"While this flamethrower pistol may not be as lethal as a level four steel needle pistol in terms of pure firepower, it is definitely the best choice for clearing a path!"
Yang Shen planned that if they encountered any mutated animals blocking their way, they would simply burn them all the way through.
He then tried it again and found that the level 3 flamethrower pistol could already spew fire continuously.
As long as the energy isn't depleted and the trigger isn't released, it can keep shooting flames.
The flames can travel up to 100 meters and generate terrifyingly high temperatures.
The intense heat of that instant can crystallize the earth, and continued burning can even melt the soil and rocks into magma.
If the high-compressed flame beam hits the target during the spraying process, it can also cause astonishing single-target damage.
During this process, the flame beam generates extremely high temperatures, capable of instantly melting the target, and of course, a massive explosion will occur in the end.
In short, its power is considerable; it's practically like an explosive laser gun.
However, if you keep spraying flames, even with full energy, you can only spray for about five minutes at most.
Fortunately, the energy recovery speed of the level 3 flamethrower is much faster. Even if the energy is exhausted, it will only take about an hour to fully recover.
"I only have a little over 10,000 experience points left, not enough to continue leveling up!"
Yang Shen sighed. If it were upgraded to level four, the flamethrower would be even more terrifying.
Of course, it's also possible that, like the steel needle pistol, once it reaches level four, it will no longer increase power, but instead increase energy storage.
Putting away his flamethrower, Yang Shen continued scouting.
Gradually, he left the county town and came to the outskirts.
The plants outside are much more lush than they were three years ago; as far as the eye can see, it's all green.
In addition, there are more mutated animals. Yang Shen has encountered dozens of rats along the way.
"jacket--"
A clear yet melodious bird song drifted from afar, and a large bird with wingspans of over two meters flew overhead.
"Chirp chirp chirp..."
In another direction, large flocks of small birds rose from the dense forest, then quickly descended in another direction and disappeared into the forest.
Yang Shen looked serious and quickly stepped forward, directly into the dense forest.
"Gah..."
A large white goose flapped its wings and rushed towards Yang Shen.
That white goose was truly enormous; its long neck, when raised, was at least three meters high, and its overall weight was probably over a hundred kilograms.
Yang Shen's eyes lit up. Seeing the white goose fiercely pecking at him, he grabbed its neck and snapped it, thus eliminating this tyrant of the pre-apocalyptic countryside.
With a wave of his hand, the void in front of him caved in, creating a spatial vortex.
Yang Shen threw the carcass of the white goose directly in; this was his food storage. The pseudo-Five Elements Beads were now worth only this much.
He continued forward, mainly to scout ahead, and being highly skilled and daring, he completely concealed his presence, attracting predators to attack him.
However, those mutated animals did not seem to attack people indiscriminately, or perhaps they were not hungry yet. Even when they saw Yang Shen from afar, they ignored him.
Of course, there are exceptions. When Yang Shen was passing under a tall roadside tree, a giant snake as thick as a thigh suddenly shot down from the tree, its head moving with lightning speed, and biting at Yang Shen's neck.
"puff!"
But then a flash of light appeared, and the snake's head was cleaved off.
Yang Shen casually put the giant snake's corpse into the ultra-low-level small world.
Just as he was about to continue walking, he suddenly thought of something, walked to the snake's head, and gently cut it open with a knife.
Soon, he found a white, translucent crystal, only the size of a grain of rice, in the middle of the snake's head.
"An energy crystal core? But this energy crystal core is white and doesn't seem to have any attributes."
Yang Shen picked up the crystal core. Although it was small, it was still a crystal core.
"That big white goose from before must have mutated and evolved, right?"
He then dissected the carcass of the white goose. He first looked at the head but couldn't find it. Finally, he found a crystal nucleus, about the size of a grain of rice, that was also white and translucent, in the chest cavity.
"These should be normal energy crystal cores; those with color are crystal cores with attributes. The blue ones, however, should be infected crystal cores."
Yang Shen didn't know if humans could absorb the attribute-less crystal cores of animals, but it was always a good idea to bring them back. If not, he could use them as materials himself.
After walking several kilometers further, we encountered birds that had just begun to mutate, or birds that had not mutated at all, but were simply more numerous.
"Is that all? Then what about the ferocious beast that roared last night?"
Yang Shen was very skeptical; was the wilderness really as peaceful as it seemed?
At least for now, there seems to be little danger. If this is all he sees, he's far from being able to stop them from going to Hai City.
"It seems that mutations in wild animals are also probabilistic. Some animals have mutated, but most are still just ordinary wild animals. It's just that because there are no humans hunting them, their reproduction rate is faster and their numbers are greater."
"As long as we're not too unlucky, we shouldn't encounter any terrifying mutated animals."
Yang Shen made a mental summary. He glanced at the sky and saw that the sun had already risen.
"It's time to go back!"
...
At the South City Camp, Gao Shou organized people to load food and other supplies from inside the building onto vehicles while leading a group to exterminate the mutated earthworms.
"Brother Shou, these mutated earthworms are too troublesome! I've cut this one into ten pieces and it still won't kill it..."
"It's a duck," the duck complained.
"You should be secretly happy. Luckily, it's just a mutated earthworm with weak attack power. Apart from being disgusting, it's not very harmful. Otherwise, without Brother Yang in charge, we would probably suffer heavy casualties."
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