Chapter 372: Qingguo Guishi: Killing the Music and the Frontier Imperial Zombie

Four New Players were all teleported to the mission world.

Esdeath's vision blurred, and when it cleared again, she was surrounded by low-rise buildings, houses with blue bricks and corner eaves, wide and flat streets, and merchant banners fluttering overhead.

A gust of wind blew,

the banners snapped and rattled, yet the streets were completely empty, and the shops were tightly shuttered.

One could even see that on some houses, thick iron plates were firmly nailed over the tightly closed doors and windows.

It was like an airtight iron room.

A line of black game text appeared before her eyes.

【Entered 【Qingguo Guishi】, language module loaded, beginning mission search.】

World Tier: Tier 2

Scenario Description (Music Zombie): In the Jiangnan Dao region, corpse-driving is prevalent. The deceased Ren Laotaiye was stolen by a Western pharmacist, and after being dissected and injected, he mutated, becoming a fierce, evil corpse far surpassing ordinary walking corpses.

Main Quest: Kill Ren Laotaiye (Demon Corpse)

Mission Reward: 40,000 Reward Points, 2,000 Contribution Points.

"Zombies?"

Esdeath stood in the center of the street, scanning the empty town.

She had never heard of them.

Although the Diju Shijie had extraordinary powers, humans themselves could not master them; instead, they were concentrated in monsters called Danger Beasts.

When it came down to it, they were actually just creatures with formidable flesh and blood.

Humans gathered armies to fight the Danger Beasts, then stripped away their flesh and bones to craft various tools from the extraordinary energy contained within.

Therefore, in Esdeath's view, zombies should just be another type of Danger Beast.

For instance, the assassin group cultivated by the Empire apparently had assassins capable of controlling the Teigu 【Shizhe Xingjun Bafang】.

That Teigu could control corpses, turning them into puppet-like combat forces.

"Zombies, are they perhaps similar to corpses controlled by Shizhe Xingjun?"

"To think that humans can turn into moving corpses after death... that is truly interesting... in that case, couldn't one torment them all over again?"

Esdeath felt not a shred of fear.

Her train of thought was occupied solely by a fanatical combat consciousness; hearing that weak humans could turn into even stronger zombies after death,

to her, it simply meant an even more exhilarating battle.

Esdeath, who had chosen not to form a team, had been teleported separately from the Anya Squad to conduct a solo trial.

Whoosh, whoosh...

The banners swayed violently, and the wind gradually grew stronger.

It was already evening, and a mass of dark clouds hung extremely low, slowly drifting over to cover the entire town.

The light dimmed,

like an omen of some environmental shift.

Inside the houses on both sides of the street, creaking scratching sounds began to emerge, accompanied by faint low growls.

Clearly, the iron plates blocking the doors and windows had not protected the houses.

"Has the entire town already become a gathering place for corpses?"

Esdeath curled her lips, watching the figures hopping out of the houses one by one.

Clusters of pitch-black corpse Qi followed the appearing zombies, blanketing the entire town.

The deathly aura was thick.

【Demon Corpse Lv. 21】: A corpse infected by the special pollutant 【Music Zombie King】, possessing weak spell Resistance.

"The hunt begins!"

Even a corpse-driver accustomed to corpses would tremble in fear at the sight of this.

Yet Esdeath was like a fully armed Hunter.

A layer of frost appeared beneath her feet; she stomped down with force, using the recoil to launch herself forward.

She was like a tiger entering a flock of sheep.

Inside the Game House,

Fang Yi, who was monitoring the new players, twitched his mouth as he watched the tall, queen-like beauty acting like a reckless novice, feeling quite speechless.

"Although Esdeath possesses extremely formidable combat capabilities in the Diju Shijie, the extraordinary energy contained within Danger Beasts is, if judged by tier, not even as strong as chakra."

"These monsters that turned into Demon Corpses after being bitten by the Music Zombie are genuine Tier 2 creatures." Qingguo Guishi, even within the Second-tier World, was at a very high level of energy.

The Music Zombie,

which appeared to be an ordinary zombie that was the product of an injected serum, was actually the masterpiece of the entire polluted world.

It was just like Muzan Kibutsuji in the Demon Slayer World, who drank the medicinal soup and nearly transformed into a perfect life form.

The polluted dragon vein must be purified as soon as possible to take control of the 【Qingguo Guishi】 world.

Otherwise, there would be more and more mutated pollutants like the Music Zombie later on.

"As expected..."

Fang Yi rubbed his brow. Fighting the zombies of an entire town alone—logically speaking, with Esdeath's strength, as long as she was careful and cautious, there was still a chance of victory.

At the very least, she could eliminate hundreds of Demon Corpses.

But now, Esdeath was clutching a wound scratched by a Demon Corpse, her brow furrowed, hiding on the platform of a flat-roofed house.

【You have been scratched by a Demon Corpse, status 【Corpse Poison】 added, losing 50 HP per second, duration 30 minutes.】

The toxicity spread by the Music Zombie was far stronger than that of an ordinary lord-level zombie of the same tier.

Esdeath's Teigu provides her with powerful ice abilities,

but her constitution attribute is only 【35】 points.

It is not low, roughly on par with a Shadow-level expert in the ninja world, but it is still within the realm of ordinary life and cannot resist the demonic Corpse Poison from the musical zombie.

If this continues, her health points will be depleted in a few minutes.

Fortunately,

Fang Yi had long considered that the power systems of different worlds could easily lead to accidental casualties.

Therefore, he added a beginner's guide.

Following the game guide,

Esdeath opens the 【Qingguo Guishi】 shop and finds 【Glutinous Rice (Daoist Baptism)】 capable of dispelling the demonic Corpse Poison,

and dispels the demonic Corpse Poison.

"It really is troublesome, is it an infectious disease like a plague?"

Esdeath thinks of a certain Teigu,

which was said to have been originally bestowed upon an outstanding assassin in the Empire's assassin Organization, but the person defected with the Teigu 【Yizhan Bisha Murasame】.

Not being able to let the demonic corpse scratch one's skin, should it feel the same as fighting against Murasame? Like dancing on a blade's edge.

Esdeath is not discouraged; instead, she becomes increasingly excited and thrilled.

On the rooftop platform, a layer of fine frost appears.

Armor resembling ice crystals covers Esdeath's entire proud figure, leaving only the joints capable of movement.

Paired with her ice-blue long hair and eyelashes, her cold and charming face looks like an Empress born from ice and snow.

Watching Esdeath, who is once again locked in a fierce battle with the demonic corpse, Fang Yi nods with satisfaction. He opens the Mall's exchange history and sees that, in order to quickly recover her combat strength and dispel the demonic Corpse Poison, she actually directly exchanged the source within 【Demon's Extract】.

"Generally speaking, wouldn't one first tentatively exchange for combat techniques, or these cheaper skills or items to test the waters?"

The white-haired loli does not understand.

For example, Anya Squad, because their overall strength is stronger, was directly teleported to the high-level map of 【Bianjiang Huangzu Jiangshi】.

Coming into contact with Qianhe Daozhang, who is escorting the Bianjiang Huangzu Jiangshi,

relying on Anya's Reading Mind, they quickly figured out the zombie's information and exchanged for items to restrain the zombie according to the game guide.

However,

Erza and Kikyo did not fully trust the Samsara Game, so they only exchanged for one piece of Armor and two Demon-Purifying Arrows.

Only after confirming the authenticity of the Samsara Game would they be willing to exchange their core abilities.

"This is what a battle maniac is."

Fang Yi is very satisfied, looking at Esdeath with appreciative eyes.

If most players were like her, simply longing for battle with a pure mind, the entire player team would be much easier to lead.

Should he take some measures to continue to mobilize the players' enthusiasm? Thinking of this,

Fang Yi asks: "A Fu, don't just focus on eating all day; how is the progress on the 【Source Creature】 I asked you to create?"

"I am still missing two Second-tier Lord monsters; if I gather the materials, I will be able to create a 【Zombie】 pet."

(End of this chapter)