"Place your bets now, whoever believes they can succeed, raise your hand!"
Everyone wore strange smiles. How could this possibly succeed?
As Zi Xing's devious thoughts stirred, Chen Wen Jing sensed them.
With a cheat on the scene, Zi Xing could only dream.
Hai Chang Feng suddenly felt bored.
"None of you are betting, this gamble is no fun."
"Knowing full well they won't succeed, who would bet with you! It's better to bet on whether the girls who lured the zombies can survive."
Chang Kai Tong bet a kiwi.
Luo Luo followed, betting two bananas.
One by one, everyone placed their bets. Shi Huai even bet a bamboo stalk.
"Nuan Zong, aren't you betting?"
An Nuan: ...
These items seemed to belong to her. What was the point of winning back her own stored supplies?
An Nuan nudged Fu Yun Ting, "Aren't you going to play a round?"
"I'll pass. Betting too little is no fun."
"Then I'll bet none of them survive, for a box of chocolates!"
Luo Luo deployed a drone, secretly following the three girls.
The footage synchronized onto the screen.
The three girls were indeed agile, sprinting ten kilometers and quickly finding a few zombies. After drawing the zombies' attention, they immediately ran back.
Tang Jing led her people to sneak into the villa. Believing a villa in the front row was An Nuan's residence, they piled cotton and wood around it, even drenching it with precious gasoline.
Lan Mi felt heartbroken.
"Are you really letting them burn down the villa? What a waste."
"The villa is made of steel, it won't burn. Only the soft furnishings will."
An Nuan wasn't afraid of them burning it. Watching them busily working like fools was quite amusing.
A brain-dead reality show.
A moment later, the three girls rode back, and Tang Jing lit the fire.
"This time, you won't burn to death!"
Zi Xing nodded, looking smug.
It wasn't that she was cruel; it was all An Nuan's fault for being so terrible, having attracted so many men even though she already had Zi Xing!
"Keep your voice down. We'll leave from the back. Letting them die in their dreams is our last act of mercy."
"Sister Zi Xing, you're so kind."
Everyone felt like gagging.
This was kindness?
It was an insult to the very word "kindness"!
Luo Luo watched them head for the back door and then scaled two walls back to the villa where they were staying.
Luo Luo looked at An Nuan uneasily. An Nuan smiled.
If these people hadn't shown up, they might have lived a few more minutes. Now that they were here, they couldn't blame her for being merciless.
Suddenly, two zombies appeared from nowhere and bit off one of the girls' necks.
"Oh my god! There are zombies!"
"Where did they come from? I didn't see them appear!"
"I don't know either, help, there are more here!"
Seven or eight zombies appeared out of nowhere. They seemed organized as they charged into the yard and began hunting Tang Jing and the others.
Zi Xing, who came to start the fire, hadn't brought any weapons. The most readily available object was a wooden stick.
She swung it hard at a zombie's head and cursed.
"Damn it! We were supposed to lure two or three, how can there be so many zombies!"
"Sister Zi Xing, these weren't lured by us!"
"That's right, they came from somewhere else, and they can climb walls!"
An Nuan slowly turned her head to look at Fu Yun Ting.
Fu Yun Ting smiled, revealing two charming dimples.
"Didn't you bet none of them would survive? I'm helping you."
"Fu Yun Ting, your skill is a perfect ten!"
Controlling zombies. With this skill, what else could he need? He could dominate directly!
Fu Yun Ting didn't want An Nuan to feel pressured.
He explained truthfully, "I can't control all zombies. Before reaching level six, I can only control zombies below level two. Those above level two are beyond my reach, and the airborne ones are temporarily out of reach too. I need to level up more."
After reaching level four, to maintain sanity, energy would be compressed to around level two.
Even with maxed out abilities, the Sun Obsidian's power couldn't be fully unleashed.
However, starting from level four, five hundred crystals would be needed to upgrade, and further levels would require even greater crystal energy.
Before becoming a level nine zombie king, he wasn't entirely safe even amongst hordes of zombies.
Fu Yun Ting briefly explained his situation to An Nuan, but he didn't mention his zombie king attribute.
No normal person would want to be friends with a zombie, let alone a lover.
He couldn't tell An Nuan these things now.
After Fu Yun Ting finished speaking, An Nuan fell into thought.
"Five hundred crystals... we might have to wait for the airborne."
"What do you mean by airborne?"
Everyone looked at An Nuan curiously.
An Nuan explained truthfully, "They are like outsiders. Native zombies are formed from black spot infections, then spread from person to person, and zombie to zombie. We call them natives. There are also some who are from outside. When a rift appears in the sky, that's when it becomes truly dangerous."
"After the sky cracks open, a wave of zombie rain will fall at regular intervals. Most of those zombies are fully formed, some with intelligence and abilities. However, most are just faster, more agile, and have stronger mobility."
Hai Chang Feng had a question, "Can't the natives defeat those outsiders?"
"It's not that they can't defeat them all, but the outsiders are more dangerous. The worst part is, we don't know where they will rain down."
This unpredictability was why, in her past life, most strongholds were located in mountains or underground.
It was all to defend against the zombie rain.
Seeing everyone's grim faces, An Nuan teased, "No need to be so tense. We just need to upgrade in advance and become stronger than them! Besides, after the sky裂变, it's not just zombies that appear, there are some good things too."
Everyone chuckled.
No matter what the future held, they were alive now, and being with like-minded people was enough.
However, everyone's minds became clear on one thing.
Upgrade! Must upgrade!
"Don't come near me!"
Tang Jing's scream pulled them back to reality.
A zombie's lower body had been shattered, but its upper half was crawling on the ground, tightly gripping Tang Jing's ankle.
Tang Jing screamed for help while frantically kicking the zombie's face.
Luo Luo, chewing on dried squid, looked sympathetically at the zombie.
"He was a handsome young man in life, and now he's being kicked in the face after death. How pathetic!"
With a fierce kick, Tang Jing sent its head flying.
She then hurriedly ran towards Zi Xing.
"Sister Zi Xing, help! Save me!"
Zi Xing saw two zombies approaching and quickly grabbed Tang Jing, cutting open her skin.
"Your favorite flesh and blood is here!"
"Sister Zi Xing, what are you doing?"
Zi Xing said coldly, "Didn't you say that if I needed it, you'd go through fire and water? Now is the time to fulfill your promise!"
"You..."
Tang Jing was so scared she couldn't speak.
Zi Xing mercilessly pushed her towards the zombies and turned to climb over the wall into An Nuan's yard.
An Nuan picked up her hunting rifle and said, "Let's go, time to hunt mice!"