"Chen Ye, stop standing there like an idiot! Run!"
It was obvious.
Tang Zichen was extremely nervous right now, and a little scared as well.
After all, she was only an eighteen-year-old girl.
And the evolved zombie before them was indeed terrifyingly vicious.
Just look at those freshmen. Many of them were grown men who had acted so cocky earlier, but the moment they encountered the evolved zombie, they were scared out of their wits. To save their own lives, they were using every ounce of strength they had.
They ignored their teammates' cries for help.
A few shameless bastards even deliberately shoved their teammates toward the zombie, just to buy themselves a slim chance at survival.
When faced with life and death, these people revealed truly ugly sides of themselves.
Compared to them,
Tang Zichen was practically an anomaly.
Even now, she had not forgotten her mission: to take good care of Chen Ye.
That was her promise to Chairman Chen!
At this moment, Tang Zichen was also the only person present who dared to raise her sword against the evolved zombie.
With courage and nerve like that, she was countless times better than those pieces of trash...
Of course, Chen Ye would not abandon Tang Zichen and run.
He moved closer to Tang Zichen and whispered, "Class monitor, don't worry. I still have a secret weapon!"
"A secret weapon?" Tang Zichen was surprised.
"That's right. It's definitely hard and powerful!"
He was talking about his fists!
But the girl obviously did not take it that way.
Tang Zichen felt exhausted.
"At a time like this, can't you be serious for once?"
Chen Ye: ???
Who exactly was being inappropriate here?
As they spoke, the evolved zombie had slaughtered its way over.
Actually, the zombie was not deliberately targeting Tang Zichen and Chen Ye. On the contrary, those fleeing people were its priority targets.
It was just that many people considered Tang Zichen stronger. In their desperation to survive, they instinctively ran in her direction, leading the evolved zombie over.
At this moment.
The evolved zombie was less than ten meters away from Tang Zichen and Chen Ye.
Tang Zichen had no time to worry about Chen Ye. She immediately focused her attention, green light blazing all over her body.
The next moment.
"Whoosh! Whoosh!"
Under Tang Zichen's control, two peachwood swords shot toward the evolved zombie like arrows piercing the air.
The girl was going all out.
Clearly, the evolved zombie was putting far too much pressure on her.
However, Chen Ye was not optimistic about Tang Zichen's attack.
In the movies, peachwood swords could only restrain the lowest-level zombies. Against anything even slightly stronger, even when wielded by Taoist priests with magical power, peachwood swords were still not very effective and were often snapped apart.
Since the zombies in this secret realm followed the settings from those movies,
the peachwood sword attacks should be no exception...
Chen Ye's judgment was correct.
The two peachwood swords under Tang Zichen's control struck the evolved zombie like lightning.
Yet the evolved zombie's powerful defense directly bounced them away, and they fell to the ground.
Forget breaking through its defense—they could not even leave a mark.
The evolved zombie did not even glance at the peachwood swords. Without slowing down, it pounced toward them.
Tang Zichen's pretty face instantly turned pale.
At this moment.
The evolved zombie was already right before them.
Tang Zichen could even smell the rotten stench coming from its body.
And the zombie would not show mercy just because Tang Zichen was beautiful. It directly swiped a claw at her.
"Whoosh!"
The sound of tearing air rang out.
It was easy to imagine that if this claw struck Tang Zichen, the beautiful, soft-looking girl would surely die.
Tang Zichen also activated her telekinesis, trying to stop the evolved zombie's attack.
But it was useless.
Her mental strength was still too weak. She simply could not shake the evolved zombie...
At the critical moment.
A strong hand yanked Tang Zichen aside, allowing the girl to evade the fatal blow.
Then, Chen Ye shielded her behind him, grabbed a handful of glutinous rice, and flung it at the evolved zombie.
"Bang! Bang! Bang!"
The moment the glutinous rice touched the evolved zombie, it crackled like firecrackers, scattering sparks in every direction.
"Roar!"
The evolved zombie let out a pained cry and staggered back two steps.
It had not actually been injured, but it did hurt a little.
It looked at Chen Ye with confusion in its eyes.
It probably had not expected something to be capable of causing it pain.
Its reaction also matched Chen Ye's assessment: it was stronger than Old Master Ren!
In the movie, after Old Master Ren turned into a zombie and evolved, he was still terrified of glutinous rice. Stepping on it caused him such agonizing pain that he dared not come near it again.
Perhaps it was because Old Master Ren had evolved too soon after becoming a zombie, unlike the zombie before them.
Using glutinous rice to attack the zombie just now
had been Chen Ye's final test, meant to determine the strength of the zombie before him.
He was not bald yet, so he needed to be cautious!
Now, Chen Ye could finally relax a little.
Although the evolved zombie before him was stronger than Old Master Ren from the movie, it was not much stronger.
He could handle it completely!
Chen Ye rolled his wrists, then suddenly stopped.
It was not yet time for him to act.
The people around them
were not all dead yet!
Those people had been awfully arrogant just now!
Not only had they wanted to eliminate Tang Zichen, they had even refused to spare a weak and innocent underachiever like him. They had wanted to wipe him out completely.
They were even more arrogant than workers at some clothing company!
As for these people,
even if the zombies did not kill them all tonight, Chen Ye would hammer every surviving one of them into pulp!
In Chen Ye's dictionary, there were no disgusting words like "saintly compassion" or "repaying grievances with kindness."
So.
Next.
Chen Ye grabbed another handful of glutinous rice, but did not throw it. He kept it in his hand to intimidate the evolved zombie.
"Class monitor, let's retreat. Don't spoil its enjoyment of killing."
Tang Zichen now viewed Chen Ye's earlier performance in a new light. Hearing that, she instinctively followed Chen Ye and retreated to the side.
The evolved zombie did not think much of it either. Seeing that Chen Ye and Tang Zichen were not running, it cooperatively went after the others.
However.
After being blocked by Chen Ye just now and delayed for a while, quite a few people had already run far away.
Moreover, although these freshmen had been frightened into a panic, they had not become stupid. They knew that gathering together would only make them die faster, while scattering gave them a chance to survive.
Thus, they fled in every direction, all taking different paths.
At this point,
even if the evolved zombie could glide incredibly fast, it could not possibly hunt down and kill everyone by itself tonight.
Chen Ye frowned.
Of course, he would not just watch these short-lived fools escape.
Just as he was preparing to act personally
and keep the freshmen from getting away...
Suddenly, the evolved zombie stopped chasing them and threw back its head with a howl.
"Awooo!!"
Like a husky...
The evolved zombie's howl was incredibly piercing. Not only did it travel far into the distance, it even echoed back.
Then, something unexpected happened.
Numerous small zombies emerged from the darkness, hopping and bouncing as they gathered from every direction.
They happened to block the freshmen's escape routes.
Although every one of those freshmen was quite capable, and could defeat a small zombie one-on-one with alloy weapons,
there were simply far too many small zombies that had answered the call...
There were at least twice as many zombies as people.
Facing so many small zombies, the freshmen had no chance of breaking through. They were forced to run back.
This astonishing sight
immediately made Chen Ye's eyes light up.
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