It was the last week of the month, a loud plea for monthly votes—if he was surpassed at the end of the month, it would be a tragedy!

What is the antonym of love? It should be disgust, right? Whether accurate or not, Lin Luo was instantly disgusted the moment he stepped out of the Starlight Avenue, because he saw a man, nearly completely decomposed, his face utterly indistinct, with eyeballs already hanging out, lunging fiercely towards him... Strictly speaking, it should have been a corpse.

"Holy crap!"

The Starlight Avenue took only one minute to transition from one world to another. One minute prior, beautiful, charming young women had thrown themselves at him; now, one minute later, he was faced with a riddled, rotting corpse. This extreme contrast nearly made him vomit, and this rotting corpse treated him as food. Borrowing a phrase from Brother Egg, this was practically asking for death!

Lin Luo didn't even look, directly unleashing an Atomic Collapse. Before the living corpse could get within a meter of him, it was vaporized into nothingness... With his current calculation ability, even though he could only copy from Makino up to Lv4, the power exerted was no less than Lv5.

However, after eliminating this living corpse, Lin Luo didn't cheer up, because he realized he had landed right in the middle of a horde of the walking dead... It appeared to be a street, and hundreds, perhaps thousands, of the undead were meandering about. Upon spotting his figure, they immediately surged toward him, quickly surrounding him completely, with even more of the undead pouring out from alleyways and the surrounding buildings.

Lin Luo felt immensely fortunate that he hadn't eaten a full meal before entering the Starlight Avenue; otherwise, this situation might lead to more than just vomiting.

"Did I enter the world of Highschool of the Dead? Is it really this ridiculously harsh?" Seeing so many living dead, or perhaps zombies, Lin Luo immediately thought of the Highschool of the Dead plane. After all, that anime's chest movements were deeply memorable. Lin Luo had certainly never seen breasts jiggle with such dynamic sway in any other anime.

Lin Luo raised his hand, intending to obliterate these disgusting creatures treating him as sustenance. But before he could act, a thunderous roar echoed from above. Bai Rui was faster than him. Amidst the enraged roar, its massive body rushed out, a single sweeping motion instantly tearing nearly half of the undead to shreds.

"Good job, Xiao Bai... Huh, where are you going?"

Truly worthy of being the strongest spiritual beast specialized in dealing with malevolent spirits; its methods were far more decisive than his own. Lin Luo couldn't help but praise it, but before he finished speaking, he saw Xiao Bai let out a sky-splitting roar and immediately accelerate rapidly toward the distance.

"Damn it, abandoning the master to flee for his life! You really are something else." Lin Luo couldn't help but curse, though he only meant it as casual banter. When Lin Luo could suppress it, Bai Rui was absolutely loyal to its master and would never flee from any danger. Take this moment, for instance; it had already eliminated two-thirds of the undead before departing.

With Lin Luo's abilities, recalling Bai Rui was simple, but he didn't want to. Bai Rui's bizarre behavior made him very curious, so it was better to let it act according to its own will for now. This would allow him to understand the cause of the situation more quickly.

Given Bai Rui's flying speed, it was soon beyond Lin Luo's sight. Simultaneously, the undead continuously emerging from all directions surrounded Lin Luo once more, causing him considerable headache.

"Ah, forget it. I should just resolve you disgusting things quickly; I'm quite busy, after all." Lin Luo sighed, pointed a hand upward, and summoned the Light of Fantasy. "Let me think, I'll name this move... Blade of Judgment Scatter."

The Light of Fantasy condensed in mid-air into a massive sphere of light, half a meter in diameter. Then, countless beams of white light rained downward. Every undead struck by the white light instantly lost the ability to move, collapsing to the ground as their bodies gradually dissolved into smoke and vanished.

Subsequently, Lin Luo increased his movement speed to three times that of a normal person and ran toward the direction Bai Rui had flown. The sphere of light in the sky followed Lin Luo at the same speed, requiring no direct effort from him; the Light of Fantasy would destroy all the undead for him, ensuring no 'life' could approach within three meters of him.

Running without pause, Lin Luo discovered that this city had completely turned into a city of the living dead; not a single normal living person was in sight. Furthermore, the houses lining the streets were all severely damaged, presenting a shocking spectacle.

Lin Luo could definitively say this was not the plane of Highschool of the Dead, because Highschool of the Dead was a purely modern technological world. Here... in the traces left by the undead, and on the sides of the streets, he vaguely sensed fluctuations of magic—not the magic of spells, but more accurately, the energy of techniques (Shujutsu).

This was completely inconsistent with Highschool of the Dead. Moreover, the most crucial point was that his arrival in this world was triggered by Bai Rui's strange actions. Thus, there was only one conclusion... This was the world of Shokugen (Food Zero)!

"Oh my, it really is." Just as he thought this, Lin Luo suddenly spotted seven or eight figures running out from the other end of the street corner. They were not undead but humans, wielding various weapons—swords, talismans, and a few strange beasts.

Lin Luo instantly deduced their identity. If this was the Shokugen world, then these people were the so-called Exorcists.

"Looks like they're here to exorcise spirits. But the entire city is overrun with the living dead; how are these guys supposed to exorcise anything? Oh well, if they get into trouble, I might as well lend them a hand. It would also be a chance to ask what exactly happened in this world... Damn it! The whole city is filled with the living dead, and Bai Rui fled in such panic—could those yuri sisters be in danger?"

Lin Luo suddenly sensed something was wrong, and the more he thought about it, the greater his unease became. Instinctively, he quickened his pace... Unfortunately, in this world, his rule of creation was severely restricted. Besides using electrical currents to accelerate his movement, he lacked the ability to fly or teleport. Otherwise, he could just lock onto Bai Rui and teleport there instantly, instead of having to rely on his two legs for travel.

"This is bad. I was too careless. I should have asked Chosuzu for a light-speed skateboard."

Lin Luo couldn't help but curse his own foolishness. Having a genius scientist like Chosuzu by his side, yet failing to ask her for some means of transportation—that was pathetic!

Although having the rule of creation active was more convenient than any transportation tool, when the rule of creation couldn't be used, like now, having a light-speed skateboard would have made things so much easier.

As Lin Luo rushed toward those Exorcists, they also spotted him and immediately charged forward. What surprised Lin Luo was that despite the countless living dead surrounding them, the Exorcists showed no signs of guarding themselves, walking directly past the zombies. Moreover, the undead ignored them completely, launching no attacks whatsoever.

This bizarre scene was completely incomprehensible to Lin Luo. Exorcists were the natural enemies of the living dead; the very purpose of this profession was to eliminate various paranormal phenomena, and the living dead were a form of malevolent spiritual manifestation. For the two to meet without conflict was simply preposterous!

What shocked Lin Luo even more was that before the Exorcists reached him, they launched a fierce attack—machine guns, talismans, spells, and slashes were all hurled his way indiscriminately.

"Hey, hey, I think you guys have the wrong target," Lin Luo frowned immediately. Although the Light of Fantasy protected him, making him unafraid of these attacks, being attacked without reason made anyone unhappy.

"Your targets are those disgusting things next to you! I am a living human!" After deflecting all their attacks, Lin Luo stared at them with an expressionless face, his tone laced with threat.

But the Exorcists completely ignored his words. Seeing that the first wave of attacks was ineffective, they immediately launched a second wave.

"Damn it, you are asking for your own demise!"

Seeing countless bullets and charms flying toward him, Lin Luo finally became enraged. Ignoring their attacks, his figure flashed rapidly, and he appeared beside the Exorcists, fiercely gripping the throat of one man and lifting him up. He spoke coldly, "Did you not understand what I said?!"

"Ugh... Wu!" After absorbing the Book of Power, Lin Luo's grip strength was no longer comparable to ordinary people. Just being held like that made the man unable to speak, his face pale, eyes bulging, and legs trembling in mid-air.

Yet, even in this state, he did not abandon his intent to attack Lin Luo, shakily raising the knife in his hand to stab him. The other Exorcists, utterly disregarding the fate of their comrade, also renewed their attacks on Lin Luo.

"I see, I finally understand. You people are the same as those disgusting things."

Seeing this, Lin Luo, though unsure what circumstances caused these Exorcists to indiscriminately attack friend and foe, now had no reservations. Since these people were determined to kill him, they had only one path ahead.

"Kill!"

Lin Luo let out a light shout, applied force with his right hand, instantly crushing the man's cervical vertebrae, resulting in instantaneous death. The Light of Fantasy above also expanded its target range, unleashing beams of white light toward the remaining Exorcists.

These Exorcists were merely dregs with a combat power of five in Lin Luo's eyes; there was no suspense. In an instant, they were all struck down by the Light of Fantasy, yet Lin Luo's expression did not improve.

"This is too strange. The Exorcists aren't exorcising spirits; instead, they're killing humans, and Bai Rui's panic... I definitely didn't come to this world through Bai Rui's power; at best, it could only be the trigger. So the source of that trigger... Damn it!"

Lin Luo suddenly realized something deeply ominous. He stopped paying attention to the living dead and immediately chased in the direction Bai Rui had vanished with the fastest speed possible.

If his assumption was correct, this world might have become extremely dangerous, at least for them!