Apocalyptic Invasion: I Activated the Apocalyptic Points System

"So, would you prefer a human or a monster?" Qin Xu asked with a furrowed brow, gripping the fork tightly with both hands. He jumped off the tricycle, his feet staggered, assuming an attack stance.

"I wish I were a human."

Zhang Yanan, who had just jumped down from the truck bed, took a deep breath, stood side by side with Qin Xu, and gripped the round wooden stick with both hands in a starting stance.

"I'm not afraid to fight living people, because if I can't win, I can always run away." She frowned and said, "But the mist monsters are like zombies in movies. If you get hurt by one, you'll turn into a terrifying monster. So unless absolutely necessary, I won't fight any of them, because it's not worth it."

"So... those rotting, misty monsters are just scary to look at?" Qin Xu instantly grasped the key point in Zhang Yanan's words and asked in a low voice, "Are they like zombies, you can just shoot them in the head and kill them?"

"That's right." Zhang Yanan nodded, her almond-shaped eyes fixed on the motionless figure in the shadows. She subconsciously swallowed, her nerves taut, and whispered, "I've seen others kill monsters like this."

She suddenly realized what was happening and pressed, "You wouldn't be thinking of...?"

"If the monster is just on par with zombies, then I should be able to put up a fight with it." Qin Xu twisted his neck back and forth and said softly, "Whether it's human or ghost, if we don't take care of it, we won't be able to get out of this street."

At this moment, the two were in a street less than three meters wide, which was the only way to leave the village.

He was now certain that the person standing in the shadows seven or eight meters away was not alive! He could vaguely smell a nauseating stench.

Zhang Yanan naturally smelled it too, but she didn't particularly want to fight the monster because the risk was too great; if she got hurt by the monster, she would definitely die.

However, Qin Xu was right. The road out of the village was now blocked by monsters. Rather than going back into the village and taking a detour, it would be better to kill the monsters and get out of there.

It's not that she's afraid to fight monsters, but that she's unwilling to risk her life in a direct confrontation; when the time comes and she has no choice but to fight, she will never back down.

In truth, she knew that she would have to fight the monsters head-on sooner or later, because as the eerie mist continued to spread, the number of monsters would only increase.

"Let's fight!" Zhang Yanan took a deep breath and gripped the wooden stick tightly. She figured two against one should be enough to defeat the monster. "Remember to headshot!"

The conversation between the two lasted only a few seconds.

Just then, the monster that had been standing in the shadows in a daze finally reacted, turned around and walked out of the shadows. It was a Corruptor whose entire body was rotting.

"roar---!"

The Corruptor suddenly roared and charged forward, its crimson eyes filled with nothing but bloodlust and slaughter.

"kill!"

Zhang Yanan let out a shout and raised the wooden stick with both hands, thrusting it towards the Corruptor's head. She didn't need to kill it with one blow; she just needed to stop the monster's attack.

Qin Xu rushed out almost simultaneously, raised the fork in his hand, and stabbed it at the Corruptor's bloody and hideous face.

The distance of just five or six meters can be covered in less than a second!

Puff-!

The Corruptor has no thinking ability, only attacks and does not defend, so it naturally does not know how to dodge. Therefore, Qin Xu stabbed it into its eye socket with a fork, splashing out a mouthful of foul-smelling blood.

Zhang Yanan's wooden stick was only 1.5 meters long, so it was a little slower, but it still managed to shove it into the Corruptor's already rotten mouth.

[Ding! You have successfully killed a low-level Mist Monster [Corruptor], Doomsday Points +2]

[Ding! Newbie quest completion +1]

The moment the Corruptor's arms drooped down, Qin Xu received two system messages in a row, realizing that he had finally taken the first step and killed the first Mist Monster.

His whole body trembled slightly as his adrenaline surged, unable to tell whether it was excitement or fear, but rather a tingling sensation that ran from his scalp to his heels.

As the Corruptor died, the tension gradually eased. It seemed that these low-level Corruptors with their bodies rotting weren't as terrifying or difficult to kill as they had imagined; like zombies, they only needed a headshot.

Looking at it this way, the beginner's quest requiring you to kill three mist monsters isn't really that difficult. As long as you're bold and careful, and don't get hurt by the mist monsters, you'll be fine.

"Huh? He's dead already?"

Zhang Yanan was surprised; she hadn't expected the monsters to be so easily defeated. "It seems... as long as we overcome our fear, these monsters are not invincible."

"Otherwise what?"

Qin Xu turned to her with a slight smile, then used his fork to push the monster's corpse to the side of the road. "Throw away the stick, lest the monster's blood contain a virus." As he spoke, he released the fork from his hand.

He speculated that there was some kind of mysterious virus in the mist, and that only creatures affected by the mist would turn into monsters. Therefore, he should avoid contact with the monsters' blood and minimize all risks.

"Oh~" Zhang Yanan nodded and threw away the blood-stained wooden stick in her hand. Almost every household in the countryside has this kind of farm tool; if she threw it away, she could just find another one.

"Let's go." Qin Xu had just finished speaking when he suddenly noticed a white light emanating from the corpse of the Corruptor.

It was a small, semi-transparent cube about the size of a fist, with a question mark inside, emitting a faint white light, and hovering about ten centimeters above the monster's corpse.

"Huh? Could it be that a loot dropped?" Qin Xu was overjoyed and subconsciously glanced at Zhang Yanan next to him, only to find that she seemed unable to see the small white square.

As she turned to walk toward the tricycle, Qin Xu quickly squatted down and reached out to touch the translucent little cube that was shimmering with white light.

[Ding! You have obtained a [White Quality Loot (To be opened)]]

[Loot has been placed in system space]

"White quality? This should be the lowest grade of loot, right?" Qin Xu muttered to himself, then stood up and walked towards the tricycle.

He didn't rush to open the spoils, but planned to leave first and go to a safe place.

Five or six minutes later.

The two arrived at the village entrance, and on the way, they ran back to the previous courtyard to retrieve two shovels, which were weapons specifically designed to deal with the mist monsters.

Next, the two of them got onto the provincial highway and, by the dim moonlight, took turns pedaling the tricycle, continuing towards Nanshan City, chatting as they rode.

At this moment, we are still more than ten kilometers away from Nanshan City, which is about an hour's drive.

Most survivors don't travel at night unless absolutely necessary, so for the next half hour or so, there was no one in sight, and it was eerily quiet.

Around 8 p.m., the two arrived at the edge of Nanqiao Town, a suburb of Nanshan City.

"How about we find a place to stay in this town tonight?" Qin Xu suddenly turned around and asked Zhang Yanan, who was sitting in the back.

"I'm fine with anything, it's the same wherever I am," Zhang Yanan replied nonchalantly.

"Then let's rest here tonight and collect supplies in the vicinity during the day," Qin Xu said as he pedaled his tricycle.

No sooner had he finished speaking than a violent roar of a car engine, like a wild beast, tore through the silence of the night, rapidly approaching from afar.

The glaring high beams of the vehicle pierced the darkness like swords, illuminating them and the tricycle, leaving them nowhere to hide.

Qin Xu quickly pulled the tricycle to the side of the road and subconsciously gripped the peppercorn stick tightly in his hand; Zhang Yanan also frowned in an instant and drew the dagger from her waist.