4: Chapter 4 Simon! [Brain Reading Device]

"Ding!"

The blinding red light suddenly lit up before Chu Hong's stunned yet ecstatic eyes.

"Holy shit! It's a red item!"

"It's a red item!"

Without even having time to be shocked by the drop rate of his very first entry, Chu Hong immediately stashed the item before him into his inventory after the red light dissipated.

Then, without looking back, he immediately ran toward the evacuation point at the West District Helipad.

He was still excitedly muttering in the tone of his past life.

"Simon! Simon so do mi~"

The heavy backpack seemed to have not the slightest weight at the moment, and Chu Hong carried it as he strode like flying.

In just a short while, he had already rushed to the front of the helipad.

He flipped himself up into the helicopter and sat in the cockpit.

He reached out and grabbed the grip in front of him.

[Ding! Arrived at the conventional evacuation point "West District Helipad", evacuating...]

[10, 9, 8, 7...]

Chu Hong shouted excitedly in his heart, and the helicopter's engine also emitted a clear and deafening roar at this moment. As the helicopter blades began to spin rapidly, it stirred up a violent airflow.

"Roar!!!"

The huge commotion instantly attracted the attention of the surrounding zombies.

Looking at the Main Hospital Building to the north that he hadn't had time to explore yet, Chu Hong saw the swarming crowd of corpses, upon hearing the commotion, actually tumbling down like dumplings from windows or rooftop decks in a tidal wave.

"Bang, bang, bang," the sound of heavy objects slamming onto the ground could be clearly heard even from afar, causing Chu Hong's ecstatic expression to involuntarily freeze.

However, this wasn't even the end of it.

"Roar!"

With another sharp roar resembling some kind of monster coming from the northeast of the hospital, Chu Hong saw a spine-chilling scene through the helicopter glass.

That was a monster shaped like a lizard, but covered all over with disgusting tentacles.

Judging by its size, it was at least a dozen meters long.

It was baring its fangs and brandishing its claws, its tentacles acting like wings and absurdly carrying airflow, making the monster look like a missile as it crossed over the virus quarantine zone, the Underground Anatomy Center, and the Staff Dormitory.

And charged directly toward the helipad.

Chu Hong's pupils suddenly constricted.

"Holy motherfucker..."

At the critical moment, the helicopter's propeller finally carried him flying into the sky, and his vision went black.

The voice of the Special Service Department came over.

[Evacuation successful! Welcome home!]

...

"Huu, huu, huu..."

Panting breaths of lingering fear escaped from Chu Hong's mouth.

There was still nervous sweat on his face, and within his constricted pupils, he still seemed to see that giant mouth wide open like an abyss pocket, about to forcefully swallow the helicopter.

"Wh-, what kind of monster was that..."

He muttered.

Even though he knew he wouldn't truly die, at that moment, facing that bizarre and terrifying vicious beast covered in scarlet muscles, Chu Hong had to admit.

His legs had gone weak.

On the light screen in the middle of the Special Service Department, the summary valuation of his harvest from this trip was still playing.

[Investigation area: Cliffside Epidemic Hospital (Normal)]

[Evacuation successful]

[Evacuation location: West District Helipad]

[Value of current operation harvest: 1.4 million Source Energy Points]

[Ding! Completed the first Investigation operation, unlocked the "Recycling Department"]

As the voice came, Chu Hong turned his head to look and saw that next to the original Action Department, the door to another "room" had been opened.

[Recycling Department]: Can monetize the host's harvest from the Investigation operations.

"Can only sell, not buy?" Chu Hong discovered a situation that exceeded his expectations.

However.

In just an instant, Chu Hong temporarily cast this matter to the back of his mind.

When he is able to go to the real-world mystic realms, having things collected through the Special Service Department's Investigation areas would give him a reasonable explanation for their source.

He certainly wouldn't be foolish enough to sell them at the Recycling Department's quoted price.

Mind you, apart from a small gold item and a deep red item, everything else he brought back this time was just small blue and small purple items.

But even these were extremely precious good things if placed in Huangshan Base City.

Thinking of this, Chu Hong hurriedly took out the deep red item from his backpack behind him—the one he hadn't even had time to look at clearly earlier.

That was an item occupying a grid size of 2 × 3.

It was covered in pipelines throughout, looking like a hat, with a display screen located at the back of the head.

[Item Name]: brain domain reading device

[Item Grade]: Red

[Type]: Electronic item

[Weight]: 1.20 kg

[Inventory Slot Capacity]: 2 × 3

[Item Description]: An electronic product purchased at a high price by the Cliffside Epidemic Hospital before the cataclysm. It allows the wearer to receive digitally stored data and knowledge to the maximum extent through brain waves, making it an indispensable top-tier research tool for frontline researchers.

Looking at the description of this baby, drool was almost about to flow out of Chu Hong's mouth.

He kept muttering excitedly in his mouth.

"I'm rich, I'm rich, this time I'm really going to strike it rich..."

He immediately thought of another treasure he had obtained this time.

A flash of light shone on his hand, and a CD of 《Epidemic Defense Team Tactical Guide》 packed in a box appeared in his hands. He glanced at the button on the side of the brain domain reading device screen.

He reached out and pressed it.

Sure enough.

A CD drive slot immediately popped out.

"Hahaha, indeed, it really works!"

Without the slightest hesitation, Chu Hong inserted this skill-type small gold item—which could trade for at least a large villa in the base city—directly into the CD drive.

And then he put the brain domain reading device on his head.

Following a slight current passing through his scalp, Chu Hong's body trembled. Immediately afterward, his entire consciousness appeared on a clear fighting ring.

In front of him, a masked man was striking a combat-ready posture, holding a dagger in his hand.

Just as Chu Hong was still in a daze, the man had already taken a stride forward and rushed toward him...