My Cherry Will Explode in the Apocalypse – CH99

Chapter 99: It Turned Out to Be Dual-Attribute

This zombie was able to move through floors and walls, so Su Ruizhe judged that it was likely an earth-type mutant. He took out one of the off-road vehicles they commonly used from his spatial storage and had everyone stand on top of the vehicle. The car was made of steel, so the zombie shouldn’t be able to use surprise attacks to harm them anymore.

However, what Su Ruizhe didn’t expect was that just as he climbed onto the roof of the car, he heard Yu Dongdong shout, “Watch out!” His reaction was still a bit too slow. He felt a sharp pain in his leg and looked down, only to see that the zombie’s bone blade had reappeared beneath his feet. It pierced through his nut armor, sliced open his boot, and left a deep wound on his calf, so deep that bone was visible.

“Xiao Zhe!” Zhan Yun’s eyes instantly reddened. He wished he could drag that zombie out from underground and tear it to pieces. But the zombie was extremely cunning—appearing and disappearing without a trace. Even now that they were standing on top of the off-road vehicle, it could still launch sneak attacks.

“Doctor Song! Quickly—” Seeing this, Zhao Bing hurriedly called Song Chengshu over, wanting him to bandage Su Ruizhe. But Su Ruizhe had already taken out a sunflower from his spatial storage and used his ability to transform it into a lamp. He shone it on the wound for a moment, and the injury healed at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Zhao Bing: ????

Although shocked, Zhao Bing quickly calmed down. He had long known that Su Ruizhe’s ability was special—perhaps this was an additional power gained after advancing to level four. Now wasn’t the time to dwell on this; they needed to focus on dealing with that zombie!

Once the wound stopped bleeding, Su Ruizhe immediately put away the sunflower lamp. He then took out more than a dozen high-powered flashlights, tied them together with rope, and tossed them to Zhan Yun. “That’s probably not an earth-type zombie. I suspect it’s emerging from our shadows. Brother Zhan, use your ability to fix these flashlights to the ceiling.”

Seeing the arrangement of the flashlights, Zhan Yun immediately understood Su Ruizhe’s idea. In physics, there’s an effect called shadowless lighting: arranging high-intensity light sources in a circular pattern on a large lamp panel so that light shines from multiple angles, eliminating shadows formed by individual point sources. The shadowless lamps in hospital operating rooms are made using this principle.

Although Su Ruizhe’s method of tying the flashlights together was crude, it was very practical. After Zhan Yun used his gravity ability to fix them to the ceiling, bright light poured down from above, and their surroundings were immediately free of shadows.

“But… what if that zombie attacks the flashlights?” Song Chengshu hadn’t forgotten how, during the zombie siege, that level-four zombie realized why it was always being exposed and instead attacked Yu Dongdong, who was holding the flashlight.

Now this crude “shadowless lamp” temporarily made their shadows disappear, but the shadow of the “shadowless lamp” itself was still there, which made him uneasy.

Sure enough, Song Chengshu’s concern proved to be necessary. In the next moment, they watched as a bone blade extended from the shadow of the “shadowless lamp” on the ceiling.

But unlike the tense expressions on everyone else’s faces, a faint smile appeared on Su Ruizhe’s face.

Suddenly, another ribbon-like black shadow burst out from the “shadowless lamp.” It slowly wrapped around the bone blade, tightening bit by bit, gradually piercing into the shadow itself.

Then something bizarre happened. That black ribbon forcibly dragged the zombie out of the shadow, little by little. And that incredibly sharp bone blade couldn’t cut it at all.

The utterly stunned crowd: ……

“Th-this… is this Dark Cherry Grass?” As the mysterious ribbon pulled the zombie out of the shadows inch by inch, Zheng Jiahe was the first to notice something was off. That black ribbon wasn’t actually black, nor was it a ribbon—it was dark purple with a hint of green at the tip, looking very much like the Dark Cherry Grass from that game.

Dark Cherry Grass was a plant from the Shadow family in the game—a killer hidden in the shadows. It could instantly kill any enemy that came close in a straight line. Its attack method was exactly as it was displaying now: extending a dark-purple root to tightly bind the enemy until it killed them.

“That’s right. It’s Dark Cherry Grass.” When Su Ruizhe had been tying up the “shadowless lamp,” he had deliberately tucked the Dark Cherry Grass into it, precisely to launch a surprise attack at this moment.

In the game, Dark Cherry Grass was almost always a one-hit kill, but that was against ordinary zombies. Against this powerful level-three zombie, it could only restrain it.

After all, Su Ruizhe was a level-four ability user. Under his enhancement, the Dark Cherry Grass became extremely tough, preventing the level-three zombie from breaking free. Doing this consumed a tremendous amount of his ability.

Yet he didn’t care. He increased his output again, using the Dark Cherry Grass to forcibly drag most of the zombie’s body out of the shadow.

“Attack!” Because Zhan Yun had to use his ability to keep the “shadowless lamp” fixed, he couldn’t attack the zombie at the same time and could only remind the others to strike.

No one hesitated. Fireballs, wind blades, lightning arcs, and ice arrows all flew toward the zombie at once. Bound tightly by the Dark Cherry Grass and unable to retreat back into the shadows, the zombie could only take the beating.

However, the zombie’s bones seemed exceptionally hard. Even under such relentless attacks, only a few cracks appeared. Its head, in particular, was extremely tough—despite all their attacks, the skull only fractured slightly, completely failing to damage its brain. It turned out to be a rare dual-attribute zombie: not only could it hide in shadows, but it also possessed bone reinforcement.

“Let me handle it!” Zhan Yun suddenly withdrew his ability, pulling the “shadowless lamp” down from the ceiling. The zombie was dragged down along with it by the Dark Cherry Grass.

Without the illumination of the “shadowless lamp,” the moment the zombie touched the ground, it tried to escape back into the shadows. But the Dark Cherry Grass’s entanglement slowed it down.

While it struggled in a tug-of-war with the Dark Cherry Grass, Zhan Yun had already taken two steps forward and reached the zombie. He bent down and grabbed the back of its head. At an angle hidden from everyone else’s view, he activated his corrosion ability.

Sensing the deadly danger, the zombie let out a piercing roar and struggled desperately. The Dark Cherry Grass was almost unable to restrain it. However, Zhan Yun and Su Ruizhe simultaneously increased their output—they absolutely couldn’t let this zombie escape!

At last, the zombie’s seemingly indestructible bones slowly corroded and became brittle under Zhan Yun’s corrosion ability. With one forceful squeeze, Zhan Yun crushed its skull.

No one was surprised. Those who knew Zhan Yun had corrosion abilities understood what had happened, and those who didn’t simply assumed he had used gravity abilities. No one thought much of it.

The zombie’s brain fell out, reeking of rot and looking utterly disgusting. Zhan Yun mercilessly crushed it under his foot. The orange crystal core wrapped inside the brain matter was revealed.

Zhan Yun picked up the crystal core and handed it to Song Chengshu. Song Chengshu’s ability was already approaching level three, so this crystal core was just right for him.

Finally, having dealt with this dangerous zombie, everyone let out a sigh of relief—but also felt lingering fear. If Su Ruizhe’s ability hadn’t broken through to level four, allowing him to command Dark Cherry Grass, they might all have died at the hands of this elusive zombie.

Su Ruizhe took out two translucent crystals and swallowed them. He soon felt his nearly depleted ability gradually recovering. After a brief rest, he put the vehicle back into his spatial storage, discarded his torn boots, changed into a new pair of snow boots, and the group once again headed toward the factory buildings behind them.

“Are you okay?” Zhan Yun walked over to Su Ruizhe’s side, looking at his slightly pale face with concern.

“I’m fine.” Su Ruizhe smiled and gently held his hand as they followed the others forward.

Zhao Bing accidentally saw the two of them holding hands and immediately averted his gaze, feeling both awkward and speechless. At a time like this, they still didn’t forget to show off their affection…

The corridor was about five to six hundred meters long, with a plastic roof. Several sections had collapsed under the weight of ice and snow, and cold wind blew in through the gaps, making the chill bite to the bone.

Everyone quickened their pace, passed through the corridor, and finally arrived at the factory building behind it.

The factory’s main door was closed, and without electricity it couldn’t be opened. They could only let the powerhouse Zheng Jiahe step in and force it open.

As soon as they entered, they saw several bodies lying scattered on the ground. Along the way, they had already seen many corpses, so there was nothing surprising about that. However, these bodies were different from the previous ones—they were zombie corpses. All of their heads had been split cleanly in two, the edges of the wounds neat and precise, clearly cut open by a sharp weapon. Their brains had been pulverized, obviously to extract the crystal cores.

Zhan Yun immediately had Yu Dongdong search the factory with his psychic ability. He didn’t sense any zombies or living beings inside.

The floor was covered in dust, and the doors were tightly closed—there were no signs of anyone having entered. So how had these zombies died?

All the zombies had collapsed against the walls, as if they’d been ambushed…

Thinking of the level-three zombie that could freely move through shadows, everyone formed some guesses. No wonder such a large experimental building and factory contained only that one level-three zombie—it had already eliminated all the others internally.

There was nothing strange about that. After all, there were no living humans left in the research base. Driven by instinct, it was perfectly normal for zombies to kill each other.

With no zombies left here, their task was actually made easier. They could now focus on finding the snowfield patrol vehicle.

Author’s Note:
Hehehe, it really was a dual-attribute zombie~~ Shadow + bone hardening. Unfortunately, in front of the overpowered protagonist, it was simply no match~~

Stage Manager is taking the day off today, so I had to roll up my sleeves and do it myself…

Zhan Yun: How dare you hurt my wife! I’ll crush your skull!
Xiao Zhe: Brother! You’re so handsome!
Zhan Yun: Are you okay, wife?
Xiao Zhe: I’m fine (shyly holding hands)
Everyone: Our eyes are ruined…

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This novel will be completed in the latter part of this month. The new novel “Interstellar No.1 Gambling Stone Energy Master” is currently being actively prepared and will launch seamlessly afterward. If you’re interested, please consider adding it to your favorites~~

[Synopsis]

With the advancement and expansion of technology, population growth began to skyrocket. Environmental pollution and energy shortages only made things worse. Earth was no longer suitable for human survival, and humanity turned its gaze to the vast universe, officially entering the interstellar era.

Mecha, spaceships, weapons, equipment—all required energy. Energy became the scarcest resource of the future interstellar age. Even ability users who awakened powers after activating special genes couldn’t do without energy fluids.

Lin Luo was originally just a small-time miner—and colorblind at that. At most, he had a good-looking face. But a meteor shower and a bottle of gene enhancement fluid completely changed his fate.

Colorblindness isn’t scary. What’s scary is when a colorblind person can see the colors of energy stones.

Lin · Interstellar No.1 Gambling Stone Master · Luo: “Is gambling stones really that hard?”

Everyone: “……” It’s only not hard for you, right?!

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