Living Corpses and Action

The rain was torrential.

Under the relentless bombardment from the Mechanized Girl behind him, Bai Zhi finally managed to escape the city in a somewhat disheveled state.

There was nothing he could do. The enemy had a wide variety of attack methods: Rocket Launcher, machine guns, missiles, lasers... all sorts of weapons of mass destruction were being rained down on him like they were free. He simply couldn't find a chance to retaliate. No one could withstand that.

However, after he left the city, the other party did not continue to chase him, but instead stopped at the edge of the city.

After glancing at him with empty, lifeless eyes, the purple-haired Young Girl turned around in mid-air and disappeared into the thick rain.

"Her activities are limited to this city. As soon as one of those Monsters that appear out of fantasy appears, she rushes to clean it up... Just how much self-awareness does she still retain?"

Looking at the city standing quietly in the rain, Bai Zhi couldn't help but narrow his eyes slightly.

Now he finally understood what those traces of a modern war were all about in this city. With such a Humanoid Combat Weapon present, it was no wonder the city was so riddled with holes.

"However, if we consider it from this perspective, there are definitely still survivors in this city... Hmm?"

Bai Zhi's brow twitched slightly, and he turned to look in the direction of the wilderness. In the torrential rain of the night, a Plush Cat was rushing towards them.

"Why are you back again? Didn't we agree that you were going to find that Safe Evacuation Point?"

Looking at Xu Lian and the Plush Cat turning around, Bai Zhi seemed slightly puzzled.

"No, no, good, lots..."

She looked visibly nervous, and the intense pain from the wound on her right arm made it difficult for Xu Lian to finish her sentence.

"There are so many Zombie behind us!!"

"Zombie? That's... Holy crap!!"

After glancing somewhat doubtfully in the direction the Plush Cat had come from, Bai Zhi's expression immediately changed. He quickly mounted the Plush Cat and continued his desperate escape in the predetermined direction.

At this moment, about a kilometer behind the Plush Cat, amidst the thick rain of the Hei Ye, a dense mass of Undead Skeletons was swarming toward them.

If it were just simple Skeleton Soldier, it wouldn't be so bad; a bunch of white bone skeletons wouldn't look so scary. But the problem is that the Undead Skeletons following behind them are all covered in flesh and skin, making them look like skinned Flayed Monster off.

Bright red muscles were exposed, tendons contracting and expanding violently with their movements. Bai Zhi was startled when he first saw it, let alone Xu Lian, who was just a common High School Student.

These Flayed Monster, which seemed to appear out of nowhere, were incredibly fast; each one was a sprint champion. If it weren't for the muddy grass hindering their movement, and the fact that the Plush Cat was fast enough to ignore the terrain, Xu Lian would probably have been caught up by the thousands of Flayed Monster behind her long ago.

"You call these things Zombie? Zombie are way cuter than these things!!"

With one hand shielding his eyes from the Gale wind and large raindrops brought by the speed of the car, Bai Zhi shouted loudly to Xu Lian behind him.

"You need to apologize to all the Zombie in the world!!"

"So, at a time like this, how can you still be concerned about this... These things all come out of the ground."

Xu Lian seemed slightly powerless.

"Don't be fooled by the mere 1,000 or so we saw earlier; I actually saw far more, tens of thousands upon tens of thousands, densely packed, covering the entire wilderness, making it look like a scene of a Corpse Undead Scourge..."

"Emerging from underground... Could it be that a heavy rain brought everything back to life, causing these Flayed Monsters to also rise from the ground?"

Facing the Gale and icy raindrops, Bai Zhi reached up and touched his chin, looking thoughtful.

"The Flayed Wilds? Do those Flayed Monster appear at night? Or do they only appear when it rains...?"

Before Bai Zhi could finish speaking, a loud roar and Explosion suddenly came from behind.

"Well..."

Slightly surprised, Bai Zhi turned around and saw the Humanoid Combat Weapon that had been relentlessly chasing him through the city now bombarding the group of Flayed Monster trying to enter the city.

"... You weren't fighting one of those Monster before, were you? A humanoid mech?"

She also turned her head and glanced over there. Seeing the scene of flying flesh and blood and shells flying everywhere, Xu Lian's lips twitched slightly.

"What exactly is that thing over there...?"

"Close your eyes properly, what are you looking at, you little kid?"

Turning his head to look at the other person, Bai Zhi unceremoniously reached out and covered the other person's eyes.

"We're sneaking into the city now to find any survivors. No shooting, and don't cause me any trouble at this time. I don't want to lure that guy here again."

"Oh... the Safe Evacuation Point address will appear in about fifteen minutes. Shouldn't we go there?"

Subconsciously pulling her raincoat tighter around herself, Xu Lian nodded, behaving very obediently and perfectly demonstrating the correct way to cling to someone's coattails.

"Once we reach the Safe Evacuation Point, we can consider ourselves to have cleared this Dungeon, right? To be honest, today's Dungeon was the most thrilling of all the Dungeon I've ever experienced—it was ridiculously thrilling..."

"You've only gone through a few Dungeon? You call this exciting?"

The Plush Cat ran silently along the wall, reaching out to shield its face from the rain. Bai Zhi pursed his lips.

"Don't forget this is Large-scale Campaign Quest. For newbie player like you, the priority is to safely complete the Dungeon, obtain rewards, and improve yourself. For Player like me, the goal is to Walkthrough the Dungeon... I'll take you there when the time comes. The difficulty here has already exceeded the B-rank range."

Taking advantage of the moment when the swarming Flayed Monster drew the Humanoid Combat Weapon's full attention, Bai Zhi, along with Xu Lian, infiltrated the city again from another direction, stopping on the Second Floor of a dilapidated three-story building.

"I see... If this isn't exciting, then what kind of Hell Dungeon do you S-rank- Level Player face every day?"

With Bai Zhi's help, Xu Lian climbed off the Plush Cat and kept her eyes tightly closed. Xu Lian couldn't help but ask her a question.

"I feel this Dungeon is already very difficult; one wrong move and you don't even know how you died... Is this the kind of Level Dungeon you guys face every day?"

"More or less."

After thinking for a moment, Bai Zhi nodded.

"It's just so-so. It's nowhere near as good as the Orchardist in the last Dungeon. At least the Orchardist had Fruit Tree, but this place is just Monster."

"???"