Chapter 124 - 123: Experience Sharing?
CLANG——
A long, crisp sound like a tolling bell echoed through the hallway, making Lin Fan’s sensitive ears ache from the vibration.
But the sound quickly subsided under Chu Zhaozhao’s control. The strength-type Mutated Zombie that had just lunged forward smashed both its hands onto the iron pot, denting the bottom, but she still blocked it perfectly.
And seizing that moment, Su Qing thrust her long spear from the side, stabbing it deep into the Mutated Zombie’s head!
[697/1000]!
"Not a vital spot. It’s not dead yet..."
Lin Fan saw that while Su Qing’s strike had dealt decent damage, it hadn’t hit a true weak point.
His words had barely left his mouth when a short spear flew through the air and stabbed heavily into the zombie’s neck, just below its "head"!
[622/1000]
"Still not a vital spot! Again! Lower!"
...
With the two women coordinating their attacks, the Mutated Zombie with 1,000 Life Value finally had its health bar depleted and collapsed to the ground.
And Lin Fan, in turn, received a potion and some materials.
"Whew... Boss, these Mutated Zombies are way too hard to kill!"
"It’s not that the Mutated Zombies are hard to kill. You two are just too weak."
Lin Fan’s retort to Chu Zhaozhao was merciless.
"Besides, against this kind of zombie, a regular steel pipe does very limited damage..."
A four-centimeter-diameter steel pipe against a two-meter-tall Mutated Zombie... even if you manage to poke a hole in it, unless you hit a weak point directly, it’s hard to inflict any effective damage.
So far, Lin Fan had killed Mutated Zombies by relying on his crystal ability or just plain luck.
Aside from the bone-spur type of zombie, the weak points of most other Mutated Zombies were almost never in the head.
Some were in the chest cavity, others in the abdomen. Today, Lin Fan had even encountered a more ridiculous one—an armored Mutated Zombie whose weak point was actually on its butt.
Of course, it didn’t matter to Lin Fan. With a weapon imbued with impact force, he could one-shot a thousand-Life-Value zombie like this, unless he was deliberately trying to hone his skills or recover his mana.
’But I can’t be expected to kill every single Mutated Zombie myself, can I?’
Lin Fan didn’t know where the Mutated Zombies in the wild had gone, but a zombie get-together was definitely not a good thing for humanity.
Chu Zhaotian, so sore he could barely lift his arms, had been sent by Lin Fan along with Xu Qian over to Liu Bin’s location to help receive the residents in the complex and clear the zombies in the hallways.
So, with three rooms left, Lin Fan called Chu Zhaozhao and Su Qing over.
Besides, the hallway was too crowded for so many people. The plan was for the strong to help the weak get stronger, so they could all grow powerful together.
"Who dealt the final blow just now?"
Lin Fan asked, looking at the two women’s health bars.
"The last hit? Uh... I think it was me?"
Su Qing thought for a moment and said hesitantly,
"Zhaozhao was supporting me the whole time. I’ll let her have the next one."
"No need..." Lin Fan cut her off. "It seems like... both of you got stronger..."
The reason he asked was that he’d glanced over and thought he saw that both of their Life Values had increased.
But he had been focused on the Mutated Zombie’s Life Value and had forgotten what their Life Values were when they arrived.
"That’s not right..." Lin Fan couldn’t help but mutter. The second half of his thought remained unspoken, playing out silently in his mind.
’Why does it feel like my Life Value has increased too?’
’Today, not counting this one, I’ve killed a total of eight with a thousand Life Value, one with over a thousand, and two pathetically weak ones that didn’t even have as much Life Value as I do...’
’No, wait, I also have to count that two-thousand-Life-Value Giant-Armed Zombie...’
’How much Life Value was I supposed to gain from all that?’
Anyway, he was now at[895]Life Value, while Su Qing was at[181]and Chu Zhaozhao was at[229].
It was too confusing to calculate. Lin Fan silently committed their Life Values to memory, raised his spear, and forcefully cut open the Mutated Zombie’s chest. He rummaged inside to find the sphere containing the crystal, which already had a hole poked in it.
Piercing the sphere wide open, Lin Fan turned to Chu Zhaozhao. "Zhaozhao, dig out the crystal..."
"Ugh... alright."
Hearing she had to dig out one of those disgusting crystals again, Chu Zhaozhao couldn’t help but frown. But the thought that it seemed to be very important to Lin Fan made her suppress her disgust and stick her hand into the wound. A moment later, she pulled out a polygonal crystal.
After stowing the crystal, Lin Fan waved a hand. "Let’s go. Next stop."
Under Lin Fan’s lead, the trio quickly cleared the last three rooms. Fortunately, all three rooms contained Mutated Zombies.
Even more fortunately, one of them was a bone-spur Mutated Zombie with over 1,800 Life Value.
Just as it shredded the iron pot and was about to charge the two women, Lin Fan thrust his spear out, ending its short life.
After checking the list in his hand again to confirm nothing was missed, Lin Fan led the two of them downstairs.
"How do you feel?"
Lin Fan asked as he wiped the bloodstains from his hands with a scrap of cloth.
"My power feels a little stronger, and the range of my control seems to have increased too..."
The iron pot had been smashed and discarded. Chu Zhaozhao used her ability to control the short spear in her hand, making it float forward. It only began to fall when it was nearly five meters away, as if it had flown out of her range.
She quickly took a step forward, brought it back into her control range, and caught it with her ability.
"I also feel like my strength has increased a bit. By about... the equivalent of killing ten zombies?"
Su Qing hefted the long spear in her hand, silently gauging the strength in her arms and comparing it to the growth she’d gained from killing zombies before.
"Your feeling is pretty accurate... Sister Qing, contact Liu Bin and have Wu Haitao bring the cutting torch and welding equipment over..."
He said, handing the walkie-talkie from his pocket to Su Qing.
Su Qing took the walkie-talkie, switched to Liu Bin’s channel, and contacted them.
Meanwhile, Lin Fan led the two women toward the clinic’s RV across the way.
By now, Su Qing’s Life Value had increased to[190], and Chu Zhaozhao’s had risen to[238].
Each of them had gained 9 points...
Lin Fan’s own Life Value, on the other hand, had increased to[930], and his Energy Value had also gone up by one hundred, reaching[300].
Hmm...
All three of their Life Values really did increase...
Lin Fan had observed very clearly. From one of the thousand-Life-Value Mutated Zombies—the one Chu Zhaozhao killed—his Life Value had increased by 10 points.
It had also given Chu Zhaozhao and Su Qing 3 Life Value points each.
From the Mutated Zombie with over 1,800 Life Value, which Lin Fan himself had finished off, he gained 25 Life Value, while the other two each gained 6.
The last thousand-Life-Value Mutated Zombie yielded the same results as the first: the two women each gained 3 points, and Lin Fan gained 10.
This...
’What’s going on?’
Lin Fan had never killed a Mutated Zombie together with them before...
Uh...
That wasn’t entirely true. He did deal with that little girl bone-spur zombie from Room 401 with Su Qing, but back then she hadn’t awakened her abilities, nor did she have a green health bar...
’Could it have something to do with this green health bar?’