Chapter 4
"Where are the zombies?"
In the middle of the intersection, Zong Ziyu and Lu Feng spoke in unison, and then looked at Shi Buxi who was standing in the middle of the intersection looking around.
"Run away!" Shi Buyi replied. Secretly noting the lingering chill at the scene, he asked Zong Ziyu beside him, "By the way, zombies can see the light, right?"
"Of course." Zong Ziyu replied, wondering why Shi Buyi asked that.
Shi Buxi shook his head. That’s not right. With such a strong negative energy left at the scene, zombies shouldn’t be able to stand the sunlight. How strange.
"Wenfeng, Owen, and Visa were eliminated for pressing the distress button. The remaining contestants are seventeen."
The camera flying in the air made an announcement, and all the contestants and spectators heard it almost at the same time.
"Ah, you're eliminated just like that? I haven't even seen any zombies yet!"
[Is elimination that fast? At this rate, can twenty people really make it to the first zone?]
Shi Buxi was also surprised. After a few seconds of hesitation, he broke into a jog. After running out of the alley, the three eliminated people just happened to board the flying vehicle and leave. The remaining two people were standing there with pale faces.
"Did you see zombies? What were they like?" Jian Xiaonan, who had just arrived, asked curiously. Although she had played the holographic game "Survival" before, and the official said it was 100% authentic, there was still a gap between the game and reality.
"There really are zombies." Wang Cheng's voice was a little soft, as if he had not yet recovered from his fear. "Cold, bloodthirsty, he has a powerful mental power. We are no match for him..."
As he was speaking, his breathing suddenly became rapid. He held his head tightly and let out a low whimper, "I, I quit."
As soon as he finished speaking, the bracelet on his wrist flashed, and the aircraft that had just flown into the air paused, turned left, and flew back.
Everyone: ...
The aircraft quickly took Wang Cheng away, leaving only one other person who had seen the zombies with his own eyes, and everyone looked at him.
"I don't know. I was behind them and heard them shouting 'zombies', so I followed them." Tian Lou looked confused.
[Pfft, I didn't expect that. Four people were eliminated right after the game started, and one of them even gave up voluntarily.]
"As the people of the Empire, we've all grown up playing zombie games, right? Don't we have any immunity at all? How terrifying is it to be able to scare people into quitting the competition on the spot?"
[Didn't they say zombies are rare after three thousand years? Why did the contestants encounter one right after entering?]
"I just want to know what zombies look like. Who were the viewers in that four-person livestream? Come out and share your thoughts."
We didn't see anything. We just saw them suddenly look in a dark direction, then rush out of the alley as if they had seen a ghost, screaming about zombies.
Yes, we were confused too.
[Have you noticed that these five people's information all have A-level mental power. ]
[Those people's mental power is only A-level, but in my opinion, it's impossible for them to be scared out of the competition by just looking at a zombie, unless the zombie's mental power is S-level and it uses mental power to intimidate them.]
[No, no, zombies are supposed to be irrational. They should attack if they smell a stranger. Why are they running?]
[It might have been the electromagnetic wave attack emitted by the three bracelets at the same time that scared it away.]
People in the live broadcast room kept analyzing the situation, and they all felt that the zombie's behavior was very different from the information they had received since childhood, and was also very strange.
Shi Buxi listened quietly, absorbing as much knowledge as possible. Master had sent him down the mountain, presumably to cultivate in the secular world. Although this had been transported to the interstellar age thousands of years in the future due to Master's powerful kick, he still couldn't help but be a bystander, having arrived and encountered an evil being. As the 65th generation descendant of Maoshan, he couldn't just stand by and watch. Eliminating demons and saving the people was the mission of Maoshan disciples.
"Gurgle!" Just when Bu Xi was listening intently, his stomach rumbled. He was hungry.
"It's three o'clock in the afternoon. If we don't find food, we'll have to go hungry tonight. We don't have any weapons or cars." Tian Lou heard Shi Buxi's stomach growling and felt hungry too. They only had breakfast on the spaceship and didn't have lunch.
"Shouldn't we worry about whether we will be attacked by zombies tonight?" Zong Ziyu said with a smile.
As soon as he said this, the expressions of the people present froze.
"How about we go together? We've checked the nearby convenience stores, but there's no food. There's a big mall further up here, so there should be supplies," Tian Lou said. Although he hadn't seen any zombies, he was still terrified and wanted to gather as many people as possible to go with him.
"Let's go together. It's just the beginning now, and we're still a long way from District 1! If you want to compete for the first place, you can wait until we get to District 1." Jian Xiaonan said.
The others had no objection and nodded in agreement.
The mall was a bit far from here. Because of the zombie incident, everyone had walked a bit faster. It took about ten minutes to reach the building, a thirty-story building. Aside from the broken glass at the bottom, the building was relatively intact. However, three thousand years later, weeds had grown everywhere, and many of the shorter buildings were entangled in vines. In another thousand years, forests and shrubs would cover the entire city.
"What are you looking at?" Zong Ziyu asked when he saw Shi Buyi stopped walking and looking up at the building. He found that this child really liked to stare at something in a trance.
"Dark clouds." Shi Buyi said, and then said, "Get the supplies and leave as soon as possible!"
"I feel the same way. I feel very uncomfortable here," Jian Xiaonan said. She was an S-rank healer with a very accurate intuition.
After they finished talking, they walked in. Lu Feng and Zong Ziyu were fine, but Tian Lou was frightened and trembled. He instinctively moved closer to Shi Buyi, but suddenly remembered that this man had no mental strength, so he took two steps back and walked to Lu Feng's side.
[Tian Lou's mental power must be A-level! How can he be more cowardly than Shi Buxi, who has no mental power at all?]
[I don't know why, but looking at Shi Xiao, I always feel at ease. Even more at ease than looking at Lu Feng, who has 2S mental power. Is there something wrong with my brain?]
[I have the same feeling. Although Shi Buxi looks weak and has no mental strength, he gives people a very reliable feeling.]
【Maybe he was too calm along the way.】
Everyone said that it was possible.
After entering the mall, they found that it was not too dark because of the light coming in from the atrium. They could hear voices on the second floor and lights sweeping across from time to time. They were from the previous teams.
"Coming, the stairs are on the left."
Someone on the second floor suddenly stuck his head out and said.
Shi Buxi looked up and saw a sturdy man.
"Looks like there's enough supplies," Zong Ziyu said with a smile. He was so kind, firstly because the show had just started and the competitive spirit wasn't strong yet. Secondly, it seemed the production team had some sense of conscience, providing enough supplies and preventing them from scrambling from the start.
"Let's go, everyone should be careful." Shi Buxi reminded and walked to the left first.
"Well, all the shops here have been smashed and looted. Things are messy and dark inside, and you can't see anything clearly. If something hiding inside suddenly jumps out, it will be troublesome." Zong Ziyu said.
Jian Xiaonan and Tian Lou shuddered immediately and became alert.
The further they walked in, the farther they were from the atrium, and the darker it became. Several people turned on the lighting function of the terminal.
【Will zombies suddenly appear? 】
The atmosphere was already frightening, because the sudden sound of voices from the external comments startled everyone, and they all looked towards the source of the voice and saw Shi Buxi with an innocent look on his face.
"You didn't accept the simultaneous interpretation?" Zong Ziyu asked.
"What is this?" Shi Buxi was a little confused.
Several people looked at each other in confusion. How could he not know something that even children knew?
"The chip implanted here," Zong Ziyu nodded his head, then continued, "can not only understand the language of all intelligent beings in the universe, but can also receive sounds from any electronic device at a specific location."
Shi Buxi thought for a moment, then suddenly realized and replied: "I didn't, then I'll turn off the sound of the barrage."
[Ahh, please don't, I don't want to be mute. I want to communicate with Shi Xiao, even though he has never interacted with us before.]
There are only a few dozen people in this live broadcast room. Let's shut up and don't shut it down.
"It's good. It's dark everywhere here, and playing music outside just dilutes the fear." Jian Xiaonan said. She didn't care.
Shi Buxi looked at the others. He really wanted to understand this era through the audience. If he turned off the comments and couldn't read them all the time, he would miss a lot of information. But if everyone didn't want to, for now...
"Go ahead, I'm fine too." Zong Ziyu looked at Lu Feng and Tian Lou. They nodded, indicating that they were fine too.
Shi Buxi and the audience breathed a sigh of relief when the barrage was not turned off.
Going up the stairs, they soon reached the second floor. Due to years of disrepair, the place was covered in thick dust, and some of the floorboards were loose. Because of the presence of rats, spiders, and other creatures, the production team had placed all the supplies on shelves and sealed them with glass.
The first group of people who arrived had already smashed the glass of the shelves, had picked out all the supplies, and were eating.
"I heard the announcement that four people were eliminated. Did they tell you what zombies are like?" someone asked in a somewhat serious tone.
"No, they just took a look and ran out." Shi Buyi happened to be standing next to him and replied. Then he picked up a piece of bread and tore it open to eat. It was salty and a little milky, very delicious.
Because he was too hungry, Shi Buxi ate a little fast, but his movements were slow and gentle, so it didn't make people feel uncomfortable. On the contrary, because of his good appetite, even those who were full wanted to eat a few more bites.
Shi Buxi ate six palm-sized loaves of bread until he felt full, then stopped. His mouth was a little dry, so he took a bottle of water and twisted it open to drink. When he saw everyone's eyes fixed on him, they were so intense that he couldn't help but feel a little guilty. He said anxiously, "There's more over there."
He has not forgotten how he came to the interstellar age.
"Haha, it's okay. You're such a small guy, but you can eat a lot." Feng Shen laughed. He had a good impression of Shi Buxi, but that was all. He absolutely couldn't form a team with him. He didn't want to bring someone who would hold him back.
"Yeah!" Shi Buxi nodded. His master had told him many times about his habit of eating until he was full, but he just couldn't change it. When he was young, his master had taken him to see a doctor, hoping for treatment, but in the end, it didn't work.
"Although the supplies provided by the production team are sufficient now, I'm not sure what will happen later. However, I think we should take as much as we can. However, we haven't found a means of transportation yet, and we can't just drag the supplies around to find one. So, the three of us decided to leave the supplies here first while we look for a vehicle. We'll divide them up once we find one. How about that?" Feng Shen looked at the five people who had come later. Finally, his gaze fell on Lu Feng. He really wanted to win him over to his side.
Zong Ziyu and Lu Feng exchanged a glance. Although Feng Shen's words were negotiation, his tone wasn't. If they didn't agree, the first battle would definitely take place here. Furthermore, although he had mentioned distributing supplies, most of them had already been picked up, especially the food. There wasn't much left for the remaining group.
The atmosphere suddenly became a little depressing.
"Little boy, can't you just change your suitcase? Look at this piece of cloth, what can you put down?"
[Desperate! Your four-piece toiletries are already full. Are there any suitcases in the supplies provided by the production team?]
[It's okay if you don't have a suitcase, just have a car. Bring more supplies and use the car to load them when the time comes.]
"I can't drive." Shi Buyi said regretfully.
He said it lightly, but the others were shocked.
What kind of weird thing is this? Not only is his mental state zero, but he can't even drive?
Did he think that the zombies would invite him to Area 1 in a grand ceremony?
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