Chapter 314: Punishment Dungeon

Zhang Tie let out a sigh after listening to Lin Ruolan's narration.

He silently took out another piece of jerky from his pocket, not knowing what he was thinking.

Although the apocalypse broke out in the real world, time was ultimately still short.

Since following Lin An, even the entire base has been normal and peaceful.

Having had no contact with other forces, he almost forgot what the apocalypse truly meant.

Seeing Lin Ruolan's appearance as if she were about to choke herself to death, Gao Tian couldn't help but question her aloud:

"Why are you dragging corpses?"

"Besides, you said there's no food around here—how are you still alive!!"

Since encountering the spider maker with Lin An, Gao Tian has developed a habit of questioning anything unreasonable.

The woman raised her head at the sound, and with effort swallowed the dry meat strip using her saliva.

She looked contemptuous, then used her hand to turn over the nearby highly rotted corpse crawling with maggots:

"I can't be bothered to care whether you're that bunch of beasts."

"But just looking at you, I can tell you lack any basic common sense."

"I really don't know where you came from."

Saying that, the woman silently glanced at the corpse beside her and said nothing more.

"Damn it!!"

Gao Tian seemed to think of something, his stomach churned with nausea, and he almost vomited.

Zhang Tie's face turned pale, and he couldn't speak for a while.

Lin Ruolan gave a cold laugh:

"How? Is it disgusting?"

"You trapped us here, isn't it just to see this?"

"But I'm actually curious."

"You well-fed people who like curiosities have probably seen all this before, right?"

Lin An secretly sighed.

What the woman said is correct.

In his past life, his memory indeed also had such occurrences.

However, in the real world, people don't dare eat corpses because the dead might carry viruses.

But smart people discovered that the maggots that appear after flies parasitize are non-toxic.

High protein, non-toxic, no waste.

I just didn't expect this world to be the same.

After giving Zhang Tie and the other person a moment to catch their breath, Lin An asked Lin Ruolan slightly curiously:

"Trapped?"

"Did the Safe Zone people trap you here? Weren't you saying you were hiding here?"

The woman licked clean the beef jerky packaging, then replied impatiently:

"The Safe Zone people don't let us leave the city."

"Although the wilderness is dangerous, at least we can grow vegetables."

"Slave-catching teams often enter the city; hiding here isn't contradictory."

Gao Tian was startled by the sound, he sensed the hidden information in the woman's words.

The Safe Zone can manage to trap an entire city.

Then why not choose to subdue the city?

Are they treating the Safe Zone as a city and the city as the wild for free-range savages?

All these abnormalities made him unable to help but become curious.

After a moment, Lin An stared into the woman's eyes:

"Take us to the nearest Safe Zone."

"I'll give you a pack of meat, or you'll become meat."

The emitted pressure pressed over, making the woman's hairs stand on end.

After a while, she lifted her head, refusing to show weakness, staring at Lin An:

"Two packs! I'd rather die than be a starving ghost!"

Outside the city, a white light flashed from Lin An's ring, and in Lin Ruolan's astonished gaze it turned into three motorcycles.

After stopping her endless chatter and his frenzied inquiry, Zhang Tie, with a bitter face, let the woman sit behind him.

After displaying extraordinary ability, Lin Ruolan finally realized that these people before her were not the same as those she had thought.

Probably it's the emotional intensification from system privileges.

The woman's emotional fluctuations were extraordinarily large.

It's also unclear whether she was naturally somewhat neurotic or affected by the system.

Mo Ling silently put his arms around Lin An's waist and closed his eyes to sleep.

For some reason, after Mo Yu turned back into a human, she became as wary of strangers as when she first met Lin An.

From entering the instance to now, not a word or expression has changed.

Lin An secretly sighed in his heart.

He probably also guessed why.

Although this instance world has just been entered, its displayed condition is actually similar to the future of the real world.

Mo Ling had said she was worried about whether turning Mo Yu back into a human would be good or bad.

After seeing Lin Ruolan's appearance, she naturally would think of Mo Yu's future.

Lin An couldn't console her.

Because of the situation in the real world, it would only be worse than the instance world...

However, the real-world apocalypse still has time before it erupts, and many crises are brewing.

What we are encountering now is merely the tip of the iceberg of the instance world.

After starting the motorbike, the engine roared.

The sound was somewhat harsh on the edge of the dead silent city.

Scattered zombies rushed out from every corner.

Compared to the zombies in the real world, the zombies here are undoubtedly much "older".

Grayish bones were exposed, and the rotting flesh hung on the body like mush.

Many zombies even grew white fur and green splotches on their bodies.

Muscles had atrophied, and even their running speed was much slower than that of real-world zombies.

If the real-world zombies were as fast as sprinters, frantically charging and lunging like mad dogs.

Then the zombies here move at a jogger's pace, and many even scrape their broken leg bones on the concrete, limping as they pursue.

There were some doubts.

Do these zombies really pose a threat to us?

As of now, Lin An still hasn't figured out what the danger of the Amoeba Worm instance is.

According to Lin Ruolan's description, this instance basically has no special abilities.

Therefore, we in this world can almost be called invincible.

This is easy to verify; just go to the nearest Safe Zone and take down their leader to verify it.

Unease.

This world seems to be nothing but zombies.

Perhaps it poses a huge threat to ordinary people, but for Lin An, an Awakened One, he really can't tell where the difficulty lies.

The more this is the case, the stronger the unease in his heart becomes.

Surely the instance's difficulty isn't just about numbers, right?

Because if we can't kill them all, we'd be trapped here and our base overrun?

But the mission never said to kill all the zombies!

Resolving the apocalypse crisis—this explanation is too vague...

Moreover, for some reason, Lin An always feels he's overlooked something.

Even.

Why did the Savior System steal a key and give it to him?

The key can temporarily unleash third-rank power, but the duration isn't long.

His power has already exceeded this world's limits; no matter how high the damage, it's impossible to kill hundreds of millions of zombies in just a few seconds, right?

Full of unease and questions.

Lin An couldn't help but take out the Soul Casket, preparing to ask Huang Shaohua if he knew about the Amoeba Worm instance.

Bang!

A clean gunshot rang out.

Mo Ling pulled out her gun, casually shot down a few nearby zombies, then tightly embraced him.

The little loli seemed to want to say something, a flicker of struggle passed in her eyes, but she still chose to give up.

Hum-

The motorbike roared.

The city behind them receded.

The zombies blown head-first lay twisted on the ground; the zombies originally attracted by the engine noise suddenly shifted their target, actually surrounding the corpse of the beheaded zombie.

Corpses killed by spiritual energy bullets seemed even more delicious than the living.

Tearing, chewing.

Then swallowing.