22: Chapter 22 Categories of Infinite Buildings

Every Infinite Building represented inestimable value and corresponding danger, a fact Zhao Hu understood better than anyone.

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Now that an ownerless Infinite Building had suddenly appeared, he had to make a swift decision.

Leaving Wang Ting Team behind to keep watch was his only choice.

On one hand, Scarecrow Town could not turn a blind eye to this new Infinite Building, nor would it give up such a fat piece of meat.

On the other hand, the Infinite Building was dangerous, and no one knew if the Parasitic Fungus Vine would flood again.

He needed someone capable to watch this intersection so they could adapt to changing circumstances.

Wang Ting was the only warrior in the entire team, besides Zhao Hu, who had broken through his limit once.

In today's action, his decisiveness, sharpness, and powerful physical strength had also been witnessed by Zhao Hu.

Coupled with his acute perception of monsters, he was undoubtedly the best candidate to stay behind, as well as the most secure choice.

Although somewhat surprised, Wang Ting did not hesitate.

He nodded and agreed: "We need more rifles, hand crossbows, and vehicles. The vehicles must be filled with gas, and the brothers from the maintenance group and medical group must stay."

"Very well." Zhao Hu did not bargain at all: "The Infinite Building is important, but your safety is also very important. If the situation isn't right, retreat immediately, understand?"

Zhao Hu could not give too many instructions. After hastily reorganizing the team, he prepared to head back immediately. The faster they moved, the safer Wang Ting Team would be.

The sudden attack by the first wave of Parasitic Fungus Vine had caused considerable losses, and leading the team back now was not as simple as when they came.

Three members of the Guard Team died, and five were injured. Their injuries were not light, and they had completely lost combat capability.

After checking, the girl from the accompanying medical group determined that the injuries could not be easily treated in the field; they could only stop the bleeding first and then immediately send them back to the Shelter.

Fortunately, no toxins were temporarily found on the Parasitic Fungus Vine; otherwise, given the injuries of these five people, they probably wouldn't have lasted until they returned to the Shelter.

You must know that the torn wounds on two of them were as long as a palm, and they had bled a great deal. If there were toxins as well, they would probably be meeting the King of Hell directly.

Zhao Hu left Wang Ting a fully staffed team, composed entirely of experienced veteran members.

The team totaled 10 people, including 8 combatants—Ren Chuan, Dong Hu, Feng Bo, Xiang Nan, Qu Ling, and others—along with 1 brother from the maintenance group, Huang Gang, and 1 girl from the medical group named Li Ying.

They left behind 10 rifles, three hand crossbows, double the amount of bullets, and three days' worth of energy blocks, and then drove back to Scarecrow Town.

Watching the rolling dust kicked up by the gradually receding vehicles, the motorcade disappeared at the edge of the yellow wasteland.

Wang Ting called the entire team to get into the cars. Sitting in the passenger seat, he raised his head to glance at the slowly setting sun, then said: "Let's back out two kilometers and find a quiet place to set up camp."

Ren Chuan was driving. He bypassed Fengyan Slope and, at a location about two kilometers away, found a shaded slope with higher terrain, stopping the vehicles at the bottom of the slope.

Everyone went halfway up the slope. Dong Hu led people to pick up the surrounding dead wood and dry grass, piled them into a bonfire, and ignited it.

Wang Ting and Xiang Nan split up to form teams and thoroughly checked the surrounding environment of the temporary camp to prevent monsters from ambushing nearby.

The sun gradually set. On this wasteland, due to the lack of plant cover, the bare earth exposed to the sunlight easily caused a drastic temperature difference between day and night.

As soon as the sunlight gradually disappeared, they already felt a trace of chill.

Everyone sat around the bonfire. Wang Ting said at this time: "Tonight, the 10 of us will take turns keeping watch in groups of two, dividing the 10 people into 4 shifts. Huang Gang, Li Ying, and Xiang Nan are the first shift; I am with Feng Bo for the second shift; Dong Hu, Ren Chuan, and Fang Xiao are the third shift; Qu Ling and Zhou Mo are the fourth shift."

"No problem."

Feng Bo took out his kettle and placed it next to the bonfire. The iron kettle quickly boiled the water.

He let the water cool down slightly and then distributed it to everyone. Everyone also took out energy blocks from their portable backpacks and silently nibbled on them.

The firewood in the flames crackled, and the surrounding environment gradually fell into pitch darkness.

The night in the wasteland gave people a chilling feeling.

There was no light whatsoever, only the sound of a bit of wind and sand sweeping across the earth.

The openness, desolation, and endless dark curtain made people feel their own insignificance and loneliness.

Even Feng Bo, Dong Hu, and the others, who were accustomed to life and death, could not help but feel a bit dejected at this moment.

The firelight shone on everyone's faces, outlining the different mentalities of the team members.

There was a hint of worry on the face of Li Ying, the girl from the medical group.

She had personally helped treat the injuries of the wounded today, and it was still fresh in her memory at this moment.

Blood constantly gushed from the wounds deep into the flesh, and the chest of the most severely wounded soldier still had half a vine stuck in it.

They had no way to directly pull out the barbed vine, so they could only bandage it together and send the wounded person back to the Shelter.

"I wonder if so many wounded can survive? If an even larger battle breaks out tomorrow, how many more people will be injured?"

She thought silently in her heart, carefully examining everyone's bodies, and lingered a bit longer on Wang Ting's face.

Compared to older uncles like Feng Bo, Wang Ting's appearance was indeed younger and fairer.

However, the reason Li Ying gave him another glance was that she had heard that in today's battle, Wang Ting alone had killed quite a few monsters and saved many people.

"How many floors do you think are inside this new Infinite Building?"

The bonfire crackled, sending high sparks shooting up. Xiang Nan probed while poking at the flames.

"One or two floors." Feng Bo took a sip of the hot water in his cup. "You'd better pray it doesn't exceed three floors. If it exceeds three floors, I'm afraid all the surrounding Shelters will go crazy. And it's best not to be a habitable Floor World."

The number of floors in a descended Infinite Building was random.

Regarding the floors of Infinite Buildings, there was a widespread saying across this wasteland—that is, as the number of floors increased, the higher the floor, the more dangerous the world there might be, but the more resources and transcendental factors it would contain.

Taking Scarecrow Town as an example, its Infinite Building's Floor World had currently only discovered the first floor—Scarecrow Farm; no stairs leading to the second floor had been found yet.

But even with only one floor, as a habitable Floor World, the resources it brought were already enough to feed and support the operation of a Shelter.

This shows the importance of the resources inside Infinite Buildings.

Wang Ting suddenly asked: "How many categories of Infinite Buildings are there in total?"

Feng Bo was slightly stunned, couldn't help recalling Wang Ting's previous identity as a wanderer, and thought to himself: "He actually doesn't know. It seems he has been wandering all along."

He thought for a moment, then said: "Jumu City divides Floor Worlds into four categories. The first kind is habitable floors. That is, Floor Worlds sufficient to meet human survival and reproduction, where even if you move into the Floor World to live, you won't have to worry about resource depletion or frequent monster infestations."

"The number of such Infinite Buildings is the smallest. Those with a slightly larger area can rely on them to form Shelters or even Shelter Cities. If there were more habitable floors, the Tieling Wasteland probably wouldn't have lacked food long ago."

The appearance inside the Scarecrow Farm Floor World flashed through Wang Ting's mind, and he couldn't help thinking: "An area the size of a town, with plenty of light, water, and land to grow crops, this really is a habitable floor."

Feng Bo looked at Wang Ting and continued: "The second kind is monster floors. Some people also call this kind of Floor World a 'monster room'."

"This type of Floor World is usually extremely dangerous. The amount of resources varies, but the number of monsters or the strength of the monsters is much higher than ordinary Floor Worlds."

"If the abnormal riot of this type of Infinite Building is not suppressed in time, the monsters inside will endlessly invade the real world, causing a serious threat."

"The third category is material floors. Material floors are somewhat special; their biggest characteristic is not monsters and the environment, but respawning."

"Respawning?"

Wang Ting showed a puzzled look. The last time he heard this term was when he was playing video games.

"That's right, respawning. This is the floor rule of the material world, just like how the Scarecrow appears because of a harvest."

"Material floors might be ruins, warehouses, infinitely extending supermarkets, Hospital... No matter where it is or what is inside, as long as certain conditions are met, even if you empty everything inside, they will still appear randomly, though not necessarily in the same position or as the same item."

"Most survivors call these respawned things supplies. The Chechang Town we talked about two days ago has a material floor in their hands, and some miscellaneous auto parts were gotten from it."

"The last category is resource floors. Resource floors are relatively broad, using whether necessary resources exist inside as the standard for judgment."

"Iron ore, copper ore, transcendental metals, and other things—these crucial substances mostly come from resource floors."

Jumu City's classification was actually very crude, and the four types of floors—habitable floors, monster floors, material floors, and resource floors—were not mutually exclusive; it was also possible for a certain Floor World to possess multiple characteristics.

Moreover, there was actually one category of Floor World he didn't mention—special Floor Worlds that couldn't be classified.

He had never seen such a Floor World himself, so he simply didn't mention it.

Xiang Nan said thoughtfully: "Although monster floors are dangerous, anomalous monsters will also drop transcendental materials, and such Infinite Buildings are also in high demand."

"I think this Infinite Building now is probably a monster room, and the surrounding Shelters won't easily let it go once they know about it. I just don't know what Boss Zhao plans to do."

"According to Boss Zhao's personality, he'll probably organize all of us to clear this Infinite Building together."

Ren Chuan's expression was complicated. He glanced at the distant dark night and said slowly.

Everyone understood that Zhao Kun's personality was much more aggressive than Fan Da's.

He craved transcendental strength, so transcendental materials naturally became his stepping stone.

Now, this newly appeared Infinite Building was only a dozen kilometers away from their camp.

Whether from the perspective of suppressing the abnormal riot of the Infinite Building, guarding against the covetousness of other Shelters, or acquiring transcendental materials, they actually had only one choice: take down this Infinite Building.

Following the watch rotation arrangement, everyone began preparing.

As the first shift of the first half of the night, Xiang Nan, Huang Gang, and Li Ying stayed awake while the rest of the people found a quiet place, covered their heads with their coats, and began to rest.

Wang Ting lay beside the car with his eyes closed, seemingly resting, but in reality, all his attention was already placed on his virtual panel.

[Recorded low-level anomalous entity Parasitic Fungus Vine. Exchangeable items are as follows:]

[Parasitic Seed (Trait): 150 Monster Points]

[Vine Muscle (Trait): 100 Monster Points]

[Toxigenic Vine (Skill): 150 Monster Points]

[Vine Capture Gun (Creation): 100 Monster Points]

[Parasitic Fungus Vine (Servant Beast): 150 Monster Points]