"Honey, come out and look! It's Superman!!!" A woman leaned by the window and cried out in astonishment.
"What Superman? I'm barricading the door to keep the zombies out." Her husband ran over to her, panting.
"Over there." The woman pointed out the window.
Her husband followed the direction of her finger.
He saw a man wearing a cyan mask on the road.
A flash of blade light flickered before the man, and the zombie rushing toward him was beheaded.
Two more zombies lay beside the man.
"Holy crap, what a badass!!!" the woman's husband exclaimed. Then he used the inspection method he'd just learned to check the man's information.
[Basic Information]
Nickname: ???
Title: ???
Level: ???
"Huh? That's weird. Why can't I see his information?" the woman's husband said, puzzled.
"Forget that. Quick, let's call out to Superman and ask him to save us!" the woman said excitedly.
Her husband immediately stopped her and said calmly, "Don't even think about it. If you shout like that, you'll give away our location and attract the zombies. We'll be done for."
"Besides, Superman went to the trouble of hiding his information because he doesn't want to reveal his identity. Why would he be willing to save anyone?"
The woman thought that made a lot of sense and couldn't help praising him. "You're the smart one, honey."
"No, it's just common sense," her husband said modestly.
But, as it happened, some people still didn't understand even the simplest things.
"Hey, handsome, come save me!"
In the building across from them, a woman opened a window and called out to Lin Zhiluo.
Lin Zhiluo picked up the three cards from the ground, ignored her completely, and continued on his way.
It was almost five in the afternoon.
There were no quiet side streets anywhere nearby, so Lin Zhiluo had been forced to come onto a busy main road.
On a main road, he had to be careful not to let anyone inspect his information.
After all, his in-game name, "Yazi," had already become famous across the country the night before.
Fortunately, this Hidden Mask he'd obtained worked pretty well.
As he walked, he checked the items that had just dropped.
[Meigan Cai Kou Rou], [666 Cold Remedy], [Darlie Toothpaste].
Lin Zhiluo put the three cards back into his Storage Space and prepared to keep going.
When the woman upstairs saw that Lin Zhiluo hadn't paid her any attention, she grew furious.
Who did she think she was?
She was a bona fide internet princess!
She had over thirty thousand followers online.
And she had a wealthy top donor who sent her sports cars every day.
Yet now, a man in a mask wouldn't even give her a glance?
At the thought, the woman angrily grabbed the flowerpot beside her and hurled it at him.
Lin Zhiluo naturally wasn't about to get hit by a flowerpot.
He simply took a couple of steps to dodge it, then stared at the woman without expression. (She was wearing a mask, so he couldn't see her expression anyway...)
When the woman realized she'd finally caught Lin Zhiluo's attention, she was overjoyed.
She hurriedly spread her arms and called out, "I'm over here, handsome! Come get me out of here! There are several zombies in my place, and I'm so scared. If you save me, I'll hold your hand!"
Lin Zhiluo said nothing and pulled a card out of his Storage Space.
A small piece of meat, somewhat like smoked meat, appeared in his hand.
The moment the raw meat appeared, all the zombies on the entire street looked up at once, their gray-white eyes widening.
[Raw Meat Soaked in Zombie Virus]
After the apocalypse began, players affectionately dubbed this thing a "Zombie Lure."
Its appeal to zombies reached an astonishing distance of a hundred meters.
Once it was taken out, every zombie within a hundred meters would chase after it relentlessly.
Sure enough, as soon as Lin Zhiluo took out the raw meat, it drew the attention of countless zombies.
Lin Zhiluo gave the meat a light toss. It passed through the window and landed precisely inside the woman's home.
The woman's brows furrowed. "I don't want food! I want you to take me somewhere safe. Don't you understand what I'm saying?"
She pointed at Lin Zhiluo and cursed loudly.
She didn't notice that the zombies downstairs had begun moving toward her.
Lin Zhiluo ignored her and quickened his pace while the zombies were distracted.
Just think about it. He'd been worrying about how to draw away all the zombies gathering around him.
Then someone had opened her window to come to his rescue.
Good people live long!
The woman continued to curse at him.
Her insults were even louder than the pounding against her door.
Only when she heard a loud crash did she turn around.
The zombies had knocked down her door along with its frame.
A horde of zombies rushed inside.
The woman screamed in terror, her body trembling violently as a stream of yellow liquid ran down her pants and onto the floor.
Then her legs gave way, and she plopped down in the puddle.
Ripples spread across the surface.
Wonder what her top donor online would think if he saw this.
The zombies waved their arms and rushed toward the raw meat, scrambling to get to it first.
Two of them tore it to shreds as they fought over it.
Each zombie stuffed half of the meat into its mouth.
The zombies that hadn't gotten any weren't left wanting, either. The meat had whetted their appetite, and they didn't even bother biting people anymore.
Instead, they went straight for the woman.
"Ah!!!!!"
A terrible scream rang out.
It echoed down the entire street.
The people hiding in their homes, along with those who had witnessed what had just happened, trembled in fear.
They swore they'd never casually ask strangers for help again.
That was one of the lessons in apocalypse survival Lin Zhiluo had taught them: you had to know your place.
When the screams finally stopped, only a skeleton remained where the woman had been.
Strands of flesh still clung to its bones, and its skull had been smashed because it got in the way of the zombies eating her brain.
The zombies left the house, satisfied.
Lin Zhiluo also left the street without any trouble.
"Good, this should be the place." Lin Zhiluo glanced at his watch.
It was already six in the evening, with two hours left until nightfall.
He had arrived at the Modu Sports Center.
He'd originally planned to come tomorrow.
But the journey today had gone surprisingly smoothly.
He'd arrived here more than an hour ahead of schedule.
Lin Zhiluo didn't plan to waste any time. There might not be enough time, but he could still explore for a while.
With that in mind, Lin Zhiluo checked his status panel.
He still hadn't gotten any equipment that afternoon.
Lin Zhiluo suspected he'd gotten so much equipment on the first day because the drop rate had been raised for the occasion.
As for cards, he'd had an excellent haul, collecting nearly thirty in a single afternoon.
He still had two [Raw Meat Soaked in Zombie Virus] cards in his possession.
There was no helping it. That was the downside of a hundred-percent drop rate.
So much stuff dropped that even the good things stopped feeling special.
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