9: Chapter 9 The Arrival of the Berserker Fire Mage

Over an hour later, the dull thumping sounds in the cockpit finally ceased.

A cold mechanical voice exploded within the room without warning.

[Ding! Detected that female player Su Nian has successfully conceived! Awakened Exclusive Ability: Fire Magic (F-rank, upgradable).]

[Ability Effect: Consumes physical strength to condense and release high-explosive fireballs, possessing extreme destructive and burning capabilities.]

[Physical Fitness Strengthening Complete: Strength +2, Constitution +2, Agility +3.]

A flash of searing red light flowed across Su Nian's fair skin.

The physical strength she had overextended during the frantic demands was instantly replenished.

"Brother Yu Feng, look!" Su Nian extended her right hand excitedly.

With a soft "whoosh" sound...

An orange-red fireball shot directly from her delicate fingertips, hovering above her palm.

The searing heat instantly dispelled the last bit of chill in the cockpit, and the firelight illuminated her pure, harmless face in an extremely eerie way.

Su Nian stared blankly at the fireball in her hand, then suddenly turned to look at Yu Feng, her lips curling into a morbid smile:

"This is great. From now on, whoever dares to fight me for you, or whoever dares to look at you with lustful eyes, I'll burn her into a pile of ash. Brother Yu Feng, you can only belong to me alone, hehe."

This girl was practically a born psychopath.

"Put it away, don't set my bedsheets on fire."

[Ding! Day 2 check-in reward has been issued: Free Attribute Point +1, Portable Space +1 cubic meter.]

[Currently available Attribute Points: 1. Portable Space: 2 cubic meters.]

The system's routine broadcast rang out in his mind.

In a great mood, Yu Feng rolled out of bed and casually wrapped that wide seatbelt around his waist again.

With a base Constitution of 12, even after tossing and turning for so long, he was still full of vigor, and his waist didn't even feel sore.

He pushed open the metal door.

Outside the cabin, the gray dawn had already broken.

Over thirty girls were huddled together from the cold, their faces pale and bluish.

Hearing the door open, dozens of pairs of eyes instantly fixed on him like wolves.

When they saw Su Nian walking out of the cockpit barefoot, tossing a burning fireball in her hand, the entire cabin fell into a deathly silence.

No explanation was needed.

Su Nian's face, so flushed it looked like it could drip water, combined with this ability to conjure fire out of thin air, completely hammered home the reality of 'conception awakening an ability'.

Chu Yu bit her lip hard, the jealousy and resentment in her eyes nearly overflowing.

Ding Yutong clenched her fists, and Liu Ruyan subconsciously straightened her back.

Last night Alisa awakened the Healing Type, and today Su Nian awakened the Destruction Type.

In this hellish place where one could freeze or starve to death at any moment, awakening an ability meant survival, and it also increased physical attributes.

"Everyone, perk up."

Yu Feng pulled some beef jerky, bread, and mineral water from his portable space and tossed them onto a broken seat.

"Eat up and then get to work. Today's target is the employee dormitory building in the gray mist behind the apron."

The thirty-odd girls immediately began to devour the food ravenously.

"Ten people will go this time. Too many people make too big a target; too few won't be able to carry things back."

Yu Feng's gaze swept across the room as he directly assigned roles.

"Alisa and Su Nian, come with me—one healer and one mage. Ding Yutong, take an iron rod and take the lead. Chu Yu, Teacher Liu Ruyan, you're in charge of logistics and directing the loading of supplies. I need five more who are brave."

"Count me in," a slightly lazy voice rang out.

Shen Yulan stood up from a corner.

She was of mixed Chinese and Russian descent, 1.73 meters tall, with pale blonde curly hair draped casually over her shoulders and deep, charming blue eyes.

The tattered strips of cloth on her body were tied in an extremely clever way, somehow creating a high-end oil painting aesthetic.

"I'm from the Oil Painting Department. I've been traveling the world with my mother since I was a child, so I'm extremely sensitive to terrain and color."

Shen Yulan tilted her chin up, her tone carrying an otherworldly calmness.

"Visibility is low in the gray mist. Take me along, and I guarantee you won't get lost."

"Fine, you lead the way," Yu Feng decided.

Ten minutes later, the ten-person team was assembled.

Except for Yu Feng with the seatbelt around his waist, the nine girls were all dressed in extreme 'battle-damaged' styles, their pale long legs and slender waists swaying in the cold wind.

Stepping into the gray mist behind the apron, their vision was instantly compressed to less than five meters.

The air was thick with a pungent smell of rust.

Shen Yulan indeed had some skill.

Walking in the middle of the group, her blue eyes stared intensely at the shades of gray that ordinary people couldn't distinguish, precisely avoiding deep pits and discarded barbed wire.

"Fifteen meters ahead, there's the outline of a building."

Shen Yulan suddenly stopped.

Carrying the red fire axe, Yu Feng lowered his center of gravity and crept forward.

An old three-story concrete building appeared in the mist.

The main door was ajar, and the characters on the sign above had long since peeled off, leaving only the word 'Dormitory' barely recognizable.

"Ding Yutong, you and I will take the lead."

Yu Feng waved his hand.

"Alisa, stay back and be ready to heal at any time. Su Nian, don't throw fireballs without my command. The space in the building is narrow; don't roast us all."

Ding Yutong didn't hesitate, gripping a rusty hollow steel pipe with both hands as she followed behind Yu Feng into the main entrance.

The first-floor lobby was dark and damp, with blackened bones and tattered cloth scattered on the ground.

"Roar—!"

An extremely frenzied roar suddenly exploded from the duty room on the left.

A monster nearly two meters tall, its entire body covered in muscles of an eerie purple-black hue, smashed through the glass and lunged straight out.

This thing was nothing like the slow-shuffling ordinary zombies from yesterday. It was incredibly fast, and the nails on its hands were ten centimeters long, like ten sharp daggers.

"Back off!" Yu Feng roared.

Reacting instantly, Yu Feng raised the axe in his hand to block horizontally.

Clang! Sparks flew everywhere.

The purple-black zombie's strength was startling; a single claw strike against the axe produced a deafening boom.

Yu Feng let out a muffled groan, sent reeling back several steps by the massive impact, the webbing of his thumb splitting and bleeding on the spot.

"How dare it touch you!"

Seeing Yu Feng injured, Su Nian's rage instantly erupted.

She completely ignored any tactical arrangements, her eyes filled with fury at this monster for ruining the scene. She jerked her hand up, and a crimson fireball larger than a human head went whistling toward it.

Boom!

The fireball hit the zombie's chest with precision and exploded.

The intense heat instantly made the purple-black rotten flesh sizzle and pop, and the smell of charred meat filled the lobby.

The zombie let out an extremely shrill scream, staggering back two steps from the blast. A large hole was burned into its chest, but it still didn't fall.

"Tough life, aren't you?"

Yu Feng sneered, his legs suddenly exerting force.

The burst of 11 Strength plus 12 Constitution made him shoot forward like a cannonball.

He stepped off the collapsed reception desk to launch himself into the air, the fire axe in his hand swinging in a full moon arc.

"Die for me!"

The heavy red blade, accompanied by the ear-piercing sound of breaking wind, cleaved with unerring precision into the zombie's thick cervical spine.

With a crisp 'crack'...

That charred, hideous head was hacked off by brute force, hitting the ground and rolling far away.

The uncontrolled, headless corpse crashed to the floor.

[Ding! First time killing a Tier 1 Mutated Zombie above your level! Reward: Free Attribute Points +3!]

[Dropped Item: Tier 1 Crystal Core *1.]

Yu Feng landed on the ground and flicked the black blood off the blade.

A crystal about the size of a fingernail, emitting a faint purple glow, rolled out from the zombie's headless neck.

He bent down to pick up the Crystal Core; it felt cold to the touch.

Although he didn't know exactly what it was for yet, it was definitely a good thing.

He tossed it directly into his portable space.

"Yu Feng, are you okay?" Chu Yu ran over.

"Minor injury." Yu Feng shook his bleeding hand.

Alisa stepped forward, a white light flashing in her hand.

In a few seconds, the split webbing of Yu Feng's thumb was healed as if it were new.

"Nicely done. Continue searching the building."

Yu Feng flexed his fully recovered hand, feeling even more confident.

The ten-person team searched the first and second floors thoroughly.

They found no food, but in a large warehouse at the end of the second-floor corridor, they discovered a pile of neatly stacked supplies.

In the corner of the warehouse, instead of food and water, there was a large pile of construction materials stacked neatly.

Steel pipes, wooden boards, bundles of wire, and even a sealed metal moisture-proof box.

The moment Yu Feng's fingers touched those materials, a green notification light film instantly popped up.

[Collectable resources found: Wood x100, Iron x100, Refined Steel x100, Electronic Component x1.]

"Take it all."

With a thought from Yu Feng, part of the supply pile vanished into thin air, stuffed directly into his portable space, while he arranged for others to carry the rest back.

The moment that electronic component was put into the space, that cold voice without a hint of emotion exploded in Yu Feng's mind without warning.

[Ding! Captain of Dragon Country Flight 10000, you have collected all materials for the primary shelter upgrade.]

[Conditions detected as met. Do you wish to immediately begin the Level 1 to Level 2 transformation of the airliner?]

Yu Feng's eyes suddenly widened.

This broken plane can actually be upgraded?