Unfortunately, with how close Gu Lingjian’s team and the zombie horde were to Liu Yun, there was no chance for her to successfully escape this calamity with her meager strength and short legs.
Liu Yun turned around and saw that the distance between her and her pursuers was shrinking at a fast pace by the second.
Knowing that her short legs wouldn’t be able to outrun those zombies, she had no choice but to ask the System for help.
"System! Please do something! I just came back from death and don’t want to go meet Yan Wang yet!"
Receiving no response from the System, Liu Yun wailed inwardly.
’No! Did I come back just to become a snack for these monsters?!’
Just when she thought that today would become her future death anniversary, a notification sound rang out in her mind.
Ding!
At this moment, Liu Yun thought that this was the most beautiful sound she had ever heard in both her lifetimes.
Thickening her face, she pleaded urgently, "System! Brother System, help!"
A second later, the System’s mechanical voice sounded inside her mind.
[Because of a minor glitch during the teleportation process, a compensation reward has been issued.]
Before Liu Yun could react, another notification came.
Ding!
[The small gift pack has been sent to the Player’s inventory.]
When Liu Yun heard this, she urgently said, "Open the inventory! Hurry up!"
At the same time, one of the mutated zombies with a speed-type ability finally caught up to her.
"Roar!"
It roared excitedly as it pounced toward Liu Yun with its mouth wide open.
At that moment, a transparent blue screen appeared in front of Liu Yun, displaying the System inventory interface.
Seeing that there was only a single white bundle displayed in one of the inventory slots, Liu Yun pressed it without hesitation.
Smelling the pungent stench rushing toward her from behind, she frantically ordered, "Open the gift pack!"
Ding!
[A small gift pack has been opened.]
Ding!
[Player Liu Yun has successfully activated 24-hour Beginner Protection Shield.]
Boom!
In an instant, a transparent barrier erupted outward, with Liu Yun at its center.
Bang!
The moment the mutated zombie charging toward her came into contact with the barrier, it exploded into a cloud of blood mist.
The expanding barrier swept through the surrounding zombie horde like an unstoppable tidal wave, turning countless zombies into blood mist and leaving hundreds of beautiful, shiny crystals on the ground.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Ding... ding... ding...
The sounds of explosions and the crisp clatter of crystals falling to the ground echoed around them without stopping.
Staring at this scene, Liu Yun stood frozen in place, her eyes wide open in disbelief.
’.... Heaven! What kind of sorcery is this?!’
At this moment, Liu Yun wasn’t the only one shocked by the power of the System’s Beginner Protection Shield.
A few meters away from her, Gu Lingjian and his teammates were also frozen in place.
Before they could come back to their senses, the colorful crystals on the ground caught Liu Yun’s attention.
’Huh? What are those shiny things?’
Out of curiosity, she squatted down and picked up the transparent crystal two steps away from her. The moment she picked up the crystal, a blue screen appeared in front of her.
Ding!
[Discovered a Level 0 Zombie Crystal Core.]
Reading the notification, surprise and delight flashed across Liu Yun’s eyes.
Looking away from the floating blue screen, she looked at the shiny crystal cores scattered across the ground covered by black, thick blood.
Parting her lips, she muttered softly, "So... these are the legendary crystal cores that are often mentioned in those novels?"
After a brief moment of thought, she looked at the floating blue screen and asked in a low voice, "System, what are these crystal cores used for?"
A second later, the System’s mechanical voice responded. [The Player can exchange crystal cores for System Points.]
"System Points?"
Liu Yun recalled that before the explosion, she had seen a few icons appear on the System’s main interface.
’I remember one of them had a storefront icon. That should be the System Mall.’
With that in mind, Liu Yun asked further, "System, how many System Points can I get by exchanging this crystal core in my hand?"
[One Level 0 Crystal Core can be exchanged for 10 System Points.]
Reading this, Liu Yun’s eyes lit up.
She then turned to look at the ground covered with crystal cores and grinned widely.
’These aren’t crystal cores! They are money!’
Although she didn’t know what she could buy from the System Mall, nobody would reject money. Without wasting even a second, she quickly picked up the scattered crystal cores around her feet.
While Liu Yun was busy collecting crystal cores, Gu Lingjian finally came back to his senses. Realizing that Liu Yun was collecting the crystal cores, he fell silent.
Since the one who killed the zombies was her, he didn’t plan to take any crystal cores for himself. Besides, this strange young lady was also his team’s benefactor. It would be too much for him to snatch what was hers.
Just when he was observing Liu Yun, one of his teammates suddenly let out a groan.
"Ugh!"
Thud.
Hearing the sound of someone falling, Gu Lingjian turned toward it. His eyes widened in shock at the sight of his comrade lying motionless on the ground.
"Xiao Mu!" he called anxiously and hurriedly rushed over.