93: Chapter 92 Extraordinary Path

Chapter 92: Extraordinary Pathway

Old Man Lu's pupils shrank abruptly. He hadn't expected that Wang Ting would actually post such a task.

He suddenly thought of the question Wang Ting had asked just now, and immediately thought: He wasn't looking for the beast-trolling pathway, but rather trying to understand if subsequent paths existed. Could he possibly be——

"You are going to——"

"Old Man Lu, don't ask too much."

Prompted by him, Old Man Lu immediately gave an awkward smile, "Got it, got it. It's just this old thing of mine running his mouth too much."

"It's not easy for the guest to catch live anomalous monsters; you must know that living creatures are the hardest to catch. I'm afraid the price for this task needs to be carefully considered. If it's too low, the task will remain vacant. I wonder what price Sir is offering?"

"15 extraordinary materials for a common individual among low-level anomalous monsters, and 50 extraordinary materials for an elite individual. I only want one of each category."

Old Man Lu's eyes lit up, and he couldn't help marveling inwardly at such a lavish hand: "According to the rules, this task carries a fair bit of risk. I'll collect 30 extraordinary materials here first as a deposit, how does that sound?"

"Very well."

After the matter was settled, he came out of that room.

Old Man Lu saw him off respectfully, the smile on his face unabated. The explorers inside the Pig Head Tavern caught sight of this scene and couldn't help taking a few extra glances, wondering what kind of deal they had reached.

"Let's go."

Wang Ting brought Ren Chuan out of the Pig Head Tavern and headed straight toward where the convoy was located. Tonight, they would still spend the night at the campsite.

There were also inns for people to live in within the black market, with passable environments where one could even summon call girls, but those places were generally meant for lone rangers.

People from Shelters like them usually had their own convoys and needed to look after the convoy, supplies, and other things. They would definitely not easily leave their campsite to spend the night elsewhere.

By the time they returned to the campsite, Xiang Nan and the others had already started setting up pots and making fire.

Wang Ting arrived just in time. Seeing Xiang Nan, he said, "Take out that Silver-Scaled Perch-Toothed Fish."

Xiang Nan and the others carried the Silver-Scaled Perch-Toothed Fish over and lifted the wooden lid.

Wang Ting directly picked it up with one hand. The hundred-jin Silver-Scaled Perch-Toothed Fish felt as light as a bottle of water in his hands.

The Silver-Scaled Perch-Toothed Fish, over a meter long, was covered in silver scales all over its body. Its ferocious face and sharp teeth all showed that this was an evil beast in the water.

If a battle were to take place in the water, this single Silver-Scaled Perch-Toothed Fish would probably be enough to deal with several Parasitic Fungus Vines.

Wang Ting used a sharp knife to probe into the body of the Silver-Scaled Perch-Toothed Fish, and then disassembled it bit by bit.

His disassembly speed naturally couldn't compare to Zhang Dafang, the master chef of Scarecrow Town, but his speed wasn't slow either. First, he removed the internal organs, then cut off the fish head and tail, and sliced the meat from the fish body into chunks to take them off.

As his disassembly actions progressed, the collection progress was also slowly increasing.

[Collection progress for low-level anomalous entity Silver-Scaled Perch-Toothed Fish: 25%]

With the complete disassembly, the collection progress of the Silver-Scaled Perch-Toothed Fish stopped at 25%.

Wang Ting thought to himself: Disassembling monster corpses can indeed obtain monster information and increase collection progress, but it is ultimately hard to repeat.

Earlier on the Sand Scorpion, he had done some tests. Whether observing the disassembly or doing it himself, after completing a whole set of dismemberment and disassembly, although the collection progress had some increase, it ultimately had a limit, which couldn't compare to killing the monster or continuously observing or wounding the monster while it was alive.

"Boil all the fish bones and fish meat, and share it with everyone to eat."

"Ren Chuan, mount the heavy machine gun on the truck, and let those blind people wake up."

Ren Chuan nodded: "Understood."

Among the team, Wang Ting and Ren Chuan had the strongest strength, but Ren Chuan only had the strength of breaking limits once, and the others weren't even limit-breakers. Although they had firearms in hand, there were still some risks in the black market after all, making it difficult to stand alone.

If the attackers were warriors who had broken limits twice, and Wang Ting happened to be away, accidents would inevitably happen.

However, once the heavy machine gun was put up, the situation would be different again.

No fool would brave such a major lethal weapon to provoke a team like this.

Xiang Nan greeted everyone to gather around the campfire and boil fish soup.

A hundred jin of fish meat, although quite a lot, 10 of them were all strapping warriors, especially Wang Ting and Ren Chuan, whose appetites were quite large. After this meal, twenty or thirty jin of the Silver-Scaled Perch-Toothed Fish was gone.

Wang Ting and the others made a fire to cook, and the people from Fisherman Town in the distance naturally saw it too. The two groups greeted each other from afar, but did not invite each other.

In the doomsday, food was already precious, especially special meat like the Silver-Scaled Perch-Toothed Fish. At a time like this, it naturally wouldn't be easily shared.

Furthermore, being in the black market, the two sides were not familiar enough with each other, and even less likely to accept each other's food.

"Fisherman Town's attitude is not bad; they should have figured out our background today as well. Tomorrow I will go to the Infinite Building in Huangyan Town to take a look. You go and coordinate with them, and see how to purchase the types of live anomalous entities and that water ghost."

Ren Chuan nodded: "The fish species are easy to handle; at worst, we can schedule a place for the transaction, and both sides won't need to come to the black market, just find a nearby place to rendezvous. If they are willing, going directly to Fisherman Town isn't out of the question either. However, as for the water ghost, I'm afraid they might have some misgivings."

"If they have misgivings, add more money."

Wang Ting said calmly: "We can indeed strengthen ties with Fisherman Town; their catches are quite abundant. Once our farmland has stable output and grain income increases, we can consider trading grain for some catches to supply the Guard Team and their families."

The Guard Team trained constantly, and meat must be supplied. Relying solely on energy blocks would probably find it difficult to support high-intensity training.

What Wang Ting wanted was a powerful camp, so he naturally wouldn't be stingy in this regard. Moreover, he himself wasn't an ascetic. With the camp established, produce increased, and being able to eat better things and live a better life, why not?

Wang Ting suddenly asked: "You guys say that if a dam is built on the small river inside Vine Town and a pond is enclosed, can we raise fish?"

Fu Xing, who was beside him, hearing Wang Ting's question, became thoughtful: "It seems possible. Vine Town has plenty of vines to begin with, and they are non-toxic, so they should be edible. We also grow wheat, and there is always some excess weeds or straw. If the fish raised are grass carp that eat grass, they should be able to survive."

"We'll communicate and see afterwards."

After eating, Ren Chuan went to arrange tonight's defense matters.

Wang Ting entered the tent and lit a small night light, casting illumination onto the notebook Old Man Lu had given him today.

The handwriting on the notebook was all handwritten, with powerful and vigorous strokes. The extraordinary pathways recorded were also quite detailed. It could be seen that Old Man Lu's intelligence gathering wasn't completely fooling people.

Wang Ting glanced at it hastily, and soon a look of astonishment appeared on his face.

——

"How could there be so many extraordinary pathways in this area?"

He looked closely along the data, and counting them revealed eight or nine extraordinary pathways.

Gardener Pathway, an extraordinary pathway developed by Jumu City, forms an Extraordinary Core by relying on the factor structures of Jumu City's tree monsters, withered branch monsters, etc. A Tier 3 Plant-Mutant Potion is known to exist, but none has been seen circulating.

Painless Pathway, an extraordinary pathway passed down from the Old Civilization era, uses the extraordinary factor structures of flesh-and-blood monsters like zombies as its power core, and is suspected to have a Tier 3 potion formula.

Bullet Town Ant-Soldier Pathway, suspected to use the Sandstone Ant factor structure as its power core to enhance strength and defense, with no stable potions seen circulating.

Chechang Town Upside-Down Man Pathway, uses the Upside-Down Man factor structure in the Infinite Building of Chechang Town as its power core, with no stable potions seen on the market.

Huangyan Town Night Demon Pathway, forms the extraordinary power core with the Night Demon factor structure, has a stable Tier 1 extraordinary potion, with no subsequent potions seen, suspected to have a relatively high fusion risk.

Mermaid Town Fishman Pathway, Fisherman Town Fisherman Pathway, Potato Town Farmer Pathway——

Ever since coming into contact with extraordinary potions and extraordinary pathways, what Wang Ting had always heard about were the Gardener Pathway and the Painless Pathway. He had originally thought it was mainly these two, and even if there were other extraordinary pathways, they were only a few.

But he had never imagined that within just these Shelters and the Infinite Building in the southern Tieling Wasteland, there would actually be so many kinds of pathways.

"It seems I thought wrong. It's not that extraordinary pathways came into being because of extraordinary potions, but rather that extraordinary power came first, and then stable extraordinary potions followed."

Wang Ting frowned slightly, revealing a thoughtful expression.

He found that he had gotten a question backwards: extraordinary potions were essentially for better utilizing and stabilizing the extraordinary power coming from these anomalous monsters. In other words, as long as one was lucky enough and could withstand the erosion of extraordinary power from anomalous monsters, every single anomalous monster itself represented a pathway.

"Extraordinary Factor Structure"

Wang Ting's gaze locked onto this term that appeared in the data.

The so-called factor structure was actually equivalent to extraordinary genes, except that some monsters were not made of flesh and blood, so expressing it purely as genes wasn't accurate.

Therefore, people on the wasteland would use factor structure to describe specific information structures such as the special arrangement and combination of extraordinary factors.

Materials like the Extraordinary Core were essentially a collection carrier of extraordinary factor structures. The root of an extraordinary pathway was the external manifestation of extraordinary structural power.

"Tier 1 extraordinary individuals simply transplant the extraordinary factor structures of anomalous monsters into their own bodies to control their power. Theoretically speaking, every kind of anomalous monster represents an extraordinary pathway, at most sometimes classified into the same category because their factor structure expressions tend to converge. Just like how zombies, Sprinters, and Zombie Dogs can all serve as material sources for the painless potion."

Thinking of this, Wang Ting's brows smoothed out, and the corners of his mouth lifted slightly: "Since extraordinary individuals can also be born through coincidence without extraordinary potions, then my plan makes sense."

The diversity of anomalous entities brought by the disorderliness of the Infinite Building brought countless possibilities to this world.

Then it would make sense for Wang Ting, relying on sufficient luck, to become an unremarkable extraordinary person of the beast-trolling pathway.

As for others doubting, let them doubt; at least he wasn't an anomaly on the surface. As for the jealous peepers, let them take their complaints up with Wang Ting's army of servant beasts.

Wang Ting's eyes flickered with a confident light: "Since that's the case, we can be a bit bolder."