1147: Unlock Pea Shooter

“Ding ~ Darkness Aura is rapidly increasing. The Host's Sunflower is producing energy while autonomously absorbing the Darkness Aura.”

In his mind, the sudden voice of Ye Tian made Hong Lei immediately change his focus.

Right, he still had the System!

He might not be without a chance to safely leave with his wife and daughter!

[Ye Tian Brand Plants vs Zombies System].

Looking at the System panel and thinking about the serum he had already injected, Hong Lei's mood stabilized considerably.

He then turned to look at the Hospital room.

His daughter and wife were already in a deep sleep due to the sleeping pills given to them by that guy Wang Yang.

“That damned beast!” Cursing under his breath, Hong Lei took out two disposable serum injections from his body.

He had already injected himself once before, otherwise, as Wang Yang said, he would have turned into a monster just like the Zombies outside while he was still in the Hospital room.

It was precisely because he had personally tried it that Hong Lei knew this serum was truly effective!

Thinking this, he held the serum and injected it into his wife and daughter one after another.

The description for these potions rewarded by the System said that this thing could ensure his family would not be infected by the Zombie virus.

This was inherently something meant for him and his family.

As the two injections of serum were administered, Hong Lei continued to shift his attention back to the System panel.

If the situation developed like this, the Zombies outside would inevitably become more and more numerous!

If he tried to get out using conventional methods, the risk was simply too great.

The System might be able to provide him with some ways to deal with the current crisis.

As he watched, Hong Lei didn't notice any changes.

He remembered hearing the System's prompt just now, saying that the Sunflower had changed in some way?

Thinking this, Hong Lei's attention shifted to the Sunflower placed on the bedside table in the Hospital room.

The Sunflower hadn't changed at all, still calmly stretching its branches and leaves like before.

At a certain moment...

“Buzz ~”

Accompanied by a faint sound, a small, pitch-black Sun-shaped light orb jumped directly out of the Sunflower and landed on the floor of the Hospital room!

The small black Sun emitted a faint light that made it impossible to ignore.

Seeing this thing, Hong Lei subconsciously reached out to grab it.

And the moment his palm touched this small black Sun, the thing directly turned into a surge of energy and merged into his body!

Hong Lei himself didn't feel much change.

However, when he looked up, he could see that on the personal attributes section of his System panel, the energy entry displayed 1 point!

His original energy was 0!

So, that small black Sun just now was the concretization of energy?

Holding his breath, Hong Lei continued to wait in the same spot.

Just two minutes later, another black light orb appeared before his eyes!

Without hesitation, the Man grabbed it into his hand.

As expected, his energy increased by another 1 point!

Energy should be equivalent to the System's currency System.

Hong Lei roughly assessed this and began searching on the System panel.

Finally, he opened the entirely locked illustration store.

Sunflower: 5 Energy / Plant

Pea Shooter: 5 Energy / Plant [Illustration Not Unlocked]

Potato Mine: 2 Energy / Plant [Illustration Not Unlocked]

Delicious Nut: 3 Energy / Piece [Illustration Not Unlocked]

...

...

There were many things here, so many that it wouldn't be an exaggeration to call it a dazzling array, and they were all items that could be purchased with energy points.

However, the illustrations needed to be unlocked.

Regarding unlocking and purchasing these things, Hong Lei was a little conflicted.

After all, the names of these things didn't make him associate them with any combat assistance.

Assistance for filling his stomach?

So, this System could be considered a food truck?

With some uncertain thoughts, Hong Lei suppressed his fluctuating mood, looked at the Sunflower in the Hospital room again, and waited for new energy to appear.

However, this time the wait became somewhat long.

A full half hour passed before a small, pitch-black Sun jumped out.

After reaching out and absorbing it, the energy was still 1 point.

It seemed that the speed at which the Sunflower absorbed Darkness power and produced energy was not constant.

Hong Lei quickly confirmed a setting.

Looking at the 3 points of energy on the panel, his attention returned to the unlocked illustrations, and finally, he looked at his wife and daughter in the Hospital room. Hong Lei took a deep breath and grabbed a chair from the side.

No matter what, whether these illustrations were good or bad, he would unlock and exchange them first!

Unlocking illustrations required achieving accomplishments.

Combining this with the System's name, Hong Lei understood that to achieve accomplishments, he had to deal with Zombies!

Killing the first Zombie, this should be the most straightforward accomplishment.

“Crack!”

The leg of the wooden chair was snapped off by Hong Lei. Holding the chair leg in his hand, the Man nodded slightly, feeling it was quite handy.

...

Outside the Hospital.

Wang Yang scrambled and rolled his way back to the RV.

Only after arriving inside the RV did he breathe a sigh of relief.

Good thing he got in in time, he didn't run into any Zombies on the way.

Although Zombies were monsters created from living people infected by the virus that appeared earliest when the disaster struck.

They were absolutely not characters that anyone could easily handle!

The virus brought by the Darkness disaster was the first step to stimulate all of a person's potential to the extreme, and then derive the Zombie virus!

The subsequent spread of the Zombie virus also proceeded in this mode.

Every Zombie could exert more than three times the strength, speed, and vitality of a normal person!

If a normal person faced them within ten meters, even with a gun, there was a high probability of something going wrong!

Even a powerful martial artist, in close combat, could at most exchange one for one!

If not for this, Wang Yang wouldn't have rushed back to the RV so quickly.

This was a disaster that annihilated Human civilization, and from the beginning, it didn't leave Humans a way to live!

“Woo woo woo ~”

The distant police sirens were already blaring loudly, and the sound indicated they were heading this way.

Wang Yang didn't linger too long, looking at the Hospital with a hint of unwillingness, and then drove away.

...

Inside the Hospital.

Hong Lei, with the intention of slaughtering Zombies, held a chair leg and stood by the Hospital room door for a while, listening to the commotion outside.

More than half an hour had passed since the head Nurse turned into a Zombie.

During this half hour, the screams outside had significantly decreased.

It wasn't that everyone had been infected and turned into Zombies or bitten to death.

Rather, at this time, most of the people who survived understood that staying quiet wouldn't attract Zombies!

As he listened, Hong Lei didn't hear much movement.

He carefully lifted a newspaper stuck to the glass window.

“Ho!”

The hideous face of a Zombie, covered in blue veins, suddenly appeared behind the glass!

The moment the newspaper was lifted, the Zombie outside the door clearly discovered Hong Lei inside. With a roar, its head, like a pestle, slammed violently against the glass window!

A dull thud accompanied by a series of scattered shaking noises!

“Damn it!” Cursing under his breath, Hong Lei looked through the glass at the corridors on both sides.

After confirming that there was only this one Zombie, he directly opened the door!

“Roar!”

As soon as the Hospital room door opened, the Zombie outside the door pounced fiercely like a carnivorous beast hunting prey!

Its gaping maw was aimed directly at Hong Lei's neck!

“Get down, you bastard!” Having fought since he was young, Hong Lei's combat power doubled after picking up the stick.

A precise blow landed, hitting the Zombie squarely on the back of the head!

“Crack ~”

Accompanied by a faint and clear cracking sound, the Zombie was directly knocked to the ground.

Its skull was cracked?

Hearing that clear sound, Hong Lei looked at the Zombie on the ground.

Then he discovered that the chair leg in his hand had broken!

“Roar!” The Zombie climbed up from the ground again, charging at Hong Lei with the momentum of a savage bear!

In response, Hong Lei extended a hand, grabbing towards the opponent's neck, attempting to stop it.

However, this Zombie was more agile than he had imagined.

With just a ducking motion, its mouth bit down tightly on the tiger's mouth area of Hong Lei's right hand!

Feeling the pain in his palm, Hong Lei frowned and cursed under his breath, then immediately lifted the creature, raised it high, and slammed it down heavily!

“Bang!”

A dull thud on the ground was accompanied by a splattering of blood!

It was the Zombie's internal blood.

But it seemed completely unaware, still biting down hard on Hong Lei's hand!

“Are you addicted to biting?!” Roaring with pent-up frustration in his heart, Hong Lei dragged the opponent. The hand that was being bitten at the tiger's mouth area tightened abruptly, dragging the Zombie towards the outside of the Hospital room.

Arriving at a protruding corner of the wall in the corridor, Hong Lei tightly gripped the Zombie's head with one hand. With a fierce expression on his face, he aimed the Zombie's head at the corner of the wall and slammed it violently!

“Bang!”

“Bang!”

“Bang!”

One after another, Hong Lei used all his strength in every blow.

Splattering blood even hit half of his face!

At first, the Zombie was still twisting and struggling.

But after seven or eight hits, when the corner of the wall was stained with blood, the Zombie's struggling movements gradually subsided.

“Bang ~”

Casually throwing the dead Zombie onto the ground, Hong Lei gasped for a while, then examined his wound.

The tiger's mouth area was already bitten and bloody.

Fortunately, thanks to the effect of the serum earlier, there were no signs of Zombie virus infection in his hand.

“Ding ~ The Host has successfully killed a Zombie. Congratulations to the Host, achievement [First Blood] has been reached.”

“Congratulations to the Host, [Pea Shooter Illustration] has been unlocked.”