Chapter 109 Stubborn Lin Yun Strikes Again!

"Just say whatever you want to say. Doesn’t it feel uncomfortable keeping it bottled up?"

Lin Yun noticed Xu Chi’s hesitant expression and couldn’t help asking.

Xu Chi hesitated for a moment before finally asking, "There’s a zombie pit near our base, but all the zombie corpses inside have disappeared. I wanted to ask if you know anything about it."

The moment the question left his mouth, Xu Chi realized that something was off.

After all, Lin Yun had only followed them to the entrance of the base last time. She might not even know where the zombie pit was.

And even if she did know, how could a young girl like her possibly have moved so many zombie corpses?

Wait...

She had that vine.

"..."

Lin Yun was momentarily speechless.

"I don’t know. Where’s the zombie pit? And since you killed those zombies, why didn’t you burn the corpses?"

Xu Chi stared at Lin Yun for a while.

Lin Yun, however, looked at him with such an innocent and self-righteous expression that he became somewhat confused.

Finally, Xu Chi sighed.

"Then you’ll have to ask our leader. If she doesn’t allow it, there’s nothing we can do."

Lin Yun immediately understood what he meant.

So that’s where all those zombie corpses had come from!

She had wondered why there had been so many zombie corpses piled up in that pit.

She hadn’t expected that the base’s leadership wouldn’t even allow them to dispose of the bodies.

"Let’s meet here again later."

After saying that, Xu Chi returned to the base to discuss the matter with Zhao Tianbo and the others.

Lin Yun was too lazy to keep running around, so she simply wandered around the neighborhood.

Whenever she found something useful, she would stuff it into a woven bag and then toss the bag into her backpack.

"Youyou, is there still room in our shelter?"

Sang Biao watched Lin Yun continue picking things up and couldn’t help worrying that their shelter might not be big enough anymore.

Lin Yun stopped.

Her finger was still pointing toward another item.

"..."

There really wasn’t much room left.

But if she didn’t pick these things up while she was outside, it would be no different from throwing them away!

Since she was already here and there were still plenty of things she wanted, how could she bear to leave them behind?

"...It’s fine, it’s fine. Just hold on for another half a month. Our shelter will be able to expand by then!"

"Trust me!"

Two days ago, after returning home, Lin Yun had used the two-square-meter expansion reward she received.

She had even gritted her teeth and spent resources to expand it by another three square meters.

Her shelter was now five by five meters.

That was already quite spacious!

And she had been working very hard to expand it even further.

[I was just saying... isn’t there a daily quest that lets you expand your shelter by six square meters? Why don’t you consider doing it?]

Lin Yun froze.

There really was such a quest.

She would ask Xu Chi and the others about it when they returned later.

Since she had no intention of leaving Z City, she had never even asked Xu Chi what the base was called.

"...If I don’t complete the quest, you won’t deduct three square meters from my shelter, right?"

Lin Yun asked hesitantly.

[...]

[Stubborn Lin Yun strikes again!]

The system rolled its eyes.

[Fine! If you fail to complete it, 50 points will be deducted!]

Lin Yun sighed.

She decided to wait until Xu Chi and the others returned before making a decision.

After all, she didn’t even know the name of their base yet.

However, since she was already thinking about quests, Lin Yun opened her personal panel and entered the Quest Center.

She wanted to see whether there were any other relatively easy daily quests.

Daily Quest: Kill 5 jin of Cockroaches

Quest Difficulty: B

Quest Reward: 50 Points

Lin Yun stared at the quest in disbelief.

"Is this really right?"

"Kill cockroaches? Ten points per jin?"

"I only get 0.1 points for killing a zombie. Are you serious?"

Lin Yun questioned the system again.

This had to be a new quest.

But the system remained silent.

Daily Quest: Kill 10 Rats

Quest Difficulty: C

Quest Reward: 10 Points

Lin Yun’s expression fell again.

She couldn’t help grumbling at the Quest Center.

Another quest appeared.

Daily Quest: Kill 1 jin of Insects

Quest Difficulty: B

Quest Reward: 10 Points

Lin Yun narrowed her eyes.

Cockroaches were insects, right?

If she accepted both quests, wouldn’t killing cockroaches count toward both of them?

[???]

The system finally couldn’t hold back.

[I have to admit, I made a mistake. Which second-rate data provider added this ridiculous quest?!]

Just as the system was about to cancel the quest, Lin Yun seemed to anticipate what it was going to do.

She quickly accepted the two quests.

System: [...]

Lin Yun stopped collecting "trash" and started working on her quests instead.

The only problem was that she had no idea where to find cockroaches.

After thinking for a moment, Lin Yun took out another boxed meal.

She found a relatively safe location, placed the meal on top of a manhole cover, and decided to use it as bait.

Just in case.

She put on her protective suit and waited nearby.

The lunchbox was placed inside a box, while Ghost Vine lay on top of it, pretending to be dead.

Before long, the cockroaches and rats living in the sewers seemed to notice the delicious smell coming from above.

They hadn’t smelled anything this tempting in a long time.

The creatures began to stir.

Several rats pushed against the manhole cover with their heads and crawled out of the sewer.

They immediately rushed toward the smell.

A large number of cockroaches, rats, and other strange insects followed behind them.

Lin Yun immediately got goosebumps.

[Mutated Cockroaches: Stronger than ordinary cockroaches. They are resistant to fire and water, while insecticides have greatly reduced effects on them. They possess remarkable vitality and reproduce extremely quickly.]

Lin Yun sucked in a breath.

These creatures were somewhat similar to the mutated rats.

Mutated rats also reproduced extremely quickly.

She immediately turned around and reminded Xu Chi and the others to make preparations.

Otherwise, once these creatures multiplied, they could become a serious problem.

Once most of the insects had entered the box, Ghost Vine quickly sealed the opening with its vines.

Lin Yun immediately stepped forward and submitted the insects.

[50 points have been credited to your account. Please check your account.]

There were roughly 2.5 kilograms of insects inside.

The two quests had overlapped, and she had received 50 points directly.

"Looks like catching bugs is much faster than killing zombies."

When Xu Chi and the others arrived, Lin Yun was still busy catching insects and rats.

Unfortunately, after being tricked several times, the rats and cockroaches in the area had become much smarter.

They were no longer willing to come out for the food.

This left Lin Yun feeling rather regretful.

"What are you doing here?"

Xu Chi walked over, completely unable to understand what Lin Yun was doing this time.

Lin Yun didn’t even look up.

"After the floodwaters receded, did you still see rats, cockroaches, or other small animals living in the city?"

Xu Chi was taken aback.

They had seen—and even fought—some of those creatures in the floodwater during the storm.

But after the water receded, they had seemingly disappeared.

"Is there something wrong?"

"The sewers are probably filled with them," Lin Yun said.

"They’ve all mutated."

"Mutated rats and cockroaches are extremely resilient, and they reproduce incredibly quickly."

Lin Yun regretfully stroked the vine wrapped around her hand before standing up.

"Captain Xu, you understand what I’m getting at, right?"

Xu Chi froze.

Lin Yun clearly knew far more about these creatures than they did.

Her words had to be hinting at something.

But he quickly understood.

Lin Yun was warning them that these mutated creatures could multiply at an alarming rate.

And once their numbers grew large enough, they might eventually turn against the humans living in the city.

If possible, they needed to deal with the problem before that happened.