95: Chapter 95 The Only Profession!

At the 01 Tribe, nine figures stood before the crowd.

Ke Yun released a soft glow from her body, while Bai Yu's eyes flickered with the light of analysis.

Sophia stood on the other side, frost spreading out from the tips of her toes.

The red-haired Xia Jin pointed her shura longblade diagonally at the ground.

Fine purple-gold electric arcs constantly leapt around Chen Xiaolin, with Shu Qianxue standing by her side.

Lin Wan and Lin Le hovered a few meters diagonally above the crowd.

In front of Su Mu, ten Wolf Foals, each over 1.8 meters tall at the shoulder and nearly three meters long, stared straight ahead.

Qi Yun stood slightly ahead in the center of the nine, his posture as upright as a pine tree.

Standing here were nine Sole-Class professionals! The most powerful force on this island!

The crimson countdown at the top of the [Regional Chat Channel] hit zero.

[00:00:00]

In an instant, the entire channel fell deathly silent for a moment. It was as if even the endless, despairing clamor had been swallowed and frozen by this silence of reaching zero.

Then, a line of text with a shimmering dark gold border, completely different from all previous spam, appeared at the very top of the channel in an unquestionable, straightforward manner, eerily and forcibly banning all other speech:

[Rabbit: The third wave of the zombie crisis—'Natural Disaster Tide' has officially begun.]

[Killing Mutant zombies has a chance to drop rare items and grant high points.]

[Wish you all a pleasant game!!!]

Almost at the same moment the announcement appeared—

"Rumble—!!!"

The entire island began to shake violently!

Under the nearly dull gazes of all the survivors on the island, a "mountain" stood up.

It was an unimaginably massive, humanoid horror—an aggregate forcibly melded from countless zombies, skeletons, wreckage, rocks, and even twisted metal!

Its height far exceeded 50 meters, and the shadow cast by its massive body instantly covered a vast area.

It had no clear facial features, only a giant mouth that constantly opened and closed, spewing foul black gas.

"That... what is that thing?!"

"A zombie? You call that a zombie?!"

"Are you kidding me! How can we possibly defeat something like that?!"

"We're finished... it's all over..."

The survivors on the island were instantly shrouded in despair upon seeing the giant zombie.

However, that giant-like zombie aggregate began to stride toward the center of the island, in the direction of the Orderly Alliance's stronghold.

Its target seemed to be the most densely populated settlement on the island.

"Rustle... rustle..."

A sound came from the edge of the sparse woodland below the slope of the 01 Tribe.

Two uniquely shaped zombies walked out side-by-side from the shadows of the forest.

They were approximately 2.5 meters tall.

One was relatively slender, its arms mutated into two bone scimitars shimmering with a cold light.

The other was relatively robust, its shoulders and back covered in heavy carapace, with a hideous bone hammer at the end of one arm.

They stopped about a hundred meters in front of the 01 Tribe.

The slender Bone Blade Zombie tilted its head, its tone carrying unabashed mockery.

"How should we play this time? Old rules: Rock-paper-scissors, the winner picks their toys first?"

The robust Bone Hammer Zombie let out a dull chuckle:

"Sure. But there seem to be quite a few people this time, so we should be able to play for a while longer. I hope they don't fall apart in a few moves like that camp we encountered in the last game; that was boring."

Their conversation reached the ears of everyone in front of the 01 Tribe with absolute clarity.

The "intelligent enemies" mentioned in the diary had made their appearance.

"Rock... paper... scissors! Haha, I won!" The Bone Blade Zombie waved its bone blades and pointed at the crowd lined up in front of the fortress.

"I want those few over there who look spirited! Especially that red-haired woman with the blade and that silver-haired chick. I feel like they'll resist, which makes it more exciting!"

The Bone Hammer Zombie shrugged indifferently. "Fine, the rest are mine. Finish up quickly; don't let the other guys finish off all the Tribes."

Just as the Bone Blade Zombie was excitedly preparing to start the "game," its movements suddenly froze.

It looked at the nine people emitting unusual auras.

An extremely subtle energy fluctuation emanated from the Bone Blade Zombie, as if it were sensing something.

The next second, its voice, like metal scraping together, was filled with unbelievable horror:

"Br-brother... is my perception malfunctioning? You... you feel it too!"

Hearing this, the Bone Hammer Zombie also dropped its relaxed demeanor, and its perception waves swept forward.

Then, its body stiffened.

After two seconds of silence, it spoke in an incredibly dry voice:

"Fl-fluctuations of Sole-Class professionals... one, two, three, four... nine... nine of them?!!"

"That's impossible!!!" The Bone Blade Zombie's blade-arms were trembling.

"This is just a shitty little newbie island! Even those top-tier forces in the Land of Beginning can't fucking pull out nine Sole-Class professionals at once! Are you kidding me?! Is the system bugged?!"

Panic instantly gripped the two "Intelligent zombies" who had been calm and composed just moments ago.

Their previous playfulness and sense of superiority vanished, replaced only by fear.

Nine Sole-Class professionals! This lineup was no longer something beings like them could touch!

"Run!!!"

Without any hesitation, the Bone Blade Zombie let out a shrill screech, and a cloud of ink-thick black smoke suddenly exploded from the surface of its body!

The Bone Hammer Zombie spun around abruptly, its feet kicking the ground hard as it prepared to bolt toward the dense forest behind it!

Their reactions were by no means slow.

But someone was faster.

"Zzzzt—!"

A faint sound, like an electric current darting through the air.

Chen Xiaolin raised her right leg, which was enveloped in fine electric light, and swept a fierce roundhouse kick toward a blurry silhouette within the black mist!

The roundhouse kick, infused with the Power of wind and lightning, struck the Bone Blade Zombie's waist squarely!

"Ah—!!" The Bone Blade Zombie only had time to let out half a scream before its entire body twisted into a grotesque angle.

It twitched, clearly not going to survive.

Simultaneously, Qi Yun appeared out of thin air behind the Bone Hammer Zombie that was about to kick off and flee!

[Space Slash].

The Bone Hammer Zombie's body was instantly sliced in two, without even a chance to make a sound!

After reaching level 11, Qi Yun was already able to control the range and power of Space Slash, so he would no longer drain himself completely.

From the appearance of the two Intelligent zombies to their instantaneous kills, the entire process took no more than twenty seconds.

Qi Yun slowly withdrew his hand and glanced at the two zombie corpses on the ground, which were rapidly losing their life force.

It seemed that as long as they didn't actively provoke the "Natural Disaster"...

With the nine Sole-Class professionals that his "comrades-in-arms" had worked so hard day and night to produce over the past few days, dealing with the main part of this third zombie wave should be more than enough.

...