The skin was generally greenish, with large patches looking as if they were rotting, pitted, and seemingly harboring pus.
The intermittent breathing, mixed with thick fluid in the throat, produced a creepy gurgling sound.
One eye socket was empty, while the other had a pale eyeball barely hanging in, awkwardly darting around.
"Dude... you don’t look like a local either." Lin Li said, awkwardly smiling while hiding behind cover.
This is a damn zombie!
This must be a zombie!
[Ho is always ho; the alternate world is ultimately a transient. Family ties are bonds no one can sever. Finally, today, you have obtained the key to return ho. Though the stay is brief now, it is a promising start, and one day, you will dwell here forever.
After returning to the modern world, your aura and charm, honed by cultivation techniques in the other world, are far beyond average.
At this mont, this beautiful lady who’s fallen for you at first sight, salivating over you, is the best proof.
On the day you return ho in glory, climb to the peak, the brilliant life in the modern era officially unfolds from this mont!]
[Task trigger!]
[Task Four: Hold this beautiful lady’s hand and enjoy the sunrise.]
[Task Reward: Random Ability*1; Random System Item*1; System Currency*100.]
Lin Li: ᓖ뮤?
Don’t disturb, let Lin Li think.
Where is the beautiful lady?
Lin Li retreated while looking left, right, up, and down, finally confirming that around him, barely anything could be called ’alive’, probably just this guy in front of him, no, this lady.
System? Can you bloody open your eyes and take a good look!
Is this a beautiful lady?
I can’t even determine the gender!
She fell for at first sight? Salivating?
...Seems like it.
But! But!
That’s just in the literal sense of wanting to eat , right?
While Lin Li was thinking, the beautiful lady finally locked onto him, who was only showing his head.
"Ugh—" with a low growl, the beautiful lady began running toward Lin Li with a peculiar zombie-like stride, though only her actions were frantic, not her speed.
But the distance between the two did start to shorten.
Fight! Fight! Fight!
Intense battle intent burned within Lin Li’s heart.
Lin Li turned and ran.
While running, he pulled up the system, clicking the second lit button.
A flash of white light.
Lin Li ran toward the couch ahead and flopped onto it.
Once he took a clear look at his surroundings and confird it was his ho, Lin Li finally breathed a slight sigh of relief, laid on the couch for several seconds before gathering his wits.
After calming down, Lin Li first went to the bathroom to take a shower, spraying disinfectant alcohol all over himself, the soles of his slippers, and the floor he just walked on.
Don’t fucking bring back any virus from that bizarre world.
One must know that a mild modern cold virus could wipe out an entire city a few centuries ago.
If it’s due to that the modern world turns into that world of ruins, the guilt would be imasurable.
After showering, it was already 4:50, and Lin Li suppressed other thoughts, starting to practice the Body Refining Eighth Rank Technique.
[For one continuous month...Cumulative at least half an hour (25/30)]
This ti, it took nearly two hours, practicing till almost seven to complete the task of the day, nearly failing.
No way about it, although Lin Li tried hard to be serious, he kept reminiscing those few minutes of bizarre experience, and being distracted would be seen as unserious by the system.
Lin Li lay on the bed.
Now he could finally think about what just happened.
First, he did cross over for a few minutes, beyond doubt.
The lingering Task Four in the [Task] column was the best proof.
And that interface without text, right now, the first two buttons Lin Li had pressed were greyed out, but the third one was lit.
Without text, Lin Li wouldn’t press it; who knows what could happen.
System, I badly nad it "bugged" for a reason.
These buttons without text are like giving the next programr a shit-ton of uncomnted code.
Lin Li thinks he managed to decipher that the first button is ’Depart’, the second ’Return’.
Lin Li was actually quite scared; fortunately, there was a ’Return’ button you could press anyti after ’Depart’. Otherwise, if stuck in that world, Lin Li dared not imagine his fate.
Looking at Task Four’s trigger ssage.
Lin Li truly gnashed his teeth.
Return ho, return ho, you treat the modern as the Cultivation Realm, as the all-female world, and that place as the modern?
The system is truly reliable at being unreliable.
But Lin Li could slightly understand the system’s logic.
This was supposed to be a button pressed in the Cultivation Realm or all-female world, allowing a return to the modern era.
But since Lin Li never traversed, pressing it ant going to another world?
But the problem is, based on the information gathered in those one or two minutes.
The environnt leaned modern; there was no Spiritual Qi sensation, not the Cultivation Realm, and zombie-related missions in the all-female world never ntioned zombies, nor were there cha wrecks, so it didn’t look like it, either.
"Did it create a new world for ?" Lin Li could only co to this conclusion.
Too little information.
If Lin Li didn’t imdiately return, he could have gained more intelligence.
But that was too unstable, firstly for safety, secondly without any preparation, and lastly if wasting ti resulting in task one’s interruption, the sunk cost would be too high.
Looking at Task Four, but one must say, this task’s rewards are very rich; Lin Li was quite tempted.
With abilities, items, and currency, all things Lin Li wanted.
But... holding hands with a zombie to watch the sunrise?
Such a scene is too beautiful, Lin Li isn’t daring enough to imagine it.
"Can I just hold hands?" Lin Li looked at the system’s text, suddenly speaking to himself.
The task didn’t say to watch the sunrise with the beautiful lady together, did it?
Borrow this lady’s hand (literally), can I hold it to watch?
Since it’s a zombie, borrowing a hand to use isn’t too much, right?
Considering the system’s unreliability, Lin Li thought his unreliable idea would be seen as reliable by the system.
Could try it.
But definitely not now, the third button, without text on it, Lin Li won’t press.
There are still too many mysteries puzzling Lin Li.
Wait till the first button lights up again, then consider going to that world.
Besides, must be fully prepared, can’t be haphazard like this ti—what’s presently known is, slippers and clothes can accompany oneself through the passage to another world.
So next ti, Lin Li will sure try bringing weapons and armor, absolutely not going empty-handed.
The prerequisite for completing the task is ensuring personal safety.
"The funeral master of that world truly lacks foresight, not understanding." Lin Li sighed and complained.
If Lin Li were a funeral master, he would sure secretly tie all the shoelaces of each deceased together, wouldn’t it be very fun during a zombie apocalypse?
Entertaining oneself is also saving others.
If the beautiful lady couldn’t move, how easy the task would be to complete.
What a pity.
Having thought of all these random things, Lin Li collapsed onto his bed, covered his face with a pillow, feeling sowhat lanting yet amused:
"October really gave a harsh wake-up call."
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