Deep in the Living
Chapter 416 - 404 The Second Day

Chapter 416: Chapter 404 The Second Day

The sound of the broadcast echoed through the neighborhood, penetrating the villa.

"Good morning everyone! Although we don’t have bright sunshine here, I’ve repaired and turned on all the street lights in the neighborhood to their maximum extent to recreate a morning for everyone as much as possible.

The activity time for the second day is still 12 hours.

If you’re hungry, hurry up and go out to find food.

By the way! I’ll secretly tell you one piece of news: due to environmental deterioration, the infection rate has increased. As everyone should know, in an apocalypse shrouded by the virus, the number of zombies is doubling every day.

Be careful when you’re out looking for food."

The notice ended.

Yu Lu still went to the door’s peephole to observe the situation outside, and what she saw made her pupils slightly enlarge.

The zombies that were difficult to encounter yesterday were now densely wandering outside the door, as if all the residents of the neighborhood had come downstairs for a stroll.

Not only that,

besides the normal human-shaped zombies, there were also quite a few grotesque ones beyond the human realm.

Yu Lu is most adept at Spiritual Body Attacks, although she can also deal with physical death, but handling so many at once becomes very troublesome.

She even slightly regretted letting Juan leave early yesterday, thinking that if they’d cooperated, no matter how many zombies there were, they wouldn’t be a problem.

However, Yu Lu had another plan.

The two only needed to go to the villa where yesterday’s pig carcass was, and they could use the meat reserves there to get through the entire second phase without worrying about anything else.

Just as she was about to explain the situation to Luo Di,

the broadcast voice came again:

"I’m sorry to have forgotten to mention something important. Given that everyone had a very peaceful first day, completely devoid of the tension expected of a game, I will change one important initial rule.

All villas within the neighborhood will no longer be safe.

Participants and zombies alike can damage the villas.

The sudden change will be uncomfortable for many, so I’ll give you half an hour to prepare.

Also, considering the continuous impact of the hunger virus on you, preventing you from exerting your full strength, continuous killing will take a toll on your bodies.

The "safe house" setting needs to be retained, but it cannot be in the villa area.

Therefore, a large comprehensive supermarket is opening inside the neighborhood, and you’ll need to explore and find its location on your own.

The supermarket will inherit the safe house traits of the villas. Once you reach the supermarket, you’ll gain protection, and there are a lot of food supplies inside too.

So please hurry up and act, reaching the supermarket first to seize the opportunity. If you’re slow, the food inside might already be gone.

Wish you all survive the second day safely, good luck."

The broadcast ended.

Luo Di quickly made a preliminary analysis of the current situation:

"This safe house setting in the comprehensive supermarket intends to gather all participants in one area on the second day.

If that’s the case, it’s likely that by the third day we’ll be made to fight amongst ourselves or, like now, have the safe house limitations lifted, allowing zombies to rush directly into the supermarket, which is quite a classic zombie horror movie scenario.

Either way, the supermarket is the only path available right now, and we must get there quickly, pre-occupying an area or a store as our base.

Moreover, we should have an advantage in mobility over other participants.

Using the nine keys we obtained yesterday as a foundation, we can use different villas as transfer bases. Even though the villas can be damaged, at least we can catch our breath inside them and check the surrounding situation from the second-floor window to determine the supermarket location.

Miss Yu Lu, get ready to set off."

Luo Di arranged the nine keys in order of distance and threaded them together with a thin string to open the doors faster when needed.

Looking at it this way, continuously killing zombies to find keys yesterday was the right approach. Since the theme is related to zombies, killing zombies must be the correct choice.

Luo Di was ready, gripping the knife handle with his right hand and having his left arm covered with spikes.

When he reached the door, Yu Lu floated directly behind him.

"Luo Di, without immunity from Spiritual Bodies, I don’t have the capability for mass killing. I can barely manage it, but it would consume too much energy, which isn’t worth it.

Can you handle the front line? I’ll just handle the zombies chasing from behind."

"No problem." Luo Di did not hesitate, nodding in agreement, "I’ll take the front, Miss Yu Lu just needs to maintain the domain expansion to ensure no other participants, especially the clown, get close."

"By the way, do you have a way to stick me to your back? My weight is almost non-existent, so it would save floating, like using the wire that pierced my hand last night to tie my body."

"Yes, I can."

Two spiked metal straps were quickly constructed,

and because they were built as torture devices, the straps themselves were spiked, directly piercing Yu Lu’s body, hanging her like a backpack, maintaining a back-to-back position.

And indeed, as she said, Yu Lu’s weight was estimated to be only slightly over 30 pounds, hardly a burden.

Pierced by spikes, Yu Lu showed a bit of expression, looking more spirited.

Sigh... Luo Di took a deep breath.

Crackling~ Tentacles covered his eyeballs, Luo Di maintained a chromatic perception within a ten-meter range, opened the door, activating his customized Yu Lu backpack, and officially departed.

But when the released grayness outlined the situation within the ten-meter range in his brain,

even Luo Di, who was prepared, was taken aback,

the number of zombies seemed too many, and it was more than just neighborhood personnel coming out; it was like everyone and their families showed up.

Now wasn’t the time to consider energy consumption or hunger levels,

it’s a matter of survival.

Luo Di didn’t hesitate, directly bringing out his strongest current ability. The Old Spine slowly protruded from the center of his back, allowing Yu Lu, worn as a backpack, to clearly feel this special sensation.

It differed from any spine she understood,

searing yet deep,

vital yet ancient,

somehow, although this Old Spine lacked spikes, she had a distinct tactile sense of it, making her whole body tremble slightly, tingling with an indescribable feeling.

Meanwhile, in addition to the street lighting, a special glow emerged in the neighborhood; moonlight poured down.

All zombies illuminated by the moonlight would be marked gray and appear in Luo Di’s mind... On the night of the full moon, the slaughter began.

Stable breathing,

the sound of chainsaws interacting with flesh,

the metallic clatter of chains and traps,

Luo Di really carved out a bloody path from the front.

Faced with unavoidable situations, when about to be bitten or clawed by zombies, a noose would appear, causing zombies to veer off course, willingly placing their necks into the loop.

Click!

Он pulled out a key, opened the door, and entered the house.

Luo Di cut through over a hundred meters, reaching the second temporary villa.

The front door was temporarily locked with chains, and Luo Di sat on the ground, panting heavily, feeling a slight hunger manifest despite eating a meat can not long ago.

"Luo Di, take a rest here. I’ll go upstairs to check the outside situation."

"Okay."

Yu Lu floated away,

while Luo Di, sitting at the door, always kept his chainsaw blade in hand,

he could hear a large number of zombies crashing against the door, and some had even clawed through parts of the window’s sealing boards; it wouldn’t take ten minutes for this villa to fall.

Luo Di wasn’t worried,

he was only concerned about the clown, as long as that guy didn’t cause trouble at this moment.

Moreover, Luo Di discovered some changes after the recent zombie massacre, changes emanating from the pituitary space.

He was currently collecting materials to open the door, and any monster’s corpse that was killed would be collected into the pituitary space in "Consciousness Concretization".

Including that pig servant Juan brought before, was also here.

However, zombies, which don’t qualify as monsters, should have been filtered out since they aren’t construction materials themselves.

But as he slashed through today, killing almost over thirty zombies consecutively,

a piece of something appeared in Luo Di’s pituitary space,

an incomplete zombie arm, only a very short front part, not even with complete fingers.

But it seemed as long as Luo Di continued killing zombies, this arm would regain its parts, possibly even complement the rest of the body, eventually forming a complete corpse.

Perhaps completing this hand might hold significant meaning for the Gate of Demon Ascension as he had suspected.

After confirming this point, Luo Di slightly adjusted his subsequent battle plan.

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