Chapter 144 – Real Zombies? What’s Going On?
“Help!”
A young woman riding an electric scooter was cruising through the crowd of Zombies. She did not stop accelerating after witnessing the scene of carnage. In the end, due to the speed of the scooter, the Zombies were not able to catch her. However, she just had to make a mistake. When she rode out of the crowd of Zombies, the scooter hit the wall ahead of her and threw her off.
Unfortunately, the Zombies were attracted to the sound she caused and chased after her. This had startled her as she shouted for help, but she did not even try to escape by herself.
The movement of the Zombies was slow. It was a bit slower than the Zombies Wei Xiao Bei encountered in Cui Hu University.
If the woman had gotten up herself and limped away, she would have been able to escape. However, that was impossible. For a normal woman, crying out for help was already not a bad thing when they encountered something that terrifying which should only be happening in movies.
Whoosh!
A Zombie that was grabbing toward the woman had suddenly been hit on the head by a wooden stool. Black brain juice came seeping out, and the Zombie collapsed on the ground.
The woman was truly weak. Seeing Wei Xiao Bei smash the head of the Zombie, she actually fainted from fright.
This made Wei Xiao Bei bitterly smile and shook his head. Then he struck another Zombie in the head.
In reality, the number of Zombies on the streets was only a few. There were 20 of them in total, but they were not afraid of being injured at all. Their method of attacking was also quite unrestrained, which caused fear in others.
The people nearby finally came to their senses. When they saw Wei Xiao Bei strike the Zombies down, a few braver people who had chivalrous hearts also joined the fray.
At this time, the people who had seen the movie knew what was happening.
They knew that it was real Zombies attacking them. A minority of them still thought that the Zombies were lunatics that broke out from a mental hospital. They tried to persuade the chivalrous people to not break the law. After all, lunatics still had the right to live.
Under the combined efforts of the group of people, all the Zombies in the streets had been knocked down, while some had been killed. Those that had their limbs broken were still struggling on the ground.
When Wei Xiao Bei saw that the group of people had control of the situation, he jumped over a wall and checked on the situation in every courtyard.
Some courtyards were unscathed. The tenants inside even nervously guarded the doors of their homes with various tools. Some courtyards only had corpses left in them and Zombies that were tearing at them.
Wei Xiao Bei did not care if the corpses might turn into Zombies or not, but he killed every Zombie that he encountered.
The number of Zombies inside the courtyards had slightly exceeded the amount outside, but because the area was separated into a few courtyards, killing them was effortless.
After killing all the Zombies, Wei Xiao Bei threw away the wooden stool and took advantage of the chaos to escape. If he continued to stay there, the police would arrive, and he would not be able to walk away easily.
Wei Xiao Bei did not want to become some kind of public figure.
As for the question of the Zombie virus proliferation, he felt that the chivalrous people would be able to deal with it.
When he left the place, he saw that a few robust individuals were tying up the injured people.
He thanked the Zombie culture that had spread through the dissemination of the movies. Otherwise, how would the people know that human beings who had been bitten might turn into Zombies?
Wei Xiao Bei walked to the Cheng Clan Dojo with a heavy heart.
Although Wei Xiao Bei had earned evolution points from the invading Zombies that suddenly appeared, an alarm had been raised within his mind especially after he designated reality as a secure place.
It seemed that the relationship between the Dust World and reality was not as distant as Wei Xiao Bei thought it was!
This time the Zombies appeared. Then, what would appear next?
Green Dwarfs? Mutated Mice? Sacred Beetles? Or maybe the Big Tree Spirit?
In short, Wei Xiao Bei saw that any monster in the Dust World could appear in reality and cause mass terror.
This was the unfortunate trait about humans. Their mental defenses were poor.
It was to the extent that a small amount of information could already cause mass panic.
Naturally, if the monsters of the Dust World appeared en masse, reality would not be a safe place anymore!
Just the Licker was enough to destroy the army when it appeared in the big city.
After returning to the dojo, his master and third senior apprentice brother had not yet returned. When his big senior apprentice brother saw him, he explained a few matters and let Wei Xiao Bei guard the dojo. He himself carried a large bag of things to go visit little senior apprentice sister in Cui Hu University.
When his big senior apprentice brother left, Wei Xiao Bei stood on the practice grounds and calmed down his mental state. Then, he trained his Qi.
After opening the next path, Wei Xiao Bei returned to his room, took a bath, laid down on his bed, and inspected his evolution points.
The Zombies that he had killed in the Dust World and the apartment street had increased the number of his evolution points to 1030 points.
Although this was not the most evolution points he had earned, 1030 evolution points was still a lot.
Without a doubt, power would be the key to preserve his life for whatever happens next!
At the present time, Wei Xiao Bei had a lot of people he wanted to protect such as his parents, his siblings, his master, his apprentice siblings, and others.
Naturally, the most important people to him were his parents and siblings.
He pushed these distracting thoughts to the back of his head. Wei Xiao Bei carefully calculated to himself.
Without a doubt, being conservative with his points was already pointless now.
Moreover, if his power increased, the sub attributes would reach 20 points which would allow him to gain a special ability that would greatly help him to preserve his life.
For example, the elementary power burst after increasing his muscle attribute would increase his power by two folds in a short amount of time. Naturally, this kind of reckless increase had cost him and caused injuries to his muscles. The only solution to this was increasing his sturdiness.
Sturdiness was also counted as the body’s power.
As for the ground rooting ability that he gained after increasing his balance, it was a strategic type ability. It allowed Wei Xiao Bei to walk on walls as long as the inclination did not go beyond 90 degrees. If the inclination did not exceed 45 degrees, then he could even run!
His health attribute’s elementary regeneration need not even be mentioned. It had allowed his body to recover five times faster.
After considering a bit, Wei Xiao Bei focused on endurance!
Endurance was the body’s ability to persevere and also the body’s stamina. The stronger the endurance was, the more he could continue fighting and battle against more enemies.
Now that Zombies appeared in reality, encountering large groups of Zombies both in reality and in the Dust Word was possible. There might even be other monsters that would become involved. At that time, the endurance was an important attribute.
After concentrating on it, his evolution points quickly decreased.
14.07, 14.08, 14.09 …….
When his endurance reached 20 points, Wei Xiao Bei felt his muscles wiggle just like when he increased the muscle attribute to 20. However, the pain was much lesser. A warm feeling immediately spread throughout his muscles and bones.
Wei Xiao Bei did not sweat at all. When the strange feeling disappeared, the tiredness he was feeling had completely disappeared as if he had slept and woke up naturally. The feeling he felt was like bathing in a hot spring that relaxed his body.
Wei Xiao Bie once again looked at his status panel.
At this time, a new ability appeared in his status panel.
Endurance: 20 [Energy Recovery]
As Wei Xiao Bei inspected this ability, a brief description appeared in his mind.
Energy Recovery: Passive ability. Increases stamina recovery speed and mental fatigue recovery speed.
Wei Xiao Bei could not help but smile at the description.
His ground rooting ability had allowed him to widen his available strategies. The number of places he could go to and dodge to had increased. This new ability on the other hand guaranteed his battle logistics.
First, this ability was different from active abilities like elementary power burst and ground rooting. It was a passive ability like elementary regeneration. As long as he had the ability, it would continue to be active.
Naturally, Wei Xiao Bei felt that this ability also needed nutritional support. If there was no food to supply the body with energy, then this ability might become unusable.
Additionally, this ability did not only increase his stamina recovery speed, but it had also increased the speed at which he was able to get rid of fatigue.
From his point of view, this was equivalent to decreasing the cooldown he had in entering the Dust World. Moreover, he could also increase his time in training his Qi and opening more channels.
Wei Xiao Bei felt that something was different when he gained this ability.
He was very satisfied, but he immediately noticed something on his status panel that made him enter a daze.
His creature rank had unknowingly increased.
Creature Rank: 2 star (Any main attribute increases to 20 points. Obtained ability, elementary intimidation.)
Without a doubt, when his vitality had exceeded 20 points, his creature rank increased.
Wei Xiao Bei had not paid any attention to his creature rank for a long time already. This time, he had gained a small surprise.
At this moment, he had obtained the ability, elementary intimidation.
Wei Xiao Bei had noticed that this ability was located under special skills. Moreover, there was even an explanation.
Elementary Intimidation: When facing a creature below 2-Star that is the same race as the user, the creature would be afflicted with negative statuses of fear, reverence, panic, etc. Any afflicted creature would run away, stop advancing, worship, etc.
This special ability was not bad. Although it could only be used on the same race of the user, which means humans, it was an extra harvest.
I should try this ability sometime to see its effects.
Wei Xiao Bei became happy, but the remaining 436 evolution points placed him into deep contemplation.
If it was something battle related, then placing them in any of the sub attributes under agility would be better. The three remaining sub-attributes under agility that were not 20 points were at 16 points. He could instantly increase any of them to 20 points and gain another special ability.
The problem was that Wei Xiao Bei wanted to put them into a sub-attribute of awareness. Among them, intuition was the most important.
While they were in the Cui Hu Department Store in the Dust World, if his intuition did not alert him of danger, then he would not have been able to react to the Lickers that fast. He might have even become a corpse on the fourth floor.
It goes without saying that having an ability that could warn him of nearby enemies was important in the Dust World.
The problem was that his intuition was at 11 points. If he placed his evolution points there, it would not reach 20 points.
This was Wei Xiao Bei’s dilemma.
In the end, his evolution points was not enough.
Wei Xiao Bei sighed. In the end, he still decided to put them in intuition.
Although his intuition could not instantly be increased to 20 points, increasing it would still enhance the accuracy of his intuition. At the very least, it would allow Wei Xiao Bei to detect danger at an earlier time.
After using up his evolution points until only 6 points remained, his intuition increased to 18.3 points, and his awareness attribute increased to 15.56 points.
In reality, Wei Xiao Bei wanted to go into the Dust World and take a look. He wanted to find out why Zombies appeared in reality. However, since he had agreed to guard the dojo, he could not break the promise.
What should I do for the time being?
Wei Xiao Bei turned on his computer and looked at materials and information concerning Zombies.
He felt that the information that he previously looked up were mostly related to legends and myths. The monsters in the Dust World that appeared were not only from legends and myths.
He decided to look up Zombies and a few web novels, especially those influential novels. Other than that were games and popular folklores.
Wei Xiao Bei was not an idiot. The Zombies that appeared in the Dust World seemed to have a mysterious connection with the Resident Evil movies. Connecting that with losing consciousness to enter the Dust World, Wei Xiao Bei had a 50% hunch.
The relationship between the Dust World and reality might have something to do with human activity.
Naturally, Wei Xiao Bei could not fully confirm this at the moment. The Zombies seemed to have a close connection with the movies, but it was also possible that the Zombies in the Dust World existed before the movies.
He still needed to slowly examine the cause of this situation.
There were a lot of information on the internet. There were also a lot of movies about Zombies. Wei Xiao Bei even watched few of them one by one, but he ended up only looking at the description of the movies due to the length of the films.
Watching movies wastes too much time.
The other source of information that Wei Xiao used was web novels that had a huge impact. Wei Xiao Bei did not have time to look at them right now, so he saved them onto his phone. He would look at them once he had more time.
When his big senior apprentice brother made a phone call asking him to open the door, he looked at the time and saw that it was already 7 o’clock.
