The moment Fire Thief finished announcing the rules, the clear sky instantly turned pitch-black.
There were no stars or moon, as if the entire world had suddenly been draped in an impenetrable curtain.
At the same time, strange, shrill screeches rang out from all over the world.
The sound was like a whistle, sharp and piercing, cutting through the night sky and spreading across heaven and earth.
Along with that sound, certain beings began to stir.
At a temporary corpse storage facility in Yunhua City, several staff members had the lights on and were gathered in the break room, discussing the newly released rules.
"What the hell are Living Dead? Zombies?"
"No idea... Let's wait for the official guide."
"You get one extra Ascension Coin for every Living Dead you kill during settlement! If we kill a hundred or so, won't we make a small fortune once Rule End comes?"
"I'd be satisfied just killing ten and completing the challenge so my Mind Power doesn't decay."
"Same here. Fire Thief called this a reward stage, but these are still Apocalypse Rules. Can we really just farm coins that easily?"
Bang!
As they spoke, a tremendous crash suddenly came from the glass door. Startled, they turned to look—and were utterly horrified at first glance.
A person was pressed against the door, their face twisted into a savage grimace and their eyes glowing with an eerie scarlet light. What terrified them most was the gray robe the person wore—the standard uniform for corpses kept in temporary storage.
The dead had come back to life?!
"No, no, no!"
They immediately realized that if the "Living Dead" in this rule had not appeared out of nowhere, but were instead revived corpses, then the temporary corpse storage facility they were in would undoubtedly be the