"Although the chances of encountering a Tyrant are slim, it would be great if all these hundred monsters could turn into Lickers, allowing me to get more Yellow Medicine Grass."
Compared to before he became Heavenly Destiny Master, Yellow Medicine Grass had become much more valuable to Zhang Yanhang. Since his Shield Value was directly linked to his Life Value Limit, for every ten points added to his Life Value Limit, he would gain eight points in his Shield Value Limit. Thus, the return on Yellow Medicine Grass had nearly doubled for him now.
"I’ll choose Option One, Lady Zombie." After Zhang Yanhang made his choice, time resumed its flow, and the icons on the slot machine spun continuously, finally settling on three skull patterns. Accordingly, a transparent egg popped out of the delivery slot.
The transparent egg, suspended in mid-air, slowly opened. A graceful Lady Zombie, showing no apparent wounds, instantly enlarged and steadily fell into the pit below.
"Did I just draw some kind of rare species? A Lady Zombie? I don’t remember ever seeing one before..."
Zhang Yanhang jumped into the pit to closely examine the Lady Zombie in front of him — dressed in a white low-cut evening gown, with white silk opera gloves on her hands, a wide-brimmed lady’s hat commonly seen in movies on her head, and wearing a pair of old-fashioned black garter stockings on her legs.
Her entire skin was ashen-white like other zombies, but it was very clean, and there was not the slightest smell typically associated with decay. More crucially, there were no bloodstains or wounds on her body, making it impossible to deduce how she had turned into a zombie. Newest update provided by NoveI-Fire.ɴet
Furthermore, the Lady Zombie was considerably taller than Zhang Yanhang, especially in high heels, blessing her with an impressive figure. Honestly, upon first seeing her, Zhang Yanhang instantly thought of the Eight-foot Lady.
"I’ve checked her thoroughly inside and out, but couldn’t find any wounds. It’s really bizarre. Could it have been a direct injection of the T-virus? That’s not possible, right?" Zhang Yanhang gently set down the thigh of the Lady Zombie in his hand. Truth be told, he was terrified of applying too much pressure during the examination, afraid that he might inadvertently break her in two.
"Could she be some important side character from a biochemical crisis? Is that possible? But why can’t I remember..."
While Zhang Yanhang was pondering, the Lady Zombie kept trying to bite him. Due to her height, she couldn’t reach his neck and kept nibbling at his face instead.
Thanks to this, Zhang Yanhang unexpectedly discovered that the Lady Zombie didn’t have bad breath; instead, it was somewhat fragrant, hardly characteristic of a normal zombie. And surprisingly, her tongue was still pink and tender, and her teeth were very white.
"But I don’t remember seeing any living people in Raccoon City, nor any obvious main characters or side characters, so it’s unlikely that there are any so-called story characters in Ashen World.
Wait, why am I even thinking about such complicated stuff? She’s just a First Tier Zero Star ordinary zombie, after all. Why not just finish her off?"
After examining the Lady Zombie, Zhang Yanhang’s sole conclusion was that this creature was probably more suited to being stuck in a wall than any other so-called ’fatty’ zombie he had encountered before. Or rather, it should be perfectly normal for a Lady Zombie to be trapped in a wall, as that’s the ’classic storyline’ everyone eagerly anticipates.
"I always feel that compared to the first Mother Police Zombie we encountered, this zombie is the one that really captures the public’s attention," although occasionally some bold ideas would emerge in his mind, Zhang Yanhang felt he could no longer afford to waste time. After punching through the opponent’s chest, Zhang Yanhang effortlessly completed a hand-tearing of the zombie.
The foul blood of the zombie slowly flowed down Zhang Yanhang’s arm but didn’t stain his clothes, for his body was covered with a transparent energy shield, which automatically isolated the zombie’s contaminated blood as hazardous.
[Successfully killed a First Tier Zero Star Monster ’Lady Zombie (Ordinary)’ ×1, Soul points +1.]
"Is it because of a thicker layer of fat? Compared to other zombies, its feel is much softer." Truth be told, Zhang Yanhang actually preferred male zombies with muscles in their chests because the pale yellow fat particles were much more disgusting than the crimson muscle fibers.
You might think Zhang Yanhang would keep the Lady Zombie for some other purposes, but unfortunately, that was not the case. Moreover, his previous research was conducted with a scholarly attitude, purely academic without mixing in any other ideas, with evidence being Zhang Yanhang’s hesitation-free punch through the heart.
After continuously hunting thousands of zombies, Zhang Yanhang had become a zombie expert, but he had never seen a zombie that resembled a living human before. Thus, out of curiosity, he studied the opponent briefly, and yes, that was the truth of the matter.
After killing the Lady Zombie, Zhang Yanhang found that she had not dropped a Treasure box, so he crawled back to the surface and resumed pulling the metal lever of the slot machine.
About ten minutes later, Zhang Yanhang successfully killed the hundred zombies inside the slot machine. Although he initially estimated that he would solve all the zombies within ten minutes, the introduction of Zombie Dogs and Lickers as obstacles meant that Zhang Yanhang had to expend more effort and time than with ordinary zombies, especially with the Lickers.
If Zhang Yanhang didn’t kill the Lickers immediately, they would jump out of their holes and stab him with their tongues.
Because he now had an energy shield, Zhang Yanhang tested his defensive power again against the Lickers and found, thanks to the formidable defensive power brought by his 25 points of Constitution, that although his normal shield still got breached, the outer shield with stronger defensive power in its manifested state had successfully immunized him against the Licker’s attacks.
Zhang Yanhang was quite pleased with this result, feeling that the many Soul points he had spent to strengthen the Technique Immunity Skill were well worth it, and he received the positive feedback he hoped for, "In this case, I should no longer need to worry about being surrounded and killed by Lickers."
Zhang Yanhang remembered that in ’Biohazard’, once there were numerous Lickers, they could even temporarily restrain the T-103 Tyrant by each Licker using its tongue to bind one of the Tyrant’s limbs, causing an effect similar to being torn apart by horses.
However, these Lickers weren’t quite powerful enough and were eventually broken free and mostly killed by the physically formidable T-103 Tyrant, but it had created an opportunity for his companions to attack the immobilized Tyrant.