Chapter 18: Difficulty Increases!

"Smack!" Xue Qiong lit a cigarette.

He was the only one awake in the villa now, leaning on the balcony railing looking down on the crowded streets as if it were daytime. The protagonists all fall asleep in the living room through a glass door, some on the sofa, and some directly on the floor.

"The core protagonist's kill reward is equal to the exit point of this world, that is, five thousand points, right..."Xue Qiong turned around and looked at the living room and whispered to himself, the red faint light from the cigarette hair made his face flicker.

"Then the other protagonists won't be less rewarded for killing... Even if you have a mandatory task, you will have to deduct 1,000 points for dying a single one, but overall it is still earned..."

[Kill the secondary protagonist to receive a reward equal to 60% of the current world's exit point, which is 3000 points.] 】

"Hehehehe..."Xue Qiong laughed sarcastically, turned around and looked outside and said, "Don't tease me, I still have to stay here for seven days when they die, what if the difficulty increases?" I'm not like they have a protagonist aura, and I can't output enough firepower alone, and I'm going to be infected if I have a little accident... Besides, I have a strong feeling that if I do it now, these guys will be 100% suddenly awakened by a 'bad premonition' and kill me....sure enough, I should wait until the last day and try my luck like a dragon wolf..."

"Whew...," Xue Qiong took a puff of smoke, "Beacon, why haven't I seen any signs of 'difficulty improvement' at all so far?" ”

[Can't answer your question.] 】

"Brush~" The glass door behind Xue Qiong was opened.

"It's not twelve o'clock yet, is it?" Xue Qiong didn't turn his head.

"Uh... Takashiro-san, I'm next to it, I can't sleep..."Kota Hirano rubbed his head and walked to Xue Qiong's side, also crouched on the railing, picked up the rifle leaning against the wall, his eyes became sharp, and then aimed outside with the scope.

"Your speed of changing faces, no matter how many times you look at it, you feel very good..."The corners of Xue Qiong's mouth twitched.

"That, Hirano-san..."

"What's wrong?"

"I'm thinking, in a hypothetical situation, would you rather sleep with a gun..."Xue Qiong's face did not change, "Or would you rather sleep with Gao Cheng?" ”

"Uh-he-he-hehe-hehe-

"Ahh Saya Takashiro, who was sleeping on the couch, sneezed and pulled up the thin blanket covering him a little in a daze.

"That's... Takashiro-san! I... I'm me, I'm me..."The reflection on Kota Hirano's glasses disappeared, and he waved his hand at the back room in a panic.

"Big brother... You didn't close the door when you first came! And do you want to die a worse death by screaming so loudly? Xue Qiong's tone was still flat, but in fact, she was already lying on the ground rolling with laughter. Luckily, his face was still facing out, and no one could see his expression.

"Huh...? Plain? What do you tell me to do? Hearing his name, Saya Takashiro woke up and asked with his eyes rubbed. The others still slept soundly...

"Uh, no... Nothing..."

"Close the door." Xue Qiong shook the cigarette in her hand, "The smell is not good if it wafts in." ”

Kota Hirano looked at Saya Takashiro and lay down again, closed his eyes and breathed a sigh of relief, lowered his head and sighed, and closed the glass door.

"Do you want one?" Xue Qiong took out a cigarette case with her other hand and shook it in front of Kota Hirano.

"Well, I'm still underage," Hirano said weakly.

"Is it because of the law?"

"I also know that the law doesn't make sense anymore... But smoking is not good for your health, it will reduce your life expectancy or something..."

"Lifespan? Do you think we'll survive until we're old and dead... My thoughts are just the opposite of yours, when you don't know when you will die, you have to deprive yourself of this basic right, that is the real life is better than death..."Xue Qiong said with a smile.

"It's a good way to refresh your mind, help your mind to be active, and it's also a good way to face embarrassing things..."

"Okay, get me one."

Xue Qiong lit a cigarette for Kota Hirano, then directly pinched out his cigarette butt with his hand, and refilled another one for himself.

"Ahem, ahem..."

"You'll get used to it quickly, but one thing to warn you about is that while the headshot with a cigarette in your mouth is a common occurrence in movies and TV shows and is really handsome, the reality is that you're more likely to be blinded by the smoke and unable to aim."

"Thank you..."Kota Hirano was finally able to chat normally after trying to get his lungs used to it.

And Xue Qiong didn't take such a thing to heart, just thought about something like "Is there really no reward for helping the protagonist develop unhealthy living habits".

One o'clock in the morning.

The two were scanning the street below with binoculars and the optical scope on their rifles, respectively. After Kota Hirano was damaged, the consumption of cigarettes increased significantly, and soon the half pack of Marlboro that Xue Qiong grabbed bottomed out.

"Miyamoto-san, let's go take a break, didn't you say that you would change classes at twelve o'clock?"

"Stand a little longer... I don't really want to sleep yet. Although he said this, this sentence was particularly unconvincing when it came out of the mouth of Xue Qiong, who had already begun to yawn.

(Hasn't it shown up yet?) Little Loli Alice... And I always feel that the zombies on the street are much denser than the original, and they just gather in the neighborhood... Is it the reason for the increase in difficulty? I guess I'm going to die on the way... Unlikely, after all, she is also a type with an aura. There are only two or three buildings with lights on in the field of vision, and you won't miss them as long as you stare at them. By the way, if the zombies on the periphery are relatively sparse, it is still more scientific for those two people to be able to run over... )

"Wait, Hirano-san, look over there!" Xue Qiong's spirits perked.

"In this direction?" Hearing this, Kota Hirano turned the muzzle of the gun to the direction that Xue Qiong observed, "Ah, I saw it, it seems to be a father and a daughter..."

"Well, in a way, it's a miracle that you're still on the street so late, and you haven't been hit..."Xue Qiong moved the joints on his body and slowly helped people set up a flag, "But I can see that they are already asking for help from the survivors in that house, and we don't need to help." ”

(Next is when Comrade Dad knocks on the door and gets stabbed to death with a knife wrapped around the clothes pole, and soon it's time for me to appear...) )

"Bump!!"

(Huh?) The sound is wrong! Wait a minute... )

Xue Qiong saw the creepy scene through the telescope....

I saw a long, fleshy thing that poked a hole in the door panel and pierced the father's head.

(Hey...) Could it be... )

"Hirano! Hit that door with your gun! Xue Qiong lowered her voice and said in a hurried tone.

"Wait, isn't that also alive in the back..."

"Trust me! Shoot!! ”

"Bump!" Another voice interrupted Xue Qiong's words.

I saw a humanoid creature crawling out of the door of the house.

There is no skin on the body, no skull, and the brain is exposed to the air through a thin membrane, and the thing that has been nailed through the door panel to the head before is its long tongue...