Chapter 51

Wang Tanzhi thought to himself, but the zombie werewolf was different; it wouldn’t consider whether a player was a middle school student or not. It only recognized strength.

As a not very intelligent gatekeeper-level BOSS, the zombie werewolf actually abandoned the prey right in front of it, turned around, and focused, alertly watching the two targets slowly approaching, still at a considerable distance. This fully demonstrated how formidable those two were.

From the way they addressed each other, Xiao Tan deduced that they were the team’s [Unrivaled General Pan Feng] and [Thousand-Cutter Hua Xiong]. Since the players were initially separated in this script and their names and titles were no longer displayed above their heads (only names, levels, and survival status were visible in the team panel), Xiao Tan didn’t know what their titles were and couldn’t use them to gauge their strength. However, since these two had come to save him voluntarily and dared to make such bold statements, he believed they could take down this BOSS without any trouble.

“G... General,” Xiao Tan said rather awkwardly, “There are many blood wolf zombies down there. Why don’t we lure this small BOSS up... Ah!” He suddenly opened his mouth wide, shocked, as he exclaimed.

Don’t worry, he wasn’t bitten. Although five or six zombies from the parking lot behind him had already approached, they hadn’t reached Xiao Tan. In fact, there was no need to worry too much about those few monsters because they were blocked by the horizontal barriers... Due to their low intelligence, they couldn’t climb over or crawl under, and were instead using their chests to push against the barriers...

The reason Xiao Tan exclaimed was because he saw an unbelievable scene.

General Pan leaped high, his mountain-splitting axe raised over his head. His body descended, and the axe blade fell diagonally. Although it didn’t seem fast, the angle and movement of his attack were enough to make the large, hulking zombie werewolf unable to avoid it.

The monster roared in anger and swung its claws to block. However, the weapon in Pan Feng’s hands, upon striking the monster’s arm, suddenly accelerated. The axe blade flashed with a cold light, swift as lightning, faster than a meteor, slicing through the arm and spilling blood, severing it in one stroke.

The zombie werewolf’s massive arm was thus cleanly severed and flew off. Before it could even let out a scream, Hua Xiong’s spear had already arrived, this strike even faster, too quick to see. As the blood splattered, the monster’s knee was already pierced.

With its left arm severed by the axe and its right knee pierced by the spear, the zombie werewolf, whose body was already top-heavy, lost balance and fell to the right, crashing heavily to the ground.

In the next second, a cold light appeared in the wolf’s eyes, and with a thud, the mountain-splitting axe chopped into the ground, splashing blood. Then, a wolf’s head slowly rolled down the sloping road...

Xiao Tan was completely stunned. These two had taken down a small BOSS in just three moves. It was hard to imagine that they were only two levels higher than him.

“Ah—” The low moans of the blood wolf zombies behind him brought him back to his senses.

Xiao Tan turned around and saw that dozens of zombies had already gathered behind the barriers. In the deeper, darker parts of the parking lot, countless more shadows of zombies could be seen.

“Little brother, why don’t you come with us back to the surface for now?” Pan Feng asked.

Xiao Tan immediately replied, “Sure... let’s find a place without any monsters first.” He hurriedly moved upward, and as he passed the zombie werewolf, he couldn’t help but glance down at the headless corpse...

...

After leaving the “stronghold,” Feng Bujue was also heading towards the Alp Company building, knowing that it was more likely to find teammates there. At this moment, he hoped that Xiao Tan and the other two players wouldn’t blindly enter the building before he arrived, leading to their deaths.

He wasn’t in a hurry to save Dr. Ashford in the main quest. To be honest, the doctor’s death didn’t matter much, as the system had never said that the doctor’s death would mean the failure of the script. This was a team “survival” mode, and the script would only fail if all players were wiped out. The death of a non-player character would at most increase the difficulty of the script or change the ending.

Feng Bujue had already killed about fifty blood wolf zombies on his own. Actually, if he had the intention, he could have killed even more, but he had spent some time conducting various “experiments” to test the reactions of the monsters.

After all this, his shooting proficiency had risen from F to E, but his combat proficiency remained at E. It seemed that dancing and using two non-weapon items to slice off the heads of monsters couldn’t raise his combat proficiency to D. He needed to adjust his approach.

Feng Bujue couldn’t help but think of Si Yu Ruo Li, recalling her clean, swift, and graceful movements. He couldn’t perform such actions yet, but perhaps when he could, his combat proficiency would reach D.

Of course, fighting slow-moving monsters like crabs wouldn’t help him develop such skills. He needed to fight monsters of at least equal or greater strength to have any chance of further improving his combat proficiency.

At the moment, Feng Bujue’s top priority was to figure out how to wear the [Echo Armor]. He now knew that raising his combat proficiency to C wouldn’t be easy, but he could try to raise his tool proficiency to D, as it was only one level away.

On his way, he kept thinking about how to use the script’s freedom to gain more benefits, avoiding monsters whenever possible. Soon, he was close to the Alp building, with only a few blocks left to go.

At this point, Feng Bujue noticed that the number of blood wolf zombies around him had increased, and... he saw some dead zombies.

Thus, he went to “examine” the zombies with great interest... He squatted next to a corpse, looking at the smashed skull and the liquid that had spilled on the ground, carefully observing the wounds and slightly checking the other wounds on the body, as if he were a detective investigating a crime scene.

“Hmm, was it a baseball bat...” he mused, “First a hit from the front, then two more from the side and back... Could it be Xiao Tan...” He stood up, picked up a pipe wrench, and casually smashed a monster that had approached him, stepping on its chest and smashing its skull with two strikes.

“However, a baseball bat seems to be a fairly easy weapon to obtain. ‘Name Really Hard to Choose’ had several of them.” He thought, “It’s also possible that the other two players are using bats as weapons.”

With this in mind, he moved forward, but before he had taken a few steps, he saw about seven or eight dead bodies lying close together, all with their heads severed. The heads were still moving, unable to make sounds due to the lack of tracheas, just opening and closing their mouths, making chewing motions.

“Hmm... This wasn’t done by him...”