Crossing the wilderness to survive, starting with a broken kitchen knife.

The zombies in the tavern heard the sound and searched around with their scarlet eyes. They found Zhang Shi standing in front of the door and immediately dropped the rotten meat in their hands and pounced on him.

The tavern was small and full of obstacles, making it easy for zombies to get close. Zhang Shi had specially changed into a full set of armor, which also provided some resistance to the zombies' attacks.

Facing the zombie with its bloody mouth, Zhang Shi remained calm and chopped off its head with one blow. As he got closer, he slashed horizontally, severing the sharp claws that reached his eyes.

Within three minutes, all four or five zombies in the house were beheaded. Zhang Shi cleaned the blood stains on his armor and looked towards the place where the sound had just come from.

If these were just ordinary zombies, completing the job transfer task would only be a matter of time. Zhang Shi speculated that given the system's lameness, it would never have made the task so simple.

Sure enough, half of a zombie's head was exposed behind the bar.

The zombie's head was covered with some unknown connective tissue, and thick glands proliferated around its eye sockets. As for its eyes, they were empty, but it still looked around like a human.

This was the first time Zhang Shi had seen this kind of zombie. He guessed that it must have undergone some kind of mutation, so he immediately took a step back and kept a safe distance from it.

Sure enough, the next second, the zombie shot out something resembling a blood vessel from its eye socket at such a high speed that Zhang Shi had no time to observe it carefully and hurriedly slashed it with his knife.

"Ow!"

The mutated zombie seemed to feel pain from the injury, and let out a sharp roar in a human-like manner, then climbed onto the bar, revealing its full appearance.

This zombie resembled a monkey, hunched over, with no eyes. Instead, it held a glowing red tumor in its mouth. The tumor trembled like a pump, and the mutant's body trembled rhythmically.

The zombie's skin and flesh were huddled together, as if dehydrated. Its nails were long and sharp, leaving several deep marks on the bar. Obviously, the friction sound just now was caused by it.

"Ow!"

The mutant zombie let out another sharp and piercing howl.

"Stop arguing!"

Zhang Shi was worried that its screams would attract more zombies, so he took a quick step behind the zombie and chopped it in half, stopping its roar.

"He may not be very capable, but he has a loud voice."

Zhang Shi complained and activated Ding Zhen to look at the mutated zombie. He found that it was actually a high-quality zombie, and the number of kills in the mission increased by 10 points at once.

Zhang Shi's thoughts suddenly became clear. It is better to kill well than to kill many. If he finds more high-quality zombies to kill, he believes the time to complete the task will be greatly reduced.

Suddenly, the mutant zombie's body began to tremble slightly. Pipi sniffed it, then took the initiative to step forward and separate the two halves of the body, revealing a thick worm in a pool of blood.

Zhang Shi took out an arrow and casually threw it at the worm, hitting it accurately and pinning it to the floor. Afterwards, Zhang Shi activated Dingzhen to identify its information and found that this thing was quite unusual.

[Parasitic Worm (Blue): A parasite that has no inherent attack power, but can infect and parasitize through blood and other means. The host will quickly lose consciousness and become a tool for the spread of the parasite.]

Zhang Shi nodded slightly. It turned out that the zombie crisis was not caused by any virus. The culprit was this worm-like parasite. It was just unknown where the system transferred these monsters from.

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The tavern was cleared out. Zhang Shi checked and found no useful resources, so he took Pipi and left through the back door.

The night was pitch black, but with the dual support of Pipi and Dingzhen, Zhang Shi was not afraid. Whenever he encountered zombies blocking his way, Zhang Shi would easily deal with them. After all, his ultimate goal was to kill as many enemies as possible. As long as there weren't too many zombies at once, Zhang Shi was happy to see these small groups of zombies offering their lives.

Zhang Shi walked aimlessly in the darkness for over an hour until the sky gradually brightened. He then realized that the ground beneath his feet was concrete. Because he was wearing heavy armor, he hadn't noticed the difference in the ground for so long.

In the distance, modern buildings stand on both sides of the street, and abandoned cars and occasional corpses paint a picture of modern apocalypse.

Zhang Shi is dressed in steel armor, like a knight who has traveled from the Middle Ages. He is out of tune with the entire scene, creating a sense of tearing absurdity.

Looking at the doomsday wasteland scene in front of him, Zhang Shi realized that this place was similar to Huojia Village and might very well be another real world.

The densely packed buildings gave Zhang Shi an opportunity to fight. He planned to scout the area and find a favorable terrain for hunting zombies.

On the side of the highway, a gas station, abandoned for who knows how long, caught Zhang Shi's eye. It was backed by a building, and the front was blocked by countless abandoned cars on both sides. Only the main entrance was accessible.

Zhang Shi entered the gas station and took a look. As expected, there were no useful supplies. The oil tanks were empty and there was nothing left on the shelves. There were only bloodstains and debris scattered on the ground, telling the story of what had happened here.

In the spirit of plucking feathers from passing geese, Zhang Shi tried to put all the iron shelves into his backpack, and unexpectedly he succeeded.

"It seems that there is not nothing."

Afterwards, Zhang Shi climbed onto the roof of the gas station, looked far ahead, and quickly formulated a simple combat strategy.

Zhang Shi first placed the prepared barbed wire on the path that the zombies must take, and then buried some homemade explosives and fuel in front of the barbed wire, preparing to wait for the zombies to gather and kill them together.

Finally, Zhang Shi placed dense ground spike traps around the gas station and piled all kinds of firearms, explosives, and bows and arrows on the roof. At this point, the pre-war preparations were completed.

Glancing at the sky, he saw that the sun had just risen, and the morning light was shining in the east, greatly reducing the difficulty of Zhang Shi's battle.

Zhang Shi grinned, fetched two pieces of pig iron, and pounded them fiercely. The dull humming sound was extremely piercing in the quiet city. Pipi, following Zhang Shi's instructions, also began to roar wantonly. The noise created by the man and the dog quickly attracted the attention of the zombies. Those who had been hiding in the buildings rushed towards the gas station from all directions, quickly converging into a tide of zombies that looked quite formidable.

Zhang Shi showed no fear at all. He took out an arrow specially made for engineers, unleashed a triple attack, and shot it at the group of zombies.

The arrow was shot into the group of zombies like a small cannonball. A moment later, the explosives loaded at the front end of the arrow exploded, blowing the unaware zombies into pieces.

"Bang, bang!"

Two energy arrows replicated the explosion, and there were two more loud bangs. The zombies in that area were cleared out, forming a vacuum zone. The sparks of the explosion ignited the fuel and explosives that Zhang Shi had laid in advance, causing a chain explosion.

Countless zombie corpses flew into the sky, and a wall of flames appeared in the middle of the passage. All the zombies that passed by were burned into dried meat. After holding on for a moment, they soon fell to the ground and turned into ashes.