Underworld Player Chapter 50 - Mind like a Steel Trap

As shocking as it had been to see Dave's corpse in the middle of the living room, spilling his brains out everywhere, more shocking still was the fact that the cartoonish zombies from the game now looked like realistic horrors.

Bai Zhi had just managed to plant his second Sunflower when the silhouettes of the zombies began appearing out of the fog from across the street.

Ones that had an eyeball dangling from their eye socket, ones that had lost half their skull and dribbled maggots everywhere as they lurched forward... They looked much more gruesome than the body in the house—more importantly, they could move.

Thank goodness Mustachio and Nine-Tailed Fox had expelled everything that they could from their guts, or the sight of the ghouls slowly shuffling toward them would make it hard to stand their ground, let alone deploy their plant-based defenses.

In Late Night Kitty's case, she had obediently kept the pair of glasses on, fully aware of her own weaknesses in this regard.

As he planted the Starfruit on the front lawn as instructed, Mustachio clutched one hand on his protesting stomach and shot Bai Zhi a glance.

Did that guy make a big deal of it in the living room on purpose because... he expected something like this?

If he hadn't gotten it out of his system in the living room thanks to Bai Zhi's nauseating comments, the urge to throw up would have hit him upon seeing the slowly advancing mob of walking dead and he would have run off to some other corner to puke.

"Go on, get to the pool. Let me know if any zombies start showing up." Bai Zhi waved a hand dismissively, blissfully unaware of Mustachio's thoughts.

The first wave was not a difficult one, being something that all Players were expected to survive, as long as they picked sensible, reliable plants as their starters.

But Bai Zhi's objective was not just to survive the first wave. If not for the fact that the Game was only available for three hours, he would have aimed to Extract the whole thing on his own.

The measure of Extraction was how many plants a P

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