Chapter 24: Plants vs. Zombies

Old Bai didn't quite understand what the central government meant, but he could guess that it probably referred to the emperor or something similar. "I'm afraid the county magistrate has also run away."

Hensheng then raised an important question: "Should we go into the city or set up camp here?"

"Let's go into town," Su Zhenzhen decided. "It's getting cool at night in autumn, and I'm worried about your health."

The three pushed open the gate of the city tower and were unexpectedly covered in dirt.

"Pah—" Su Zhenzhen muttered, brushing the dirt off her clothes. "Has no one been here for centuries?"

Su Zhenzhen shone her flashlight up and her pupils contracted instantly.

"What?" Hensheng wanted to look up, but Su Zhenzhen quickly shone the flashlight elsewhere.

However, the viewers in the live stream all saw it.

【Ugh! Why are there so many skulls on it?! Give me back my clean eyes!】

This is so exciting! This is finally the real deal for "Has the Ghost Messenger Become a Full-Time Official Today?"!

"Something's not right about this city. Can we go around it?" Su Zhenzhen adopted a defensive stance and scanned the area with her flashlight. However, the darkness and the thin fog made it seem like there was nothing ahead, yet countless dangers were lurking beneath the surface.

Old Bai thought carefully, "Going around from here would require climbing mountains, but most of the mountains in the border region are steep and have few trees, so there probably aren't many living creatures in the mountains."

For ordinary people, the mountains are a place to pick wild fruits and hunt wild game. But these dangerous mountains have nothing inside; going in is just courting death.

But for Su Zhenzhen, it was a unique advantage, as the absence of living creatures greatly increased her safety.

"Then let's hurry up the mountain."

Su Zhen was just about to step back when she unexpectedly bumped into someone.

"It's me," Li Da's voice rang out.

Su Zhenzhen was startled. "Big brother, you walk without making a sound?"

Li Da glanced at Su Zhenzhen and said quietly, "When serving in the palace, you must be discreet."

Jiang Sijin was being carried on Li Da's back, probably still using the same excuse of not being able to disrespect the princess.

"Did anything unusual happen to Jiang Sijin afterward?" Su Zhenzhen asked.

Li's wife shook her head. "The princess looks like she's asleep."

What does it mean to be asleep? Su Zhenzhen reached out and touched it, and wow, it was actually warm.

Old Bai suddenly pointed at Jiang Sijin in horror, "Miss Su! Look! She's shrunk!"

What do you mean by "shrinking"? Su Zhenzhen looked closely and realized that Jiang Sijin did seem to have shrunk considerably since she was in the coffin.

"Li Da's wife, put Jiang Sijin down."

Li's wife didn't understand why, but she still did as she was told.

Li's wife hugged Jiang Sijin and also panicked.

"How come the princess looks even younger?"

Jiang Sijin used to look about sixteen years old, but now she looks only twelve or thirteen, her face hasn't fully developed yet.

Su Zhenzhen became even more curious about it. What exactly was this thing?

Or perhaps the Jiang family bloodline possesses some magical properties?

As she was thinking, Su Zhenzhen felt a chill down her spine. When she turned around, she was met with a pair of bright green eyes.

"Hensheng, fire now!"

Su Zhenzhen heard the sound of her own body cracking, and hated that she had pulled the trigger the moment she heard the command.

The submachine gun fired a burst of bullets, followed by an explosion and then the sound of someone crashing to the ground.

The sparks dispersed the mist, revealing a wider view.

Hordes of green-eyed people are approaching the city gate.

They're called green-eyed people because, apart from their green eyes and somewhat eerie expressions, they're no different from normal people.

[Wow! Why has the scene turned into a zombie world?]

Hensheng fired another round of shots, but these green-eyed men seemed relentless; those who fell in front turned to ashes, and those behind immediately followed.

[Am I the only one who thinks this scene looks like Plants vs. Zombies, haha? If these people leave the city gates, will it show the female lead's brain being eaten?]

Just then, the old man suddenly shouted, "Miss Su, look!"

What are you looking at? Su Zhenzhen turned her head and saw that Jiang Sijin had now turned into a seven or eight-year-old.

"Could the green-eyed man here be related to Jiang Sijin?"

While fighting off the green-eyed man's attacks, Li Da retorted to Su Zhenzhen, "The princess didn't do anything? How is it any of her business?"

Okay, die-hard fan, Su Zhenzhen was too lazy to say anything.

These green-eyed men seemed endless, while Hensheng's submachine gun had already run out of bullets.

"What should we do?" Hensheng was so anxious that his forehead was covered in sweat. A green-eyed man was about to pounce on him when Li Dayan snapped his neck in a flash.

At this moment, a system notification appeared in the barrage of comments in my mind.

Would you be willing to recharge your account to feed your favorite guest?

A torch is worth 100 points, a steel knife is worth 1000 points...

Everything is at a 1:1 exchange rate; otherwise, the production team would be profiting from the show.

[Too expensive! 100 yuan to tip a female streamer and you can hear her call you "good brother" a few times, but if you spend all your coins on a single tip, you won't have any left.]

Without exception, everyone felt that the production team was being unfair.

Su Zhenzhen gritted her teeth in anger, vowing to report the live-streaming company once she returned to the 906th century.

But the predicament at hand had to be resolved. Su Zhenzhen raised her face, which had been filled with hatred, and shouted at the sky.

"Can you bear to see such a handsome face scratched by green-eyed people? If green eyes are contagious, can you bear to see someone you admire so much become neither human nor ghost?"

Indeed, beauty is a universal passport.

Before long, the barrage of comments crowdfunded the purchase of a torch and a steel knife.

[Female lead, we can't just waste your money! If you kill a few green-eyed guys, we'll give you a few hundred points, at least enough to make a sound for the brothers.]

"You said it yourselves!" Su Zhenzhen shouted into the sky, then charged towards the green-eyed crowd with a torch in one hand and a steel knife in the other.

Thanks to her enhanced genes, Su Zhenzhen was agile, while the green-eyed man seemed afraid of fire and dared not approach, which made it easy for Su Zhenzhen to reap their lives.

One hundred, two hundred... In Su Zhenzhen's eyes, this was all real money, but unfortunately, it couldn't go into her own pocket.

[Wait a minute, there seem to be a few people acting strangely.]

Su Zhenzhen's knife moved a little slower, and several people in the green-eyed crowd looked flustered and their movements were not so stiff.

[Female lead, they must be imposters, please don't accidentally hurt them.]

"Li Da, come over and lend a hand!"

Su Zhenzhen and Li Da worked together, wiping out the green-eyed people from both sides, and it took them a while to completely destroy the monsters.

Only a few shivering people remained in the empty space.

"Don't kill me! We're not monsters! We found out that this city is full of monsters after we entered it. They attack any living person they see. We disguised ourselves like this to survive. We haven't killed anyone."

Su Zhenzhen started asking questions, "When did you enter the city?"