Translator-Rhapsodite
Editor-simpforlife, Proofreader-adjective
Everyone raised their heads.
They were at a Walmart that had a central open structure to encourage natural light. The glass dome on the top of the third level could be seen from the foyer.
Everyone could see several crimson fireballs strewn on the inner side of the egg-shaped glass dome.
There were too many lizards dumped on it. Brother Jie and the others had no idea exactly how many there were. They simply made an assumptive figure in the hundreds.
If you weren’t in such a weird city of ashes and didn’t know how dangerous and deadly those lizards were, after the refraction of amassed ash and fireballs scattered everywhere, the entire dome would be as brilliant as a shimmering fire cloud, which seemed extremely romantic at first glance.
It was a pity that no one appreciated the crimson color at all.
Everyone in the foyer was terrified.
The entire lobby became silent for a split second.
Not only did they not talk, but they also did not dare to breathe.
Everyone was worried that the lizards on the dome would fall one after the other in the next second, and no one knew how many would fall on them.
“Let’s… let’s get out of here…”
Nearly a minute later, someone whispered softly with a shaky voice.
Brother Jie returned his gaze to the chatting girl before turning his head and looking in the direction of the main door exit.
Then he discovered that not only the dome over his head but also the dusty glass door was infested with the blazing fireball lizards.
Because Brother Jie saw the trailer in advance and got some ‘spoilers’, in order to be on guard against the ‘thing’ he felt most terrified of. He specifically directed everyone to fetch the iron fence gate from the hardware section and put it against the glass door, securing the steel iron handle and the fence with solid iron wires from the inside to prevent ‘them’ from breaking in from the outside.
Originally, he had planned to find a safe place where he could eat and drink and hide for as long as he could. As long as the progress bar on the watch reached 100%, he would survive for the third time.
But he shouldn’t have underestimated the situation.
In the [Peach Blossom Spring], there was an empirical saying constructed by the flesh and blood of certain unknown ‘predecessors’.
This was to state that there were no shortcuts in this [World].
The more the players wished to escape the plot, the more they would unconsciously and unknowingly fall into desperation.
In fact, Brother Jie realized that their situation exactly corresponded with the pragmatic sayings of their predecessors.
They were now surrounded by a large group of lizards. It seemed that they couldn’t continue to hide here.
But, for the sake of safety, he had already placed the iron fence gate blocking the escape, twisted the iron wire with the lock, and even let others block all the exits he could think of with sundries. So the only way he could get out now was to cut the wire and open the door, risking being bitten by lizards.
… But, did he really want to go out?
Thinking of those ‘things’ he saw earlier in the trailer, Brother Jie hesitated again.
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… Maybe he should just stay here?
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But this time, the girl’s voice sounded with a surprise trill, “Someone! There’s someone outside!”
In a panic, she picked up a flashlight from the ground, hit the aperture to the brightest, and directed it at the glass door separated by the chain fence gate, “Someone has come to save us— ”
Halfway through the girl’s sentences, the last words came to an abrupt halt.
Because, when the flashlight was flicked on, everyone noticed six figures standing outside the fence’s iron gate.
They were a mix of tall and short statures, yet they all appeared muscular— almost obese at first glance.
Their shoulders were overly wide in comparison to the size of their heads, and judging from the shape of their arms, they should be quite thick.
It was too dark outside, and the glass was smudged with ash. Even though the flashlight’s light went through the glass barrier, the people inside Walmart couldn’t see the entire picture of those individuals outside. They could only barely distinguish a face. The contours of facial features were accentuated, particularly the pair of round eyes that resembled ox eyes. Even when the light was flicked onto their faces, they did not blink, and their pupils were unexpectedly yellowish-brown.
At that time, one of the ‘people’, like a little girl selling cute, tilted his head to the left.
All of the people in the room took a breath when they saw ‘his’ action.
Because the ‘person’ twisted ‘his’ head more than ninety degrees, and his left eye was twisted directly below his left shoulder.
What’s more disturbing was that when ‘he’ assumed this head tilted stance, the rest of ‘his’ body did not move at all. It seemed as if ‘his’ neck could twist and bend at any angle and then instantly return to its original position.
But how could a normal person’s cervical spine twist to this degree?
“Wooooo…”
Someone in the foyer couldn’t bear the eccentricity of the situation any longer and let out a quiet sob.
The girl in the couple pair sought to shrink her body into her boyfriend’s arms, and the two girlfriends held each other firmly. They all could hear the chattering of each other’s teeth.
At this time, the six ‘people’, who were separated by a simple iron gate and a glass door, moved again.
‘They’ had moved closer to the flashlight’s light source.
Notably, these people had some awkward walking stances.
The two girls in the girlfriends group thought the way the people outside moved reminded them of the penguins they saw not long ago in the aquarium.
They couldn’t see those ‘people’s leg strides’, and ‘their’ entire body swayed left and right slowly as ‘they’ approached them with difficulty, like a roly-poly toy with a jammed mechanism gear.
“These… these people…”
The young man hugged his girlfriend, tried to open his swollen eyes, and stared out of the door in horror, “Are they… are they… still humans?”
“Keep quiet!”
Brother Jie shouted, “Don’t be afraid, they can’t get in!”
Now, he was very glad he didn’t go out. After all, compared with lizards, these strange big men outside looked a hundred times more terrible.
Yes, that’s what he saw in the trailer before he entered the world.
In that thirty second trailer, most of the time, the trailer emphasized the gloomy city, ashes fluttering from the sky relentlessly, and unaware of the existence of the fiery magma.
Only a few shots passed by, allowing him to see several figures staggering in the ash ruined city.
Those figures, as he saw them now, had thick arms wrapped around the waist, and clumsy movements. He could not see their faces clearly in the dim twilight. Only a pair of huge yellowish-brown ox eyes were unable to take one's eyes off.
——It’s them!
Brother Jie clenched his fist.
——It must be them!
——The biggest crisis in this city!
While others were not paying attention, Brother Jie looked down at his watch. Sure enough, he saw that the pointer of the progress bar on the watch had changed from yellow to red.
In other words, they had officially entered the ‘final chapter’, which also meant that the most dangerous scene was approaching swiftly.
“Don’t panic!”
Brother Jie wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and forced himself to be calm. “The gate is very strong. They can’t get in!”
“Then… those people…”
The girl sobbed and asked, “What are those people…?”
Brother Jie clenched his fist and replied, “It is probably a zombie!”
When he watched the trailer, he had vaguely guessed what those ‘figures’ wandering around in the ashes were.
He was only a rookie in the [Peach Blossom Spring] who had not even broken through the entry difficulty and did not have powers. None of the strong organizations were willing to accept him.Those who extended an olive branch to him were just a few newcomers on the same level as him. That’s it!
Therefore he didn’t have a chance to ask for advice from more experienced people, resulting in him having to place wild guesses. Finally, he got inspiration from an old film called ‘Silent Hill’ and thought that what he saw in the trailer should be a zombie.
So he chose a gun as a prop to bring into the world—there was nothing better than a gun when dealing with human monsters such as zombies.
Thinking of this, Brother Jie clenched his teeth.
It’s all because of the curly-haired, baby-faced motherfucker who removed his gun’s ammunition clip, which put him in a dangerous position now that the gun couldn’t be used!
——However, it doesn’t matter.
Brother Jie ground his posterior molars.
——Although this gate was barricaded with a fence-style iron gate, it was an alloy mesh structure known to be strong enough to withstand small blasts. Those zombies outside could never be able to get in.
——Come on, come on! The progress bar is almost at the end!
——At most, he could withstand it until dawn…
“Ah ah ahhhhhhh!!!!!!”
Just as Brother Jie was trying to cheer himself up, he suddenly heard a panicked scream break the silence.
“Up, up!!”
A girl raised her hand, trembling, and pointed in horror at the three-story glass dome.
“There are people up there!!!”
Everyone suddenly looked up.
Sure enough, as she said, there were seven or eight more figures on the glass dome full of fireball lizards.
Although the layer of ash on the roof was too dense and the flashlight’s rays could only give a general outline due to the distance, they could still clearly see that there were ‘people’ outside the egg-shaped glass dome, just like those standing outside the main gate, with small heads, wide shoulders, and very absurd body proportions.
“Fuck!”
Brother Jie was on the verge of going mad.
He had never heard of zombies who could climb walls!
And before they could even blink, the ‘person’ who was selling cute before quickly and silently climbed up the three-story roof!
In the next second, the group of ‘people’ gathered outside the door suddenly started to move.
“Squawk!! Squawk!!!”
The harsh bird cries pierced their eardrums like sharp tools crushing the glasses at Walmart, making everyone cover their ears.
Immediately, Brother Jie and the others saw that the figure of the ‘people’ outside the door suddenly swelled several times in proportion.
Their ‘faces’ split and became two huge wings with a wingspan of more than three meters!
That was not a zombie!
It turned out to be a large group of owls!
‘They’ slowly lowered their wings and covered their faces with two long feathers on the rear of their wings. The patterns on the feathers displayed portraits of human faces— this was merely an illusion to allow their prey to relax their vigilance before hunting them!
“Oh my goodness!!”
Before they had time to digest this information, the loud sound of broken glass sounded above their heads.
All the people looked up and saw several human-faced owls on the dome who had spread their wings and were frantically pecking at the remains of the egg shaped dome glass with their razor-sharp hooked beaks.
Their beaks were so hard and edged that they directly nailed a crack the size of a spider web in the glass after simply hitting it twice!
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The author has something to say:
P.S. All kinds of big and small monsters in this copy have some interesting allusions. When this copy is finished, I will talk about the source of inspiration in the author’s words.
Gigantic owls! So fascinating hehee
Thank you for the chapter!
Thank you for the chapter 🥰
Shhtt that’s scary.·´¯
(>▂<)´¯·. I genuinely scared