90: Chapter 90: Another Red Card Appears! [Key to the Underground Cryogenic Storage]

Open the door!

A bolt from the short crossbow killed a zombie instantly, and the [source blade] pierced through the head of another zombie in a flash amidst a piercing sound.

Chu Hong excitedly picked up the card on the table at the first moment.

Unlike the crimson crystal texture of the Core Laboratory access card, this card also had a crystal texture, but it was as azure blue as ice crystals.

[Item Name]: Underground Freezer Key

[Item Grade]: Red

[Type]: Permission Item

[Weight]: 0.01 kg

[Inventory Slot Capacity Occupied]: 1 × 1

[Item Description]: A key used to open the underground freezer of the Underground Dissection Center.

[Durability]: 20 / 20

[Location of Use]: Cliffside Epidemic Hospital - Underground Dissection Center

"Holy shit! Inside this [Cliffside Epidemic Hospital], there is actually a red-grade restricted area?"

Chu Hong was overjoyed, and upon hearing the melodious vibrating "Ding~" sound coming from the azure blue crystal-textured card in his hand, the corners of his mouth gradually split all the way to his ears.

"The curtain of night falls too stubbornly, tears fall without crying, is loving someone right or wrong, why is the one who always gets hurt not you but me~"

"Lonely people listening to sad songs~"

Chu Hong smugly let out a strangely toned hum, inside the [source energy space], although he still didn't know how this card was priced over at the [Special Service Department].

It was definitely enough for him to directly evacuate with C4 on the spot...

He had run this map more than a hundred times.

Regarding access cards, he knew there was a blue-quality [Staff Permission Card], which could open some closed dormitory doors in the [Staff Dormitory].

The purple-quality [Advanced Care Area Access Card] could open special wards located on the third floor of the [Sanatorium and Rehabilitation Center].

Silently noting down this newly discovered card-swiping spot here, Chu Hong rushed to a window facing the direction of the [Sanatorium and Rehabilitation Center] and suddenly made a flying leap.

[Water Magic] surged!

It made Chu Hong's feet in mid-air instantly seem to step on a wave.

The distance of dozens of meters actually allowed him to make a direct flying leap, rolling and jumping onto an outdoor air conditioning unit on the third floor of the opposite [Sanatorium and Rehabilitation Center].

With a slash of his blade, he pried open the window.

Chu Hong took the opportunity to flip directly into it.

As his hand rose, his blade fell.

A zombie that had been locked inside by the office door instantly met its end.

He glanced at the time.

[00:03:17]

Finishing the [Exotic Beast Research Laboratory] in three minutes, he entered the [Sanatorium and Rehabilitation Center].

Current earnings: two small golds, four or five small purples, and one red card!

On the third floor of the [Sanatorium and Rehabilitation Center], the main areas were the [Advanced Care Area] and the nurse station, and the place Chu Hong had just leaped into was a small lounge located in the nurse station area.

Opening the door.

In the hallway, a sparse two or three zombies were quickly cleared out by Chu Hong's crossbow bolts.

Soon they all fell to the ground.

He walked up to a special security iron door with access control.

He took out the [Advanced Care Area Access Card] he carried when entering the map.

Beep~

The iron door automatically popped open with a click.

"A Confidential-difficulty access card consumes 2 durability points just to open it..."

Chu Hong muttered, his figure already stepping quickly into the ward.

There were three rooms in total, their doors half-open, with messy things scattered on the ground, as well as a few corpses that had turned into skeletons.

"No zombies..." Chu Hong silently noted.

Then, he immediately began searching inside the ward.

He first glanced at the bed, table, and floor. Although there was a pile of messy things, not a single one was a "collectible"; they were all "textures".

Just as Chu Hong walked up to a luxurious hospital bed, something by the pillow made his eyes light up.

A familiar big-brick-style communicator.

"[Portable Radio Walkie-Talkie], worth a two-slot small gold~"

He put the item away.

Chu Hong placed his hand on top of the skeleton, but it couldn't be searched as it wasn't a container.

He then placed his hand on the shut-down, black-screen life monitor beside him.

The searching black box appeared.

Searching [Life Monitor]: ...

[Ding!]

A golden single-slot item appeared, [CPU (Gold)].

"Yippee, another one? Another small gold..."

He searched the flower pot, wardrobe, and suitcase in the room again...

Aside from two purple-quality items, there was just a bunch of small blues and small greens.

Chu Hong stepped into the next room.

Check the open area first, then loot the containers.

"Pfft, this second ward didn't even drop a small purple?" Chu Hong casually threw a blue-quality women's shoulder bag from the coffee table onto the floor, while silently noting down the open locations where collectibles spawned along the way.

What spawned this time might be low-level collectibles.

Who's to say that next time, or on top-secret difficulty, an open-air big red wouldn't drop?

"These are all precious intelligence."

Chu Hong thought happily as he pushed open the door and walked into the last room. At first glance, he saw a small dark-gold baked-paint safe on the inside of the wardrobe.

"Hahaha, so the high-value loot spot is right here~"

Chu Hong reached out and looted it.

Searching [Small Safe (High-Value Container)]: ...

A 2 × 2 four-slot search box made Chu Hong's eyes light up instantly.

And then...

[Ding!]

[Precious Photo Album (Blue)].

Chu Hong's expectant expression instantly froze on his face.

Looking at the extra photo album in his hand, after opening it, he could still see photos of the ward owner and family members with smiling faces. This was a family portrait album recording their family.

But...

"Your uncle! Is this a scam?! If you dropped even a purple I wouldn't say anything, blue... trash!"

After looting the key room, Chu Hong went downstairs.

There was nothing much to see on the second floor.

He went straight to the first floor.

[Administrative Office Area]!

Chu Hong was extremely familiar with this place. That red-quality [precious gold watch] back then was looted from a suited zombie in a reception room here.

And that flower pot from which the [flying bird drone] blueprint was looted.

Oh, right, and our front desk nurse zombie young lady who could drop key cards...

Within the [Special Service Department] Investigation area, Chu Hong, like a cunning rat inside the [Cliffside Epidemic Hospital], quickly finished looting the [Sanatorium and Rehabilitation Center] and shifted his operations toward the [Underground Dissection Center].

Meanwhile, in the [Song Family Manor], inside Song Jiaojiao's bedroom.

Song Jiaojiao was tossing and turning, unable to fall asleep.

President Song Ming's words were still echoing in her ears.

"The City Lord's strength is greatly impaired. Even if [Shangcheng Base City] dispatches reinforcements, [Huangshan Base City] is about to usher in a drastic change. This young man Chu Hong is not bad, has drive, and is also unburdened. As long as he is admitted into the [Longming Sacred Academy] and the [Rubiks Chamber of Commerce] is handed over to your hands, I can rest easy..."

Today she learned that the reason why the [Core Condensation Realm] was powerful, aside from the source energy within its body being more abundant, was something else.

The most important thing was the ability to activate core essence objects.

And the so-called core essence objects were the so-called big reds!

"To advance from Stage Nine [Energy Gathering Realm] to the [Core Condensation Realm], one needs core essence objects, and to condense core essence objects, one needs three identical red-quality collectibles."

"The higher the value of the red-quality collectible, the greater the quantity of that collectible one can present when binding the core essence object, and the stronger the strength in the [Core Condensation Realm] will be..."

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