The ordinary people nearby were so shocked that they backed away, staring at the girl in astonishment.
Even Liang Yueqin stared wide-eyed in disbelief.
Unlike Yang Shen, who held the ring himself, Elaine emitted an energy glow after putting it on, receiving a noticeable boost.
This led Yang Shen to speculate that perhaps his strength was too great and the ring's level was too low to provide him with any additional buffs.
Elaine was just an ordinary girl, and her body couldn't handle too much energy, so the energy dissipated.
During this process, many people noticed the ring on Elaine's finger, and their experience points instantly increased by nearly a hundred.
"How are you feeling?" Yang Shen asked.
"It feels great." Elaine was overjoyed, feeling the ring on her index finger continuously transmitting energy into her body.
That energy was magical. Although it didn't directly evolve her life level, it was like life energy, amplifying her endurance, strength, and so on.
She even felt that she could control the energy transmitted by the ring, but it was a bit difficult and required practice.
"That's good."
Yang Shen nodded, looked around, and seeing the shocked expressions on everyone's faces, felt secretly satisfied. He said, "Don't say I didn't give you a chance. As long as you perform meritorious service, you will all have a chance to receive my reward. But if I discover that anyone has rebelled, their fate will be the same as theirs!"
He pointed to several headless corpses on the ground.
No one spoke, but everyone's eyes shone with a burning light.
Even Liang Yueqin was no exception. Although she was a superhuman, her ability was only to block out sound and aura. Although her physique was much stronger than that of an ordinary person, it was not by much.
In the apocalypse, few humans are truly loyal to anyone.
The people in the southern camp didn't really want to avenge Yan Chang; they were just acting out of momentary anger, thinking that Yang Shen was everyone's enemy.
In fact, most people here don't care who's in charge. As long as they have a chance to survive, they don't care who's in charge.
"That's settled then. Gao Shou, you handle the bodies. Liang Yueqin, take a population count and tell me the current situation."
After Yang Shen finished speaking, he returned to the previous spot, picked up a piece of steel, and continued making weapons.
The large swords that had been made earlier had all been taken away. Many people had seen those swords, which had given Yang Shen a lot of experience.
This time, however, Yang Shen wanted to gather 10,000 experience points to upgrade the pseudo-Five Elements Bead.
He was very much looking forward to seeing what kind of magical changes a level 4 pseudo-five elements bead would bring, since the level 3 pseudo-five elements bead already contained a very low-level small world inside.
On the other side, Gao Shou and the others acted quickly and removed the bodies of Yan Chang and the others.
Liang Yueqin and the other former campers from the southern part of the city gathered together to discuss what to do next.
“We have no choice, and it doesn’t seem too bad that Yang Shen has become the boss here.”
Finally, Liang Yueqin concluded, "We can't afford any more trouble. If Yang Shen isn't too brutal, we'll stick with him. That's all for now. Let's take stock of the camp's population and supplies."
...
Elaine was fortunate enough to become the envy of everyone, and Yan Min and the other women from the original East City camp all came forward to congratulate her.
After finally managing to deal with everyone, Elaine found a quiet place to sit down and carefully studied the ring's functions.
About an hour later, Elaine was finally able to barely control the ring. All the energy transmitted into her body was contained and no longer emitted light.
At this point, Elaine also discovered that the energy transmitted by the ring was not infinite; it could only increase her strength by about 500 kilograms.
Moreover, the ring itself seems to automatically regenerate energy.
However, Elaine felt that the ring's use should not be so limited, and that it was a waste to use it only to increase power.
After a long while, she suddenly stretched out her palm, and a blue light slowly emanated from it.
Under her mental control, the blue light was slowly compressed into a sphere of light.
A full minute later, the ball of light had grown to the size of a ping-pong ball, and feeling that it was about to get out of control, Elaine hurriedly threw the ball of light away.
"boom!"
The ball of light exploded, blasting a wooden cabinet in the distance to smithereens, startling everyone inside the building who rushed out to see what was happening.
Even Yang Shen, who was making weapons, looked over in surprise.
"I'm...I'm sorry, I didn't mean to..." Elaine hurriedly stood up and timidly apologized to everyone, especially Yang Shen.
Yang Shen laughed and said, "No need to apologize, you did a great job. Continue developing the ring's functions."
“Yes, Brother Yang.” Elaine sat down happily, but she discovered that the ring’s energy had been used up.
Fortunately, she could sense that the ring was automatically replenishing its energy, and at the current rate, it would be fully replenished in about an hour.
In other words, she can only launch an attack like the one she used to launch once every hour.
Even so, Elaine was quite satisfied. That attack was comparable to a hand grenade, and it was many times better than before when she was powerless to fight back.
Furthermore, if it is not released all at once, it can also be used to amplify strength and stamina, etc.
Those who were alerted and ran out all looked on with envy, secretly encouraging themselves to make a contribution.
At this moment, Liang Yueqin walked out of the building, holding a notebook, and came to Yang Shen, saying, "Brother Yang... the statistics have been compiled."
"I'm listening." Yang Shen didn't even look up, continuing to make weapons. There were already forty or fifty large swords piled up next to him, each one gleaming coldly.
Liang Yueqin watched as the object rapidly transformed in Yang Shen's hands, took a deep breath, and said, "The total population of the camp, including Brother Yang, is one hundred and twenty people..."
"So few?" Yang Shen frowned. "How many people died just now?"
“Seven people,” Liang Yueqin said.
Yang Shen nodded slightly. It seemed that besides the people he had killed, Gao Shou must have also taken lives.
"How many people were originally here?" he asked again.
“Originally there were about eight hundred people, but most of them died during the escape and internal strife. It wasn’t until half a year ago, when my superpower awakened, that things stabilized, but people still die frequently,” Liang Yueqin replied.
Yang Shen: "You awakened your superpower half a year ago? When did that guy I killed awaken his?"
“About a month earlier than me,” Liang Yueqin replied.
Yang Shen nodded: "Continue."
"Yes." Liang Yueqin flipped through the notebook in her hand and said, "Currently, we have 300 kilograms of cured meat, 5,000 jin of rice, and snacks..."
"Wait, you have rice and cured meat?" Yang Shen looked up in surprise.
“Yes, what we stored were all found in nearby supermarkets.” Liang Yueqin hesitated for a moment before saying, “My special ability is to block out sound and scent, so I can take things out of the supermarket without alerting the infected.”
"Not bad, a very impressive ability." Yang Shen nodded approvingly. "You don't need to report anything else to me."
He paused for a moment, then said, "Please spread the word that we may be changing our residence in the next few days. Please be prepared."
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