novellk Chapter 12 - 11 Olive Manor (Part 2)
Chapter 12 - 11 Olive Manor (Part 2)
Chapter 12: Chapter 11 Olive Manor (Part 2)Lin Wu, wielding a steak knife, knelt on one knee and waited a moment for a girl to stand up from the ditch. That's right, a girl, a very pretty black-haired beauty. She was dressed in a green suit, completely soaked, holding a dagger with both hands, pointing it at Lin Wu and saying, "Don't come any closer, go away," while making a couple of unconvincing gestures.
It's not that Lin Wu stayed on high ground just to look at the girl because she wore a low-cut top; he suspected this girl might not be a player. Lin Wu wasn't entirely sure; since the game began, he had roamed half of North Town without seeing a single NPC.
"Are you all right?" Lin Wu asked.
"Are you human? A live person?" the girl asked excitedly.
Lin Wu nodded, "Yes, I am." That's right, she was an NPC.
"Thank goodness." The weak girl, finally seeing a living person, fainted with excitement right then and there.
What's going on here?
Lin Wu pulled out the game manual and
"Amanda?"
"Hmm? Brave warrior, have you changed your mind?" Amanda asked in surprise.
Lin Wu ignored the quest prompt and sat down next to Amanda, asking, "Do you know of a saying?"
"A saying? Which one?" NPCs created by the AI Dawn could talk about anything except for restricted topics.
"An innocent man bears no blame, but a man with a dagger is guilty."
As soon as he finished speaking, Lin Wu lunged forward, his left hand on Amanda's back while his right hand stabbed a knife through Amanda's chest.
Lin Wu, who often played games, never had compassion for NPCs. NPCs were tools of the game; this was the basic logic of gaming. To Lin Wu, Amanda appeared no different from the zombies themselves; both were NPCs. The difference was that zombies didn't carry daggers, while Amanda had one in her hands.
Amanda looked at Lin Wu in disbelief, "You... you..."
Lin Wu pulled out the steak knife, stabbed her once more, and after waiting for Amanda to die completely, he took the dagger from her hand.
Refined steel dagger, forged hundreds of times, perfected over a thousand years, only after countless attempts could refined steel be created.
Weapons didn't have attack power values, only durability numbers and additional attributes. The refined steel dagger had the added attribute of sharpness. According to the game manual, sharpness meant it faced no resistance, as penetrating a zombie's skull or piercing a sheet of paper required the same amount of force.
After hanging the dagger on his backpack, Lin Wu searched Amanda's body without any wicked intentions; to him, Amanda was just an existence of 1s and 0s.
One key to Olive Manor's secret passage, a pair of earrings, two handkerchiefs, and then nothing else. No other items could be taken, and even with wicked thoughts, nothing else was possible. After completing the search, Lin Wu turned and walked away. One minute after her death, Amanda's body disappeared in a burst of white light. Perhaps in her last moments, Amanda could have grasped a truth: in the apocalypse, humans are always more terrifying than zombies.
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The church atop the mountain, with cliffs on three sides and only one path, was an easily defensible and difficult to attack base. To the left of the church at the mountain's peak, there were four seven-story residential apartments and a small associated commercial street, while on the right, there were two large factories that undoubtedly stored countless building materials. The backyard of the church was large, suitable for planting vegetables and raising poultry; if it could be developed, the church would be an excellent base indeed.
However, Lin Wu intuitively felt that taking over the church wouldn't be easy. He sat quietly at a high point for ten minutes, observing from a distance. He noticed something red flickering inside the church. Lin Wu cautiously avoided zombies and, when necessary, resorted to stealthy takedowns, steadily moving towards the factories, eventually climbing a hundred-meter-tall communication tower.
Although the angle was good, the distance was too great, and Lin Wu could only see that there were red, possibly blood-colored creatures inside the church. He couldn't come to a conclusion about what they were.