Chapter 230: Kaelen, The Rabbit Disaster

Chapter 230: Chapter 230: Kaelen, The Rabbit Disaster

Everything was ready.

Seraphina Sullivan wasted no more time and departed in silence.

Her [Bounce] Skill granted her light-footed steps, allowing her to move swiftly between shadows and obstacles.

With the double protection of the [Invisibility Sticker] and the [Mysterious Whisper Sticker], her stealth was nearly impeccable. Not a single person noticed anything amiss.

After successfully leaving the safe zone, Seraphina Sullivan stepped out into the true frozen world.

In an instant, a wave of cold far more frigid than anything in the safe zone assaulted her!

Even though Seraphina Sullivan was wearing a set of self-heating thermal underwear, the warmth felt like a drop in the bucket. The bone-chilling cold pierced through her clothes, making her shiver uncontrollably.

She immediately took out a thermometer. The needle clearly pointed to the terrifying mark of minus seventy degrees!

’The environment out here is already too harsh to stay for long...’ Seraphina Sullivan thought grimly. ’I have to make this quick.’

She didn’t dare to start work too close to the safe zone, lest she arouse suspicion or have someone accidentally stumble upon her while she was invisible.

She pushed on against a frigid wind that felt like it could tear her skin, moving further and further away from the lights of the safe zone until she was surrounded by nothing but endless white snow and dead silence.

Once she had chosen a spot, Seraphina Sullivan didn’t hesitate and immediately got to work.

She reached out, touching the iron-hard ice and snow beneath her feet. Focusing her mind, she connected with her [Scavenger’s Farm] Space.

The next moment, huge chunks of compacted ice and snow in front of her vanished into thin air, as if scooped up by an invisible giant shovel. They were instantly transferred to the empty plot inside her farm Space, the one she had set aside for building an igloo.

Instantly, Seraphina became an efficient, invisible hauler of ice and snow, working at a rapid pace.

...

「Kaelen City.」

It was a smaller city, adjacent to Vorlag City.

While Safe Zone 1 in Vorlag City was gradually stabilizing and its survivors were beginning to struggle for existence under the new order, the newly established safe zone in nearby Kaelen was about to meet a completely different fate.

As the extreme cold worsened, Kaelen had also cooperated with Players to establish a large safe zone.

This safe zone had been established in a hurry. Its walls were still low and flimsy, and tens of thousands of survivors, having fled the city ruins and surrounding towns, were now gathered within.

They thought they had found a temporary haven.

But they had no idea that the Aura of life emanating from such a large gathering of people was like the brightest beacon in the darkness, attracting a terrifying presence that lurked in the shadows of the frozen city.

Disaster struck suddenly and without warning!

BOOM—!!!

A massive explosion suddenly erupted from the eastern Wall of the safe zone.

Masonry and ice flew in all directions!

Immediately after, more explosions, the sound of the Wall collapsing, and the most piercing human screams imaginable rose in a cacophony, tearing the once-peaceful night sky asunder!

"What’s happening?!"

"It’s monsters! Why are there monsters like this on Azure Star?! They’re breaking in!!"

"Oh my God! What are those things?! Rabbits? How can they be rabbit monsters?!"

"AHH—! Stay away! Get back! Why are these rabbits eating people?!"

A survivor’s scream cut off abruptly.

In its place came the horrifying sound of flesh being torn and chewed.

Panic swept through the entire safe zone like a plague.

To their horror, people saw countless normal-sized, snow-white rabbits swarming through the breach in the Wall, their ferocity and agility completely belying their cute appearance!

Their sharp incisors were like angle grinders, easily tearing through thick winter coats and human flesh!

But what made the situation even more hopeless was their trait!

"Damn it! What’s the deal with these rabbits?! Chop off a leg, and it can still hop! Slice one in half, and it just becomes two! We can’t kill them! The more we fight, the more of them there are!"

A burly Player wielding a fire axe, trying to fight back, screamed in despair.

His voice was quickly drowned out by the shrieks of more rabbits and the agonized cries of humans.

Split!

When these bizarre, blood-eyed rabbits sustained enough physical damage, they didn’t die. Instead, they would split into more, slightly smaller, but equally ferocious individuals!

A Player’s attack, rather than killing them, was just helping them multiply!

Only fire could destroy them.

A bullet might instantly destroy one, but against a tide of rabbits that just kept coming and multiplying, limited firepower was pathetically inadequate. 𝒻𝘳ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝒷𝘯ℴ𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝑐ℴ𝑚

"Mommy! Mommy! I’m so scared! SOB... SOB..."

"Help! Won’t someone save us?!"

"Run! Head west! AHH—!"

Cries, pleas for help, and desperate shrieks mingled with the sickening, crunching sounds of the rabbits’ feasting, composing a symphony from hell.

The makeshift tents inside the safe zone were torn to shreds. People were dragged from their hiding places. Severed limbs and mangled corpses littered the ground, creating a veritable slaughterhouse.

Resistance crumbled in an instant. Survival became a distant dream.

The one-sided slaughter did not last long.

And now, upon the ruins freshly baptized in death, lay a scalp-numbing carpet of "life"—a dense, uncountable mass of blood-eyed rabbits.

They lay there quietly, squirming, covering every inch of the ground, their scarlet eyes glinting in the dark like malevolent embers.

In the center of this sea of rabbits stood one with a particularly massive body and an even more savage Aura.

It seemed slightly different from the others. In its eyes, beyond the pure lust for slaughter, there was a glint of cold cunning.

Its distinctive cleft lip was slowly chewing on something, and viscous blood dripped from the corners of its mouth.

It was, shockingly, the skin of a human face, torn from some unfortunate victim, frozen in an expression of ultimate terror and agony.

It stared out impassively at the kingdom of death that it and its colony had created.

It was as if it were declaring a terrifying fact: humanity was no longer the sole ruler of this world.

...

Meanwhile, Seraphina snuck back into the safe zone without a sound.

Once she confirmed that she hadn’t been detected, she immediately entered her [Scavenger’s Farm] Space.

Inside the Space, the massive amount of ice and snow she had collected was piled up like a mountain, radiating a biting chill.

Seraphina rolled up her sleeves, ready for some hard work.

"Alright, all the materials are here. Let’s start building the igloo! First, we need to use all this snow to make uniform bricks, then we can put them together like building blocks."

The moment she finished speaking,

Chubbs, who had been watching all the ice and snow fill the Space, was already eager to get started.

Chubbs immediately stepped forward, chest puffed out, and vigorously flapped its metal wings with a loud "CLANG! CLANG!"

"Bawk bawk! Master, leave making the bricks to me! It’s the perfect chance to show you my newly developed ultimate move: WINGS—OF—STEEL!"