Ultraman?
[Hahahahaha Brother Wan! Captain Wan! Do you have any martial virtue at all?!]
[You were the one who suggested the competition, and you were also the first to run!]
[Young Master Gu: damn it]
[Hahahahaha I’m really dying]
The entire online comment section exploded the instant Wander turned and bolted—everyone was laughing themselves apart.
When had your business emperor, the strongest man, ever been backstabbed like this!
Gu Cheng: “…”
Heh.
[Young Master Gu, don’t be afraid! You’re the strongest combat force! You can do it!]
[Sister Ning will protect you!]
[Charge hahaha]
Gu Cheng stood there expressionlessly and thought for a second.
Fine. This frenzy had indeed been caused by him, so he couldn’t blame that bastard.
Fine, he was still a bastard.
Wander ran extremely fast—since the zombies had gone berserk, the people who had just retreated weren’t very safe either. He’d leave this act of showing off to Young Master Gu!
True apocalypse survivors knew when to bend and when to stretch, and were never afraid of losing face 🙂
Gu Cheng still decided to fight for the system reward. He quickly turned around and first got onto a rooftop to observe the situation. His gaze fixed on the charging zombies for two seconds, then he neatly drew an arrow and released it—
At that moment, the man’s side profile tightened, his expression serious and focused.
All the viewers in front of the screen forgot to joke.
In the blink of an eye—
The arrow shot out like flowing light, unstoppable—
[Ahhhh one arrow pierced through three zombies!]
[Holy crap! So handsome!]
[Young Master Gu ahhhh, worthy of being the strongest combat force!]
Time was limited. To ensure he could safely retreat after completing the game mission, Gu Cheng had to improve efficiency.
His shooting skill was maxed, but he also had a powerful mind. After precise calculation, every arrow pierced through at least two zombies.
[Holy crap, another chain shot!]
[Ahhhhh it’s getting so hype!]
Gu Cheng attacked while retreating, and in the blink of an eye, he had shot down six zombies.
Eight.
Ten!
Once he had killed the required number, Gu Cheng had no interest in dragging the fight out. He turned and withdrew.
[Ahhhh who can avoid saying Young Master Gu is amazing!]
[So the system task is complete, right? Hurry, hurry, what’s the reward? Young Master Gu needs to bring the reward back to his wife!]
On the other side, when Ning Yi saw Brother Wan run back first from afar, she quickly remembered Gu Cheng’s character-card weakness too.
She wanted to laugh, but held it in—
No helping it. This was what apocalypse survivors were like! Showing off was absolutely not more important than survival!
But their family’s king of pretentious kings would never do that. Ning Yi knew Gu Cheng would definitely finish showing off before coming back.
—And sure enough.
Young Master Gu operated spectacularly at the zombie frontline and stunned the online viewers.
To provide logistical support for his show-off moment, Ning Yi had already quickly used today’s creation skill, giving the triumphant emperor the best reception equipment.
But at that moment, the game system’s electronic voice also rang out—
“Congratulations, player [Gu Cheng]. You have killed 10 zombies and completed the mission.”
“The system rewards you with one ultra-high-performance off-road vehicle to help you escape the zombie tide.”
All players heard it. Wander immediately cursed—wasn’t that exactly the kind of thing they had dreamed of in the apocalypse? This game really understood the apocalypse.
However, Ning Yi: “?”
She had just used her skill—and also created a vehicle ^-^
Ning Yi had rapidly analysed the situation earlier and reached the same judgment as the game system: escape the scene quickly, reduce conflict, reach favourable terrain as soon as possible to regroup, and observe the next natural changes.
So what she created was a high-performance vehicle that could climb mountains and had plenty of seats—
An off-road ambulance!
Not only did it have the functions of an off-road vehicle, it could also make up for their team’s lack of the Goddess of Light’s healing ability. She had been so considerate, and then the system turned around and gave them another car?
Ning Yi: Hate.
But this was also her own game.
So she couldn’t really hate it.
[Hahahahaha I can feel Sister Ning’s speechlessness. System, you’ve done every bad thing!]
[So the car Sister Ning created is clearly even better than what the game gave! As expected of the game’s creator!]
[The game understands the apocalypse, but Sister Ning understands it even more hahahaha]
Finally, when Gu Cheng drove over with the quiver on his back, shaking off the relentless zombie horde and catching up to them, he looked at the other off-road ambulance and was also speechless for a second.
—Then what had he just killed those zombies for?
Wander, who had run away in time and now seemed about to pick up a free vehicle, asked very naturally, “Which one do I drive?”
Gu Cheng: “…”
[So in the end, one car really will be driven by Brother Wan hahaha]
[Brother Wan: king of picking up leftovers]
[Young Master Gu: damn it, worked for nothing]
“…” Gu Cheng’s expression probably wanted to curse at him, but under the circumstances, he couldn’t say much. In the end, he could only say, “…I’m riding in my wife’s car.”
Wander picked up a free off-road vehicle, and his respect for Gu Cheng immediately climbed. “Good brother.”
Gu Cheng: “Get lost.”
[Hahahahahaha]
[I’m really going to laugh to death]
Gu Cheng directly gave up the reward he had risked elimination to earn by killing zombies and turned around to get into Ning Yi’s off-road ambulance.
Ning Yi couldn’t help laughing too.
Your emperor aura was trembling from rage!
After getting in, Gu Cheng stepped on the accelerator and directly overtook Wander’s off-road vehicle, carrying a very obvious sense of resentment and anger.
The zombie horde grew farther and farther away in the rear-view mirror. Ning Yi laughed until she collapsed in the passenger seat.
Gu Cheng drove with a gloomy face. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw the curve of her lips. One hand rested on the steering wheel, while the other reached over to pinch her cheek. “Still laughing?”
That bastard Wander had gotten the benefit for free.
The bastard in the other car: “Achoo—”
Wander was delighted: Who’s cursing me?
On this side, Ning Yi finally managed to suppress her laughter. “Husband, don’t you like the car I gave you?”
“It’s not that—” Gu Cheng said helplessly. “Of course I like it.”
Ning Yi knew he was upset because he had been backstabbed and then had his reward picked up by someone else, so she immediately began outputting rainbow flattery: “Husband, do you know how handsome you were just now? Oh my god! I’ve never seen a man as handsome as you!”
Gu Cheng’s previously furrowed brows instantly relaxed.
Heh. True.
She really hadn’t seen his heroic bearing in the apocalypse.
Ning Yi held her heart. “Your bravery! Your fearlessness! Your divine skill of never missing a shot! All of it made me fall for you!”
After two sentences, Gu Cheng’s expression cleared completely.
There was even a hint of laughter hidden in his voice. “Alright, alright.”
Ning Yi raised her hands and made a heart shape in front of her chest. “Husband, with you here, even the apocalypse becomes safe and warm! It’s so good to have you, husband.”
Gu Cheng laughed outright, with none of the cold gloom from a few minutes ago remaining.
[Hahahahaha Sister Ning, you really know how to flatter]
[She’s playing a very new kind of… no wait, KFC]
[Young Master Gu is too easy to coax wuwuwu, why is this kind of sweet]
[Yes, Young Master Gu is exactly this easy to coax] commented a certain assistant.
Ning Yi soothed the king of pretentious kings, and her own battery was basically drained too. She had used her skill earlier, so for one hour she had no defence ability, and it was time for the system-mandated sleep recovery.
The mountain road was a little bumpy, and zombies occasionally rushed out and slammed into the car windows.
“Hss hrrr—”
“Roar!”
Fortunately, Ning Yi’s off-road ambulance played its role. It was very sturdy and gave a strong sense of safety.
But Ning Yi’s greatest sense of safety still came from the person beside her.
Gu Cheng pulled off his jacket with one hand and draped it over her. “Sleep.”
Ning Yi nuzzled into his clothes, then turned her head.
Under the dark, oppressive sky, with danger lurking on all sides, Gu Cheng turned slightly toward her, his thin lips curving.
Then, very naturally, he leaned over and gently kissed her forehead. “Good night.”
So Ning Yi obediently closed her eyes and slept.
Inside the car, it was quiet.
Online, it was full of wailing.
[Wuwuwuwu who is being sweetened to death? It’s me]
[Damn damn damn when will sweet love descend upon me]
[Good thing the gossip queen is in the car behind and can’t see this, otherwise she’d faint again]
[Wuwu I don’t have a character-card weakness, so why am I about to faint too!]
…
Halfway up the road, heavy rain began to fall.
Judging by the accumulation of water on the road, the situation was not optimistic.
No one could predict what this rain might develop into, but fortunately, they now had two vehicles and wouldn’t be caught in the downpour.
After finally waiting for the rain to pause, Wander directed everyone to get out, set up shelter, rest, and eat to recover strength.
At that moment, by coincidence, another car came up the mountain.
The Goddess of Light arrived with confident steps.
Three members of her team had already died, and now only she, Jiang Linyi, and two teammates remained. Fortunately, one of the teammates had a car-repair skill, so they had found a broken-down vehicle and modified it.
Although it didn’t suit a princess’s elegance, it was at least better than walking.
However, after Ding Ziyue got out and saw Ning Yi’s car, she immediately felt sour: Why?!
Their car was big and new!
She wanted to join Brother Wan’s team too!
Ding Ziyue felt that Wander definitely wanted to invite her as well. After all, her skill was unique among the hundred players.
Wander: Do you take me for a fool?
Her skill and weakness together were basically a plague-attraction aura. He wanted to avoid her as much as possible.
Ding Ziyue waited for a while and saw that he actually had no intention of inviting her to team up. She immediately decided that she had to display her super powerful skill.
—Holy Light, fire!
Yes, her skill could upgrade too! Now she could release light waves!
Ding Ziyue saw Gu Cheng carrying Ning Yi out of the car. Ning Yi’s eyes were closed, looking as if she had been seriously injured. Ding Ziyue restrained the urge to laugh and rushed forward in one swift step.
“Oh my god! Sister! What happened to you!”
“The apocalypse—this apocalypse is so cruel! How could it hurt my sister?”
Ding Ziyue immediately began casting—
For a moment, light shone brilliantly!
—Ning Yi, this time, am I your light?!
I will finally shine upon you! Hahahahaha—
Very soon, Ning Yi woke up rubbing her eyes.
The moment she opened them, she saw Princess Ding Ding making a very classic gesture at her: her two arms were crossed, and waves of light were continuously firing toward her.
Ning Yi looked confused. “Ult… Ultraman?”
So you eventually became it?
Ding Ziyue: “…………”
[Hahahahahahaha damn, I’m laughing so hard I’m flying]
[Ultraman hahahahaha]
[New title for the Goddess of Light! Dingding Ultraman]
Ding Ziyue’s smile was very forced. “Sister, do you feel better now? Your wounds should all be healed, right? Aiya, seeing no one take care of you and no one protect you really makes my heart ache!”
Zhao Mochu happened to hear this and looked shocked. “What are you talking about? Ning Jie was just sleeping.”
Ding Ziyue: “?”
Was she sick? There were zombies all around, and she could still sleep?!
Ning Yi touched her head. “But after being shone on, I do feel kind of refreshed.”
Zhao Mochu immediately said, “Then fire a light wave at me too, Ultra—not, Princess Ding!”
Ding Ziyue: “?? What do you take me for!”
Are you crazy?!
Who’s Ultraman?!
Go away, go away!
…
Fortunately, Ding Ziyue quickly adjusted from her embarrassment.
It was fine. What was this? Hehe!
Compared to the love she received, perhaps being excluded by these people was her destiny. She understood~
So Ding Ziyue hugged Jiang Linyi’s arm and began showing Ning Yi the beautiful love she had experienced along the way.
“Just now, Brother Zhao was also bitten by zombies while saving me. Linyi gege originally planned to repay it with his life!”
Jiang Linyi shook his head gently and painfully. “Yueyue, stop talking.”
Wander stood even farther away.
This woman really was a plague god.
“No! Linyi gege, I must say it!”
Ding Ziyue looked sorrowful, broken, and melancholic. “In the end, I held Linyi gege tightly and stopped him, but truly—at that moment, he really wanted to sacrifice himself for me. I really… I think even in the apocalypse, the greatest love is no more than this! Sister, do you think someone would face a zombie tide for you?”
Gu Cheng: “?”
He reached out and stuffed another piece of chocolate into Ning Yi’s mouth.
No need to say anything to idiots.
Ning Yi: “Yummy yummy yummy.”
Gu Cheng looked up at the sky, his eyes narrowing slightly.
This altitude still wasn’t enough. They needed a wider field of vision.
Clearly, Wander was thinking the same thing.
“Everyone replenish your strength within one minute, then continue up the mountain.”
“Okay, Captain Wan.”
After showing off, regardless of whether she could join Wander’s team or not, Ding Ziyue had already gained a sense of spiritual superiority.
Hehe, her love must have already made hundreds of millions of viewers around the world envious! Who wouldn’t envy her life of being so deeply pampered?!
After all, only a difficult environment like the apocalypse could reveal true feelings! Ning Yi and Young Master Gu clearly hadn’t experienced these life-and-death choices that she and Linyi gege had~ How could they compare to her?
Ding Ziyue walked with radiant, slightly unhinged steps to a small lake nearby, looking at her reflection on the surface to fix her appearance.
However, the sudden change happened at that moment!
From the seemingly shallow lake, a zombie monster shaped like both a fish and a human suddenly burst out!
Ding Ziyue: “Ahhhhhhhh!”
Again!
It wasn’t even human anymore—what kind of monster was this?!
Ding Ziyue screamed in collapse, “What?! Do you even desire my beautiful reflection that much?!”
[Because they’re all light-chasers, Princess!]
[Damn, don’t make me laugh during such a tense moment hahahahaha]
[Light! Run, Light!]
Wander shot to his feet: Damn it, she really attracted plague!
The virus didn’t only spread among humans. This was also one of their apocalypse experiences.
He fired two shots and killed the fish monster, then waved. “Retreat! Everyone into the cars!”
Gu Cheng and Wander jumped into the two cars respectively, quickly gathered everyone, and began charging up the mountain.
Before leaving, Ning Yi looked back—
The lake surface, reflection… So Ding Ziyue’s reflection also glowed in the eyes of zombies?
Ning Yi fell into thought.
Rain began falling again.
This was already the third day in the game, and the torrential rain pouring from the sky grew even heavier.
Soon, rain and mist almost blurred the car windows, making the mountain road harder to drive.
The only good thing was that their intelligence officer hadn’t fainted and had given the information in time this round—
“I saw water… so, so much water!”
The information Zhao Mochu received in her mind came in the form of images. Because it was all water, there wasn’t much useful detail. But clearly, beneath this oppressive sky full of dark clouds, a massive flood attack would soon arrive.
Very quickly, they understood that this stage could eliminate at least 60% of the currently surviving players.
Because the enormous rainfall was flooding upward from the foot of the mountain, rising at a speed that filled people with despair.
This would wash away some of the zombie humans, but at the same time, even more zombie monsters would come up with the water.
And they were about to be trapped.
Ning Yi had considered creating a plane, but first, none of them knew how to pilot one. If they all died in an air crash, that would really be over. Second, the weather in the game was changing unpredictably, making it completely unsuitable for flight.
So how should they escape?
When they finally reached the mountaintop and looked out, everyone was stunned—
All around them was a vast ocean.
In the game, the environment changed endlessly; seas and fields could transform in the blink of an eye.
The plotline of ‘Apocalypse Recreated’ developed randomly, and no one had expected this step. But the surviving players were all facing the same environment, so…
Someone muttered, “Then what about the players who didn’t get up the mountain?”
Silence spread. The answer was obvious.
They were all gone.
And now, they soon would be too.
The game difficulty had silently risen—their supplies were naturally consumed according to game time, ammunition was limited, and Ning Yi, the only one with creation ability, also had restrictions. They could not outlast the zombies on the mountaintop.
The earth beneath the sea was still trembling. The virus buried underground would infect all living creatures.
From beneath the rising seawater, zombie monsters were crawling out, soaked and densely packed, heading toward the mountaintop.
They could already hear that ominous sound— mixed with sticky crawling noises!
The apocalypse. This was the true apocalypse, a place that devoured all human flesh and blood.
The ordinary players were so nervous they were curling their toes.
Because the immersion was too strong, they even forgot they were in a holographic game. It felt like they were about to die.
Wander quickly counted their combat strength. Their biggest chance now was for 01 to create a high-firepower weapon and see whether they could hold on until the seawater receded.
“Can you do it, 01?”
Gu Cheng held Ning Yi, lowering his head to look at her.
If she used her skill, then he had to stay by Ning Yi’s side at all times.
Ning Yi didn’t look very nervous. She had just been thinking about a better solution the whole time.
At this moment, Ding Ziyue also realised her Holy Light Healing had no attack power. She didn’t dare poke her head out and let the light-chasers discover her, so she could only hide behind Jiang Linyi and chant sacredly—
“It’s okay, everyone. We’ll definitely get through this! Believe in yourselves, fighting, fighting~”
The zombie monsters had already climbed up and were slowly surrounding the surviving players.
Looking out, the sight made one’s scalp go numb.
These monsters were grotesquely shaped, swollen and rotting, their bulging eyes showing their hunger for human flesh.
Wander carried his gun. “01, decide quickly—”
Gu Cheng held her in front of him, one arm around her, the other reaching back to draw an arrow, his dark eyes fixed on the zombies flooding up from below—
“I’ve got it,” Ning Yi suddenly said.
Since Princess Ding Ding’s reflection in the water also glowed, then this could absolutely be replicated—
So Ning Yi didn’t create a weapon. Instead, she raised her hand and created a very, very large screen, almost half the size of a football field.
Her skill really was heaven-defying. Just like Gu Cheng’s quiver could draw out unlimited arrows, it was unscientific—but as long as she imagined every detail clearly enough during creation, it could all be realised.
So when the giant screen hovered above the surging apocalyptic sea, everyone was shocked by the scene.
[Holy crap, this scene is incredible, does anyone understand? It’s the beauty of human technology in the apocalypse, between life and death… ahhhh]
[My heartbeat sped up! What exactly is Sister Ning going to do?]
[Ahhhhhhh]
Among the crowd, only Gu Cheng suddenly smiled.
Immediately after, Ning Yi snapped her fingers, and the giant screen instantly lit up. On it appeared—
Ding Ziyue’s huge face.
Ding Ziyue: “???”
What? Had she become a superstar in the apocalypse too?!
Ding Ziyue instinctively fixed her hair and began managing her expression.
However, when the huge face on the giant screen smiled— the light shone brilliantly!!
Like Buddha’s light illuminating everything!
The zombies climbing up the mountain suddenly rushed in one direction.
Then, one after another, they jumped into the sea!
They pounced toward the glowing meat in their eyes!
The giant screen moved farther and farther away, and the zombie monsters actually chased the light away!
All the players on-site were dumbfounded.
And the viewers had long since been shocked:
[Hahahaha damn, using the giant version of the Goddess of Light as bait hahahahaha]
[Sister Ning, what kind of genius are you?!]
[Help, I’m really going to laugh myself crazy. This screen is still livestreaming Princess Ding Ding’s expression in real time—I think she’s about to crack]
[Light! Smile, Light!]
[Light! What are you dissatisfied about? You’ve achieved your greatest value!]
Gu Cheng was laughing uncontrollably and reached out to pull his little genius into his arms.
Ning Yi rubbed her hands together profoundly—
One Goddess of Light could attract a dozen zombies.
A Goddess of Light magnified several thousand times could attract ninety percent of the zombies in the world.
So excellent!!!
Only Ding Ziyue finally exploded in anger: Are you insane?!
“Ning Yi, what do you take me for?!”
Ning Yi: 0v0
Possibly a world-famous painting. A classic old series.
—Ultraman Saves Humanity!
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