"Ahhh ahhh ahhh!" Zhu Hui's voice was hoarse from fear, and she let out uncontrollable screams.
Luo Xiao Le had it worse. She could only lie on the bed, watching helplessly as the zombie's claws, like the scythe of death, lunged towards her.
"Xiao Le!" Zhu Hui's hands flailed wildly, accidentally grabbing the broom Luo Xiao Le had asked her to place by the bedside earlier.
Clutching it like a lifeline, she fumbled with the broom.
In her panic, she swung it towards the zombie's head, hitting it without any technique…
She was scared! This thing looked formidable, but she couldn't just watch Xiao Le be…
That tickle of a hit was insulting to the zombie, but had zero offensive power.
She had successfully angered the zombie.
The zombie, with its huge, dark blue eyes, snorted and let out a howl at Zhu Hui.
At that very second, Luo Xiao Le's body was instantly freed from its paralysis!
Five minutes were up!
Luo Xiao Le had imagined this situation before. Without a moment's delay, she reached into her inner pocket and pulled out her strawberry bear plushie.
It instantly enlarged, engulfing her in a seamless motion.
Giving the zombie no time to react, Luo Xiao Le took a deep breath and fiercely swung the strawberry bear's right arm towards the zombie.
To her surprise, the zombie was faster!
The zombie seized the moment, charging forward with incredible speed and sinking its teeth into Luo Xiao Le's shoulder!
Seeing this, Zhu Hui gasped, her breath catching, and fainted on the bed.
Luo Xiao Le gritted her teeth. Another piece of her plushie suit was bitten off! She was heartbroken!
As the zombie bit down, its mouth was instantly torn open, and a gush of black blood sprayed out, dyeing the bedsheets black.
It howled in fury!
Luo Xiao Le didn't have time to think. She quickly reached into her pocket, pulled out the reinforced thumbtacks, and flung two at the zombie.
The zombie reacted with astonishing speed, flipping over and sticking to the ceiling, evading Luo Xiao Le's attack.
Luo Xiao Le was stunned.
How could this newly mutated zombie be so powerful!
She gritted her teeth, no longer saving her nails, and immediately pulled out several more, flinging them at the zombie clinging to the ceiling!
Several missed!
"Caw!" Then, amidst a "sea of nails," one thumbtack stood out, piercing directly through the zombie's brain!
With a thud, the zombie finally dropped from the ceiling, landing on the floor, motionless.
Luo Xiao Le's pounding heart finally had time to let out a sigh of relief.
Just as she was about to turn to clean up the mess.
"Ding…" Her body… suddenly stiffened again…
This was impossible…
The danger wasn't over?
Luo Xiao Le's heart pounded. Had that zombie not died?
But the black corpse on the floor remained still.
A shadow seemed to creep in from the window.
Luo Xiao Le instantly understood.
There was another wall-crawling zombie!
Such a ferocious creature, and it was a pack animal!
At this moment, she felt truly helpless.
Five minutes was enough time for that zombie to tear her strawberry bear apart and bite her twice.
In just a few seconds, her despair had spiraled three times over.
"Whoosh"
The massive zombie figure behind her was rapidly approaching Luo Xiao Le.
Suddenly, a strange whistling sound echoed from the window.
A weapon, like a small knife, was thrown by someone with perfect posture and angle. In the moonlight cast on the wall, its projection outlined a beautiful arc.
The arc, mercilessly, plunged straight into the massive dark figure behind her!
The figure instantly collapsed, just like the previous one, losing all mobility and falling silent.
A human silhouette was projected onto the wall this time, its outline slender and handsome, as if meticulously crafted by the Creator.
The person seemed to be suspended outside the window by a climbing rope.
Raising their slender right hand, they instantly threw two more knives, directly finishing off the two corpses on the ground.
After ensuring they were thoroughly dead, the suspended figure seemed to stare at Luo Xiao Le's back for several seconds.
Then, the climbing rope twitched, and the slender silhouette ascended along the rope.
Instantly, it vanished from the wall projection.
…
The five minutes were up, and Luo Xiao Le suddenly crouched down, her legs feeling weak.
Although it wasn't the first time she'd encountered a zombie while paralyzed, this zombie's combat ability was on a completely different level than previous ones!
She felt that she had been lucky today.
But if the world from now on was filled with such zombies, she had no confidence she could survive unscathed.
It was impossible not to feel lingering fear.
Beside her, Zhu Hui slowly began to wake up.
"Xiao Le! Xiao Le!" Zhu Hui's terrified voice rang out.
"I'm here." Luo Xiao Le sighed. No matter how scared she was, she had to keep going.
The ring was still missing, and the truth of her parents' death still awaited her. She couldn't collapse here.
"I'm fine," she continued, as if comforting Zhu Hui, and also as if comforting herself.
"Was I… dreaming just now?" Zhu Hui was still shaken.
"It wasn't a dream, it was all real. The zombies have mutated," Luo Xiao Le's voice was muffled with distress. "Let's call Luo Shu and the others. This is serious."
…
The four-person team now sat with grave expressions on the worn, beige sofa in Luo Xiao Le's home.
Luo Shu and Wang Hao also had black blood splattered on them.
They hadn't arrived in time when they heard Zhu Hui's scream because their room had also been attacked by a wall-crawling zombie.
"Damn it, the original zombies were already hard enough to deal with, and now there's a mutated breed!" Luo Shu was still indignant. "Are we even allowed to live anymore!"
"Now we know why some people went missing without a trace the past few days…" Luo Xiao Le said helplessly.
"The reason people disappeared so silently was probably because they didn't have the habit of closing their windows when they slept. They were directly…"
Luo Shu agreed with her, "Who would have thought zombies could climb walls? We never saw anything like this in TV shows before!"
"Let's inform everyone in the group about the situation so they can be more vigilant," Luo Xiao Le suggested.
"Right, right! Let those who don't know prepare in advance!" Luo Shu seconded, and then posted a warning in the group.
"So, what do we do next…" Zhu Hui asked worriedly, her brow furrowed. She had been terrified tonight.
Everyone fell silent.
The combat power of these wall-crawling zombies was even greater than the original ones.
But their movements were erratic, and they didn't come out every night, so they couldn't come up with a particularly good solution to deal with them for the time being.
Luo Xiao Le also had no ideas at the moment. She paced back and forth a few times and walked to her small storage room.
Anxiety washed over her. She just wanted to find something to reinforce, prepare for trading and the next upgrade, and also to relieve her anxiety.
Without hesitation, she turned her back so others wouldn't see the light emitted during her reinforcement.
Found a broom? Reinforce it!
A year-old ballpoint pen? Reinforce it!
Pulled out an old-fashioned desk lamp? Reinforce it!
After the events of tonight, the others, on edge, didn't dare to sleep. They dozed around in the living room.
Luo Xiao Le worked on and off by herself, spending the entire night reinforcing.
Unknowingly, she had reinforced 39 more items.
[Your account has been debited 7800 Shop Coins, with a balance of 8200 Shop Coins.]
Adding the 10 small items she still had left from last time, she now had 49 weapons available for trade!
Her depleted mental energy seemed to be instantly replenished by the satisfaction.
As long as she could upgrade and modify her body soon to remove the paralysis effect, she would eventually be able to control her own destiny!
At every moment of renewed determination, people gain an inexplicable sense of inner peace.
Luo Xiao Le shrunk the reinforced weapons again and carefully placed them all into her portable pocket.
She walked back and sat down in front of the sofa.
After thinking for a moment, based on the situation with Luo Shu and Wang Hao, these wall-crawling zombies should act together and attack simultaneously.
After tonight's attacks, there shouldn't be any more wall-crawling zombies coveting them for now.
She decided to get some good rest first, even if it was only for a few hours.
Then, she would wake up tomorrow, refreshed, and properly think about how to deal with these wall-crawling zombies.
Leaning against the sofa, she let out a sigh of relief and slumped down softly.
The next second, she thought of something and sprang up like a spring!
This trip to the supermarket had made her fully realize that going out wasn't as controllable as they thought.
Instead, unexpected events could happen at any time.
If Luo Shu and Wang Hao separated from her, and she encountered danger and triggered paralysis, her life would depend entirely on luck.
This wouldn't do. She wouldn't dare to venture out casually from now on.
Then how would she deliver goods to others?