016, It’s All Set!

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Qi Ran’s Agility was now an astonishing 127 points!

When she ran, she was like a gust of wind!

Thus, in less than ten seconds, Qi Ran had already run beyond the skill’s range.

She began slaughtering the zombies at the far end of the shopping street with all her might!

With all four of her attributes greatly enhanced, killing zombies was as easy as chopping melons and slicing vegetables.

And on top of that, she was wearing sturdy armor!

The zombies clawed and snapped at her, but they could not hurt her in the slightest.

Although Qi Ran was surrounded by zombies whose eyes gleamed with a ravenous blue light after they caught the scent of her delicious flesh and blood, she moved through them as though no one else were there.

Her cleaver rose and fell!

She slaughtered them with incomparable satisfaction!

Two minutes later, the fallen zombies at the end of the shopping street nearly covered the entire road.

Qi Ran’s level had also reached:

[Level: Novice Level 3 Tester! (633/1600)]

Once Flame Serpent Bind’s restrained enemy died, its flames would go out.

Beacon Fires Across the Encampment, however, was different.

Regardless of whether any hostile targets remained within the flames’ range, the fire would continue burning for five minutes before finally going out.

Qi Ran had spent two minutes slaughtering zombies at the end of the shopping street.

The number of zombies being killed by the Beacon Fires Across the Encampment skill up ahead had gradually begun to increase more slowly.

After all, there was no fresh flesh outside to lure the zombies hiding inside the buildings on either side into coming out and throwing themselves to their deaths.

Once the flames had burned through the zombies initially wandering outside, all that remained was to wait like a hunter beside a tree stump for some unfortunate zombie to finish feeding inside a building and emerge.

Of course, even a few mosquitoes were still meat.

Qi Ran had no intention of extinguishing the flames.

Instead, she went straight into the mall.

The first floor housed goldsmiths, optical shops, and the like.

There were not many people there.

Naturally, there were not many zombies, either.

The apocalypse had descended at one o’clock that afternoon.

As a result, the greatest number of zombies would be on the eighth floor, where the food court was located, and on the twelfth floor, the open-air activity center.

That day, a newly debuted and little-known boy band was holding a concert at the open-air activity center on the twelfth floor.

Chu Yan was a devoted celebrity fan.

She followed all kinds of stars, whether famous or obscure.

The concert was scheduled for six in the evening.

Chu Yan had arrived that afternoon and was eating and shopping at the mall with her best friend.

A famous internet-popular milk tea shop had a notoriously long line.

Since Chu Yan had come all this way, naturally she could not leave without buying some.

But she was unwilling to queue.

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So she called Qi Sheng and asked him to come over.

Qi Sheng hurried there full of excitement.

He never imagined that, just after arriving at the mall and before he could even meet Chu Yan, he would encounter the arrival of the apocalypse.

The people around him suddenly transformed into monsters that bit anyone they saw.

Even in his panic, Qi Sheng did not forget to look for Chu Yan.

He rushed into an elevator and pressed the button for the eighth floor.

Unfortunately, he had terrible luck and was ambushed the moment the doors opened.

Just as the elevator doors slid apart, a zombie happened to be passing outside.

When it spotted Qi Sheng, its eyes glowed blue and it charged at him.

Qi Sheng jumped in fright and instinctively kicked it before sprinting out of the elevator.

The zombie pursued him relentlessly from behind.

More zombies came charging eagerly from ahead.

With no other choice, Qi Sheng hurriedly turned into the emergency stairwell and ran downstairs.

The zombie shoved open the door in excitement and chased after him, but it failed to stop itself in time. It stepped into empty space, tumbled down the stairs, and broke its neck.

Only then was Qi Sheng able to escape.

When he reached the seventh floor, he was lucky enough to run into Song Chen.

The seventh floor was the fashion center.

Many of the clothing shops had storage rooms.

Qi Sheng and Song Chen, along with another group of people, ran into one clothing store, shut the glass doors, and hid inside the storage room.

That was how they narrowly escaped being devoured by the zombies.

Qi Ran did not spare a glance for the relatively small number of zombies on the first floor. She went straight up to the twelfth floor through the emergency stairwell.

By then, the time was already 3:55 p.m.

Qi Ran’s level was:

[Level: Novice Level 3 Tester! (702/1600)]

She had only five minutes left.

Within that time, she needed to slaughter at least 898 zombies.

Only then could she accomplish the achievement of reaching Level 4 within three hours of the apocalypse’s arrival.

Time was not exactly abundant.

But as long as she could find enough zombies, Qi Ran was completely confident she could kill them all within a minute.

After all, once the Flame Engulfs the Camp skill was activated, no zombie at her current stage could last thirty seconds.

That was also why Qi Ran had abandoned the eighth floor and chosen the twelfth floor first.

The twelfth floor was at the top of the building, and its open-air structure was better suited to the Flame Engulfs the Camp skill.

She only hoped there would be enough zombies on the twelfth floor.

Under the Qi family’s cultivation, Qi Ran had been required to excel academically and possess an outstanding bearing.

She had been too busy with her studies and extracurricular piano, dance, and other training to develop an interest in celebrities.

Even when she did have free time, her parents demanded that she cultivate feelings for Mu Jingchen or some other suitor.

As a result, she knew very little about the entertainment industry.

After being reborn, Qi Ran could not remember the name of that obscure boy band at all.

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In her previous life, when Qi Sheng had mentioned them, the name of that boy band had also been completely unfamiliar to her.

At the time, she had instinctively assumed they were a little-known group.

After being reborn, she had continued to believe they were obscure.

But now that leveling up was pressing, Qi Ran could not help silently praying in her heart:

She hoped that she was merely ignorant, and that the group was actually extremely popular, with a huge number of fans.

After all, according to Qi Sheng, the boy band’s performance was scheduled to begin at six in the evening.

The apocalypse, however, had descended at one that afternoon.

If the group was too obscure, there probably would not be many fans arriving early.

As her Agility increased, Qi Ran’s speed climbing the stairs became faster as well.

One minute later, Qi Ran appeared on the twelfth floor.

She glanced at the sea of densely packed zombie heads covering the floor.

Qi Ran let out a long breath of relief.

Her heart filled with wild joy.

It was settled. It was definitely settled!

Without the slightest hesitation, Qi Ran released the Flame Engulfs the Camp skill.

In an instant, towering flames engulfed every zombie present.

Qi Ran’s level began changing by the second:

[Level: Novice Level 3 Tester! (761/1600)]

[Level: Novice Level 3 Tester! (832/1600)]

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Qi Ran did not linger where she stood.

The flames she had unleashed covered the entire twelfth floor. There was no possibility of a single zombie slipping through.

She raced against time toward the eighth floor.

Then she would continue slaughtering zombies.

The eighth floor contained many enclosed structures.

Therefore, Qi Ran could not release Beacon Fires Across the Encampment there.

She could only kill the zombies by hand.

Fortunately, Qi Ran’s speed at slaughtering zombies had improved dramatically.

At the beginning, with a cleaver in her left hand and a baseball bat in her right, she needed at least one second to kill a single zombie.

Now, within one second, her two hands working together could kill at least six zombies.

Therefore, as long as there were enough zombies on the eighth floor, Qi Ran could slaughter a considerable number of them within three and a half minutes, even relying on her own hands.

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