The corpse was that of a female office worker, dressed in a light blue pencil skirt and a blazer. Her clothes were now splotched with mottled bloodstains from being torn and bitten.
A young man who appeared to be a food delivery person, wearing a uniform and a helmet, was gnawing at her. Hearing the noise at the mouth of the alley, he turned his head.
A face smeared with blood came into everyone’s view.
Quan Sangin’s expression brightened. He hadn’t expected to find one so quickly. According to the intelligence, it was the early stages of the virus outbreak, and at this time, there was a high probability that a killed zombie would drop a train ticket.
As the number of zombies increased, this probability would rapidly decrease.
The delivery man let out a low growl from his throat, stood up, and immediately stumbled towards them. But he moved as if he had polio—uncoordinated and not very fast.
Kim Jinsoo stepped forward, wielding a machete, ready to intercept.
Those who had followed didn’t rush; they gathered at the entrance of the alley, observing the creature.
The delivery man charged at Kim Jinsoo, hands reaching out.
Kim Jinsoo swung his machete.
The sharp blade sliced through the delivery man’s neck, severing his head.
Before the body could hit the ground, its chest burst open with a pop.
Kim Jinsoo covered her face but was half a beat too slow, getting splashed with some blood. However, she quickly became happy as, with the splatter of blood and flesh, a palm-sized metal tag fell out, landing on the ground.
Kim Jinsoo put on a glove, picked up the metal tag, and casually wiped off the blood and flesh. She glanced at the contents.
On the front was ’Hancheng Station’, then an arrow, followed by the words ’Hanyang Station’.
Kim Jinsoo handed the ticket to Quan Sangin.
"Aren’t you giving it to the wrong person?"
Xia Hongyao reminded her.
Kim Jinsoo ignored Xia Hongyao as if she hadn’t heard.
Quan Sangin took the ticket, glanced at it, and couldn’t help but glance at Lin Baici. Was this kid just lucky, or did he have a special way of finding monsters?
"Hey, hand that thing over."
If the other party refused, he wouldn’t mind turning this into a bloodbath right here.
Quan Sangin never thought of provoking Lin Baici and passed the ticket over.
Everyone immediately crowded around.
"What does this mean?"
Hua Yue Yu didn’t understand.
"It’s a ticket to Hanyang Station, right?"
Gu Qingqiu reasoned, "Looks like there are tickets to other stations as well. Does that mean we need to find tickets to the same station? That’ll be troublesome since collecting the same kind of ticket is definitely harder, and we’ll also need to figure out which ’station’ has simpler rule contamination."
"Aren’t you going to say something?"
Lin Baici sized up Quan Sangin.
"The ticket corresponds to different rule contaminations, but I don’t know exactly what they are."
Quan Sangin was helpless.
Hua Yue Yu tugged at Lin Baici’s sleeve.
The female office worker who had been nibbled on got up. She was missing a high heel on her left foot but didn’t seem to care and quickly ran towards them.
She wanted to eat humans.
Kim Jinsoo backed away, thinking that since the ticket wasn’t hers, it was up to the others to kill the monster.
The female office worker let out a ferocious cry but was easily defeated. Xia Hongyao chopped off her neck with a knife, but this time, they weren’t lucky enough to get a ticket.
"Continue searching for tickets!"
Lin Baici patted his stomach, planning to first secure a vehicle for transportation.
The situation was very clear. The zombie virus outbreak was underway, and God Hunters needed to kill zombies to obtain tickets before they were infected and then board the train.
Fifteen minutes later, Lin Baici arrived in front of a KFC fast-food restaurant.
Just as Hua Yue Yu was about to peer inside, a man dressed in a KFC uniform slammed into the glass door.
Hua Yue Yu was startled and suddenly stepped back.
The male employee kept slamming into the toughened glass, trying to get out. In just a few impacts, his head was bloodied. By now, the customers and employees inside the store had all turned into zombies and were trying to get out. Since they couldn’t open doors, their only option was to ram into the glass.
Some passersby, hearing the commotion, mistook it for a performance art piece and pulled out their phones to take pictures.
"These are supposed to be dead people, right?"
Gu Qingqiu was curious.
After ten years of existence, Busan Divine Ruins couldn’t possibly still have living people. Therefore, whatever was causing this large-scale rule pollution of Taboo things, it had to be very strong.
It might even be a God!
Lin Baici approached the shop’s entrance, holding the Bronze Sword in one hand. After taking a deep breath, he pulled open the door.
Three zombies rushed out.
Lin Baici swung the Bronze Sword and chopped, easily decapitating three heads with three clean strikes.
One of them exploded in the chest area, dropping a ticket.
Kim Jinsoo cursed, "Captain, shall we hurry and start looking for zombies too?"
Quan Sangin hesitated. If Lin Baici kept up this efficiency, he would definitely get enough tickets before the full outbreak of zombies. It was just uncertain whether he would share any with his group.
Lin Baici didn’t pick up the ticket. After killing three zombies, he entered the shop and casually closed the door behind him.
Perhaps they heard the noise or smelled the scent of humans, but the zombies started roaring and charged at Lin Baici like mad dogs.
Lin Baici went on a killing spree, heads rolling everywhere.
Very quickly, the scent of blood completely overpowered the smell of fried chicken.
Five minutes later, Lin Baici had finished the fight and came out.
"Red Medicine, Yi Jisheng, get in there and handle it!"
Such menial duties like cleaning up the battlefield were not for Lin Baici.
Seeing Lin Baici’s actions, the group exchanged greetings and began their tasks.
This time, Lin Baici was lucky; he found two tickets, although one was for Silla Station.
"Who knows which ticket has simpler rule pollution?"
Xia Hongyao examined both tickets but couldn’t make out any difference.
"Don’t waste time, let’s hurry and fight for tickets!"
Choi Sunsil urged, clearly stating the obvious that Lin Baici had a quick method for locating zombies.
Lin Baici didn’t bother with Choi Sunsil. He walked to the roadside, aiming to find a car. But before he got far, at a subway exit some fifty meters away, someone burst out in a panic.
The pedestrians yelled, and within moments, over a dozen bloody zombies emerged and began mauling anyone they pinned down.
"Ha ha, delivery to our doorstep!"
Quan Sangin rejoiced, "Quick, kill them!"
"After getting the ticket this time, you won’t have the right to fight for it anymore, right?"
[Run! Run! Run! There’s too many of them.]
"Get in the car, quick!"
Lin Baici rushed to the side of the road and hailed a taxi. As soon as the driver stopped, he dashed to the driver’s side, quickly opened the door, and yanked the driver out.
"Xiba, what the hell are you doing?"
The driver swore profusely.
Lin Baici threw two punches, knocking him to the ground.
"Ha ha, feels like playing ’Grand Theft Auto’!"
Xia Hongyao laughed, wanting to mimic Lin Baici and flag down a car. Get full chapters from novelFirｅ.net
Meanwhile, Quan Sangin and his group only managed to run a few steps before halting in their tracks, as a horde of zombies poured out of the subway station, swarming like ants scalded with boiling water.