Chapter 111 – Greed Comes at a Price

After his men surrounded Ling Mo, Li Danyang took advantage of the distraction to launch sneak attacks from the periphery. If it weren’t for Ling Mo constantly using his Psychic Tentacles to distort Li Danyang’s vision, he would have been hit several times.

However, whenever Ling Mo focused his attacks on him, Li Danyang would immediately retreat to a safe distance, shouting orders for his men to keep Ling Mo occupied.

These people, driven by desperation, had decided to exchange Ling Mo’s supplies for “positions” among the survivors. Each one fought as if their lives depended on it.

This highlighted the difference between Survivors and Zombies. Survivors knew how to use weapons and employed diverse attack strategies, making them much harder to deal with than Zombies.

About a minute into the battle, Ling Mo’s Psychic Tentacles started to weaken. He had to jump onto a nearby long table to evade the onslaught.

As Ling Mo leaped onto the table to dodge the attackers, Li Danyang let out a grunt and charged forward like a wild boar. His rotund body rolled onto the table upon contact with its edge, and he swept his Rebar at Ling Mo’s legs.

The others swung wooden sticks at Ling Mo’s feet, forcing him to jump to avoid the blows.

Seeing Ling Mo jump, Xia Na couldn’t help but smile. She whispered to Ye Lian beside her, “Ye Lian, your Ling-Ge is so foolish…”

Ye Lian hesitated, seemingly at a loss for words to refute Xia Na. However, she clearly disagreed with Xia Na’s assessment. After a moment of internal struggle, she finally muttered, “He’s your Ling-Ge too…”

“Haha…” Xia Na’s cold smile added a touch of wickedness to her otherwise innocent face. “His weapon is inadequate. That Iron Rod is twice as long as his Short Knife.”

This was indeed the case. Ling Mo’s Short Knife was much shorter than the weapons these men wielded. This disparity wasn’t noticeable in one-on-one combat, but it became a significant issue when facing a group of more than twenty attackers.

“Kill him!” Li Danyang shouted, and the group once again swung their clubs at Ling Mo. But Ling Mo had already leaped off the other side of the table. His Psychic Tentacle momentarily stunned one of the attackers, and Ling Mo’s Short Knife plunged into the man’s side.

Seeing Xia Na and Ye Lian still standing by, watching the chaos unfold, Ling Mo felt a bit helpless.

This was clearly Xia Na’s idea. Ever since she regained all her memories, she had become quite mischievous. Ling Mo couldn’t bring himself to control her forcefully. It seemed he would need to find some time to properly teach her a lesson, to make sure she understood that watching from the sidelines came at a price—especially when it was Ling-Ge’s fight!

But for now, it didn’t matter that they weren’t joining the fray. Ling Mo had an ace up his sleeve…

Outside the Library, twenty Zombies that had been waiting suddenly surged in as if summoned!

“Fuck you! You think you’re the only ones who can gang up on someone?!”

With Ling Mo’s furious shout, twenty Zombies appeared at the doorway, perfectly aligned!

Someone in the group immediately noticed and let out a piercing scream, “Zombies!”

“Zombies?!”

Typically, ordinary Zombies only investigated noises, human presence, or the scent of blood. Mutation Zombies and Advanced Zombies, however, behaved differently. Advanced Zombies, in particular, showed distinct hunting characteristics, as Ling Mo had observed.

But to this group, who mostly encountered ordinary Zombies and occasionally Mutation Zombies, this sudden invasion was unheard of.

As panic spread, everyone turned and screamed in terror. Almost instantly, they abandoned their attack on Ling Mo and started to retreat.

Li Danyang was the quickest to react. Despite the bizarre situation, he immediately ran towards the innermost room.

However, just as he was desperately rushing towards the room, a dark figure suddenly darted in front of him, and a cold flash of light blocked his path.

Ling Mo stood before him, smirking. “Why are you running? You all ganged up on me just now. Let’s play fair this time.”

“Are you insane, you idiot? Those are Zombies! Get out of my way!”

The Security guard’s face was twisted with rage and fear. Aside from his eyes not being blood-red, he barely looked different from a Zombie himself.

As he roared, he swung the Rebar in his hand straight at Ling Mo’s head. The guard was quite strong, and the force of his swing was formidable, clearly intending to crush Ling Mo’s skull.

Meanwhile, the Zombies had instinctively avoided Xia Na and Ye Lian, rushing into the group of over twenty people.

Those who had been previously stabbed but not yet dead struggled to get up, only to have their heads grabbed and necks snapped by the Zombies.

Those running toward the Inner Room were caught halfway. Once Zombies got hold of someone, unless the person could instantly break the Zombie’s arm, there was no escaping their grip.

Screams of despair erupted the moment they were caught, followed by the gruesome scene of being torn apart.

Hearing the screams behind him, Li Danyang’s expression grew even more frantic!

But what filled him with despair was the return of that strange dizziness! This feeling had been plaguing him since he started fighting Ling Mo, but he hadn’t connected it to Ling Mo.

Now, experiencing it at this moment was a death sentence!

Despair surged through Li Danyang’s heart. He knew his attack had missed, and simultaneously, he felt a chill and a sharp pain in his chest.

The blade of a Short Knife had cut through his skin and muscle, stabbing deep into his heart.

“Thump! Thump!”

The sound of his heartbeat magnified in that instant. He stared at Ling Mo with a death grip, but Ling Mo, with a cold expression, simply pulled out the Short Knife and kicked him to the ground.

Before taking his last breath, Li Danyang, lying on the ground, saw a Zombie appear above him. He thought to himself that this man and two women wouldn’t survive either…

But then, his pupils suddenly constricted. The Zombie ignored Ling Mo, who was standing right in front of him, and instead bypassed him to attack another man who was fleeing in their direction.

Why… why?

This question lingered in Li Danyang’s mind, even as he convulsed and breathed his last.

The sudden assault by the twenty Zombies nearly wiped out half of the Survivors in an instant. The remaining people huddled together, desperately fighting back, but they were relentlessly pushed into a corner by the tightening circle of Zombies.

Suddenly, someone noticed Ling Mo standing outside the circle. To his horror, he realized that the Zombies seemed oblivious to Ling Mo and the two women. Even when the Zombies passed right by them, they showed no intention of attacking.

This bizarre scene quickly caught everyone’s attention. After a moment of shock, someone screamed, “Save us, save us!”

But Ling Mo only raised his hand slowly and then swung it down forcefully.

“Ah!”

Greed comes at a price.

Watching the gruesome scene unfold before him, listening to the continuous screams, Ling Mo thought to himself.