91: Collective promotion

"Whoosh!"

The arrow shot out rapidly, hitting the forehead of the zombie about ten meters in front.

The zombie fell backward under the impact of the arrow, lying motionless.

"Whew!"

Qin Shilei secretly breathed a sigh of relief; although he didn't hit the eye he aimed for, hitting the forehead wasn't disgraceful.

He had shot tens of thousands of arrows with his short bow.

Under this terrifying amount of practice, he had long developed a good sense of archery.

It was, of course, impossible for him to miss a zombie more than ten meters away now.

An Qian then used her short bow to shoot down the remaining four or five zombies.

She turned her head, looking at Qin Shilei with a puzzled expression.

"Well, the dark attribute of this short bow might have increased the hit rate a little bit," Qin Shilei had to explain.

"Your 'little bit' is really a 'huge bit'," An Qian said with a smile.

"This short bow is temporarily requisitioned. I also want to experience the joy of being an Arrow God."

Qin Shilei waved his hand and generously said, "Use it as you like."

Zhang Xiaoli walked over to An Qian. "An Qian, you can't monopolize it; I want it too."

An Qian nodded and said, "Let's show a certain someone the might of us two female Arrow Gods."

This time, it was Qin Shilei's turn to do the hard work of digging out the crystals. After the two women shot down the zombies, he excitedly ran over to hack and dig for the crystals.

Soon, the three of them arrived in front of a large shopping mall.

There were over ten zombies wandering around the mall entrance.

Through the mall's main doors, they found dozens of zombies in the mall's ground floor hall, and there were probably more in unseen areas.

"Qin Ge, should we lure the zombies out and kill them one by one?" Zhang Xiaoli asked.

"Today, I'll show you how a fisherman 'fishes' for zombies," Qin Shilei said mysteriously.

After Zhang Xiaoli shot down the zombies outside the main entrance, Qin Shilei stealthily approached the mall's main doors.

With a running start, he jumped onto the protruding sign above the mall's main entrance.

Then, he took out a seven-meter-long fishing rod from his spatial ring and tied it securely to the sign.

Next, he pulled out a clump of purplish-black flesh, zombie king meat, and hung it on the fishing hook.

After lowering the hook, Qin Shilei quickly ran back to An Qian and the others.

"Thump, thump, thump!"

Countless footsteps sounded from behind.

Hideous-faced zombies rushed out of the mall, vying with each other.

Those zombies came under the zombie king meat, all looking up and waving their hands upwards.

Their frantic appearance was even more exaggerated than when they saw bleeding humans.

"Done. Now we can focus on practicing our archery," Qin Shilei said, taking out a bottle of mineral water to wash his hands.

"What is this thing? It's too amazing," Zhang Xiaoli asked, surprised.

"zombie king meat," An Qian interjected.

At this moment, at the mall entrance, the area under the fishing rod was already packed with zombies.

Zombies from inside the mall were still continuously pushing their way under the zombie king meat.

Unfortunately, the zombie king meat on the hook was at least five or six meters off the ground, and the zombies couldn't reach it at all.

"Let's start shooting arrows quickly, or those zombies won't be able to come out anymore," Qin Shilei reminded them.

After speaking, he took out a compound bow and began shooting.

Zhang Xiaoli also picked up her short bow and shot rapidly.

An Qian, meanwhile, took out a compound bow and began practicing her archery.

Those zombies completely ignored Qin Shilei and their attacks.

Their eyes were solely fixed on the zombie king meat hanging in the air.

They could only clumsily serve as live targets for Qin Shilei and the others.

Qin Shilei suddenly reminded them, "That zombie on all fours is a Licker. Shoot it."

The zombie took a running start, then pushed off with its feet, its left hand almost hooking the zombie king meat.

Qin Shilei, holding a compound bow, had a very 'touching' hit rate when shooting such a fast-moving target.

Four out of five arrows missed the target.

The only arrow that hit merely struck the opponent's shoulder, having a negligible effect on the zombie.

Fortunately, at this moment, the arrow shot by Zhang Xiaoli accurately hit the Mutated Zombie's eye, knocking it to the ground.

The Mutated Zombie quickly got up again and ran rapidly, its target still the zombie king meat.

Although the exquisite short bow had a 100% hit rate modifier and good attack speed, its attack was slightly insufficient.

One arrow was already difficult to kill a Mutated Zombie.

"Whoosh whoosh!"

Zhang Xiaoli quickly shot three more arrows, finally killing the Mutated Zombie.

An Qian and Zhang Xiaoli took turns shooting with the short bow.

Soon, a two to three-meter-high wall of corpses piled up at the mall entrance, including seven or eight Mutated Zombies of various types.

"We need to find a way to clear out the zombies at the entrance, otherwise those Mutated Zombies can easily jump on the corpses and grab the zombie king meat," Qin Shilei said, frowning.

"Blazing Star has an explosive effect, but I'm afraid it might ignite the fishing line or even the zombie king meat," An Qian said with some regret.

"How about using a rocket launcher? Don't worry if it attracts distant zombies," Zhang Xiaoli suggested.

"Alright," Qin Shilei said, taking out a rocket launcher and firing a shot at the pile of zombie corpses.

"Boom!"

With a huge roar, countless dismembered limbs flew everywhere.

A gap was blown open in the corpse pile.

"Boom boom boom!"

Qin Shilei continuously fired three more shots, finally completely scattering the corpse pile.

The splashing limbs made the zombie king meat sway violently, but fortunately, it didn't fall down.

After scattering the corpse pile, Qin Shilei put away the rocket launcher.

The current rocket launcher was not only too noisy but also much weaker in power.

One shot could only kill three or four zombies, and it took two seconds to fire one shell.

Calculated, its killing efficiency was much worse than that of the short bow.

Therefore, Qin Shilei tried not to use the rocket launcher.

Then, everyone entered the arrow practice mode again, monotonously yet excitedly shooting down zombies.

This mall had seven or eight hundred zombies, and they spent nearly an hour killing them all.

Then they spent another half an hour digging for crystals among the pile of bloody zombie corpses.

In this way, Qin Shilei and the two women swept through the zombies in the vicinity.

If it was a place with many zombies like a mall, they would use the zombie king meat to lure them out.

In general situations, they would just push through.

Three days passed quickly.

Except for Zhang Xiaoli's parents, who still lacked some experience, An Qian and the others had already accumulated enough crystals to advance to the Bronze Realm.

Five Villa.

Qin Shilei sat on the sofa. "You will advance in turns, and I will protect you."

The first to advance was Zhang Qiang.

Through absorbing crystals these past few days, his experience had already reached Nine Star 1000/1000.

He took out several Mutated Zombie crystals.

Unfortunately, after absorbing these crystals, he still couldn't advance.

These ordinary Mutated Zombies simply couldn't provide enough energy for advancement.

He had no choice but to continue taking out Mutated Zombie crystals until he absorbed eighteen of them before successfully advancing.

After advancing, he utilized the energy within his body to cast the combat skill "Immovable as a Mountain," and its power became even stronger.

Without using a combat skill, Qin Shilei, even with fifty percent of his strength, couldn't push him back.

Then Xie Haimei and the others successfully advanced in turn.

The only surprise was that Zhang Xiaoli actually advanced directly into a pure ability user.

Instead of forming an energy space in her Dantian, she instead opened up a mental power crystal in her glabella.

After advancing to the Bronze Realm, Zhang Xiaoli's Thousand Vine Technique not only increased to five vines, but its binding force and toughness were also more than three times what they were before.

After An Qian advanced, she subtly brought a hint of threat to Qin Shilei, implying that her strength had also greatly improved.