Zombie Marvel? Luckily, I'm Superman!

"I don't need it, I'm not hungry at all." Lin Yi waved his hand weakly.

"Little brother, do you know where this place is?" Since the old man is willing to act, then let's play along.

The silver-haired boy looked puzzled again when he heard Lin Yi say he wasn't hungry.

But when Lin Yi asked where they were, the silver-haired boy seemed to understand something.

"I see. You must have just arrived here. No wonder you're not hungry."

"This is... this is Time City, that's what everyone calls it," the silver-haired boy explained.

Time City?

Lin Yi kept repeating this word, which sounded like it was related to time.

But it doesn't matter to him what city it is; all he wants now is to leave.

"Do you know how to get out of here, little brother?"

The silver-haired boy shook his head.

"I don't know. I heard from Grandpa Juli that this city has never been left."

"Grandpa with super strength?"

"Yes, he was an old man with a cane. He was very kind to us, and he could fight monsters; he was really good!"

Okay, the vocabulary and language used are quite childish.

Unable to leave this place, haha, standard script.

"So, who here knows the most, little brother? Can you tell me where he lives, or where I can find him?"

Isn't this just triggering an NPC storyline? You can just find someone like the village chief.

"Grandpa Juli doesn't have a fixed address; nobody knows where he'll be staying today," the silver-haired boy said.

"But you've just arrived here, so Grandpa Juli should come looking for you."

"Didn't you see him?" The silver-haired boy remembered this and was puzzled again.

"...Is it the one wearing a tattered burlap sack?" Lin Yi was speechless. So this guy wasn't acting?

"Yes, yes, Grandpa Giant Strength will guide every creature that comes here." The silver-haired boy nodded vigorously and tilted his head.

"That's strange. Since you've met Grandpa Giant Strength, how come you don't know any of these things?"

Lin Yi remained silent, then awkwardly scratched his head.

"Maybe I was walking too fast and didn't hear what he said."

"Why don't you guide me a bit?"

Let's set aside for now whether the child is actually an old man in disguise, or if he's putting on a show. Let's at least hear what he has to say.

"Of course! But you can take this first!" The silver-haired boy was quite enthusiastic, taking out a packaged, compressed biscuit-like object from his pocket.

"What is this?"

"Compressed biscuits".

...That's true.

"I already told you I'm not hungry."

"It'll be too late if you wait until you're hungry." The silver-haired boy stubbornly stuffed the compressed biscuits into Lin Yi's hand.

Lin Yi noticed a hint of reluctance in his expression.

Weighing the biscuit in his hand, Lin Yi asked, somewhat puzzled, "What do you mean by 'it's late if you're hungry'?"

"It means exactly what it says. Now, let me tell you how to live here," the silver-haired boy changed the subject, but then solemnly reminded Lin Yi, "Remember, if you get hungry, you must eat! If you don't, those monsters will come after you!"

Lin Yi remained silent, temporarily accepting the compressed biscuits and listening to the silver-haired boy.

"A lot of things were told to me by Grandpa Giant Strength, but the most important thing, which I just told you, is that you must eat when you're hungry, or monsters will come knocking on your door!"

He emphasized this "rule" again. Only then did the silver-haired boy begin to introduce this so-called Time City.

As the boy narrated, the general outline of Time City unfolded before Lin Yi like a scroll painting.

The size of Time City is unknown.

Grandpa Juli said that in his oldest memory, Time City was just a circle with a radius of tens of kilometers, surrounded by a gray fog wall.

The sky is always a dark red hue, with dust and sand swirling in the air.

Through the dust and sand, one can see a presence resembling three suns.

As the sun gradually disappears, that is, at night, a huge, constantly melting clock face will appear in the central sky of Time City.

Grandpa Juli said that his grandfather told him that when the dial completely melts, Time City will disappear, and all the creatures trapped in Time City will be freed.

But no matter how long Grandpa Juli lived, the ever-melting watch face never completely melted away.

He had suspected that the claim that the dial had completely melted was a hoax, but it remained a hope.

As Grandpa Giant grew up, the number of people in Time City increased. They appeared out of nowhere, and no one knew where they came from, not even the people themselves, as if they had lost their memories.

As the number of living beings increased, the fog wall surrounding Time City gradually dissipated. Now, perhaps hundreds or even thousands of years have passed, and the boundary of the fog wall is nowhere to be found, but Grandpa Giant Strength says it has always been there.

The silver-haired boy spoke, and Lin Yi listened.

The sky outside was getting darker and darker.

After the three suns had completely disappeared, a loud thud suddenly echoed through the boundless city.

"It's here! The dial has appeared!" The silver-haired boy stood at the edge of the building, pointing into the distance.

Lin Yi looked in that direction.

Sure enough, a huge clock face appeared in the sky.

The upper half of the dial was normal, but the lower half was like a melted candle, constantly deforming, twisting, and writhing, covered in thick, black viscous liquid.

On the dial, three hands of different lengths rotate counterclockwise.

It was very strange, as if it were explaining to Lin Yi that time was moving backwards here.

"Waaah~~"

A gentle breeze blew by, and faint sobbing sounds echoed from every corner of the city.

Lin Yi frowned slightly, using his super vision to look in the direction of the sound.

It turned out to be those bedridden humans that Lin Yi could sense.

But their state at this moment is completely different from before.

His chest stopped heaving violently, and he got out of bed. Like a zombie, he stiffly twisted his limbs and went out the door, walking onto the street.

"You heard that, didn't you?" The silver-haired boy's voice trembled with fear.

"Those man-eating monsters appear with the appearance of the dial, and they hunt for food everywhere."

"The night the clock appears is their time; we cannot go out."

"These monsters are exceptionally sensitive to the smell of hunger; they will track down and find 'food' that emits the scent of hunger."

Looking down, you can already see large numbers of monsters walking into the streets.

Their eyes were bloodshot, and they made low whimpering sounds, like zombies or ghouls.

Lin Yi suddenly remembered that the silver-haired boy had repeatedly emphasized that he couldn't go hungry.

So that's the reason? You have to eat when you're hungry, to prevent these so-called "monsters" from coming after you?

Putting aside whether I'd get hungry, these monsters look like they could wipe out a whole bunch with a single punch. Are the people here generally not very strong? Or are the monsters not as weak as they appear?