Chapter 334

"...This really sounds like the beginning of a third-rate horror movie."

Kirshtalia parked the car at the edge of a deep and wide fissure, and following Kadoc's comments, he cast his magic-enhanced vision toward the wasteland on the opposite side. The auxiliary enhanced magic helped him to easily see the battle taking place in the flying dust, as well as the humanoid monsters that were attacking the locals.

"...I agree with you." Kirshtalia was silent for a moment, then nodded in response to Kadok.

"Do you want to go over there?" Kadoc turned to Kirshtalia and asked, "The magic you master should be able to help us cross this rift directly, but I can't guarantee that my magic will work on these guys."

"Not to mention that the Great Magic cannot fine-tune the accuracy of the attack, and it may not be possible in this era..." Kirshtalia blinked and looked away seriously, "Strange, it is clearly a time after 3,000 AD, but the concentration of magic in the atmosphere is actually the same as the Atlantic Anomaly Belt in the Age of Gods--"

"If only I had Archer's gun or bow and shooting skills." Cadoc sighed, "When it comes to long-range accuracy, they are the best - although there are always people who like to fight the enemy in close combat."

"But for this type of enemy, long-range combat is the safest solution." Kirshtalia cast a mute spell on the car, restarted it and began to adjust the direction. "Cadok, do you know the 'Five Laws of Zombies'?"

"Zombies come back to life for unknown reasons and rely entirely on instinct, without consciousness or thinking ability. Zombies attack humans in search of living flesh. People bitten by zombies will also become zombies. Zombies will not die, and can only be destroyed by destroying their brains or burning them. Zombies move slowly in groups, and their strength is not strong, but they cause fear and oppression to people." Kadoc glanced at the battlefield and replied to Kirshtalia, "Pepe seems to like watching zombie movies."

"Then the exploration record of this anomaly can be put into his film library in the future." Kirshtalia pointed the front of the car at the battlefield and confirmed with Kadoc, "What is your score in the shooting class?"

"The average score is about 90 points, which is just right for hunting." Kadoc replied, "The hunting rifle scored the highest, 95 points; pistols and sniper rifles are both below the average score of Group A. As for other types of firearms..."

"Which one of your pistols and sniper rifles has a higher score?" Kirshtalia paused and added to Kadoc, "I only remember the structure of these two guns. I can't do anything about hunting rifles and other firearms. I can only project pistols and sniper rifles. You can choose one of the two. I have to drive the car, so the task of attacking is left to you."

"Then we should use a sniper rifle," Kadoc sighed, catching the sniper rifle that Kirshtalia suddenly threw to the back seat with one hand, "but I can't guarantee that I can hit the zombies' brains with one shot - so you should try to increase the speed a little bit. Even if it has been enhanced and modified with magic, it is just an ordinary off-road vehicle, and its defense is far from that of Shadow Border."

“So we must not be trapped by the large group of zombies there - even if we want to contact the locals, we can only do so when our lives can be guaranteed.”

"You don't have to tell me that."

But before the two men drove into a suitable attack distance, a strange black flame rose from the ground, turning the zombies surrounding the vehicle in which the locals were located into gray-black ash.

“Wow.” Kirshtalia said dryly, “This flame——No, is there still the power of Satan here!?!”

"Wasn't the earl involved as well?" Kadoc, who was holding a sniper rifle in the back row, asked in confusion.

"The black flame of the Cave King has a hint of purple - but the depth of the black flame that just rose is blue." Kirshtalia gave Kadoc the answer, "But it's hard to say whether the Cave King itself has undergone a mutation - all I can be sure of now is that this power is definitely related to Satan, or Lucifer who was recorded in the records due to the misunderstanding of later generations."

"Are you still going to go?" Kadoc asked Kirshtalia, who was stepping on the brakes. "There shouldn't be any other dangerous factors around now. This is a good opportunity to meet the locals."

"Let's go take a look." Kirshtalia decided, stepped on the accelerator and drove towards the van. "It's getting dark. We need to find a human settlement and rest well so that we can explore tomorrow."

——Ah, you really are an acquaintance.

After attracting the van's attention with the honking of the car horn, Kirshtalia and Kadoc saw the faces of the six members of the Mankai Theater's Winter Group through the lowered windows of the car on the opposite side.

"I remember their profile says they are ordinary people without any special abilities, right?" Kadoc turned his head to look at Kirshtalia who was sitting in the driver's seat and looking up the data on the communicator. "Then what's with that black flame rising from the ground? It doesn't look like it has anything to do with them, does it?"

"...No, maybe there is a connection." Kirshtalia turned off the communicator. "In a joint performance with the Autumn Group, the Winter Group performed a play about the devil. The leader of the Winter Group, Tsukioka Tsumugi, played the role of Lucifer in that play."

"Drama?" Cadoc frowned in confusion.

"I have some guesses, but let's first use the characteristics of the 'Everyday World' to get their permission to go with us." Kirshtalia rolled down the window and responded to the van carrying all the members of the Winter Team. "Nice to meet you. I'm Kirshtalia Vodym. This is Kadoc Zemlupus. This is the first time we've seen a team that can deal with so many zombies at once."

"Can we follow you and find a place to rest at night?"

The six people in the van were engaged in a discussion.

"Very suspicious." Yu Yingmi was the first to express his opinion.

"The more people the better, but if we just randomly bring people back, food supplies will become tight." Ya made a statement based on the actual situation for his companions to refer to.

"Although it's suspicious, haven't we already picked up a few people before?" Arisugawa Yoshi spread his arms to the crowd, "As long as they don't eat for free, it's not impossible for us to provide them with a place to live - and our conditions are much worse than those of Baihua and God's place, so it's a good thing that someone is willing to come."

"And from what they said, they have no plans to stay here long term." Xue Baidong nodded, agreeing with Arisugawa Yoshi's words, "Anyway, let's take them back first. Whether they will stay or not depends on the supervisor's opinion, right?"

"If we hand it over to the supervisor, then we'll leave everything behind..." Tsukioka Tsumugi, who was sitting in the passenger seat, smiled helplessly and looked at Yui Ran, who was sitting in the driver's seat, "What do you think, Prime Minister?"

"Take him back." Gao Yuancheng glanced at Yu Yingmi who was shrinking at the back through the rearview mirror. "Anyway, there was a suspicious person in our winter team at the very beginning - although he is now completely one of our own. The task of introducing the base to them will be given to you for the time being, and you can hand it over to everyone in the spring team after you go back."

"no problem."

The black feathers completely disappeared from Tsukioka Tsumugi's shoulders, and everyone in the Winter Group turned a blind eye to the scene before them - so Gao Yuancheng turned around and approached the SUV, signaling Kirshtalia and Kadoc to follow his car.

"Then come with us to the base - I hope you don't mind." Gao Yuancheng briefly introduced to Kirshtalia as he drove past the SUV, "The radio channel we use is XXXX, you tune into this channel, and listen to Tsumugi's brief introduction to the base on the way back with us."

"Okay." Kirshtalia rolled up the car window, used the Chaldean communicator to connect to the radio channel that Gao Yuancheng mentioned, and drove forward behind the van.

"Let me first give you a general introduction to the situation here." Tsukioka Tsumugi's voice came from the communicator. "Although I don't know why you came to us, I feel it is necessary to explain the situation of other bases to you together - there are a total of four bases in this world's 'land'."

"Mankai Base 'Mankai Theater', GOD Tower, Baihua Base 'Baihua Theater' and KICS - among them, Mankai is the only base built on the surface. In addition to encountering large-scale zombie tides that occur regularly on the ground, there are sometimes random natural disasters, so generally speaking, survivors will give priority to building bases underground."

"That being said, KICS is actually a small base that has only recently emerged, so it has not yet generated a strong enough attraction in terms of recruiting survivors; and Baihua just experienced a reorganization of its management not long ago...ah, before the reorganization, many of their base members were sent to be test subjects for various cruel and inhumane experiments, so now there should be few people and competitiveness..."

"In the end, only we and God's seat looked respectable," Arisugawa Yoshi concluded.

"GOD-za isn't much better off either." Gao Yuancheng added on behalf of his former employer, "Although the incident wasn't a big deal, if it hadn't been handled properly, Mankai and GOD-za would have been wiped out by the zombie tide together. If the playwright hadn't been dealt with now, and Yuan hadn't taken over the playwright's job, GOD-za might have completely lost the ability to resist the zombies."

"That's right. 'Playwrights' are the foundation of each base'theater's' resistance to the zombies, so plagiarizing other people's scripts is absolutely not allowed." Tsukioka Tsumugi sighed, "After all, there is only one character with the same name in the same script. Even if it is a role tailored for a certain actor, as long as the first performance of the script is not that actor, that actor will lose the qualifications to use this name and the power that comes with this name."

"Huh?"

Kadoc, who was sitting in the back seat entering various intelligence data, looked up in surprise and met Kirshtalia's eyes through the rearview mirror.

"Excuse me, can you explain to us the relationship between the 'Playwright' and the fight against the zombies?" Kirshtalia paused and asked the other end of the line.

"The 'playwright' creates the script, and the 'actor' gains power by playing the role in the script." Arisugawa Yoshi spoke up on behalf of Tsukioka Tsurugi, "Just like the black flame that burned all the zombies to ashes before - that was the power of 'Lucifer' played by Tsurugi."