Homework Even in the Apocalypse

South of Miken, Doomsday Town.

Under Wenren Sheng's direction, Big Cat had arrived outside the town ahead of time.

Mist shrouded the town—a very familiar sight.

It was a habitual tactic. Though it could not stop powerful Otherworldly Users, it was enough to block Ordinary People and achieve the desired effect.

Howls occasionally drifted out from within. It was impossible to tell whether they came from wolfdogs or zombies.

Zombies existed only in film and television, and no one knew exactly what they sounded like. So the Backstage Black Hand had used fierce wolfdogs for the sound effects.

Power gave one the right to be so willful.

Big Cat slipped into the mist and walked down the streets.

What appeared before Wenren Sheng's eyes was a scene found only in games and movies—scattered figures with mutilated limbs and tattered clothes, wandering aimlessly with red light in their eyes: walking corpses.

These things should not have been able to move at all.

Big Cat rushed over, pounced on one of the walking corpses, and extended Alien Power into it to investigate.

Meme Zombie, Mystery Points: 9.

Mysterious composition: A mobile corpse created using human fantasies as a template, mixed with Mysterious Power.

Just as he had guessed, Wenren Sheng thought to himself.

The walking corpses saw Big Cat, ignored it completely, and continued wandering.

Of course. Though Big Cat was fat, it did not have a scrap of flesh or blood. According to the imagined setting, it could not possibly interest the walking corpses.

Big Cat moved through the town. It was a town of only several thousand people; Miken's towns could not compare with those of the Eastern Continent. After all, continents differed from one another.

After walking all the way through, he found only a dozen or