Su Ling opened the door and went in, locking it behind her and severing her connection to the outside.
She truly felt it was bad luck to have encountered Li Yunlong and his group.
After locking the door, Su Ling also got a clear view of her surroundings.
This was a large shopping mall, filled with aimlessly wandering zombies everywhere.
Because the commotion earlier had been too loud, within a few hundred meters, zombies were already moving stiffly and slowly in her direction.
And the one-armed zombie that had escaped was long gone.
Su Ling didn't wait for the zombies to approach her. She raised her Tang dao and charged forward.
A sweep of the blade, and a zombie fell.
After dealing with the zombies swarming towards her and ensuring her safety, Su Ling used her Tang dao to pry open a zombie's head to search for a crystal core.
As she found the white crystal core within the zombie's skull and bent down to pick it up, she keenly sensed a pair of eyes on her, staring intently at her every move.
Those eyes seemed filled with great curiosity and confusion.
Smiling faintly, Su Ling picked up the white crystal core, wiped it clean with a towel, and then placed it in her backpack.
Next, she repeated the action, splitting open another zombie's head to continue searching for crystal cores.
The mall was vast, and the zombies were not concentrated, which made it not too difficult for Su Ling to handle.
She quickly cleared the zombies in another area and then repeated the process of searching for crystal cores within their heads.
An unknown amount of time passed, and Su Ling had also cleared most of the zombies in the mall.
Her stamina had reached its limit, and she needed to stop and eat to replenish her energy.
And those eyes, hidden in the darkness, had been secretly observing her all along, never taking their gaze off her.
Finding a resting area, Su Ling placed her dirty Tang dao on the sofa beside her, then took out a bento from her backpack.
After opening the lid, she ate while keeping an eye on the mall's movements.
Soon, a box of chicken leg bento was finished. Su Ling didn't feel full, so she took out another portion of braised pig trotters and started gnawing on it.
While she was gnawing on the pig trotters, the lights above her flickered twice.
Su Ling looked up, her eyes narrowing slightly as she watched the flickering lights.
Before she could react, the brightly lit mall was instantly plunged into darkness.
A power outage!
Quickly packing away the unfinished pig trotters, Su Ling picked up her Tang dao.
In the darkness, a sense of danger gradually approached, and a foul, fishy smell slowly enveloped Su Ling.
With a 'whoosh,' a flame of ethereal blue and red lit up in the darkness, illuminating Su Ling's vision.
At the same moment the flame ignited, a sharp gust of wind lunged at Su Ling.
With a 'clang,' Su Ling swung her Tang dao, missing its target and striking a nearby pillar.
The Tang dao embedded itself in the pillar, and Su Ling couldn't pull it out immediately, so she had to abandon it.
She reached for the short knife she carried at her waist, her gaze fixed on the one-armed zombie lurking in the darkness.
The one-armed zombie, having missed, didn't give up. It lurked in the darkness, waiting for an opportunity to strike at Su Ling.
With a 'crash,' the pig trotters Su Ling had placed on the sofa were knocked to the ground, their aroma instantly filling the air.
After knocking over the pig trotters, the one-armed zombie quickly launched an attack on Su Ling.
Its sharp claws lunged towards Su Ling's face. If Su Ling had been too slow to dodge, her face would have been scratched and infected.
"Ah—"
The one-armed zombie let out a piercing scream. Seen by the ethereal blue flame, three of its extended claws were severed by Su Ling's short knife and fell to the floor.
Su Ling, seizing this moment, launched her own assault on the one-armed zombie.
From passive to active!