Shiina's Curiosity

Without the slightest hesitation, Ye Yunchuan chose to end his suffering.

Bang~

Ye Yunchuan plunged into brief darkness. By the time he woke up, his body had already been reconstructed.

Xiao Hei guarded him like a loyal servant.

"So this is what death feels like? If I weren't trying to get used to it ahead of time, I'd never want to experience this."

Ye Yunchuan sighed.

This test had taught him a lesson.

Even with an immortal body, he couldn't afford to be careless.

After all, not everyone could endure the pain of dying.

Unless he had no other choice, he'd never use this trump card.

"The Demi-human Bloodline test is complete. Now it's time to see what I got from the guaranteed draw!"

[Would you like to perform an S-rank draw?]

"Yes!"

[Ding~ Congratulations, host! You've obtained the S-rank talent Slaughter Plunder.]

[Slaughter Plunder: After killing a target, you can plunder a random number of attribute points from them. The amount you obtain depends on the target's strength.]

"Now that's a good one!"

Ye Yunchuan's eyes lit up.

Compared to the Demi-human Bloodline, whose abilities were already fixed, the S-rank talent Slaughter Plunder undoubtedly had much greater potential.

However, this talent didn't seem very useful in this world.

This was, after all, a society ruled by law.

Where was he supposed to find so many enemies to kill?

"But the system never said what kind of target I have to kill. I wonder if killing ants and mosquitoes can make me stronger."

Ever clever, Ye Yunchuan wanted to exploit a loophole, so he casually slapped a mosquito to death.

[Ding~ You killed a mosquito and gained 0.**0000001 Strength.]

Ye Yunchuan had thought he was pretty crafty, but after seeing all those zeroes, he couldn't help admitting that his cleverness was merely ordinary.

Did he think he could get stronger by killing bugs?

He might as well forget it and go to sleep!

Still, Ye Yunchuan hadn't expected that he'd soon get the chance to kill someone.

"Ah~ Help!"

As Ye Yunchuan walked back, he suddenly heard a girl cry out for help.

Normally, he definitely wouldn't go looking for trouble.

But now...

Of course he was going to tell that guy to let the girl go and let him handle it!

"Help! Somebody, please save me!"

At that moment, a white-haired girl was running for her life.

Behind her, a schoolboy in uniform, covered in blood, pursued her without pause.

"Grrr~" The boy's eyes were bloodshot, and he walked in a bizarre, unsteady way. Even more horrifyingly, he let out an animalistic growl.

"Why does this look so familiar? Don't tell me it's a zombie?!"

Ye Yunchuan froze for a moment.

One second, he'd been getting ready for a battle of wits at school; the next, it had become a zombie apocalypse.

The change had been so abrupt that he was caught completely off guard.

"Wait, the person being chased looks like Shiina Hiyori from Class C."

Ye Yunchuan narrowed his eyes.

If it had been an ordinary girl, he might have hesitated.

But Shiina Hiyori was different.

She was one of the few beauties in Class C, a cultured girl who loved reading. No matter what, he had to save her.

"Ah!"

Shiina Hiyori was a girl, after all, and after being chased for so long, she'd clearly run out of strength.

Before long, she fell to the ground.

"It's over. Am I really going to die here?"

Seeing the zombie closing in behind her, Shiina Hiyori could only look on in helpless despair.

"Bang!"

Just as Shiina Hiyori was about to accept her fate, the zombie's head was blasted away by a tremendous force. By the time she reacted, it had already collapsed, stiff as a board.

"Am I safe?"

Shiina Hiyori couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

"Mm, you're safe. I saved you."

Ye Yunchuan stepped forward with his hands in his pockets and looked down at Shiina Hiyori.

"Was that you? Thank you, classmate. My name is Shiina Hiyori. Could you tell me yours?"

Shiina Hiyori couldn't help studying Ye Yunchuan.

She'd seen what had just happened. The zombie's head had inexplicably exploded.

She was curious about how Ye Yunchuan had done it.

[Ding~ You killed 1 zombie and gained 1 Strength.]

As the notification sounded, Ye Yunchuan could clearly feel his strength increase.

"So it really is a zombie!"

What caught his attention even more than his increased strength was the name of the target he'd killed.

The implication was obvious.

But soon, a strange smile spread across his face.

For most people, the apocalypse would undoubtedly be a nightmare.

But for someone like him, with a system, it was definitely a good thing.

Before, he'd been bound by the law and his conscience.

At most, he could get one girl to have a baby for him.

But now... heh heh...

"My name is Ye Yunchuan. Since I saved your life, how are you going to thank me?"

At the thought, Ye Yunchuan's manner grew more and more brazen.

He reached out and lifted Shiina Hiyori's chin.

No wonder she was the belle of Class C. Shiina Hiyori's looks and bearing were both exceptional. She was breathtakingly beautiful.

"Eh?!" Shiina Hiyori froze.

Normally, wasn't a hero's rescue supposed to come without strings attached?

It wasn't as if she were someone who didn't repay kindness.

But she'd never imagined Ye Yunchuan would ask so bluntly for a reward.

"Um... I haven't decided yet."

Shiina Hiyori blushed and looked away.

"How about having a child for me? If you have a child for me, we'll be even!"

"Ah... I..."

Shiina Hiyori blushed. She hadn't expected Ye Yunchuan to make such an outrageous request.

As for whether Ye Yunchuan was being shameless or anything like that, she didn't think it mattered.

She did owe him her life. Life was more important than anything, so she didn't think any reward he asked for would be unreasonable.

It was just that she was still young and wasn't ready to become a mother so soon.

"Let's talk about the reward later. There's something very important I need to tell you."

"Yunchuan, you saw what that person looked like just now, right? The biohazard has become reality. Our school is probably going to fall!"

Chapter Nine: Shiina's Curiosity

"So you stayed in the library until the middle of the night, and then your classmate who was reading with you suddenly turned into a zombie? And then there were screams all around you?"

Since she read a lot, Shiina Hiyori had sometimes come across works about the apocalypse.

The situation she was facing now wasn't too difficult for her to accept.

"That's right."

"It looks like this school really is about to fall!"

Ye Yunchuan frowned.

There were already screams coming from around the school.

Even if it hadn't fallen yet, it wasn't far off.

What worried him most was that the virus was apparently airborne.

He didn't know whether an Ajin's constitution could withstand it.

But Shiina Hiyori seemed fine, so he probably wasn't that fragile.

Still, he wondered...

"I wonder how Karuizawa Kei is doing. She was sleeping so soundly that she probably wouldn't just wander out! More importantly, I'm worried whether she can withstand the first wave of the virus."

After thinking it over, Ye Yunchuan finally decided to head back to the dorm and check.

"Eh? Wait for me, Yunchuan!"

Seeing Ye Yunchuan start to leave, Shiina Hiyori immediately followed him.

The apocalypse had arrived.

Having read so many stories, Shiina Hiyori knew perfectly well what mattered most in a situation like this.

If this had happened earlier, she probably would have gone to join Ryuen.

After all, the Class C group she belonged to wasn't lacking in fighting strength.

But what she'd just witnessed had changed her mind.

Compared with an ordinary person's strength, Ye Yunchuan's mysterious power was clearly far more intriguing to her.

Besides, Ye Yunchuan was much more reassuring than someone as overbearing as Ryuen.

[Ding~ You killed 1 zombie and gained 1 Strength.]

[Ding~ You killed 1 zombie and gained 1 Agility.]