Second Phone
Volume 24, Part Two: The Pluto King
After hanging up the phone, Zhuo Qingxuan glanced back at Little Shelly, lost in thought. The person on the phone clearly knew information she didn't, and the other party had asked her to act with the other four reincarnators—why? This was something Zhuo Qingxuan couldn't understand. And what about Sherry, this character in the storyline? Why was the other party specifically asking her to be wary? Could it be that this seemingly harmless Little Shelly posed a threat to her?
After thinking for a moment, Zhuo Qingxuan secretly made a hand seal, and a dazzling halo emerged from Little Shelly's head, then merged into her brow.
"Sherry Birkin, daughter of Umbrella Corporation researcher William Birkin, an important plot character, combat power F1-Rank... No matter how you look at it, she is indeed an ordinary little girl, a plot character, there is nothing wrong with her." Slowly opening her eyes, Zhuo Qingxuan could not see any secrets in the little girl in front of her.
Now, Zhuo Qingxuan must make a decision: whether or not to follow the voice in that mysterious phone call to find the other reincarnators.
What if this is a trap?
However, the other party does know some important things. If they intended to harm me, they wouldn't have needed to do so, and there was no reason for them to do so, since the reason I received that call was purely coincidental.
The other party didn't know beforehand who would answer the phone, as evidenced by their initial inquiry about their identity. Since they didn't know who would answer beforehand, they weren't intentionally targeting them.
Another possibility is that the other person is a companion of another person who entered this story mission's cycle of reincarnation besides oneself. This possibility is the most likely, but if that's the case, why not just have oneself go find a specific reincarnator instead of finding the others?
Even if Zhuo Qingxuan racked her brains, she probably couldn't understand why Li Wei said that. It was because he didn't know which reincarnator Sherry was the real one, so he had no choice but to come up with the idea of finding all the reincarnators. In this way, the True Shelly would also be with the reincarnators. Although this would bring the three terrifying monsters together, at the same time, because the True Shelly was nearby, the virus in Bao Ling's body would not take effect.
However, the existence of the monster must be revealed as soon as possible, otherwise it will become a troublesome matter.
Looking at the big screen, Li Wei saw that Zhuo Qingxuan had already started searching for other reincarnators in the supermarket with the person who was either real or fake, Sherry. Looking at Bao Ling, she was currently on the second floor, and she wasn't the only one there.
In another area on the second floor, a woman dressed in black is fighting several zombies.
"That's a reincarnator from the Ghost King Star Domain. People from this starfield are extremely proud and rarely associate with people from other starfields," Greedy Wolf, sitting next to Li Wei, whispered upon seeing the woman in black.
Greedy Wolf had just witnessed Li Wei using the phone to talk to Zhuo Qingxuan, which made him admire Li Wei immensely. Looking at all the reincarnators from high-level star regions in this theater, not a single one of them thought of using that prop called 'telephone' to contact the story world. It was indeed quite remarkable that Li Wei could think of this.
Hearing Greedy Wolf's words, Li Wei nodded. He naturally knew the power of the Ghost King Star reincarnator, but what concerned him was someone else entirely. At this moment, Li Wei focused all his attention on Sherry, who was following behind the Ghost King Star person. Sherry looked terrified and was hiding under a table, her Toy Bear nowhere to be seen.
Upon seeing this, Li Wei's eyebrows twitched, but a smile appeared on his lips.
The Ghost King Star alien was facing seven or eight zombies, but these zombies were slightly different from those Zhuo Qingxuan had killed before. These zombies were much more robust, their skin was as if it had been soaked in oil, and they were covered with some sticky substance. The attributes displayed on the big screen were. "Level 3 mutated zombie, combat power S1 level, possesses Super Regeneration special ability, undead creature attribute: no pain, no fear."
Zombies are natural fighting machines, and the Ghost King Star aliens have an S4 combat power, capable of shattering a zombie with a single blow. However, thanks to their Super Regeneration ability, the shattered zombie will rise again and continue fighting in just a few seconds.
Although the Ghost King Star Reincarnators are powerful, they really don't know what to do with these unkillable monsters for the time being.
When Bao Ling entered this area, she happened to witness the battle between the two sides. She immediately recognized that the woman in black was a reincarnator like herself, and not far away, a little girl was hiding under a table, trembling with fear.
Upon seeing the little girl, Bao Ling was visibly startled. This was the third time she had encountered 'Sherry'; the first Sherry she met had turned into a monster, leaving her with considerable psychological trauma. Who could guarantee that this girl wasn't the monster in disguise?
She initially intended to leave, but Bao Ling thought about it and came back. She wasn't stupid. If she initially thought acting alone was safer, now, after a series of encounters, she understood that it was safer to stay with the other reincarnators. Take those powerful zombies, for example; Bao Ling couldn't handle them alone.
So Bao Ling did something that made Li Wei in the theater very happy: she helped the Ghost King Star reincarnators. With her help, the zombies were destroyed even faster.
Bao Ling's weapon is a pair of swords. Her Gale Sword is known for its speed, especially after her combat power reaches A3, she can cut her target into palm-sized pieces in a very short time.
Then, with flashes of sword light, more than three zombies were cleaved into pieces in just a few exchanges.
The Ghost King Star Reincarnator glanced at Bao Ling with a hint of gratitude, then quickly opened its mouth wide and spewed out a mouthful of eerie green ghost fire, burning the fragmented flesh that was about to split Regeneration into ashes.
Next, Ghost King Star Reincarnator and Bao Ling spent a great deal of effort and finally wiped out the remaining mutated zombies, burning them all with green ghost fire, thus rendering their Super Regeneration ability ineffective. By this time, Bao Ling was covered in sweat, and Ghost King Star Reincarnator let out a long breath before walking towards Bao Ling.
"We Ghost King Star people rarely thank people, but I still want to express my gratitude for your help." The black-clad woman from Ghost King Star walked over and bowed to Bao Ling, showing no disdain for Bao Ling's combat strength being only A3. After all, without Bao Ling's intervention, she wouldn't have been able to unleash her ghost fire.
This alone was enough to win Bao Ling's favor.
Since both were women, there were no obstacles in their conversation, and they quickly established a basic level of trust. Bao Ling glanced at Sherry, who had crawled out from under the table, hesitated slightly, and then told the woman in black about her initial experience.
"What? Such a thing actually happened?" The woman in black was clearly surprised. She turned and glanced at Sherry, a hint of murderous intent flashing in her eyes.
However, this murderous intent was fleeting, and the woman in black quickly regained her composure. "If this little girl turns into a monster, I will kill it immediately. Bao Ling, thank you for the reminder. From now on, you can call me Ghost Princess!"
"Okay, Sister Ghost Princess." Bao Ling's obedient demeanor won Ghost Princess's favor, and the latter chuckled, accepting the title.
Li Wei, who witnessed all of this, breathed a sigh of relief. With the protection of the S4-level Ghost Princess, Bao Ling should be safe from any danger, which put Li Wei at ease.
So the next step is to safely get through the remaining 8 hours.
The main dangers Bao Ling and her friends are facing now are those fake Sherry, also known as the four zombies 'Despair,' 'Time,' 'Space,' and 'Pain' mentioned by the host. In addition, there are mutated zombies scattered in various areas. These monsters generally possess the ability of Super Regeneration and are more than twice as powerful as the zombies Li Wei knows.
If one were to accidentally find oneself surrounded by such zombies, even the S4 Ghost King Star Ghost Princess would likely not fare any better.
"We still need to find a second phone so we can establish a connection with the story world. However, we can't openly influence the plot through the Copper Pot World; that host is probably already suspicious."
Li Wei stared at the big screen, his mind racing as he considered countermeasures. Just then, he saw something flash across the screen.
It was a corpse, seemingly an ordinary person killed by zombies. However, most of this unfortunate soul's body was destroyed, so even though his body was filled with the virus, he couldn't turn into a zombie and stand up again.
The corpse was wearing a black suit, and the thing Li Wei had seen was inside the suit's inner pocket. If part of it hadn't been sticking out of the pocket, Li Wei wouldn't have noticed it.
Upon seeing that thing, Li Wei's heart skipped a beat, but he swallowed hard, then pretended to be nonchalant as he got up and walked out of the theater.
At this moment, many people in the theater were searching for the telephone, but apart from the one that Li Wei had destroyed, they couldn't find a second one.
Li Wei walked to a deserted corner, then activated the Shifting Forms and Changing Positions and entered the Copper Pot World.
Next, he created a zombie and then Mirror Image it.
A moment later, on the second floor of the supermarket, a black hole suddenly appeared, and then a zombie emerged from it. The zombie growled and dragged its body toward the area where Li Wei had found the corpse.
Along the way, the Mirror Image zombie encountered many of its kind, but these monsters stopped paying attention to the new zombie after smelling the scent of their own kind. A few minutes later, the zombie stopped in front of the gnawed, unrecognizable corpse.
Then it crouched down, reached out and lifted the corpse's clothes, took something out of the inner pocket, and then the zombie, holding the thing, was sucked into the suddenly appearing black hole.
Inside the Copper Pot World, Li Wei obtained that item from the Mirror Image zombie.
This is a mobile phone