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Chapter 258 Truly Living Up to Myself

Ling Mo also knew the purpose of this bow and arrow. After all, he had seen Xia Xinyan use it in person before and had always been curious about where she got such… ridiculous props.

Right, at best, they could only be considered props, not even weapons.

So when he saw Yellow Hair pull this thing out just now, his feelings were a bit complicated.

It was like a mischievous kid charging at you with a glowing stick while shouting “Transform!”—he didn’t know whether to engage or just ignore it.

In fact, even when Yellow Hair shot that arrow, he didn’t make any defensive posture; otherwise, he wouldn’t stand a chance of hitting him.

As for the arrow’s effect…

He couldn’t feel anything.

Maybe he couldn’t accommodate anyone else but Xia Xinyan in his heart.

Moreover, it was still a man.

But even though he didn’t suffer actual harm, he felt a strange humiliation.

Especially in front of Xia Xinyan.

So he was a bit angry.

Otherwise, he wouldn’t have pulled out an explosive bow to shoot back at them.

But his anger only lasted for a little while.

Now, looking at Yellow Hair lying on the ground, blown up to a golden, fragrant mess, it was hard to stay angry.

There was no need to be.

Sighing, he kicked Yellow Hair: “Get up, playing dead won’t help.”

With their current strength, if they couldn’t even tell whether someone was acting dead, they might as well quit.

Besides, the hit from Fatty just now wasn’t meant to kill.

Yellow Hair twitched a couple of times, awkwardly turned over, and upon seeing Ling Mo and Xia Xinyan beside him, immediately burst into tears: “Big brother and sister, I was wrong! Let me go, woo woo woo! I’m still a child, I’m only twenty-five! I’m afraid of pain! Please don’t kill me!”

Ling Mo: “…”

Good grief, he was even a few years older.

“Give us a reason not to kill you.” Xia Xinyan pulled out a handgun and aimed it at Yellow Hair’s head.

Having been delayed for so long for no reason, they had to get something out of this guy; at the very least, a personal account.

She was no living bodhisattva—actually, when she was confronting that hedgehog-headed guy underground earlier, she planned to kill him immediately after asking her questions, but unfortunately, the tentacle monster beat her to it.

So if we’re talking about a good heart… she was indeed not as kind as Ling Mo.

It was just that she didn’t have a chance to show her other side.

Including this time.

“I can tell you the location of the zombie mother!” Yellow Hair hurriedly threw out his bargaining chip. “Your mission target must be some ABC-class zombie mother, right? I know where it is! If you let me go, I’ll take you to find your target!”

“You know the locations of all the zombie mothers?” Lin Nan, who had been watching from the side, couldn’t help but ask.

Yellow Hair immediately nodded: “Yes! I know them all! As long as you’re willing to let me go!”

“Then let him take us to take a look.” Murong Yue suggested, “We’ve basically explored the previous underground space. Aside from that octopus monster, we haven’t seen any other zombies. Since we have no clues now, why not go with him and see?”

After all, none of them worried that he had any tricks up his sleeve to betray them.

Ling Mo then gently kicked this guy again: “Lead the way.”

“Okay… okay…” Yellow Hair, looking quite pained, took out a bottle of restorative potion, used it to alleviate his injuries, and then got up from the ground to walk ahead.

In a part of his eye that the others couldn’t see, he fiercely gritted his teeth, a hint of malice flashing in his eyes.

—He had to make this group pay.

Ling Mo and the others quickly arrived at their destination under Yellow Hair’s lead, an open parking lot within a small residential community, not far from the collapse area.

At this moment, this abandoned parking lot was covered by a barrier, and inside the barrier, everyone could see a group of zombies slowly swaying—none of them had been injured, in other words, they were in their initial stage.

“I’m quite curious how you managed to get these guys in here,” Murong Yue suddenly asked.

No wonder they had searched for so long without finding a single zombie; it turned out they were all locked up here.

Yellow Hair paused, lowered his head, and sheepishly said: “It’s… it’s because our spawn point is very close to this place, and we followed the noise over here. We coincidentally saw a pile of zombies wandering nearby, and since we had also experienced the power of zombies after they mutated… we thought about luring them here without harming them and trapping them, then figuring out a way to kill them later…”

He had indeed done a good deed; if he hadn’t trapped this group of zombies, by the time Ling Mo and the others arrived, those guys probably would have wandered off somewhere—there’s no guarantee they wouldn’t have ended up on a major adventure underground.

Although they had already gone on one adventure.

However, Yellow Hair’s actions did save them quite a bit of trouble.

“I can open a gap in the barrier; if you have a way to kill these zombies, you can go in. If it really doesn’t work, just call for me, and I’ll let you out, really.” It seemed he was afraid they wouldn’t believe him, so Yellow Hair even made a swearing gesture.

Xia Xinyan was the first to bring Ling Mo inside the barrier; the others followed, and after they all entered, Yellow Hair suddenly sealed the barrier from outside and then laughed maniacally: “Hahaha, you’ve been tricked! I want to see how you’re going to deal with this group of monsters! They can’t be killed at all, hahaha! If you’re willing to kneel down and beg for mercy, I might consider letting you out!”

Ling Mo: “…”

Is this guy… an idiot?

Xia Xinyan didn’t even pay him any mind, instead, she roughly checked the situation of these zombies. She was originally thinking about how to classify these A, B, C-level zombie mothers, but now that she saw the real deal… she realized she had overthought it—these zombies were all labeled with A, B, C, D.

So simple, yet so intuitive.

Fatty turned around to look at the laughing Yellow Hair and raised an eyebrow: “Should we teach him a lesson?”

It was his first time seeing such a self-destructive kid.

“No need,” Ling Mo waved his hand, “he’ll learn his lesson soon.”

Saying this, he looked at the two guys who had been with Yellow Hair: “Are you still with him in the same group?”

The two jumped in surprise and immediately started shaking their heads, distancing from Yellow Hair: “No, no! He kicked us out of the team just now; we’re solo players now.”

If they had previously hesitated to abandon Yellow Hair, now they had made up their minds—if the boss sold them once, they could still endure, but now he’d lured them in and sold them again, they couldn’t keep being fools, right?

He completely didn’t care about their lives; if they still teamed up with Yellow Hair, they were afraid they wouldn’t even leave a shred of their existence.

“Then, has your mission changed?” Ling Mo asked nonchalantly.

“It has.”

“Is your mission target in here?”

“…Yes.”

“Alright, what was the target of your original group?”

Xia Xinyan tilted her head to give Ling Mo a sideways glance.

She had already guessed Ling Mo’s intention.

—Truly living up to myself.