The Otherworldly Adventures of a Super Naive Girl

436: Zombies Appear

For days now, they had had nothing to eat and drink but wild edibles and purified water purified with Feng Wu’s water purification tool.
Her tool and pot had been so useful.

With it they were able to make “soup” with the wild plants.
It was a good thing because eating fruits all day would have given them indigestion and made them vomit.

They were looking forward to having a filling meal and a good night’s rest in bed.
It would be great if they could find more badges in the village too.
Although they were a bit on edge, they were joyed at the sight of the village filled with people.

As they got closer, they got a better look at the villagers.

This place. . .  Feng Wu frowned.
She hadn’t noticed it before because of the distance, but now that she was closer, she could see strong grievance all over the village.
The grievance was filled with fear, panic, despair and other similar feelings.

She didn’t know what was going on, but this kind of powerful resentment told her the place was dangerous and not a place they should be.

After analyzing the danger presented by the village, she took several quick steps forward and blocked the group from moving forward.

“What are you doing?” Camille stared at Feng Wu suddenly blocking their way.
She wanted to get to the village as fast as possible.
She didn’t have time to waste on Feng Wu.

“The village is very dangerous! You can’t go in.”

“Ha, so what if you say there’s danger? You can’t stop me from going in!” Camille waved Feng Wu’s hand away and strode forward.

“What’s the matter?” Ober was a sensible captain.
After spending so many days with Feng Wu, he knew she wasn’t the type to talk nonsense.
If she said there was danger ahead, then the probability was high that there was some as yet undiscovered danger in the village.

“There is strong grievance in the village ahead.
Though I don’t know what’s going on, I know it is dangerous.” Feng Wu replied seriously.

“Grievance?” Ober hadn’t expected her to say this was the danger that had her worried.
Could she really see grievance? Wasn’t it the kind of thing invisible to everyone but necromancers? How could Feng Wu see it?

If she had the talent to be a necromancer, why was in the Sword division? It was much better to become a famous magician than a famous swordmaster.

“Ah! Monsters!” The scream came from Camille.

Ober was about to ask a few more questions but the scream interrupted him.

No one had noticed Camille running to the village while Ober was talking to Feng Wu.
She screamed miserably within a minute of entering.

Before their brains could register the situation, their bodies had instinctively moved on their own and they rushed toward the village.

The group believed Feng Wu about the village being dangerous, but Camille was trapped inside and they had to rescue her.

It was all because of the awful rules! They wouldn’t be able to move forward in the challenge if they didn’t save her.

Once they got to the village, they realized what they thought were villagers were in fact terrifying monsters!

The monsters looked humanoid but they were not humans! Their movements were stiff, their skin dry and flat without any luster, their eyes were red, and they had prominent fangs in their mouths.

Had either Zi Cheng or Ai Lin been there they would have screamed “Zombies!” in their hearts.

Yes these monsters were zombies.
In the beginning, Longzie[notes] had designed the zombies to be like those found in popular modern 21st century apocalyptic literature.
They were to act as dungeon monsters in the virtual world.

The contestants didn’t know it, but zombies would be the central theme of the field they were in.

“What are those?!” Anma cried out.

“It doesn’t matter.
We need to get Camille out first.” Ober drew out his long sword as he spoke.
He went after and slashed at the zombie chasing Camille, but he encountered an unexpected obstacle.

He had been confident he could cut down the zombie with this sword, but he had not expected its skin to be as hard as stone.
All he managed to do was get the zombie to chase after him.

Ober had to rely on his physical strength and muscle memory to fight because his internal strength was sealed.
Without qi, his combat abilities were reduced by an entire level.
It took him a long time to rescue Camille, but he finally did.
She was lucky to survive with just a scratch.

Ober got the group out of the village before the other zombies could converge on them.

They retreated several meters away from the village and were relieved the zombies didn't give chase.
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They ran a bit farther to the nearby river that was as black as ink.

“Well, let’s rest here.
It doesn’t seem like they can leave the village!” Anma looked back.

“What were those things? You can’t kill them with a sword; their skin is as tough as stone!” Luo was relieved to escape, but he was really puzzled by the monsters.

“Yeah, they were way too scary.” Meijian was also relieved.

“Never mind that.
Come here and look at Camille.
I think something’s not right with her!” Sandy’s voice came out sounding really anxious.

“What’s the matter?” Anma was the only one in the Pharmacy division so she immediately stepped over and asked Sandy what was wrong.

“Senior Anma, look! Camille looks sick.
She’s got a fever but we don’t have any medicine.
What do we do?!” Sandy was really worried.

“So what if she has a fever? It was her fault for running off to the village.
We wouldn’t have had to go in there if it weren’t for her.” Kaibu didn’t have anything nice to say about Camille, and was in fact rather angry and red in the face.
It was her fault the team nearly got kicked out of the competition.