"Now, start placing your bets. Raise your hands if you think they'll succeed!"
Everyone smirked. It would be a miracle if they succeeded.
As Zi Xing's mischievous thoughts brewed, Chen Wen Jing noticed.
With an external cheat system in play, Zi Xing could only dream of success.
Hai Chang Feng found it boring.
"None of you are betting, this wager is no fun."
"We know they won't succeed, so who would bet on them! How about betting on whether the girls who lured the zombies can survive."
Chang Kai Tong placed a kiwi.
Luoluo bet two bananas.
One by one, everyone placed their bets. Shi Huai even wagered a bamboo stalk.
"Nuan Zong, aren't you betting?"
An Nuan: ...
These items seemed to belong to her. What was the point of winning her own stored supplies?
An Nuan nudged Fu Yun Ting, "Aren't you playing?"
"I'll pass. The stakes are too low to be interesting."
"Then I'll bet that none of them survive, and wager a box of chocolates!"
Luoluo deployed a drone, secretly following the three girls.
The footage synced to the screen.
Their legs were indeed nimble. They sprinted ten kilometers and quickly found a few zombies. After attracting the zombies' attention, they immediately ran back.
Tang Jing led her team to sneak into the villa. Believing one of the front villas was An Nuan's residence, they piled cotton and wood around it, even dousing it with precious gasoline.
Lan Mi felt a pang of regret.
"Are you really letting them burn the villa? What a waste."
"The villa is made of reinforced steel, it won't burn. Only the soft furnishings will be consumed."
An Nuan wasn't afraid of them burning it. She found their foolish busyness quite entertaining.
A brainless reality show.
A moment later, the three girls returned on their bikes. Tang Jing lit the fire.
"This time, we'll burn you all to death!"
Zi Xing nodded, looking triumphant.
It wasn't that she was cruel; it was An Nuan's fault for being so promiscuous, attracting so many men when she already had him.
"Keep your voices down. We'll leave from the back. Killing them in their dreams is our final act of mercy."
"Sister Zi Xing, you're so kind."
Everyone felt like gagging.
Was this kindness?
It was an insult to the very word!
Luoluo saw them about to leave through the back door and climbed over two walls to return to their villa.
Luoluo looked at An Nuan uneasily. An Nuan smiled.
If these guys hadn't shown up, they might have lived a few more minutes. But now that they were here, they shouldn't blame her for being ruthless.
Suddenly, two zombies lunged out from nowhere and bit off one of the girls' necks.
"Oh my god! Zombies!"
"Where did they come from? We didn't see them!"
"I don't know, help! There are more here!"
Seven or eight zombies appeared inexplicably. As if organized, they stormed into the courtyard and began to hunt down Tang Jing and her group.
Zi Xing, who came to set the fire, hadn't brought any weapons. Her closest tool was a wooden stick.
She swung it hard at a zombie's head, cursing.
"Damn it! We only asked you to lure two or three, why are there so many zombies!"
"Sister Zi Xing, these weren't the ones we lured!"
"Right! These are from somewhere else, and they can even climb walls!"
An Nuan slowly turned her head to look at Fu Yun Ting.
Fu Yun Ting chuckled, revealing a pair of cute and charming dimples.
"Didn't you bet that none of them would survive? I'm helping you."
"Fu Yun Ting, your skill is perfect!"
Controlling zombies, with this skill, what else could he ask for? He could dominate directly!
Fu Yun Ting didn't want An Nuan to feel pressured.
He truthfully explained, "I can't control all zombies. Before reaching level six, I can only control zombies below level two. Anything higher than that is beyond my ability. And the ones that airdrop in are temporarily out of reach too; I need to level up more."
Upon reaching level four, to maintain sanity, energy would be compressed to around level two.
Even with maxed-out abilities, the power of the Sun Obsidian couldn't be fully utilized.
However, starting from stage four, five hundred crystals would be needed to upgrade, and the further one progressed, the greater the crystal energy required.
Before becoming a ninth-tier Zombie King, he wasn't absolutely safe even amongst the zombies.
Fu Yun Ting briefly explained his situation to An Nuan but didn't mention his Zombie King attribute.
Normal people wouldn't 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 airdrop first."
"What's an airdrop?"
Everyone looked at An Nuan curiously.
An Nuan truthfully replied, "They're like outsiders. The native zombies are formed by a black spot infection, then spread from person to person, and zombie to zombie. We call them natives. There are also some from outside. When a rift opens in the sky, that's when the real danger begins."
"After the sky cracks open, a wave of zombie rain will fall periodically. Most of those zombies will be complete forms, some with intelligence, some with abilities. But most are just faster, more agile, and more mobile."
Hai Chang Feng had a question, "Can the natives not defeat the outsiders?"
"It's not that they can't defeat them all, but the outsiders are more dangerous. The most critical thing is that we don't know where they will rain down."
This unpredictability was why, in her past life, most fortresses were built in the mountains or underground.
It was precisely to guard against zombie rain.
An Nuan saw the solemn expressions on everyone's faces and teased, "No need to be so tense. We just need to upgrade in advance and become stronger than them! Besides, after the sky splits, it's not just zombies that appear; there are also some good things."
Everyone burst into laughter.
Regardless of what the future held, they were alive now, and being with like-minded people was enough.
However, everyone's hearts became clear about one thing.
Upgrade! We must upgrade!
"Don't come near me!"
Tang Jing's scream pulled them back to reality.
A zombie's lower body had been severed, but its upper body crawled on the ground, its grip fixed on Tang Jing's ankle.
Tang Jing cried for help while frantically kicking the zombie's face.
Luoluo, chewing on a dried squid, looked at the zombie sympathetically.
"It was a handsome young man in life, and now its face is being kicked after death. How pathetic!"
With a fierce kick, Tang Jing sent the zombie's head flying.
She then scrambled towards Zi Xing.
"Sister Zi Xing, help! Save me!"
Seeing two zombies approaching, Zi Xing quickly grabbed Tang Jing and made an incision on her body.
"Here's the flesh and blood you love so much!"
"Sister Zi Xing, what are you doing?"
Zi Xing said coldly, "Didn't you say that if I needed anything, you'd go through fire and brimstone for me? Now is the time to fulfill your promise!"
"You..."
Tang Jing was too scared to 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 hunt rats!"