Xiaoyu's voice suddenly rang in my mind. A little girl with closed eyes, wearing red clothes and a doll-like face was standing next to Zai Zai, talking to him.

"Xiaoyu? Defense system? What's going on?" Jiang Ruan took a step forward, looked at the baby's sleeping face, and asked softly.

[Master, the defense system is a passive spell, a manifestation of Jiang Baiyuan's awakened supernatural ability within this space. In other words, as his mother, you can temporarily use his ability on his behalf. Through enhanced defense, you can protect yourself and the team, ultimately achieving Jiang Baiyuan's self-protection.]

Jiang Ruan was stunned by Xiao Yu's words. She really hadn't expected that her son's first awakened ability would be a defensive spell. Defensive spells were among the rarest abilities, just like healing spells. Many ability users never actually witnessed someone with this ability in their entire lives.

Even Jiang Ruan, who had lived a lifetime, had only met him once by chance. He was the savior with the tattoo on his waist. If it weren't for his great help, how could she have almost reached the top so easily, and how could she have been saved time and time again?

But why does the little one have defensive abilities? Could it be that he was born with them in his previous life too?

Countless questions flashed through Jiang Ruan's mind, but she didn't know the answers. She didn't even know where Gu An had gone.

The two lost contact on the first day of the apocalypse, as if he had never existed.

Bringing her thoughts back to reality, Jiang Ruan seriously considered what Xiao Yu had said. She meant that she could set up defenses on the entire house right now, and even level one defenses would be very useful against zombies that hadn't yet been upgraded.

"Then activate Level 1 defense, limited to the entire shopping mall, excluding other areas." After Jiang Ruan finished speaking, she clearly felt an invisible force fly out from her palm, like a huge net covering the entire shopping mall.

It then lost its shape.

She walked to the door and patted the mesh-like protective shield. It was as if she had hit a balloon; it was very resilient, but if you actually walked through it, you would not be hindered at all.

"That's right, it's a defensive technique, but the level is still too low to achieve complete invisibility, and the defensive capabilities are far from sufficient, but it's enough."

Jiang Ruan whispered behind the closed door, which Zhang Yang heard, but he couldn't hear clearly. Thinking she was calling him, he quickly stood up. "Did you call me?"

He called out, but received no response, so he walked straight over.

"The floor is mopped, everything is packed, and even the generator is tidied up. It's just that door that's a bit of a problem." Zhang Yang stood in front of Jiang Ruan, finding a convenient excuse without feeling embarrassed.

"It's alright, it's broken, it's broken. We'll see if we can find a master to fix it another day. Now you should practice your superpower properly."

Jiang Ruan gave Zhang Yang a deep look, placing high hopes on him and wishing that he could maximize the power of these two special abilities.

"That would be great, but I can't exactly practice on living people!" Zhang Yang remembered that the mall didn't seem to have a courtyard or similar space.

"Who said you have to practice now? I said you can think about it in your mind and practice it tonight." Jiang Ruan had a premonition that the zombies tonight might not be as dull, stupid, and easy to kill as the previous ones. This time, there should be level two zombies among them.

Zombies are divided into ten levels, and each level shows huge differences in weight, agility, and overall combat power.

Level 1 zombies, being the most common type, are basically the first batch of people infected by the virus and turned into zombies. These zombies fear sunlight and crave human flesh and blood, although their movements are stiff and lifeless, like the walking dead.

However, their terrifying appearance and sharp "claws" still gave them a significant advantage over humans, since most humans were ordinary people.

The majority of people are lucky enough to awaken their superpowers; only a very small number of them are considered saviors, and these individuals were not truly discovered until a month after the apocalypse.

Therefore, humans suffered a lot in the early stages, always thinking that knives, guns, and sticks would be effective, and that hiding would be effective. However, they did not expect that the first people to be infected were often the workers and sanitation workers who slept under bridges, and the staff whose backs could still be seen in the middle of the night.

Their power and resentment are the strongest, so their energy is powerful after being infected.

The survival rate for ordinary people who encounter such an event is essentially zero.

No matter how powerful they are, they are only level one zombies. Tonight, however, there may be level two zombies.

His infection came from a bizarre car accident. He was standing next to two trucks that had collided, and before he could even rejoice at his good fortune, he was bitten by a zombie that fell off one of the trucks.

Despite his good fortune, he met a tragic end. After being infected, his personality changed drastically. He devoured all the dead people at the scene of the car accident, then injured the zombie that had hurt him, tore off its head, and extracted its crystal.

In a dramatic turn of events, he became a level two zombie.

Killing zombies to steal crystals doesn't seem out of place among people of the same kind; it's like instinct.

As for why he came to the mall, it was because this was his original destination in life. He just wanted to see if there was anything he needed in the mall in this remote area.

Even after turning into a zombie, this obsession remained, urging it to come this way.

In the previous life, the shopping mall was so remote that many people avoided it, which is why it caught them red-handed, indulging its lust and leaving behind a mountain of corpses. Later, it even became a living signboard for the location of iconic murder cases.

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