously touched the face ruined by the outsider zombie’s bites.
Then she lifted her shirt and looked at her abdomen.
Seeing the two ugly scars there, she burst into tears.