Steve reacted instantly, throwing an [ender pearl] with a backhand!
The small greenish-blue ball flew out, and in the next second, Steve abruptly vanished from the spot!
The Bone Spear Zombie’s thrust hit nothing but air, and the Meteor Hammer Zombie’s swing landed right on the Bone Spear Zombie’s back.
With a loud thud, the Bone Spear Zombie flew out like a ragdoll, slamming hard against the carriage as its body exploded in a burst of black blood.
A bolt fired by the Crossbow Zombie whistled through the air and thudded into the Meteor Hammer Zombie’s back, the arrowhead piercing through its chest.
If these three were human, two would already be dead from this round of friendly fire, but they were Zombies.
The Bone Spear Zombie peeled itself off the carriage, leaving bits of flesh and skin still stuck to the metal plating.
The Meteor Hammer Zombie, its chest pierced by the bolt, looked down, reached out, and pulled the arrowhead out from the front—dragging out a mess of unknown tissue and fluid—before casually tossing it aside.
As for Steve, he had already appeared dozens of meters away by a pile of ore, successfully escaping the encirclement of the three Zombies.
An [ender pearl] teleports the thrower to its landing point after being tossed.
Steve didn’t dare to be careless, immediately readying his shield and Diamond Axe, but he didn’t make any rash moves.
The three Zombies had regrouped; the one with the bone spear was spinning it with a whistle, the one with the flail was retracting its rope, and the one with the crossbow was loading a bolt.
The three hunters checked their equipment, preparing to continue the hunt.
It wasn’t that Steve hadn’t seen monsters capable of using weapons and armor before; Piglins in the Nether could also use equipment like swords and crossbows, but these three Zombies were clearly not on that level.
Rather than monsters, they seemed more like… other players?
Thinking of this, Steve pondered for a moment, put away the shield and Diamond Axe in his hands, and swapped them for a stack of Cobblestone and a Netherite Sword.
In his hotbar, he only kept the Diamond Axe, bow, shield, bread, and ender pearls.
Suddenly, Steve burst into action, sprinting and jumping while placing blocks beneath his feet the moment he touched the ground, his movements so fast they left an afterimage!
Stepping on each newly placed piece of Cobblestone, he used the momentum to bounce up and place another, charging toward the three Zombies in a fast but extremely unpredictable trajectory.
PVP Technique: ‘Block Acceleration’—by jumping and placing a block under your feet the moment you land, you can increase your movement speed!
He remembered, he remembered it all—the scenes of players taking him to fight PVP in Huaxiting and Buxidao all those years ago!
The Crossbow Zombie was the first to react, climbing onto an overturned carriage to gain the high ground, its crossbow already cocked.
The Bone Spear Zombie and Meteor Hammer Zombie split to the left and right, widening their angles to block Steve’s paths on both sides.
Steve charged toward the Bone Spear Zombie on the left, which met him fearlessly.
Just as the spear thrust out, Steve suddenly towered up, and the bone spear hit the Cobblestone block with a ‘clang,’ snapping upon impact!
A crossbow bolt also struck the Cobblestone block, but instead of piercing it, it was deflected away.
These mere Cobblestone blocks seemed to be indestructible.
Standing on a four-block-high stone pillar, Steve switched to his bow and drew the string, aiming at the Bone Spear Zombie below.
The Bone Spear Zombie showed no fear.
Realizing the pillar only looked like it was made of stones but had a surface too smooth to climb, it actually hugged the pillar like a monkey and began to shimmy upward! You are reading on novelping dot com, the official source.
Though slightly surprised, Steve proceeded with his original plan.
In the gap while the Crossbow Zombie was reloading, Steve suddenly performed a side jump.
Simultaneously, the bow that was pointed at the Bone Spear Zombie whipped toward the Crossbow Zombie and fired, before he instantly switched to his Diamond Axe mid-air and swung back!
The Crossbow Zombie was still busy fitting a bolt into the string when it was pierced through the jaw by a pixelated arrow that exited through the back of its head.
The Diamond Axe blade sliced into the crown of the Bone Spear Zombie’s head as it clung to the pillar, meeting no resistance and spraying black blood until Steve landed on the ground.
By then, the flail had arrived, whistling down from above.
Steve raised his shield to take the hit!
With a ‘bang,’ the Meteor Hammer Zombie was sent flying back by the terrifying recoil.
And the shield in Steve’s hand, which had blocked countless attacks for him, finally ran out of durability and suddenly vanished.
The moment the shield disappeared, Steve had already jumped up and slashed down with his sword!
The Meteor Hammer Zombie’s head split like a watermelon cut in half, the two sides drooping limply.
The flail in its hand flew out, finally smashing into the four-block Cobblestone pillar Steve had just built.
Crash—
The Cobblestone blocks actually shattered, and countless fist-sized stones scattered across the ground, one of them rolling to Steve’s feet.
Steve was stunned.
How could Cobblestone disperse like water?
He thought back to many things that had happened before.
The stone pillars that suddenly landed, the bread that could be held by villagers, the coal he could mine…
He seemed to vaguely understand something.
He gave the pile of scattered stones a nudge with his hand.
The moment his blocky hand touched the pile, the scattered stones suddenly vanished, turning back into a perfectly intact Cobblestone block.
As expected.
He walked over to the Meteor Hammer Zombie’s corpse and poked it a few times.
There was no reaction.
He had actually wanted this Zombie to reach out and touch the Cobblestone block, but it wasn’t very cooperative.
It seemed he possessed some kind of conversion ability.
Forget it, he would study it later with that villager named Tyler.
Steve stopped overthinking and absorbed the Experience Orbs with a ‘ding-ling-ding’ sound, finally collecting the drops from the three Zombies into his inventory. This chapter was taken from novelping . com without permission.
Bones, [Hide Armor] with protection similar to leather armor, a [Broken Bone Spear], and a [Compound Crossbow] with only a sliver of durability left… none of it was very useful…
Wait, [vincents diary]?
Steve used the item [vincents diary], and the pages of the book unfolded before his eyes—
[Page 1/12]
[March 16, 2024]
[Damn that Sergei, ever since he gained the title of Hunter Kraven, he’s become less and less human. He actually personally executed everyone who came back alive from this hunt…]
[Page 2/12]
[March 17, 2024]
[Something’s wrong, very wrong. One of the people he executed yesterday actually came back to life… that guy’s chest was pierced through!! After he revived, he went crazy, biting people everywhere!! Luckily Marco reacted fast enough…]
[Page 5/12]
[April 1, 2024]
[This mission is going to New York, USA, supposedly to hunt a few Superhumans. Sergei is absolutely insane… maybe he has the power to kill Superhumans, but aren’t we just going to our deaths?? That’s the headquarters of Avengers!!]
[Page 8/12]
[April 10, 2024]
[It’s too terrifying, what on earth happened to New York… Marco and James are already infected… this place is a total fucking Nether…]
[Page 9/12]
[I’ve been holding out at the Fresh Pond Hub for three days on the cargo in the trains. For some reason, there’s not a soul in this godforsaken place. These fully loaded freight trains are like an oasis in the Nether. God help me survive.]
[Page 10/12]
[Marco and James aren’t falling for my distractions anymore; they’re guarding that food train all day long. They’ve completely retained their former hunting and combat skills. I can’t get any food at all. I’m probably done for.]
[Page 11/12]
[If I leave, it’s a Nether out there; if I stay, I’ll starve to death sooner or later. What am I supposed to do…]
[Page 12/12]
[To anyone who sees this diary, if you still have a chance, go to Birmingham, UK. That meteorite in March is the source of everything… As for me, haha, I just made a flail out of stone. Wish me luck.]
After Steve finished reading [vincents diary], he caught a piece of extremely critical information!
It turned out this was an RPG map with a plot script.
Steve closed the book interface and happily ran toward the countless iron ores next to the overturned train.
Behind him, the Zombie named Vincent had long since ceased all movement, but its face, split in two, was hideously distorted, its right hand clawing at the sky as if desperately trying to grasp something.