33: Chapter 33 Bonus Points

As Lin Yan said this, his right hand had already tapped on the interface.

Ten free stat points, all allocated to Agility.

Although he didn't know the exact speed of a Licker, he looked at his own panel.

[Speed: 280] (Bonus 40%)

But now it was enough.

Lin Yan clenched his fist, feeling the new surge of light power within his body.

His muscle fibers were reweaving, nerve conduction was accelerating, and even the rhythm of his heartbeat had changed.

From 140 to 280, this wasn't just a change in a string of numbers; it was his body being recalibrated from the inside out.

He took a step forward.

With just one step, he crossed from the pump room entrance to the edge of the sedimentation tank.

The gravel under his feet splashed to the sides, and the speed of his body's movement was so fast that his own brain needed a fraction of a second to readjust.

The wind swept past his ears, carrying the peculiar stench of the Sewage Treatment Plant, but in his accelerated perception, this smell was stretched out and slowed down, as if someone had pressed the slow-motion button on time.

The two Lickers obviously didn't realize what had happened.

In their cognition, the speed of these prey was as slow as snails.

The death of their first companion was attributed in their minds to being "frozen" or "hit by a shield," not to how fast that person's fist was.

So, when Lin Yan vanished from the edge of the sedimentation tank, the vertical pupils of both Lickers lost focus simultaneously, as it was too fast for their visual systems to keep up.

The Licker on the left only felt a blur before its eyes, and a fist had already smashed into its ribs.

The sound of bone cracking exploded in the quiet factory area, like someone smashing a wooden door with a sledgehammer.

The Licker's body was sent flying sideways, crashing into the concrete railing of the sedimentation tank, leaving a spiderweb-like crack on the railing.

It didn't even have time to feel the pain before the second punch arrived.

This punch smashed into its shoulder joint; bone spurs and muscle fibers were shredded by the force of the punch, and the entire forelimb hung down at an impossible angle.

The Licker opened its mouth to roar, but the third punch smashed into its throat, and the subsequent punches were too fast for the Licker to react.

Eight thousand health points, killed in less than thirty seconds.

Clean and efficient; the Licker didn't even touch the corner of his clothes.

The first Licker's corpse slid off the railing and hit the ground with a dull thud.

The second Licker finally reacted.

Its vertical pupils suddenly narrowed to a thin line, and it pushed off with all four limbs, catapulting toward the roof.

Speed was its greatest strength, the only thing it relied on to survive this long in this city filled with zombies; it didn't believe any creature could be faster than it.

It darted onto the roof, digging its limbs into the concrete, its body springing toward the roof—

A figure was already standing there.

Lin Yan stood on the roof, looking down at the Licker that was leaping up.

When did he get up there? No one saw.

Sister Chen didn't see, Zhao Ming didn't see, and Shen Bing didn't see either.

Even the Licker itself didn't know when this person had run above its head.

For the first time, clear fear appeared in the Licker's vertical pupils.

It wanted to turn and flee in another direction, but Lin Yan's fist had already come down.

A punch smashed onto the top of the Licker's head; the sound of bone shattering mixed with the dull thud of brains splattering. The Licker's body was knocked off the roof by this punch, landing in the mud at the bottom of the sedimentation tank, its limbs twitching twice.

Lin Yan jumped down from the roof and landed beside the Licker.

The second punch, the third punch, the fourth punch...

No fancy moves, no skill light effects, just punch after punch after punch.

The Licker's chest cavity caved in, ribs broke one by one, and dark red body fluid gushed out from its mouth and wounds simultaneously.

Its vertical pupils had already lost focus at some point, but Lin Yan's fists didn't stop.

When the final punch landed, the Licker's head and upper body were indistinguishable from each other.

[Ding! Successfully killed Level 8 Elite Licker x2, gained Experience: 800 points!]

[Level Up: Level 11 → Level 12!]

The pump room was so quiet that one could hear the sound of mud bubbling at the bottom of the sedimentation tank.

Lin Yan picked up the dropped items from the bloodstains on his own, and the system notification sounded in his mind.

[Obtained Equipment: Licker's Claw · Level 10]

[Quality: Green Excellent]

[Effect: Physical Attack + 200, Attack Speed + 15%]

[Wear Requirement: Level ≥ 8, Strength ≥ 25]

The attack bonus of the Licker's Claw equipment directly doubled, so he didn't hesitate to add points to meet the requirements and equip it immediately.

Zhao Ming's shield was still held in front of his chest, but his body had frozen.

He had seen the whole process, not "seen" it, but "caught some afterimages."

The moment Lin Yan rushed out of the pump room entrance, his eyes only caught a blurred human-shaped trajectory, and then the Licker on the left flew away.

Then, he heard a dull thud from the roof, and the second Licker fell from the sky.

"His speed..." Zhao Ming's voice sounded like it was squeezed from the depths of his throat, "Wasn't he unable to keep up just a moment ago?"

Shen Bing didn't answer, but her hand covered her chest, trembling slightly.

Too powerful! If it were him, perhaps he could...

Su Hao's machete was lowered completely; he stabbed the tip of the blade into the ground and rested his hands on the hilt.

He had never seen such a battle. It wasn't that he hadn't seen a Licker killed, but he had never seen someone crush a Licker with speed.

That thing's speed was legendary in Winter City; countless people had died under its sharp claws without even having time to react.

But now, there was someone faster than it, so fast that it couldn't even escape.