55: Chapter 55 The Vine-Skulled One

Seeing the walls covered in vines intertwined with so many supplies, Wang Ting's originally calm face now revealed a trace of joy.

A supply point is not a one-time deal; as long as this Hospital still exists, along with the continuous accumulation of transcendent factor concentration in the Floor World, it is possible for the supplies they need to continuously refresh here.

What they needed to do was trigger the refresh condition of this supply point.

Xiang Nan said excitedly, "I just checked the entire pharmacy. Not only this wall, but several shelves inside also have refreshed supplies. There are not many things, but they are all in-demand items like medicine bottles and first-aid tools. We have hit the jackpot."

Wang Ting asked, "Roughly what is the specific quantity?"

"About seventeen or eight items, with medicines making up a quarter. I have not looked closely at what specific medicines they are. If they are all valuable drugs, I am afraid this trip alone is worth at least one to two thousand bullets' worth of supplies."

His gaze swept over the Vine Parasite Corpses lying dead all outside, and then he said, "The quantity of refreshed supplies seems to be about the same as the number of those monsters outside."

"About the same as the number of Vine Parasite Corpses?"

Wang Ting looked pensive, while Xiang Nan wore a surprised expression, not expecting Wang Ting to name these monsters.

However, this name really suited these monsters quite well.

He nodded. "I feel that the supply refresh rule here might be to kill monsters, or to wait for the gestation of Vine Parasite Corpses."

The supply refresh on a resource floor usually happens randomly as transcendent factors continue to accumulate in the floor, after meeting certain refresh conditions.

The most common among them is that as time passes and transcendent factors continuously accumulate, they naturally and randomly refresh.

But there are also some special rules, such as supplies not refreshing after a single time, and reset supplies only being triggered until the next abnormal riot or after wiping out all anomalous entities on the floor.

Legend has it that the Infinite Building controlled by Huangyan Town seems to be a floor with reset supply rules, which is also the reason why they allow black-market adventure teams to exist.

There are many supply refresh rules, and even more so for supply points.

The so-called supply point is a place where certain supplies will fixedly appear. Its type and quantity are not fixed, but the refreshed location is relatively certain, just like the pharmacy in front of them.

The refresh rules of supply points are similar to the above, but may be even stranger. Refreshing over time is the simplest rule, and in addition, there are actually rules such as sacrificial refresh, monster replacement, and so on.

The pharmacy before them was obviously a supply point, except that its refresh rules were not yet very clear.

"Move all the things away first. As for how this supply point refreshes supplies, we can study it carefully later."

Wang Ting temporarily suppressed the joy in his heart. Recalling the scene when his gaze swept across the pharmacy earlier, it seemed that before those Vine Parasite Corpses appeared, he had vaguely seen the existence of some supplies.

'The supplies probably were not born after killing monsters.'

Wang Ting looked pensive, but did not voice his guess. Exactly how supplies were refreshed would have to wait until they came next time to see clearly.

Xiang Nan led the people to cut the vines with daggers. They did not touch the thick vine tree, but only cut off the small vines entwined around the supplies, and then removed the supplies one by one.

Among the supplies, there were quite a few boxes of medicines, along with some jars and cans of various kinds. Painkillers occupied the majority, but besides painkillers, there were also antibiotics like penicillin.

Xiang Nan stuffed them all into his backpack, roughly estimating the value of this batch of supplies. If placed on the black market, it could probably be traded for between 2,000 and 3,000 bullets.

Feng Bo, who was searching for Vine Parasite Corpses outside, had also cleaned up more than ten Vine Parasite Corpses by this time. He did not have time to collect ordinary materials, but among the remains of the dozen or so Vine Parasite Corpses, he did dig out three active vines. The drop rate was not high, but he did not return empty-handed either.

"Check ammunition."

Xiang Nan and the others gathered to rest for a moment, and Wang Ting asked everyone to check their ammunition.

"I have 3 magazines left."

"I have 2 left."

"I still have 4."

Although they experienced an encounter battle, everyone's reaction speed was fast, coupled with Wang Ting's powerful combat strength in slaying numerous Vine Parasite Corpses, this left them with quite a lot of remaining bullets.

"Continue exploring; at least figure out the first floor of the main building."

Wang Ting did not want to leave just like that. In his Vibration Perception, there were still quite a few subtle vibrations coming from the first floor, clearly hiding many monsters.

The ecology of this abandoned Hospital building had a significant difference from the outside Vine Town. Vine Parasite Corpses might just be a beginning; if they could encounter other monsters, Wang Ting would hit a massive jackpot.

No one in the team opposed; they had all seen this harvest.

The appearance of a supply point like the pharmacy made the value of the entire Vine Town rise a lot. Who said there was only one supply point like the pharmacy in the entire Hospital?

The team walked deeper in, passing by the pharmacy and the triage hall.

Sparse sounds came over, and the Parasitic Fungus Vine hidden in the outpatient room quietly launched an attack.

Although its attack speed was extremely fast, the vines in the Hospital were not as numerous as those outside the town, with not much cover, making its figure exceptionally abrupt at this moment.

Without even needing Wang Ting's reminder, Xiang Nan directly raised his hand and fired a shot. With a bang, the bullet pierced through its body.

The sporadic few Parasitic Fungus Vines could not stop the team's advancing pace, and they continued to walk towards the right side of the first floor of the Hospital's main building.

In the dim Hospital, a trace of light faintly filtered down from above. This was not the light of the Hospital, but further ahead was the middle position of the main building, which was a built-in atrium area. The original upstairs and downstairs escalators of the Hospital were located right in this position.

Wang Ting and the others looked towards the elevator bank beside the corridor, where there were a total of four elevators. At this time, the metal doors were tightly shut and covered with a thick layer of vines. Clearly, these elevators probably had not been used by anyone for a long time.

Feng Bo observed for a glance and looked towards the depths of the corridor: "The entire main building of the Hospital has no electricity. If we want to go upstairs, we can only take the stairs or the escalators."

The escalators naturally had no power either, but they could still climb up them just like regular stairs.

Compared to the stairs set in the corner as a safe escape route, closer to them were layer upon layer of escalators in the atrium area ahead.

Wang Ting's expression remained very heavy: "The location of the escalators is right in the atrium, closest to us. However, if we are in the atrium, those floors above can jump down directly, so we must be even more careful."

The atrium area of the Hospital was open and clear. Looking up, you could roughly count how many floors the entire Hospital had. If a monster were to descend from the sky, I am afraid the entire team would suffer.

"Understood."

Feng Bo and the others nodded heavily, their expressions becoming increasingly serious, and their hands gripping their rifles tightened a bit more.

The team groped forward along the corridor, walking another seven or eight meters or so before reaching the location of the atrium area.

Xiang Nan, who was scouting ahead, was walking at the very front. He had just taken two steps out, looked up, and his pupils shrank violently, his face filled with shock.

Sensing something was wrong, Wang Ting abruptly pulled him back.

Thud, thud, thud.

Heavy footsteps actually came from within the atrium area. A green behemoth, wearing a squeezed and shattered medical uniform, was facing away from them. The vine tentacles growing out of its back were as thick as a human's thigh, moving around unconsciously.

That monster was about 3 meters tall, dark green all over. Its head was composed of intertwined vines, and its body was made of muscles shimmering with green. Its back bore thick vines, vivid like a tentacle. Looking at those thick arms, the five fingers were long gone, replaced by five slender vines growing barbs.

[ Discovered low-level anomalous entity Vine Skull, Vine Skull cataloging progress 10% ]