Everyone inexplicably felt reassured when they saw Ling Yi.
"Among us, there are students, business owners, workers, and teachers. We're all ordinary people. You probably never imagined that one day, we would be saving the world." Ling Yi swept his gaze over them and smiled calmly.
Everyone couldn't help smiling. Indeed, who could have imagined that the apocalypse would actually come?
"There's only so much I can do alone. I need your help. This is my sect's inheritance stone. It can let you master powerful combat techniques in a short time. This inheritance stone has forty-nine uses left."
Ling Yi took out a stone that looked very unusual.
Mysterious runes were carved on it, occasionally flickering with light.
"Can we become as strong as you?" a girl wearing a baseball cap asked.
The girl was Jin-hee, the very girl Ling Yi had encountered in the women's restroom when he first transmigrated here.
"It only imparts combat techniques. You need to keep fighting and improving your own strength to become stronger and stronger. You can think of it as killing monsters to level up. You'll discover that once you kill some zombies."
Although he couldn't use laws to kill zombies, he could use them to channel the zombies' Life Essence Qi back into these people after they killed them, making them stronger.
A team would be more efficient than Ling Yi alone, no matter what. Besides, he only needed law fragments. Life Essence Qi was useless to him.
"If you're willing, you can join me in trying to save this world."
"Oppa, I'm willing!" Jin-hee shouted excitedly.
"Oppa, I'm willing too!" the burly Sang-hwa shouted as well. Everyone burst out laughing, and even Ling Yi was amused by his goofy tone.
His wife, Seong-kyeong, didn't know whether to laugh or cry and thumped him twice.
"Place your hand on the inheritance stone, and it will activate automatically. Sang-hwa, you first."
Sang-hwa walked up to Ling Yi a little nervously and asked cautiously, "Oppa, I just put my hand on it?"
"Hey, don't call me oppa. It doesn't suit your image. Besides, if you keep calling me that, I won't be able to resist beating you up." Ling Yi was speechless. He had never imagined this fellow had such a side to him.
"Okay, okay!"
"Just put your hand on it."
"Okay, uh... ahem, left hand or right hand?"
"Either."
Sang-hwa carefully placed his hand on the inheritance stone. The next moment, a streak of light flew into his forehead. Immediately afterward, a flash of radiance swept over him, and an astonishing sight appeared...
Waves of light actually radiated from Sang-hwa's body. A suit of bright red armor, a Greatsword bearing golden patterns, and a shield bearing flame runes condensed out of thin air...
The armor was exceptionally magnificent. It was the Warrior Dragon Set that Ling Yi had copied straight from the game MU.
This was equipment Ling Yi had manifested through laws. It possessed most of its in-game attributes: defense, critical hit chance, chance to ignore defense, strength enhancement, and constitution enhancement.
"I forgot to tell you all. Besides imparting combat techniques, the inheritance stone also gives you a set of equipment. Sang-hwa's is the Dragon Warrior Set. As for its effects, you can discover them for yourselves over time."
Everyone's eyes nearly popped out. This was just too cool, too awesome.
"Honey, you look so handsome!" Seong-kyeong shouted like a little girl.
The others gazed at the inheritance stone in Ling Yi's hand, their eyes growing increasingly fervent.
"Next, Seok-woo!"
Looking at the four archers and twenty-six warriors before him, Ling Yi couldn't help feeling extremely satisfied.
Looking awesome was all that mattered.
The archers all wore imitations of the Goddess Set from MU, while the warriors wore either the Red Dragon Set or the Black Dragon Set.
The archers' arrows were air arrows produced by their bowstrings vibrating the air. Their skill was Split Arrow, which could fire up to six air arrows at once.
The warriors' skill was Air Slash, produced by their Greatswords vibrating the air.
Although these people looked magnificent, their combat strength was still low. They needed to "level up."
As for Ling Yi, he didn't need equipment. Sang-hwa and the others needed the protection it provided, such as defense against attacks from firearms.
Ling Yi and the others would inevitably attract the authorities' attention. Given how the authorities behaved in the movie, a battle would be unavoidable when the time came. This equipment could provide Sang-hwa, Seok-woo, and the others with excellent protection.
The train stopped at Seokjeon Station.
At that moment, Seokjeon Station-and indeed all of Seokjeon-had already become an ocean of zombies. At a glance, they were so densely packed that the sight made one dizzy.
"Maintain formation. Don't go more than five hundred meters away from me. Warriors in front, archers in back. Trust your equipment. Trust the weapons in your hands. Sang-hwa, pull the mobs."
"Yes!"
With that, Sang-hwa pulled open the train door and unleashed an Air Slash with a roar.
His Greatsword swept horizontally, sending a white, crescent-shaped Air Slash slicing across. Every zombie in its path was cut in two, instantly clearing a large swath.
"Woohoo, I leveled up!" Sang-hwa roared excitedly and jumped straight off the train.
Seeing Sang-hwa fight so fiercely, the others were encouraged as well. They jumped out right behind him and quickly spread out, each picking a direction and starting to unleash skills.
For a moment, Ling Yi felt as though he had arrived on a battlefield of gods and demons. He had successfully derailed this world's plot once again.
"Looks like the equipment I manifested for them was a little too powerful."
Inside the military headquarters in Busan, in the land of the Koreans, a balding old man was intently watching the satellite footage before him. On the screen, Ling Yi's group was slaughtering zombies in every direction amid the horde.
This old man was currently the highest-ranking military commander in the country. Behind him stood several politicians and senior military officers.
"Keep your eyes on them. Find an opportunity to capture them and bring them back. Alive," the balding old man ordered coldly.
These people were far too powerful, both in equipment and combat strength. Their combat techniques in particular already carried a fantastical quality. If he could learn the secret behind their strength, he could build an incomparably powerful divine combat squad.
Then dominating the world would no longer be a dream.
It wasn't just the Korean military. The militaries and higher-ups of other nations had also set their sights on Ling Yi's group.
No matter which movie world it was, these people were always fools who stabbed humanity in the back.
In their eyes, even when humanity had reached a moment of life or death, all they could see was power, profit, and their own ambitions.
Unfortunately, their ambitions would ultimately be nothing more than flowers in a mirror and the moon on water. Although Ling Yi couldn't use the power of laws against the zombies, no such restriction applied to these people.
Anyone who made a move would face Ling Yi's thunderous attacks.
Because they could absorb the zombies' Life Essence Qi, Sang-hwa and the others could not only improve their strength but also remain in peak condition at all times.
As their "levels" rose higher and higher, their attack power grew stronger and stronger.
Their mob-farming speed increased as well.
What frustrated Ling Yi somewhat was that most of the law fragments were duplicates. Although these duplicate law fragments could accelerate his analysis of the laws, what Ling Yi wanted was every law fragment in this world.
From the moment everyone got off the train, Ling Yi never attacked again. He simply followed behind them, freeloading law fragments. The zombies at Seokjeon Station were soon wiped out, after which they entered Seokjeon City.
In a single day, half the zombies in Seokjeon were wiped out. Three days later, not a single zombie could be seen in Seokjeon City.
During this period, they also saved quite a few survivors, but Ling Yi's group paid them no attention and didn't interact with them. They had only one objective: kill zombies and farm mobs.
A week later, they fought their way into Busan. By now, their strength was completely incomparable to before. Each of them exuded a powerful presence, and ordinary people couldn't even stand steadily before them.
The progress of his analysis of the Busan world's laws had also reached 99%.
With just that final point remaining, his work in this world would be complete.
Looking at the Korean army that Seok-woo and the others had cut down before him, Ling Yi's expression was somewhat icy as he raised his head to look at the sky.
The activity of this world's laws had increased again. The zombies in this world were mutating at a terrifying speed. They were growing stronger.
Although a world of this level had no Heavenly Dao will, its world origin possessed an instinctive sense of danger. It had sensed the threat, so it was using its world origin to stimulate zombie mutations at any cost.
Ling Yi quietly sensed the almost boiling laws of this world. For the first time, he felt pressure.
"Ling Yi, something seems wrong." Seok-woo came to Ling Yi's side and spoke gravely.
Their level of life had already undergone several sublimations, long since reaching the point where they could sense danger through sight, hearing, and smell.
"Get ready for battle. Elite mobs are coming."
"Hahaha, are elite mobs finally showing up? I've been farming trash mobs all this time. I'm sick of them already," Sang-hwa said with a laugh.
They were currently inside a central park in Busan.
The park had long since been destroyed beyond recognition by military shellfire and the attacks of Seok-woo and the others.
Deafening roars rang out from every direction. Densely packed hordes of upgraded zombies surged toward them like a tide.
"These zombies really are different." Seok-woo tightened his grip on his saber, his gaze icy.
Some time ago, he had found his wife. Unfortunately, she was already dead.
This filled Seok-woo with hatred for these zombies, and weren't the others exactly the same?
Ling Yi continued looking at the sky. He knew Seok-woo and the others could handle it. Even if there was a problem, Ling Yi could still use cheats.
"So you really are a weak consciousness that hasn't developed true intelligence. Are you delivering the final law fragment to me?"