Rebirth: Kill Through the Doomsday Game

Chapter 1 Just Yesterday
The weak firelight rushed through the dark and humid tunnel, burning the eyes that were staring at her one after another.

The fire spread at a speed visible to the naked eye, burning the thousands of corpses gathered here.

However, when the ashes dispersed, new corpses gathered around them. Once these guys encountered surviving humans, they would definitely eat and tear them until no bones were left before they would give up.

In the cold and cramped tunnel, hundreds of people hugged thick pillars of fire rising from the ground.

……

It’s this dream again.

The rotation of the planet was loud and violent, and those days seemed like just yesterday.

"Next person."

Gu Lingxin rubbed his head. The previous interviewer had a happy face. When he passed by Gu Lingxin, he raised his eyebrows and glanced at her proudly, as if he had placed himself in a superior position.

Gu Lingxin was stunned for a moment.

Just a few hours ago, she was still in a cold and putrid tunnel, facing the siege of hundreds of zombies. At that time, she was affected by an unknown ability and her mood was extremely unstable. She made a mistake when using the awakening ability "Fire". The entire tunnel was burned down and every zombie was killed, but she herself did not survive.

When I woke up again, a biting spring breeze was blowing in my face. There were tall buildings outside the window, whistles were honking one after another, and pedestrians looked in a hurry. This was exactly what the city looked like before it was eroded by fear.

After she came to her senses, she slowly stood up and walked in to say hello to the interviewer.

Then he sat down swaggeringly.

The interviewer seemed a little dissatisfied and opened his resume and asked a series of questions as usual.

"Isn't it all written on your resume?" Gu Lingxin stared at the time on the lock screen of her phone without raising her head.

The interviewer was at a loss for words for a while, and the post-00 generation was rectifying the matter. Was it finally his turn?
"Am I the last one to come for the interview today?" Gu Lingxin asked before the interviewer could ask.

"……Yes."

It was past the off-duty time, and the interviewer didn't want to waste time. He was about to send away this nonsensical interviewer, but Gu Lingxin beat him to it and said, "Please wait a moment, I still have questions to ask."

"?" Who among us is the HR?

So the man waited patiently for her to ask the question. The orange-red sunset slowly fell into the thin clouds, and sank into the horizon surrounded by halo. It was clearly a quiet and beautiful scene, but there was a thin layer of sweat on her forehead.

Do you have to be so nervous about an interview? The interviewer followed her gaze and looked out——

Just an ordinary evening.

Gu Lingxin put her hands in her pockets and tightly held the fruit knife in her coat pocket. Of course it wasn't the interview that made her nervous.

There are still thirty seconds left before global communications are paralyzed, water sources and air are contaminated by an unknown virus, most humans lose consciousness, bite their own kind, and resemble zombies; the entire city falls into panic.

When the sun completely set, the interviewer lost all patience. He turned off the computer and thought about what to say to dismiss this strange interviewer.

Just as he was thinking about it, horrifying roars and screams tore through the quiet night and continued to hit his eardrums.

The moment the interviewer turned his head and looked out, Gu Lingxin rushed forward as fast as possible and stabbed the interviewer's chest with the fruit knife.

"Ho-"

He let out a low, inhuman growl.

In the blink of an eye, the man who was wearing a suit and well-mannered just a second ago suddenly cracked his facial skin. His bones and teeth pierced the flesh and grew wildly at a speed visible to the naked eye. Almost his entire face was occupied by fangs. .

And his body also expanded rapidly, with reddish muscles bursting through his shirt, and his arms with clearly visible blood vessels swelling more than three times. No one could have imagined that this was the physique that a white-collar worker who had been in the workplace and lacked exercise for many years could possess.

Gu Lingxin clenched the handle of the knife. It was indeed very risky for her to do this, but once she succeeded, the benefits would be huge.

This unknown white-collar worker had a well-known title in his previous life——

Will-o'-the-wisp.

At first, he was just an infected person with the ability to awaken, which is what people often call a "zombie." In his previous life, this person was one of the first batch of infected people to mutate the ability to awaken, and he was a rare zombie king with two abilities. Source City is a remote third-tier city. In the early days of the end of the world, the number of awakened people was quite small. The administration applied for official support many times, and it took half a year to establish a safety station.

And "Will-o'-the-Wisp" also became the king of corpses at a mutation speed several times ahead of other infected people during the period when Source City was short of manpower.

It was also him who turned Yuan City from a border city that no one cared about to a human hell with a "high risk" rating.

Gu Ling calmed down, cut off the strap of the leather satchel, and tightly bound this guy who was in the early stages of mutation.

"My mother gave this to me. It's genuine leather. It's absolutely strong." Gu Lingxin usually carries canvas bags worth ninety-nine yuan when she goes out. They are all bargains purchased online with lax quality control. Not to mention tying up zombies, she usually carries Packing even a little too much stuff may burst the bag.

After tying up the interviewer, Gu Lingxin began to calm down and think.

In her next life, she has a wealth of information and can plan many things in advance.

In her previous life, she had been dealing with the will-o'-the-wisps in Source City for more than three years, and finally managed to kill the will-o'-the-wisps. At the same time, she also discovered that the will-o'-the-wisps had two awakening abilities.

One of the awakening abilities of the will-o'-the-wisp is the "raging fire" that can release high-temperature flames, and the other ability is the ability to improve itself by devouring other infected people. This ability has not been officially recorded, and Gu Lingxin also discovered this ability. After awakening the new ability, I received an official invitation, but something unexpected happened on the way to the official website.

This time, she wants to kill the future corpse king in the early stage of mutation.

Not only do you want to kill, but you also want to be the beneficiary.

Her awakening ability "Reincarnation" can temporarily use other recorded abilities. She has to wait for her abilities in this life to awaken and obtain "Fire" and "Devour" as soon as possible.

The will-o'-the-wisp has not yet been devoured, and it was in an extremely weak state when it mutated. It is currently only as strong as an ordinary zombie. Gu Lingxin locked the door of the office and found a chair opposite him to sit down. Although there was no one in the company at this time, she did not want any changes to her plan at the critical moment of acquiring capabilities.

She just needs to wait a little longer and she can have it...

"Click."

The locked door opens from the outside.

"Who?!"

Gu Ling was shocked. It's the end of the world and there are still people coming back to work overtime?

In order not to attract attention, she turned off the lights in this office. The tall man stood in the backlight and paused for a while, then took out a flashlight and looked over.

Gu Lingxin frowned slightly, and just when she was about to speak, the other party's voice came:
"Excuse me, are you interviewing here?"

Why should we put this interview aside even though the interviewer has changed?
There were no signs of damage to the door lock. How did he open the locked door from the outside?

"Roar——" A burst of roar suddenly came from the depths of the silent corridor, shockingly tearing the quiet night apart.

Gu Ling's heart felt cold all over, and she stared at the man in front of her warily.

She had confirmed in advance that no one would be on duty in the company at night, and there would be no infected persons in a short period of time. But after this man appeared, the sound of zombies was heard not far away.

The man glanced at the half-dead "will-o'-the-wisp" who had been stabbed with blood all over his body, and casually threw his half-empty resume on the desk in front of Gu Lingxin.

Name: Su Heng

The remaining columns are blank.

Su Heng? Gu Lingxin was stunned. In the previous life, the official list of awakened people in the search and rescue team was announced, and this person was one of them.

However, as far as she knew, as a border town, Source City did not have any particularly outstanding awakened people at first. This led to zombies becoming rampant and developing to the point where it was difficult to suppress them.

And Su Heng is the top awakened person on the official list. It is certain that he is not from Yuan City, so how can he appear here?

Thinking of this, Gu Lingxin's brain suddenly felt pain. The roars around him and the panic screams in the distance were amplified countless times, and a noisy and chaotic roar erupted in his skull.

Gu Lingxin knew that this was a precursor to the awakening of his abilities.

But there was an awakened person whose enemy or friend was unknown standing in front of her now. This timing was really not good.

　There is no male protagonist in this article, please feel free to eat it
　　
　
(End of this chapter)