72: Chapter 72 An Unexpected Joy (Revised)

Chapter 72 Unexpected Joy (Revised)

The zombie corpses in front of the Outpost Camp were piled up into heaps, with severed limbs scattered everywhere, and foul blood seeping into the ground, emitting a rotting, fishy stench.

Where Wang Ting was located, the zombie corpses were the most numerous, piling up almost like a small hill.

This was not only because Wang Ting's methods were sharp and ruthless, but also because the zombies smelled the scent of human flesh and pounced desperately, so that they were all cut down one by one by his vine skull tyrant blade or Earth Vine Spike.

If the corpses were not dealt with, they would easily rot, breed a large number of germs, and even attract more monsters.

Dong Hu went in person to interrogate Li Bo and Guan Yue, and could not spare the time. Therefore, the cleanup work here was handed over to Fu Xing to handle.

He led a team to sort the zombie remains one by one, and searched to see if any supernatural materials had formed. If there were supernatural materials, they dug them out; if not, they threw all the corpses into the corpse pit for future use.

Wang Ting returned to the camp and washed off the zombie's foul blood from his body.

Before his eyes also floated the collection prompt that had already appeared in battles long ago.

[Collection of low-level abnormal entity Sprinter successful, obtained 100 monster points]

[Collection of low-level abnormal entity Zombie Dog successful, obtained 100 monster points]

"Both of them have 100 monster points, which is truly an unexpected joy."

Although the strength of both the Sprinter and the Zombie Dog was not strong, as newly appeared monsters, they still provided Wang Ting with a relatively considerable amount of monster points.

Wang Ting's gaze swept over the exchange items of the Sprinter and the Zombie Dog, and he carefully looked them over.

[Collected low-level abnormal entity Sprinter, current monster available exchanges are as follows]

[Sprinter Tendon (Trait): Greatly enhances leg strength, grants Sprinter speed boost —— 100 monster points]

[Sprinter Modification Potion (Creation): Based on Sprinter genes, gains enhanced physical body, slightly increases reaction force —— 100 monster points]

[Sprinter Grapple Claw (Creation): Possesses strong wall adhesion ability, the grapple claw has tearing power used for combat and vertical wall climbing —— 50 monster points]

[Shadow Strike Tear (Skill): Rapidly launches a surprise attack, deals scratching damage to the target, has a chance to stun the target —— 100 monster points]

[Sprinter (Servant Beast) —— 200 monster points]

Looking at the exchange items of the Sprinter, Wang Ting couldn't help but frown slightly.

Among the five exchange items, there were both creations and traits, and the abilities were considered comprehensive, but the strength was a bit failing to keep up with his demands.

The ones he felt were slightly useful were the Sprinter Tendon and the Sprinter Modification Potion. One was a trait that enhanced leg strength and reaction ability, and the other was an enhancement potion similar to the virus potion.

"If based on the power level of the Sprinter, it seems the enhancement magnitude should be lower than the Vine Skull and the Vine Spider Nurse, comparable to the Scarecrow and zombies. Achieving the enhancement magnitude of breaking the limit once should be no problem."

The monster points to exchange for both were not very high. At his current speed of settling 31 monster points per day, it would take about 4 days to exchange them out.

However, Wang Ting still had two powerful traits of the Vine Spider Nurse — Bloodthirsty Poison Web and Vine Spider Spine — that had not been exchanged yet. The Sprinter's traits were more like icing on the cake, so they were not so urgent after all.

Wang Ting opened the exchange items of the Zombie Dog and thought to himself: "The level of the Zombie Dog is equivalent to the Sprinter, so it should be about the same."

His gaze swept over the five exchange items, and suddenly his eyes lit up, locking onto one of the creations.

[Bite Force (Trait): The terrifying bite force acquired after the Zombie Dog's alienation, slightly boosts muscles, greatly increases bite force —— 75 monster points]

[Flesh Tracking (Trait): Can track biological trails within a 10-kilometer range based on biological flesh information, slightly improves sense of smell —— 100 monster points]

[corpse hound sniper rifle (Creation): An anti-materiel sniper rifle with powerful tearing power, causing bleeding and erosion effects, with an effective range of 1,500 meters and a maximum range of 3,000 meters, 12.7mm corpse hound bullets, generating one magazine per day, magazines can be accumulated daily —— 150 monster points]

[Corpse Hound Devour (Trait): Comparable to the Zombie Dog's digestive ability, devouring flesh accelerates physical recovery ability —— 100 monster points]

[Zombie Dog (Servant Beast) —— 200 monster points]

Among the items available for exchange by the Zombie Dog, a trait like Bite Force basically sat at the same table as the Rot Soil Hound's Rotten Soil Sustenance, both being absolute trash.

However, aside from Bite Force, there were unexpectedly three extremely useful exchange items, which were of considerable use even to the current Wang Ting.

"The tracking range of Flesh Tracking can actually reach 10km. This thing is quite useful for hunting down prey or finding the enemy's hometown."

Seeing this trait, Wang Ting immediately thought of casting a long line to catch a big fish.

For example, that escaped Vine Spider Nurse; at that time, because he lacked tracking means, he had to rush to follow closely and worry about letting it escape.

If he had the Flesh Tracking trait, he could simply wound the Vine Spider Nurse directly and then let it escape. Based solely on the materials on its body, he could follow the aura it left behind and slowly trail behind it.

Tracking while weakening, a 10km tracking distance was definitely a fatal distance that ordinary monsters could never shake off their pursuer.

The Corpse Hound Devour trait was also useful. It and Photosynthetic Straw were both recovery-type traits, just with different focuses, and it was also a good ability.

However, what truly made Wang Ting's eyes light up was not these two traits, but the Zombie Dog's only creation — the corpse hound sniper rifle.

"Anti-materiel sniper rifle, 12.7mm bullet caliber ——"

Wang Ting narrowed his eyes slightly. When these two words were combined, the first thing that appeared in his mind was the Barrett sniper rifle.

The so-called anti-materiel sniper rifle, as the name implies, was no longer targeting human flesh and blood. Its firepower setting was a large-caliber heavy sniper weapon specially designed to target military equipment, supplies, and light-armored units. The most intuitive manifestation of its power was that it could pierce through steel plates of about 20 millimeters, 1-meter-thick brick walls, or 30-centimeter-thick concrete.

"No matter how strong the defense of a leader-type individual monster is, it cannot compare to a steel plate. The corpse hound sniper rifle also has the effects of tearing, bleeding, and erosion, which just happens to make up for my lack of long-range methods."

The corpse hound sniper rifle was worth 150 monster points, and the only factor restricting its exchange value was probably the limited bullets, which could only slowly increase in stock through daily accumulation. However, once things like firearms were used, the bullets consumed would be an astronomical figure.

However, the exchange value of the Zombie Dog's other traits was already enough to show how excellent it was.

What Wang Ting currently lacked precisely was long-range attack means, and furthermore, a powerful long-range weapon.

Even as he continuously grew stronger, this sniper rifle would certainly fall behind his demands, but from the present perspective, it was quite useful, especially when dealing with the Grafted Mother Vine.

A bold idea arose in his mind: Even if he couldn't kill it, if according to the rules of collection, continuous attacks might be able to fill up the collection progress of the Grafted Mother Vine in advance.

Collecting monster information, understanding monsters, and killing monsters could all increase the collection progress, and repeatedly wounding monsters was naturally among them.

The Grafted Mother Vine hid among thousands of Parasitic Fungus Vines. Wang Ting had no way to cross this monster group to kill it, but if he sniped it from over 1,000 meters away, that would be another story entirely.

[Collector: Wang Ting]

[Life Level: Tier 1]

[monster points: 435 points]

[Collected Monsters: Scarecrow —— Zombie Dog, Grafted Mother Vine (7%)]

"Exchange for corpse hound sniper rifle"

monster points — 150

A scarlet large-caliber sniper rifle suddenly appeared in the depths of Wang Ting's consciousness, and along with it appeared a huge magazine filled with five bullets. The fierce gun body seemed to swear that it would tear everything apart.

"Wait three more days, and I can exchange for the next trait."

Dong Hu indeed had some methods in terms of interrogating people. Of course, it was also possible that due to the terrifying strength displayed by Wang Ting today, along with the experience of narrowly escaping death by the bloody jaws of zombies, both Guan Yue and Li Bo did not hide anything at all, and poured out everything about how they discovered the Outpost Camp and what plans they had.

With a serious expression, Dong Hu strode over to find Wang Ting and said, "The location of the Three Wolves Gang has been asked out. In the Ash Valley area, they have an encampment."

"How many people do they have in total? How is the strength of the leaders? Did they confess everything?"

"In the temporary encampment in Ash Valley, there are a total of 137 people including combatants and scouts. Zhou Lin, Kang An, and Bai Shou, the three brothers, are the leaders, all of whom are individuals who have broken the limit twice. Under them, there are several captains who have broken the limit once. One of them said there are 5, and the other said there are 4, the numbers don't match."

Wang Ting frowned: "Who is lying?"

"Neither looks like it." Dong Hu shook his head: "Guan Yue said 5 because he secretly discovered that a deputy captain-level person had actually already broken the limit once, but was hiding it and didn't tell the others. Inside this Three Wolves Gang, there must still be one or two such people; I'm afraid there are six or seven who have broken the limit once overall."

What the Three Wolves Gang did were businesses of licking blood from the blade's edge; either they were hunting other Shelters, or they went to hunt monsters.

Breaking the human limit amidst life-and-death combat was not impossible. Hiding strength in such a team was also a good way to save one's life, and naturally, some people would hide it carefully.

"Ash Valley." Wang Ting showed a pensive expression: "I remember Ash Valley is less than 30km away from here, heading northwest."

"Correct." Dong Hu nodded, "Ash Valley is a weathered rock valley. Although there are no large hills, once you enter that place, it is all pieces of weathered rock. Each of those things is three to five meters high, looking almost the same, just like a stone forest. If you don't make good road signs or aren't familiar with the inside, it's very easy to get lost going in. They love to hide in these corners and crannies, and they are like cunning rabbits with three burrows, transferring their temporary encampment at any time. Otherwise, they would have been wiped out by several Shelters joining forces long ago."

"They have always been plundering other Shelters and explorers on the wasteland, coming and going freely. They should have a lot of vehicles in their hands, right?"

"That's for sure."

Dong Hu immediately informed him of the situation he had inquired about: "Just the off-road vehicles and trucks known to Li Bo and Guan Yue alone number 6, along with 10 motorcycles and two heavy weapon machine guns."

For these hounds on the desert, cars were their lifeblood.

"Since that's the case, let's wipe them out."

Wang Ting said these words decisively, his gaze revealing eagerness to try.

An innocent man is guilty only because of his treasured possessions.

Since the Three Wolves Gang has so many vehicles and firearms, after this time, these things will belong to this Wang.

Who asked the Three Wolves Gang to provoke him first.

Dong Hu was stunned for a moment, and then he heard Wang Ting order: "Have the brothers from the Supplies Group pull out the truck and off-road vehicle parts to assemble them outside. Tomorrow we will go over, so as not to let them find out and make it impossible to wipe them all out in one net."

"I'll arrange it right away."