40: As long as you show your health bar, God will kill you too

Chen Ming really wanted to know how the Fishing System planned to handle these duplicate skills?

Surely they couldn't just sit there idle, gathering dust, and be completely useless?

Or perhaps, use them for trade?

Chen Ming wasn't stupid; why would he create more opponents for himself?

If the other party became his puppet, with loyalty locked at 100%, then Chen Ming might consider it.

Opening his backpack, sure enough, the skills were no longer automatically bound but were temporarily stored in the backpack slots.

Click.

Besides the skill description, two other notes caught Chen Ming's attention.

[Note 1: When skills are duplicated, they can be used for fusion to increase skill level!]

[Note 2: Duplicate skills can be used for trade, or used on other creatures!]

"Duplicate skills can be used for fusion to increase skill level? That's a good setting."

Chen Ming studied it carefully; the synthesis method was simple: two identical skills could upgrade by one level.

For example, two F-grade skills could synthesize into an E-grade, two E-grade skills could synthesize into a D-Class Skill, and two D-Class Skills could synthesize into a C-grade... and so on.

However, it's worth noting that skills below S-Rank have a maximum synthesis level of A-Rank.

No matter how many F-grade skills there were, the highest they could synthesize was A-Rank; two A-grade skills could not synthesize into an S-Rank.

S-Rank skills and above could only be obtained first through fishing before being fused.

Because SSS-grade Skills are unique, once an SSS-grade Skill of the same type is generated, the limit for people afterward will be locked at SS-grade, unless they kill the person who possesses it.

Chen Ming originally wanted to directly fuse and upgrade to get an SS-grade Body Enhancement.

But the second note, specifically the phrase [or used on other creatures], sparked Chen Ming's thinking.

"Creatures?" He initially thought skills could only be used on people.

His gaze couldn't help but turn to the Shadow Wolf sitting obediently beside him.

"If this S-Class Skill could be used on these summoned beasts, wouldn't that mean having a powerful puppet with 100% loyalty?"

Chen Ming had confirmed in detail that summoned beasts could never betray their summoner; loyalty was locked at 100%.

If an error occurred, they would be instantly wiped out by the power of rules!

With a mindset of trying it out, Chen Ming clicked Use.

Besides the fusion option, another option instantly made Chen Ming's mood boil.

[Shadow Wolf]

Yes, that's right, skills could be used on summoned beasts!

Rather than doing everything himself, Chen Ming preferred to cultivate trusted aides to handle various troublesome matters for him.

[Are you sure you want to use "S-Class Skill Body Enhancement" on the Shadow Wolf?]

Yes!

Chen Ming made the choice without hesitation.

[Adding...]

[Added successfully!]

The next second, when Chen Ming brought up the summoned beast's personal attribute panel, he indeed saw that in the skills section, besides [Bite], [Pounce], [Claw Attack]... there was an additional [S-Class Skill Body Enhancement].

"I wonder if there's a limit to adding skills to summoned beasts? If there's no limit, couldn't all the extra skills be added to it in the future, raising it into a great demon king?"

Chen Ming extended his hand, and the Shadow Wolf, like a pet, voluntarily lowered its head and came closer.

"Quite sensible." The Shadow Wolf's behavior made Chen Ming feel even more strongly that giving it the S-Class Skill was the correct choice.

He withdrew his hand and continued to focus on fishing.

[Fishing...]

[Fishing successful! Congratulations to the host for obtaining Xylitol Strawberry Flavored Gum +1!]

[Fishing successful! Congratulations to the host for obtaining a piece of a century-old brand Thousand-Layer Pastry!]

[Fishing successful! Congratulations to the host for obtaining Green Bull Energy Drink +12!]

[Fishing successful! Congratulations to the host for obtaining a Fighting Game Disc +1!]

...

[Fishing successful! Congratulations to the host for obtaining S-Class Skill: Decapitate!]

[S-Class Skill Decapitate: After obtaining this skill, you can see the opponent's health bar. When the health bar reaches ten percent, a one-hit kill effect will be triggered!]

"Good! This is good!"

Chen Ming still clearly remembered a popular saying online: As long as the health bar is visible, even a god can be killed!

"The S-Rank kill line is ten percent, so the SS-grade and SSS-level kill lines should be higher. I must fish them out as soon as possible, or synthesize them directly!"

He knew how strong this skill was and didn't want to give it away to others.

Fortunately, it was still the beginning of the apocalypse, and people didn't have many fishing opportunities.

Just based on luck value, Chen Ming could still crush them. The possibility of fishing out the SSS-level or synthesizing the SSS-level Decapitate skill first was very high!

He continued to be busy with repeated fishing.

The Special Ops Soldiers had completed the evacuation mission for the residents of Fushan Residence.

The evacuation was not mandatory; if someone was unwilling to leave, they would not take coercive measures.

Instead of looking for trouble, it was better to save a few more people.

As the saying goes, good words are hard to persuade a stubborn person.

The young soldier and the Captain took the recorded video to meet with the higher-ups.

At this moment, a group of influential people with real power were sitting around a round table, watching the screen.

Although the video was less than a minute long.

The effect it presented still greatly amazed them.

The video ended, and the room lights came back on.

"What do you think about this?" an Old Man asked first.

"This weapon is far more advanced than the current weapons of the same type we have, no, I should say, the world has!"

"Yes, with this level of accuracy and reaction capability, even the Eagle Faction would probably need another ten or twenty years of research."

"I'm very curious, how does it accurately distinguish between humans and Zombies?"

"Temperature? After all, Zombies are dead people; unlike humans, they don't have body temperature."

"That gives us a good idea." A weapon research expert nodded, crossed his arms, leaned back, and fell into deep thought.

Pondering how to turn the ideas in his mind into reality.

"How could a rich man have such a world-class weapon?" At this moment, another person asked.

"Do you even need to think? It must be related to that software."

"Perhaps we should apply to the higher-ups. Instead of thinking about how to eliminate this software, we should think about how to coexist. Maybe we can get solutions and a path to salvation from it."

"So, should we pay attention to the person at Fushan Residence?"

"Have someone keep an eye on him. If there's any news, inform me immediately!"

"Yes!"

...

On Chen Ming's side, he was completely unaware that he had been noticed by the authorities.

Because at this moment, he had more troublesome matters to deal with.

On the phone screen, text scrolled.

[Fishing...]

[Fishing successful! You have been targeted by disaster and fished up an Elite Zombie. It wants to bite your head off right now!]

"..." Chen Ming.