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At the edge of the woods, Su Mu and Lin Yuwei stood side by side behind a large banyan tree, their gazes sweeping across the open space more than twenty meters away to the playground in front of them.

That's the area for the giant swing ride and the high-speed surf car.

The massive robotic arm soared high, its suspended seat swaying slightly in the wind, emitting a creaking metallic scraping sound. The surfboard track meandered and twisted, with several colorful vehicles leaning precariously on it, some even overturned.

But these are not the main points.

The focus is on those figures wandering between the amusement park rides.

Zombies.

A dense swarm of zombies.

Su Mu roughly counted them; there were no fewer than two hundred within his field of vision alone. They were dressed in various colors... some were tourists' short-sleeved shirts and shorts, some were staff uniforms, and some were young people dressed in cosplay costumes. At this moment, they had all turned a uniform grayish-white tone, their skin was shriveled, and their movements were stiff.

They didn't gather together, but were scattered throughout the area, wandering around in twos and threes. Some paced back and forth under the giant swing ride, some slowly traversed the surf car tracks, and a few stood at the highest point of the tracks, looking up as if "enjoying" the non-existent sunlight.

Each one was in that eerie "standby" state... their bodies swayed slightly, their heads turned occasionally, and their empty eye sockets scanned their surroundings, but without any clear target.

Su Mu was all too familiar with this situation.

When we were searching the houses earlier, those zombies wandering the streets were like this. When they hadn't found a target, they were like a group of soulless puppets, mechanically repeating simple actions. But as soon as there was any disturbance...

That was a frenzied onslaught.

In this situation, anyone who dares to step into this area, even if they only step on a pebble and make a sound, will be surrounded and beaten by more than two hundred zombies.

No one made it out alive.

Su Mu withdrew his gaze and looked at Lin Yuwei beside him: "Do you think we can find the place you mentioned under these circumstances?"

Lin Yuwei frowned, staring at the area for a long while before slowly speaking, "This place is more troublesome than I imagined."

She took a folded map out of her backpack and unfolded it.

It was a color-printed map of the Red Bean Resort, with the locations of various areas marked on it.

"However," Lin Yuwei changed the subject, "luring these zombies away shouldn't be that difficult."

She looked up at Su Mu, her eyes filled with a confident analysis: "I've studied the behavior patterns of these zombies. They're sensitive to sound and the smell of blood. We can start from these two aspects."

She pointed to another building on the map: "That's the service center, on the east side of the amusement park. If we can get there and use the loudspeaker, we can lure most of the zombies to one location. Then we can go to our target location."

Su Mu looked at the map, his brow furrowing slightly: "Service center? Are you sure?"

Lin Yuwei was stunned for a moment, then followed Su Mu's gaze.

On the map, the service center is located... requiring passage through the area with the carousel and the flying chairs. From their current position, those two areas also have a considerable number of zombies roaming around. Although their numbers aren't as dense as here, passing through silently is virtually impossible.

"What about the second method?" Su Mu asked.

Lin Yuwei bit her lip and remained silent for a few seconds: "The second method is more troublesome. Using the smell of blood to attract zombies has too small a range; it can only attract a small portion at a time. The zombies here are too scattered, and attracting them one by one with the smell of blood is too time-consuming. Moreover..."

She paused, then added somewhat helplessly, "We don't have anything that can create the smell of blood. We can't exactly kill someone on the spot, can we?"

Su Mu nodded.

Indeed, the attraction of blood has a limited range, and a continuous supply of fresh blood is needed to maintain its effect. With the zombies scattered so far away, luring them away this way would probably take most of the day. And if something goes wrong during the process, getting surrounded by a few zombies would be troublesome.

"So the only usable method right now is the first one?" Su Mu said.

Lin Yuwei shrugged, then looked at him with a scrutinizing gaze: "Since you said the spoils will be distributed according to contribution, I should naturally get a share since I provided the intelligence. But you also need to make an equivalent contribution, otherwise you might get nothing. If you want to offset the value of my intelligence..."

She paused for a moment: "Can you handle this task of attracting zombies? If you can, I'll give you a 50/50 chance."

Su Mu shook his head: "It's too dangerous. I don't think it's worth it to go toe-to-toe with you."

Lin Yuwei raised an eyebrow, seemingly having anticipated this answer. After all, trying to cross this area to reach the service center and activate the broadcast system would indeed be very dangerous.

She thought for a moment and said slowly, "At most, I'll give you a 10% higher rate than I would."

She paused, then added, "And you have to understand, even if we manage to lure most of the zombies to the designated location, there won't be no follow-up problems. That level-two mutated creature might not be attracted by the sound, and we'll still have to face it."

Su Mu listened to her analysis and remained silent for a few seconds.

Then he nodded: "It's settled then. I'll attract these things, and when it comes to the distribution, I'll get six and you get four."

Lin Yuwei was about to say something when Su Mu suddenly changed the subject: "By the way, you still haven't told me where that place is. I can't just do something so dangerous based on your word alone, can I?"

Lin Yuwei glanced at him, then raised her hand and pointed into the distance...

"That location..."

Su Mu looked in the direction she was pointing.

Deeper into the amusement park, amidst a cluster of colorful rides, stands a building with a distinctly different style. Its exterior is greyish-black, with a pointed roof and narrow, Gothic-style windows, while some dilapidated decorations hang in the porch.

The haunted house at Red Bean Resort.

Su Mu looked in that direction, lost in thought.

He had initially assumed that the information the other party had obtained came from the same source as his own "Daily Intelligence." Now it seemed he had been mistaken. His intelligence pointed to the pirate ship area, while Lin Yuwei's target was the haunted house.

Different locations, different goals.

He looked away and began rummaging through his backpack.

Lin Yuwei assumed he was preparing supplies for the service center and didn't ask any further questions. She kept staring in the direction of the haunted house, planning her route for a while.

However, she soon realized something was wrong.

Su Mu took a cell phone out of his bag.

It wasn't an ordinary phone; it was a phone with a shattered screen, stained with black blood...

Then he took out a roll of rope.

Lin Yuwei looked at him with suspicion, wondering what he was going to do.

Su Mu tied one end of the rope tightly to the handle of the axe and the other end to his phone, making a tight knot. Then he weighed it in his hand, seemingly testing its sturdiness.

Lin Yuwei finally couldn't hold back any longer: "What...what are you doing?"

Su Mu didn't even look up: "Can you climb trees?"

Lin Yuwei was taken aback: "No, but..."

"Never mind, it doesn't matter."

Before Lin Yuwei could react, Su Mu had already stood up, gripped the axe with the phone strapped to it in his right hand, and swung it violently!

The axe shot out with a whoosh, spinning in the air as it flew towards the amusement park ahead!

Lin Yuwei's pupils suddenly contracted.

"you.....?!"