I Attacked Because I Was Afraid Of Death

Chapter 1: The little white flower turned into a man-eating flower

 

“Chi Xin! Chi Xin! Wake up! Seriously, you got scared and fainted just from watching a zombie movie……”

Her roommate’s voice was getting further and further away. There was a faint voice echoing in her ears and the image of the zombie’s face rushing towards the male lead was still lingering in her mind. In a state of panic, she responded to something, while another kind of perception became increasingly real.

Endless screams, the sound of gunshots, the squelching of flesh being pierced, and the strong smell of blood and decay enveloped Chi Xin, stimulating her to suddenly open her eyes.

–A cloudy, blue eyeball fell out, half of the flesh of the face fell off to reveal the bones, and the face with a big mouth full of stench suddenly magnified in her field of vision.

“…”

Chi Xin’s expression suddenly went blank from horror, her mind filled with only one word: Zombie!

What do you want now, black donkey hooves? Glutinous rice? Salt?  

“Bang!”

A gunshot rang out, and the zombie in front collapsed, but there was another one and another after that. A vast horde of zombies, densely packed, formed an overwhelming wave, crashing in one after another. The entire ground was trembling, and the earth seemed to shake and tremble.

She stood in a high place, looking at the distant ruined city and endless tide of corpses. The giant wall beneath her feet was being hit so hard that it was shaking and on the brink of collapse.

Her body seemed to have a mind of its own, trembling uncontrollably, and she nearly lost her balance and almost fell into the sea of zombies. Chi Xin lowered her head, and in her frail, slender hands, she held a gun. The silver gun had a smooth and beautiful body.

The name of this gun instantly appeared in her mind: Desert Eagle.

The strange thing is that even though her whole body was shaking like a sieve, the hand holding the gun was surprisingly steady, without even the slightest hint of shaking.

It seemed as though just by raising it, she could wield the entire world in her grasp.

“Chi Xin, use your life to pay for this mistake.”

Even amidst the endless chaos, the icy cold voice pierced through everything, reaching Chi Xin’s ears.

As she turned around, the handsome face that fascinated her on the screen earlier was now at a considerable distance. He had obsidian-like short hair, fair skin, and beneath the lenses, his eyes were clear and sharp, leaving nothing hidden.

Chi Xin wanted to scream, but as soon as she opened her mouth, the stench of blood and decaying flesh rushed into her nose and mouth, causing her to quickly shut her mouth again.

In the movie, the male lead raised his gun, and the dark barrel was not aimed at the zombies but pointed directly at Chi Xin.

He wants to kill her!

The thought quickly popped into Chi Xin’s mind, but the intense fear caused her pupils to dilate. The surroundings were filled with zombies and humans struggling against them, leaving her with no escape route. The situation seemed dire and hopeless.

She remembered the faint voice that echoed in her head before she passed out.

[Congratulations for binding the ‘Trouble-Making System.’  As a host entering the movie world ‘Apocalyptic Journey,’ you must strive to cause trouble! The apocalyptic world is a high-difficulty world, and the host can choose to enhance defense, attack, prophecy, and other functions…]

She was afraid of death, extremely afraid. There is a saying that goes, “The best defense is a good offense.”

“Attack! Give me full attack!”

So, she has transmigrated into the movie world with the offense attribute?

“Apocalyptic Journey” is a supernatural zombie movie, and the main focus is on the female protagonist, Jiang Congyun. It tells a passionate story about how the protagonist’s group eliminates the Zombie King and saves the post-apocalyptic world.

The female protagonist has a space pendant passed down from her family, but she didn’t know it before. It was the female supporting character who first discovered this secret. She managed to coax and deceive the female protagonist into lending her the pendant to admire it, and she secretly established a connection with it by dripping her own blood onto it, thus becoming its master.

When the female protagonist came to ask for the pendant back, the female supporting character refused to admit that the pendant was taken away by her, insisting she knew nothing about it. However, she accidentally revealed the traces of the jade pendant recognizing its master. Then, she changed her words to say that it became like this by itself, and she knew nothing about it.

The heroine has a gentle personality and doesn’t know how to quarrel with others, so she turned pale at the time. However, regardless of the female protagonist, the male lead, or the second male lead, as long as the female supporting character is not dead, they won’t be able to get the pendant back that has already been integrated into the female supporting character’s body.

Not only that, the supporting character, who was only concerned about saving herself, watched the second male lead fall into danger. When the female protagonist saved him, the supporting character hypocritically came out to advise her to rest, making the second male lead mistakenly believe that she was the one who saved him after he woke up.

Taking advantage of this fake life-saving favor, the supporting character forcefully squeezed herself into the protagonist’s group, and forced them to protect her even though everyone hated her.

— This female supporting character was the one that Chi Xin has become after transmigration.

She was like heaven and earth, filling up the hatred value of the whole film, and in the end, she refused to listen to advice and provoked the evolved Zombie King, successfully ending her life.

The current zombie frenzy was actually due to the original body’s actions and choices before Chi Xin transmigrated into the movie world.

After their group entered Base L, the original body thought they were safe and immediately distanced herself from the protagonist’s team. By relying on her weak and beautiful appearance, she managed to charm several admirers into willingly bringing her food.

It has only been three months since the apocalypse erupted, and human nature has not completely degenerated. The original body is still using the same tricks from before the apocalypse to take advantage of others, and there are still people who fall for it and provide her with food.

This time, the original body stubbornly refused to listen to advice and threw tantrums to make one of her admirers take her out of the base. Her purpose was to…. find cosmetics. Unfortunately, she also somehow provoked a powerful high-level zombie.

As a result, they rushed back to the base in a sorry state, bringing with them a massive horde of thousands of zombies that were chasing them.

No wonder every human who witnessed this scene glared at her with eyes full of resentment, but none of them stepped in to stop her.

Watching the male lead approach her step by step, Chi Xin wanted to step back, but fear rooted her firmly in place.

Should she immediately hug the male lead’s thigh and beg for forgiveness, or immediately hug the male lead’s thigh and beg for forgiveness?

“Xiubai! Please wait!”

The voice that claimed to be the Trouble-Making System overlapped with the shout coming from not far away.

[The Trouble-Making System binding is successful. The host must raise the trouble-making value to a passing level within three days, or else the ‘loss of body control’ punishment will be triggered to forcibly gain trouble-making value.]

[The acquisition of trouble-making value is closely related to the magnitude of trouble caused. This system will assist the host at any time, so don’t worry!]

For some reason, Chi Xin became even more worried. She never wanted to come to this troublesome world, nor did she have any intention of causing trouble at all!

“What trouble? If you want someone to provoke trouble, do it yourself! Send me back, right now, immediately! Hurry!”

[I’m sorry, but the host needs to understand one thing. In your original world, your body is already dead. If you want to survive, you can only get trouble-making value in this world.]

She’s… dead?

Chi Xin’s gaze became blank and dazed, lost in thought.

How could it be? She had a privileged family and parents who loves her so much. Even though she experienced some dangers in her childhood due to family reasons, she had always managed to come through them safely…. How could it suddenly come to an end like this?

Jing Xiubai’s figure gradually enlarged in her pupils, and the trigger in his hand was about to be pulled…

–A zombie was faster than him, with foul-smelling saliva dripping, opened its mouth wide and bit towards Chi Xin.

In that moment, Chi Xin’s entire brain went blank.

I don’t want to die, I don’t want to die, I don’t want to die… I can’t die!

She raised her hand subconsciously, and hit the zombie that almost bit her neck hard with the object in her hand.

Jing Xiubai’s eyes moved suddenly, and the finger that was about to pull the trigger came to a halt.

Chi Xin’s hands were pale and thin. Even if she was given a gun, nobody believed she could control the strong recoil of the Desert Eagle.

But it was these seemingly thin hands that held the heavy gun, and the handle smashed heavily into the zombie’s skull.

Sticky blood and brain matter flowed down the silver handle and onto her delicate white wrist, trickling down her arm continuously.

Yu Xiang saw that Jing Xiubai had the intention to execute Chi Xin on the spot. He managed to call out, but seeing him continue to approach Chi Xin without any response, he quickly killed several zombies and rushed over to this side at high speed.

Chi Xin may be detestable, but she did save his life after all. He couldn’t just stand by and watch her die at the hands of his friend.

Then, he happened to witness the scene where Chi Xin pulled the handle out of the zombie’s head.

“…”

His steps came to a halt, and he, along with the others who witnessed this scene, had their mouths wide open, stunned, and stared at Chi Xin in disbelief.

Chi Xin didn’t notice that she had attracted attention. She snatched the gun back from the zombie’s head, looking at her sticky hand, feeling like she was suffocating.

Blood! There’s blood! Aaaahhhhhh!!!

She was upset, and all words lost their effect at this moment. She could only raise her gun and shoot wildly at the surrounding zombies.

As she kept shooting, she felt a little subtle. No matter where she pointed the gun, even if she randomly aimed at the sky, a zombie would collapse in response, its brain bursting open with precise headshots.

Chi Xin: Huh?

For the sake of experiment, she deliberately tried to shoot backward.

As a result, in the eyes of others, she suddenly swung her hand behind her back, and the gun in her hand spun out a beautiful arc before she swiftly shot and hit a zombie that was about to sneak up on her from behind.

Chi Xin: …

Others: …

In the dangerous battlefield, the area where Chi Xin stood unexpectedly became a subtle vacuum circle.

Everyone watched as countless zombies tried to pounce on the slender girl in the middle. The girl’s eyes were filled with sorrow, she remained silent, her body trembling, but her hand holding the gun was extremely steady.

One by one, she shot each zombie that rushed towards her, never missing a shot.

There seems to be endless power in her thin and small body, and her mournful gaze seem to imply pity for the hell on earth in front of her.

She is like a seasoned warrior, with no hesitation in her actions, yet she does not abandon her innate kindness.

All the people who noticed this scene unconsciously looked towards Chi Xin. Whether they knew her or not, their eyes were filled with complexity and amazement.

“This is… what’s going on?” Yu Xiang swallowed hard, and was almost bitten on his arm in his daze, “When did Chi Xin become so powerful?”

Jing Xiubai raised his slender fingers and pushed the glasses up on the bridge of his nose. The flickering light of the lenses covered the expression in his eyes.

“How long will it take for the biological cannon to arrive?”

“There are still ten kilometers to go.” Yu Xiang anxiously looked around and couldn’t bear to look when he saw a person being brutally torn apart by zombies. He whispered, “You don’t plan to use your abilities, are you?”

Jing Xiubai stared at Chi Xin closely, “It depends on the situation.”

The emotions that led him to just want to kill Chi Xin disappeared, and calmness and rationality settled in.

They were not far away, and when Chi Xin heard what they said, she was so frightened that she almost dropped her gun.

The male lead, Jing Xiubai, is the son of the director of the top virus research institute in Country C. When he was in middle school, he went on an exchange program to Country S, where he was inadvertently taken for human experimentation and injected with a certain drug, resulting in him gaining ice-type superpowers.

In this movie, the emergence of superpowers represents a kind of evil, even unknown to the public.

Although the male lead was later rescued by his father, the dark experience left him with hidden madness and coldness in his heart, gradually coming out of it after being healed by the angelic female lead’s presence. However, in the end, the two did not end up together, leading to an open-ended conclusion, much to the dissatisfaction of viewers who wanted to see them as a couple (CP).

In the movie, the scene where the city is surrounded by zombies should have been the male lead’s moment of summoning countless ice swords out of thin air and using specially transported biological shells from the City A area as support to repel the zombie frenzy. It was also the moment when his superpowers were exposed to the public.

However, now, as Chi Xin looked into Jing Xiubai’s indifferent eyes, she couldn’t sense any signs of him making a move.

With tears in her eyes, Chi Xin continued to press the trigger.

Click.

The magazine was empty.

Before, nobody had considered how much ammunition to give to the original body, and she suspected that she was given the Desert Eagle by mistake during the chaos.

With the original body’s small physique, just pressing the trigger would result in being pushed back by the recoil, basically delivering herself as food to the zombies.

What should she do now?

Intense fear surged again, and Chi Xin looked around frantically, only to see Jing Xiubai with a calm expression, showing no intention of lending a helping hand.

Chi Xin’s heart was weighed down again.

When she looked at Jing Xiubai, her eyes could not help but be filled with accusation.

Why haven’t you made a move yet, what are you observing, big brother!

It didn’t last this long in the movie. If they continue like this, the high-level zombie will become more and more furious, and by then, the number of zombies will be much more than the current situation.

Seemingly noticing Chi Xin’s gaze, Jing Xiu Bai lightly glanced at her.

This glance was filled with probing and warning.

Chi Xin shuddered, and she forcefully shoved the gun into the open mouth of the zombie.

Chi Xin: Ahhhhhh, I’m going to die!!

Due to some past experiences, she tended to have an expressionless face when frightened.

In less than half a second, as if her body had a will of its own, she subconsciously lifted her foot and kicked. The burly male zombie, like a flimsy piece of paper, was sent flying off the city wall by her kick, taking several companions with him as they all tumbled down.

She turned around, her expression extremely indifferent, as if she had just done a trivial and inconsequential thing.

Everyone who saw it couldn’t help but gasp.

This… is Chi Xin? The same Chi Xin who was weak and could only survive with the help of men?

However, Chi Xin only glanced down for a moment and dared not look again.

Help…

The more scared she felt, the more blank and indifferent her expression became, making her even more unfathomable in the eyes of others.

She had to find a way to make the male lead take action; otherwise, everyone would die, even if the biological shells arrived, they wouldn’t be enough!

Chi Xin made up her mind, turned to look at Jing Xiu Bai, and was about to say something.

However, an unexpected change occurred.

“Chi Xin, you are the culprit behind all of this! How dare you still have the face to live, you should die!”

A disheveled man rushed forward, his expression distorted, and his trembling hand raised a gun, pointing it directly at Chi Xin while letting out an angry roar.

“It’s you! It’s you who caused all of this! Why don’t you go die? Why aren’t you dead yet—”

Chi Xin saw the gun pointed at her, and the obsession with not wanting to die rushed to her heart. She quickly raised her leg, intending to give a friendly warning to the person…

“Bang.”

Before anyone could react, the gun in that person’s hand flew straight out.

Chi Xin firmly planted one foot on the ground, tilting her body, while her other foot raised high above her head, aimed to kick the man’s wrist at the moment he attempted to shoot.

“Sorry.” Chi Xin looked at the flying gun and the distorted expression mixed with the man’s shock and anger, feeling embarrassed for a moment. Then retracted her leg expressionlessly, and sincerely apologized, “I didn’t mean to do that.”

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TL’s thoughts: Hi, this is my first work; I hope ya’ll like it even if there are any errors. I know this was already taken by another translator but it’s been a long time since it was updated and there seems to be a problem with her website. I don’t really know how to contact her regarding continuing what she left off, so I guess I’ll just start from the beginning. This is one of the TLed novels I was waiting to read since forever, and I can’t really bring myself to read the mtl version since it hurts my eyes, so I just took it upon myself to try to finish tling it myself? Anyways, happy reading.