Chapter 47 Reappearance of Civilization
Binding teammates is simple. After adding each other as friends, you can send a binding request. Rong Yi did a few things and added a teammate note after Wei Yanqing's name.
"Is your mission also to build a base?" Wei Yanqing asked her.
Rong Yi nodded, then asked in confusion, "What? Can player quests in the same instance be different?"
Wei Yanqing leaned back, his hands clasped together. "Of course there are. When the dungeon is large enough, some people have one task, while others have two. In any case, the ultimate goal is still to collect resources."
"Isn't it to torture the players?" The information Rong Yi had pieced together was that the so-called high-level creatures created truly cruel entertainment for their perverted psychology.
Wei Yanqing chuckled, his eyes lowered to conceal the mockery in his icy blue pupils. "That might be the case for low-level dungeons, but for higher-level dungeons, the main purpose is still to collect energy, such as the crystal core of this world."
Rong Yi rested his chin on his right hand. Thinking about it this way, it seemed to make sense. The so-called construction of a base meant killing zombies during the construction process. In addition, there were no side quest hints yet, so completing it would definitely be inseparable from killing zombies.
When players return to Obsidian City with the crystal cores, the system will then draw a share, and the system dictates this share ratio, leaving players with no recourse.
When I was inquiring about information in Obsidian City, I was told that the system was very strict about extracting a certain amount of energy stones, so it was really not easy for Sister Wu to sell her energy stones.
"What a pity..." Rong Yi sighed.
She regretted that she had intended to keep some crystal cores for herself, but now it seemed she would have to feed them all to Gray Word.
Wei Yanqing glanced at her without making a sound, unsure of Rong Yi's situation.
The restaurant was still filled with the aroma of food. Rong Yi slammed his hand on the table and stood up. The roars of the zombie horde outside were getting louder and louder. He decided to go and see how many had gathered.
More than five hours had passed since the virus outbreak at dawn, and the number of zombies outside was increasing.
While they were having lunch, the number of zombies outside increased from over two hundred to more than a thousand, and there were still a steady stream of zombies approaching from all directions. They didn't know if the four people from before had left yet; if they hadn't, they might have to stay here for a long time.
Rong Yi gave up on the rope and simply sat on the windowsill, leaning against the edge with his legs hooked around the outer glass.
There were a lot of zombies this time. After they killed one batch, the next batch would step on the fallen zombies to continue moving forward.
“I reinforced the glass door downstairs.” Wei Yanqing noticed that Rong Yi kept looking downstairs and understood her concerns.
Rong Yi wasn't afraid of the zombies rushing in; it was just too satisfying to mindlessly slaughter them. If they ran in, he would have to spend more energy aiming and shooting.
"Why don't we collect a batch of crystal cores first? It wouldn't be good if they trampled the zombies' heads and then we had to steal the crystal cores."
Wei Yanqing put down his gun, quickly gathered the crystal cores, and casually tossed the full bag behind him. Leaving the crystal cores out would attract more zombies.
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The zombies are evolving, and at a rate that exceeds Rong Yi's expectations.
Originally, the zombies were only flexible in their necks, probably to make it easier to bite people. But now they move like normal people, they can run and jump, but they just don't have a brain.
The zombies piled up around the mall were nearly a meter high. Every time the zombies that fell in front of the door piled up to a certain height, Wei Yanqing would push them all away to prevent them from piling up too high.
After about three hours of harvesting, they obtained more than three thousand crystal cores.
Rong Yi suspected that the zombies in this area were all moving this way, and the seven or eight bags of crystal cores piled up behind him were constantly attracting the zombies downstairs.
Her arms felt numb from the prolonged use of the acupuncture needles. Wei Yanqing noticed her discomfort and casually wiped Rong Yi's arms with his hand, instantly eliminating the numbness.
Rong Yi recalled that he was able to regain his senses thanks to Wei Yanqing, "You have quite a lot of talent."
Faced with the praise, Wei Yanqing's lips curled up. "Control and healing, only these two."
Two highly practical talents.
Rong Yi silently turned her head away. Anyway, she wouldn't have to worry about getting hurt in the future, and even if she lost control, someone would be able to pull her back to her senses.
After reloading the magazine, Rong Yi had just raised his gun when a leaping figure appeared, bobbing up and down.
She lowered her gun and, without mistake, saw something jumping around. "Wei Yanqing, look over there."
Wei Yanqing also saw the thing; it was moving extremely fast, closing in within a few seconds to within a few hundred meters, and with a few more jumps, it would be in front of them.
"An evolved zombie." Rong Yi, with her good eyesight, had already clearly seen the creature's appearance: a pale gray face with pure black pupils, its gaze fixed intently on her.
Wei Yanqing returned to the window, where Rong Yi was still sitting. He pointed to the crystal core behind him and said, "Keep it safe for now. I'm afraid that thing will steal it."
After she finished speaking, she took a long stride, stood up, and stretched her muscles. Although it was convenient to keep firing in short bursts, it got boring after a while.
The evolved zombies were clearly heading straight for her. Wei Yanqing scanned the area and asked, "Are you leaving them all for me?"
"It's okay, my body is getting stiff from sitting so long, so I'll just do some stretching."
The figure outside the window approached from afar, darting precisely through the broken window. Wei Yanqing's gaze had just shifted from the zombie's figure to Rong Yi when he saw a gloved hand pinching the evolved zombie's mouth.
What makes zombies most terrifying is their mouths. Rong Yi actually stuffed his tiger's mouth into the zombie's mouth, pressing down hard on both sides with his thumb and the other four fingers, preventing it from closing its mouth and biting down.
The evolved zombie, like a mad dog being held down, writhed wildly under Rong Yi's control, unable to break free from his one-handed restraint.
The zombie stretched out its dark hands, trying to tear Rong Yi's face apart, but was easily captured by the other party. The right foot stepped on its abdomen, the left hand held down the two hands that were about to cause trouble, and the whole person knelt down and used brute force to press it down firmly.
"It's quite powerful," Rong Yi commented.
Wei Yanqing: "..."
The evolved zombie quickly activated its abilities, its body shaking so fast that it left afterimages. At this moment, Rong Yi felt as if he were being spun out by a washing machine.
Feeling agitated, Rong Yi unconsciously increased the pressure on his right hand.
"Click"
She pressed down on the entire lower jaw of the evolved zombie, and its festering tongue, without any support, swung back and forth, making Wei Yanqing frown.
Rong Yi found it boring, so he revealed his dagger and stabbed it into the back of the zombie's head through its open jaw. The frantically struggling thing went limp.
She stood up, slightly out of breath, clasped her hands together and then opened them again. "Could you help me remove the dirty blood? Thank you."
The next second, the gloves and dagger, which were covered in sticky blood clots, were cleaned, and a crystal core floated out from the evolved zombie's jaw and landed in Rong Yi's hand.
The crystal core was milky white overall, but it had two strands of red inside. It was also larger than a non-ranked crystal core, about the size of a soybean.
Wei Yanqing took out his instrument and scanned the evolved zombie. "Level 1 zombie, evolved quite quickly in just half a day."
Rong Yi recognized it as an appraisal device; she had one in her storage bracelet.
However, her attention quickly returned to the gray text. From the moment the crystal core landed in her palm, it began to flicker, the meaning of which was self-evident.
Fortunately, I was wearing gloves, otherwise the gray text would have melted the crystal core immediately.
She put the crystal core away; it wasn't time to feed it yet.
(End of this chapter)
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