While Zhang Mu was still savoring the harvest from this hunt, the Obsidian Worms had already dealt with the remaining dozens of first-order zombies and hurried back to Zhang Mu to claim credit.
"What do you mean, this time it's still okay, right?"
Zhang Mu heard the Black Obsidian's arrogant voice in his mind. He felt angry and amused. However, he couldn't say anything about the Black Obsidian's arrogant look. After all, the Black Obsidian's warning did give him time to react immediately.
So surprisingly, Zhang Mu did not do anything to the Black Obsidian Worm as usual, and did not even refute. He smiled and said, "It is really thanks to you this time. You are awesome. I will pay you the bill first. After tonight, I will settle it for you and you will get what you want."
Zhang Mu then muttered softly, "I really haven't learned anything else. I've used the opportunity to fully demonstrate my ability to raise my own status. I've never heard of anyone saying that after signing a blood contract with a mutant beast, you will be subtly influenced by the owner's personality.
Bah, that's not right, I, Zhang Mu, am not that kind of person."
Zhang Mu, who couldn't remember anything about this, stopped thinking about it. He waved his hand and said to the Obsidian Worm casually, "Go pick out all the crystals from the zombies on the ground and put them on the corpses. I'll collect them later. It will take too much time if you're tied up with the zombies' flesh and blood."
Although it knew that there were nearly 1,500 zombies on the ground, the Obsidian Worm had been completely attracted by the empty promise described by Zhang Mu, and did its job without any hesitation. Without even a word of complaint, it began to fly diligently to the end of the street, starting with the first zombie, and accurately and quickly picked up the Yuan Crystal from the neck of each zombie.
After all, what Zhang Mu promised it was a big promise that would allow it to advance to a second-level mutant beast. If it were to evolve on its own, it would probably take at least a month, or even longer. It would require a large number of first-level peak beast cores that matched its attributes to advance, so this was quite difficult.
In fact, Zhang Mu knew that the Epoch Merchants had not yet developed a system function for exchanging mutant beast cores with different attributes, but Zhang Mu was not deceiving the Obsidian Worm, because he had thought about it for a long time and felt that it was time to take out that thing and use it on the Obsidian Worm.
That’s right, it’s the bottle of second-level evolution potion in Zhang Mu’s hand!
Although this potion is marked by the Epoch Merchant as an evolutionary potion that can greatly increase the success rate of first-level human evolvers, it is also suitable for the evolutionary needs of mutant beasts.
The only second-level evolution potion bought from the Epoch Merchant has been sought after by many evolvers in later generations because this potion has no attributes!
In other words, any evolver or mutant of any attribute can use this purest evolution potion to increase their chances of success in advancement. It is the safest and most harmless. Moreover, if it is a dual-attribute or triple-attribute evolver, they can also share the mysterious energy that can catalyze evolutionary abilities.
Because unless the Epoch Store opens the function of exchanging mutant beast cores of any attribute one year after the end of the world, in most cases, if the evolvers in the early stage of the end of the world cannot exchange for mutant beast cores that match their attributes,
In order to obtain the powerful strength after advancement, they will take risks and absorb beast cores of the same level that do not match their own attributes to temper themselves.
Although there is a 70% chance that a weak human will explode in this situation, it is difficult to find a peak beast core of the same level as oneself. For the 30% chance of advancing to a higher level, many evolvers with no background will choose to give it a try.
After all, advancing one more level means gaining powerful strength, respected authority, and ensuring one's own safety. Such temptation is too great in this end times where people eat each other.
Even in large gathering places, in the year before the end of the world, there were no Epoch agents placing large orders with them, and the rare, top-level beast cores they stockpiled were only enough to satisfy the few people who held real power at the top of the pyramid.
Therefore, once they discover that an Epoch agent is selling the legendary perfect evolution potion, they will buy it at all costs, and may even target the merchant who is carrying a valuable treasure.
Without a strong foundation, no Jiyuan agent would dare to sell it openly. They understand the principle that an innocent man is guilty of possessing a treasure, and generally they use it for their own use. Only with their own strong strength can they show enough confidence in the transaction, otherwise they will be swallowed up without leaving anything.
This was what Zhang Mu had bought with almost all of his savings, but now he decided that after observing the list of Epoch General Goods from the merchants in Xi'an City tonight, he should buy another bottle of Level 2 Evolution Potion. He decided to give the bottle in his hand to the Obsidian Worm first.
Because he felt that if he evolved to the second level without any awakened evolutionary ability, his agility and strength would only be qualitatively improved, and there would be no other changes. This was the tragedy of an ordinary evolver like him who had no potential for evolutionary ability.
But if this bottle of second-level evolution potion is given to the obsidian that has now reached the peak of the first level, combined with the accumulation of various attribute beast cores it has eaten before, it is very likely to break through to the second level in one fell swoop.
The reason why Zhang Mu doesn't use the Obsidian Worm now is that, unlike humans, the time it takes for mutant beasts to advance is uncertain for different species. As far as this period of time is concerned, Zhang Mu needs the Obsidian Worm, at least to protect Yuan Rui and find large groups of zombies.
And if he could successfully complete the transaction with the Epoch Merchant in Xi'an City, Zhang Mu would be able to exchange for new Epoch Universal Goods that could greatly enhance himself, and then allow the Obsidian Worm to enter an advanced hibernation.
Without thinking any more, Zhang Mu pulled Yuan Rui and started the collection process from the starting point of the Obsidian Worm. He lowered his right hand and opened his Epoch Merchant Ring. All the Yuan Crystals that were taken out by the Obsidian Worm near him, without being tied to flesh and blood, poured into the expanding black hole of the ring on Zhang Mu's hand.
This is also the hidden benefit of swallowing a new era merchant ring. The time Zhang Mu's own ring can be opened for up to ten minutes each time.
The speed at which the Obsidian Worm took out the Yuan Crystals was almost the same as the speed at which Zhang Mu walked along the way to collect the scattered Yuan Crystals. In just eight minutes, Zhang Mu had swept away all the Yuan Crystals on the ground.
Zhang Mu had no interest in those zombie corpses.
The obsidian worm had a higher standard now, and would not eat this ordinary first-level zombie meat at all. It even disliked its taste. Its mouth had been spoiled by Zhang Mu, and it had completely forgotten how it enjoyed eating it in the beginning. As for the blood vine lotus, it was even more arrogant. It was not willing to stretch out its vines to devour this kind of flesh and blood with too little nutritional value and too low energy storage.
Looking back at the messy commercial pedestrian street, and then at the filled space inside the ring, including the nearly two thousand Yuan Crystals he already had, and nearly a hundred mutant wild monkeys' beast cores, Zhang Mu felt completely confident about tonight's transaction.
"Are you a businessman from Xi'an City? I want to see if you are interested in this deal."
Little did they know that in a far corner, a figure hiding deep in the ground witnessed the entire process of Zhang Mu clearing out the zombies and Liu Shuo's body being thrown out, and fled the scene trembling.
In an inconspicuous hotel, a group of people were sitting in the middle of the lobby surrounded by smoke.
It was Lin Shui's group just now. The burly man who was very close to Lin Shui stepped on the remaining cigarette butt in his hand and said anxiously, "Cousin, let Haozi go to follow the skinny guy just now. It's been an hour and a half, why hasn't he come back yet?"
It turns out that he is Lin Shui's cousin, but the two have completely opposite personalities.
Lin Shui ignored him, half leaning on the sofa, and continued smoking.
Suddenly, Lin Shui raised his head which was buried deep in his brown hair and headed towards the door. Everyone else was also nervous because of Lin Shui's behavior and pointed their weapons at the door of the hotel.
It was the short man who had just spied on Zhang Mu and his group. He staggered to Lin Shui's side, and seemed to have run too fast. He slipped and fell to the ground, muttering to himself.
"All dead. All dead."
The burly man just now asked, "What's going on? Haozi, what happened to you? Why are you in such a mess?"
The little guy called Haozi was still mumbling something about all dead, he was no longer in his right mind and didn't notice the burly guy was questioning him.
Lin Shui's cousin got angry and slapped Haozi in the face, shouting, "What are you doing with me, kid? Explain yourself to me now!"
The pain from the slap woke Haozi up. He covered his burning face, looked at Lin Shui who was staring at him, swallowed his saliva, and replied with a sad face, "Brother Lin, all the thousands of zombies in the downtown commercial pedestrian street were killed by that person just now. Not a single one was left. Even the madman who specialized in beheading people was killed and turned into mummies!"
Everyone present imagined the carnage of the battlefield just by listening to Haozi's few words, and they all gasped in unison.
Thousands of zombies in the city center were dealt with by the man just now within an hour and a half?
And there was that madman who appeared like a ghost, specialized in hunting people who had the same evolutionary abilities as himself and had a hobby of collecting heads. He was actually turned into a mummy by that person?
This time, even someone as calm as Lin Shui could no longer sit still.
(End of this chapter)