Yunzhou City Falls

"Can you understand what I'm saying? Nod for yes, shake your head for no." Chu Yunyi looked at the shadow as he spoke.

The shadow nodded.

"Do you know how to use a gun?" Chu Yunyi asked.

The shadow nodded again.

Chu Yunyi kicked the cardboard box by his feet and said, "Take yourself a Little Bee, then follow me to kill monsters."

With that said.

The shadow followed Chu Yunyi's instructions, crouching down and picking up a gun.

It even looked fairly convincing.

Although, according to the skill description, the shadow's physical abilities were only half of Chu Yunyi's.

Still.

Chu Yunyi didn't need the shadow to engage in close combat. Wouldn't a gun do just fine?

They always said guns were the king of all weapons.

What era was this? Still using traditional weapons? Sir, eat shit!

As he scrolled through short videos.

Chu Yunyi suddenly froze.

Yunzhou City had issued an orange alert and activated its emergency response. There were even eight defense guidelines listed, like something out of a rules horror story.

"Did something happen in this place...?"

"Whatever."

"The bigger the storm, the more expensive the fish!"

Chu Yunyi slipped his phone into his pocket and headed straight for the nearest door, waving for the shadow to follow.

Looking at the shadow holding a Little Bee as though it knew exactly what it was doing.

Chu Yunyi found it rather amusing.

"From now on, I'll call you Shadow. You are a shadow, after all."

The shadow did not respond.

Seeing that it had not responded, Chu Yunyi did not dwell on it. The two entered the [Void Gate] together.

After some thought.

Chu Yunyi said to the [Void Gate], "Take me to the city in Dragon Country with the most patients so far."

Click. The doorknob turned halfway.

Glancing at the shadow beside him, Chu Yunyi recalled the skill description. This shadow was probably the type that would not move without orders.

He then issued several commands.

"First, stay within a thirty-meter radius of me at all times."

"Second, whatever I attack, you attack it with your gun."

"Third, any commands I give after this take priority over those two. Nod if you understand."

After hearing that, the shadow nodded.

Whether it truly understood or not, Chu Yunyi simply turned the doorknob and opened the door.

Instantly.

A burnt smell flooded his nostrils, making his nose itch.

Yet after another breath.

The sensation vanished.

In an instant.

Chu Yunyi remembered. No. 11, [Environmental Adaptation], had activated.

"Active skills may be powerful."

"But these passive skills aren't bad either." Chu Yunyi sighed with a strange sense of pride.

Stepping through the doorway.

Chu Yunyi held a Walther as he looked around.

This was an office building.

The burnt smell probably came from a fire somewhere nearby, with smoke drifting through the area.

He walked up to a large floor-to-ceiling window.

The corner of Chu Yunyi's mouth twitched as he let out a peculiar sound.

"What↗ the↘ fuck↗...!"

One building had been wrapped in thorny plants, completely transformed into a bizarre "green building."

Cars were piled together below, creating a massive traffic jam.

The streetlights had been smashed into crooked, twisted shapes.

Patches of blood covered the ground, as if something had licked them clean—but not quite clean enough.

To his right was also a construction site with exposed steel reinforcement.

Construction had stopped halfway through. Running into something like this was truly a headache.

Chu Yunyi turned left and right, occasionally stepping onto cars in the street and leaping across them as he strolled calmly through the chaotic city.

Suddenly.

A police unit appeared at the far end of his vision.

They were orderly directing a crowd into an underground parking garage.

They were probably people who had failed to escape in time.

After all, with all these vehicles jammed together, it was difficult to drive out of the city.

Traffic jams were like that.

You never knew what had blocked the road at the very front, and once one spot was blocked, the entire line was done for.

The larger the city, the more obvious this became.

One of the officers in the distance spotted Chu Yunyi and jogged forward a few steps, calling out to him.

"Young man, over here!"

"Please move quickly!"

Hearing the officer's words, Chu Yunyi looked in that direction.

Suddenly.

The fence around the construction site on his right was shoved over with a loud crash.

Bang!

As a writer, Chu Yunyi naturally knew a little about everything, including construction. He knew this thing was called a "foundation pit perimeter fence," also known as a construction safety fence.

However.

At a time like this, none of that mattered!

Because.

After the construction safety fence was knocked down, a bloated monster charged out from behind it.

It was a Gluttony patient!

"Hungry! So hungry!"

"Food! I want food... food!!"

The Gluttony patient howled as it shoved aside the surrounding cars, trying to devour the officer standing in the middle of the road.

Chu Yunyi raised his hand and fired.

Bang!

Bang!

Two bullets were fired in total. Naturally, the other shot had come from the shadow following his lead.

However.

Chu Yunyi had missed, hitting the car beside it instead. Two bullet holes appeared in the side of the vehicle.

"No, why did you miss too?"

"I was shooting at that Gluttony patient." Chu Yunyi frowned, feeling somewhat helpless.

Bang! Bang! Bang! Three consecutive shots rang out from the officer.

The pistol was clearly of a much larger caliber. It blasted a hole through the Gluttony patient's head, splattering brain matter and spinal fluid everywhere.

At that moment.

Chu Yunyi moved closer, and the officer grew wary when he saw that Chu Yunyi was carrying a gun.

After all, seeing someone with a gun in Dragon Country who was not an officer was more than a little suspicious.

"Relax."

"I'm here to eliminate these monsters. Do you have any useful information for me?" Chu Yunyi explained casually.

Upon hearing that.

The officer glanced at the shadow beside Chu Yunyi again and immediately went blank.

Where was this foreign friend from? Even people from Black Continent weren't this black, were they?

A Black Continent chieftain standing in front of him could probably be called white.

No, that was not right.

Where were this person's eyes? More precisely, it did not even have facial features. It did not even have fingernails or anything of the sort.

It simply was not human—a living shadow that had gained sentience!

The next moment.

The officer understood at once.

He got it! He understood everything!

I knew it. Dragon Country definitely has special departments.

Something like the Dragon Group or the Anomaly Investigation Bureau! He's one of those superpowered people recruited by the government!

Novels really don't lie!

The officer immediately saluted and said,

"I'm Zhou Ping'an, badge number 'Yun 0'!"

"Yunzhou City is currently occupied by a large number of patients. We're evacuating the civilians."

As he spoke.

Zhou Ping'an pointed toward a building—the one wrapped in green plants, looking exceptionally eerie.

"That building has been parasitized by a Sloth patient. It is our lowest-priority target."

"Our top priority."

"Is the scattered Gluttony patients in the city center, followed by the Wrath patients in the western district and the Envy patients in the northern district!"

"If you can assist us, that would be wonderful!"