"Hurry up!"
Ning Yu raised her blade once more to meet the massive hook, knocking it aside with force once again, reminding Shen Yiyue.
Shen Yiyue, unable to tend to her bleeding wounds, began to accelerate towards the direction of the gymnasium.
【Ding! Normal Task Triggered: Kill the Butcher 0/1】
【Reward: 3000 Points, 50% off Shopping in the Mall *1】
A prompt rang in Ning Yu's mind, triggered by the mutated zombie.
However, why was it a normal task?
Ning Yu was a bit puzzled. The last time she was pushed to the brink by a Glutton, it triggered an urgent task with more generous rewards.
Could it be that after her physical strength improved and her weapon evolved, the mutated zombies posed less of a threat to her?
"Clang!"
"Clang!"
While pondering, Ning Yu blocked two more hooks.
The speed of these hooks was indeed astonishing, but it still took some time to fly over from such a high building.
As long as she wasn't ambushed, she had enough reaction time.
Could this be the reason the task wasn't urgent?
The surrounding zombies, which had been wandering aimlessly, now turned their heads upon hearing the loud metallic clanging, as if they had heard the lunch bell.
"Awoo!!"
They bared their yellowed teeth, roaring with hunger.
Suddenly, Tianshen Elementary School seemed like the school cafeteria had opened, with countless child and teacher zombies snarling and running.
A little girl zombie's head even fell off as she ran, her body continuing for a while before realizing and turning back.
She picked up her head, held it under her arm, and continued to stagger forward.
In an instant, the zombies surged like a tide, enveloping them in a semi-circle.
The two of them, one in front and one behind.
Shen Yiyue limped ahead, her wounds bleeding, staining her sports pants red.
Ning Yu moved behind, blocking the hooks as she went.
There was no time to kill the butcher yet; there were too many zombies, all converging together.
The butcher, having missed several times, roared in anger, swinging his arm with even more force.
A fast-moving zombie, likely a young female teacher before death, was almost near Ning Yu.
Her gray, terrifying face, with glasses shaking, was close.
Ning Yu's silver hair danced as she raised her blade to strike, but suddenly heard the sound of the hook slicing through the air again and quickly dodged to the side.
Just as she moved, she realized the hook's target was not her but the female teacher zombie.
The hook pierced through its chest without resistance, splattering black-red blood and its rotten innards onto the ground.
The butcher on the building above, like a fisherman, swung his hand, and the catch was made!
The female teacher zombie was lifted into the air by the hook's force, as if in a martial arts film, hanging by a wire.
Its hands flailed in the air, not understanding how it had ascended, its foul mouth biting wildly but catching nothing.
Ning Yu was full of questions. The butcher didn't just eat living humans; it ate zombies too?
Truly, when it went mad, it didn't spare even its own kind.
The butcher, having caught the female teacher zombie, swung his large cleaver with the other hand!
It split its head in two, splattering red and white matter all over the butcher, and the zombie went still.
Seeing the prey dead, the butcher extended an extra hand from behind, grabbing the headless zombie body.
He hung it like a piece of meat in a butcher shop and began to dismember it!
First, he removed an arm, satisfied, and put it in his mouth, chewing with black blood dripping down his chin.
After eating the other arm, he gnawed on the body, the scene horrifying.
Now that he had something to eat, Ning Yu didn't continue to watch the butcher feast on his own kind.
For a short while, he probably wouldn't throw the hook again.
Unfortunately, he didn't get fresh meat; he had to settle for expired food.
Shen Yiyue ahead was in danger.
Several fast-moving zombies had entangled her from the side, about 5-6 in total.
With her current strength, dealing with these attacks simultaneously was not a problem.
But her leg had been slashed by the hook, making her dodges less agile, and she could only swing her long blade continuously, struggling to hold on.
A little boy zombie behind her suddenly pounced, falling to the ground, and bit into her ankle!
"Ah!"
She cried out in pain, but the zombies in front continued their attacks, leaving her no time to deal with it.
Fortunately, Ning Yu arrived from behind in time, slicing off half the boy zombie's head and kicking it away.
The zombies entangled with Shen Yiyue were quickly killed in their cooperation.
Before they could check how badly her ankle was bitten, the two ran up the gymnasium stairs.
There was a half-open barred iron gate on the stairs, not locked.
They quickly slipped in and closed the iron gate.
The zombies outside climbed the stairs rapidly, squeezing against the gate, their arms waving through the gaps.
The gate opened outward, but their low intelligence didn't realize that stepping back would open it.
Shen Yiyue, still in shock, glanced at the line of zombies outside the iron gate, as if it were the lunch queue.
After a brief rest of a few tens of seconds, the two quickly got up.
"Let's go inside; there should be a door here."
Ning Yu helped Shen Yiyue up; her continuous injuries made her forehead sweat with pain.
After circling the gymnasium, they found a locked door at the back.
Ning Yu noticed that the dust on the ground was significantly less here.
Someone must have been coming and going.
She quickly knocked on the door to see if anyone responded; if not, she would use the Crimson War Blade to force it open.
But soon, a muffled male voice came from inside:
"Who's there?"
Ning Yu quickly signaled to Shen Yiyue with her eyes, indicating she would speak.
Shen Yiyue immediately understood and stopped her action of preparing to speak.
"I'm Ning Yu from Class 3, Grade 6! There are so many monsters outside... wuwuwu... can you let me in? I'm so scared..."
The silver-haired little girl's voice, softer and sweeter than her usual tone, was filled with a crying intonation.
Anyone who heard it would only think she was a student from Tianshen Elementary School.
The person inside was indeed fooled; the door handle turned, and a crack opened.
As soon as it opened, Ning Yu burst in with astonishing speed, placing her blade against the person inside's neck:
"Don't move."
The silver-haired little girl's voice was cold, her gaze icy.
The person who opened the door was a middle-aged man with a few strands of gray at his temples and wrinkles on his face.
He held a baseball bat in his hand.
But with the blade at his neck, he dared not move, his expression panicked.
The middle-aged man also saw the person holding the blade to his neck, a silver-haired little girl.
Before he could be surprised by her swift and ruthless actions, he noticed something even more shocking:
"It's you? You're not... already gone?"
???
Ning Yu was also puzzled, but her grip didn't loosen; her amber eyes stared directly at him:
"Do you know me?"
s + Rent Collection Wealth】 At the start, he inherited a rundown house in the urban village from his grandfather. The house had no tenants, but the moment he was diagnosed with a terminal illness, a self-proclaimed empress from the Tianxuan Continent arrived as his first tenant. Ye Chuan soon discovered that with every new tenant moving in, not only did he receive massive daily payments, but he also obtained unique items related to their backgrounds. 【Acquired Bai Qianshuang’s related item: Tiger Strength Pill—dramatically enhances physical power!】 【Acquired Bai Qianshuang’s related item: Deer Blood Pill—significantly boosts vitality!】 …… From that day on, all sorts of bizarre tenants began appearing in the house: the empress from Tianxuan Continent, an apocalyptic sorceress from the Magic Realm, a mysterious scientific girl who fell through a spacetime rift… Every single day, he received strange, powerful items and endless money. Then one day, he suddenly realized—he had become invincible. Enough, enough! Stop giving me more!
nd fell into a coma while saving his younger sister from an out-of-control car. He became a vegetable. No one knew that his consciousness had crossed into a world of cultivation. Over the course of sixty years, he began as the lowest kind of mine slave, struggling to survive amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood. By sheer chance, he eventually obtained the complete memories of a fallen Immortal King. Alchemy, medicine, formations, feng shui, physiognomy, artifact forging… Every great inheritance of the cultivation world was now his. But when he opened his eyes again, he discovered that ten full years had passed in the modern world. To pay for his treatment, his father had sold the family’s shop and house, leaving himself covered in lasting injuries and illness. His mother had cared for him day and night, and more than half of her hair had already turned white. His younger sister, who had been only fifteen back then, was now twenty-five. To help repay the family’s debts, she had been forced to lower her head and put on a smiling face in places of glittering lights and endless revelry. Only then did Chen Xuan understand that what he had lost was not merely ten years. He had lost the life his entire family was meant to have. The good news was that he had brought back the memories of an Immortal King’s entire lifetime. The bad news was that his soul had returned alone—his cultivation had not come with him. Spiritual energy was scarce, resources were depleted, and the modern world still had firearms, surveillance, capital, and laws. If he wanted to protect his family, break free from everyone’s control, and become truly invincible beneath the heavens, he would have to start all over again.
uld barely embark on the path to immortality. Just as he was on the verge of death, his golden finger awakened. No matter whether it was poison, drained blood and vital energy, diminished lifespan, or any other physical debuff caused by paying a price—once midnight passed, everything would be refreshed. From then on, whenever someone asked what kind of person Chu Ran was, the answer was simple: Forbidden arts that other cultivators dared not learn? Chu Ran would learn them. Prices that even demonic cultivators dared not pay? Chu Ran would pay them. Lifespan that even righteous cultivators dared not burn? Chu Ran would burn it. All the blood essence in his body? Take it. Want both his hands and feet? He would cut them off and send them to you. You say he’s finished? He wasn’t built to sit idle. You think he’s gone mad? No—he was simply waiting for midnight. From that day onward, Chu Ran would respect neither Heaven nor Earth, bow to neither gods nor ghosts. He had only one wish: For midnight to arrive a little sooner.
orn and Humiliation】【Forced Love】 In his past life, Lin Ran was betrayed and murdered by his girlfriend and family, while the yandere female aristocrat, who had treated him as a mere plaything, avenged him by doing in his enemies. Upon seeing the yandere female aristocrat lying in the same coffin, ready to die with him, Lin Ran realized how profoundly mistaken he had been. Reborn, he abandoned the fickle campus beauty and wholeheartedly embraced the yandere female aristocrat's arms. "Ran! If I dig out your eyes and turn them into a specimen, you'll only be able to look at me!" Lin Ran: "Darling, kiss me!" "Ran! If I break your legs, you won't run away anymore, right?" Lin Ran: "Love, hold me tight!" "Ran! If..." Lin Ran: "Hush now! Love me more!" Luo Yao: ... Seeing his scumbag dad: "Take him out!" Seeing his stepmother: "Get rid of her!" Seeing his brother: "Eliminate him!" Seeing his white moonlight: "Send that to Southeast Asia!"
