I was used as cannon fodder at the start, but my superpower came into play!

The wind howled in my ears, mixed with the roars of the Lickers.

At this moment, Su Yu's pressure level was off the charts. He felt his body getting lighter and lighter as he ran, as if he could fly away in the next second.

it's over...

Su Yu felt a chill in his heart; he knew this was a reaction before exhaustion.

Logically speaking, given his physical condition, he shouldn't be in a state of exhaustion after running a certain distance.

The problem lies with the lickers behind him; they are putting too much pressure on him.

In addition, the reckless running pushed his body beyond its limits in a short period of time, but this state was destined not to last long.

Despite forcing himself to remain calm and observe everything around him since entering the game, Su Yu is still just an ordinary person. Faced with the threat of several Lickers, knowing he was no match for them, he inevitably panicked.

"Don't let us down, just hold on a little longer."

Su Yu prayed silently, and he could clearly feel the Licker getting closer and closer to him.

However, Su Yu was almost at the target location he had envisioned.

Sensing that its prey had entered its attack range, the licker at the front decisively swung its claws and grabbed at Su Yu.

Hearing the whooshing sound behind him, Su Yu dared not turn around. He saw veins bulging on his forehead and he let out an angry shout.

"Charge!"

Using all his strength, Su Yu leaped up, feet forward and upper body back, dodging the Licker's attack while simultaneously slipping into a passage.

The barrier at the entrance of the passage was kicked loudly by Su Yu, and then scratched by the Licker's claw, leaving several hideous and terrifying scratches.

Su Yu, who had crawled into the tunnel, was now rapidly sliding down the pipe, his shoulders, arms, hips, and legs constantly slamming against the pipe walls, causing him to grimace in pain.

However, compared to being caught by the Lickers and losing his life, this outcome was clearly within Su Yu's tolerance range.

What a joke! He wasn't just running around aimlessly. Before leaving the room, Su Yu had already decided to run towards the elevator.

Su Yu knew that he couldn't shake off the Licker in the hotel's emergency stairwell.

Rather than being chased like a stray dog ​​by the Lickers, he decided to find another way. This escape route was one he had planned in advance when he was cleaning the floors.

It's called an escape route, but it's actually used by hotel staff to dispose of trash. Bags of trash fall down the pipes and eventually into trash cans, where they are then taken away by recycling center staff.

To ensure he could pass through the tunnel smoothly, Su Yu even found a male zombie of similar size to himself and threw it into the tunnel to test its effectiveness.

Only after watching the zombie crawl out of the garbage heap from the window did Su Yu breathe a sigh of relief, secretly memorizing the pipe as a backup escape route.

"Damn it..."

In Su Yu's original plan, he did not necessarily have to escape from the bottom exit after entering the pipe.

As long as he braces himself against the pipe wall with his hands and feet, he can easily choose a safe floor and crawl out through another entrance.

Even without climbing upwards, just controlling the speed of descent is enough.

Unfortunately, ideals are often grand, but reality is often harsh.

Once inside the pipe, Su Yu realized that controlling his descent speed was incredibly difficult.

Especially for someone like him who had just overexerted his body and pushed himself to his limits, he was willing but unable to do so.

"We're out of options."

Su Yu sighed, dismissing unrealistic thoughts, and let her body fall downwards.

All he could do now was slow his descent as much as possible and pray that he wouldn't make too much noise when he left the tunnel, so as not to attract the nearby zombies.

His feet rubbed against the inner wall of the pipe. Fortunately, he was wearing shoes. Su Yu then tried to touch the pipe wall with his hands, but as soon as he touched it, he pulled his hands back.

"hiss......"

Regardless of the air quality inside the garbage chute, Su Yu gasped in shock.

That hurts so damn much!

This garbage pipe was made of cement, and the inner wall was uneven. If Su Yu tried to slow down by hand, he estimated that by the time he landed, the skin on his palms would be worn away.

Even if he doesn't die in the mouth of a licker, the infection from his wounds will be enough to make him suffer.

Amidst the rustling sound of shoes rubbing against the pipe wall, Su Yu gradually saw a glimmer of light; he knew that was the exit.

"Let's give it our all."

Taking advantage of the protective clothing he was wearing, Su Yu spread his arms and used his elbows to brace against the inner walls of the pipe.

Despite the pain, Su Yu desperately controlled his speed and finally managed to stop just before leaving the pipe.

Looking down at the piles of garbage, Su Yu tightened his legs and trembled as he pulled his arms back.

His elbow was throbbing with pain, but he couldn't care less. He pulled out his M1911 pistol from his waist and laboriously cocked it.

Su Yu did this simply to prevent zombies from rushing at him the moment he left the pipe.

Having a gun is better than having nothing at all.

With this thought in mind, Su Yu gradually withdrew the force from his legs.

Just as he was about to fall into the pile of garbage below, a huge head suddenly appeared in front of Su Yu.

A brain exposed, a gaping maw filled with sharp teeth...

They're lickers!

Upon seeing this, Su Yu's body, which had been gradually relaxing, tensed up again.

With his feet firmly planted on the inner wall of the pipe, Su Yu was afraid that he might accidentally fall in and feed the licker.

If that were the case, it would be far too entertaining!

What should I do?

Su Yu's brain was working at lightning speed, trying to come up with a solution.

If he were to start a live stream, Su Yu would really like to ask the viewers in the live stream for help, saying, "I'm waiting online, it's urgent!"

Su Yu was extremely anxious. Not only was he under psychological pressure, but he was also physically exhausted. All the conditions made it impossible for him to waste any more time.

However, the licker below Su Yu was not in a hurry at all. It listened carefully to the sounds around it. Perhaps out of its hunter's instinct, it felt that there was prey here and was unwilling to leave.

"Fuck you, let's go for it!"

As the saying goes, "When a person dies, the bird flies to the sky; if he doesn't die, he lives for ten thousand years." Since he was going to be killed whether he stuck his head out or not, Su Yu decided to stop hesitating and took out the only thing he had that could be used as bait to attract the monster's attention. He casually threw it down.

The Licker's hearing was incredibly sharp. Before Su Yu's thrown item even hit the ground, it opened its mouth wide, and its snake-like tongue shot out like an arrow, coiling around the can of painkiller spray.

Pointing the muzzle of the M1911 at the Licker's head, Su Yu pulled the trigger.

Su Yu could swear to God that at this moment, his hand speed had absolutely broken through his own limits.

It was just a pistol, but he managed to fire it at the rate of a rifle, emptying the magazine in less than three seconds.

A bullet struck the metal can of the pain-relieving spray precisely, causing it to explode.

In an instant, a burst of fire appeared between Su Yu and the Licker.

Amidst the bursts of flames, the tongue of the person who had been licking the pain-relieving spray was blasted into several pieces.

Su Yu quickly changed the magazine, and at the same time removed his feet from the tube wall, letting his body fall towards the Licker.

The licker was stunned when its vital parts were attacked. By the time it reacted and opened its mouth to bite, Su Yu had already landed in front of it.

"die!"

Su Yu kicked the licker in the head from above, giving it no chance to retaliate.

Taking advantage of the situation, Su Yu straddled the Licker, pressed the muzzle of his gun against the monster's head, and pulled the trigger again.

This time, the bullet won't miss.

Under these extremely close-range conditions, all the bullets entered the Licker's head, and all of them went in through a single gunshot hole.

Before the Licker could fight back, Su Yu shot him dead on the spot.

"Lucky!"

After falling off the Licker's back and lying sprawled in the garbage heap, Su Yu immediately spotted a seed-shaped object next to the monster's corpse, emitting a faint golden light. That must be the golden seed that the Red Cube had mentioned.

Without a second thought, Su Yu stood up from the garbage heap and grabbed the seeds in his hand.

Five hundred points! A full five hundred points! He risked his life to get them!

In this cruel world where a new life is worth only 200 points, the value of 500 points is self-evident.

Although "Sevenfold Spiral" is a powerful special ability at the UR level, if he had had this Golden Seed back then, he might have awakened an even stronger ability.

After all, the higher the seed level used, the better the awakened ability and the better the player's compatibility.

He awakened a UR-level special ability with just a Black Iron Seed, let alone the Golden Seed, which is two levels higher than the Black Iron Seed and only inferior to the Star Seed.

"Ha, it really does prove the old saying true: misfortune may be a blessing in disguise, and a blessing may be a misfortune in disguise."

Looking up at his surroundings, Su Yu's joy at having just acquired a golden seed was quickly dampened.

He saw dozens, or even hundreds, of ordinary zombies gathering around him, presumably drawn by the battle that had just taken place.

What should we do?

Even if his physical strength were exhausted, Su Yu did not believe he could fight against a hundred zombies and break through the encirclement unscathed.

Should we climb back up the pipe?

The thought had barely crossed Su Yu's mind when he abandoned it.

Putting aside whether his remaining strength would allow him to do so, the distance to the ground alone—the pipe exit was four or five meters high—was something Su Yu couldn't jump up to.

Moreover, the plastic bags filled with garbage under his feet greatly affected his jumping ability.

Even if you could jump up there normally, you definitely couldn't do it now.

Besides these, there is an even more fatal reason: the pipe outlet is bare, with nothing to grab onto or anything to use for leverage. What good would it do to jump up there? You'd still fall down anyway.

It's so difficult to control your speed while falling down the pipe, let alone return the way you came and climb back up the pipe.

Just because you don't have stepping stones doesn't mean the zombies don't.

Su Yu estimated that once these zombies saw him enter the pipe, they would huddle together like madmen, and it wouldn't be long before the top zombie would be able to climb into the pipe.

If you were inside the pipe and got bitten by a zombie below, you'd be completely helpless.

"I wonder if I can absorb this monster's ability. Logically speaking, Lickers were just ordinary humans in their previous lives. They were infected by a bio-virus and became monsters, which is also a kind of special ability."

As the zombies drew closer, Su Yu, ever the decisive man, immediately crouched down beside the Licker's corpse.

Activating his special ability, he attempted to devour the Licker. As Su Yu's hand touched the Licker, its corpse turned to dust at a visible speed.

It worked!

Su Yu was overjoyed. With the ability to transform into a Licker, he could move around much more easily in this city overrun by a bio-virus.

The ordinary zombies around him were less than ten meters away. Su Yu activated his ability and tried to become a Licker.

Su Yu could clearly feel that his body was undergoing some changes; his body size was gradually increasing, and his flesh was rapidly rotting.

Unfortunately, his ability was only half activated when it suddenly seemed to wither away, and his body returned to normal, which drove Su Yu almost crazy.

"Could it be because I'm exhausted?"

Ever since entering the Rubik's Cube space, Su Yu's brain has never truly rested, constantly thinking.

He remembered that he still had a golden seed in his hand; the red cube said that this thing could replenish magic.

Although using a golden seed worth 500 points to restore stamina was too extravagant, as long as one was alive, that was more important than anything else. Su Yu didn't care about that and gripped the seed even tighter.

A warm current flowed from Su Yu's palm into his body.

In the blink of an eye, that power filled his limbs and bones.

"Transform for me!"

Su Yu activated his ability again, and fortunately, this time he was not disappointed.

Su Yu's height has increased dramatically to over two meters.

Although the flesh was rotting, the muscles bulged up like those of a licker, and the limbs became incredibly long, growing sharp claws.

"Aww..."

Seeing the zombies still closing in on him, Su Yu, now a Licker, roared in anger.

Using both hands and feet, Su Yu charged into the horde of zombies ahead, wielding his sharp claws to tear each zombie to pieces.

Blood, slaughter, destruction...

All sorts of crazy ideas filled Su Yu's mind.

At this moment, his resentment towards Mao Xingzhou, Chu Tianyang, and Chen Bin reached its peak.

Su Yu even considered that after dealing with these zombies, he would turn around and go upstairs to settle things with Mao Xingzhou and Chu Tianyang.

"Damn it, the biohazard virus has such a huge impact on the mind?"

After killing thirty or forty zombies, Su Yu gradually regained his senses.

Su Yu discovered that he was different from the other Lickers in that his strength had not degenerated like theirs.

Looking around, Su Yu saw that the number of ordinary zombies had not decreased, but had actually increased.

At this rate, he wouldn't be able to kill them all even if he worked himself to death. After confirming that none of the ordinary zombies had dropped seeds, Su Yu struggled to leap to a higher place, no longer caring about the horde of zombies below, and fled into the distance.

To be honest, Su Yu found it quite strange. Even though he had become a Licker, he was one of these monsters and wouldn't be infected by the bio-virus, but the zombies still attacked him like madmen, completely disregarding the level difference between the mutants.

"This must be the difference between players and natives. I must have been marked as a player, so even if I become a Licker, I can't avoid monster attacks."

Although he was very worried about An Qiluo's safety, Su Yu did not intend to join the others.

Having finally escaped with great difficulty, and now that the sky's the limit and the sea's vastness is the place for birds to fly and fish to swim, Su Yu is naturally going to make a big splash.

Following Chen Bin and the others, any gains one made would be coveted by Chu Tianyang.

Su Yu had long wanted to escape the sight of these people and secretly develop his own power base.