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"Now!"

Yang Ao thrust his sword forward. Though he lacked martial arts training, his aim was precise and his hand steady. He managed to pierce the Jumping Zombie's skull from the top.

The zombie's own momentum, as it leaped, pushed its head further onto the sword.

With a scream, it fell from the air.

White and yellow matter splattered across the wall, its head half severed.

"Looks like this Jumping Zombie's body strength isn't that great," Shen Jin said as he used his pickaxe to smash the stones beneath their feet, quickly descending.

Fighting an Iron Bucket Zombie while in the air was a death sentence.

"Hoo~"

The Iron Bucket Zombie had arrived. Its heavy breathing was just to their east.

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Biubiubiu~

Shen Jin flicked his hands left and right, instantly creating a stone box around them.

"Hold position and counterattack from the hole!"

Shen Jin didn't choose to escape by burrowing away immediately. Instead, he decided to defend and try to counterattack. Within the stone box, their safety was guaranteed.

Today, they would face the Iron Bucket Zombie from a defensive position!

He opened a gap and then made several half-bricks on the spot, filling it in.

This created an opening of 0.5m x 1m, allowing their swords to stab out more effectively.

"Clang!"

The Iron Bucket Zombie heard the sound and charged, beginning to slam into the stone box!

The stones vibrated, and dust fell, but because the box was a single unit, attacks of this intensity couldn't break through quickly.

"I'll make four holes, and we'll stab the Iron Bucket Zombie!"

Instantly, Shen Jin opened holes in four directions. The zombie was frantically hammering the stone on the north side, clearly driven mad by the scent of humans within.

It was as if consuming them would allow it to evolve again.

"Stab!"

Their swords thrust out from the holes, penetrating the zombie's waist about 10 centimeters before getting stuck!

The Iron Bucket Zombie cried out in pain and thrashed, a massive force transmitted through the iron swords. Both of them lost their grip, and the iron swords were flung by the zombie to an open area nearby.

They had lost their weapons.

Shen Jin's eyes flickered, and then he frowned, saying, "This is bad. The strength of ordinary humans can barely damage a strength-evolved zombie anymore."

Yang Ao looked at the still rampaging zombie, not feeling any fear. He knew Shen Jin could take him away at any moment.

"I think a direct confrontation won't work. We need to think of another way, either to strengthen our power or our weapons."

Shen Jin felt the same. "Let's go! We'll do it differently. We can't lose the iron swords."

The Iron Bucket Zombie wasn't difficult to deal with. Shen Jin found the right spot, dug a large hole, and sent it straight in.

Then, he retrieved both their iron swords.

Listening to the powerful zombie's furious roars from below, its hands clawing at the surrounding soil and stones, it was incredibly violent.

"Brother Jin, why don't we just pour some gasoline down there and set it on fire? Why bury it and wait for it to die naturally? Isn't that very slow?"

"Burning will be difficult at this depth, there's not enough oxygen."

Yang Ao immediately understood. The underground area was completely sealed. With air only coming from above, it would be hard to keep a fire going; it would likely extinguish itself after a short while.

Even a home stove needed a lower air intake to ensure ventilation and keep the fire from going out.

"Based on my past experience, if you trap it underground, without sunlight or food, an ordinary zombie would take seven days to die completely. This big guy will probably last half a month."

This conflicted with Shen Jin's mission. The system required the designated area to be free of zombies for three days. If this brute didn't die, the mission couldn't be completed.

Shen Jin gritted his teeth, dug a pit nearby, and descended to the same height as the Iron Bucket Zombie. He broke through the wall about a meter from its head, exposing the zombie's head.

"Stab it!"

Yang Ao thrust his iron sword through the hole!

He touched and immediately retracted, never giving the zombie a chance to get stuck or grab his weapon.

Even through the stone wall, Shen Jin could feel the pressure coming from the other side.

Shen Jin immediately patched the hole. Under their sneaky stabs, the Iron Bucket Zombie's head was not invincible; it was covered in gashes.

"Splat!"

The iron sword was fully submerged, and the Iron Bucket Zombie thrashed its head wildly!

Yellow-green liquid splattered the wall, and a bit of brain matter landed on Yang Ao's helmet.

Shen Jin quickly pulled his helmet down further.

"This is all virus! Be careful, if you get infected, I'll bury you with it!"

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Not long after, the zombie let out a roar and its body fell.

"Go get a blood crystal from its brain."

After cutting an opening on top, Yang Ao, fearing the zombie wasn't dead, inserted his iron sword into the head wound and prodded around.

"As expected, I hit something! The iron sword can't cut it." Yang Ao felt the iron sword hit something it couldn't cut.

Shen Jin compared it to the one Sun Can had given him. The Iron Bucket Zombie's blood crystal was slightly larger, and the blood-red gas inside was also more abundant.

"Let's go."

If the zombie's head was still intact, within a few days, the virus would self-repair and multiply, reviving it.

This was why Shen Jin had the: [Apocalypse Rulebook, Article 10: If a zombie is not dead, it must be reduced to ashes after killing.]

However, if the zombie were buried, without a source of energy, it would die after a short period.

The two carefully climbed back to the surface, afraid that the roars of the previous two zombies might attract more.

Fortunately, the area above was farmland, and only about ten zombies were shambling towards them.

They were all common zombies covered in green moss.

"Go on, take care of them!"

"Heh heh, even power-type zombies died by my sword, these common zombies are nothing!"

Yang Ao felt a surge of bravado, and then... he was being chased by three zombies.

"Damn it, Brother Jin, save me! Give me some ranged support!"

Alright, in reality, Yang Ao was fundamentally just an ordinary young man with slightly better physical fitness.

After overcoming his fear of zombies, an adult male with a weapon was perfectly capable of killing a single zombie.

But three!

The difficulty multiplied, requiring strength, skill, and experience.

Clearly, Yang Ao hadn't reached that level yet.

"Heh heh, who was it that said common zombies were nothing just now? You're like this with just three?"

Shen Jin leaped up, standing on a high platform, and began throwing dirt clods down, creating roadblocks to separate the zombies.

It was like playing a tower defense game, using dirt clods to create a complex path for the zombies, which Yang Ao, the human turret, would then kill one by one.

"Ding~ Level up?"

Shen Jin looked at Yang Ao, and a sound involuntarily escaped his lips.

Yang Ao, sweating profusely, said, "Hey! You really think this is a tower defense game? My arms are killing me, I've got no strength left!"

Killing over ten zombies consecutively was a huge test of Yang Ao's stamina!

Shen Jin climbed higher to survey the surroundings, finding no more zombies approaching.

"It seems the commotion earlier has attracted all the zombies in this area."

Yang Ao sat on a protruding lump of earth, took off his helmet, placed it aside, and gulped down water, panting heavily.

"Gulp, cough cough! Gulp gulp gulp!"

Shen Jin, having served as the overall commander for this battle, was a bit tired but still came down to clean up the battlefield.

Wearing gloves, he retrieved a slightly smaller blood crystal from the head of the first Jumping Zombie that had died.

Digging a pit, dragging the corpse, pouring oil, and lighting the fire.

A one-stop service for reducing them to ashes.

After finishing, the two rested on the 6-meter-high wall for a moment, eating something to replenish their energy.

"Continue?"

"Damn it!"

For the rest of the time, apart from a few scattered zombies, they didn't encounter any Mutated Zombies, successfully enclosing a 1000 square meter area.

"Crazy Dave's Backyard" mission complete!

From the sky, a 6-meter-high stone wall enclosed a square space of over 1000 square meters.

Shen Jin's villa was located on the westernmost side of the wall.

"A tiring day is over. I'm so tired, I just want to sleep."

"How about, after dinner... we catch ducks?"

"Catch them, my ass!"