Chapter 21: Pursuit and Killing
Damn, I just came back to get something, was this really necessary?
Do monsters really spawn wherever I go?
This time, Xu Le didn't hesitate and immediately started running.
He was quite curious about why there would be a corpse within the safe zone, and where it was.
However, he no longer had time to confirm this.
These 15 seconds were his time to escape.
Moreover, the timing of the monster's spawn might not exactly correspond to the prompt's timing.
Last time, Old Zhou's corpse transformation happened a few seconds earlier than the prompt indicated. It wasn't much, but it was definitely early.
In any case, running was the only solution. At this critical moment, nothing was more important than escaping.
Just as Xu Le was rushing down the stairs and sprinting away,
A girl with shoulder-length hair stopped him.
"Excuse me, classmate... Oh? It's you, Xu Le ge."
Xu Le ge?
Alright, I admit your voice sounds nice, but don't think you can seduce me!
He instinctively looked at the girl. She had a rosy oval face, bright beautiful eyes under her brows, and silky black thick hair.
Beneath her sweet appearance was a curvaceous figure.
Compared to Zhou Tingting's slender build, it was like night and day.
But in the original's memories, there wasn't even a trace related to this girl in front of him. Had his memory failed?
Forget it, thinking about these things now was meaningless.
Even though you called me Xu Le ge, I still have to run. Relationships aren't as important as my own life.
"Let go, I'm in a hurry to escape," Xu Le said.
Xu Le wanted to leave directly, but this female student was quicker. She grabbed Xu Le first.
And what embarrassed Xu Le was that he couldn't break free.
Xu Le wanted to explain carefully, but there was no time now.
"Let go quickly! There's a monster behind!" he shouted at this girl.
The girl was confused. Monster?
Even if tonight was the Black Tide, monsters shouldn't appear now, right? From now until midnight, there should still be a few hours...
Wait, what's that?
The girl's peripheral vision clearly caught something, and Xu Le saw it too.
A very muscular thing was charging towards them.
A zombie. Although Xu Le had only seen one once, he was certain that the thing behind them was a zombie!
Its form was different from Zhou Ke's corpse transformation with extended joints.
The zombie in front of them had tightly coiled muscles all over its body, and its strong physique with bones almost protruding made Xu Le instantly think of a monster from a certain game.
Tyrant!
"If you want to die, die alone. Why drag me into it?"
Xu Le quickly shook off the woman's fingers and was about to turn and run.
"But Xu Le ge... aren't you going to take me with you?"
The girl's voice had already started to panic. Although she had just demonstrated a grip strength much greater than Xu Le's,
Her courage didn't seem to be any bigger than Xu Le's at all.
Moreover, after this girl saw the monster, Xu Le received a new prompt.
[Regional heart energy is rising rapidly, please be aware.]
[All monsters will taste fear, fear is the delicacy that attracts them.]
Fear, heart energy.
Xu Le had received similar prompts before, but later on, his fear didn't attract monsters.
He could even absorb the emotions of heart energy worms, so he basically didn't worry about heart energy issues.
But the woman in front of him was different.
If she became scared to a certain degree, she would undoubtedly become a beacon in the eyes of monsters.
It's worth noting that the monsters here weren't just this zombie.
The five-headed ghost species that left earlier was also within this campus.
Faced with the girl's question, Xu Le didn't know how to answer for a moment.
He didn't even know what kind of relationship he had with the girl in front of him. Could they be boyfriend and girlfriend?
"Stars, you stars! A saint usually doesn't survive past three episodes!"
After cursing, Xu Le grabbed the girl's arm, and the two started sprinting.
The zombie began chasing the two. Judging from its clothes, it was probably a dormitory manager here when it was alive.
Did the dormitory manager die in a room upstairs? Next door to his dorm?
The situation of a zombie chasing people here had already caught the attention of some students.
"What is that?"
"A monster?"
"How could a zombie appear in the school!"
"Ah!"
When zombies appeared among the crowd, these students' first reaction was also to run.
However, compared to them, Xu Le's situation was a bit worse right now!
As the zombie ran towards the two, it opened its big mouth.
Its main target was the girl Xu Le was pulling along. Fear gave the monster an incomparable attraction.
Clearly, the effect of heart energy had already begun.
Xu Le pulled the girl and jumped over the window. At this moment, he was as swift as a cheetah and as agile as a lemur.
The medal in his arms grew slightly warm, and Xu Le's mind entered an unprecedented state of clarity.
This state felt not bad!
What surprised him more was that with his running and jumping like this, the girl by his hand could keep up with the pace.
They might really be able to shake off the zombie.
Boom!
The sound of a wall shattering came from behind.
Xu Le stole a glance and felt a bit desperate.
Well, they couldn't.
Reality was often worse than one imagined. The zombie's speed was clearly faster than Xu Le and the girl, and its strength and physique were suffocatingly powerful.
When encountering obstacles, it just smashed through them directly. Xu Le and the girl's jumping and rolling looked like two clowns in comparison.
"Xu Le ge, are we going to die? I don't want to die!"
The girl cried while running, running even faster than before.
Xu Le felt a bit unlucky, because he found that he actually couldn't outrun her!
A famous scholar once said, when a lion is chasing you, you don't need to run faster than the lion, you just need to run faster than other humans.
But now someone was running faster than me, what should I do? Waiting online, it's quite urgent.
However, Xu Le still underestimated the allure of heart energy to monsters.
The zombie caught up with them but didn't attack him. Instead, it pounced towards the girl to his left front.
"Hey! Stars, you stars."
Xu Le couldn't help but curse again. His hind leg suddenly exerted force, and the Old Soldier's Soul gave him unprecedented strength.
He stretched out one foot and forcefully kicked the girl in front of him away.
Whoosh!
Sharp claws swept through the space between the two.
Xu Le dodged this attack very dangerously, while the girl lost a few strands of hair.
After failing to strike, the zombie stared at the girl for a while, then surprisingly gave up on the delicious and tempting fear, turning its head to look at Xu Le who had ruined its plans.
It bared its teeth and licked its long tongue.
Xu Le stepped back a few steps, and after putting some distance between them, he gripped the handle of his sword tightly.
Facing the zombie again, Xu Le was surprisingly calm.
This feeling was very strange. He felt that it wasn't that he didn't produce feelings of fear.
It was that the emotions of fear were absorbed by some kind of power.
After fear and panic were absorbed, what was fed back to him was incomparable calmness and etherealness.
"Oh Guyin's Soul Tree!
If you really belong to me... then please help!"
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