The Function of Bows and Arrows

Ashe-wen watched the approaching zombie, put away her longbow, and rolled up her sleeves.

A fist the size of a sandbag, carrying a strong gust of wind, was rushing towards her, yet she didn’t dodge or evade.

The fist collided with her seemingly delicate little face.

A cringe-inducing sound of shattering bones came from the zombie’s hand.

Then came an even more violent boom.

Ashe-wen took the full force of the evolved zombie’s punch with her face, and then, while the evolved one’s fist was out and it couldn’t defend, she swung her own fist and hammered it down on the evolved one’s head.

The immense force caused the evolved one’s head to be compressed and deformed, sinking down between its shoulders.

Then, its huge body was slammed into the ground with a loud crash, sending out a circular shockwave.

That woman ended the battle with a single punch!

“The bow is just a tool to lure the enemy closer. An amateur wouldn’t understand.”

Ashe-wen’s arm, gleaming with a metallic luster, embedded itself in the zombie’s head.

She stirred it around, dug for a bit, and pulled out the zombie’s crystal core.

Ren Anhua was stunned on the car roof.

“Hehe, first time seeing it, right? She’s the toughest person on our team. I can’t even beat her right now, but of course, I’ll definitely surpass her in the future.”

Lu Shanshui walked over to the side of the RV.

It was obvious that the moment Ashe-wen appeared, he had already given up fighting the zombie.

“I think it’s a level-three crystal core. Good luck!”

In the middle of the zombie horde, Ashe-wen waved at them from a distance.

But now, Ren Anhua was no longer worried about this “archer’s” safety at all.

She couldn’t help but think about the subordinates she had sent to capture Ashe-wen back then.

She wondered if they were still alive and how their lives were going.

In any case, the nighttime siege by the zombie horde was now over.

Ren Anhua jumped down, ready to go back and continue fighting for the sofa.

“But this one doesn’t look like the kind that commands the horde!” Ashe-wen continued to shout from a distance.

She had seen evolved ones that command hordes before, but this was the first time she had seen such a beefy one.

Generally, commanders were more slender, making it easier to hide in the horde, and were agile and fierce, favoring a nimble approach.

Ren Anhua instantly felt a sense of crisis coming from behind her.

Her seasoned combat experience made her roll on the ground, dodging a powerful blow.

A thin, dark figure slammed into the side of the vehicle with a loud bang, the immense force nearly flipping the RV over.

The horde commander never expected that after waiting for so long, and even choosing what seemed to be the weakest target for a sneak attack when they were most relaxed, it would still fail.

Sensing the danger, Lu Shanshui quickly rushed back to help, but Ren Anhua stretched out her hand to stop him.

“No need to trouble yourself. Leave this one to me.”

Watching from the roof earlier had made her eager to fight, and she also wanted to show off her strength to the team members.

The fight with them had been too frustrating; she had been subdued before she could even fully deploy her ability.

To prevent them from looking down on her, it was necessary to flex her muscles a bit.

Seeing Ren Anhua’s attitude, Lu Shanshui couldn’t very well stop her.

He backed away, preparing to watch the show just like Ren Anhua had done earlier.

He would even clap for her mid-fight, just as she had done.

But then, a thought flashed through his mind, and Lu Shanshui remembered a very serious problem.

“No, wait, I remember your ability.”

But it was already too late.

Ren Anhua, glowing with a brilliant red light like a meteor in the night sky, charged forward.

High temperatures flowed through her blood vessels.

Although it was an ability she had just used today, Ren Anhua felt a long-lost sense of exhilaration.

Her scorching fists carried a ferocious force, imprinting themselves on the commander’s body at a speed that was almost impossible to see.

The familiar smell of burnt flesh, the immense energy filling her body, the crimson flames wrapping around her, all helped Ren Anhua reclaim a piece of her former self.

“Hahahahaha!”

Seeing the fear reflected in the zombie’s eyes, Ren Anhua laughed heartily.

“That’s right, you should be afraid! This is how you should react when you see me, Ren Anhua!”

That man had once made even zombies feel fear!

Ren Anhua grabbed the zombie’s head and smashed it on the ground.

From the moment of first contact, it never had a chance to escape.

It still couldn’t figure out how this little girl, who looked the weakest, could be so powerful.

Fierce fists, wrapped in violent high temperatures, hammered its body.

Its abdomen was already burned through, the moisture in its internal organs rapidly evaporated, and its spine began to carbonize.

As if to prove something, Ren Anhua recklessly unleashed her energy, creating a three-meter-diameter crater of molten lava around her.

The commander’s body was directly smashed into flying ash, leaving only a shattered head, from which Ren Anhua retrieved her spoils of war.

“Hmph hmph, how was that~”

As her ability dissipated, the girl’s body, outlined by the moonlight, revealed a graceful curve.

Ren Anhua proudly walked towards the RV.

What she saw was an embarrassed-looking Lu Shanshui and a dazed Bai Rui.

“My little dress…”

Three words escaped Bai Rui’s lips in a whisper.

“Uh…”

Ren Anhua suddenly remembered that she was wearing the outfit that Bai Rui had painstakingly put together, and that Bai Rui had an unusual attachment to this outfit.

“What did you do to my little dress!”

Bai Rui bit out these words in a low voice.

It was hard to imagine that this cute-looking girl could produce such a terrifying sound.

Watching Bai Rui walk towards her, Ren Anhua inexplicably felt an absolute suppression coming purely from her aura.

The bravado from just moments ago, when she was pounding the zombie into the ground, vanished without a trace.

“Um…”

“You idiot, what foolish thing have you done!”

Her eyes were wide open, burning with an inextinguishable fury.

Bai Rui hadn’t wanted to come out.

Whatever danger the team encountered, as long as Ashe-wen was there, there was basically no need to worry.

So after Ashe-wen got up to handle it, Bai Rui went back to sleep, relieved.

That was until the vehicle was violently struck just now, nearly knocking Bai Rui off the bed.

Feeling a little uneasy, Bai Rui came out in her pajamas to see what was happening outside.

But the scene she saw when she went down made Bai Rui feel a heart-wrenching helplessness.

She watched with her own eyes as the magnificent little dress she had painstakingly made turned to ash, bit by bit, in the high-temperature flames.

Yet there was nothing she could do.

Even her shouts to stop that idiot were drowned out by that idiot’s foolish, wild laughter.

In the end, all that was left was fire, lava, and that idiot walking towards her with a proud look on her face.

But the most important thing, that little dress… was gone…

Knowing she was in the wrong, Ren Anhua let Bai Rui vent her anger by punching and kicking her for a while.

Fortunately, even in her fury, Bai Rui didn’t use her full strength.

She really was a gentle girl.

But a girl’s body really was sensitive.

Ren Anhua felt the pain was several times worse than before, so she had to slightly preheat her ability to strengthen her body.

“Um… are there any other clothes? It doesn’t need to be so complicated, just give me a shirt and a pair of shorts…”

Ren Anhua rubbed her head and asked the departing Bai Rui.

Bai Rui clattered up to the second floor, and a moment later, clattered back down.

She threw a bundle of dark blue fabric at Ren Anhua’s face, and then stomped off angrily again.

“A… a sukumizu?”

Ren Anhua unfolded the fabric in her hands.

“Hey, isn’t this a bit much?”

“You’re only allowed to wear this!”

Bai Rui’s voice came from upstairs.

Ren Anhua looked at Lu Shanshui.

Lu Shanshui shrugged.

“She’s in charge of all the clothes on the team. I can’t do anything about it.”

Then he continued.

“That outfit just now was indeed a pity. The clothes she makes have quite good defensive properties. They can’t be damaged by the claws and bites of level-two evolved zombies, or even by the slashes of ordinary swords.”

“This piece is probably also made of a special fabric she created. The fact that she’s still willing to make something for you to wear is already quite good. Don’t be too greedy. Just put it on,” Lu Shanshui advised from the side.

Although he said that, Ren Anhua inexplicably felt a hint of schadenfreude coming from Lu Shanshui.

But it wasn’t right to stay naked like this.

She might as well wear it.

Besides, a sukumizu was much more convenient than those troublesome dresses.

After some struggle, Ren Anhua finally managed to put on the dark blue swimsuit.

After smoothing it out, she looked down at her chest.

“Hey, hey, isn’t this going a bit too far?”

On the white cloth strip on her chest where her name should have been, the word “Idiot” was neatly written with a marker.

Lu Shanshui looked at Ren Anhua’s chest, staring for a while, which made Ren Anhua a little embarrassed.

She covered the two words with her hand and turned to the side.

“I wasn’t the one who wrote it.”

“No, I just noticed. So you do have boobs.”

Ren Anhua was inexplicably angry, but then she wondered why she was angry.

Was she angry because Lu Shanshui was mocking her for having small breasts?

Why should she be angry about having small breasts?

She wasn’t a real girl.

After thinking for a moment, Ren Anhua figured it out.

A man being teased about his chest would also get angry.

This was a disrespect to her gender!

But by the time Ren Anhua figured it out, Lu Shanshui was already lying on the sofa, wrapped in a blanket.

Knowing full well that she could never wake a person who was pretending to be asleep, Ren Anhua sighed helplessly, pulled a blanket and a small pillow from the cabinet, and obediently went to sleep on the carpet.

Ashe-wen was still showering upstairs.

Bai Rui was furious that she always got her clothes dirty after every battle and was scolding her.

The Ke sisters and Xu Huairou never came out from beginning to end.

It seemed the team was already used to battles of this level.

Accompanied by the sound of Ashe-wen’s shower, Ren Anhua gradually drifted into her first dream since temporarily joining the team.

She was truly exhausted today.

‘At least, I don’t have to worry about being uncomfortable sleeping in a sukumizu,’ Ren Anhua thought, with a bitter feeling in her heart.