Wooing

Inside the dark green military tent, it was covered in bloodstains.

Under the light of the camp lantern hanging from the tent ceiling, several pools of blood reflected the light.

Wu Ya, who was closest, had a few drops of splashed blood on her face. She stood frozen in place, as if petrified.

Tian Wang's plump body trembled frantically like a quail, and his pants gradually became damp.

The entire scene exuded a sense of absurd, eerie postmodernism.

Lu Bai turned around and picked up a bedding to wipe the bloodstains from the Eight-Sided Han Sword.

Just the small movement of bending over caused Wu Ya and Ke Jiangni to involuntarily take half a step back.

It couldn't be helped. Even though they had seen many gruesome zombies while fleeing for their lives along the way.

Killing a person and killing a zombie, although there wasn't much difference in their appearance, the feeling they gave to the onlookers was completely different.

Moreover, Guo Mi had accompanied them for a long time. Seeing someone they knew die in front of them was quite a shock.

Ke Jiangni steadied herself, "This... what should we do now?"

Her voice sounded somewhat distorted due to the extreme mental tension, but it was still discernible that she was asking how to deal with Guo Mi's body.

Even though accidents had occurred everywhere in the settlement, their District 7 was currently safe.

The army had entered with heavy weaponry. Normally, one heavy machine gun could guard a passage entrance tightly.

Even the most ferocious zombie horde would only turn into meat scraps in front of the steel defense line of 12.7mm bullets.

The chaos would gradually subside, and this meant that order still existed.

"It's alright."

Lu Bai sheathed the Eight-Sided Han Sword, returning to his usual kind smile. "We just need to leave this tent. No one saw anything anyway..."

Before he could finish speaking, the tent flap was lifted again.

It was a youth with unnaturally pale skin, but the first glance everyone gave him made it difficult to focus on his delicate features.

What was more noticeable was the aura he exuded from within, a sense of extreme brokenness, like a jade mountain on the verge of collapse.

He lifted the flap and stood at the tent entrance, taking in the scene inside.

"Looks like I've come at the wrong time."

With just these few words, the youth spoke with some difficulty.

It was like being caught in the middle of cleaning up a murder scene by a stranger. Everyone in the tent, except Lu Bai, felt their heartbeats accelerate. Though it wasn't them who had committed the murder.

Lu Bai remained calm. He pondered for two seconds and said, "No, you've come at the perfect time."

"What?" Ke Jiangni looked back at Lu Bai, not understanding what he meant.

Zing~

The Eight-Sided Han Sword was drawn again, its tip pointed directly at the pale-skinned youth at the tent entrance.

Lu Bai reprimanded him righteously, "Speak! Why did you kill someone? You're incredibly audacious!"

Ke Jiangni: "..."

Wu Ya: "..."

Xiao Xueyin: "..."

Perhaps angered by Lu Bai's blatant lie, a faint flush appeared on Xiao Xueyin's pale, almost sickly complexion.

"You don't have to do this. I didn't come for you. The person I wanted to find was her."

Xiao Xueyin pointed at the corpse, which had been cut in half, behind Lu Bai. He then added, "Unfortunately, I'm too late. Letting you join us is also a..."

Before the word "thing" was even uttered, Lu Bai had already moved.

The Eight-Sided Han Sword thrust forward directly, but Xiao Xueyin dodged by bending down.

Lu Bai was somewhat surprised by the opponent's swift reaction. He then raised his right knee and drove it towards Xiao Xueyin, who hadn't fully straightened up yet.

But this attack was still unsuccessful.

Xiao Xueyin had, at some point, crossed his arms in front of him.

Thump!

A dull collision sound made one's teeth ache.

Xiao Xueyin's feet left the ground, and he flipped backward twice in the air. It looked flashy, but in reality, it was to maximally dissipate the impact of Lu Bai's knee strike.

The sound of the collision immediately attracted the attention of residents near the tent, and many began to look over.

Realizing this, Lu Bai did not continue his attack.

Another reason for stopping was that the opponent was not as frail as he appeared.

After all, he hadn't activated [Blood Rage], and Lu Bai hadn't held back in his two consecutive attacks.

"I can forgive you for attacking me. I can see you're quite skilled."

Xiao Xueyin moved his arm. "So, I'll ask you one last time, do you want to join us?"

"Us?"

Lu Bai noticed the other party's choice of words and silently sheathed the Eight-Sided Han Sword in his hand. "If I join, what do I need to do?"

"Just like you did just now, take out the other Deathmatch Participants."

The explosion-haired youth, whose hair was dyed in all sorts of colors, suddenly leaped down from a tent. Before he even spoke, Lu Bai hadn't even realized there was someone on top of the tent.

Behind Xiao Xueyin, another man and woman emerged from the crowd. Lu Bai shifted his gaze away from the explosion-haired youth.

The young man, dressed in a gray hooded sweatshirt, pushed his hood back and shrugged casually. "Don't look at me, I was just roped in."

"That's right, our team now has four people, and with you, that makes five."

Xiao Xueyin's attitude felt quite sincere.

Or rather, with his unique aura, whatever he said seemed to carry a good deal of credibility.

"Hey, hey! I haven't agreed yet, have I? Didn't we say the last teammate had to be a pretty older sister?"

The speaker was a girl with several lip piercings. Even with heavy makeup, it was clear she wasn't very old, around sixteen or seventeen.

"The pretty older sister is already dead," Xiao Xueyin said simply to placate her.

Liu Yue stuck out her tongue and licked her lip piercing, then looked askance at Lu Bai impolitely. "Hey, I like bad boys. How bad are you?"

Lu Bai was silent for a moment, then said, "I have multiple organ failure."

As soon as he said that, it was the others' turn to fall silent.

"Hahahaha!"

Liu Yue, however, burst into laughter, completely lacking any ladylike demeanor. "That's hilarious, okay, it's him. I like this kind."

The explosion-haired youth and the hooded sweatshirt guy exchanged a look, feeling more and more that this group had no future.

"So, I'm in then? No need to align our granularities or anything?" Lu Bai raised an eyebrow.

Xiao Xueyin let out a long sigh.

"Regardless, we've at least reached a tentative agreement, right?"

With that, he proactively revealed an ability he possessed.

[Silver of the Elite Group: All team members except the user gain a twenty percent physical attribute boost. Team member limit is five.]