Only at the Mahayana Stage Does the Reversal System Appear - Chapter 128

Chapter 128 The Luo Family Ancestor Appears

At this time, the safe zones were still trying their best to come up with meaningful names for themselves, such as Fulin, Yonggu, Shuangxi, Xinsheng, and so on.

The names of the safe zones were unimportant to the zombies. In the previous life, dozens of safe zones were destroyed one after another by various factors, such as zombie tides and human disasters. In the end, no one wanted to give the safe zones names. It was useless anyway, so they were simply called District One and District Two.

In the Fulin District, a small tavern, dim light tubes flickered, and countless drinkers came here to vent their emotions and loudly brag about their adventures.

“Did you know that Boss Luo Ying has made a breakthrough?” A man with shifty eyes and a rat-like mustache finished a glass of cheap baijiu and talked about Luo Ying with others.

“Tell me what happened?” Someone was intrigued by the rat-like man. When the drinkers heard Luo Ying’s name, they gathered around, waiting for the second half of his words.

Luo Ying is now the most famous figure in the apocalypse. He founded the Enhancer system, establishing the ranks of zombies and Enhancers, and highlighting the gap between humanity’s current technology and that of the fourth-tier zombies.

If he hadn’t developed the Enhancer system and proposed a unified currency system, using Contribution Points as the new currency, it’s unclear how long it would have taken to establish a safe zone.

During the day, people desperately searched the ruins for supplies, and at night, they enjoyed gossip, especially about Luo Ying.

However, Luo Ying spent his entire life wandering the ruins of various cities, slaying zombies, collecting brain cores, and searching for survivors. He rarely visited the safe zone to resupply, so little was known about him. Most of the information we had about him came from survivors.

This was incomprehensible. Why wouldn’t anyone come to the safe zone to resupply? For another thing, water was a major concern. The safe zone had purification facilities, ensuring a guaranteed water supply. If Luo Ying didn’t come, could he actually create purified water?

The man with the rat-beard smiled but said nothing. The patrons immediately understood what he meant and shouted, “Boss, this guy’s got a drink on his hands!”

“And bring this guy a bottle of purified water, a plate of compressed biscuits, and a plate of fennel beans!”

There’s no such thing as free intel these days.

The man with the rat-beard nodded before continuing.

“Today, our team went to Qi Yu City for a sweep. We split up and searched for electronic components. Who would have thought I’d run into those two big guys, Luo Ying and Luo Zhu, and those ancient-dressed ghosts floating behind them.”

“Qi Yu City?! Aren’t there supposedly several Level 2 zombies lurking there? You’re incredibly brave, going to a place like that!”

The man with the rat-beard separated the skin from the flesh of the fennel beans, eating the skin first, then the flesh. He took a sip of white wine, and finally said with a bitter smile, “It’s because they have the most supplies there, the risks are high, and the rewards are great.”

“Those two big guys are truly as rumored, possessing clairvoyant eyes. No zombie hiding in the shadows can escape their sharp blades.”

“From my vantage point, I could see two Level 2 zombies lying in ambush nearby. The two bosses shouldn’t have noticed. I was about to warn them, but they seemed to have already seen the zombies and rushed forward to kill them.”

Someone exclaimed, “Those are Level 2 zombies! Aren’t Luo Ying and Luo Zhu only Level 1?”

Nearly three months have passed since the Enhancer system appeared, and no human has yet reached Level 2. After absorbing a brain core, a human’s body needs to fully absorb and adapt, a cooling-off period before absorbing another.

Luo Ying has repeatedly warned Enhancers not to ignore this cooling-off period, but some arrogant Enhancers, believing his success was simply luck and that they didn’t need to listen, continue absorbing brain cores, ultimately bursting their bodies.

Humans absorb energy through their bodies, while zombies absorb energy through their brain cores. Therefore, zombies don’t have a cooling-off period, resulting in the emergence of Level 2 zombies, but no Level 2 Enhancers.

Fortunately, Level 2 zombies haven’t yet broken through the safe zone’s defenses.

“That’s why I call them big guns. Just a few days ago, an eight-man team, all Enhancers, encountered a Level 2 zombie. Only two emerged alive, with the remaining six either eaten or transformed.”

“Those two big guns easily dispatched two Level 2 zombies.”

“Not Level 1 anymore,” the rat-bearded man said, pointing to the detector. “I saw them absorb those two Level 2 brain cores and become Level 2 Enhancers.”

The detector, which roughly determines the level of zombies and Enhancers, is standard equipment for rescue teams.

Everyone sighed at the vast disparity in combat power, as if the Level 1 Enhancers of the Luo siblings were a different beast from the publicly recognized Level 1 Enhancers.

While many Enhancers are so far apart that direct competition is impossible, it’s difficult to determine who’s superior, but Luo Ying and Luo Zhu are undisputedly the first and second best humans. The only debate is who truly holds the top spot.

Now that the siblings have become unprecedented Level 2 Enhancers, the gap has widened.

Judging from the current situation, more people support Luo Ying as the strongest fighter. After all, Luo Ying is more famous. Since becoming the first Enhancer three months ago and cultivating the first batch of Enhancers, countless Enhancers in the Safe Zone have benefited from his help. It can be said that he can easily command the support of hundreds and change the top of the Safe Zone at will.

Perhaps because of Luo Ying’s dazzling presence, Luo Zhu has become less noticeable, and everyone still regards this lovely girl as Luo Ying’s follower.

Luo Zhu has only become powerful due to her brother’s constant guidance, so she is probably not as powerful as Luo Ying.

“By the way, what is the ghost following the Luo siblings? I heard it followed them before the apocalypse.”

The zombie virus and Enhancers can be explained scientifically, but Jiang Li’s existence truly belongs to the realm of metaphysics, and no Safe Zone can explain it.

“I see that ghost holding a pagoda in one hand and wearing ancient costume. Maybe it’s the manifestation of the Luo family’s ancestor.”

“That makes sense.”

Since there is no existing explanation, everyone accepts this unreliable metaphysical theory.

…

In Qiyu City, Jiang Li, completely unaware that he had become the ancestor of the Luo family, was praising Luo Zhu.

“Not bad, you’ve reached the Foundation Establishment stage.”

Luo Zhu sat quietly on the pile of rocks, resting the dagger on her thigh and gently wiping the blood off it. The moonlight shone down, and her skin seemed to glow, a dreamlike scene, a rare sight in this apocalyptic world.

She smiled slightly, but said nothing.

Brahma Tower comforted Luo Ying from the side, “Don’t be too disappointed. You’ve worked very hard to reach the ninth level of Qi training in three months.”

Luo Ying thought to herself, “I’m not disappointed. What’s the use of your empty consolation?”

Luo Ying now possessed two systems: a Level 2 Enhancer and a ninth-level Qi Training cultivator.

Luo Zhu was similar, though even stronger than her brother, a Level 2 Enhancer and a Foundation Establishment cultivator.

Together, the siblings could take on even a Level 3 zombie, but they were still a long way from defeating a swarm of Level 4 whale zombies.

(End of Chapter)