Apocalypse: I Can See Health Bars

’Come to think of it, it seemed like that Wang Yuanhua didn’t gain any Life Value from killing zombies. Could it be that the people around me can only increase their Life Value because they’re benefiting from my green life bar?’

Lin Fan decided he still needed to pay Liu Bin a visit later and have a proper chat with Wang Yuanhua to see how he evolved.

But that was a separate matter. Regardless of how those "wild" Awakened Ones evolved, at least the few people by his side were like him, leveling up by killing zombies.

Moreover, the greater the gap between a zombie’s Life Value and their own, the more their maximum Life Value increased.

This had been proven true for both Chu Zhaozhao and Su Qing as well.

This was great news. With most of the zombies scattered throughout the residential complex already dead, there weren’t many left—not even enough for the three of them to each gain a dozen or so Life Value points.

It was even less worthwhile to break down doors one by one just to kill the one or two zombies inside; it took more effort to break down the doors than to kill the zombies.

But the fact that everyone could gain Life Value by killing a Mutated Zombie together was a huge boon.

A single zombie with one thousand Life Value gave the three of them 3 points each, which was the equivalent of killing nine regular zombies in total.

Judging from what just happened, if Xu Qian joined the two of them, the three of them would have no problem dealing with a Mutated Zombie with a thousand Life Value.

And if they could upgrade their weapons, it would be even easier.

After carefully observing how the two women fought under pressure, Lin Fan already had a preliminary idea, but he decided to ask for their opinions first.

"Sister Qing, Zhaozhao, how do you feel about the long spears? If we were to upgrade your weapons and equipment, do you have any thoughts?"

"New weapons?"

Chu Zhaozhao looked at the short spear in her hand and asked, puzzled.

"Zhaozhao’s ability is so convenient. She can directly manipulate objects to block a zombie’s attack...

But I can only dodge. The long spear is quite convenient as a weapon, and it’s not heavy—I can hold it with one hand now. If possible, I’d like a small, sturdy shield..."

Su Qing gripped the long spear in one hand and made a few practice thrusts forward as she spoke hesitantly.

By now, her Life Value was close to two hundred. When Lin Fan had two hundred Life Value, this kind of ordinary steel pipe already felt a bit too light, which was why he had switched to a radiator pipe.

"A small shield... That could work."

Lin Fan had originally planned to add more weight to Su Qing’s weapon, but after hearing her out, he thought adding a small shield wasn’t a bad idea either.

Through his observations over this period, Lin Fan had noticed that Su Qing’s fighting style was quite different from his.

As his own strength grew, Lin Fan had gradually abandoned precise thrusts in favor of sweeping attacks with a wider range and greater power.

But for some reason, even as Su Qing grew stronger, she still preferred to use thrusts.

Even when facing a tall Mutated Zombie, a flustered Chu Zhaozhao would just control her spear to smash it, but Su Qing could remain calm, find an opening, and thrust her spear right into the zombie’s eye socket.

If that was her style, then she would indeed need a shield for blocking to support her attacks.

"What about you?"

Lin Fan turned to Chu Zhaozhao, asking with a tilt of his chin.

"Hmm... I don’t mind holding the spear, but it’s too long and inconvenient to control when it’s flying..."

As she spoke, she tossed the spear into the air. It spun around and struck a nearby lamppost with a CLANG.

"It’s impossible to turn it around in the middle of a zombie horde. It would be best to have a few shorter, thinner spikes that I can control with my ability, something that can weave flexibly through a group of zombies..."

"Flying Swords?"

Lin Fan asked, raising an eyebrow.

"Something like that..."

Chu Zhaozhao nodded in reply.

Lin Fan turned and walked straight into the clinic. A moment later, he came out holding a handful of metal skewers, leftovers from some long-forgotten barbecue.

"Here, new weapons..."

"Hey, I get the feeling you’re just brushing me off..."

Chu Zhaozhao pouted, and all the metal skewers in Lin Fan’s hand floated into the air, hovering above her own palm. There were dozens of them.

Directing the cloud of skewers, she walked a few steps to a battered car by the roadside. With a wave of her hand, she sent them all stabbing into the car door.

Lin Fan walked over, pulled one out, and examined it thoughtfully.

"Was that your full power?"

"More or less. While it’s true that I’m a little faster at full power than I was at the beginning, this is pretty much my top speed..."

Chu Zhaozhao pulled one out herself and said with some dejection, seeing that it had only penetrated a few centimeters.

She read her fair share of novels and watched TV, and she was athletic enough to have some ideas of her own on how to develop her ability. She had even fantasized about scattering a handful of steel balls and wreaking havoc in all directions.

Unfortunately, her ability wasn’t as amazing as she had imagined. There seemed to be an upper limit to the speed at which she could control objects, one she couldn’t break through no matter how hard she tried.

This meant that objects with too little mass had almost no killing power.

Biology might have gone out the window, but the edifice of classical physics still stood strong.

To destroy those bodies that shouldn’t exist according to biology, one still had to rely on classical physics.

’...Kinetic energy is related to mass and velocity.’

As Lin Fan pondered this, he swung his arm and threw the metal skewer in his hand at the car door!

With a SHINK, the skewer buried itself completely in the sheet metal, leaving only a small black dot on the car door.

But Chu Zhaozhao’s ability was completely different from Lin Fan’s physical strength. The speed at which she manipulated objects seemed to have an upper limit, and it was unrelated to the object’s mass.

However, the greater the mass of the object she controlled, the more energy it consumed per second...

’Then the only upgrade path is to increase the mass as much as possible while ensuring she has enough stamina and the weapon remains maneuverable.’

Just as Lin Fan was trying to reconcile his previous ideas with this new information, the sound of footsteps and creaking wheels approached from a distance.

"Brother Lin, Sister Qing said you were looking for Haitao for something. I came to help out too..."

Lin Fan looked up to see Liu Bin and Wu Haitao walking over from the distance, each pulling a small flatbed cart.

Behind them followed Xu Qian and Chu Zhaotian.

"Brother Liu, what are you doing here? Where’s Wang Yuanhua?"

The first thing Lin Fan thought of when he saw Liu Bin was the severely injured "wild" Awakened One, so he was a little surprised to see Liu Bin here.

"Ah, I arranged for Brother Wang to stay upstairs in the supermarket for now. We spent the whole afternoon rescuing survivors in the complex and settling them into these few rows of buildings on the main street.

By the time we finally finished, I went back to check on Brother Wang and he was already asleep...

I didn’t want to wake him, so I just came along with Haitao to report the situation in the complex to you. It just so happened that these two young brothers were returning at the same time."

Liu Bin explained casually, a relaxed look on his face.

"Brother Lin..."

Wu Haitao, pulling a cart beside Liu Bin, also greeted him a little nervously.