The Most Random System

A zombie was using its tentacles to suck on a Lin Family Army corpse, and suddenly, without warning, it lifted its cone-shaped head with extreme precision and locked on to the mecha hovering in the pitch-black night!

Looking at the zombie almost meeting his gaze on the screen, Lin Li: "O.o?"

Are you freaking cheating?

The gaze didn’t have the typical zombie’s murkiness, but it wasn’t sharp either. It felt more like it wasn’t seeing the mecha, but some more direct sensory perception detected its presence.

Just like my "mark", huh?

Immediately after, in his view, the zombie opened its mouth. It was too far away, but it seemed to be letting out a screech.

This screech wasn’t an attack; it seemed more like a signal or a coordinate indicator.

Because Lin Li saw that following the screech, as if receiving a silent command, all the mutant beings investigating the scene below, regardless of size or form, suddenly froze. The very next second, they all stopped what they were doing. Dozens, even hundreds of oddly shaped heads, as if pulled by invisible strings, uniformly and deterministically lifted upwards, their movements rigid yet clearly targeted.

To be honest, it’s a bit creepy.

Lin Li flashed a middle finger, not even sure if they could see it.

Just as Lin Li was contemplating whether to run immediately or to probe a bit into the situation beneath before fleeing, the mecha issued a notification.

"Detected unknown low-frequency energy field interference! Power system obstruction!"

"Detected unknown mid-frequency energy field interference! Sensor system response delay!"

"Detected unknown energy field interference! Energy shield generator efficiency decreased!"

"..."

Numerous notifications came from the mecha.

However, unlike the time in Silence Canyon, where the screen was filled with red warning pop-ups, this time it was just a casually delivered notification, concluding with a suggestion "to leave the current area."

Apparently, the impact was far less severe than inside the canyon. The mecha still hovering in the sky was the best proof of that.

"Now it also comes with a debuff aura?" Lin Li raised an eyebrow slightly.

Never expected, despite being separated by at least a few hundred meters, it could still affect his mecha.

The massive horde below began to boil, surging towards the direction of his mecha.

Lin Li’s gaze locked onto the "unusual" — at the center of the horde, some mutated ones were different than before.

At this moment, they weren’t moving by themselves but were being lifted by the ordinary zombies around them.

Dozens of ordinary zombies were like ants carrying heavy objects, using their bodies as bases and bridges, forcibly lifting these few mutated beings, moving towards the center point below him.

These few could still move by themselves just now, but now they can’t?

Looking at the notifications on the mecha in front of him — showing that the interference was still gradually increasing, Lin Li thought that the main culprits were probably these few.

Simultaneously, several shadows within the zombie horde suddenly shot into the sky — they had a few flying mutants hidden among them.

Their wings were either tattered bat wings or bone membranes covered in a metallic sheen. One seemed to generate thrust by small tentacles rapidly stirring the air.

Most flew towards him, while a few flew back towards the direction they came from. Depending on the zombies’ conditions, speeds varied, and altitudes differed.

Lin Li swiftly traced his thoughts across the control panel; the mecha’s posture adjusted, and the hovering height rose again. The futuristic violent aesthetic "Death’s Sigh", its pitch-black energy body barrel tightly held by mechanical arms, had its cold gun barrel glowing faintly in the moonlight.

Lin Li observed silently.

The flying small fry need not be heeded.

The mecha’s auxiliary aiming system activated, and the optical zoom in the center of the view instantly magnified, clearly capturing the grotesque head of one of the lifted mutants.

The onboard computer swiftly calculated projectile windage and the moving trajectory of the target, then the trigger was pulled.

Death’s Sigh, let’s deliver a spectacular shot together!

Buzz—!

After a "sigh", a beam of extreme concentrated purple energy shot towards the mutant’s head.

Wherever the energy beam passed, the air ionized, leaving a briefly existing twisted trail. But the expected spray of flesh and blood didn’t immediately appear.

Only to see the space around the mutant suddenly generate a visible ripple, and a semi-transparent energy shield instantly formed as a stress response, enveloping it and the key zombies lifting it. The fired energy beam stirred up oscillating ripples above.

The shield wasn’t a solid entity, more like some kind of distorted force field. As soon as it appeared, it caused the beam fired to undergo clear refraction and scattering.

Poof!

But it only didn’t appear immediately.

Because after less than half a second stalemate, the energy shield shattered before Lin Li’s eyes, the energy beam penetrated through.

Although the mutant seemed to be belatedly layering a few more defenses, it was too late. In the zoom sight, a purple-black mist of blood exploded.

Looks like this weapon is a bit over the top.

His gaze swept to the mecha’s internal notifications.

Among the numerous negative notifications, one of which was represented by a red dot, started to gradually fade away.

However, Lin Li didn’t have the luxury to marvel at his spectacular shot, maneuvering the mecha to deftly roll mid-air, dodging a spray of dark green acid.

The acid grazed the shoulder armor of the mecha, a few seconds later falling into the horde below, instantly raising a stinging white smoke, the zombies it landed on disintegrated and decayed at once.

——At this moment, a few fast-flying mutants drew close.

"Spitting is uncivilized, seriously, Uncle Yan despises people who spit."

Offhandedly making a jab, the machine gun under the right arm of the mecha spat out brief tongues of flame, precisely short-bursting and tearing the fragile wing membrane of the acid-spraying mutant.

It certainly wasn’t dead but let out a sharp screech, spiraling downwards into the surging horde below.

Another attacked from the rear side, the miniature thrusters on the back of the mecha suddenly shifted the nozzle, moving the body sideways at an irrational angle, as the shoulder-mounted pulse cannon had already pre-aimed.

The next second, the mutant’s head exploded like a watermelon stuffed with explosives, its headless body driven forward by inertia for a moment before powerlessly plummeting.

Lin Li swiftly caught the mutant’s head, retrieving its "core" with his fingers.

The situation wasn’t particularly pressuring at the moment, but the degree of interference on the mecha was increasing, and, looking far beyond, Lin Li ’saw’ more zombies beginning to appear, including more of those that could fly.

Tsk, it’s worse than fantasy novels.

At least in fantasy novels, you kill the small, then the big comes, kill the big, then the old comes.

But now, haven’t killed anything, yet the small, medium, big, old, damned have all arrived.

Lin Li began assessing the situation.

The mutations beneath had all kinds of divergent directions, completely unpredictable in terms of power.

Unlike last time, Lin Li could indeed escape this time.

However, Lin Li didn’t know how long they could maintain similar marking ability.

The system notification colors were still slowly shifting, indicating the increasing impact on the mecha.

Estimated that staying for another few tens of minutes, or rather, a few hours, the mecha would become unusable.

Lin Li made a decision.

If this mark lasts long, most likely his remaining time would be spent constantly escaping, wasting the mecha’s energy. Although there were "batteries" available now, Lin Li felt no sense of responsibility or mission towards the Doomsday World and didn’t want to do meaningless things.

The most important thing was, there were no system tasks, no motivation to engage them.

Moreover, if they are indeed attracted to places with humans, it would count as bringing harm to the humans there.

Therefore, very easily—

The region ahead, is left for exploration later.

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