88: Chapter 87 The Infinite Building in Huangyan Town

Chapter 87: The Infinite Building of Huangyan Town

Before heading to the black market, Wang Ting ripened the Blood Vine Corpse Tree once more, producing another blood vine fruit.

He handed this fruit to Ren Chuan. Ren Chuan was already a warrior who had honed his skills for a long time. Though not quite on par with Feng Bo and Dong Hu, he was not far behind, and shortly after consuming it, he became a primary limit-breaker.

With Ren Chuan's strength enhanced, Wang Ting entrusted the camp's security to Dong Hu and Feng Bo. Once everything was properly arranged, he took Xiang Nan, Xu Yan, Fu Xing, and six members of the Guard Team, boarding two trucks welded with steel plates, and headed straight for the black market.

Ren Chuan was quite familiar with the road to the black market.

Back when they were still in Scarecrow Town, he had gone there a few times with Fan Da and Zhao Kun.

The boundless wasteland flashed past the windows quickly. The entire Tieling Wasteland looked just like this—endless dust and sand covering everything, with almost no vegetation in sight. Besides yellow sand, there was only the parched earth.

Monotony and stifling heat were things that had to be endured every time they drove on the road. Even when gusts of strong wind blew, they brought little coolness, filling their mouths with yellow sand instead.

On the truck, Ren Chuan was mentally counting the items they were bringing for trade this time.

"Four hundred portions of extraordinary materials and five Extraordinary Cores are enough for us to trade for a lot of things. Even for the extraordinary potion that Bai Shou said might appear in the auction house, we aren't without a chance."

Ren Chuan stirred slightly, then stopped.

He suddenly realized that if it were only a Tier 1 potion, it probably wouldn't be of much help to Wang Ting.

Wang Ting raised his eyes slightly to glance at Ren Chuan, and he immediately knew what Ren Chuan was thinking.

He knew that this was Ren Chuan subconsciously assuming he was an extraordinary.

And under normal circumstances, an extraordinary could not inject a second extraordinary potion.

Injecting two extraordinary potions would only result in one thing: completely different extraordinary powers conflicting within the body, leading to the collapse of extraordinary factors.

Either turning into a monster or dying on the spot.

Only if the body was strong enough or if the two extraordinary paths were extremely close, so that the extraordinary factors did not conflict, could one truly master different paths.

But this was merely a rumor; at least Ren Chuan and the others had never heard of any extraordinary possessing a second path.

A Gardener was a Gardener, and a Painless was a Painless—their powers were completely different.

Wang Ting expressionlessly thought to himself: "My power stems from various traits. Although it is not the power of an extraordinary potion, it also uses extraordinary factors as a source of power. I wonder if it will conflict with extraordinary potions."

Wang Ting craved power; power was the foundation of survival in the apocalyptic world. Whether it was the power of traits or the power of an extraordinary, as long as it could make him stronger, it was a viable choice.

As the pillar of human survival in the apocalypse, the extraordinary path was probably something he couldn't bypass.

"At worst, I can just exchange for it first and study it later. My physique is already powerful enough, not inferior to that of a leader-type individual, so there shouldn't be too big of a problem."

Whether something was good or not had to be obtained first before talking.

Even if he couldn't use it, couldn't the people under his command use it?

Wang Ting looked at Ren Chuan and said, "We can check out the extraordinary potion when the time comes, but we can't lack essential supplies either—try to buy back as much as possible. Also, help me keep an eye out for live monsters."

Ren Chuan, who was in the same truck, was slightly stunned, but quickly nodded in agreement.

They didn't know what Wang Ting had experienced, but they could clearly feel that their boss had an almost paranoid, extremely excited hunting preference for hunting monsters, especially when seeing a new type of monster, where he would even develop a habit of kill-stealing.

Xiang Nan thought silently to himself: "The monsters on the Vine Town floor must have been wiped out by the boss, and now his hands are starting to itch. If we don't find some fun for the boss soon, won't he go stir-crazy?"

Who didn't have some strange quirks in the apocalypse?

Killing monsters was already a very normal hobby; this kind of thing was still better than liking to kill people.

Suddenly, Xiang Nan had a flash of inspiration: "The Infinite Building in Sunset Town, which seems to be called Silent Desolate Town, allows explorers to go in and hunt anomaly-type monsters, except that you have to pay an admission fee to enter."

Wang Ting suddenly became interested: "What type is their Infinite Building?"

"A combination of a supply floor and a monster floor."

Ren Chuan seemed to have some understanding of this Infinite Building, and his words were quite disdainful: "The floors of Silent Desolate Town have almost no bright light, remaining dim like night all day long. As long as you make a sound, you might attract monster attacks, and the danger is not low. However, the supplies inside are also very abundant. Aside from items like weapons, plants, and medicines, the supplies even include some things with slight extraordinary traits, like almond water and healing bandages."

Wang Ting frowned slightly, growing even more puzzled: "The more abundant the supplies are, logically speaking, Huangyan Town should hold this Infinite Building tightly in its own hands. Why would they release it for adventurers to explore?"

"Because the refreshing rules of Silent Desolate Town are rather special; it is a reset-type supply floor."

"Reset-type supply floor——"

A reset-type supply floor. Of course Wang Ting knew about it.

After determining that the Vine Town floor belonged to a supply floor, he had detailed discussions with Feng Bo, Ren Chuan, and others about various supply floors, and this category was among them.

For reset-type supply floors, their supplies do not refresh over time; instead, after certain conditions are met, the supplies on the entire floor are reset and refreshed.

Compared to refreshing over time, the conditions to achieve a reset are often much harsher.

"They allow explorers to go inside and hunt the monsters within—is that related to the reset rules?"

Ren Chuan nodded: "Although the people of Huangyan Town didn't explicitly state it, everyone has guessed that it must be related to hunting monsters. As long as the reset conditions are met, they will seal off the Infinite Building. Then they will conduct the first round of exploration themselves, usually exploring for three to seven days, during which most of the supplies will be claimed by them."

Wang Ting was noncommittal; if it were him, he definitely would have done the same thing.

Ren Chuan continued: "The area of Silent Desolate Town is not small, and it is shrouded in eternal night, making exploration extremely difficult. It's impossible to find all the supplies in a single round of search. But after one round of search, the search difficulty for the remaining supplies becomes extremely high, and continuing to search might cause heavy losses due to monster attacks, ultimately not worth the gains. Therefore, after one round of exploration, they will open up Silent Desolate Town, allowing explorers to go in and hunt monsters, search for supplies, and wait for the next round of reset."

Huangyan Town was using an open strategy—a naked temptation. They never worried that the explorers wouldn't take the bait.

Because even if the explorers didn't go to explore Silent Desolate Town, they would go to other Infinite Buildings in the wasteland to hunt monsters and obtain extraordinary materials.

Rather than going to those dangerous Infinite Buildings, it was better to come here to explore the relatively familiar Silent Desolate Town. Besides, exploring might even turn up useful supplies, so why not?

Wang Ting naturally wasn't going for those supplies; he cared more about what monsters were inside.

"How many types of monsters are inside?"

As expected, the boss still loves hunting new monsters——

Ren Chuan clearly had anticipated what Wang Ting would ask and had long prepared the information he knew: "There are three known types in total: Bat-bee, Night Demon, and Giant Claw Night Demon. Among them, Bat-bees are the most numerous, followed by Night Demons. The strongest is the Giant Claw Night Demon, which is an elite individual born among ordinary Night Demons, with strength no less than a secondary limit-breaker."

The few of them chatted idly about the intelligence of the Silent Desolate Town floors, though most of it came from the mouths of black market explorers.

The people of Scarecrow Town had never been inside; they weren't lone wolves and didn't need to take that risk.

The two trucks drove for about half a day. The surrounding yellow sand gradually decreased, and outside the car windows, protruding peaks and giant boulders could be seen from time to time in the distance. Not long after, they finally arrived at Huangyan Valley, and at the outer perimeter, a dilapidated high wall came into view.

Beyond the high wall were still blood-stained roadblocks and barbed wire. A large number of soldiers guarded the gates of Huangyan Valley, staring intently as Wang Ting's two trucks slowly drove up to the entrance.

The soldiers guarding the entrance approached with weapons, swept their gazes over the two trucks, saw no cargo, and said with cold faces: "City entry fee."

"Take it."

Ren Chuan had been prepared. The entry fee per person was 2 bullets, and 20 per truck. If there was cargo, depending on the amount, it ranged from 20 to 100 bullets.

The gate-guarding soldiers took them, counted them briefly, then nodded and waved them through.

The vehicles slowly drove inside. This was Wang Ting's first time seeing what the black market looked like.

Passing through the crude city gate, everywhere one looked were dilapidated shanties, appearing extremely crowded.

People hidden among the alleys of these shanties were like stray dogs in a garbage dump, their eyes filled with greed and ill intent, as if they would pounce up the next moment.

Aside from these greedy gazes, the rest were empty and despairing eyes. There was also a group of people who didn't even pay attention to the vehicles entering the city, their pupils revealing numbness and despair, having already lost their luster.

"This is the outermost area, which we usually call the Nest Cave."

Ren Chuan said expressionlessly: "The people gathered here are only slightly better than survivors wandering in the wild. They make a living in the black market, doing almost anything just for a bite to eat. The men stole or explored Silent Desolate Town to look for supplies, while the women sold their bodies. Some explorers liked this flavor of the Nest Cave, which only cost one or two energy blocks. However, the women inside the Nest Cave weren't clean; the ones on the black market main street were better, as the Wild Wolf Gang's subordinates ran businesses in that area."

Hearing Ren Chuan's words, Wang Ting glanced at him expressionlessly, thinking: "You old rascal are quite familiar with this; you wouldn't happen to be a veteran driver, would you?"

"I brought hundreds of extraordinary materials all the way to the black market to take care of serious business, not to deliver goods across a thousand miles. What's the deal with specifically bringing up this kind of stuff?"

Noticing Wang Ting's gaze, Ren Chuan's heart skipped a beat: "I said too much."

"I heard it from someone."

Ren Chuan tried to cover for himself, then said: "The Wild Wolf Gang, the Blade Head Gang, and the Withered Leaf Chamber of Commerce all have shops on the main street. We can find the materials we need there."

"Live monsters—do they have those too?"

Ren Chuan wore a pensive look: "Not necessarily, but we can check the Pig Head Tavern and contact other Shelters to see."