Chapter 108: Vector Chess

This bow is somewhat soft and doesn’t fully exert his power. If there were a harder bow, he would definitely pierce through the zombie’s skull directly.

This arrow had no effect on the giant zombie, which strode towards Su Changxing with heavy footsteps, causing the nearby lamppost to tremble slightly.

Very oppressive.

The gigantic creature endowed this zombie with immense size and power. Its strength is above six, stronger than Su Changxing.

But its movements are relatively slow, which greatly reduces its threat level to Su Changxing.

Su Changxing deftly sidestepped the zombie’s attack, jumped high, and slashed at its head from the side, and amidst the sound of cracking bones, a scar of shattered bone traversed half its skull.

The zombie fell heavily to the ground, its shattered skull wantonly leaking black blood and some other substances.

With just one strike, Su Changxing killed this four-meter-tall giant zombie.

"Paper tiger, looks scary, but its toughness is worse than that iron-skin zombie."

Su Changxing commented as he looked at the corpse on the ground.

The head was silent for a long time and suddenly said: "It’s just that these zombies haven’t actively developed yet. This position is actually quite powerful, belonging to the Upper Rank, or even Extreme Rank."

"Is that so?"

Su Changxing’s eyes flashed as he thought of a possibility, perhaps the influencing item might be a part of that giant hand.

At the same time, Huang Biao used his body strength to forcefully knock down a giant zombie, and the other two pinned down the zombie’s legs.

Yan Xu seized the opportunity and slashed at the zombie’s head, but the giant zombie’s skull was unexpectedly strong; even with full force, it didn’t pierce the skull, and seeing the zombie’s swipe coming, he had to dodge backward.

Huang Biao stood up from the side, and together with the young man in a yellow hoodie, they slashed four or five times to finally kill it.

As Su Changxing was about to confront the last giant zombie, he realized that this zombie turned and ran to the other side of the street without any hesitation.

It chickened out.

Su Changxing froze for a moment, witnessing for the first time a zombie that fled to save itself.

Knowing fear, knowing to escape, also indicates it has self-awareness, possessing some degree of intelligence.

Huang Biao and others were also dumbfounded.

This was too shocking.

Su Changxing decisively pursued it. Who knows what an intelligent zombie might do; it’s most important to cut the weeds and eliminate the roots.

If this zombie learns to control and develop Extraordinary Power, giant zombies over ten meters tall might appear later, true giant zombies.

Su Changxing’s speed was considerably faster, catching up to it within seven or eight seconds.

Unexpectedly.

The giant zombie suddenly stopped, turned around and swung a fist at Su Changxing, launching a surprise counterattack, its sandbag-sized fist carrying intense wind pressure.

Su Changxing was startled as well, and blocked it with a horizontal blade, retreating two steps under the force.

The giant zombie seemed to realize it couldn’t escape, closed in with a ferocious lunge, transformed its fists into claws, and reached for Su Changxing.

The head from the backpack mocked: "Big fool, your speed is too slow."

Su Changxing held his breath, dodged the attack with a sideways step, took a large stride forward, his muscles exploded suddenly, and his blade swing accelerated, swiftly cutting through its neck.

The blade edge flowed with black blood, drawing an arc in the air.

A rotten head flew high, then plummeted to the ground.

But it still didn’t die, baring its teeth and roaring, seeming to express dissatisfaction towards Su Changxing. Then, this zombie shockingly displayed an expression akin to begging for mercy.

"This is really peculiar, a zombie begging for mercy, does having intelligence equate to weakness?"

Su Changxing muttered to himself, then promptly slashed the head. This intelligent zombie filled him with dread, and he sensed he might have just smothered a potentially powerful future entity in its cradle.

The head was also amazed: "Tsk tsk, this is truly peculiar; I’ve heard of zombies acquiring intelligence but never seen it myself until now."

Su Changxing thought for a moment and said: "Even you’re seeing it for the first time? Then am I a bit lucky? But, aren’t you an intelligent zombie yourself."

The head replied: "It’s different; I only retained my consciousness and intelligence while transforming into a zombie but still don’t qualify as a true zombie."

Huang Biao jogged over, with a peculiar expression: "These zombies not only hide but escape now; who can handle this? Won’t the future zombies wield weapons against us?"

Imagining this scene, his body couldn’t help but shiver.

The reason they could easily clear these zombies now was that zombies lacked intelligence and couldn’t wield weapons.

Su Changxing thought about it and said: "It’s highly unlikely, even if these zombies could evolve to that stage, it wouldn’t happen within thirty days."

In the small supermarket, aside from these few giant zombies, there were no other zombies, but there were abundant remaining supplies.

The six entered the supermarket to collect their spoils.

The young man in the yellow hoodie looked at Su Changxing with a completely changed expression, astonished that one person could handle three of these giants, a real superhuman.

He rushed to Su Changxing, excitedly saying: "Big brother, I’m Qian Runwei; do you take younger brothers? If you do, consider me."

Su Changxing observed his surroundings, absentmindedly said: "Your courage is a bit too small, even less than Yan Xu, not qualified."

Yan Xu was silent for several seconds, quietly tidying up the materials on the counter; he wanted to ask Su Changxing about accepting younger brothers but dismissed the idea afterward.

Utilizing True Knowledge, Su Changxing immediately spotted the influencing item among the numerous miscellaneous goods; it was a luncheon meat can.

[Can: It’s not an ordinary can; it contains tissue from a higher organism]

Su Changxing picked up the can to examine it, noticing Shield Company’s emblem along with "Shield Company Protects You."

Simultaneously, a task completion notification popped up on his phone.

[Completed Side Mission (Find Influencing Item), Obtained Item (Vector Chess)]

[Vector Chess: Middle Rank of Dingguan, Alters the direction of physical attacks or deflects them, including flying objects, impacts, etc., limited to two uses only.]

A black round piece appeared in Su Changxing’s hand; it looked like an ordinary Go piece, heavily worn, with some chips on the edges.

"Barely betrays science, isn’t this effect rather unfairly overpowering?"

Su Changxing murmured.

This item can directly deflect attacks, serves both offensive and defensive roles, reminding him of the "Giant Infant" ability, with some similarities in form.

What happens if I deflect a deflected damage?