"Rock-a-bye, rock-a-bye, rock-a-bye, to Grandma's bridge..."
Accompanied by cheerful nursery rhymes, the adorable rocking horse sways back and forth, its lights flashing in various colors.
Xia Linyin stood to the side, a faint smile on her lips, gazing tenderly at Xiao Li sitting in the rocking horse.
After becoming a zombie, Xiao Li's emotions seem to be more direct than before; she cries and makes a fuss, just like a real child.
Almost every time, the game assigns him a tragic and miserable backstory. Behind his powerful strength and status lies a tragic past. It seems that only in this way can he fit the image of a boss character who needs to be killed by the player.
This time, she wanted to give him a normal childhood—a happy, joyful, and blissful childhood filled with wonderful memories.
Help him rediscover the childlike joy that's been missing from his life.
The rocking horse stopped rocking, and Xiao Li opened his arms to Xia Linyin. Xia Linyin went over, picked him up, and put a peeled watermelon-flavored fruit candy into his mouth.
The phone rang suddenly. Xia Linyin answered the call, and Yin Yichen's urgent voice came from the other end, "Xiaoyin, where are you? Something's happened!"
Xia Linyin paused, then asked, "What's wrong?"
"John is dead!" Without giving Xia Linyin a chance to ask, Yin Yichen said directly, "Where are you now? Old Zhang and I will come pick you up. We'll talk about the details when we meet!"
"I'm in the county town now, let's meet at the fountain square!" Xia Linyin had barely finished speaking when Yin Yichen hung up the phone.
Xia Linyin gripped her phone, her brow furrowed. John was dead?!
What... what exactly is going on?
Xiao Li raised his small hand and placed it on Xia Linyin's forehead. Xia Linyin relaxed her furrowed brows, gave him a slight smile, and then ran off quickly in her high heels.
Fountain Square —
Upon seeing Xia Linyin in the distance, Yin Yichen drove up to her and said, "Get in the car quickly!"
Xia Linyin opened the back door and got in with Xiao Li. "What happened? How could John be dead?"
"That bastard John! I mean, what has he been doing these past few days, sneaking around like that? He actually went and killed someone!" Yin Yichen's face was cold, and his voice was filled with barely suppressed anger.
Xia Linyin's delicate brows furrowed again. "Murder?"
Sitting in the passenger seat, Old Zhang turned to look at Xia Linyin and nodded, saying, "John went to kill someone to feed his little zombie."
"He..." Xia Linyin didn't know what to say for a moment. John was indeed a person who would stop at nothing to achieve his goals. She could tell that John didn't value the lives of NPCs and had no psychological burden when killing them. But she never expected him to be so ruthless.
This has reached the point of having no bottom line.
After all, they can buy the blood for the zombies through legitimate channels, and they can also give them pig's blood or chicken blood, but that would slow down the zombies' leveling up.
In order to complete the mission quickly and level up the zombies as soon as possible, John indiscriminately killed innocent people.
No, perhaps John didn't think he was killing living people.
"Then it turns out that there are vampires and vampire hunters in this world. The hunters thought that the recent missing persons cases were done by vampires, so they followed the clues and came to their door."
Yin Yichen paused for a moment before continuing, "They killed John's little zombie and originally intended to take John to the police station, but since the little zombie was killed, John naturally fought them to the death. During the fight, John was killed by them."
"The tragedy is that they also discovered me and Lao Zhang's little zombie. They were determined to kill us. The hunters not only had the advantage in numbers, but they were also very strong. They were all top-notch experts. I had no choice but to use some tricks and Lao Zhang and I secretly escaped."
"And what about your zombies?" Xia Linyin asked.
"There's a talisman stuck in the trunk," Yin Yichen said.
Xia Linyin nodded, leaning back in her chair with a heavy heart. The way things had developed was completely beyond her expectations. She had thought that this game wouldn't be too difficult because her zombie was Xiao Li, and all she had to do was raise Xiao Li to the purple-eyed level.
But I never expected this to happen.
Vampires, vampire hunters, games certainly won't let them have an easy time.
"Where do we go now?" Xia Linyin asked.
“Go to Master Chunyang’s place. I’ve already called Monkey. Monkey told us to go to Master Chunyang’s place, saying that Master Chunyang can resolve this matter.”
Yin Yichen glanced at the rearview mirror and frowned. "They're catching up!"
Xia Linyin turned her head to look behind the car. More than a dozen black motorcycles roared past on the highway, speeding by and constantly closing the distance between them.
Each motorcycle was ridden by a man in a black robe, the wide hem of which fluttered behind him like bat wings.
Yin Yichen had already floored the accelerator, and the scenery on both sides was rushing past, but the distance between the hunters and them was still getting closer and closer.
Suddenly, several motorcycles rushed out from the fork in the road ahead!
Yin Yichen gripped the steering wheel tightly, a ruthless glint flashing in his beautiful peach blossom eyes. "If they dare to stop me, I'll ram them! Who's afraid of who!"
Instead of slowing down, the SUV accelerated and crashed straight into the motorcycle in front of it.
Facing the oncoming off-road vehicle, the lead hunter raised his hand and fired a silver nail quickly and calmly.
The specially modified silver spikes were incredibly powerful, their sharp tips spinning as they pierced into the tough tires.
The sound of a tire bursting rang out.
"Damn it!" Yin Yichen jerked the steering wheel, the car drifted, the tires screeched against the ground, leaving heavy scratches.
With a loud bang, the SUV crashed into the stone pillar.
After a dizzying spin, Xia Linyin and the others were pinned under their seats. Taking out her crescent-shaped blade, Xia Linyin stabbed through the car door with a single blow.
Blood flowed down her forehead, which had been cut by shards of glass.
Seemingly sensing the scent of blood on Xia Linyin, Xiao Li roared, kicked open the car door, and its sharp claws tore the car apart.
After climbing out of the car, Yin Yichen and Lao Zhang quickly ran to the trunk, opened the smoking trunk, and lifted out the two little zombies.
Xia Linyin stroked Xiao Li's head to soothe his emotions, while gripping her knife tightly in her other hand, watching warily as the hunters approached them from all directions.
All of these hunters were bald, with a black cross mark on their foreheads. The leader, the hunter who had just shot out their tires, had a blood-red cross mark on his forehead.
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