Chapter 4

After seeing the appearance of the thing escaping towards this side, Gu Qi couldn't help but look surprised.

It’s the beast-like zombie that’s about to be promoted to level four.

It would appear here at this time, and it looked like it was burned by fire. Gu Qi was not only surprised, but also a little confused.

Why didn't she remember that there was a fire-type mutant in Xiang Haoyu's team?

She quickly dispelled this doubt.

Not long after Gu Qi discovered the beast-like zombie, the zombie also discovered her, and a hint of human joy flashed in its beast-like scarlet eyes.

It’s a piece of cake!

If the beast-like zombies could speak, they would probably say something like this.

The beast-like zombies encountered delicious food on the way to escape, which was the kind of food that could improve their strength. They originally wanted to avoid the woods, but then they paused for a moment, changed their direction, and headed towards Gu Qi at a faster speed.

It was so frightened by the delicious food that it stood there motionless, with the scarlet light in its eyes becoming even brighter.

Almost there! Soon it will be able to eat this delicious food.

But when it was less than ten meters away from Gu Qi, the beast-like zombie suddenly stopped and looked like it was hesitating about something. Its already ugly face looked even more hideous after being burned, and some human emotions could be vaguely seen.

Danger!

This was what its extremely sensitive intuition told it. Not long ago, it had a similar feeling, a threat to its life, and it chose to turn around and run away immediately.

But its brain was very eager to eat the food not far away, and its intuition also told it that eating that human would allow it to recover, or even go further.

Seeing the beast-like zombie suddenly stop, Gu Qi couldn't help but raise his eyebrows slightly, with a look of surprise in his eyes.

This zombie looks a little unusual.

Gu Qi took advantage of the close distance to carefully examine the beast-like zombie again, and soon his gaze stopped at its wrist.

There was a bracelet that looked quite unique, with a small pendant of the letter "N". Compared to other parts of the body of the beast-like zombie that were burned, the wrist where the bracelet was worn had no signs of burns at all, as if it was specially protected.

This reminded Gu Qi of something.

The area where she is now belongs to H City. In her previous life, there was a very famous zombie beast in H City. It was a zombie beast with dual abilities of psychic and thunder, and it had such a bracelet on its hand.

A zombie beast was wearing a bracelet and was well protected. In addition, this zombie beast was very powerful and could be said to be the dominant one. Therefore, it was more well-known than other zombies or zombie beasts that died at the hands of Xiang Haoyu.

Gu Qi also knew about it from hearing someone talking about it.

What impressed her was that the people who discussed this matter also mentioned that Xiang Haoyu was about to be defeated, but he suddenly found that the zombie beast had been protecting the bracelet. In the end, he pretended to attack the bracelet but actually took advantage of the zombie beast's distraction to defeat it in one fell swoop.

Xiang Haoyu also successfully upgraded using the crystal core of the zombie beast.

Could this be the zombie beast?

Although it still looks somewhat human now, judging from its current condition, it is very likely to become completely beastly in the future.

The only doubt is that this is only the fluctuation of mental power on the beast-like zombie, and Gu Qi did not feel any lightning energy from it.

If it really was that zombie beast, Gu Qi would not be so surprised that it did not die at the hands of that somewhat weird Xiang Haoyu, but appeared here at this time.

But these are just speculations. Regardless of whether they are true or false, Gu Qi will not let it go today.

In her previous life, she almost died at its hands, and it was the biggest reason why she couldn't resist turning into a zombie even though she had superpowers.

When Gu Qi was about to make a move, the beast-like zombie had already concluded his decision.

Eat this human!

The beast-like zombie suddenly leaped up and rushed towards Gu Qi, waving its sharp claws. It wanted to eat the food to increase its strength, and then seek revenge on those humans who had disfigured it!

Huh? Why would it care about disfigurement?

The beast-like zombie suddenly felt confused, and a picture flashed through his mind.

"You're so beautiful!"

Someone seemed to have said this to it before.

The beast-like zombie shook its head, trying to get rid of these strange images that would affect its fighting ability. It had to concentrate on dealing with the somewhat dangerous food in front of it first.

“clang!”

The dagger was grabbed by the beast-like zombie's claws, making a sound of metal collision.

Gu Qi quickly used his strength to retract the dagger and drew his sword again, no, it was a knife.

The shortening of her natal weapon had some impact on Gu Qi's strength, causing her to make several mistakes and almost get her arm scratched by a beast-like zombie. Fortunately, she adjusted herself quickly and gradually gained the upper hand.

The spiritual beast zombies were not very good at fighting, and they had consumed a lot of their superpowers before and had some injuries on their bodies. The dangerous human in front of them was stronger than any humans they had encountered before.

After several rounds of fighting, the beast-like zombie, feeling the deadly danger, wanted to use the same trick again.

However, just as it used its mental power to confuse Gu Qi, it was counterattacked by Gu Qi who had been on guard against it. Its mental power was dispersed, its spiritual sea was damaged, and its movements also stagnated.

In fact, Gu Qi had been waiting for it to use its psychic powers. Even though her consciousness was damaged and she had very little mental power to mobilize, it was still no problem for her to deal with this psychic zombie that had just acquired its powers a few months ago.

If it weren't for the fact that this beast-like zombie was somewhat special, much stronger than the average zombie that was about to be promoted to level four, and its physical strength was not weak, and if it weren't for the fact that it had to be prevented from escaping, Gu Qi would not have fought with it for so long.

As the dagger accurately pierced the zombie's brow and picked out its crystal core, the beast-like zombie's scarlet eyes gradually became lifeless.

"Ho..." It growled softly as if it was saying something, or calling someone's name, but because it had turned into a zombie and every part of its body had mutated, it was difficult for it to speak human words.

Haven't found it yet...

Along with such a vague and unfinished thought, the eyes of the beast-like zombie became completely dull, and its breath dissipated.

Gu Qi looked at the zombie's body in silence for a moment, and finally waved his hand to cast a fire spell.

The flames died down, and in a moment all that remained was a pile of ashes and a pendant reflecting light.

"Huh?" Gu Qi squatted down to check in surprise.

Logically speaking, this bracelet should have been burned with the body, so why is there a pendant left? Could it be made of special material?

When she reached out and touched the pendant with the letter N, she felt a tiny bit of energy dissipate with the wind.

"I see."

The pendant was saved from being burned because it was protected by supernatural energy, and it had nothing to do with the material.

I just don't know whether this energy is intentional or is acquired through long-term contact.

After hesitating for a moment, the dagger in Gu Qi's hand flew out and returned with a large leaf falling into her palm.

He casually grabbed the letter pendant, mixed it with the ashes that had not yet been blown away by the wind, wrapped it in leaves, and finally put it in the corner of the storage space.

The dagger dangled beside him, dangling in confusion. "Why would you take this? It's not made of Yaoyin ore."

"I know." Gu Qi habitually condensed the Dao Water Technique to wash his hands, "Anyway, the space is empty anyway."

The sword spirit didn't ask any more questions. It had long been accustomed to its master's love of "picking up junk". It just didn't know whether this time the junk would be left to gather dust or given away. It also didn't know why someone liked these junk so much.

Humans are so hard to understand, the sword spirit couldn't help but sigh in his heart for the 9587th time.

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A breeze blew, and the leaves made a slight sound before returning to silence after a moment.

Gu Qi walked deeper into the woods, stepping on the thick layer of fallen leaves. His movements seemed casual and leisurely, but he was actually always alert to the movements around him.

include……

The leaf litter beneath her feet.

The woods were very quiet. Apart from Gu Qi's footsteps, there was the sound of wind blowing through the leaves. There were no insects or birds chirping, and no sign of any small animals.

Before the end of the world, this is very abnormal. Even if there are no wild animals, there should at least be birds and various insects.

In the end times, all this is even more abnormal.

The trees basically maintained their pre-apocalyptic appearance. Not only did they mutate, they didn't even grow bigger or taller after being hit by the black rain like other ordinary plants.

Judging from the bird nests on the trees, there should be quite a few birds in this forest, but now there is not a single one, whether ordinary or mutated, or even a corpse.

Coupled with the obvious fear of the beast-like zombie towards the forest, Gu Qi took every step with extreme caution while carefully observing the surrounding situation.

Soon she noticed the biggest problem in the woods.

Not angry.

Those trees, shrubs, the wild grass and flowers under the trees, and even the moss on the stones or tree trunks, all had no breath of life.

In other words - they are all dead objects.

Even though the trees appear to be lush and green, the wild grasses and flowers appear to be particularly full of vitality, and you can almost smell their fragrance.

It was just as if.

When Gu Qi circulated the spiritual power in his body, his five senses became more sensitive than usual, and he could clearly smell the rotten smell hidden under those normal breaths.

The person who caused this not-so-big but definitely not-so-small forest to become what it is now must be very powerful, and is most likely a mutant creature of level four or even above.

You have to know that at this time most people with special abilities are only at level one or two, and there are very few people at level three. Zombies and mutant creatures also generally have this level of strength.

At least in Gu Qi's memory, he had never heard of level 4 zombies in this period of time, and level 4 mutant creatures only existed in the speculation of most people. No one had confirmed that the suspected level 4 mutant creatures they encountered were really level 4.

That seems fair enough.

However, in most cases, psychics of the same level are weaker than zombies and mutants because psychics lack combat experience, while zombies and mutants are very powerful because they rely on instinct to fight.

Gu Qi continued to approach the direction of the breath of life carefully and cautiously, holding the dagger tightly in her hand, wondering if this thing was what she was looking for.

It can be edible or spiritual plant.

It’s best to eat it.

Feeling the burning sensation in his stomach, Gu Qi secretly emphasized in his heart.

I was already hungry, and after just fighting a battle, I became even hungrier. I was so hungry that my stomach felt a little uncomfortable.

As the distance got closer, Gu Qi gradually felt the more active energy in the air. He couldn't help but feel a little surprised. Then he thought of something and suddenly understood.

This is a mutant creature of the thunder type, and there is a 99% chance that it is a mutant plant.

Of course, it is not ruled out that it is a mutant animal that only possesses two mutually exclusive abilities: wood and thunder, but this possibility is very low.

When he finally saw that mutated creature, Gu Qi's eyes lit up and his face showed surprise.

There's a chance that both of her purposes for coming here will be achieved!

It was a mutated plant with spiritual energy surrounding it. Judging from its aura, it could be considered a spiritual plant, just a little more violent at best.

The important thing is that it’s edible!

The next second, Gu Qi's face turned dark and he stopped in his tracks.