Mission: Preliminary Understanding of Zombies Requirement: Use your own abilities to personally kill 10 zombies of any kind Mission Reward: 10 World Coins, unlock the "Module" function Current Progress: 0/10 Mission Description: The world has undergone drastic changes. You need to investigate zombies and understand why these strange creatures have appeared.
This was the mission Shen Jin had received on the day he obtained the system.
Then Shen Jin spent a week studying the system's functions, thinking that with his outstanding brain, he could kill ten zombies without shedding a drop of blood.
Who knew! Who the hell could have imagined that the damn system wouldn't recognize his "Grand Earth Burial Technique."
As a result, Shen Jin shelved the mission for quite some time.
Later, he discovered that the system's current functions were actually already quite useful, so he began living the life of a hoarding rat.
During the early days of the apocalypse, when everything was still chaotic, Shen Jin stole a huge, huge, absolutely massive amount of supplies.
Then his stockpile grew, and so did his fear of death.
He was afraid that all his supplies would remain buried forever in the underground "Heaven," "Earth," "Mystic," and "Yellow" series of rooms.
And so, the mission had been delayed until now.
In the third month of the apocalypse, Superhuman powers had emerged. Shen Jin felt that if he still didn't unlock new system features, he would likely be left far behind by everyone else.
Especially after Sun Can used his ability to kill Lu Qiang, who had unlocked his Gene Lock.
It had greatly shocked him.
With his current abilities, even with his trump cards included, he would not be able to deal with many Superhuman humans or even more powerful Evolved Zombies in the future.
"I have to kill zombies! I have to get stronger! I can't get addicted to this comfort zone!" Shen Jin encouraged himself.
Then he opened his computer and found the recent anime he had been following, Demon Slayer.
He had found it on a computer hard drive in a residential home. Besides newer anime like this, there were also many classic older shows.
Of course, there were even more low-quality ones, the kind where the characters' clothes did not even fully show.
He adjusted his electric recliner and lay down in a comfortable position.
A bottle of cola appeared out of thin air in his hand.
"Glug, glug, glug."
"Ahh~ Another peaceful day~"
"As for working hard, I'll talk about that tomorrow morning."
In the morning, Shen Jin felt that Shang Qian and Li Moxiao seemed to have grown much closer.
He casually made the two of them some breakfast.
Shen Jin also stuffed a bag of Snickers and Compressed Biscuits into Li Moxiao's hands, telling her to snack on them if she got hungry.
He had to keep her from nearly starving to death again while he was out.
Yesterday's incident had left Shen Jin traumatized.
At the same time, Shen Jin found it strange. Logically speaking, even if a normal young person was still growing, she should not nearly starve to death from missing two meals, right?
His little niece had eaten six huge mooncakes and drunk two bowls of milk powder that morning!
And! Last night, she had eaten nine half-pound steaks and a cornbread bun. That was not the appetite of a girl, was it?
It was baffling.
Shen Jin looked at Li Moxiao, who had developed somewhat prematurely and looked like a college student. "Could it be some lingering problem from growing too fast? Binge eating?"
Tsk, tsk~ Then you'd better get ready to gain weight!
Shen Jin decided to observe her a little longer in the future.
As for Shang Qian... Shen Jin noticed that the once pure yet mature beauty had changed somewhat. Whenever she looked at him, she always wore a faint, auntie-like smile.
It gave him the creeps.
Damn it! Neither of them was normal.
He had impulsively brought Shang Qian back yesterday, but what was she supposed to do here? She could not just sit around eating his supplies!
Warm his bed?
Ahem, ahem. They would talk about that later.
Li Moxiao was fine, at least. She was only sixteen, so letting her eat for free was no big deal. He would just raise her like a little niece.
He decided not to dwell on it. It was only one more mouth to feed, and perhaps the authorities would rescue her sometime this month.
Carrying a plastic bucket, Shen Jin arrived at the underground trap area and met Yang Ao.
"You want to join my territory?"
"Yes, Boss!"
"Then show me whether you have what it takes! As long as you can make ten zombies completely lose the ability to move, I'll let you move in."
"Alright! I'm willing to try."
Yang Ao happily accepted a set of leather clothes, a helmet, gloves, and a longsword from Shen Jin.
Hehe~ System, system, I refuse to believe you can stop me from completing the mission this time!
Shen Jin decided to use Yang Ao as muscle while he stayed behind to claim the kills.
There was no way he was going to fight head-on. He could only make a living by picking up kills like this.
He took out some mooncakes and jerky for Yang Ao to fill up on, and the two headed straight for several places Shen Jin had selected long ago.
If you wanted a horse to run, you had to feed it grass.
Yang Ao looked at Shen Jin gratefully, feeling that his future was bright.
What kind of generosity did it take for someone to take out two mooncakes and a stick of jerky without even blinking?
Those were two huge mooncakes!
And a stick of jerky with a net weight of twenty grams!
As Yang Ao walked through the underground passage, he marveled at the massive project. It must have taken countless people working day and night to complete it.
He became even more wary of Shen Jin.
A while later.
Inside an apartment building somewhere west of the villa.
A helmet suddenly poked up from the small courtyard on the first floor.
Yang Ao surveyed the area. There did not seem to be anything unusual above, so he carefully climbed out and waved to Shen Jin below.
Shen Jin passed out the plastic bucket first, then climbed out himself. This time, he was not wearing his thick iron armor. Their mission this time was to kill zombies, and that thing was far too cumbersome.
The two crept up beside the floor-to-ceiling windows on the first floor and heard what sounded like movement inside.
Shen Jin gave Yang Ao a look. Go!
He hid behind him.
Yang Ao took a deep breath and kicked open the glass.
There were clearly zombies inside, and more than one! They rushed out together!
Two gray-haired male zombies and one female zombie charged at them. Their mobility was nothing like that of elderly people; they pounced nimbly in their direction.
The two had misjudged the situation!
There was more than one zombie here!
Although Yang Ao had worked with others to kill zombies before, there was no way he could handle two ordinary zombies alone!
"Don't panic. I'll provide long-range support."
With firearms unusable, where were you going to get long-range support? Yang Ao gave a bitter smile, assuming Shen Jin was just making empty promises to encourage him.
He held the Iron Sword Shen Jin had given him, his hands trembling slightly.
But Yang Ao was clearly not some useless rich kid.
Before the apocalypse, he had always loved all kinds of outdoor sports. He had even learned a few lockpicking tricks from an old master.
That was precisely why his father had researched genetic enhancement drugs: to improve the physical abilities of his death-defying beloved son.
Taking a deep breath, Yang Ao calmed down. The sword in his hand stopped shaking as he focused completely on the two zombies before him.
"What a shame. The window is too big. If the entrance could be made smaller, I could kill them one at a time."
Pew, pew~
Shen Jin shot three stone blocks out from the side, instantly altering the terrain.
One zombie slammed directly into the stone wall. The other struck its leg against the wall, paused for a moment, and pitched its head forward.
Yang Ao stared at the old male zombie's exposed back of the head, his mind full of question marks.
Shen Jin kicked him. "What are you thinking about?! Cut him!"
"Ah!"
"Pshhk~"
Yang Ao's Iron Sword plunged directly into the male zombie's head. The zombie struggled twice, then stopped moving.
The female zombie also reacted, copying the male zombie as she crawled over. The nails on her claws were hard and long.
She swung both hands, nearly scratching Yang Ao.
Yang Ao leaned back, then thrust his sword forward, piercing the old female zombie's head.
"Pshhk~"
After twitching a few times, the female zombie also collapsed and stopped moving.
Yang Ao first looked at the excessively sharp Iron Sword, then stared at Shen Jin in shock.
Since when had zombies become so easy to kill???
He pointed at the three cube-shaped stone blocks that seemed to have appeared out of thin air.
"Boss, this is the long-range support you mentioned?"
Shen Jin nodded noncommittally. "I'll finish them off first. Drag these two zombies into the pit in the courtyard."
The previously neat courtyard had somehow gained another deep pit besides the hole through which they had entered. It was just the right size for holding zombies.
Shen Jin stabbed the sword into the zombies' heads and twisted it several times, then had Yang Ao drag them into the pit.
He opened the plastic bucket he had been carrying and poured some gasoline inside.
"Whoosh~"
A lit match fell in.
Boom!
Apocalypse Rulebook, Rule Ten: If a zombie isn't dead, kill it thoroughly—reduce it to ashes.
When they had burned almost completely, the mission progress finally changed for the first time.
Mission "Preliminary Understanding of Zombies" Progress: 2/10
"Very good!"
The corners of Shen Jin's mouth slowly rose.
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