Chapter 140 - 139: Automated Zombie-Clearing Trap
Chapter 140: Chapter 139: Automated Zombie-Clearing Trap
"Lin Jiao, blow up the entrance again! Keep the other zombies from getting in!" Lu Feng returned to the rooftop of the main building at the Red Leaf Base entrance.
The earlier gas canister explosions had only wiped out the zombies that had already gotten inside Red Leaf Base.
Outside Red Leaf Base, a massive horde of zombies still swarmed, a problem that had yet to be solved.
’They would need more gas canisters.’
’But Master Lin can’t modify gas canisters that quickly,’ he thought. ’More importantly, the modified canisters are actually more effective against people than against zombies.’
After all, even Gray Wolf, an ability user who specialized in defense, had been taken down by those same gas canisters.
And Gray Wolf’s energy barrier had been far, far stronger than his own.
Even after being blown half to death, he had still been able to block a laser attack.
His own energy barrier could only block a single laser shot. A second one would surely shatter it!
Lu Feng looked out over the entirety of Red Leaf Base, assessing the situation. An idea suddenly struck him, recalling the automated equipment he used to operate at the factory.
’With some raw materials, as long as you kept pouring them onto the assembly line, they would be carried forward and automatically fed under mechanical cutting blades.’
’Then, the cutters would automatically slice the materials and send them to the next station.’
’What if he could turn Red Leaf Base into a place that functioned like an assembly line?’
’After all, the zombies were already pouring into the base on their own—that part was like the materials being fed onto the line. The next step was to simulate the function of the automatic cutters.’
’All he needed was a system that would automatically kill the zombies as they came in.’
Besides, the system didn’t prohibit him from using external forces to kill zombies.
Otherwise, he wouldn’t have gained experience for killing them with the gas canisters.
The only issue was that this involved automated machinery.
He couldn’t solve that on his own, of course, but he could hire a mechanical designer to help design and build the necessary machines when he returned to the real world.
With that thought, Lu Feng turned his attention to the glowing screen in his mind to check his character stats:
Character: Lu Feng
Level: 11
Strength: 14 (Average Human: 5)
Agility: 14 (Average Human: 5)
Stamina: 12 (Average Human: 5)
Spiritual Power: 14
Combat Skills: Basic Brawling, Vintage Firearm Proficiency, Blade Proficiency.
Special Abilities: Energy Barrier, Speed Ability.
Energy: 160/160
EXP: 1,295/102,400
After leveling up twice in a row, Lu Feng’s Strength, Stamina, Agility, and Spiritual Power had all increased by 2 points.
His Energy had also increased to 160, which meant he could sustain his abilities for longer.
Leveling up again would require over one hundred thousand EXP.
Gaining two levels by killing everything from regular zombies to higher-EXP variants and even mutated ones... ’Those 200-plus gas canisters must have killed over 5,000 zombies,’ he estimated.
That meant each canister must have killed more than twenty zombies on average.
After checking his stats, he tried casting his energy barrier. With the two extra points in Spiritual Power, he could clearly feel the barrier was a fraction denser.
This also meant its defensive capability was stronger.
BOOM!~
A thunderous explosion echoed from below.
It was Lin Jiao and her group, blowing up the entrance again to prevent any more zombies from getting in.
Lu Feng went down to the ground floor. Seeing Lin Jiao and her team, he ordered, "Spread out and look. Finish off any zombies that are still alive."
"Understood." Lin Jiao nodded and led her people to finish off the survivors.
Sure enough, some zombies were still moving despite being blown into several pieces.
Lu Feng pretended to be finishing off zombies as well, but he was actually walking over to the corpses that had glowing orbs floating above them, collecting the orbs into his inventory.
This was the loot that had dropped; Lin Jiao and the others couldn’t see it at all.
[This is a special Life Potion. Upon consumption, it replenishes vitality and heals injuries. Recovery Amount: 200.]
...
[This is a special Energy Potion. Upon consumption, it replenishes spent energy. Recovery Amount: 200.]
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[This is a special Speed Ability Crystal Stone. Upon use, it can grant a person the Speed Ability...]
[This is a special Power Crystal Stone. Upon use, it can grant a person the Power Ability. Side Effect: User will become obese...]
[This is a special Serum. Upon use, it can cure the zombie virus...]
...
Lu Feng picked up the items one by one. There were quite a few, and this time, a large number of Life Potions and energy potions had dropped.
Furthermore, there were also plenty of Ability Crystal Stones, all of them either Speed Ability Crystal Stones or Power Crystal Stones.
Apparently, zombies at this stage tended to evolve in one of two directions: either toward speed or toward power.
He didn’t see any other types of Ability Crystal Stones, though.
Still, for an ordinary person, gaining even one of these two abilities would allow them to completely dominate their peers.
After all, it was incredibly difficult for ordinary people to acquire special abilities; not everyone could get Ability Crystal Stones to drop for them the way he could.
This was his unique advantage.
And finally, there was the special serum.
Ever since the first one dropped, the drop rate seemed to have increased. After blowing up this batch of zombies, another bottle had appeared.
After he had finished pretending to clear out zombies and had collected all the loot into his inventory, Lin Jiao came over with her team and handed him a handful of crystal cores.
These crystal cores were all dug out of the heads of mutated zombies.
There had been a particularly large number of mutated zombies around Red Leaf Base, and they had managed to find plenty of them, collecting over 150 cores in total.
At this rate, he wouldn’t have to worry about running out of energy anytime soon.
Lu Feng put away most of the crystal cores, leaving ten for Lin Jiao.