The Beloved Heiress's Dark Side (8)
Only after Fan Siqi mentioned this did everyone notice that Qu Chen had somehow ended up in the zombie horde, hopping and skipping around. He was using the zombies on the ground as obstacles, stepping on them with uneven feet, and even poking at their skin with his small sword.
Jian Tanxi and Meng Yuening quickly brought Qu Chen over, preventing him from getting close to the zombies. Qu Chen was still somewhat unsatisfied and kept glancing towards the zombies.
He then used the small sword given to him by Sir John to stab people, but no matter who he wanted to stab, that person would be bounced away by the force of the sword's rebound.
Qu Chen found the game very fun and started playing it.
At this moment, Professor Pan said, "Why don't we ask these wounded soldiers to see if there is any pattern to the appearance of the zombies?"
Everyone agrees.
So the players questioned the wounded, asking how they had been found and bitten by the zombies.
However, many people can't explain why.
One person said, "I suddenly heard zombies outside, and then I panicked and ran with the crowd. After I got outside, I saw a zombie, and I accidentally made eye contact with it. I stopped moving and then I was bitten."
Someone said, "After I heard there were zombies, I hid in a room. Then, the zombie broke down the door, came in, and bit me."
Jian Tanxi asked, "Did you all run away with a large group of people? Why did the zombies specifically target a few of you?"
Some people said, "Yes, we ran together in the crowd."
Another person said, "No, I was just running with a few family members. I thought we would be safe if we ran up the mountain, but I didn't expect there to be a zombie on the mountain."
Zhang Dayong said, "Zombie bites should be random, right?"
Meng Yuening said, "It's not necessarily random... How about this, you all get up and run around and see if there's anything special about you."
When the wounded heard that they were to be told to run again, they were all unwilling, and no one got up.
"We're all about to die, how can we run?"
"Yes, I have no strength, my wound hurts a lot."
"All I want to do right now is cover myself with a blanket."
Meng Yuening said, "Thank you all for your hard work. It's okay if we run a little slower. We want to see if there is any pattern to the zombies biting people."
Several wounded soldiers managed to stand up and slowly ran two laps.
Jian Tanxi and others discovered that they made a "clanging" sound when they ran.
Jian Tanxi asked, "What was that clanging sound you made when you ran?"
The wounded man said, "It was probably the coins in our pockets... When we first heard about the zombies, we grabbed some money and ran away. There were both small and large coins, so it made noise when we ran."
Jian Tanxi asked, "Did all the people who ran away carry money with them?"
"We don't know... There are probably some people who don't think to bring money."
Meng Yuening asked all the injured people present, "Do you all have some coins on you?"
The wounded soldiers nodded in agreement.
Now, players have some guesses.
Meng Yuening said, "Perhaps the zombies will be attracted by the sound of coins clattering together. So, people carrying a lot of coins will become the first targets of the zombies... How about this, we also hide some coins on our bodies and run around to see if we can lure out the last zombie."
Everyone agreed with the proposal.
Zhang Dayong said to the wounded, "Could you lend us the coins you have? We'll go out and attract the zombies, and we'll return the money to you as soon as we catch them."
However, the wounded looked at each other, all of them somewhat embarrassed.
One of the wounded said, "The coins here have a lot of denominations, the smallest being 100 yuan, so it might not be convenient to lend them out."
Zhang Dayong was getting anxious: "Do you think we'd leave the money behind? We're not from around here; we'll leave once we've finished our mission."
However, the wounded remained silent.
Meng Yuening said, "You've been bitten by zombies, and only we can save you. But you're so hesitant about lending us a little money. Is that appropriate?"
One of the wounded said, "But you haven't saved us yet, have you? We still have some pills left, but you just won't give them to us."
Jian Tanxi was a little angry, but she still patiently said, "It's not that we won't distribute them, it's that we need to prioritize saving the person who has been bitten the longest. The pills for the others will be distributed tomorrow."
"Why make us suffer until tomorrow? We're really in pain right now."
Meng Yuening frowned and said, "Forget it, they're just a bunch of rabble. I suddenly remembered that I have something else."
Meng Yuening took out a button from her backpack that read "Money +1". It was an item she had obtained before, but had never used.
It looks like a toy, but every time you press it, a coin appears.
Meng Yuening had never tried it before. She pressed it and sure enough, a one-yuan coin fell to the ground.
Meng Yuening was very happy and quickly pressed the buttons, and dozens of coins appeared on the ground all at once.
The wounded soldiers' eyes lit up when they saw so many coins, and they quietly crawled over to take a look. Of course, they thought their movements were very small, but to Jian Tanxi and the others, their actions were quite obvious.
Meng Yuening said coldly, "Don't bother looking. This is our world's currency. Each one is only worth one dollar. It's no use for you to take it."
When the wounded saw that the coins were indeed all one-yuan coins and looked different from the coins in City A, they lost interest and stopped looking at them.
After a while, Meng Yuening pressed out about a hundred coins, and then stopped.
She said to Zhang Dayong, "Zhang Dayong, please stay here and keep an eye on the zombies, take care of the wounded and Qu Chen. The rest of us, put these coins in your bags and run around to see if we can attract the last zombie. To prevent us from being unable to defeat it in a one-on-one fight, the remaining four of us will split into two teams: Jian Tanxi and I will be one team, and Professor Pan and Fan Siqi will be the other team."
This allocation is reasonable and fair, and no one has any problems with it.
Zhang Dayong comes from a manual labor background and also possesses supernatural abilities related to strength, making him the most suitable person to stay and guard the small building.
The players are all highly intelligent, so there's no need for extra words; once they reach a consensus, they can act immediately.
Jian Tanxi and the others filled their bags with coins. If their clothes or pants had pockets, they would put the coins in several pockets to make a louder noise.
Jian Tanxi gave Zhang Dayong some of her sleeping pills so that if any of the zombies woke up, they could continue to be given sleeping pills.
After the four players left, Jian Tanxi and Meng Yuening ran east, while Professor Pan and Fan Siqi ran southwest.
They all chose directions they had never been to before, but there were still some directions left vacant, which they couldn't attend to.
Hopefully, I'll be lucky this time and manage to encounter the last zombie.
Jian Tanxi and Meng Yuening ran eastward for about an hour and were a little tired, so they sat down to rest.
Suddenly, they smelled a strange odor.
Immediately afterwards, they turned around uncontrollably and started walking in the opposite direction.
And the last zombie—Old Master Ou—was right in front of them!
It seems that Old Master Ou had just sprinkled poison powder on them, and since they had their backs to him, they were poisoned.
After being poisoned by the powder, you will be forced to walk towards the zombies until you are bitten by them.
Old Master Ou also walked quickly towards them. He was somewhat irritable, probably because he hadn't drunk human blood in a long time.
Just as it seemed that Grandpa Ou was about to catch them, and they were unable to move any part of their body except their legs, it seemed that there was no way to catch them.
In the midst of the crisis, Jian Tanxi remembered her special ability—editing scripts.
She quickly said, "Change the script's special ability activation: 'Old Master Ou was facing Jian Tanxi, and was walking.' Change 'facing' to 'back,' 'Old Master Ou was walking with his back to Jian Tanxi.'"
Just as Grandpa Ou was about to catch Jian Tanxi, his superpower took effect, and he turned his back to Jian Tanxi and continued walking.
In this way, Grandpa Ou walked in front, with Meng Yuening and Jian Tanxi following behind.
They were very close, but Old Master Ou couldn't turn around and suck their blood for the time being.
Grandpa Ou was very anxious, but he didn't know what had happened or why his body was out of control.
Meng Yuening asked Jian Tanxi in a low voice, "Can he hear us if we talk now?"
Jian Tanxi said, "He should be able to hear it, but it doesn't matter if he hears it or not, his IQ is almost zero right now."
"He also knows how to attack from behind, so his IQ isn't that low."
"After all, his age and experience are what they are. Even if Grandpa Ou becomes a zombie, he is still smarter than other zombies. But he certainly can't compare to a normal person."
After hesitating for a long time, Meng Yuening asked, "Does your ability to modify scripts have a time limit? Nod if yes, shake your head if no."
Jian Tanxi nodded and mouthed, "Twenty minutes."
Meng Yuening was a little worried, but Jian Tanxi comforted her, saying, "The zombies' use of poison powder to control people must have a time limit."
Meng Yuening immediately understood Jian Tanxi's meaning.
If the zombies' poison powder also has a time limit, they can escape once the time is up.
However, it's unclear how long the time limit will be.
Hopefully it won't take more than 20 minutes.
Just then, a swallow flew by from the front, and Jian Tanxi quickly spoke to it: "Miss Swallow, can you do me a favor?"
The swallow looked around and was quite surprised to find that it was Jian Tanxi talking to it. It asked, "How can you speak our language?"
Jian Tanxi: "There's no time to explain. I have four cards in my backpack. Could you take one out for me? I can give you anything you want in a moment, as long as I can do it."
The swallow said, "No need to repay me, swallows are friends of humans. I'll help you carry the card."
Swallow flew to Jian Tanxi's backpack, used its sharp beak to unzip it, and began searching inside.
After a while, it found the cards and picked one out.
Jian Tanxi said, "Help me throw it onto that old man in front of me."
The swallow did as instructed.
The moment the card touched Old Master Ou, Jian Tanxi said, "You're a good person. Please take a sleeping pill from my backpack."
Grandpa Ou immediately turned around, walked to Jian Tanxi's side, and mechanically searched his bag.
After a while, he found the sleeping pill, swallowed it, and then collapsed to the ground.
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