Chapter 245 The General Direction, Subjugation

Hearing Su Ze's inquiry,

A flash of struggle crossed Shi Yetang's face, which finally turned into a look of bitterness.

"I can."

She nodded, her voice carrying a deathly despair.

"I can take the initiative to unlock the Shackles of Wisdom, allowing my body to return to its most primitive instincts and regain... infinite Stamina."

"But the price is that my intelligence will completely collapse. My personality, my memories, my everything will be erased in an instant. I will return to that state of having no true wisdom, only knowing how to wander and bite."

She smiled miserably, her bewitching face full of self-deprecation.

"Unless there is no other choice, who would do such a thing?"

"Because if that happens, even if this body happens to 'grow' wisdom again later by chance, it would be a brand-new individual. It couldn't possibly be 'me' anymore, and it wouldn't have any of my previous memories."

Su Ze nodded understandingly.

It was equivalent to the soul dying and a new soul moving into the same shell; naturally, it would no longer be the original person.

"So..." Shi Yetang's voice was thick with helplessness and unwillingness,

"Don't be fooled by how zombies can kill so many players in the first stage, making us seem powerful. In reality, within the entire Monster Camp, our Zombie Clan is one of the most garbage races."

"The combat power of the top Zombie Royalty doesn't even compare to the top powerhouses of other races, and we recover particularly slowly. As for those low-level zombies without intelligence, they are no different from ants in front of true powerhouses."

Su Ze listened, his finger unconsciously rubbing his chin.

He proposed an obvious line of thought: "Then have you ever thought about letting top zombies possess intelligence, but instead of fighting personally, they command from behind the scenes, controlling those brainless zombies to play a Swarm Tactic?"

"Do you think we haven't tried that?" Shi Yetang gave a bitter laugh,

"Masses of low-level zombies are too weak; they are simply useless."

"And those of our kind who possess great strength also possess intelligence. Why should they listen to you?"

"As for those zombies in the middle tier, who have both killing instincts and survival instincts..."

"While they can be forcibly driven, at the end of the day, their strength is still very weak. They can only bully new players who have just recently left the Novice Period."

Su Ze completely understood.

Indeed.

Forget about anyone else; with his current strength, dealing with the zombies encountered during the Novice Period was no different from exterminating ants with insecticide.

When Shi Yetang compared them to other races, she was naturally referring to those terrifying monster races.

In battles of that level, the numerical advantage of low-level zombies could almost be ignored.

"Our corpse puppet was actually an attempt by our Zombie Clan."

"To let a zombie possess great strength while not developing intelligence."

"But for now, there's no way to produce them in large numbers."

"Even if one can manipulate them perfectly."

She poured everything out in one go.

Su Ze was enlightened upon hearing this.

He had previously been worried that this woman... no, female zombie, would secretly transform many of his people into something like that powerful zombie from before. Now it seemed she didn't have the ability to do so.

His direct risk to stop her just now had been a success.

Ah well, losing fewer players was a good thing that came out of a stroke of luck.

"That corpse puppet..." Su Ze's eyes flickered.

A thought flashed through Su Ze's mind.

If he took in this woman... no, female zombie, and made her his tenant, combining her corpse puppet methods, perhaps in the future... he could find a way to create a true zombie legion?

Even if the zombies' strength wasn't that high, what if they were combined with the power of technology?

Or, if he combined it with other methods...

In short, this seemed to be a general direction.

This idea only flashed by; Su Ze didn't dwell on it, as there were more important matters at hand.

Next, Su Ze calmly asked several questions regarding the Monster Camp, regional distribution, and other races.

To save her life, Shi Yetang told him almost everything she knew without reservation.

Much of the intelligence left Su Ze secretly alarmed.

It turned out that the world of this Survival Game was far larger and more complex than he had imagined.

And the player faction was not just passive lambs for the slaughter as he had previously thought.

"...Although a large number of players die in every round of the game, those who survive are the elite of the elite."

"Furthermore, within the player faction, the Human Race is the race with the largest base population, and its potential is infinite."

Shi Yetang concluded at last,

"So, the overall strength of the entire player faction is actually not weak; one could even say it's very strong. After all, it's equivalent to a race with infinite potential fighting against the entire monster world."

Su Ze silently committed this key information to memory.

His understanding of this world had become much clearer.

He then learned about the information of various nearby regions, gaining a lot of intelligence.

Finally, Su Ze asked the question he cared about most.

"How exactly did this Survival Game come to be? What are the attitudes of the major races? Was it actively joined or even established by races of the Monster Camp, or were they forced into it just like us?"

"Also, how are the camps divided? Why would the Monster Camp join forces to deal with the player faction led by the Human Race?"

If all races were pulled into this game against their will...

Then the existence controlling all of this from behind the scenes was far too terrifying.

Facing these ultimate questions, that familiar bitterness reappeared on Shi Yetang's face.

"I don't know."

She shook her head. "Perhaps only the highest level of our Zombie Clan's leadership... those old fogies who have existed since a very, very long time ago, know these secrets."

"From the moment I gained intelligence, I have been in this survival world. I was born... as a mortal enemy of the player faction."

Seeing that she didn't seem to be lying, Su Ze could only helplessly give up his questioning.

Checking the time, he felt the violent power within his body beginning to show signs of receding.

The duration of [Burst] was almost up.

He wasted no more time and stopped the questioning.

Su Ze took out the card he had just "squeezed" out of Shi Yetang from his backpack.

The [tenant addition card].

He looked at Shi Yetang, who was slumped on the ground, and spoke in a flat tone that carried an unquestionable command.

"Alright, now, immediately withdraw from your own Dormitory unit."

Shi Yetang's body trembled. Looking at the card in Su Ze's hand, extremely complex emotions flashed in her eyes.

There was humiliation and unwillingness, but more than that, there was the relief of having survived a disaster.

Although she would be living under someone else's roof from now on, at least she was alive...

Without any hesitation, she nodded obediently and quickly began operating the system interface.