90: Pretending to be cool is seen through

Blue items were mostly armor and weapons, along with a few ability crystals.

It seemed the system intended for people to arm themselves to better deal with zombies and mutated plants and animals.

A green fire-attribute ability crystal was given to An Qian.

Two strange lumps of flesh.

zombie king meat (Green): Has a fatal attraction to zombies within a hundred-meter radius; please use with caution.

Zombie King Brain (Green): Has a dispersing effect on zombies, but may also cause some zombies to salivate.

Qin Shi Lei put away these two lumps of flesh.

Overlord Spear (Green): The spear is 2.2 meters long, extremely tough, and incredibly sharp. It can be split into a short spear and a short staff from the middle.

This spear could only be given to Zhang Qiang to use.

Swift Boots (Green): Increases movement speed by twenty percent.

These boots were not only red but also female in style, so they could only be given to An Qian.

Before giving them away, Qin Shi Lei also refreshed and fixed a floating attribute.

Levitation (Green): When jumping or falling from a height, a three-second levitation state can be activated, with a one-hour cooldown.

The last green item was a healing potion.

The qingtong treasure chest dropped by the Alligator King opened to reveal the only red item.

Passionate Army Flag (Red): Increases team morale and courage, enhances team members' physical fitness by ten percent, with a range of one hundred meters.

After opening the treasure chest, Qin Shi Lei gave An Qian the fire-attribute ability crystal and ten blue ordinary ability crystals.

After An Qian absorbed the ability crystals, she activated an ability called Fiery Slash.

Fiery Slash (Green): Can launch a flaming blade forward with bare hands or a sword, and the flaming blade has cutting and burning effects.

After An Qian left, Qin Shi Lei also refreshed the attributes of his own equipment.

First, he took out the skill stone imprinted with Phantom.

"Do you want to refresh the attributes?"

"Refresh."

Deception (Green): The phantom created has no obvious difference from the main body.

What's the difference between this and the lifelike attribute refreshed last time?

Stronger When Hit (Red): The phantom will absorb the enemy's energy attacks to enhance its own attack power.

A phantom that disappears after three minutes, is this really useful?

Evolution (Purple): Through learning and comprehension, it can greatly reduce the cooldown time of the phantom clone and increase the phantom's existence time.

This last purple attribute looked pretty good, but Qin Shi Lei was not very confident in his comprehension ability.

He could only summon the phantom once every forty-eight hours, and it only lasted for a short three minutes; could he really comprehend anything from it?

However, to one day make the phantom a regular trump card, Qin Shi Lei still chose the Evolution attribute.

Then he casually learned the Phantom skill.

After thinking for a moment, he calmed down and tried to summon the phantom in his mind.

Then an energy phantom appeared out of thin air in front of him.

Qin Shi Lei could choose to designate a target for the phantom to attack at will, or he could split his mind to control its every move.

This time, it was to test the Evolution attribute, so Qin Shi Lei naturally chose to control the phantom himself.

As his spirit entered the phantom's body, he suddenly felt himself switch to the phantom's vision.

After experiencing it, he found that the One-Punch Man attribute could also be activated.

Qin Shi Lei controlled the phantom to perform sword techniques move by move.

He carefully experienced all the phantom's senses and felt everything about the phantom's body.

Soon, three minutes passed.

Phantom (Purple): Forms an energy phantom with eighty percent of its own strength. The phantom possesses all the main body's skills, has an existence time of three minutes and ten seconds, and a cooldown time of forty-two hours.

The Evolution attribute is really good!

The first time he used Phantom, he extended its existence time by ten seconds and reduced the cooldown time by six hours.

Does this mean he can use the Phantom skill continuously after seven times?

Qin Shi Lei then took out the lightning-attribute ability crystal and the Passionate Army Flag.

Unfortunately, he couldn't refresh any good attributes, so he put them away.

The next morning, Qin Shi Lei and his companions arrived at Luyang Bridge over Chi Yuan River.

At the end of the bridge, the military had built a five-meter-high defense line.

Seven or eight machine guns and three mortars were set up on it.

Outside the defense line were wandering zombies.

"Be careful; if you can't win, run back to this defense line," the soldier on the defense line routinely reminded them.

"Thank you, we will be careful," Qin Shi Lei thanked him and then slid down the rope.

Not long after passing the defense line, several nearby zombies swarmed around them like flies smelling meat.

Before An Qian and the others could act, Xie Haimei and Qin Shi Lei, the two ranged attackers, easily dealt with those zombies.

Several batches of zombies in a row were handled this way.

An Qian and the others were reduced to just digging for crystals.

"Qin Shi Lei, can you two leave some zombies for us?" An Qian complained.

"Qin Dage, why don't you give me a bow?" Zhang Xiaoli suddenly remembered that she seemed to have a talent for archery too.

"I want one too." Blazing Star's attack range was too short, so An Qian also wanted to switch to a bow to snatch some monsters.

"This..." Qin Shi Lei was a little reluctant to discourage the two girls, so he opened his mouth to lecture them: "You still shouldn't distract yourselves with archery; don't be greedy."

"If you can handle shooting, why can't I?" An Qian said confidently.

Under the firm gaze of the two girls, Qin Shi Lei had no choice but to take out two compound bows and some arrows.

At this moment, Zhang Qiang also spoke: "Captain, let's split up for now; it's faster to kill zombies this way."

"Alright, be careful," Qin Shi Lei reminded them: "Don't go too far; shout loudly if anything happens."

Zhang Qiang and Xie Haimei then walked towards the street on the right.

Finally, Zhang Xiaoli's parents also chose to temporarily separate, and when they left, they also asked for two compound bows to lure monsters.

"You're not allowed to attack; watch me for a bit," An Qian tried the compound bow in her hand and said excitedly.

Zhang Xiaoli also looked eager to try.

They hadn't walked far when five or six zombies rushed towards them from the street ahead.

"Whoosh! Whoosh!"

An Qian and Zhang Xiaoli simultaneously shot arrows from their bows.

Zhang Xiaoli's arrow hit the belly of a zombie on the right.

An Qian's arrow hit the chest of the leftmost zombie.

"Not bad," Qin Shi Lei clapped his hands and praised: "Next time, aim for their eyes; that way, you can kill them with one arrow."

Both girls' faces flushed, but they didn't respond.

An Qian had originally aimed for the head of the zombie in the middle, but she accidentally hit the chest of the zombie on the left.

Zhang Xiaoli hadn't aimed for the zombie on the right either.

They both missed their intended targets because the group of zombies was running too densely.

Qin Shi Lei's praise made them incredibly shy.

An Qian put away her compound bow and said nonchalantly, "They're too close; I'll use my sword."

After speaking, she drew her sword and charged over.

Zhang Xiaoli also echoed, "I'll also use a knife for now."

Afterward, the two girls tried shooting arrows a few more times, and without exception, none of them hit the target.

Qin Shi Lei stifled a laugh and said seriously, "Maybe this compound bow isn't properly adjusted, which is preventing you from showing your archery talent."

An Qian glared at Qin Shi Lei, "If you want to laugh, just laugh; don't hold it in and get sick."

"No, why would I make fun of you two?"

Qin Shi Lei changed the subject and said, "Let's not use bows; let's practice our sword and knife techniques."

"Impossible, take out your short bow," An Qian, not believing in evil, demanded the short bow from Qin Shi Lei.

"This girl wouldn't really think that compound bow isn't adjusted, would she?"

Qin Shi Lei secretly wondered, but he could only hand the short bow to her.

"Whoosh! Whoosh!"

An Qian shot seven or eight arrows in a row.

With every arrow, a zombie fell.

An Qian suddenly realized, "It's not the compound bow that has a problem; it's your short bow that has a problem."

Zhang Xiaoli then added, "Qin Dage, so you've been acting like an Arrow God with this short bow all along."

"How could that be?" Qin Shi Lei said with a confident expression, "I am the Arrow God, alright?"

After speaking, he took out a compound bow and shot an arrow at the zombies over there.