Feng Xue successfully crawled into the cardboard box and escaped the Landfill Area, a place that had interacted with the Monopoly and Yu-Gi-Oh! worlds. He resumed his journey. With the [Shi] Chen Xiyao had given him, he no longer needed to replenish his supply by using bricks.
In fact, he was starting to get a little cocky. During the days he'd been providing food for Chen Xiyao, he'd killed quite a few Omens. He'd even started to feel like these things weren't all that much.
In his first few days, he'd even wondered, Why not just hunt Weird Tales in the wilderness and only go into town to gather supplies on Garbage Day?
Then he ran into an army of zombies.
More precisely, it was a horde of underlings led by a terrifying giant zombie. The giant's feet alone stood more than five meters tall, and every step it took shook the earth.
Foul, stinking blood, mixed with rotting flesh, dripped constantly from its body. When the blood hit the ground, it assimilated nearby False Things, turning them into grotesque, twisted zombies within seconds.
It led countless zombies on a relentless march. The weaker Omens along the way were torn apart and devoured without a chance to fight back. Even a Male Fire Dragon flying overhead was knocked out of the sky by a clump of minions the zombie casually hurled at it, and became food for the marching army.
Faced with a monster like that, Feng Xue could only huddle in his cardboard box, trembling and praying it wouldn't crush him underfoot.
Only then did Feng Xue truly realize that he still wasn't nearly strong enough to survive outside the Landfill Area.
The cardboard box was powerful, but all it did was lower his presence. And sometimes, being ignored