Cheat Awakening-Chapter 711 - . Looking for the Tower

Everyone got off the bus.

Myne noticed that, except for Mr. Red and the big-ass cowardly girl, one holding a fire axe and the other a throwing knife—no one else took out a weapon from their inventory. freewēbnoveℓ.com

"Where are your weapons?" Myne asked confusedly.

"We? None." Achoo shook his head.

Ache scratched his face in annoyance. "This kind of weapon equipment is hard to draw. In a single-player dungeon, you can't even bring out a sharp knife."

Magmascorch also shook his head without saying anything.

"Then let's see if there's a place where we can find some melee weapons for you," Myne mused for a moment before replying.

"That's not urgent," Achoo quickly refused his suggestion, not wanting to delay the others because of them. Also, he and his friend were more than happy to be spectators and gain protection under the pretext of not having weapons.

"This is urgent." Myne looked at the sunset in the distance. "Do you still remember the phrase 'the afterglow of the sunset is fading'?"

Magmascorch narrowed his eyes. "It means that if we don't find a safe place to stay before dark, something terrible will happen?"

"Yes, so spending some time to find a few weapons won't leave you alone, and it can also speed up our search for a place to stay."

As soon as Myne finished speaking, a task panel appeared before everyone.

[ Main Mission ( 1 ) has been triggered. ]

[ Find the tower before dark. ]

"Tower?"

Looking at the main information, which seemed to indicate a chain of quests, everyone couldn't help but frown. After all, unlike a single mission, chain quests were always hard to deal with, and the trouble only grew with each subsequent mission.

Mr. Red spoke while stroking his bald head, "The introduction mentioned that there are still people struggling in this city, which means there are other survivors. They may be staying in this tower, and we have to enter before dark, otherwise something terrible will happen at night."

"But we don't know where the tower is yet, or what it looks like, and this city has many big buildings. God knows which one is the tower the system chose for us," Ache said, a little confused, as he looked at the high-rise buildings around him.

"That's a bit troublesome," Mr. Red also nodded in agreement.

Magmascorch looked at the sunset in the sky. "It looks like the sun will set in half an hour at most. My suggestion is to go to the nearest station to figure out where we are. There should be a map of the city at the station to see if we can find the tower and plan a route. Since the system already gave us the target, it definitely gave it some kind of enchantment that makes it look different from the others and easy to recognise."

Magmascorch's analysis was very reasonable and based on his experience. After all, even before playing this game, he was good at exploring various environments and areas. Otherwise, as a goblin, making a living wasn't easy; robbing people was very hard. If you weren't careful and hit a tough target, God knows how you would end up. So, leaving a dozen escape routes was the normal routine before any operation.

Everyone thought his plan was fine, and after they nodded, Magmascorch said seriously, "Since everyone agrees, let's set off now without further delay."

"Wait."

Myne said softly, "The tour guide has something to say."

Magmascorch thought, "__" (How did you become the tour guide out of nowhere? Who gave you permission?)

Although he was cursing Myne's entire family in his heart for not being serious even at this point and making jokes, thinking about Myne's past deeds and perverted behaviour, Magmascorch swallowed his complaints and spoke with a polite smile.

"Brother Glitcher, do you have any suggestions?"

"Yes. I suggest walking straight to the end of this street, then turning two blocks, picking up some handy weapons at an auto repair shop, and then continuing to walk south. We should then be able to reach the tower."

"???"

Everyone was stunned hearing his words, and Achoo asked stupidly, "How do you know?"

"Because," Myne paused, looked at everyone's faces full of expectation to know his secret, and said calmly while shaking his head and staring at the sunset, "I found the map in the driver's locker on the bus."

Achoo roared angrily, "You should have told us this earlier, asshole!"

Myne looked at them strangely; all of them had unfriendly expressions. He shook the flag he had been carrying since taking it out of the locker, but everyone had ignored it, and no one had even bothered to ask why he was carrying it, thinking it was perhaps one of his weird hobbies, just like putting his hand inside a corpse.

But they failed to see that despite him waving at them from time to time to attract their attention, on the other side of it was an old city map, which, of course, he had found with the help of his ability to see through clues. But they didn't need to know this, and he didn't mind pretending to be cool.

"I tried to show you the entire time, but you guys were too busy ignoring me, thinking I was crazy, so what could I do about it?"

Everyone became embarrassed hearing that their little thoughts were seen. But it wasn't entirely their fault; it was hard for anyone to have a good impression of someone who played with corpses as if it were nothing.

"Anyway, the location has been found; everyone should set off quickly." Myne's expression became a little serious as he looked at the sunset in the distance. "I seem to have a bad premonition."

...

The sunset glow was looming in the clouds and had disappeared. The horizon was already grey, and a heavy darkness was approaching, as if it were going to engulf the city.

Myne and his group were running down the street.

"It's only been twenty minutes, and the sun has already set," Ache said uneasily, holding a broken iron hook. "How far are we from the tower?"

The zombies around them were wandering aimlessly. Although their pace wasn't fast, there were enough of them to surround and devour the group alive. Upon discovering the group, they were attracted one by one and rushed towards them with bared teeth and wide, vacant eyes.

"There are still ten minutes to go, but," Mr. Red roared, bringing his fire axe down on a zombie's head, "these zombies seem to be getting more and more difficult to deal with. I think we'd better hurry; the night isn't going to be friendly to us."

After night fell, the zombies' mobility suddenly increased significantly, as if they had taken energy drinks.

Although players' physical fitness is much higher than that of ordinary people due to their attribute points, they haven't reached the level of single-handedly surpassing hordes of ordinary people. Yes, they can fight a dozen individuals, but that's their limit. Once the numbers increase too much, it's not impossible for ants to kill an elephant.

Also, everyone's base physical condition differs, affected by multiple factors like bloodline or some kind of magical fruit or herb that enhances physique, such as the one Myne had eaten. People like Mr. Red, who has a bloodline advantage, have more initial strength, and attribute points further increase it.

But people like Magmascorch, whose strength as a goblin is very weak, find it hard, even with attribute points, to reach Mr. Red's level, and the gap doesn't easily close unless he does something extraordinary and earns a huge amount of free attribute points without levelling up.

Mr. Red was worthy of being at the highest level in the team. The fire axe in his hand was very powerful equipment. It cut through zombies like cutting weeds; no zombie could withstand a single hit from him.

He seemed to have rich combat experience and was able to handle all kinds of zombies with ease.

If there was anything that made everyone's mouths twist, it was that they had an incompetent teammate among them. Although the only girl on the team, The Shiny Star, also had a proper weapon, she sadly focused more on either screaming or behaving like an idiot, waving the knife randomly and nearly cutting Ache a few times.

She had neither brains nor fighting skills. Even if she shut her mouth, behaved vigilantly, and simply followed them instead of causing trouble in a panic, everyone would be grateful. But sadly, she was too scared and didn't know how to control herself.

At this moment, Ache's pointy ears on his head twitched a few times, and he showed a serious look on his face, gazing into the distance.

"Guys, I think we must speed up. I just seemed to hear a strange sound."

"Not seen." Myne ran the cold light of the butcher knife in his hand reflecting the bright moon. He rushed directly to kill several zombies in front of him with a penetrating force and looked with a worried expression at the giant { ? } that had turned red from golden and was approaching their direction with astonishing speed.

"That thing is approaching us at a speed of 80 kilometres per hour. It will catch up with us in at most one minute."