Chapter 111: Corpse Ghost

Su Xi followed Gu Yue to the Finance Department.

She did not have the unified Gold Point card of this world, so her 20,000 Gold Points were exchanged for two 1,000-gram gold bars; once she had a Gold Point card, any base could exchange them into Gold Points for her.

Su Xi put the gold bars away, and just as she was preparing to bid Gu Yue farewell, an alarm suddenly sounded throughout the base.

Gu Yue also received a mobilization notice.

He told Su Xi that corpse ghosts were attacking the base.

Ordinary residents were to cease all activities and return to their respective residences to wait for the alarm to be lifted. Su Xi could go to the shelter first, as that was prepared for outsiders who were not residents.

While heading to the shelter, Su Xi asked Er Miao, "What is a corpse ghost?"

She could not ask Gu Yue, because she had claimed to be a free agent and should have been more knowledgeable about the various situations outside the base.

Er Miao said: "According to information scanned within the base, corpse ghosts are dark mutant species that formed after dying from infection by the Xenophage Virus. They rely on consuming living humans to maintain higher-level conscious thought; if there are no living humans to eat, a corpse ghost cannot think and will become a walking corpse, chasing the scent of the living until it eats human flesh, at which point it will regain consciousness."

The shelter was a sports field with a massive screen suspended in the air, displaying footage from inside and outside the base's perimeter walls.

Groups of corpse ghosts were attacking the perimeter walls. Meanwhile, the guards on the walls were fighting back; gunfire erupted, corpse flesh flew, and the scene was incredibly tragic.

Su Xi saw Gu Yue; he was holding a sniper rifle, aiming at the corpse ghosts in the distance, accurately blowing their heads off one by one.

A little boy came to Su Xi's side and handed her a fruit, "Big sister, do you want to eat an apple?"

"Huh?" Su Xi shifted her gaze from the screen, looked at the little boy, and smiled gently: "Thank you, little brother, but big sister won't eat it."

"Then... big sister, could you talk to my brother? He has been looking at you ever since he saw you." The little boy pointed in one direction.

Su Xi looked over, and a young man hurriedly averted his gaze, then sheepishly scolded the little boy for bothering her.

Su Xi paused, then took the little boy's hand and walked over, "Hello, my name is Su Xi."

"H-hello, my name is Yao Yubo, and this is my younger brother, Yao Yuhan," the young man replied.

"How many years apart are you?" Su Xi asked casually.

Yao Yubo replied: "Twenty years apart; I am twenty-six, and he is six."

"I see, are you not from this base?"

"We are from the Shi Si Qu, here to visit relatives; we just arrived and haven't met them yet. And you are?"

"I am a free agent, doing some small business with the base here."

"To be able to do business with the base, you must be exceptionally capable."

"Not at all, just making a living." Su Xi looked at the screen, "Is the base often besieged by corpse ghosts?"

"The Shi Si Qu is attacked by corpse ghosts almost every night. The Er Shi Si Hao Ji Di should be about the same; recently, the corpse ghosts have become quite rampant, and some can even move during the day. The Di Ba Qu and the Di Er Shi Liu Qu bases have already been occupied by corpse ghosts."

Su Xi sighed softly and asked Er Miao, "Is the Mo Ri Chong Qi mission to exterminate these corpse ghosts and help humanity return to the surface to start over?"

"Yes, Host. The Host needs to find the leader of this world, the Human Lord," Er Miao replied.

"Mm." Su Xi looked at the screen.

"Huh?" Er Miao let out a sound of surprise.

Su Xi asked: "What is it?"

Er Miao automatically popped up the system screen, on which appeared a corpse ghost wearing a baseball cap standing among a group of corpse ghosts, "Host, he looks exactly like Master."

When Su Xi saw the corpse ghost's face clearly, she immediately froze.

Yao Yubo, who was nearby, saw her staring at the direction of the screen with a pale and stunned expression, so he looked over as well.

There was nothing special on the screen, just footage of the base guards fighting the corpse ghosts; at first glance, one might be startled, but for those living in the apocalypse, it was already a common sight.

Even his six-year-old brother was as calm as usual.

The next instant, Su Xi suddenly vanished from where she stood!

Yao Yubo rubbed his eyes in astonishment, thinking his vision had blurred.

When he looked again, Su Xi was still nowhere to be seen, not even in the surrounding area.

"Where is big sister?" Yao Yuhan asked.

Yao Yubo was silent for a moment, then sighed in realization: "Big sister is a very powerful spirit-energy user."

Su Xi stood on the perimeter wall, gazing at the corpse ghost wearing the hat not far away.

Just by looking from this distance, it was impossible to see his face, and the clothes on his body were filthy, almost indistinguishable from the surrounding corpse ghosts.

But the screen showed his face, and it was an exact replica of Rong Shou, even the bone structure was the same!

Gu Yue held his sniper rifle and blew up another corpse ghost. While reloading, he lifted his eyelids and saw Su Xi.

Gu Yue was surprised; wasn't she supposed to be in the shelter... how did she appear here?

There was no time to think; he shouldered his rifle and ran toward Su Xi.

"Su Xi, why did you come here?" Gu Yue asked.

Su Xi took the sniper rifle from his hands, her voice low and hoarse, "Let me use it."

"Oh." Gu Yue hurriedly finished loading the bullets, "Do you know how to use it?"

"I do." Su Xi raised the rifle and aimed at the corpse ghost wearing the baseball cap.

When the muzzle was aimed at him, that corpse ghost suddenly raised his head, revealing a pair of eyes that were pitch-black with a hint of scarlet!

Su Xi's heart gave a sudden jolt, and the next instant, the bullet left the chamber and streaked toward him.

Yet, before the bullet could reach him, the opponent suddenly vanished!

In the end, the bullet struck the corpse ghost behind him, and even pierced through a whole line of corpse ghosts behind that one!

Gu Yue stared at this scene, dumbfounded; he could only hit one target with a single bullet.

"How did you do that?" Gu Yue asked Su Xi excitedly.

Su Xi replied: "Just imbue the bullet with spirit energy; you can do it too."

Gu Yue felt as if he had been enlightened, "Really?"

Su Xi nodded, "Of course. If it doesn't succeed once, then twice, ten times, a hundred times... as long as one persists, it will definitely work."

She returned the sniper rifle to Gu Yue.

But just as Gu Yue was about to take the rifle, that corpse ghost wearing a baseball cap appeared again.

Su Xi's expression darkened, and with a clean and swift movement, she turned to aim at him again and fired, "Bang—"!

A bullet wrapped in the power of thunder flew out at extreme speed! Everywhere it passed, all the corpse ghosts turned into powder and vanished!

Gu Yue was dumbfounded!

Everyone who saw this scene was stunned.

【Host, why did you kill him?】 Er Miao could feel the intense killing intent that Su Xi was barely able to suppress.

Su Xi said coldly, 【He is not my Master! He is a corpse ghost!】

Er Miao: 【But he wears Master's face; you really have the heart to do it, Host.】

Su Xi replied, 【It is precisely because he wears that face. I absolutely will not allow anyone other than him, or even something that isn't human, to possess that face!】

The bullet wrapped in the power of thunder still failed to hit!

Su Xi knew she had encountered a ruthless character among the corpse ghosts.

She tossed the sniper rifle to Gu Yue, "Get far away from this place, and go notify your commander."

Gu Yue also noticed that corpse ghost wearing a baseball cap.

It would be impossible not to notice. The corpse ghosts around him had already been wiped out by the power carried by the thunder bullet; only he had dodged it, and he was the only one left.

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