Chapter 5: City of Zombie Beasts _3

But the scene in front of him still made him, who had grown up in a rule of law society, feel tingles on his scalp.

After all, what he knocked off wasn't an insignificant fly or mosquito, but a human-shaped monster.

He couldn't even move his feet as if they were filled with lead, not to mention his eyes, his gaze fixed unchangingly upon the zombie beast.

For the time being, he could only hear his breathing and the sound of his heartbeat.

He kept telling himself in his mind: this is just an instance, this is just an instance, this is just an instance.

It took him quite a while to gradually recover.

"This stick....."

He took a look at the iron stick in his hand, feeling it to be even more useful than he had initially thought.

"Is anyone there! Is anyone there! Cute Mushroom!"

Before he could think any further, the voice of the Mossy Mushroom rang out again.

So, he swiftly climbed up the staircase, initially thinking it would take time to find this guy, only to find that the top floor was clear as soon as he climbed up.

He soon found the Mossy Mushroom in a pit left by construction work.

It turned out that it had not encountered any zombie beasts, but had simply fallen into the pit by accident and could not climb out due to its short stature.

Ree Shil jumped down to make a human ladder for it, and then climbed up himself.

"You finally came."

After catching its breath as it reached the top, the Mossy Mushroom looked around and asked, "Hmm? Where's Straw Man?"

"I don't know, maybe he was eaten by the zombie beast?"

Ree Shil shrugged his shoulders.

"Zombie beasts likely won't attack targets without brains."

The Mossy Mushroom started taking things seriously.

"Let's look around, I think he's nearby."

Ree Shil stopped joking.

He was on Floor Two, Mossy Mushroom was on Floor Three, so Straw Man was probably dropped on Floor One.

So, an individual and a mushroom decided to go down and look for Straw Man.

Before that, Mossy Mushroom first followed Ree Shil's suggestion and chose to equip a card.

Its Card Player's Talent was the Mushroom King's Arrival, which forcibly changes all its cards into Mushroom cards.

So the card it equipped at this time was a Mushroom Left Wheel, which could fire mushroom bullets.

Originally, Ree Shil somewhat belittled this water gun-like toy, but the result surprised him.

The effect of mushroom bullets hitting a concrete wall was almost the same as a real gun.

The downside was that it could only fire six bullets at a time, and it had to wait 20 seconds to automatically reload.

After equipping cards, the two of them carefully descended down the stairs.

The process went smoothly, and they did not encounter zombie beasts again.

However, after searching the second and the first floors, they did not find Straw Man.

"Is it possible that he was dropped far away?"

The Mossy Mushroom put forward its own thoughts.

"Is it possible that the identity he was assigned upon arrival was a zombie beast?"

Ree Shil's guess was even more absurd.

"A zombie beast straw?

Mossy Mushroom looked interested and held the gun in his hand tighter.

"Right, it seems the team-up panel can show the teammate's position."

At this time, Ree Shil remembered something.

He brought up the system panel and found it indeed had this function.

On the green electronic grid page, three almost overlapping light points represented the current location of one person, one mushroom, and one grass.

"This...?"

Mossy Mushroom seemed puzzled after seeing it.

That was because according to the panel, Straw Man was right at their side.

"It's over, he really is gone, and now he's following us in spirit."

Ree Shil said with a serious look on his face.

"Mushroom's sake! Don't scare me like that!"

Mossy Mushroom felt a chill run down its spine.

Seeing it scared like this, Ree Shil chuckled a bit, feeling satisfied.

"Alright, let's go."

"There should still be Basement Level 1."

He waved his hand, signaling the other to follow.

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