Seeing everyone’s dejected expressions, Bai Yaoyao said to the group, “The main attack method of Psychic Zombies is mind control. Just be more careful in the future. If you’re prepared, it’s difficult for them to succeed.”
“Okay, understood, Yao-jie.”
…
After everyone left, the shadowy figure reappeared.
Staring at the zombie with its head smashed to pulp, it stood there watching for a long time. It raised its hand as if to restore it, hesitated for a moment, then gave up in disgust…
……
The group found a relatively clean small restaurant to have lunch.
Dada Juan and Monkey watched everyone happily eating hot pot mutton while looking at their own plates of inferior Mutated Dog barbecue, unable to hold back tears of regret.
Why does it feel like Dog Brother’s big bone and Xiao Wai’s water are both much better than what we have…
After the meal, everyone began exploring H University together. Bai Yaoyao had sensed several places with relatively strong energy fluctuations inside the campus that morning and planned to investigate further.
Upon entering the school, she led everyone to the sports field first, as that’s where the strongest fluctuations were detected.
Just as they reached the edge of the field, they were spotted by zombies. Bicycles and trash cans nearby, accompanied by a strong gust of wind, came flying directly toward the group.
“Everyone be careful, it’s a Wind Zombie!” Bai Yaoyao warned.
Everyone quickly dodged. Peiqi, who was on the outermost edge, couldn’t avoid it in time. Shitou quickly stepped sideways to block in front of Peiqi, instantly activating Skin Hardening.
Shitou felt that at this stage, Earth Ability wasn’t as useful as Skin Hardening, so he had prioritized upgrading Skin Hardening yesterday.
He punched the trash can, but the powerful impact force made his entire arm go right through it.
“Damn, that hurts a bit!” Shitou rarely complained.
“Brother Shitou, so cool, Trash Can Superman.” Xiaomi couldn’t resist teasing despite dodging, looking at Shitou’s peculiar pose.
“Adai, Xiaomi, Gouzi – the three of us and the dog will charge. Everyone else attack from a distance.”
“Roger!”
“Woof woof!”
The three humans and one dog charged forward rapidly from four directions simultaneously. While Lulu was casting lightning from a distance, Chen Xuan also added a skill enhancement.
Xiao Wai used willow branches to restrain the zombie in advance. Although it only lasted a brief second, it was enough for their team composition.
Bai Yaoyai aimed for the neck, directly stabbing her dagger into it before the zombie could react.
Adai rushed over and cast Dark Ability Black Mist Entanglement. The zombie didn’t even get a chance to react before being killed by their combined efforts.
Team battles are really satisfying – a Tier-3 Wind Zombie was torn apart in just one encounter.
Bai Yaoyao picked out the crystal core and stored it away, saying, “There should be four more Tier-2 crystal cores… ah, no, four more Tier-2 zombies in this campus. Let’s go kill them.”
“Hahaha, Yao-jie, that ‘ah no’ of yours is quite spirited.” Xiaomi almost spat out his water laughing.
“I think we can practice several sets of attack methods against different zombies. Our coordination just now was very good. If we can connect more closely, that Wind Zombie wouldn’t even have had a chance to use its skills.” Lulu thoughtfully summarized.
“Lulu is right. It’s mainly about combat adjustment. Keep it up, everyone.” Bai Yaoyao said.
“Don’t you think it’s much hotter today than yesterday? Is it because of my Fire Power? My clothes haven’t dried since we went out this morning, and I’ve already finished four or five bottles of water,” Dada Juan couldn’t help but complain.
“I have Water-based powers and I’m still hot too. Damn, freezing at night and boiling during the day,” Monkey chimed in.
“Yao-jie, what’s going on?”
Bai Yaoyao replied, “I’d almost forgotten until you mentioned it. There’s one week that’s particularly hot, with midday temperatures reaching up to 60℃. We’ll switch to going out at night and sleeping during the day when that happens.”
After nearly ten years, many details had become blurry. If Dada Juan hadn’t mentioned the heat, she wouldn’t have remembered – the zombies’ first enhancement seemed to occur right after those seven days of extreme heat.
After that, Level One Zombies became much more common. Many people who couldn’t survive the extreme heat would become infected and turn into zombies.
The good news was that the authorities had quickly adapted. Bases had been established in basically every province, where basic social order could still be maintained.
Though the law of the jungle was inevitable – this wasn’t just true during the Apocalypse; it had been the same before.
Huaguo had responded faster than any other country in the world. Many nations had directly turned into zombie playgrounds or dens of evil, where no one cared about the weak. Without superpowers, survival was impossible.
Only Huaguo chose not to abandon anyone, organizing rescue efforts, arranging unified accommodation and food distribution, providing jobs, and giving ordinary people hope to survive.
…
Using her Mental Power to scan the campus and confirming there were no Tier-3 zombies present, Bai Yaoyao still divided the team into three groups. Her comrades were all quite capable, and taking everything upon herself wouldn’t necessarily be good for them.
They needed to experience hardships and face dangers, otherwise it would only limit everyone’s growth.
Bai Yaoyao’s group chose to go to the dormitory buildings, which were likely the areas with the highest concentration of zombies and people.
Just as they reached the girls’ dormitory, they spotted a student team. The boy leading them had clearly awakened a superpower – Fire Power at that.
While he shot flames at the zombies, several boys behind him smashed them with sticks – their coordination was quite harmonious.
Seeing Bai Yaoyao’s group of four people and a dog, the leader proactively asked: “Which department are you from? I haven’t seen you around before.”
“I’ve cleared the path to the cafeteria. There’s food there too, you should go quickly!”
Bai Yaoyao raised an eyebrow. Though the boy spoke somewhat arrogantly, he meant no harm – his main intention was to warn them.
“Liang Ge, they’re definitely not from our school. There’s no way I wouldn’t know such a beautiful girl!” said a boy holding a stool from behind.
Bai Yaoyao suddenly smiled. When someone compliments your looks, it’s only polite to be courteous.
“Yeah, what wealthy family would dare keep a husky? They definitely aren’t from our school.”
The boy called Liang Ge suddenly grew tense, taking a step back with his group. As martial arts students, they had more experience. From a distance they hadn’t noticed, but upon closer observation, they could tell these people were clearly trained fighters.
“Don’t be nervous, pretty boys. This pretty sister won’t beat you up.” Bai Yaoyao thought this school was really nice – the kids were all adorably naive.
After Bai Yaoyao spoke, the boys looked even more frightened.
Liang Ge said directly: “What do you want? My classmates have things to do. I’ll talk with you.”
After speaking, she gestured for the boys behind her to leave first. Instead of leaving, the boys moved closer, stepping nearer to Liang Ge, stubbornly lifting their heads while forcing an appearance of composure.
Bai Yaoyao couldn’t help but roll her eyes. Deciding not to tease them further, she pointed at the Tier-2 Water Zombie outside the railing and said directly, “We want that zombie.”
“We barely managed to trap it out there. It releases water—you can’t even get close! It…” Liang Ge wanted to say more, but seeing how relaxed Bai Yaoyao and her group appeared, he fell silent.
Especially that Husky, whose face clearly declared, “I’m number one under heaven, I’m afraid of no one…”