Chapter 175: Chapter 175: Truly a promiscuous woman!
Unknown location.
Lin Yi suddenly remembered everything.
The blue-haired girl, Tatiana, was fighting a group of head-legged monsters, and he saved her, almost kicking them away one by one and disarming the monsters.
As a reward for completing the reward level, the girl received two portions of food, which she was more than willing to share with her savior.
Moreover, despite Lin Yi being dead drunk, she decided to stick close to him.
The two of them wandered the corridor for a long time.
Needless to say, the trouble brought by this girl far outweighed her value...
In the end, the two found a safe house, which cost a player one coin per hour to rest inside.
Seeing Lin Yi’s state, the girl persuaded him to pay for ten hours.
Then the girl pounced on him, and they spent a wild night together, after which they fell asleep, for now, the ten hours were nearly up.
"I remember now... starving..."
"Me too..."
"You’re Russian, right?"
"How did you tell? Are you from the East?"
"Yes, but I’m currently in France. How are things over there in Russia?"
"France?! Hmm... not too well, I’m from Nizhny Novgorod, there’s not enough food, and those beasts aren’t afraid of us anymore. We used to hunt them, but now it’s the other way around..."
"Beasts?"
"Yes. You know... wolves, wild boars, moose, bears... lately, foxes have also been a lot of trouble. And those... things that live in the river, they come onto land often. They look edible, but anyone who eats them dies, they’re too powerful now."
"What about zombies?"
"What’s with the zombies?"
"Didn’t the zombies cause you trouble?"
"Oh... no, no trouble at all."
Tatiana said enticingly, stretching lazily then snuggling into Lin Yi’s embrace.
"We killed all the zombies in our area during the first month."
"No zombie hordes wandering from other cities to Nizhny Novgorod?"
"Zombie hordes? What’s a zombie horde?"
"Like... a large group of zombies."
"...No, at least I didn’t see any, those beasts ate all the zombies, and after that, they started attacking humans."
The girl said, showing Lin Yi a bite mark on her left leg, the wound nearly fully healed, yet still bearing the marks of some animal’s giant fangs, looking about the size of a tiger’s canines.
"Are there many survivors?"
"Around two to three hundred thousand, but decreasing every day... hunger, beasts, and various other things, life is pretty tough for us... so, do you want to leave here?"
Tatiana asked softly, gently kissing Lin Yi.
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"Truly, a slut! I mean... that bitch is really bold, right? She plans to keep leeching off him!"
Annie’s face was flushed with anger.
All the girls thought the same.
Two days ago, the boss was sucked into some strange dimension, and everything he experienced started passively showing up on the cameras.
In other words, people in the shelter could see everything he saw through the laptop.
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"Look, there’s that merchant!"
Tatiana called out, running quickly towards the strange man standing under the streetlight.
The merchant seemed more gloomy than before, speaking in an eerie voice.
"Hello there, stranger. Looking to buy something?"
"I want this, and this..."
The girl said quickly and quietly.
The merchant nodded, handing her some pills, which she immediately swallowed, then waved to Lin Yi, stomping her foot in frustration.
Tatiana seemed to talk to herself, but loud enough for everyone within ten meters to hear.
"Damn, I’m so dumb! I forgot to buy food... looks like I’ll have to starve now."
"Another customer, hmm? Some rare items are on sale, stranger..."
The merchant opened his cloak to Lin Yi.
"Yeah, you have some nice stuff here... hmm, I’ll take this gun, twenty coins, and give me four magazines. Also, a belt with a melee weapon holster and three packs of rations... five coins? Are you crazy?"
"Short on cash, hmm? I didn’t set the prices, buy it or don’t, it makes no difference to me."
"I’ll take three packs of rations, do you have a vaccine bracelet?"
"In this place, people won’t turn into zombies!"
"Oh, really? Alright, then I’ll take..."
Lin Yi spent 14 coins on four Strength Pills, 14 coins on four Agility Pills, and 15 coins on five Endurance Pills,
then used the remaining money to buy two Vitality Pills, as it seemed there was no Magic Attribute here.
"Ha, tastes like mango..."
Lin Yi handed some food and water to Tatiana and started eating himself.
"Let’s eat something first, then figure out how to leave this place."
"Thank you!" the girl smiled, eating leisurely as she glanced at the merchant, saying.
"Why does your merchant look so weird?"
"What do you mean?"
"Hmm... my merchant is a scruffy old lady at a small stall..."
After they ate, Tatiana, shyly said to Lin Yi.
"Lin Yi... you have a lot of pills... could you share a few with me? My Power value is quite low, so..."
"No."
Lin Yi hesitated not at all, glaring viciously at the girl, then switching to a bizarre smile.
"I’m sharing food with you because you shared yours with me yesterday. We’re even now, so don’t think about mooching my stuff anymore."
"I... I didn’t mean that... You... You misunderstood me..."
"Stop making excuses. My primary concern is my own survival, same as yours, right? Don’t cause trouble, and don’t try anything clever. I’ll be friendly and won’t leave you here alone. But honestly, you’re already enough trouble as it is..."
"Why do you say that?"
"What do you mean why? Women are trouble!" Lin Yi said it as if stating a universal truth.
"But..."
Before Tatiana could finish, Lin Yi put his finger on his lips, signaling her to be quiet, and then pointed ahead.
There was a fork in the road ahead, and if you looked closely, you could see several shadows, likely lying in ambush.
Lin Yi took a bullet from the magazine, tossed it into the corridor, and after hearing the bullet hit the ground, some zombies started shambling from around the corner...
A large group of zombies?
Thinking for a moment, Lin Yi began to run back, but the girl was already ahead of him, about forty meters out.
After running for two minutes, they reached an intersection, and Tatiana ran back to him.
Behind her, a large group of zombies followed!
Lin Yi cursed the misfortune of encountering this woman and dashed down an unfamiliar corridor, with Tatiana quickly catching up.
She ran much faster than she looked...
"There’s a safe house ahead!"
"So what? Do you have a coin?"
"No..." the girl replied, the hope in her eyes extinguished instantly.
Lin Yi saw an ajar door ahead.
"If we can make it through the reward stage, we can hide inside."
"But..."
The girl complained, then glanced back. At least two hundred zombies were chasing them.
Lin Yi didn’t plan to heed her words and slipped through the door, the girl tagging along.
The door closed automatically, and a prompt appeared.
[Welcome to the Reward Stage!]
[Survive to earn extra rewards!]
"Just hope there’s no poison monster here..."
"Lin Yi! This place knows all our fears and desires. Every time I enter such a reward room, I have to face childhood fears."
Tatiana spoke, looking around in terror.
Lin Yi surveyed the surroundings.
They were in a large room, about 250 square meters or even larger.
The ceiling was high, at least 10 meters.
The room was filled with numerous pipes, some other mysterious equipment, and cables, with a barely functioning ventilation system in the ceiling’s center.
"Watch that vent-like area!"
Lin Yi pointed at the old-fashioned ventilation system.
If the fan at the end of the vent were breached, just like that big snake he fought before, it could slither in.
Tatiana suddenly asked, "Did you... hear anything?"
"Heard it... It’s the sound of water! Damn, I think they’re trying to drown us! Climb up the pipes!"
"Okay!"
They began climbing up a pipe 2.5 meters off the ground.
Climbing with one hand was hard for Lin Yi, but Tatiana had already climbed 4 meters high.
She could climb higher but needed someone to give her a hand, or she wouldn’t be able to make it up.
Meanwhile, Lin Yi found a piece of scrap metal and made a simple ladder.
He grabbed the pipe, jumped, stretched out his foot, pulled himself up, and crouched down.
By now, the water beneath them was already quite deep.
"Tatiana, there’s something swimming in the water... This is evidently your fear. What is it?"
"Piranhas... I got particularly scared after watching a movie when I was a kid..."
"Hey, looks like... the world’s first piranha pipeline!"
Lin Yi pointed to a pipe opposite, laughing, revealing through a hole some carnivorous fish falling into the room with the flowing water.
The girl stared at the piranha pipe, whimpering.
"How can you joke at a time like this?"
"I read in some book that piranhas rarely attack humans, but I feel the ones from your dreams are very interested in human flesh."
Lin Yi grinned as he watched the increasingly pale-faced girl, evidently terrified.
However, he had an idea.
He stood up and climbed towards Tatiana.
By now, the water was 2 meters deep. The piranhas showed tremendous interest in the two tasty targets, frequently leaping in the water.
The girl had climbed fast before, but now it was impossible, and very easy to fall.
With the water there, falling wouldn’t be lethal, but facing piranhas was a different story...
Thinking for a moment, Lin Yi said to Tatiana, "Give me a hand, let me stand on your shoulders."
"Huh? I’m a girl?!"
Tatiana was shocked by the one-armed man’s request, couldn’t believe he’d say it.
Lin Yi, slow as he was, looked at the girl’s terrified pale face, smirking.
"If you want to survive."
"...Alright!"