110: Chapter 108 Zombie Town

Chapter 108 Zombie Town

The scorching sun baked the earth as if it were a burning volcanic rock barbecue grill, and every grain of sand emitted a heat wave capable of scalding a person. Wang Ting wore a helmet and rode his motorcycle, speeding across the Gobi Desert like a cheetah.

Zombie Town was not far from Outpost Camp, located approximately 70 kilometers to the northeast of Outpost Camp.

That place should have originally been a sanctuary town, but during an abnormal riot a few years ago, a second Infinite Building suddenly descended, causing a large number of zombie monsters to break through the barrier between the two worlds and project into the real world.

Besieged from both within and without, almost everyone in the town turned into zombies, and it was ultimately continuously eroded by the projection of the Infinite Building, finally forming the present Zombie Town.

"The core material of the painless potion obtained from Huangyan Town is merely a Crawler. Although it is enough to break through, according to Researcher Huoling, it will take a longer time to temper the physical body and absorb more extraordinary factors to stabilize the Extraordinary Core——"

The quality of a potion determined the starting point, and the difficulty of reaching the end of each stage also varied.

Naturally, the effect would be best if a Tyrant's Extraordinary Core was used to craft a Tier 1 painless potion.

"The Painless is merely my hidden auxiliary power, and on the surface, my pathway is still Beast Taming. There's no need to let that woman Researcher Huoling optimize the potion, lest too much information leaks out. After the fusion, I can just extract extraordinary materials in Zombie Town to replenish my extraordinary factors."

While driving, Wang Ting pondered the fusion of the painless potion. He had already made up his mind, and the car had reached a location about thirty kilometers out of Outpost Camp.

He released the Giant Claw Night Demon and the Vine Spider Nurse. Under Vibration Perception, there were no vibrations from monsters around.

"I wonder how much difference there is between the fusion of the painless potion and the characteristics of anomalous monsters."

Wang Ting wore a thoughtful look. Holding the painless potion in his hand, he stabbed it into his arm. The liquid medicine entered his body through the syringe, and soon the scarlet potion was empty.

He tossed the potion bottle aside and quietly waited for the reaction of the potion inside his body.

About ten minutes later, a trace of pain faintly came from within his body. He could feel the extraordinary factors inside his body starting to surge continuously, converging toward the position of his heart.

Countless extraordinary factors began to connect with each other in a special structure, constantly fusing. The rapid beating came from his heart, and the cells all over his body seemed to begin tearing and recombining.

"Such a familiar feeling——"

The reinforcement lasted for ten minutes. The bone-deep excruciating pain of that transformation seemed to Wang Ting to be merely a simple tearing.

"My physical body is inherently strong, so the transformation naturally won't be as violent as that of an ordinary limit-breaker, and I'm already used to this kind of pain."

His physical strength increased by a large margin again. Wang Ting estimated that his strength at this moment was around 6,000 kg. Destroying a heavy concrete wall with his bare hands and flipping over a heavy truck was completely not a problem.

At this moment, he was entirely a humanoid tank.

"Suppressing the sense of pain when injured in battle, generating a special diaphragm under the skin to weaken damage and amplify strength—no wonder the combat power of the Painless is even more formidable than the Gardener Pathway."

Wang Ting perceived the abilities of the Painless. Almost every item was used in combat, making the Painless a combat monster.

Part of the Gardener's abilities must still be used for plant control, so its natural combat power was inferior to the Painless.

Under his perception at this moment, the extraordinary factors at the position of his heart formed a special structure—an Extraordinary Core.

This was the manifestation of the Painless's power. Countless microscopic extraordinary factor threads connected with it, eventually merging into all parts of the body.

"Extraordinary power is temporarily stored in the form of a core, which is why it's called parasitism. Before complete fusion, there's still a possibility of coexistence; if completely fused, I'm afraid my body would become a battlefield of two structures."

After using the painless potion, Wang Ting's understanding of characteristics and extraordinary pathways became even clearer at this moment.

After a characteristic fused, it completely became his own thing, just like bloodline and organs—inseparable, and as compliant as an arm and fingers without requiring special attention.

But an extraordinary pathway was the entire process of plundering, controlling, and fusing the power of anomalous monsters. No matter what degree it reached, it still possessed certain limitations.

Unless one walked further down the pathway, at that time it might be different.

"It's time to go to Zombie Town."

Wang Ting recalled the Giant Claw Night Demon and the Vine Spider Nurse, flipped onto his motorcycle, roared the throttle, and drove straight out.

After fusing the painless potion, a trace of hunger came from deep within his body, yearning to consume more extraordinary factors.

Gradually approaching the periphery of Zombie Town, Wang Ting began to notice the abnormality of the surrounding area.

A thick layer of dark clouds permeated the sky, and the originally scorching sun was now more than half obscured, casting mottled patches of light like huge holes broken in the ground.

The sand on the ground remained scorching. Across these parched lands, one could frequently see white skeletal remains wrapped in tattered clothes, and broken cars stuck in the sandy ground, presenting a desolate scene at a single glance.

The roaring of the motorcycle broke the dead silence of the desert. The zombies and Sprinters originally wandering in the desert were startled by the roaring sound and began to rush quickly toward the direction where the motorcycle was advancing.

The zombies wandering in the desert looked like ants on the sandy ground, appearing extremely sparse from afar. However, attracted by the sound, they quickly converged, and before long, they gathered into a funnel-shaped torrent, sweeping straight toward the motorcycle that looked like a tiny black dot.

"There are so many zombies just in the periphery; no wonder they continuously wander toward the entire wasteland."

Wang Ting looked out to see that hundreds of zombies were blocking his path. They slowly gathered, seemingly scattered, with several meters of interval between each zombie, making it look like one could quickly rush through.

But only those who had truly been to Zombie Town knew the horror of this situation. If they were slightly careless and the zombies merged, the entire team would fall into the encirclement of the zombie horde.

It was precisely because of the encirclement of so many zombies that the entire Zombie Town became exceptionally dangerous. To reap rewards, one often needed to wipe out a large number of zombies.

Vine Spider Nurse and Giant Claw Night Demon—Wang Ting summoned the two anomalous entities. Their massive bodies landed on the sandy ground, instantly producing a dull sound.

Roar! Feeling the zombies continuously surrounding them, the bestial instincts of the two Servant Beasts instantly flared up, and they lunged directly at the nearby zombies.

The Vine Spider Nurse swept its sharp spider spears. The hideous zombies covered in blood and filth were cut in half like tofu just by being brushed by the spider spears, with foul blood and rotten flesh flying everywhere.

The Giant Claw Night Demon was even more violent. It rushed into the group of zombies like a tank, its millstone-sized beast claws waving constantly, acting like a meat grinder that cut zombie after zombie in half.

Although the number of hundreds of zombies was not small, under the charge and slaughter of the two monsters, they were swept away like dead wood, completely lacking the ability to obstruct.

In a short span of time, the zombies were slaughtered until only wrecks remained. Wang Ting crossed the hill, and the skeletal remains scattered all over the earth surrounded his motorcycle. Gazing into the distance, that dilapidated town shrouded in gloom now appeared before him.

"Ga-ga-ga—"

A hoarse sound like a broken iron sheet scraping across rock came over, and dark shadows fluttering like kites in the sky lunged straight toward Wang Ting.

[Discovered low-level anomalous entity Zombie Crow, Zombie Crow cataloging progress 10%]