“Why are there so many people going?”

The boy with glasses looks very young, probably a high school student himself. At this moment, he is looking at his remaining companions in the canteen with a slight frown.

However, he obviously knows very well what kind of personalities his companions have. When there is a new prey, they naturally rush out to chase it. The ones who are still left are not unwilling to go, but they have seen too many of their companions leave and realize that even if they follow, they won't get a chance. That's why they haven't made a move yet.

"Therefore, without waiting for anyone to respond, he continued, 'We'll go out and catch some more people tomorrow. We only need three more. I'll give you a few addresses. Whoever catches them and returns will earn the qualification.'"

"But, no more killing the prey before returning. That kind of thing is not allowed."

His speech was clear and coherent, clearly different from other madmen, and Xu Zhi was certain from his words that he seemed to have a way to locate where there were still living people, perhaps that was how his own location had been discovered initially.

Furthermore, he demands that his companions bring the people back here, which must have some special reason. And the mention of needing three more... It sounds like he's collecting some kind of quota or bargaining chips.

Unfortunately, Xu Zhi had no intention of asking him what he was planning to do. He only wanted to kill him. No matter what tricks or schemes he had, they would all be for naught once he was dead.

On the screen, Xiao Yi was hiding in the shadows and slowly approaching the man who was surrounded by a crowd in the middle. However, the man's position was too central, and Xiao Yi couldn't sneak up to him silently. So, at a relatively close distance, Xiao Yi directly maximized his body size.

In the blink of an eye, a giant snake seemed to appear out of nowhere in the cafeteria, its tail sweeping towards the center of the crowd, and no one had time to react.

As a result, on Xu Zhi's screen, several of the madmen were knocked flying by Xiao Yi's snake tail and crashed into the walls, and even the man in the center was not spared.

But unlike the others, who immediately got up and charged at Xiao Yi with bloodshot eyes, the boy with glasses barely managed to stand with the help of his companions, even spitting out a mouthful of blood.

"Indeed, the trade-off for a quick wit is a frail physique..."

There were only a dozen people left, and they were all like madmen, ignoring the size and strength difference with Xiao Yi and continuing to rush towards him relentlessly. If they were ordinary people, even ten more of them would not have posed a threat to Xiao Yi, but these people's physical abilities were already on par with beasts.

For a moment, Xiao Yi was actually entangled by these people, but only for a few seconds. In the next instant, Xiao Yi directly shrunk his body size, using the gap created by the shrinking to instantly dart out of the encirclement and appear in front of the glasses-wearing man who was trying to escape.

Instead of repeating its previous tactic, Xiao Yi directly used its speed to swim to the feet of the glasses-wearing man and bite down on his ankle!

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"The Lv6 toxin is deadly enough to kill an ordinary person with just a touch."

But in the next second, the person who had been protecting the glasses-wearing man immediately picked up an axe and swung it towards Xiao Yi.

Fortunately, Xiao Yi's skin was tough and its flesh was thick, and the axe's heavy blow failed to seriously injure it.

This gave the glasses-wearing man time to escape. Although his physical strength was not as great as that of the mindless madmen, he was undoubtedly a superhuman with far greater resistance than an ordinary person.

The fact that the glasses-wearing man had been injured again seemed to enrage the others, and they attacked Xiao Yi with even more ferocity, as if they were willing to sacrifice their lives for him.

"Truly madness."

Their desperate struggles did indeed cause Xiao Yi some trouble. Their teeth and nails were as sharp as those of beasts, and under their bites and scratches, even Xiao Yi lost quite a few scales, and blood began to flow from the giant snake's body. However, it still held the upper hand.

As the madmen were gradually being killed or incapacitated by Xiao Yi, the glasses-wearing man also struggled to escape due to the effects of the poison and the injuries on his body. His movements had become increasingly slow.

Finally, when Xiao Yi chased the remaining madmen to the playground, it managed to completely remove the one still clinging to its body with nails and teeth. Meanwhile, the glasses-wearing man, whose condition had worsened due to the increasing potency of the poison, collapsed on the ground, exhausted.

Xiao Yi's once beautiful body was now covered with dents and scratches, with fresh blood and flesh exposed. One of its eyes was unable to open due to the injury. Seeing this, Xu Zhi felt grateful that he had sought cooperation with Shen Jinwen to relocate some of them beforehand. Otherwise, if they had all remained here, it would have been uncertain who would emerge victorious.

The glasses-wearing man seemed to have given up. His breathing was ragged and labored as he gazed at Xiao Yi approaching him. With difficulty, he asked, "Why?"

His tone was filled with utter confusion.

Xiao Yi, of course, did not respond. Instead, it swung its tail, which was missing a large chunk of flesh, at the boy who seemed to be scheming something, and the blow instantly killed him.

Xu Zhi had read very few novels but watched a lot of TV shows. She had grown tired of the trope where the villain always managed to escape or complete their plan at the last minute, only for the protagonist to make a comeback against the odds.

That was why she had chosen to come so early to eradicate the madman's lair.

For any villain that appeared in her life, Xu Zhi did not want to give them any chance to grow stronger, if possible.

After Xiao Yi killed the glasses-wearing man, Xu Zhi noticed that instead of immediately searching for the dog as planned, it shrunk its body and approached the corpse to search for something.

Within a few seconds, a new prompt appeared in the lower right corner of the game screen.

【Attribute Core +1】

"Did it really drop a core?"

Xu Zhi was somewhat surprised, and even more so when she realized that Xiao Yi was retracing its steps and stopping by the bodies of the madmen for a moment or two.

As a result, Xu Zhi saw the prompt 【Attribute Core +1】 flash repeatedly in the lower right corner of the screen.

By the time Xiao Yi had finished collecting, the prompt had flashed eight times in total.

"A pretty high drop rate. Is it because they've become stronger?"

Xu Zhi could sense that these people were much stronger than the female student from before. How did they become so powerful?

Do they naturally become stronger in the fog like the alien monsters, or is there another reason?

"Such as by killing people?"

One of the conveniences provided by the game console is that the spiritual pets can sense each other's locations. Seeing that Xiao Yi was heading towards the dog's direction, Xu Zhi took the opportunity to open the warehouse and examine the attributes of the cores extracted from the bodies of those creatures.

And then, she saw eight identical, blood-red cores.

When Xu Zhi clicked on it, a single character appeared next to it: 【Cup】.

"The fact that they all have the same attribute is definitely not a coincidence..."

The color of these cores reminded Xu Zhi of the blood-red mess that filled the cafeteria, leading her to almost certainty that there was something wrong with the mutilated limbs found there.

She decided to wait until Xiao Yi's injuries had healed before making a personal trip to the cafeteria to investigate. Perhaps, her eyes would be able to see something that she had missed before.