Yinquan Town (Part 2)

The tavern had been in disrepair for a long time, and the bullets almost immediately penetrated the thin walls and doors and windows, leaving behind a dense network of small holes. Through the broken windows, Liang Qing saw that the strange people were the same as the ones they met when they entered the town, with no eyeballs, only white eyeballs.

It's a zombie.

A player used a submachine gun to smash the chest of one of the zombies. The bones were broken, but the upper body pounced forward. The zombie bit the player's cheek tightly, causing him to scream in pain. The submachine gun in his hand swept 360 degrees.

A string of bullets also hit Anna's face. The fat woman with tawny hair and black skin showed a strange smile on her face. She clapped her hands: "You dance so well! You dance so well! Your dancing is first-class!" The next second her head fell off. Anna crawled, found the head on the corner of the table, and put it back on.

She walked outside the tavern and turned on the loudspeaker. The song Liang Qing had memorized was broadcast to the entire town at a huge decibel.

Soon, Liang heard more frequent footsteps and panting sounds coming from the dense forest behind the car.

Liang Baobao sensed the tension in the atmosphere. The noise made him restless, his face flushed and ready to burst into tears. Before his cries could attract the zombies, Liang Qing opened the safe house.

The world suddenly became quiet, dark at first, then bright.

They opened their eyes and found themselves in a spacious and bright private underground garage. The antique car was parked safely in the middle, with no dense forest around, no zombie hordes, and no massacre in the tavern.

A minute later, they walked up the stairs to the living room upstairs. The safe house was a luxurious private villa, magnificent, warm and bright.

The three of them relaxed for a while. Nie Yun and Liang Qing were responsible for preparing milk powder to feed Liang Baobao. Shi Xiaofeng took out the telescope he had bought earlier and looked towards the direction of the tavern.

This safe house sat on a street corner not far from the tavern. Shi Xiaofeng remembered it clearly from the time he drove over: it had once been a shabby auto repair shop. The safe house had a hidden property. As the zombies surged toward the tavern like a tide, not a single one lingered in front of their house.

"Someone threw a bomb in the tavern and it exploded... several people ran out... the leader was injured... there were just too many zombies..." Shi Xiaofeng explained in real time.

Despite the commotion outside, the safe house was peaceful and quiet. Liang Baobao ate and drank his fill in this comfortable environment and quickly fell asleep. Liang Qing wrapped him in a blanket and laid him on the sofa.

"Congratulations! You've achieved the triple achievements of [Guarding the Cub's Sleep], [Double the Cub's Weight], and [Unlocking the Cub's Great Exercises - Crawling Ability]. You're rewarded with 100 system points. The current total is 84,693. This round of frozen points is 84,093, and you can use 600 points."

"My weight has doubled..." Liang Qing rubbed his shoulders. No wonder after carrying it all day, it felt like a small mountain of stones was pressing on his back.

Shi Xiaofeng continued, "Grenades are useless. Zombies are sensitive to light and sound. This will only attract more zombies... Damn, there are so many people in this town. How can there be so many zombies to kill? Should we take action?"

"want."

How can I miss such a good opportunity to make money?

Liang Qing used 300 points from the points store to buy a silencer for her gun. She cracked the living room window a crack, aimed at the nearest zombie, and shot it in the head. The zombie fell to the ground, motionless.

"Congratulations on achieving the first kill in the 'Silver Spring Town' dungeon! The system has awarded you five points, with 305 points remaining! Please note that each subsequent zombie you eliminate will earn you one point. The system will calculate your latest points every hour!"

"Beautiful!" Shi Xiaofeng and Nie Yun were both amazed by Liang Qing's marksmanship.

Liang Qing bought three walkie-talkies from the points mall and gave two to Shi Xiaofeng and Nie Yun. "Go to the second floor and sweep as much as you can. Try to earn back the money you paid for the safe house tonight."

Their eyes lit up and they ran upstairs excitedly.

Liang Qing sheathed his gun, closed the window, and quietly observed. An hour later, most of the players Anna had tricked into the tavern were dead. The zombies in the streets began wandering aimlessly again, some retreating deeper into the dense forest. The zombie corpses piled near the safe house were also cleared away by the system.

Shi Xiaofeng and Nie Yun came down excitedly to report their battle results.

"I'm 221, and he's 189! We used our points to buy Bao Bao a pair of noise-canceling earmuffs so he wouldn't be woken up!"

Nie Yun had surpassed Shi Xiaofeng in scores, and she felt much more proud. She pulled out a pair of pink earmuffs shaped like a pig's nose, small enough to fit a baby.

Liang Baobao didn't sleep deeply, and he woke up several times with a start. After putting on the earmuffs, his breathing gradually became deeper and he soon fell into a deep sleep.

"What the hell is that?" Shi Xiaofeng stared out the window.

In the darkness of the night, a man, carrying something on his back, half-crawled towards the safe house. Between him and the safe house were several wandering zombies. It looked like he couldn't get through.

Suddenly, something flickered in the man's pocket, and a girl's crisp laughter was heard not far away. The nearby zombies were almost immediately attracted by the laughter and ran in the other direction like a tide.

At this moment, the man saw the right time and ran to the repair shop.

He stood in the villa's garden, only a meter away from Shi Xiaofeng behind the window, but due to the visual barrier, his eyes were not focused on the safe house. He was a dark-haired white man, about 35 years old.

"Does this mean you know our location?" Nie Yun asked.

Liang Qing stepped forward and pressed the intercom button on the door to speak to the outside world. The next second, a strange female voice floated into the ears of the visitor - "Are you a player?"

The man was clearly unprepared and shuddered with fear. The girl on his back also woke up.

"Yes, yes, I'm a player. Why can't I see you?"

"I'm in the safe house, very close to you. You can't enter the safe house unless I allow you to."

The man became excited. "Safe house? Great! Please, please take us in! Daisy has a fever! I can't fight or protect her in this condition!"

In order to verify what he said was true, the man held the girl on his back in his arms and turned 360 degrees on the spot.

"Are you armed?"

"Yes," the man nodded, "a dagger and a gun."

"Take it out, walk ten steps toward 9 o'clock, and drop it."

The man did as he was told, and then he watched helplessly as the dagger and gun disappeared from his sight. Liang Qing was pointing to the patio in the basement of the safe house. As an uninvited player, the man naturally couldn't see it.

Nie Yun trotted down and picked up the things.

"How many points do you have?"

"Over a thousand... I can afford the overnight stay! Please help me!"

"Is she your bond character?"

"yes."

The safe house opened at this moment, and the shabby auto repair shop that had been there a second ago suddenly became brightly lit. The man adjusted to the light and opened his eyes to see a slender woman standing against the light.

Her voice was calm as she held out her phone: "Scan it, 1,000 points a night."

You could see the man struggled for a bit, but he still paid the money obediently.

Ten minutes later, Shi Xiaofeng walked out of the guest bedroom on the first floor. John was sitting by the fireplace, chewing bread. When he saw Shi Xiaofeng, he immediately stood up and asked, "Doctor, how is Daisy?"

Shi Xiaofeng was slightly taken aback when someone called him "doctor." "Nothing serious. She's asleep. Why did she have a fever?"

John recalled: "We were planning to stay in a tavern, but it was attacked. We ran to the jungle, but there were more zombies in the jungle than outside! Daisy was just a little girl, she was so scared that she had a fever at the time."

"What did you throw outside the safe house to attract zombies?" asked Liang Qing, who had been sitting by the fireplace wiping his gun.

"Oh, this is it," John pulled a worn-out doll from his pocket.

It was an ordinary cloth doll, stuffed with cotton. Its hair was golden yellow, and its clothing was a tattered apron. It must have been hand-sewn, but perhaps due to its age, the doll was covered in scars, making it unremarkable and potentially a potential target of dislike by children.

"It can make sounds, and it can also temporarily transform into a prosthetic body like Daisy to attract zombies. We've used this to escape several difficult situations. It belongs to Daisy and is her protector."

Liang Qing raised his eyebrows. Why didn’t the brat have a patron saint or something?

"Even so, if you hadn't taken us in, we would have died without a doubt. Thank you very much." John said sincerely.

Liang Qing said expressionlessly, "You're welcome. It's all business."

"This safe house... is quite expensive." John stood up and looked around. "Which level are we on?"

"Which level are you at?" Liang Qing asked back.

"Three." John held up his finger and began to reminisce. "Before I entered this awful game, I was on a business trip. My plane was flying over the Pacific when it suddenly lost signal. I thought I was in a plane crash, but when I opened my eyes, I found myself on an international cruise ship... The second level was at an old Indian site in South America. The poison ivy in that damn place was thicker than my neck!"

The man used incessant talk to cover up his inner nervousness. Liang Qing exchanged glances with his teammates.

If what John said was true, then the game had probably already been launched without anyone noticing. Each dungeon randomly selected players. They could charge to the top of the leaderboard with just a single dungeon point, making them the prized possession of many.

"Tell me, how did you set your sights on this auto repair shop?" Liang Qing changed the subject.

John was still trying to beat around the bush, but when he met Liang Qing's cold gaze, he subconsciously swallowed his saliva and didn't have time to tell a lie.

"Map, I have a prop that I won in a lottery in the mall." He opened his pocket, took out a blue map, and slowly unfolded it.

It was called a map, but it was actually a miniature folding LCD screen. Densely packed black dots moved across the area of ​​Yinquan Town. The dots were so dense that when clustered together, they resembled a honeycomb.

Shi Xiaofeng, who was afraid of trying to escape, rubbed the goosebumps on his arms and asked, "Are they all zombies?"

"Yes. The map shows that the black spots here have been eliminated bit by bit. I guess someone ambushed the zombies here. I didn't expect you to have such a big house."

After John finished his explanation, he spread his hands and said, "If you can continue to take us in, the map will be free for you to use."

The four of them were talking when Daisy's scream suddenly came from the back room. Liang Qing rushed in first and turned on the bedroom light.

Daisy, who had just woken up, glared angrily at the side of the bed. There, Liang Baobao, who had woken up at some point and crawled over, was chewing on a strand of her hair with relish.