Jiang Chao rushed in front of her, his tone urgent.
"What the hell are you doing?!"
"Killing zombies."
"You’re looking for death!"
She wouldn’t run when she could, insisting on waiting until danger was close before retaliating. If she had been a bit slower, her whole face would have been bitten off!
Jiang Lai looked at Jiang Chao, for the first time feeling that having him around was a bit annoying and really hindered her from racking up Death Value.
Why did she obediently come to the back?
It’s because the back was dangerous, the more dangerous the better she liked it, but Jiang Chao was always there interfering with her proper business.
"Bro, you wait on the side for a while, come in when I need you, or else we’ll both die here."
As soon as she said that, more suction cups drilled in, rushing towards Jiang Lai. Jiang Chao couldn’t say anything more and drew his knife to deal with these suction cups.
Finally, Jiang Lai grabbed one, watching it struggle crazily in her hand, its fleshy barbs rolling disgustingly. Then Jiang Lai kept retreating, wanting to open the cockpit shield but realized it was locked. She chuckled and directly slammed the suction cup against it. In the next moment, there was a crisp "click," and a piece of the iron shield was bitten off. Without waiting for the people inside to react, Jiang Lai directly stuffed the suction cup into the front cockpit.
Screams erupted, the car lost control completely, veering off the main road onto the plain beside and ultimately crashed into a tree, finally stopping.
The front seemed to become quiet; the crash was severe, leaving Jiang Chao with blood on his head from hitting the door frame. Seeing this, Jiang Lai quickly took out a band-aid from her bag.
"Stick it on yourself first, I’ll go out and have a look."
With that, Jiang Lai directly opened the car door and jumped out, leaving Jiang Chao no chance to speak.
Jiang Chao sighed and hastily applied the band-aid before chasing after her, only to see an endless wasteland. From afar, a massive and terrifying giant flesh worm could be vaguely seen amid the swirling dust cloud, coming their way.
It charged forward at a terrifying speed, as if pursuing something.
Jiang Chao realized then that Jiang Lai was gone, so he opened the front cockpit, finding only one of the five people inside alive, the squad captain shivering under the steering wheel.
"Where’s Jiang Lai?!"
"What...What Jiang Lai?"
"That girl just now!!"
"I don’t know, I know nothing, I want to go back, I want to go back."
At this moment, Jiang Chao realized that the flesh worm was desperately chasing his fearless sister.
He cursed under his breath, hauled the squad captain from under the steering wheel, drove off in pursuit of the direction where the flesh worm disappeared.
Meanwhile, Jiang Lai was sprinting across the desolate prairie, deftly evading continuous suction cup attacks from behind, thanks to Little Buding’s warnings.
Although it was Jiang Lai being chased, Little Buding empathized deeply, feeling terrified, thinking Jiang Lai was truly playing on the edge of death.
If not careful, she could really lose her life.
"What’s to be afraid of? I have three lives!!"
When she only had one life, Jiang Lai already dared to dance in front of Death. Now, with three lives, she couldn’t wait to strip off and defecate on Death’s head.
No fear at all.
"Do you really feel no fear?"
No one’s died before, how come Jiang Lai looked like she’s died many times?
Jiang Lai laughed and shouted as she evaded another attack.
"Afraid, of course!"
"..."
This is totally not a normal person.
"You can’t lead it on a run all day, can you?"
"I’m taking it to swap for money!"
"Where are you leading it?"
Only then did Little Buding realize the direction Jiang Lai was running looked familiar — it was the direction of Zero Base, wasn’t it?
"Then why not lead it in a car!!"
"Driving gains less Death Value!"
"You’re so dedicated, I admire you."
Her Death Value kept soaring, from four thousand to five thousand, then six thousand. Every time a hand growing from the flesh worm almost grabbed Jiang Lai’s clothes, she’d spend points to augment Rapid Skill on herself, and instantly shoot away three meters out of reach.
By now, the flesh worm was thoroughly enraged, ignoring other passing vehicles, just chasing Jiang Lai’s trail, roaring and howling all the way. Its anger value peaked, the rolling dust cloud from its massive body visible from afar.
Just as Jiang Lai was still sprinting passionately, Little Buding’s voice came anxiously.
"Something’s wrong, Jiang Lai, something’s wrong. Why do I feel that big flesh worm is getting bigger!"
Jiang Lai took out a small mirror and looked behind, deftly dodging a suction cup, and then felt a sting on her cheek.
She wiped her hand and saw blood.
"Damn, it’s really bigger."
Even the suction cups growing out got bigger, scraping her face.
The distance shortened instantly; Jiang Lai began frantically adding skills to her legs, 100 points maintaining for just a minute. Jiang Lai didn’t even care to conserve anymore, crazily purchasing.
"How far to the base?"
"At your speed, fifteen minutes. At its speed, nine minutes."
In other words, even with skill upgrades, Jiang Lai couldn’t outrun it because that worm kept growing and growing, seemingly without growth limits, its speed increasing too. The previously sharp roars now sounded like cries and screams of countless people, a dual attack of physical and psychological effect, scary enough to kill with just sound.
Little Buding thought this time Jiang Lai had indeed played too recklessly.
But she couldn’t be blamed; who could’ve guessed this thing would grow bigger, and this, big!!
Even the massive heavy trucks weighing dozens of tons weren’t as big as it!
How to bridge this six-minute gap?
Jiang Lai sprinted while quickly scanning the points exchange mall, spotting the human head bomb priced at 1000 points each.
Without thinking much, Jiang Lai unhesitatingly clicked on it. The next second, a lively bouncing head appeared in her hand, like a mannequin head from a mall, except the eyes moved and had legs growing under the neck.
"Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb..."
The head kept repeating one word, "bomb," Jiang Lai checked the user manual, then screech-braked to a halt and hurled the bomb overhand into the flesh worm’s mouth.
"Bomb!!"
The human head bomb was accurately thrown inside, and the next moment the rolling flesh worm’s belly began to heave and swell.
Jiang Lai sprinted forward again, listening to a deafening explosion from behind.
Looking back, half of the flesh worm’s body was blown to bits, sending shredded flesh flying everywhere.