I loaded the dream game

"It feels so quiet, there are not many people on the street."

He turned his head and looked at the shopping mall in front of him. It should have been the peak period of traffic, but there was not a single person in sight, and sighed.

Although there is no one, there are many strange things.

The zombies on the Academy Island have a big difference in behavior patterns from other zombies. Although they have become zombies, they still retain some memories and living habits from their previous lives.

They will return to school when it is time to go to school, go to the company when it is time to go to work, and go back home after get off work and school. Zombies who like 996 will continue to stay in the company to "work overtime", and it looks as if they are still alive.

Similarly, although there is no longer a need for shopping, during the peak hours of traffic in the mall in the afternoon, there are still many zombies coming in and out of the mall driven by their memories of their previous lives.

Since they can't talk, they naturally won't make loud noises, so the entire shopping mall is very quiet. If we exclude the fact that they like to bite people, they are much more civilized than humans.

The sound of rustling footsteps came from behind. Xia Zhi turned around and saw a staggering figure walking towards him.

It was a zombie girl. Judging from the school uniform she was wearing, she should be a student from a nearby middle school. Xia Zhi guessed that she must have been attracted by the sound of the zombie falling to the ground.

Xia Zhi tried in his mind to turn the zombie girl in front of him back into a normal person, but was prompted that it would cost 300 dream points.

"Tsk, it's too expensive."

Xia Zhi clicked his tongue, immediately gave up his original idea, and changed to another method:

"Setting: I will have absolute command over the zombie in front of me."

[This modification will consume 50 dream points. Do you want to confirm the modification? ]

Why is it still so expensive?

Xia Zhi thought about it and quickly realized what went wrong.

He added a time limit of "one hour" in front of the command power, and the consumption quickly dropped from 50 points to 5 points.

After thinking about it, he tried changing "one hour" to "two hours" and found that the points consumed did not change, so he continued to increase the time until it reached "five hours", and the points consumed increased from 5 points to 6 points. Then he changed the time back to "four hours and fifty-nine minutes", and the points consumed dropped back to 5 points.

"Within a certain limit, no matter how the modification changes, will it only consume the same points?" Xia Zhi thought to himself, and suddenly felt that he might have lost out on the pistol conversion at the beginning. He should try to see if he could change it into a Thompson.

After confirming the modification, his dream points, which had originally increased to 12 points, dropped back to 7 points.

"come over."

In order to confirm the effectiveness of the modification, Xia Zhi waved to the zombie girl not far away.

After hearing his order, the zombie girl paused, then staggered in front of him.

"Stop."

The zombie girl stopped.

"Sit down." Xia Zhi continued to order.

She sat down obediently, and her movements seemed a little difficult, as she hadn't done this for a long time.

"Twirl around."

She turned twice awkwardly.

"A 180-degree backflip followed by a 360-degree front flip, then a triple-and-a-half-turn sideways spin."

The zombie girl raised her head and looked at him in confusion.

It seems that this cannot be done, Xia Zhi thought.

Thinking about it carefully, my previous request was indeed a bit too much to ask, so I decided to change it.

Xia Zhi looked around, found a wooden stick and put it in the zombie girl's hand, and said to her:

"Let's go, you play forward and I'll cover you from behind."

Chapter 5: First Meeting with Yukino

In front of an underwear store in a shopping mall, a male zombie was stumbling around, dragging his rotten and broken body, as if he was searching for his territory, or wandering aimlessly.

The sound of rustling footsteps came from behind him. He turned around and saw with his remaining vision a petite figure staggering towards him.

He didn't feel any breath of life from the man, so he didn't take him seriously and just thought he was another of his kind.

But what he didn't expect was that the fellow didn't avoid him, but walked straight up to him.

"Uh……"

The male zombie raised his head and looked at his fellow zombie in front of him, seemingly wondering why she was blocking his way.

Under his cloudy gaze, the zombie girl clumsily raised the wooden stick in her hand, and then swung it down heavily -

"boom!"

The male zombie fell to the ground.

The zombie on the opposite side heard the noise and staggered over to check the situation. However, just as he arrived at the "crime scene", he was hit on the back of the head by the zombie girl in the same way.

And then the next one…

A few minutes later, there were more than a dozen corpses lying at the feet of the zombie girl, completely clearing the small area in front of the lingerie store.

"Woo...Woo..."

After doing all this, she put down the wooden stick in her hand that was stained with brain matter and sticky blood, and shouted twice at the corner marked with a safe passage.

Xia Zhi walked out from behind the corner and couldn't help but be shocked by the scene in front of him that looked like a serial murder scene.

It was originally just an experimental idea, but I didn't expect it to be so useful.

Because zombies will not attack each other, the zombie girl who will actively attack her own kind becomes a bug-like existence. As long as she is given enough time, it will not be difficult for her to kill all the zombies in the entire shopping mall.

But unfortunately, I only paid enough points for five hours, and if I pay more, I will have to add extra hours.

Xia Zhi estimated in his mind that he was only on the first floor. If he wanted to go to the third floor, he would have to take the escalator in the mall, which was quite a distance away.

Unlike the straight-up and straight-down staircases in ordinary residential buildings, in order to guide customers to visit more stores in the mall, the escalators between two floors of the shopping mall are usually quite a distance apart. This design, which is usually intended to increase the chances of customers making a purchase, has now become a problem for Xia Zhi.

After spending some dream points to convert a pack of bullets, Xia Zhi refilled the pistol magazine and put the bullets back into the backpack.

Bullets are not a problem. Although there are many zombies in the shopping mall, with the zombie girl as the forward, my safety is guaranteed. It's just that time may be a little tight.

"We must hurry up." Xia Zhi thought to himself.

……

"thump……"

The zombie who was hit on the head by the baseball bat fell to the ground and stopped moving.

Yukinoshita Yukino was breathing heavily, she took two steps back and leaned against the wall to recover her strength.

For her, who didn't do much exercise on weekdays, physical strength was her weak point. The tense nerves and over-concentrated mind increased the consumption of physical strength. After just a few battles, she felt sore all over and her physical strength was about to be exhausted.

Logically speaking, in her situation, it would be a better choice to continue staying in the storage room. There was food and water there, enough for her to survive for a long time.

But what happens after that?

The water and food will run out one day, and by then my mental and physical state will certainly be far worse than it is now due to the long-term confinement. What should I do then?

Yukinoshita is not a person who likes to sit and wait for death. Instead of being forced to leave the "safe house" after the water and food are exhausted, it is better to explore the surrounding situation while she is in good condition to see if she can find a way to save herself.

So, she took out a baseball bat from a cardboard box on the shelf in the storage room, controlled the amplitude of opening the door, adjusted the attack distance, knocked the zombie outside the door to death, and then walked outside carefully.

She knew that large shopping malls were usually equipped with broadcasting rooms. As long as she could find an independent power source or a portable generator, she could use the radio to seek help from the outside world.

Although I don’t know if it will succeed, I have to give it a try.

"Uh……"

A hoarse growl came from behind a corner not far away. Without much analysis, Yukinoshita could tell that it was the sound of a zombie.

She took a deep breath, raised the bat in her hand, and swung it hard the moment the zombie showed its head from behind the corner.

"boom!"

"Pfft..."

Two voices were heard, one after the other. In addition to the sound of the zombie falling to the ground in front of him, Yukinoshita also heard another muffled sound.

She was slightly startled and looked in the direction where the other voice came from, and then she saw a strange combination.

A zombie girl who looked young staggered to another zombie, raised the wooden stick in her hand that was still dripping with blood and smashed it hard on his head, knocking him to the ground, and then continued to walk to the next one.

Behind the zombie girl, a boy in school uniform followed slowly, occasionally shooting at the zombies that were still moving on the ground.

Seeing that there were other survivors made her feel relieved, but what made her feel even more surprised was the tacit cooperation and harmonious atmosphere between the man and the corpse.

"Could it be that... zombies can actually be tamed?" She couldn't help but have this thought in her mind.

"Ok?"

As if he had noticed her gaze, Yukinoshita saw the boy raised his head and looked towards her. After noticing her presence, an expression of surprise first appeared on his face, and then he quickly became a little anxious, and kept making gestures towards her.

Yukinoshita, who knew some lip reading, struggled to decipher what the boy wanted to say:

"Be careful...be careful...behind your body?"

She was startled and turned around quickly, only to see a zombie that had come up behind her at some point, opening its bloody mouth and biting towards her.

Chapter 6: Alarm Bells

"boom!"

Gunshots rang out and the zombies fell to the ground.

Looking at the motionless zombies on the ground, Yukinoshita shook her body slightly and reached out to hold the glass railing beside her.

Only then did she realize that her back was already soaked with cold sweat.

For her, who had always lived in a peaceful society in the past, suddenly experiencing such a life-and-death crisis was a little too exciting.

After taking a few breaths and calming herself down, Yukinoshita turned around to thank the boy, but found that he had already reached her floor without her noticing.

"What? My shooting skills are pretty accurate."

After seeing his "achievement" lying on the ground, Xia Zhi boasted to the zombie girl who was slowly following behind him.

Just now, after killing this zombie, he obtained the achievement of [Zombie Killer], plus a reward of 20 dream points. Seeing that his dream points have returned to double digits, he is in a very good mood.

"You are... from our school?"

On the other side, Yukinoshita wanted to say thank you, but her attention was quickly attracted by Xia Zhi's school uniform. That uniform looked familiar, and it seemed to be the style of her school.

"Hello, Yukinoshita-san." Xia Zhi introduced himself to the girl with a smile: "Just call me Xia Zhi."

Does he know me?

Yukinoshita was a little surprised, but not too shocked. She might be boastful, but she knew her reputation in school, and since they were classmates, it was not surprising that he knew her.

Compared to this kind of thing, she cares more about...

Yukinoshita shifted her gaze to the zombie girl, and after hesitating for a moment, she asked, "Is she... a zombie? Why..."

"Oh, you mean her."

Xia Zhi thought for a moment and then explained: "In fact, she is a pacifist among the zombies. Because she couldn't bear to see lives being killed, she decided to turn from darkness to light and help us... Am I right?"

He said the last sentence to the zombie girl next to him.

"Woo?"

The zombie girl tilted her head and looked at him in confusion, as if she couldn't understand what he meant.

"All you have to do is nod." Xia Zhi said.

She nodded obediently.

Yukinoshita: “…”

If she hadn't been aware of her current situation, she would have doubted whether the two people in front of her were here to perform a play.

After confirming that there were no obvious signs of scratches or bites on Yukinoshita Yukino's body, Xia Zhi breathed a sigh of relief.

"Let's go." He said, "Restock some supplies and then leave here first."

The shopping mall might be a good base, but it was still inferior to the Xunzhiaoka Academy, which was protected by a wall and had a complete set of survival facilities. Plus, there were too many zombies here, and cleaning them up was a big hassle, so Xia Zhi had no plans to live here for a long time.