After the instance is complete, Gu Rong leaves the game, parting ways with the players, and returns to the virtual space.

It was still a vast expanse of white mist here, empty except for Gu Rong.

Gu Rong stretched out his short little legs again, plopped down onto the ground, and began to take stock of his belongings, his Ultraman little backpack slung over his shoulder.

Perhaps due to habits formed while living in the apocalypse, all his important belongings were carried wherever he went. Leaving them under the bridge wasn’t safe; they could be stolen by bad guys or destroyed by zombies. He could only carry them on his back.

Gu Rong treasured his belongings the most. Even a single needle or a straw was precious to him. Because he didn’t have many belongings to begin with, if he didn’t cherish them, he would have even less.

However, now Gu Rong’s belongings were increasing.

Gu Rong laid out all the props obtained from the instances on the ground, touching each one lovingly, patting them gently with his small hand.

006 couldn’t help but smile, helping him tally the points and props, discovering the total points had already reached 9.68 million.

Gu Rong asked: [Then, when can I see Daddy, Mommy, and Grandpa Ming?]

006 said: [Soon! Probably after passing ten million, the little host will be able to reunite with family.]

Gu Rong didn’t understand numbers well, but hearing “soon,” his eyes lit up, and he kicked his little feet excitedly.

006 smiled: [Little host, should we rest for two days before entering the next instance?]

Gu Rong shifted his little body, looking left and right: [There’s no bed here, how Zaizai sleepy time?]

006 immediately took out the Ghost Ship from the system backpack, transforming it into the size of a small tent. The Ghost Ship could change shape at will. Now, transformed into a tent made of skulls, it looked quite fitting.

006 said: [Look, we can sleep inside the skull tent.]

As soon as the skulls saw Gu Rong, they started chattering, calling “Little Captain, Little Captain,” asking the Little Captain to come over and pat their big skulls.

Gu Rong granted their wish, patting each skull with his small hand. Seeing so many talking skulls, he was also very happy. It was much better than being one cub alone here.

Gu Rong said in his tender voice: “Turn into little piggies!”

The skulls immediately obeyed, transforming into a pig-shaped tent.

Gu Rong clapped his small hands and issued another command: “Turn into a big octopus!”

The skulls immediately disbanded and reformed, becoming an eight-limbed octopus. The octopus head was the tent, and the eight tentacles waved cheerfully.

Gu Rong changed it into several more shapes, finally lying down inside the tent and sleeping soundly. However, he wasn’t a still sleeper. Even asleep, he wiggled constantly, sometimes sleeping on his stomach, sometimes sprawled out, sometimes sleeping head-down-feet-up, like a robotic vacuum cleaner, covering the entire tent floor with his wiggling.

The skulls hummed lullabies, guarding the Little Captain as he slept.

Gu Rong didn’t stay in the virtual space for long. After sleeping and eating another meal, he began entering the next instance. The virtual space only had him, one cub. Although the skulls and 006 could talk to him, he still didn’t like staying in the virtual space.

This time, he still chose the instance himself. Gu Rong now had experience and very quickly selected the instance.

–

[Welcome to Doomsday Paradise.]

[Initial Identity Card 589: Little Zombie]

[Initial Task: Please have Little Zombie Zaizai escape the Laboratory within one hour.]

[Success Reward: 50,000 points.]

[Failure Penalty: Deduct 50,000 points.]

Gu Rong woke up. Before he could figure out the situation, he heard the system’s mechanical electronic voice.

Before his eyes were pure white walls, a pure white ceiling. The room was empty except for Gu Rong, one cub.

Gu Rong had initially been lying on the ground, little arms and legs stretched out in a ‘大’ shape, sleeping soundly like a little doll. Now, slowly waking up, he lifted his little head. After seeing the room clearly, he pushed himself up with both hands, sitting up from the ground.

Gu Rong sat up very experiencedly. He pushed up his upper body, and with a neat spin, plopped his bottom onto the ground.

After sitting up, Gu Rong didn’t intend to stand. He turned his head, looked around the room. There wasn’t even a door. The wall directly facing him had a piece of glass occupying the entire wall surface. This glass was one-way glass; one could see inside from the outside, but not outside from the inside.

Gu Rong asked: [Where is here? Laboratory, what place?]

006 said: [Little host is currently locked in the laboratory. Judging by the situation, you were likely captured by humans and locked up.]

Gu Rong remembered Grandpa Ming saying not to get caught by humans, otherwise, he’d be researched.

Initially sitting on the ground like a little salted fish, upon hearing this, he scrambled up from the ground, unable to sit still: [Zaizai must escape quickly!]

But there wasn’t even a door here; escaping wouldn’t be that simple.

Gu Rong ran to the glass wall, patted the glass with his small hand for a while. Seeing he couldn’t break it, he turned his head and sat back down where he was.

006 said: [Little host, your current identity is Little Zombie…]

Gu Rong said: [Zaizai always Little Zombie!]

006: […Right. Little host was definitely captured because he’s a Little Zombie. Probably because the little host looks different from other zombies, he was captured and locked up here.]

If it were an ordinary zombie, they probably would have been shot in the head long ago, and unlikely to be brought back to a laboratory. Gu Rong looked completely like a human cub with extremely high looks; you couldn’t tell he was a zombie at all.

Gu Rong nodded: [Yes! Grandpa Ming also told Zaizai that!]

He patted himself with his small hand: [Rongrong cute, zombie ugly. Humans want to catch Zaizai!]

006: […]

The little host is still completely unabashed when praising himself.

006 said: [Then if the little host wasn’t a Little Zombie, wouldn’t they let the little host go? We have a Human Cub Experience Card; you can become a human child for one hour.]

Gu Rong’s eyes lit up. Without wasting any time, he immediately used the [Human Cub Experience Card].

Becoming a human child, humans will naturally let him out. Didn’t expect this card to have such a use.

After using the card, there was no visible difference on the surface, but he had changed from a Little Zombie cub to a human cub.

Gu Rong ran dadada to the glass wall again, patted the glass wall with his small hand, yelling repeatedly in his baby voice: “Let Rongrong out! Rongrong needs pee pants! Rongrong needs make stinky!”

006: …6

Little host truly is a little smarty egg.

The room was completely silent except for Gu Rong’s own voice; no sound from outside could be heard.

Gu Rong yelled for quite a while, patting the glass wall as he yelled. As he patted, the previously opaque glass wall suddenly became transparent, revealing everything outside.

Many metal instruments, looking very high-tech, filled the space, exuding a cold, inorganic feeling. And standing before the glass wall was a woman in a white lab coat with a very gentle appearance. She looked about 25 years old, with fair skin, her hair tied in a low ponytail, watching the only cub in the laboratory through the glass wall.

What Gu Rong couldn’t see was that in the rooms next to his, lined up in a row, different experimental subjects were held captive – various strangely shaped mutants. At this moment, only the glass wall of Gu Rong’s room had become transparent, allowing viewing from inside to outside.

Seeing the glass become transparent, Gu Rong subconsciously took two small steps back, his little bun-face serious, staring blankly at the pretty auntie outside the glass wall.

The woman smiled at Gu Rong, her smile very friendly. She pressed a button, and her words were transmitted through the glass into the room, just two gentle and sweet words: “Hello.”

Gu Rong immediately felt favorable towards this auntie before him. He politely raised his chubby little hand and waved at her: “Hello! I’m Gu Rong.”

The woman paused for a moment, then maintained a polite, unchanging smile: “Hello. I am Dr. Bai. If you need anything, you can tell me.”

Gu Rong stood stiffly straight, clasping his small hands together, tilting his little head, looking innocently cute at Dr. Bai: “Rongrong tummy hurt, want make stinky.”

Dr. Bai smiled: “Little Zombie baby, little babies shouldn’t lie, okay?”

Outside, there was a lie detector, always on, used to interrogate those mutants. But her speaking so softly, just like a kindergarten teacher talking to a child, if not for the glass wall separating them and Gu Rong being locked up, the scene would actually be quite warm.

006 informed Gu Rong: [Little host, if we tell a lie, the lie detector outside will beep.]

Gu Rong had indeed heard beeping sounds earlier. So that was a lie detector. Huh? What’s a lie detector?

Gu Rong’s mental fortitude was impressive. Caught lying, he remained calm, shook his little head, and said logically: “Rongrong not Little Zombie Zaizai! Rongrong is human child!”

Hearing this, Dr. Bai smiled faintly again. But soon, her smile froze on her face. The lie detector didn’t beep. The cub before her hadn’t lied.

However… Dr. Bai quickly found a reason: Perhaps this Little Zombie cub doesn’t know he’s a Little Zombie, still thinks he’s a human cub. Therefore, saying he isn’t a Little Zombie doesn’t count as lying. After all, this Little Zombie cub was truly too young, at most only two years old.

Gu Rong indeed didn’t look like a standard zombie. But their determination of zombies wasn’t based on appearance, but on the level of zombie toxin in the blood. They called it “Sangqing Element”.

If the Sangqing Element level exceeded 60%, one would be classified as a zombie. Below 60%, one would generally retain human consciousness. But this was only theoretical. In reality, once the Sangqing Element exceeded 30%, one could only watch helplessly as the toxin level increased; it was completely irreversible.

Gu Rong’s blood had a Sangqing Element level of 100%. He was indisputably a Little Zombie. But this Little Zombie cub could not only maintain human consciousness but also maintain a complete human appearance externally, possessing extremely high research value. That’s why he was captured and brought to the experimental base, preparing for thorough research. Perhaps they could find a breakthrough in lifting the zombie toxin from this Little Zombie cub. This was humanity’s hope.

Gu Rong, however, still didn’t know. He said tenderly: “And Rongrong is big child! Rongrong not little baby!”

Dr. Bai: “…”

Which big child still refers to themselves as Rongrong? Little babies are the ones unskilled at saying “I”.

Dr. Bai found the little milky voice very cute and soft. If not for being a Little Zombie cub, he would surely be humanity’s treasure. After the zombie outbreak, the human world hadn’t seen toddlers again.