After a one-sided massacre, Lin Qingsong left behind only two Japanese women, while everyone else had their energy harvested.
A massive amount of supplies poured into Lin Qingsong's ring, and simultaneously, his ring was upgraded once more.
After a few days of exploration, Lin Qingsong felt he had a general understanding of the game rules of this world.
Killing monsters to level up?
Ha, that was something an idiot would do!
Based on the intelligence he acquired, for every 10 ordinary zombies killed, one could obtain five or six energy crystal cores.
Considering his own upgrade progress, from strong to exceptionally strong required 50, from exceptionally strong to physical limit required 100, and from physical limit to awakened required 200, totaling 350 energy crystal cores.
If calculated at an average of 5 energy crystal cores dropped per zombie kill, Li Qingsong would need to kill at least 700 zombies to reach his current strength.
700 zombies?!
That was simply an astronomical number.
Could anyone really upgrade by killing that many zombies?!
In comparison, killing other survivors was a complete windfall.
Assuming a survivor had killed 100 zombies to reach the exceptionally strong state, Lin Qingsong only needed to kill 7 such survivors to equivalent the kill count of 700 zombies.
Of course, harvesting survivors did not guarantee 100% absorption of all crystal cores; there would be a discount.
But that didn't matter, it just meant dealing with a few more people, which wasn't difficult.
"It seems I am the chosen one. I never expected to grasp the secret to upgrading so quickly!"
"To put it bluntly, this world is essentially a Battle Royale game. Killing everyone to become the strongest might just be the ultimate goal of the game!?"
"Perhaps at that point, I can leave this world and return to reality?!"
Lin Qingsong looked at the powerful force flowing within his body and couldn't help but laugh heartily.
Returning to reality wouldn't be bad. With his strength, he was bound to achieve great things and would no longer have to cater to anyone's whims.
When the two Japanese women saw Lin Qingsong talking to himself at times and laughing heartily at others, appearing to have gone mad, they were so frightened they huddled together, trembling.
Lin Qingsong looked at the two Japanese women, gave a cold smile, and said:
"Are you coming one by one, or all together?!"
More than ten minutes later...
Lin Qingsong lay on the sofa, contentedly drinking red wine and eating freshly pan-fried steak, enjoying the leisure.
He learned that the two Japanese women were sisters, and thus, a clever plan was conceived.
Once Lin Qingsong found a new Japanese survivor camp, he would first clear the excess zombies on the road, then make the elder sister disheveled and have her run frantically to the camp for help.
He naturally wasn't worried about the elder sister betraying him, because the younger sister was in his hands.
If the elder sister showed any signs of defiance, she wouldn't be able to see her sister again.
Moreover, Lin Qingsong treated the two well normally, providing them with food and drink, and fulfilling their requests for supplies other than energy crystal cores.
After the elder sister integrated into the camp, she would secretly add a few drops of zombie blood to the drinking water.
In this way, the entire camp would be infected within a short period.
Then Lin Qingsong would come in to clean up the mess.
As Lin Qingsong killed more Japanese survivors, his experience grew.
When powerful survivors died at the current stage, they would only turn into ordinary zombies, with a significant reduction in combat power, but with almost no loss of resources on their bodies.
Therefore, Lin Qingsong used this method to defeat the weak with the many and the strong with the weak, wiping out all survivors in the Japanese region with almost no casualties.
His own strength grew by leaps and bounds.
For others, surviving the apocalypse was likely about killing monsters to level up, escaping, and being wary of malicious survivors.
But for Lin Qingsong, the survival rule of the apocalypse was how to lure survivors over and how to easily eliminate them.
That's right, he was the malicious survivor.
"So quickly, there are no more survivors in this area. It's time to move to another one!"
Lin Qingsong frowned as he looked at the map.
Dozens of red crosses were drawn on the map with a red marker.
Each red cross represented a survivor camp that had been annihilated.
Now, all Japanese people in the Jiangbei region had vanished. The supply crates they had painstakingly opened, the food they had collected, the blueprints, and the weapons were all now Lin Qingsong's spoils.
Garbage weapons filled the corridor, becoming an exhibition hall for his spoils collection.
"Master, why don't we go to the Jiangnan region?"
The elder sister, Keiko, pointed to the Jiangnan region and said.
After spending some time together, not only did these two sisters not hate Lin Qingsong, but they had also fallen in love with him, willingly becoming his subordinates and calling him Master.
"The Jiangnan region isn't ideal. I came from there, and they don't like Japanese people. The old routine might not work!"
Lin Qingsong shook his head and said.
"Then... we can go west. That's the territory of the Westerners. They always think Japanese women are easier to get along with."
"Moreover, those guys are arrogant and conceited, making them easy to break through!"
The younger sister, Rina, pointed to the western region and said.
"Westerners... these guys are tall and strong. They should have killed quite a few zombies..."
"It's definitely worth a try. Keiko, I'll leave it to you!"
Lin Qingsong put his arm around Keiko's waist and said with a smile.
"Don't worry, all men are the same!"
Keiko smiled confidently and said.
Half a month later...
Lin Qingsong looked at the map filled with red crosses again, sighing.
This time, it wasn't just the lack of survivors, but the realization that to upgrade further, he needed condensed energy crystal cores.
However, the survivors at this time could only drop energy crystal cores.
Helpless, Lin Qingsong upgraded the younger sister, Rina, to an awakened with energy talent, and the elder sister, Keiko, to an awakened with physique talent.
However, even so, the massive energy consumption required to synthesize condensed energy crystal cores was still difficult for Lin Qingsong to bear.
"Master, there are only 3 days left until the first wave of suppression is lifted. Shouldn't we think of something?"
Keiko asked in a sweet voice.
During this period of role-playing, she had gradually integrated into her character.
"No matter what decision Master makes, we will follow Master!"
Rina also said with a determined expression.
"Although the three of us are more than enough to protect ourselves... if we have cannon fodder, why not use it?"
Lin Qingsong drew a large red circle on the location of the stadium.
"I have scouted this place. It's the territory of Kimchi Country. The language is now common, and they won't be able to tell our true identities."
"There are many survivors there, and the strongest is said to be an organization called S13."
"We'll sneak into their camp, and when the suppression is lifted! The monsters can be dealt with by those organization guys."
Lin Qingsong put an arm around each of them and said with a smile.