Chapter 8 Hidden Mechanism, Ability Strengthening

Style: Fantasy Author: Double Dog EclipseWords: 3552Update Time: 24/02/20 14:33:20
After collecting the heads of the mutated zombies, the five-person team followed the escalator to the second floor.

The second floor is the clothing, shoe and hat sales area. There are more zombies here than on the third floor, but Zhang Yue's team cannot hold them for long.

It only took them less than four minutes to kill all the more than 40 zombies on the second floor.

Even the agile mutated zombie with long hair on the second floor died in the end under the flames of Fang Bo who had been enhanced by Zhang Cheng's ability.

ten minutes later--

"call......"

As the two-meter-tall mutant zombie in front of him suddenly collapsed, Zhang Yue wiped the sweat from his forehead.

The last mutant zombie is extremely powerful. Not only does it have rich combat experience, its strength is not weaker than the mutant zombies on the third floor, and its agility is even higher than the mutant zombies on the second floor.

Gu Feng's bullets were a great threat to it, but even the strengthened Gu Feng couldn't hit it, let alone Fang Bo's flames.

In the end, it was Zhang Cheng who used the enhanced ability on Zhang Yue, and Zhang Yue relied on the enhanced strength to be no weaker than the opponent and faster speed to deal with the mutated zombie guarding the door on the first floor.

After collecting the mutated zombie's head, Zhang Yue couldn't help but reveal a heartfelt smile on his face, "There are a total of one hundred and forty zombies, and there are three mutated zombies. This is a big profit!"

I made 370,000 in this trip alone!

The most I've ever come to Mad Corpse World in the past was just over 40,000 yuan! Under normal circumstances, the average is close to 30,000 yuan.

Gu Feng was also smiling, "And this time it only took twenty minutes. Usually we have to stay at least ten hours to make a profit."

If this efficiency can be achieved every time, based on an average of 300,000 yuan per time, then even if you only come once a day, or even have weekends off, you can earn more than 6 million yuan in a month! If divided equally, everyone can get more than 1.3 million!

The average monthly income per capita is one million.

"Let's go, let's deal with those heads first when we go back. The storage boxes I prepared are the cheapest ones. They can only be kept for ten hours at most. After the expiration date, the zombies will be completely brain-dead and they won't be sold."

Zhang Yue smiled and was about to push the door on the first floor.

In fact, unlike before, the large tide of zombies wandering outside now is not only not a threat in their eyes, but also like walking bills.

It's a pity that they have to leave the abyss world after completing their mission, otherwise they would have spent ten days and a half here.

But just when Zhang Yue's hand was about to touch the glass door, the expressions of the five people suddenly changed.

[Clear the 'Crazy Corpse Emporium' within thirty minutes, trigger the hidden mechanism, and increase the difficulty]

[Reverberation of the Abyss: Crazy Corpse Emporium → Crazy Corpse Nightless City (Fake)]

[Level: 0]

[Survival: Normal→Nightmare (pseudo)]

[Temperature: 24 degrees Celsius]

[Time: 6:21]

[The noise you made disturbed the 'Linker' who was sleeping underground in the mall. 】

[Mission: Leave the Crazy Corpse Mall alive within twenty-four hours or eliminate the 'King's Lander'. 】

The words on the retinas of several people disappeared like smoke. The next moment, the zombies wandering outside the door looked over with dry and hollow eyes, and then... they roared towards the mall like a tide.

The expressions of Zhang Yue and others changed drastically.

The speed of these zombies is actually not inferior to the agile mutant zombie on the second floor of the mall just now! Even faster!

The zombies rushing outside were so dense that you couldn't even see them at a glance. It was conservatively estimated that there were thousands of them!

Just for a moment of hesitation, more than a dozen zombies broke through the glass and rushed towards several people!

Zhang Yue rushed forward and beheaded a zombie with a knife, but she turned pale and stepped back, grabbing Zhang Cheng and Su Yu and running into the mall, "Let's go!"

The overall strength of each of those zombies is stronger than the mutated zombie that was guarding the entrance just now!

Even if they are strengthened, the five of them will not survive long!

Maybe they will be torn apart just by meeting each other!

Gu Feng didn't hesitate. He picked up Fang Bo and followed Zhang Yue. Fang Bo, who was lying on his shoulder, immediately aimed at the person behind him and started spitting fire everywhere.

"A Cheng!" Gu Feng shouted as he ran.

Zhang Cheng withdrew the bonus from his sister without hesitation and poured it into Fang Bo.

Fang Bo was refreshed, and the range of the flames sprayed by the water gun suddenly increased five times! Even the color of the flames changed from the original red to a whitish orange.

The zombies chasing after them, who were originally not afraid of flames, were stopped behind the flames.

Gu Feng shouted to Zhang Yue, "Honey! Which way are you running?!"

Zhang Yue bit her lower lip, her face turned pale and she didn't reply.

Zhang Cheng could tell that his sister was in a state of confusion, so he said, "Go to the stairwell, let's go to the first floor."

Gu Feng was a little hesitant, "But there is that 'Lord of the Kings' underground..."

"Listen to me." Zhang Cheng patted his sister on the back, "Sister, trust me."

Zhang Yue looked at him steadily, and then didn't reply, but still ran to the stairwell according to his instructions.

Upon seeing this, Gu Feng quickly followed Fang Bo on his shoulders.

After arriving at the stairwell, Gu Feng put down Fang Bo and quickly locked the door.

After locking the door, they didn't go down any further, but looked at each other, and finally the four of them looked at Zhang Cheng.

"A Cheng." Gu Feng saw that his wife was distracted at the moment, so he hurriedly asked: "You must have your reasons for letting us run to the first floor below. Can you tell us?"

After Zhang Cheng broke away from his sister's hand, he grinned and rubbed Wu Qing's wrist and said, "I thought it was strange before. There were so many zombies outside, but why didn't they enter the mall? Now that I think about it, it's probably because this mall is like that 'Reigner' ' territory.

"Now the 'Linker' actively calls them after waking up, so they dare to rush in. But I think that since the 'Linker' is here, they should come to the first floor."

Gu Feng smiled bitterly, "But it's useless. According to the current strength of those zombies, we will definitely not be able to defeat them. There is also a 'Lord' underground who we will definitely not be able to defeat. How should we leave?"

Zhang Cheng smiled and did not answer, but looked at Zhang Yue, "Sister, now is not the time to be scared. Take out the heads of those three mutated zombies for me to use first."

Zhang Yue bit her lower lip and said nothing, but looked at him with red eyes.

Zhang Cheng was helpless, "Sister, now is not the time to feel sorry for the 300,000 yuan."

"I am the one who harmed you...how should I explain to my parents..." Zhang Yue's voice was filled with tears.

"It's useless to say anything. If I die here, you won't be able to survive. Why do you still want your parents?" Zhang Cheng sat down cross-legged directly, "Take it out quickly, don't wait until those zombies can It’s funny when you come in.”

Zhang Yue pursed her lips, silently took out three storage boxes and placed them in front of Zhang Cheng.

Watching Zhang Cheng open the storage box, Gu Feng couldn't help but said: "A Cheng, the probability of a normal survival mutated zombie's head opening an evolutionary seed is less than a quarter, and there is no professionally processed evolutionary seed for the awakened person. The ability improvement effect is also very average. It is useless for us to seek medical treatment in a hurry. It is better to think about what to do."

"I'm just doing an experiment. If it works... we'll be saved. If I fail, then think of other ways." Zhang Cheng didn't even look up.

Gu Feng quickly asked, "What experiment?"

Zhang Cheng didn't answer, he just withdrew the bonus ability on Fang Bo, and then... used [Overdraft and Repayment] on the head of the mutated zombie in the box!

The zombie head is not completely dead at this moment, and the ability of [Overdraft and Repayment] is explained as "it can increase the strength of a non-self unit by up to 50%"!

Then this zombie head also belongs to "non-self unit"!

He was going to try it and see if it worked.

But at the beginning, he only gave a 5% bonus to the mutated zombie heads.

As a white halo spread from his hand to the mutated zombie's head, the wilted head suddenly opened its eyes and roared loudly, full of energy, and even wanted to bite Zhang Cheng's hand.

"It's done!"

Zhang Cheng was overjoyed, and then increased his efforts to reach 50%!

The zombie head suddenly works again! If it didn't have long legs, it would have jumped up and hit Zhang Cheng on the knee!

Gu Feng and the others were all shocked, "It can really give monsters a bonus..."

Zhang Cheng hurriedly shouted: "Sister! Why are you still standing there? Hurry up and open the skull! I can't open the reinforced head now!"

Zhang Yue did not dare to hesitate. She quickly activated [I am a king] and raised her long knife to pierce the temple of the mutant zombie's head with all her strength. Then she gritted her teeth and exposed the veins in her arms to open its skull with difficulty.

It took more than a minute before the skull of the mutated zombie was finally opened.

A green seed as big as the palm of your hand, like a gem, shone brightly in the thick gray-white brain.

"Is this the evolutionary seed of nightmare survivability?!" Gu Feng exclaimed.

Zhang Cheng raised his eyebrows, "What is that?"

Just as Gu Feng was about to speak, he suddenly heard the roar of zombies outside the stairwell door behind him.

Although they didn't dare to break in, they were obviously ready to make a move.

Seeing this, Gu Feng hurriedly said: "We'll wait until we can get out alive! Cheng, hurry up and absorb it! Just hold the seed of evolution and enter the ability-activated state!"

Zhang Cheng nodded, and then absorbed all the seeds of evolution.

[Innate ability: overdraft and repayment]

[Ability Efficacy: It can increase the strength of a non-self unit by up to 50%→70%, and the ability can be withdrawn at any time. 】

[When the target's emotions reach their peak, the ability to recover can be used to read their natural abilities and physical fitness to permanently add to themselves. 】

An increase of 20%?

But not enough!

Zhang Cheng once again added his ability to the second mutant zombie's head, and Zhang Yue immediately began to perform craniotomy on the second one, but it was obviously much more difficult than the first one.

And this time, the evolutionary seed was still opened, and it was also a cyan nightmare survivability seed.

And although it is also cyan, the color of this evolutionary seed is slightly deeper than the previous one.

Is this the difference between a 70% bonus and a 50% bonus?

Zhang Cheng did not hesitate and immediately absorbed this evolutionary seed.

[Ability Efficacy: It can increase the strength of a non-self unit by up to 70% → 95%, and the ability can be withdrawn at any time. 】

The ability effect has become stronger again!

But not enough!

Zhang Cheng once again used the bonus on the last mutated zombie head.

This time it was more difficult for Zhang Yue to deal with it, but not surprisingly, he opened the dark blue evolutionary seed.

Zhang Cheng took it directly and began to absorb it.

[Ability Efficacy: It can increase the strength of one → two non-self units by up to 95% → 125%, and the ability can be withdrawn at any time. 】

It is indeed stronger! And it also met Zhang Cheng’s requirements!

He clenched his fists, took a deep breath and stood up and said: "My ability has increased. Now I can give bonuses to two people at the same time, and the bonus range has also increased from 50% to 125%.

"But there are too many zombies outside. Let's not talk about whether we can kill them. The other three of us will also be in danger. So my suggestion is... let's kill the 'King's Lander'."