Global Game: AFK In The Zombie Apocalypse Game

Yu Jia Yuan sighed and quickly recounted the events that had transpired to Fang Heng in a hushed voice.

While Fang Heng was performing the ritual, an anomaly occurred; a red beam of light manifested. Gan Honghua, noticing the abnormality, immediately pulled her away. Then, she witnessed a crimson light soaring into the sky, and the sky became overcast with dark clouds.

After leaving the hall, Gan Honghua immediately led the cultists to evacuate.

Unexpectedly, they were corrupted halfway through their escape.

The corruption on Gan Honghua was particularly severe; in less than half a minute, he had devolved into a corrupted creature.

The accompanying cultists also began to succumb to the corruption one by one.

In the ensuing chaos, Yu Jia Yuan followed the remaining cultists into the underground passage. Not long ago, they emerged from the other end of the passage, intending to remain there until the crisis passed, but unexpectedly, they encountered Fang Heng passing by.

Yu Jia Yuan felt like she wanted to die.

The corruption on her body had just been cleansed, and now she was facing new corruption.

What about the promised period of high resistance after cleansing the corruption?

Ever since meeting Fang Heng, Yu Jia Yuan's mood had been like a rollercoaster, experiencing hope, then despair, then hope again, then despair again, followed by the surprise of a miraculous recovery, and finally, a relapse into despair…

Yu Jia Yuan felt unspeakably exhausted.

After all that, she was still in a state of corruption, the only difference being that she had gained more than a month of time compared to before.

Fang Heng listened to Yu Jia Yuan's account, his brows furrowed.

"Did Gan Honghua say anything before he died?"

Yu Jia Yuan glanced at Fang Heng, lowered her voice, and whispered, "He did. He was muttering something about a demon seed, then he looked terrified and immediately led the church members to evacuate. I followed them, and halfway through, Gan Honghua became corrupted."

"Mm."

Fang Heng nodded.

In general, Yu Jia Yuan's situation was similar to his; both were affected by the corruption effect.

"The Fallen's target is likely me. Their numbers are increasing. We need to find a way to leave here immediately."

"No, don't go out!"

Yu Jia Yuan quickly reached out to stop Fang Heng, saying, "I just tried it. Once exposed to the outside world, the corruption on my body will spread rapidly. Previously, Bishop Gan was quickly corrupted because he left the church."

She had just tried going outside, but as soon as she was exposed to the black clouds overhead, the corruption in her sea of consciousness increased dramatically, making it impossible to last for more than half an hour!

Fang Heng's heart stirred, and he immediately checked the game notifications.

Indeed, when he lingered outside the building earlier, the game would notify him every half minute that his corruption had increased significantly. Now, the game notification was no longer appearing.

Fang Heng also tried to sense his sea of consciousness with his eyes.

After hiding in the room, the rate of corruption within his sea of consciousness had decreased significantly.

Huh?

He had been fleeing all along and hadn't had time to observe the sea of consciousness.

Now, upon closer inspection, he discovered something strange again.

Completely different from the beginning, the corruption within the sea of consciousness was initially gray, but now, the corruption had undergone a change.

Within the sea of consciousness, fine, dark red villous tendrils could be seen emerging from the gray area of corruption.

Fang Heng's brows furrowed tightly.

He observed carefully.

The gray area of corruption had actually split into two types?

The original area of corruption had been greatly reduced by Gan Honghua's earlier sacred ritual, leaving only a small patch smaller than a fingernail.

A large area of gray corruption enveloped this small patch.

It was this area of corruption that had dense, dark red villi.

Moreover, this part of the corruption was continuing to spread at an accelerated rate!

"Fang Heng, Fang Heng?"

Fang Heng raised his head and saw Yu Jia Yuan standing by the window, her face slightly pale.

"They're catching up."

Fang Heng walked to the window to investigate.

"The Fallen are here. Let's go back to the passage."

The cultists had already regarded Fang Heng as a representative of the Holy Court, and upon hearing this, they immediately took action to reopen the underground passage.

Fang Heng's heart skipped a beat.

There was an underground passage?

"It was left over from the previous wars. There are many similar passages in the slum area. The passages in the lower area are interconnected, but after the wars ended, all passages leaving the slum area were cut off."

"After Bishop Gan Honghua took over the church, he gradually united the believers to transform the underground area. Some of the church's prayer rituals would also be performed in the underground area to avoid the Mystical Society's investigation."

As they spoke, the underground passage was reopened. A young church member waved at Fang Heng and Yu Jia Yuan, signaling, "Quick, hurry and hide inside."

"Mm."

Fang Heng nodded and followed, controlling the zombie clones outside the door to enter the room as well, and together with Yu Jia Yuan, they hid in the underground passage.

It was too difficult to force their way out of the slum area from the outside right now.

Escape first.

Perhaps there would be a turning point after going deep into the underground area.

…

Deep within the underground passage.

The air was somewhat turbid.

The passages in the underground area of the slums were originally built by refugees to escape the war, so the passages were very narrow, accommodating at most two people walking side by side.

More than a dozen Holy Court believers led the way ahead.

Scattered corrupted creatures could occasionally be seen along the way.

Yu Jia Yuan's astrology, coupled with the Holy Court believers' dispelling prayers, could completely eliminate the corrupted creatures.

Fang Heng followed at the rear of the group, casting Bone Summoning every dozen steps.

Dense undead skeletons crawled out of the swirling magic circle.

Due to the narrow passage and the advantage of the terrain, the undead skeletons could completely block the rear passage entrance.

In this way, the Fallen and corrupted creatures outside would have to solve the undead skeletons at the entrance before they could rush in.

This would at least delay their actions.

The Holy Court believers also noticed Fang Heng's summoned creatures, and their expressions were somewhat strange.

Wasn't he supposed to be an envoy from another world? Why was he using necromantic methods?

The situation was tense, and no one spoke, focusing on moving forward.

Soon, after advancing through the passage for more than twenty minutes, the believers led Fang Heng and Yu Jia Yuan to a relatively spacious foothold.

It couldn't be considered a room; it was just a larger underground space.

The believers gathered in front, whispering to each other.

Fang Heng was puzzled and stepped forward, asking, "Why aren't we moving?"

"There's no road ahead."

A younger believer sighed and pointed to the passage on the right, explaining, "That's where we escaped from earlier, leading to the interior of the Broken Church. Now the church is full of monsters, and the entrance is blocked, so we can't go back."