Chapter 125: Night Parade of a Hundred Demons (16)

Morie nodded lightly. “That’s right! We don’t need to waste resources attacking them. Let them slowly die from the poisoned effect, and that’s enough.”

Everyone let out a breath of relief. However, Nanoe and Morie still watched the situation outside seriously.

Sure enough, even though the door durability was dropping faster, one point every three seconds, Rover wasn’t too worried.

He could use Omni Points to Repair the door. Besides, the zombies were also being killed by the door’s special effects as they attacked it.

Their attack speed wasn’t faster than the speed at which they were dying.

They lost 0.5% life energy per second. Once their life energy dropped below 50%, their bodies couldn’t attack anymore.

Rover sat still, watching his points keep rising. He felt a bit happy, but… he also felt a bit disappointed.

If he could go outside and devour those monsters, he would gain a lot more Omni Points and attribute points.

However, right now, he felt this was enough.

[Ding! The door durability has dropped below 50. Do you want to spend 210 Omni Points to Repair the door?]

“Repair!”

[Ding! 210 Omni Points deducted successfully. You have: 10,335 points remaining.]

[Ding! The door durability has been fully restored!]

Rover nodded lightly, feeling that having many ’Blood Marks’ wasn’t necessarily a bad thing, especially when his door could reflect damage and poison monsters.

At that moment, the monsters outside seemed to receive some kind of command. They stopped attacking.

But Rover saw the situation outside was already miserable. Only two Tankers and one Hunter remained.

Seeing that, Morie controlled the defense towers and continued attacking them.

Suddenly…

BAM!

The three zombies suddenly exploded, turning into a pile of flesh mixed with green slime that looked extremely disgusting.

That slime shot upward, then rushed toward the staircase at high speed.

“What the hell is that?!” Rover muttered.

Everything happened too fast. He hadn’t even had time to understand what had just occurred.

Nanoe frowned and brought up all the security camera feeds. Sure enough, not only these zombies, but other zombies also exploded into piles of flesh and green slime.

Those piles of flesh gathered together into a meat sphere, then flew outward.

The screen switched to the camera watching the courtyard outside the apartment complex.

There, Death Skeleton had disappeared at some point without anyone noticing. But now, the fog was violently churning, like a calm lake had been struck by a huge rock.

[Warning: Final wave. If everyone chooses to give up, you can safely pass this wave, but you cannot receive rewards. If everyone chooses to continue defending, you will be attacked by Zombie Angel.

Please consider carefully. Zombie Angel’s power is terrifying.

If [Tenants] in the [Destination Point] die, they can revive.

The result of the round will depend on how long Zombie Angel is held back.]

[Do you want to continue participating in this round?]

Rover looked at the panel, thought for a moment, then looked to Nanoe and Morie to ask their opinions.

Nanoe said, “Rover, I think… we should continue.”

“Hm?” Rover asked in confusion. “Why?”

“Because the difficulty will definitely drop,” Nanoe explained. “After seeing the System’s notice, a lot of people will think the difficulty this time will be extremely high. High enough that the System had to issue a warning.”

“However, I have another guess. That is… the round’s difficulty depends on the overall quality of the Survivors participating in it.”

“For example, this round. There are many Rank 3 and Rank 4 Survivors in the apartment complex. The overall quality is very high, so this round is very difficult.”

“Right now, many Survivors have died. The Survivors still alive probably can’t endure anymore either, because the previous monster waves have worn down their resources.”

“So, if too many people give up, the difficulty will drop. After all, the System doesn’t seem to intend to kill everyone. Otherwise, it wouldn’t issue a warning like just now.”

Nanoe’s explanation was very clear and logical, and of course, it made a lot of sense.

Rover nodded and tapped [Agree].

Right after that, another notification appeared.

[Ding! Currently, only 1 person has agreed to continue. Thinking time remaining: 60 seconds.]

Seeing that, Rover jolted. One person… was that him?

Nanoe and Morie were also extremely tense. Suddenly…

Crack! Crack!

The sound of something crumbling echoed. Everyone turned and looked at Monica, who was sitting on a chair, legs swinging comfortably, eating biscuits while admiring the doll in her hands.

Rover, Nanoe, Morie: “…”

They all stared at her, making her flinch.

“I-is something wrong?”

They all shook their heads. Inside, they all had the same thought: ’Sometimes, being dumb is a kind of happiness.’

They didn’t disturb her and continued waiting for the time to run out.

But in the end, no one actually wanted to continue this round. Maybe… everyone was in the state Nanoe had described, already drained of resources and unwilling to keep taking risks.

After all, everyone just wanted to survive. If they kept gambling and died, that would make them idiots.

Rover frowned and opened the chat panel, sending a message to Bardi.

[Rover: You’re not joining the final wave?]

[Bardi: No! My Mecha hasn’t recovered in time, and I don’t want to risk my life. Are you the only one joining?]

[Rover: Yeah.]

[Bardi: Number one.icon]

[Bardi: Bro, if you live, you’re my big brother, no, you’re my dad.]

Rover snorted a laugh when he saw that message. He really hadn’t expected a rough guy like that to have such a humorous way of thinking and talking.

[Rover: I’ll wait for you to call me Dad.]

After sending that, he didn’t wait for Bardi’s reply and sent a message to Leng Yan.

[Rover: You’re not joining either?]

[Leng Yan: Boring. Don’t feel like it.]

[Rover: You really don’t want to join?]

[Leng Yan: You want me to join that badly?]

[Rover: Just curious. I think you’re very strong. If you don’t join, it’s a pity.]

[Leng Yan: My Ability isn’t suited for something like this.]

[Rover: Got it.]

[Leng Yan: Remember, you still owe me one “fun time.”]

[Rover: Sweat-wipe.icon]

[Leng Yan: Giggle.icon]

Rover closed the chat and sighed. “Bardi and Leng Yan aren’t joining. Then maybe… it’s only us.”

Nanoe and Morie nodded, their eyes fixed on the notification panel.

The instant the timer ended, the content on the panel changed.

[Ding! Participants: 1. Difficulty reduced by 90%.]

“Yeah!!”

“That’s amazing!”

Nanoe and Morie both threw their hands up and shouted in joy, their faces filled with happiness and relief.

Their theory had been solid, but what the System decided was still a completely different matter.

If the System didn’t follow the logic they had inferred, that would mean they would face an extremely high risk of death.

But they had won this bet. The System truly didn’t want all Survivors to die. It seemed to be selecting the one with the highest potential.

Even though they didn’t know how strong Zombie Angel was, a 90% difficulty reduction was something they wouldn’t even dare dream of.

“Hahaha… the public chat is probably in chaos right now.”

“Yeah! Hahahaha… a lot of people are probably regretting it so hard they want to spit blood.”

Rover smiled and shook his head. He didn’t want to check the public chat. He focused on the screen instead.

On the TV, the security camera was showing the courtyard outside the apartment complex.

The chunks of flesh began gathering together, forming a small sphere about the size of a tennis ball, floating in midair and emitting a strange green glow.

The fog churned violently for a while, and then a dark shadow slowly moved in.

That shadow wasn’t large. On the contrary, it was quite small, like a little girl. She had two wings on her back, and her wingspan wasn’t too big.

Everyone in the room fell silent, staring at that shadow.

A moment later, the shadow emerged from the fog, and Rover and the others could finally see it clearly.

It was a little girl around ten years old. On her body was a white dress that was torn and filthy to the extreme, stained with blood and black and green substances that no one knew what they were.

Her body was thin, yet there were glowing green patterns on her skin, like circuits on an electronic board.

Her face was hidden behind a mess of long hair, impossible to see clearly.

Behind her was a pair of fake angel wings that radiated heaviness, formed from countless human arms wriggling like maggots.

On her abdomen was a huge裂, and at the mouth of that裂 were sharp, savage fangs. From inside that裂, countless tentacles poured out, forming legs that allowed her to move without using her real legs.

That green sphere was instantly wrapped by one of Zombie Angel’s tentacles, then stuffed into the裂 on its chest.

Right after that…

WOO!!!

“Ack!” Rover and everyone in the room had to cover their ears from the scream.

He gritted his teeth, his head spinning slightly, but very quickly that sensation faded along with the horrifying sound.

Rover looked at the screen and saw clearly that the green patterns on Zombie Angel’s body glowed even brighter after it swallowed that green sphere just now.

He took a deep breath, forcing down the fear in his heart, and muttered, “Is that Zombie Angel’s power when it’s only at 10%?”

That’s right. Even with only 10% power, just its scream was enough to nearly make him pass out.

If it had 100% power, how terrifying would it be?

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