"Why? I'm not a coward, I just don't want to die!"

Inoue Junichiro ignored Yukinoshita Yukino's answer and continued to talk to himself: "Why was I chosen to come here? My family is so poor. My mother walks a long way every day to different supermarkets to buy discounted bento that are about to expire. I saw my father being slapped in the street by the section chief for his low-paying job. I saw my brother being bullied by children from rich families and I didn't dare to help him because we can't afford to offend our family. We can't afford to offend anyone..."

"My father took out a baseball glove from his briefcase with a smile on his face, despite his swollen face from being beaten by his boss. He knew I liked baseball, but I suppressed my liking and studied hard. I finally got into a good high school and joined the baseball team. I secretly vowed that I would enter Koshien, I would make a name for myself, I would improve my family's life and make my parents live better, but... why, why did you let me come here to fight zombies!"

Listening to Junichiro Inoue's 'sincere' confession of his heart and his abnormal appearance, Yukinoshita Yukino immediately became alert and pointed the gun at Junichiro Inoue: "Inoue-san, I don't know the specific situation between you and Kitahara-san. Whether it's him running away or you, it's not something I want to care about."

"But I understand how you feel. If you need money, I can help you after we get out. If I ask, 100 million yen should be no problem." Yukinoshita Yukino continued, "Now, can you please stop getting close to me? I'm injured and I don't know if I'm infected. I suggest you go back to your room as soon as possible to avoid any accidents."

Inoue Junichiro didn't care about Yukinoshita Yukino's gun, and continued to press on: "I don't want Ohga-senpai to look down on me, he is the ace of the baseball team! Why can't I catch up with him even though I work so hard to catch up and practice, and sleep only 4 hours a day? I don't want him to give up on me, so I lied."

"You know what? Ohga-senpai believed me. He said I was his junior. If he didn't believe me, who else could he believe? You know what? I was so touched. It turns out there are such good people like Ohga-senpai in the world... But, it's so unfair. Why am I the only one living in such pain? 100 million yen! You also said you could support me with 100 million. It turns out you are the eldest daughter of a wealthy family! Why is fate so unfair to me? Why wasn't I born in a wealthy family?"

Yukinoshita Yukino didn't respond to Inoue Junichiro's words, but warned him sternly: "Stop! Don't come any closer! I will shoot!"

"Ha ha……"

Inoue Junichiro suddenly laughed in a low voice, his expression a little crazy: "Yukinoshita-san, you don't dare to shoot, right? A little princess who has lived in a castle since childhood doesn't dare to kill people, right? You are kind, otherwise why did you try your best to stop Ohga-senpai when he proposed to eliminate the hidden danger in order to prevent Kitahara from becoming a corpse, even Hayama-san didn't stop him?"

"You even pointed a gun at us in order to untie him. So you like him?"

"Shut up!"

"Yukinoshita——"

"Da da da--"

Yukino Yukinoshita pulled the trigger at Junichiro Inoue, but the bullet hole raised cement debris around his feet.

Inoue Junichiro was stunned, and while he was still in shock, he burst into laughter. I told you that you didn't dare to kill anyone. Then, while Yukinoshita Yukino was still in a daze after shooting, he quickly stepped forward and reached out to snatch the UMP9 from her hand.

Although Yukinoshita was sitting on the ground, she did not relax her hands, and for a moment Junichiro Inoue was unable to snatch the gun away.

"Yukinoshita-san, you're injured and infected. Why don't you give me your weapon? I want to live! Look how careful I am. I will definitely not get hurt. Please give me your weapon. To ensure that no zombies suddenly appear on the floors above, I can also help you get rid of them and won't let you become that kind of monster. I will live well with your hope. Here, lend me your weapon!"

After all this talk, you actually want weapons? You are such a loser!

At this time, Yukinoshita tightly grasped the gun with both hands and forced a smile. It was a sarcastic smile, a look that looked at a coward: "Do you want to live so much? What will it matter if you live? Will Ohga Taiyo look at you with respect? You ran away again, you ran away right under their noses, you left your most beloved Ohga senior and baseball club mates there to fight the zombies, and you ran away by yourself!"

"No, no, why haven't they come up yet? They clearly said they wanted to retreat..."

Inoue Junichiro shook his head frantically, mumbling incoherent words, listening to the violent explosion and slight vibration coming from the bottom floor, and hearing the steady, cold but now sharper voice of Yukinoshita Yukino: "But you are the only one who came up, aren't you? Like a defeated wild dog, you ran away with your tail between your legs and your head down! You ran away again, Inoue-san, will Ohga Taiyo still believe you? What ridiculous excuse will you make up? If you can go back alive, will he still treat you as a regular player in the future? Or will he let a coward go to the bench?"

"Shut up, bitch!"

Junichiro Inoue roared angrily, his expression suddenly twisted and ferocious. He stepped on the wound on Yukinoshita Yukino's right leg, and the blood that had stopped flowing slightly began to gushed out again.

Yukinoshita Yukino's eyes suddenly went dark and she almost fainted. Her hands loosened and the submachine gun slipped out of her hands. Junichiro Inoue also sat down on the stairs because he exerted too much force.

However, when he got the gun, the smile on his face froze before it could fully bloom. Yukinoshita bit her lip, beads of cold sweat dripped from her forehead, but she forced a smile and raised the magazine in her hand, then threw it towards the window of the stairwell on the lower floor. With a clang, the magazine disappeared from her sight.

Junichiro Inoue, who was completely unfamiliar with firearms, did not know that after the bullet was loaded, there would still be a bullet in the gun even if the magazine was removed. Feeling that he was being fooled, he angrily dropped the UMP9 and stood up and pounced on Yukinoshita Yukino.

"You bitch..."

"boom!"

"what!!!"

The "Pavna Witness" pistol in Yukinoshita Yukino's hand was smoking, and Junichiro Inoue was howling like a ghost while pinching his left wrist. At this moment, it seemed that most of the palm of his left hand was cut off, with only the thumb and index finger intact, and the little finger was still hanging with the skin and flesh.

"Now I give you two choices."

Yukinoshita Yukino's voice was cold and emotionless. She pointed her gun at Inoue Junichiro, who was rolling on the ground and wailing in pain. "First, get out of my sight like a reptile. Second...you can guess where I will aim the next shot at you. I'll give you three seconds to think about it!"

As Yukino's cold voice counted down, Junichiro Inoue's nose and tears were streaming. He endured the severe pain and climbed up tremblingly. He looked at Yukinoshita Yukino with fear in his eyes, then turned around and ran upstairs.

It was not until the person in front of her disappeared around the corner of the stairs that Yukinoshita Yukino gritted her teeth and moved, crawled over to pick up the submachine gun, and took out a magazine full of bullets from her arms. After reloading it, she gasped as if her whole body had been deflated.

But in less than a minute, Junichiro Inoue's hysterical screams and cries for help were heard from upstairs. The heart-wrenching sound made Yukinoshita Yukino feel her hair stand on end.

Then his voice came from far away, accompanied by messy footsteps. Yukinoshita Yukino raised the gun and aimed at the corner of the stairs.

A moment later, Junichiro Inoue stumbled down from the upstairs. On his shoulder sat a zombie that was only half a person's height and as thin as a monkey. The zombie rode on the neck of an elder like a child riding a horse, and its huge hands were clasping Junichiro Inoue's face. He fiddled with his hands frantically, trying to get rid of the monster on his shoulders, but it was a pity that it was of no avail.

He slammed his body against the wall, and the hands on his face pulled even harder. He tried to pry them apart with his hands, but those big hands broke all of his few fingers.

So Junichiro Inoue could only frantically call for help and shout wildly, relying on his own sense to grope his way down the stairs with the monster on his shoulder, hoping that the woman who had just shot him would let bygones be bygones and help him out of the predicament.

But when Yukinoshita Yukino saw Inoue Junichiro, he was no longer able to speak. His fingers were twisted in an irregular state, his eyes were buckled, the skin on his face had completely fallen off, leaving only bright red muscle tissue, and his chin had been torn apart, just like Kitahara Sora tore Hunter apart, the entire chin was gone, leaving only his tongue wiggling.

After all, Yukinoshita Yukino is still a little girl. She could no longer keep her expression and screamed in fright.

The jockey was also suddenly shocked by Yukinoshita's scream. He turned his head with a Mediterranean hairstyle and a pointed face and locked onto Yukinoshita Yukino. Discovered by a target other than prey, he simply let go of Inoue Junichiro and jumped towards Yukinoshita.

Yukino was completely at a loss at this point. She closed her eyes, screamed in panic, and fired forward.

The fierce gunfire lasted for less than 3 seconds before stopping. Yukinoshita continued to pull the trigger until a moment later, when she opened her eyes.

Junichiro Inoue was slumped at the entrance of the stairs to the upper floor, his head still shaking unconsciously. It was obvious that he was dying. The jockey was gagged and lay on the ground motionless. Half of his head was cut off. He was deader than dead.

The extremely frightened Yukinoshita Yukino stared blankly at the jockey in front of her. Suddenly, a golden light burst out from its corpse, gathering into a golden metal sphere the size of a ping-pong ball, which rolled to the ground with a plop.

The emotionless electronic synthesized sound also came into my mind.

"Player: Yukino Yukinoshita successfully killed the special infected: Jockey, and was awarded 300 game points."

Yukinoshita Yukino suddenly came to her senses and stared at the golden ball next to the jockey's body.

Evolution Core!!!

Two seconds later, Yukinoshita Yukino seemed to burst out with unprecedented strength. She picked up the golden ball, opened the corridor door that she had locked, found the nearest guest room, and pushed the door open without caring whether there were still zombies inside.

After locking the door and fastening the anti-theft bolt, he slowly sat down against the door and finally passed out.

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(PS: Ah, I didn't want to update today, because I updated after 12 o'clock, and because I've been stuck recently, and I don't have many drafts saved. If I get stuck when I don't have any drafts saved, then I'll just die. However, a big guy picked up a soap for me... I'll add an update for the big guy 'Shenxiang Jingjie'.)

(PS: Thanks to the spicy noodles from 'Shuke86884299878'. My mouth is already full of oil.)

Chapter 20: Tide of Zombies (End)

When Jing Haoyong and the other two saw Beiyuan Kong pull the rings of four grenades at the same time, they ran to the upper stairwell at the same time in tacit understanding, raised their guns and aimed at the zombies that had already rushed in.

Kitahara Sora placed the grenade gently in the middle of the stairs, then leaped back in just two steps and crossed the stairs to the fourth floor where Jing Haoyong and the other two were. About half a second later, a series of violent explosions were heard from the lower floor.

Kitahara Sora exchanged a glance with the others, then leaned over the railing and looked down.

I saw that the handrails and connections between the stairs from the 2nd to the 3rd floor had been blown off, and the zombies crowded in the front row were blown away by the shock wave. In the semi-enclosed space, a large hole with a diameter of one meter was blown on the stair surface, and cement debris flew everywhere.

Although the stairs were blown off, they still did not collapse. After the explosion, the zombies became more ferocious. They pushed aside the bodies of their companions and rushed in like a flood, then fell through the big hole blown open by the grenade.

"Shoot!"

Kitahara Sora shouted loudly, not noticing the continuous firing sounds coming from the floor above his head. He hung the AK, which had run out of bullets, at his side, drew out his rifle from behind with his left hand, stretched back with his right hand, picked up three arrows from the quiver and held them in his hand.

Press the arrow with your thumb, keep the middle finger and thenar eminence close together, clamp the arrow tail with the middle finger and thenar eminence, let the bowstring slide into the arrow groove along the thenar eminence, and release with three fingers.

All I heard was the continuous sound of bowstrings popping.

Three arrows in a row!

Three zombies with arrow feathers stuck in their foreheads fell to the ground.

"So, so handsome!"

Hirano Toda, who was loading the 5.56 standard straight magazine given to him by Ye Shan into his HK416, was stunned.

Jing Hao Yongye murmured: "Is this the power brought by the evolution core?"

Kitahara Sora continued to draw arrows and pull the bow. He did not answer the questions of Hirano Toda and Igo Nagai, but retreated while shooting, and warned sternly: "Don't be distracted, be ready to escape at any time!"

"Ah, yes!"

Hirano Toda and Igo Naga reacted, loaded the guns and started shooting.

Zombies filled the entire corridor, and then fell one after another from the hole to the lower level. As the zombies piled higher and higher, the concrete stairs that were blown off at the joints finally couldn't bear the pressure of dozens or hundreds of zombies, and collapsed with a loud crash. Even the metal handrails were bent, crushing the zombies on the lower level into meat paste.

Since they had no route to move, the zombies could only stretch out their arms, look up, roar, and look, unable to do anything about the food that was so close to them.

But the zombies outside the door of the corridor on the second floor continued to push in. Soon the zombies blocked inside were squeezed like sardines in a can and could not move. Then they fell down in a group and caused trampling. When the zombies outside the door forced their way in, they began to evolve into the direction of a pile of corpses and human stairs.

Seeing this, Kitahara Sora heaved a sigh of relief, and said to Hirano Toda, "I already knew this technique. The Evolution Core only slightly improved my physique. I just did an experiment. Now I have no pressure using this bow."

At this time, there was no explosion from the other end of the corridor. Hayato Hayama ran out of breath and poked his head out from the upper floor and said, "Because we are all here, the zombies are not mainly attacking the other side. I asked Ohga and Ishikawa to pile up the tables and chairs in the banquet hall behind the door, and then tell you, what's the situation here?"

After saying that, Hayato Hayama looked up at the building and saw that the stairs had been blown up. Zombies with smoke and sparks were still trying hard to squeeze in. He frowned and said, "In this situation, the zombies will pile up in just a few minutes."

Kitahara Sora nodded and said, "You haven't used your grenades yet? Try to buy some time. I'll go up and take down the remaining grenades. Give me three minutes."

After saying that, Kitahara Sora handed the AK with no bullets in his hand to Hayama Hayato, and ran upstairs without waiting for him to say anything.

Bei Yuankong clenched his molars, tensed the muscles of his calves, and burst out with unprecedented speed. He stepped onto a step in two steps. When his body was burning, he felt restless all over his muscles. He simply made up his mind and jumped across the gap between the floors. He stepped on the handrail and jumped with inhuman agility. He climbed onto the railing of the upper floor with both hands, and jumped up one floor at a time using his hands and feet to gain leverage. He was extremely smooth.

It seemed as if a flame was burning inside Kitahara Sora's body, and he even felt an inexplicable sense of relief during the intense extreme exercise. As his body rose rapidly, Kitahara Sora also paid attention to the situation on each floor. When he reached the ninth floor in less than ten seconds, he suddenly heard a roar from the side of the mountain, and an extremely strange and bloody face without eyeballs and chin appeared in front of him.

Bei Yuankong was not at all panicked. He dodged its attack like flowing water, supported himself with both hands, turned over, stood on the steps, pulled out a dagger, and stabbed it into the zombie's temple. Then he paused, turned his head to look at the short zombie at the entrance of the corridor behind him, whose upper body was beaten into a sieve, and frowned.

Is this... a jockey?

Looking around, I saw a small amount of blood and 9mm bullet casings at the entrance of the corridor. They were the bullets from the UMP9 in Yukinoshita's hand.

Kitahara Sora frowned, and then he noticed the clothes of the zombie he had just killed. It was a Louis Vuitton black mink coat with a bulletproof vest and a turtleneck sweater underneath. It was the same style as the leather coat he was wearing, only the size and color were different, because they were both bought from the same store.

Junichiro Inoue?

Kitahara Sora suddenly had a bad premonition, and then he accelerated and jumped up to the top floor.

Soon, Bei Yuankong arrived at the 32nd floor and found that there were more than a dozen zombie corpses piled outside the door of the top-floor corridor where he had been rushing. The door frame of the originally intact solid wooden door was cracked, obviously it had suffered a violent impact. The door was also riddled with bullet holes, and heavy objects such as wardrobes and refrigerators were blocked behind the broken door.

Kitahara Sora knocked on the door, and Miyamoto Rei's nervous voice came from the room. After she responded, there was a sound as if a heavy burden was lifted from inside the door, and immediately afterwards there was the sound of something heavy being moved.

After a while, the door opened and Miura Yumiko was holding an Uzi. Her eyes showed fear and trepidation. She looked at Kitahara Sora warily and asked, "Kitahara? Is it over? Where are Hayato and the others?"

Miyamoto Reiya stretched her head out and looked behind Kitahara Sora and asked anxiously, "Where's Yong? How's Yong?"

Kitahara Sora looked around. Ito Makoto and Sawaga Taisuke were standing aside holding onto the refrigerator. There was a layer of yellow stuff on his face, which should be the anti-swelling and analgesic drugs they had collected. The other two girls named Nakain Tomoka and Hanazawa Chinana were putting bullets into the magazine one by one. However, when Kitahara Sora came in, Nakain Tomoka put down her work, ran over and hugged Sawaga Taisuke's arm tightly, looking nervous, with the traces of tears on her face not yet dry, and she looked pitiful.

The girl with twin ponytails named Touhara Rika in the corner was already dead. There was a bullet hole on her forehead and her throat was bitten off. It was estimated that she was killed instantly and then shot again.

Although it is not clear what happened exactly, the problem should have been solved, except that Yukinoshita Yukino was not found in the room.

Kitahara Sora walked around the two girls who were asking questions, walked quickly to the sofa, picked up a backpack, poured out the food, water and other items inside, and walked to the ammunition box while stuffing grenades, Molotov cocktails and magazines into the bag, saying, "It's not over yet. I just got a little breathing time temporarily. I'll go down again after I come back to replenish supplies."

"The others are fine for now, but Yosuke Asakawa and Junichiro Inoue are dead."

Seeing Kitahara Sora's non-stop and unusually calm answers, Miyamoto Rei and Miura Yumiko felt relieved a little but were replaced by fear. Asakawa Yosuke and Inoue Junichiro were dead, and more people died, but his tone was still so calm, just like asking in daily life whether you went to the cafeteria to eat today or brought your own lunch box.

After loading the only 12 remaining grenades in the ammunition box into the backpack and securing them, Kitahara Sora took off the hunting bow and quiver behind him, put on the backpack and stood up to leave, but suddenly someone grabbed his arm.

I saw Sawaga Taisuke taking off the two grenades on his body, holding them in the air, glancing to the side without looking directly at Kitahara Sora, looking a little timid and embarrassed.

Under the nervous gaze of Nakain Yuka and Ito Makoto, Kitahara Sora was silent for two seconds, then he took the grenade handed over by Sawano Yasuke and patted him on the shoulder gently: "I'm sorry about what happened before."

"Stop talking so much! Get down quickly!"

After Kitahara Sora nodded and turned to go out, the few of them worked together to block the heavy objects such as the wardrobe and refrigerator behind the door.

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Here, Hayato Hayama held a grenade in his hand, pulled the ring, and watched the group of zombies below him with full readiness. Whenever the zombies piled up to a certain height, Hayato Hayama would aim at the gap between the zombies and throw a grenade down. The grenade would then roll through the gap to the bottom, followed by a dull bang like an underwater detonator exploding. The group of zombies would jump violently, rising a foot high with each shake.

Then all the zombies standing within a 5-meter radius lay down collectively, and were then used as stepping stones by the zombies outside the door.

It took two minutes for the zombies to gather again, but as the corpses piled higher and higher, they slowly blocked the corridor door, which was not spacious to begin with. At this time, Ohga Taiyo and Ishikawa Kazuya rushed over from the other end, and they breathed a sigh of relief when they saw the bloody and tragic scene in front of them.

Hayato Hayama glanced at the three people who had returned, handed the last grenade to Ohga Taiyo and said, "Ohga-san, you are from the baseball club, so I'll leave this mission to you."

Ohga Taiyo took the grenade, handed it to pitcher Ishikawa, patted him on the shoulder and gave him an affirmative look: "Xiaoyi, come on!"

Ishikawa took the grenade solemnly, took a deep breath, pulled the ring and made a standard pitching posture. Then he threw the grenade accurately through the blocked gap in the door, and it bounced on the forehead of a zombie and exploded.

The entrance was completely blocked by corpses, and there were still earth-shaking roars and howls from behind the wall, so the zombies couldn't get in for a while. They didn't think about breaking in from the other side, but just blindly followed the sound, so they were safe for the time being.

At this time, Kitahara Sora also rushed down. Without saying much, he quickly took off his backpack and distributed the magazines to everyone. When he saw the scene in front of him and was about to speak, the long-lost electronic synthesized sound finally came into his mind.

"Special event, zombie tide, 500 minutes of duration ends, reward points ."

"Player: Kitahara Sora, killed 225 zombies during the event, reward points 225."

"Kill the special infected and the rampager, and you will be rewarded with 300 points."

"Current total score: 1649."

The group of zombies outside the door stopped pushing and crowding, and the roars gradually subsided. Only a few zombies near the door continued to squeeze in because of the noise made by Beiyuan and his companions.

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