I am the Lucky Cat of an MMORPG

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8. Grinding at the Zombie Cave

Being too lazy to find more NPCs and accept a string of messy nonsensical quests, Bai XiaoYu ran straight for the Bounty Board, Prole's special kill quest board, to see if there were any quests suitable for his level.

He looked around and chose a Level 15 quest to protect the kingdom from zombies (one cannot accept a quest over 10 levels above their own). Zombies should be in the undead category. Just in time for him to train up his healing skill's proficiency.

Past the Southern Gate of Prole lies a patch of thick woods. The further south-east one walked, the more overpowering the scent of rot became.

Even before the cave's entrance was spotted, XiaoYu already felt like puking. He paused by a tree and leaned on it, trying to get a hold of himself. The tiny cat's eyes had also spiralled into mosquito coils. He'd made a mistake. He was too focused on finding undead enemies that he'd forgotten about the game's realism. It wasn't just restricted to what he can see but also what he could smell.

XiaoYu called up the game's Menu and, with a trembling hand, hurriedly turned the Scent sensitivity to its lowest. All to prevent himself from dying before succeeding. To add insult to injury, it would be through suffocation by foul odour.

"Come on. Return to the Pet Space." He lightly patted the little one's head. He was not willing to let it suffer along with him.

"Meow..." The little cat forced itself to lift a up a tiny paw, and waved it left and right. It then buried its head inside his clothes to block out some of the stench.

Bai XiaoYu couldn't help let out a sigh in at how amazing the pets in AO were. The AI for them sure were sophisticated. With a money-loving, food-loving TinyLuckyCat that wouldn't leave him and was completely unwilling to enter the Pet Space, he was finally not alone anymore.

At last, they've crawled into the Zombie Cave. XiaoYu held his small wooden wand with a tight grip and stared warily at his surroundings. While he could faintly detect a foul stench, it was still within what he could tolerate. Once his vision adjusted to the cave's lighting, a narrow little path lay before XiaoYu's eyes. There were no monsters but he could hear shuffling sounds coming from further within.

He carefully walked along the path. After a turn, his field of view suddenly expanded. Although he'd prepared himself for it, the sight before him still made his hair stand on end.

The room was roughly the size of two basketball fields and filled with dozens of human zombies in all sorts of sizes. Tattered pieces of fabric hung on their bodies. What they once were, he could not determine. The vast swathes of flesh revealed were covered in pus and bones could be seen glinting through the rot. Flying around each corpse were large flies that would swoop down for a bite of flesh once in a while. The zombies had no eyes.

Their deep sockets overflowed with green slime. Something that looked suspiciously like saliva could be seen oozing down the sides of their slightly gaping mouths. Hunched over with their arms swinging, the zombies wandered around this great expanse aimlessly.

Other than the entrance which XiaoYu had just came through, a few tiny corridors could be spotted on the opposite wall past the horde of zombies. The passages were over one person tall and three wide. They looked like they lead further down the cave. However, not only a player clear out a path towards one of these passages but they must also have enough luck to have picked the correct corridor. Otherwise, they would probably loop through this type of scenario over and over again.