This question made Ryan feel a little at a loss.
Yasmin continued. "Tell me the truth, why do you hate Wallace so much? Is it because of me?"
"..." Ryan was speechless for a while. He looked at Yasmin's face, which was charmingly confident, and shook his head helplessly.
Once upon a time, he did feel jealous because Yasmin and Wallace were too close. But that was a long time ago. Faced with such a cruel doomsday environment, Ryan no longer had the energy to care about these matters of love between men and women. It was too childish.
Yasmin continued to ask, "Answer me, is it true or not?"
"It was never because of you...." Ryan responded. Although he felt helpless, he decided to make his words clear. However, before he could finish his words, other survivors following behind the two men exclaimed.
"Can't you guys talk about something serious? The zombies are coming soon, can't you see that?"
Ryan stopped and immediately turned his gaze to the crack in the door.
Within a few seconds, several zombies appeared from the direction of the back door. These dirty and ugly monsters had already smelled the aroma of "food" through the crack in the door and were rushing towards here frantically.
"One, two...the number is almost reaching ten!" Ryan counted the number of zombies carefully. Before he could take the next step, he heard a banging sound from the direction of the door, which was bounced up by the huge impact force. "Quick, block the door!"
The other survivors' faces changed drastically, and they quickly used their bodies to hold the door, while yelling at Ryan and Yasmin, "Hurry up and give us a hand, this door is not strong enough to withstand the impact of so many zombies."
“We're coming!” The situation was urgent, Yasmin didn't bother to continue questioning Ryan and also joined the team blocking the door.
Only Ryan remained idle, standing there expressionless and motionless. He never thought of locking the zombies outside. After all, the system's trial task was to kill as many zombies as possible, and every zombie killed would eventually be converted into system points.
"Ryan, hurry up and help guard the door!" At this time, the banging sounds outside the door became more and more crazy. Yasmin, Lucas and others could hardly hold the door open, so they all turned to Ryan for help.
Ryan remained indifferent.
"You are not scared silly now, are you, you coward? You were acting so tough just now, you..." Seeing that, Lucas, who had just had a conflict with him, was immediately furious and couldn't help cursing. He wanted to take the opportunity to vent his anger, but the zombies outside the door refused to give him a chance.
The back door could not withstand the impact of so many zombies. With a series of muffled sounds, the door was forced open a crack.
A zombie took the opportunity to stretch his dry arm in and grabbed the greasy-faced guy fiercely, while others raked his hand with their claw-like fingers.
"Aaaargh!" With a scream, blood marks appeared on Lucas's neck, and blood flowed along the wound. The strong smell of blood further stimulated the zombies outside the door.
They roared collectively and banged on the door faster, instantly pushing it open and rushing towards Lucas who had been scratched.
The first zombie to rush in was very small in stature, with shriveled cheeks and blue facial features. Every detail was full of horror. Its dead fish-like eyes were filled with ferocious and cruel light. While making a strange growl, it successfully pounced on Lucas and bit his throat.
"Aaaaaargh!"
The high-pitched scream instantly made everyone's hair stand on end.
The zombie bared its sharp teeth, its dirty mouth had great penetrating power, and bit Lucas's neck fiercely. Blood immediately splattered everywhere, staining the entire ground red.
"Ah!" The cruel and bloody scene made Yasmin, who was standing nearby, scream in fright and quickly took a few steps back.
At the same time, more zombies rushed in from outside the door, pounced madly on everyone who approached them, and then used their teeth to devour the flesh and blood of the living.
"Help me..." Lucas struggled continuously, blood and screams mixed together. He waved his limbs desperately, trying to throw the zombies off his body. However, his chubby body made his movements very clumsy. He failed after several attempts and was instead targeted by more zombies.
It seemed that the zombies also liked to attack fatter targets. This delicate and succulent body became a gluttonous delicacy for the monsters. In an instant, at least three zombies pounced on Lucas at the same time, and they could bite off a piece of meat from him in one bite.
The incident happened so fast that it gave them no chance to rescue him.
Just as they were immersed in the agony of their companions being eaten alive by zombies, a thick wooden rod, accompanied by a whistling gust of wind, suddenly came from a distance and smashed heavily into the head of the first zombie.
Ryan turned his arms and concentrated his strength on the strike, shattering the zombie's head. The wooden rod went straight in, piercing into its brain.
[Experience points +2]
"..." Yasmin was speechless when she saw Ryan killed the zombie with just one strike: Could it be that he...?
The shadow of the stick appeared again, bringing with it a whistling sound in the air. The broken head of the second zombie interrupted Yasmin's thought.
Before the zombies could gain a firm foothold and focused all their energy on the food in their mouths, he burst out with his most powerful strikes.
The slender wooden rod was constantly swinging, and every time it whipped, it was accompanied by a whistling sound of wind. There was no need to aim deliberately at all.
Every time the wooden rod struck down, it would always hit the most vulnerable part of the zombie's head without deviation. The enormous force was accompanied by the crisp sound of bones shattering, and Ryan's body turned into a foraging wolf.
Whether in speed, agility or physical explosiveness, it was a world of difference with him from before his evolution.
The zombies that rushed in through the back door died quickly under Ryan's attack. In just a few seconds, four zombies were down.
However, Ryan's attack speed did not slow down at all. A glimpse into the terrifying power of a deviant was gradually revealed. The zombie brains that once required several sticks to smash were like fragile sausage in front of him and shattered with one blow.
[Experience points +2]
With the death of several zombies, the evolution system in Ryan's body also sent continuous prompts, indicating that his background points were constantly increasing. However, he wasn't satisfied.
Killing the common zombies could only earn him two points at a time. Although they were falling one after another, the points were still far from his aim.
Damn bloody system... Ryan was waving his long stick while complaining in his heart.
At this moment, he heard a frightened shout. "Watch out!"
As the back door was knocked open, the zombies outside seemed to have found a breakthrough and were pouring in one after another. At first, there were only three or five of them, but gradually, seven, eight, nine appeared, and was increasing.
The sight of blood made the zombies frenzy. It was like the dead were injected with chicken blood.
They all pounced on Ryan, who was fighting them back fiercely.
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793. Model Village
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