41: Fusion skills! 100 times the rebate

Fear?

No, rather than fear, Chen Ming felt that this Elite-level Zombie had come at just the right time.

It gave him a chance to test the Shadow Wolf's strength.

While there was still time, Chen Ming quickly walked outside the villa, onto the road.

He didn't want the good garden scenery to be ruined by the fight between these two guys.

Confirming everything was correct, he chose a location and released the Elite-level Zombie.

It was tall and thin, not exactly fat, but definitely not skinny either; it was very muscular, with clearly defined, tight muscles.

Its limbs were long, its fingers were twice as long as Chen Ming's, its skin was pale, stained with a lot of blackened bloodstains.

Its body was bare, not a single hair could be found.

A large mouth, almost occupying half the area of its entire face.

As if to swallow more food, the corners of its mouth were brutally torn open.

"Woo woo woo!"

After sensing the presence of the Elite-level Zombie, the Shadow Wolf no longer maintained a sitting posture, lowering its head, baring its fangs, in a posture ready to face the enemy, growling continuously.

It actively walked in front of Chen Ming, eager to protect its master.

Seeing the Shadow Wolf's performance, Chen Ming felt even more that the skill hadn't been given to it in vain.

The Elite-level Zombie was clearly not interested in the Shadow Wolf, moving extremely fast, heading straight for Chen Ming, raising its thin, long arm.

Seeing this, the Shadow Wolf immediately pounced, biting the Zombie's shoulder, knocking it to the ground, and tearing at it frantically.

The Zombie was not to be outdone, opening its arms, embracing the Shadow Wolf, opening its mouth to the limit, revealing a mouth full of dense, crooked, twisted, intricate fangs.

The number of teeth Chen Ming could see alone was no less than a hundred, longer and sharper than canine teeth.

Chen Ming found it hard to imagine what it would feel like to be bitten by that mouth.

Just as those hundreds of teeth were about to touch the Shadow Wolf's neck, a faint golden sheen covered the surface of the Shadow Wolf's black fur.

Chen Ming took out his phone, opened the details panel, and in its experience window, he could clearly see a status message that had just been updated.

【Used S-Class Skill Body Enhancement!】

After the skill was triggered, it would have been fine if the Zombie hadn't used its mouth, but with this bite, its teeth shattered with crisp sounds, like glass.

Its biting force, strong enough to easily crush bones, instead brought itself great trouble.

As the Zombie was forced to release its bite, the Shadow Wolf took another large bite, and with a crunch, bit off its neck.

Its head rolled down the road leading downhill.

Just then, in front of Chen Ming, or rather, beside the Zombie, a red bar appeared, like a bloodline.

The red bar was gradually shortening, most of it turning black.

On the far left, there was a golden vertical line.

Chen Ming realized that the line must be the execution line, and the red bar represented the remaining health.

He took out a pistol from his storage space and aimed at the head of the Advanced Zombie, which was still rolling.

The moment the health dropped to the execution line, he pulled the trigger.

Bang!

With a gunshot, the bullet accurately hit the head.

【Execution Successful!】

Before Chen Ming's eyes, this line of text appeared, and in an instant, it disappeared like smoke.

After sensing that the Zombie had entered a true death state, the Shadow Wolf stopped tearing at it and returned to Chen Ming.

It squatted down, its tail sweeping back and forth on the ground, looking like it was expecting praise.

Chen Ming also couldn't be bothered to argue with it about who actually killed the Zombie, so he raised his hand, stroked the wolf's head, and praised, "Well done."

The wolf's tail swept faster.

Boom!

Putting away the pistol, Chen Ming half-closed his fingers, and several wisps of flame appeared out of thin air, quickly coiled into an orange-sized Fireball.

He threw the Fireball at the headless Zombie's body.

Upon hitting, the flames immediately spread, engulfing the entire body, burning continuously, emitting thick black smoke.

There was no special intention, he simply didn't want this corpse to remain here, continuing to rot and stink.

In case it drifted into the courtyard and affected his mood.

The villa had a complete air filtration system, so there was no need to worry about this issue.

Returning to the courtyard, he locked the gate.

Sitting back on the lounge chair, he picked up his phone.

He saw a red dot light up next to the word 'Task'.

Chen Ming knew this meant there were rewards to claim, so he clicked in.

【Task: Historical Fishing Count reached one hundred times, Task Status: Completed, Claimable Rewards: Experience Points, Fishing Count +5!】

【Task: Kill an Advanced Zombie, Task Status: Completed, Claimable Rewards: Experience Points, Fishing Count +3!】

After reviewing it, Chen Ming was certain that his historical fishing count was definitely more than a hundred times.

The only explanation was that this count only started accumulating after the task system was fully unlocked.

It was estimated that the designer of the fishing system also didn't expect someone to fish out an SSS-level Infinite Fishing Skill on their first try.

Stopping his thoughts, he accepted the experience points for leveling up and the eight enhanced fishing opportunities.

Chen Ming wasn't concerned about the increase in level.

Firstly, leveling up was mainly to increase fishing counts, which had little meaning for him who had infinite fishing counts.

Secondly, that small attribute reward was far less significant than the improvement Chen Ming gained from a single fishing session.

Now, he just wanted to know what kind of surprises the eight enhanced fishing attempts would bring him.

With one hand, he pressed 【Start Fishing】, and with the other hand, he took out a bottle of iced cola from his storage space, twisted it open with his teeth, and took a gulp.

Taking a sip like this in the scorching summer heat made him feel much refreshed.

【Fishing in progress...】

【Fishing successful! Congratulations to the host for obtaining 100 Free Attribute Points!】

'Did whatever I think of really come?'

Chen Ming was startled at first.

Immediately after, he allocated these one hundred Free Attribute Points, putting thirty points into Speed, twenty points into Strength, and thirty points into Defense.

The remaining twenty points were used to enhance his Mental Power, to avoid not having enough Mental Power to trigger skills when encountering a big BOSS that required spamming skills.

Seven more times, strike while the iron is hot!

【Fishing in progress...】

【Fishing successful! Congratulations to the host for obtaining S-Class Skill: Ten Times Rebate!】

Chen Ming found it hard not to suspect that the system was reading his mind, otherwise, how could everything he fished out each time be exactly what he wanted?

Now, with the apocalypse here, the skill Ten Times Rebate was infinitely close to zero in usefulness for Chen Ming.

Chen Ming had always been thinking about fishing for an upgraded version of the Ten Times Rebate skill.

Otherwise, getting an S-Rank one so he could fuse it into an SS-grade Ten Times Rebate would also work.

He selected two S-Rank Ten Times Rebates.

【Fuse two S-Class Skills to upgrade to SS-grade?】

Yes!

【Fusing in progress...】

【Fusion successful! Congratulations on obtaining SS-grade Skill: Hundred Times Rebate!】

Honestly, when he saw the words Hundred Times Rebate, Chen Ming was really worried that it was just changing the basis from Ten Times Rebate to Hundred Times, and the returned item would still be money.

Blind guessing would only waste time, so he decisively checked the skill description.