The Most Random System

[Show your physical charm to more people (50/50)]

[Task Three completed.]

[You have received the reward: Physical Improvement: lifespan +20%, physical toughness +50%; System Currency *100]

Once he figured out that to complete the quest he only needed to run into zombies and make them charge at him, the difficulty plummeted.

Don’t laugh, you’d pass the second stage too.

After spending just over ten minutes, the quest progress shot up to 100%. The system popped up a message, and he collected the reward.

Theoretically, there was no benefit in staying outside to deal with zombies anymore, but it also didn’t feel right to just lead everyone straight back.

After all, these people had followed him out full of joy and expectation, and the nearby supplies had long been stripped clean, not a single useful thing left. Right now, their only harvest was loneliness.

Heading back right after going out kind of felt like he was toying with them.

Besides, Lin Li also needed to search for supplies the shelter didn’t have.

Like maps.

The shelter only had an internal map of Yunguang City from before the apocalypse, but Lin Li didn’t just need that. He needed a world map, and detailed pre-apocalypse maps of other provinces or cities as well, so he could compare them later when he arrived at different locations.

There was no need to keep relying on hand-to-hand combat to kill zombies. Lin Li directly used "Voice of All Things" to command and drill the zombies, ordering them to fan out, hunt down or assimilate all zombies other than themselves, and forbid them from getting close.

This skill really was handy.

This operation, which practically overturned the shelter’s understanding of the world, gave everyone another small shock.

The shock level was on par with your bro asking if you wanted to come over to his place to eat crab roe, you asking whether his family even bought crabs, and your bro earnestly explaining that crab roe is crab ovaries and crab paste is the crab’s dedication to its job—while he just so happened to be a Cancer.

Wuhu, and the crab paste still turns out to be made from imitation crab sticks, bro.

They spent several hours searching for supplies, but unfortunately only got a few relatively scattered maps of other regions.

Nothing to be done—apart from world maps, few people bothered to sell or buy maps, and besides, paper maps weren’t easy to preserve.

But there were substitutes. Once they tracked down the pre-apocalypse local library, the people from the shelter salvaged the remaining electronic devices, brought them back, and extracted some electronic map data.

This way, when Lin Li returned to the modern world, he could print them out.

However, Lin Li still had to consider interface compatibility.

Because time was limited and Lin Li had to get back to rendezvous with the Mecha, they ultimately didn’t explore too far. Eight hours after leaving, the group returned to the shelter.

The haul wasn’t much, but everyone was in high spirits, excitedly chatting about what they had just seen, while also regretting that Lin Li wasn’t actually one of the shelter’s survivors.

If they could be led by Lin Li in order to survive, they’d be willing even if from now on they weren’t allowed to play pool, live in villas, go to KTV to sing, ride carousels at amusement parks, or play chess.

After returning to the shelter, Lin Li didn’t do anything else. He just wandered around the surrounding area, and when the 11-hour limit on his stay in this apocalypse was about to run out, he put the Mecha and charger away and returned to reality.

In the real world, nearly 11 minutes had passed.

Compared to the original time-flow ratio of one minute to three hours, 1:180, the current time-flow ratio was only 1:60.

If one day the time-flow ratio reached 1:1, he wouldn’t be able to just casually spend the full duration in the Otherworld like he did now.

But he’d worry about that when the time came.

When you run into trouble—take a long nap!

...

Morning.

Arriving at school.

At the door of Class Four.

"According to unofficial histories, back then Cao Cao didn’t kill Lu Bu right away, but imprisoned him in a basement, sending in ten beauties every day so he could revel all night long, which eventually caused Lu Bu to die from exhaustion."

"And the women who mated with Lu Bu each became pregnant. After they gave birth, Cao Cao discovered that the traits of these children were all different, showing a 9:3:3:1 ratio."

"The largest proportion was the A_B_ trait. These children could skillfully wield the Fangtian Halberd and ride the Red Hare."

"A_bb: skilled with the Fangtian Halberd, but unable to ride the Red Hare."

"aaB_: can’t use the Fangtian Halberd, but can ride the Red Hare."

"aabb: useless trash in the gutter—can’t use the Fangtian Halberd and can’t ride the Red Hare either."

"From this, Cao Cao discovered the laws of genetics and concluded that being able to use the Fangtian Halberd and ride the Red Hare were dominant genes."

"Later, the people of Europe heard about this and imitated our ancients by saying ’Among all heroes under heaven, only Mendel,’ but because forcing women to mate with Lu Bu was disgraceful, and women’s status was low at the time, they concealed the sacrifice of these women and retold those young girls in the prime of youth as peas.

Eventually, this version of genetics went out of the country and then came back in again, becoming what we see in our biology textbooks."

"Mendel (choking up) (sniffling), he was one of our own!! Everyone, say it with me—Mendel... come home TAT..."

Bai Bufan’s voice, narrating this "unofficial history," gradually choked up.

"Sigh, poor Lu Bu, turned into a sacrifice for Cao Cao’s research. If Dong Zhuo were still around, he definitely wouldn’t have let his lover end up in such a state. Lu Bu was probably calling out Zhuozhuo’s name before he died too. Ah, what a pair of star-crossed lovers, it really leaves a lump in the throat." Wang Ze sighed.

"Give me a break. Lu Bu refused to go all the way to the end even then, and you’re talking about true love?" Qin Zeyu sneered.