89: Break the limit!

Underground Central Park!

T10-Research Institute!

At this moment, no one could have imagined that a bloody battle was taking place here, with a large number of zombies being slaughtered and crushed. The strong smell of blood was enough to make anyone who smelled it faint.

On the square, there were broken limbs everywhere, and some zombies who were lucky enough to survive were paralyzed on the ground, letting out impotent roars because their spines were broken.

Li An, with Harvester and Magic Spirit Dog, continuously reaped the lives of the zombies. At this moment, whether it was Li An, Harvester, or Magic Spirit Dog, all demonstrated power far exceeding that of ordinary zombies.

Although the strength of these zombies was not weak, being 3 to 4 times that of an ordinary adult, it was still useless. Not to mention facing Li An, even Harvester and Magic Spirit Dog were enough to crush them.

Ultimately, although the world strength of the biochemical world reached the Calamity-level, which is higher than the Disaster-level of the Prototype world, its true source of danger is the biochemical virus. Once immunity to the biochemical virus is formed, the danger level of this world will plummet, becoming one of the weakest existences in the Disaster-level, even inferior to the Prototype world that Li An had visited before.

After all, in the Prototype world, although the infected area has always been confined to Manhattan, it couldn't withstand the high danger of Alex Mercer and the blacklight virus. If the blacklight virus had the same widespread compatibility as the t-virus, then the Prototype world would have been eroded by the blacklight virus long ago.

However, unlike the t-virus, the blacklight virus has extremely high adaptation requirements. Those who cannot integrate with it will even die directly, making it impossible to transform into a zombie-like existence. This inherently limits blacklight, preventing it from rapidly infecting the entire world in a short period.

But even so, blacklight is extraordinary. Merely existing in the Manhattan area, it has pushed the world's danger level to the limit of the Disaster-level. If the blacklight virus could completely erupt in a country, it would undoubtedly push the world's danger level towards the Calamity-level!

Just imagine, if a country were enveloped by the blacklight virus, what kind of monsters would be born?

After all, blacklight's characteristic is to make people evolve, a cruel evolution where the fittest survive!

It is worth mentioning here that, as a creation of a Disaster-level world and the origin of a Disaster-level world, the blacklight virus's upper limit could at most reach the Disaster-level. Li An's initial original upper limit was also the Disaster-level. Even if he could develop it to its extreme, he would not be able to become the existence at the top of the pyramid.

However, fate is so wonderful. After Li An returned to Death Paradise, by fusing the blacklight body derived from the blacklight virus with the unknown seed he obtained, his upper limit was broken. As for where the limit is...

No one knows.

Crack!

The number of zombies in the T10-Research Institute square was simply too large. After fighting for a long time, even Li An gradually felt his physical strength draining. This made him realize that he couldn't continue to waste time like this. Entangling with these zombies would bring him no benefits, as even devouring them would not give him any attribute points.

Now, if he wanted to improve his strength, he could only devour items containing high concentrations of energy, or devour enemies whose strength was comparable to his own.

Of course!

He also had a way to improve his strength, which was to find another path and raise the level of his current abilities. However, there are only three ways to raise ability levels. The first is to develop abilities independently, but he has no precedents to draw from, so he can only familiarize himself with abilities in combat and then try based on his ideas. This method of improving abilities is the slowest!

The second is to devour the abilities of others, directly inheriting their ability levels. However, this would make his abilities mixed and complex. He had a premonition that devouring too many types of abilities would not actually be beneficial to him.

And the last one is to use Paradise authority, which means paying money to have Paradise help him improve his level. This method is the safest and simplest, but it involves a problem.

He has no money!

Therefore, his ability level improvement has been relatively slow all this time.

But despite his urgency, Li An had no choice but to be patient and proceed step by step. He needed to first find a way to obtain a stable source of income, because it's easier to get things done with money, isn't it?

That's why Li An was so keen on treasure hunting in this world. Even for the main quest, he would first lay down contingencies and only act when the time was ripe.

After all, he really lacked money right now, very much so.

[Ding! You currently hold 52 paradise coins.]

During this time, Li An wandered... no! He was strolling through various Umbrella Corporation facilities, which increased his original 7 paradise coins to 52 paradise coins.

But even so, in Li An's opinion, it was still no different from 7 coins. This amount of paradise coins really couldn't accomplish much.

At this point, it seemed like a long time had passed, but in reality, only a single breath had gone by.

Li An collected his thoughts and immediately shouted to Harvester and Magic Spirit Dog.

"Charge out!"

As soon as he spoke, Magic Spirit Dog was the first to react. At this moment, Magic Spirit Dog and Harvester were both within ten meters of Li An. As Li An gave the command, it immediately moved closer to Li An.

Bang!

Magic Spirit Dog was extremely ferocious. While charging towards Li An, it swatted away a zombie blocking its path with one claw.

By this point in the battle, even Magic Spirit Dog's strength had noticeably decreased; it could no longer instantly kill a zombie with a single blow as it had at the beginning.

But no matter how much its strength declined, Magic Spirit Dog still demonstrated its dominance. It used its body as a weapon, directly crashing through the zombie horde. While knocking a large number of zombies flying, it finally rendezvoused with Li An.

Harvester, on the other hand, took heavy steps. Its massive size was its best killing weapon. It directly walked over the bodies of zombies. By the time it reached Li An's side, a path of blood had already formed behind it.

However, Li An had no time to deal with these things at the moment. Seeing that his two pets had already reunited with him, he immediately took the lead and rushed towards another exit on the square.

Bang bang bang!

At this moment, Li An had no intention of continuing to tangle with the zombies, so his fighting style also changed accordingly.

He grabbed a zombie's leg and started smashing it around. If any zombie approached him, it would be hit by the zombie in his hand, and then the two zombies would intimately collide, sending large chunks of flesh flying in the air.

In this way, Li An in front, with his two pets guarding his left and right, the master and two servants transformed into a sharp blade, ultimately cutting straight through the zombie horde.

And as they left, what remained were piles of zombie corpses on the ground.