This time I chose Paladin

In the New World, waters were one of the most dangerous areas. There couldn't possibly be anyone else around here, and he certainly didn't sense anyone else. Facing the monster sea approaching from hundreds of meters behind him, Nie Weiyang breathed a sigh of relief.

He turned over and got out of the car, pinched his fingers and snapped them.

'Snapped! '

The black cloak and red cape hung to the ground in the wind.

"Surprise"-Alessandro Olivato

Good Ting!

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Chapter 53: Not very harmful, not very insulting

In Langcheng, heavy rain extinguished the flames, and the first wave of the blood moon's rise ended.

The first wave of losses in Lang City was not great, with only seven or eight hundred people killed in the collapse of the city walls and the attacks of monsters. In various previous simulations, at least five thousand people would have to die in the first round before the situation could be properly resolved.

When disaster strikes everyone, the death toll quickly becomes a number that many people find difficult to empathize with.

But a heavy pall hung over the town. After all, people might not feel the same way about those far away, but when someone close to them falls, when they see someone who has been a part of their life die, it becomes a reality right next to them.

It's like a void in time, a broken soul. From then on, every moment this person existed in your life began to become absurd and ambiguous. When you think that you both still have life, you will think of his death.

You record the death.

His end falls before your eyes, with no solace, no peace.

……

Although the second wave followed seamlessly, for some reason, the world fell silent for a moment, with only occasional, slight tremors on the surface. Scattered monsters from the first wave continued to attack humans in the city, but were quickly wiped out.

Until a dazzling white light appeared in the mountains and forests, the tremors of the earth suddenly intensified for a moment, causing people to lower their center of gravity in panic to prevent falling. They looked up at the place where the light appeared, and their vision was briefly pure white. After a long time, people finally began to recognize the shape of the light: it was a brilliant pillar of light rising from the ground, piercing the sky.

As it disappeared, the residual light illuminated a slowly rising mushroom cloud.

Wei He stared blankly at the forest and shuddered. In his eyes, the area was now almost completely shrouded in darkness.

No...it's not just dangerous...it's also...the sudden appearance of the Dark Zone!

After a while, a distant roar could be heard faintly. A skill record also appeared in the visual field.

——Administrator No. 2: [Light Energy Explosion].

Light blast! Isn't this one of the Second Administrator's normal attacks?!

If this level of power was put into a normal game, everyone would have cursed the developers for filling the numbers with Zimbabwean dollars. But now, it actually happened.

Moreover, the direction Nie Weiyang went just now...

"Administrator No. 2 is over there!" Wei He exclaimed, "Nie Weiyang is in the same direction as it!"

The people around him cried out in surprise one after another. Xiang Feng felt his heart stop and a cold sweat began to pour out. He opened his mouth several times to call for someone to check, but in the end, he hardened his expression: "Everyone, check the defenses and prepare for a second engagement!"

On the lakeshore, the light faded.

A round pit with a diameter of two hundred meters appeared on the surface. Its deepest part was about one hundred meters, forming a standard hemisphere. All the monsters on it disappeared without a trace.

Cracks were spreading in all directions of the pit, and the light within was gradually disappearing. In the sky above, strong winds were blowing sand, gravel and silt in all directions.

The lake was filthy, the forests were riddled with holes. Caretaker No. 2 walked along the edge of the pit, still in his patrolling pose, strolling leisurely.

He walked toward the grass and trees, seemingly preparing to go to another mountain to have a look, but a few minutes later, a small ink-painted bird flew over at high speed from a distance.

When the bird saw Administrator No. 2, it suddenly let out a sharp cry and turned into drops of ink.

On the edge of Lang City, ink painter Zhen Jiankang shuddered. The pressure emanating from Administrator No. 2 was too great, which made him instinctively cancel some of his sensory synchronization with the summoned creature.

"What's wrong? What's going on over there?" Liu Ye Ning asked the first time.

"I saw Administrator No. 2, but not Mr. Nie..." Zhen Jiankang shook his head. "That boss is putting too much pressure on people. Wait..."

His face stiffened and he suddenly turned pale.

"...When my summons are released, they leave ink behind. At that angle..."

In the distant mountains and forests, a '[Splashing Ink]-0' floated faintly above the head of the second administrator.

It's not very harmful, and it's not very insulting either.

Nie Weiyang silently lowered his head, looking at the drop of ink flowing between the shoulder armor and the breastplate: "......?"

He didn't even know that Zhen Jiankang was so brave?

No, could it be that this guy accidentally lost control of his summoned creature and threw a bomb at him?

No, from what he knew of the man, that was impossible.

This is intentional.

Nie Weiyang frowned silently under his visor, turned and walked towards the direction of Zhen Jiankang and others.

[World Boss [Administrator No. 2] has entered combat mode. Challenger: [Zhen Jiankang]. Target's current health: ? /?, Target's current total energy: ?/?, Target's current danger to all humanity: Extremely High. Target's current location is displayed on the global map: Huaxia - Zhongzhou - Langcheng. The "Leader-level Hostile Target Profile" has been updated. Players are encouraged to review the "World Boss: Administrator No. 2" chapter and pray for the warrior!]

At this moment, half of the people in the city... no, the whole city, even the whole world, were sweating profusely.

"Zhen Jiankang! What are you doing?!!!" Xiang Feng almost jumped out of the city wall and slapped Zhen Jiankang twice.

"I don't know!" Zhen Jiankang was sweating profusely, looking like he was about to cry. "The ink left behind when I released my summon was an attack skill! But the HP reduction in my battle record is 0!!"

"Zero reduction is also an attack, it's a fact. You are also a combat unit, you can't be unaware of it." The mine assassin who had been silent next to him suddenly spoke, but did not look at anyone.

Liu Ye Ning stood with her, staring at Zhen Jiankang with a complicated expression. It was obvious that she was frantically thinking of a solution in her mind, but her past experiences and current cognition told her that when the gap in power was so great, unless something unexpected happened, there might be only one way out, which was death.

Zhen Jiankang looked even more devastated.

Sun Desheng patted the thin young man, raised his large shield, and shouted to the people on the wall, "This is our joint decision. We want to find Nie Weiyang. Jiankang's summons can help him search the forest quickly. It was a coincidence that he accidentally ran into the second administrator."

"How about I leave the city first..." Zhen Jiankang said with a sad face, summoning his ink-and-wash tiger - the tiger was now also listless: "Goodbye everyone..."

"No need to say goodbye." The observation post closed his eyes: "It's coming."

Everyone turned around suddenly.

At the edge of the forest, in the dim light, a diamond-like light emerged from the leaves. In Zhen Jiankang's eyes, it was a death warrant.

He turned over and climbed onto the tiger's back, wanting to escape but he hesitated and turned around twice. But between these two turns, Administrator No. 2 - that terrifying, suffocating figure, walked out of the mountain.

At the same time, behind the city walls, the ground in the city began to stir. Without warning, withered hands emerged from the earth and grabbed the ankles of those nearby.

In the hospital, a nurse who was working intently in the neonatal care room heard a baby crying. She exhaled softly, which was not a sigh, but a habitual helplessness.

"Be good, don't cry, auntie will be here soon..."

She put down the kettle and walked to the corner of the room. She was so tired that she didn't notice that the sound came from the ground, not the cradle.

Teacher Tan Jing's singing of "Dragon Script" is really nice... After so many years, I still think it's very nice

I'm also really flattered that so many people have read this, thank you all...!! (I'm so grateful!) I'll work hard to draw the setting pictures in between writing!

Chapter 54 All tactics changer

Many times, when people talk about the end of the world, they think of zombies.

This may be due to the influence of some literary and entertainment works, or it may be because humans are very clear that as long as people and the collective are still there, even if the existing social order collapses, reconstruction is only a matter of time.

But what if the crowd itself could turn into the enemy, what if the enemy people face was just an ordinary person some time ago, a person like themselves, or an acquaintance, or even worse, a... relative or friend?

Someone who gave birth to me, nurtured me? Someone who raised me? Someone who guided me forward? Someone who shared my joys and sorrows? Someone with whom I shared a spiritual connection?

If they become monsters like that, and come near you...

How many people can harden their hearts immediately and completely separate that familiar face from the past?

Now, people on Earth are beginning to face this problem.

This wasn't without warning. For three months, zombies had been a constant challenge for humanity, and some had even been studying the differences between the zombies of the New World and those of Earth. However, there were too few zombies in the New World, and people currently lacked the means to conduct in-depth testing. They could only confirm that these zombies were corpses controlled by a parasite. Their bodies, identical to those of Earthlings, were penetrated, prodded, and pulled by the parasite, and even occasionally exhibited strange symptoms on their surfaces, much like... a snail infested with a Diplococephalus parasite.

But before the people from Earth came here, it seemed that there had been no intelligent creatures in the new world for a long time. Most of the animals in nature had mutated. This mutation flowed through the genes, making it increasingly difficult to hunt animals and leaving the zombies with very little nutrients to consume.

First the zombie's own flesh and internal organs, then the nerves, and finally the parasite itself... The long shrinkage was forcibly slowed down by some force, but it still continued all the time.

Therefore, the threat people have faced from zombies has not been that great: they are slow in movement, weak in strength, dull in perception, and their balance is very easily broken... Even children aged seven or eight can work in groups of two or three and use some techniques to hunt zombies.

But now, all that has changed.

The first is quantity.

An endless stream of zombies crawled out from beneath the ruins of every former human settlement, even though they had never existed there before.

Then there was the power and the speed—these things got their nourishment from nowhere, their muscles replenished, their nerves nourished, and when they suddenly attacked and grabbed a target, their sharp, dirty nails tried to break through the defenses and pierce the skin.

Finally, it is contagious.

The earth rolled over and spit out these monsters that were once humans. When they emerged from the ground and crawled up, they bit the nearest person.

There are dense black threads wriggling in their mouths. Those are the zombie parasites 'black threads' - they are extremely fragile and will die if they are hit by anything. In a normal natural environment, they can only survive for 5 to 10 seconds. But if they are allowed to burrow into human flesh alive, that person will be finished.

Some variants of zombies even have the ability to throw or launch parasites...

"Focus fire on that [nest]!" a battlefield commander shouted.

In the distance, a huge, fat zombie was moving slowly, but the circles of grayish-white flesh that looked like tires were not filled with fat, but fleshy insect nests growing all over its body.

Groups of "black lines" were wriggling in the insect nest, some even just under a thin layer of oily skin, pushing the cortex to pass through.

【[Line Nest]-

Matrix Creation. -

Releases [Black Line] when attacking.

Purpose: To infect organisms

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I don't know how it moves, but it's coming.

At this moment, 'Xingchao' vomited out a ball of tangled black lines from its mouth. It swung its arms twice and threw the black line ball towards the crowd!

A dense stream of curses echoed through the crowd, and everyone was desperately trying to escape. This wasn't a matter of everyone fleeing in the face of imminent disaster, or even simply dying. No one wanted to be parasitized, especially in such a disgusting way. Even so, many were entangled by the black thread. A few were lucky enough to shake it off immediately, but many more screamed in agony, their health bars beginning to be covered in a strange, oily black thread.

The next moment, a group of young men rushed out from behind the crowd, shouting "Get out of the way!", each carrying a can of grease and a can of water on their backs, and holding spray guns of various shapes in their hands. The next moment they turned the switch, a raging fire spurted forward!