Chapter 53: [Mind Control] Skill, Instance Ends!
Yan Liuming narrowed his eyes, secretly wondering whether these strangely-behaving zombies were the real masterminds behind this entire series of events.
At that moment, Su Ning experienced an unprecedented sense of joy through the special ability of the “Burrowing Zombie,” as if she had entered a game world.
“The burrowing talent is actually this powerful? As expected, no talent should be underestimated—even a seemingly obscure ability can have such an impact,” Su Ning pondered seriously.
To prepare for potentially powerful talent-wielding players, Su Ning had the Burrowing Zombie consume a large number of [Zombie Fruits] beforehand to enhance its capabilities.
Sure enough, the strengthened ability performed exceptionally. The Burrowing Zombie’s talent was greatly enhanced and quickly drew everyone’s attention in battle.
Anyone touched by Su Ning would instantly have a giant hole gouged out of their body—so gory that even if someone tried to ignore it, they couldn’t.
Gu Cheng’an saw it too. But he and his team had no intention of helping Yan Liuming, whom they regarded as scum. Instead, they mercilessly kicked him while he was down.
Suddenly, a whirlwind appeared behind Yan Liuming, cutting off his escape route.
“Damn it!” Yan Liuming’s eyes flashed an angry red as he tried to use his psychic powers to control Gu Cheng’an.
However, Gu Cheng’an had anticipated this. After successfully ambushing him, he quickly led Ma Feng and An Ruoru to escape the scene.
Gu Cheng’an had discovered the flaw in Yan Liuming’s ability—distance. As long as there was enough distance between them, Yan Liuming’s mind control would fail.
Gu Cheng’an carried someone in each hand, and a gust of wind swept them all up into the air, helping them flee.
Meanwhile, Yan Liuming and his men were engaged in a desperate struggle.
His mind control was completely ineffective against zombies. And thanks to Su Ning’s ambush, most of his followers were wiped out by zombies erupting from the ground.
“The bombing—yes!” Yan Liuming thought of using explosives to wipe out the zombies, but quickly realized he himself was within the blast radius. If he triggered the bombing, he’d die with them.
“Damn it!” Yan Liuming cursed again.
At this moment, Su Ning noticed something odd about Yan Liuming.
Just a second ago, players were trying to run. The next second, they stood blank-faced, forming a protective circle around him.
“Mind control ability?” Su Ning was shocked. She quickly guessed what it was. She couldn’t imagine what atrocities someone with such a broken power could commit, especially someone willing to use the weak as bait.
Thankfully, she noticed that the zombies were immune to his mind control. That gave her a sense of relief and also confirmed her suspicion: this guy must be the leader of Wang Ke’s organization.
Knowing this, Su Ning had no more reservations. She launched an all-out attack on him.
She remembered that feeding the zombie named Huahua with Wang Ke earlier had produced a Beast Taming skill fruit.
Now that she was facing someone with a clear psychic-type ability, feeding him to Huahua might yield a mind-related skill fruit.
So without hesitation, Su Ning flashed forward and appeared right next to Yan Liuming.
The usually calm Yan Liuming turned pale with fear when he saw such a powerful zombie charging at him.
“You useless trash! Stop her!” he shouted at those around him, while he prepared to flee on his own.
But unfortunately for him, Su Ning had no intention of giving him a chance to escape.
The strengthened zombie now had far superior physical strength and seemed to be evolving toward the Brutal Zombie boss of this instance. Combined with her burrowing ability, the players before her were as fragile as paper—shattering with a touch.
Yan Liuming tried to sprint away, but the next moment, he felt something touch his back.
A sharp pain surged through his body.
Looking down, he saw a massive hole in his chest.
“No—”
He didn’t even finish his sentence before collapsing to the ground, eyes wide open.
Even in death, he couldn’t understand how things had spiraled out of control. Everything had been going so well. He was about to complete the mission of killing 100,000 zombies and gain access to the planting space—so how did it end like this?
Su Ning carried Yan Liuming’s corpse away and vanished into the zombie horde.
Meanwhile, the chat channel was buzzing.
Suddenly, someone exposed a shocking piece of information:
Someone had gathered a group of players and used them as bait to attract zombies, all for the sake of completing the kill quest.
This revelation caused an uproar in the chat. Players condemned the act in fury. Some even turned on their mics to rant passionately. One message in particular stood out:
[Let this be a warning to all players: In an instance, it’s survival of the fittest. There’s no such thing as selfless help or kindness—only betrayal and slaughter.]
Su Ning noticed this message too.
She deeply understood that in this world, the law of the jungle ruled. Only the strong survived. In an instance, there were no rules. Anything could happen.
All those mysterious acts of kindness—what sinister motives might be hidden behind them?
She reminded herself once again: in this game, the most important thing was to protect herself.
Later, her attention turned to the new skill fruit in her hand.
[Mind Control] Skill Fruit: Can mentally control others. The greater the distance, the higher the chance of failure.
After returning, Su Ning fed Yan Liuming’s corpse to Huahua. As expected, Huahua did not disappoint—it produced a new skill fruit.
Without hesitation, Su Ning consumed both the [Beast Taming] and [Mind Control] skill fruits.
This granted her two extremely powerful and promising abilities.
After everything settled down, Su Ning still had to continue her mission within the instance.
Possibly influenced by the chat channel, many players began luring zombies and bombing them in large numbers.
In the days that followed, Su Ning heard explosions frequently.
But that didn’t concern her. With her burrowing and bullet storm zombie combo, she could easily finish her mission.
Sure enough, on the final day of the instance, a system prompt finally rang in her ears—the one she had long been waiting for!
Ding! Congratulations, player, for completing the mission: Kill 100,000 zombies. You have earned the reward: 1 Planting Space!
A small earring suddenly appeared in her hand.
It was the carrier of the Planting Space.
Before she had time to examine it—
[Corpse Hell] ended.
Su Ning finally returned to the real world.
(End of Chapter)
