99: Zombie Counterattack

When Qin Shilei returned to the office building, he found that the Five Companies had already extracted all the crystals.

He thought to himself, "It seems having subordinates is quite good. If it were me, it would probably take half a day to extract them all."

After giving the Five Companies some crystals as compensation, Qin Shilei told them to leave and continue killing zombies.

At dusk, the 007 Corps and the 018 Corps both returned home.

That day, Qin Shilei went out for rescue three times.

Although it wasted some time, he also gained seven qingtong treasure chests.

His 007 Corps had 29 people killed by zombies, while An Qian's 018 Corps had three more.

Qin Shilei took out some food and instructed, "Send this food to the families of the fallen teammates."

Everyone looked at the pile of food in front of their Corps Leader with some surprise.

That food could feed dozens of people for at least two months.

They never expected their Corps Leader to have such consideration for his subordinates.

This was just a team forcibly assembled by the military, and not only did the other party not exploit even half a crystal from the individual members of the Corps.

Instead, he paid out of his own pocket to console the families of the deceased comrades.

Seeing everyone momentarily stunned, he thought they found it too little.

Qin Shilei then said with a stern face, "What? Do you think it's too little?"

"No, no, we thank the Corps Leader on behalf of their families."

Several Corps Leaders quickly expressed their gratitude.

A part of the Corps members, however, began to entertain the idea of formally joining Qin Shilei's team.

In the apocalypse, one could die at any time.

If one truly followed a Corps Leader who would still look after their family after their death, that would be a blessing.

They could leave with peace of mind.

Qin Shilei, however, did not expect his temporary action to make some team members feel a sense of belonging.

On the first day of the 007 Corps' establishment, although 29 people sacrificed, everyone's strength improved to varying degrees.

Many hands make light work.

Those two-star and three-star members, with the cooperation of the company, also leveled up by one or two stars.

A small portion of those five-star and six-star members also upgraded.

As for those seven-star and eight-star members, they received some qingtong treasure chests, and their strength also increased.

As long as this continues.

Everyone might have a chance to advance to the Bronze Realm.

But is that really the case?

Let's not mention that for now.

After a day of hard work, it was again Qin Shilei and An Qian's favorite time to open treasure chests.

First, it was An Qian's own harvested qingtong treasure chests.

There was nothing particularly good.

The best was a green scroll.

Freezing Ball (Green): Releases an ice ball at the target, which can freeze the target for three seconds.

An Qian happily put away the scroll, then proceeded to open the treasure chests for Qin Shilei.

Blue, blue, still blue.

More than a dozen treasure chests in a row yielded only blue items as the best.

"Open this one."

Qin Shilei took out the qingtong treasure chest that the Tyrant had dropped.

An Qian paused for a moment before solemnly opening the treasure chest.

Immediately, red, green, and white lights emanated from the treasure chest.

The white one was half a roasted whole lamb, just right for tonight's dinner.

Spirit Potion (Green): Can increase or restore mental power.

Qin Shilei drank it casually and felt his mental power increase a bit more.

Blood Soul (Red): When attacking, absorbs the opponent's vitality to restore the host's stamina; additional effect: Unstoppable Bleeding; additional skill: Blood Reversal.

Unstoppable Bleeding: Wounds caused by Blood Soul are harder to heal and result in significant bleeding.

Blood Reversal: Can cause the enemy's entire body blood to reverse, range of action is ten meters, cooldown is two hours.

The Blood Soul sword body glowed with a dark purplish blood color, as if it had drunk the blood of millions of living beings.

From now on, Jinghong Sword could be used as a backup sword and safely nourished.

Qin Shilei greatly anticipated the day Jinghong Sword would be unsheathed, wondering how stunning its performance would be.

After opening the treasure chests for Qin Shilei, An Qian left the room to open treasure chests for Zhang Xiaoli and the others.

Qin Shilei repeatedly asked An Qian to open treasure chests.

Zhang Xiaoli and the others finally discovered the trick, and after some questioning.

They learned that An Qian had high luck, so they all asked her for help in opening treasure chests.

After An Qian left, Qin Shilei refreshed the attributes of Blood Soul.

[Do you want to refresh the attributes?]

[Refresh.]

Pursuit (Green): When hitting an enemy, there is a thirty percent chance to pursue once.

Soul Absorption (Green): After killing an enemy, absorbs the opponent's essence, spirit, and vitality to increase the host's strength. (Please use this attribute with caution, it may cause undesirable consequences.)

Combo (Red): When hitting an enemy, there is a thirty percent chance of a combo, which is equivalent to the effect of the previous attack.

Qin Shilei looked at the Soul Absorption attribute with some fervor, but the warning in the parentheses forcibly stopped him from fixing this attribute.

The Combo and Pursuit attributes seemed similar.

However, one was only green, while the other was red.

The only difference was that Combo had an additional phrase: equivalent to the effect of the previous attack.

Would casting Seven Stars Falling Across the Sky result in a combo, and would it also have a sevenfold bonus?

Qin Shilei, with beautiful expectations, chose the Combo attribute.

Then he went to the rooftop to refresh the second attribute for Little Strong, who had advanced to the Bronze Realm.

One white, one blue, and one red attribute appeared on Little Strong.

High Fertility Constitution (White): Can more easily conceive the next generation.

Rodent Bane (Blue): Has stronger bloodline suppression against rodents, making it easier to capture and kill rodents.

Soul Communication (Red): Can communicate spiritually with primate species.

When Qin Shilei chose the Soul Communication attribute, a voice suddenly appeared in his mind.

"Master, I want to eat cooked crocodile meat."

Qin Shilei tried to communicate with Little Strong, "Okay, I'll make you a big pot later. You can understand what I'm saying, right?"

Little Strong nodded, "I always could, but Master, you're too stupid to understand my bird language."

"@#￥￥￥￥@#"

Qin Shilei said with a sour face, "Only birdmen can understand bird language, I'm not stupid."

Little Strong said aggrievedly, "I'm not a birdman and I can understand our bird language, and I can also understand your human language."

"Alright, you stay here and guard our villa well. I'll go down and get you some crocodile meat."

Qin Shilei was too lazy to argue about the bird language issue with the other party.

...

For the next three days, Qin Shilei and An Qian led the Corps to kill zombies in the guard area.

Other Corps also risked their lives to slaughter the zombies inside in order to retake Nanzhuang City.

On the fourth day, when Qin Shilei and the others arrived at the guard area again, they found some differences.

The zombies on the street seemed to be fewer.

Qin Shilei, feeling suspicious, rode Little Strong and flew forward to scout.

When he flew two or three kilometers forward, he found that the streets below were densely packed with zombies.

Looking into the distance, he found that the roads further away were also full of zombies.

Had the zombies in the office buildings and other buildings all run out onto the streets?

Could it be that a Zombie King was controlling these zombies to launch a counterattack?