"If they didn't kill the Prophet Organization members and kept fighting, wouldn't they be able to harvest more crystal cores?"
Xiao Bai asked, blinking her eyes.
She didn't understand why these people were doing this.
"Theoretically... yes, but once a person's strength grows to a certain level, they enter a plateau period."
"During this plateau period, the speed of leveling up becomes very slow, much like the difference in crystal cores required for a metamorphoser to become a high-level metamorphoser."
"At this point, killing more monsters wouldn't help much with leveling up... but killing people is different."
"They can directly collect most of the crystal cores accumulated by the strong individual in the apocalypse. Sometimes, killing one strong person can make them level up once, or even several times!"
Zuo Nan said with a wry smile.
Zhang Chen nodded.
It was true. He himself had killed over ten thousand Japanese people and hadn't gained many crystal cores.
However, in the second walled city, he had significantly improved his strength by killing the strong individuals with red rings beyond his level.
Even if the opponent was one level higher than you, their internal crystal cores would be enough for you to level up.
"So... what was the final outcome? Was the Prophet Organization completely wiped out?"
Zhang Chen asked.
"I'm not sure about what happened later, because the attackers coincidentally encountered the final form of Gromos..."
"You know Gromos's strength, almost no one can escape from Gromos alive, especially the final form of Gromos..."
Zuo Nan thought of Xiao Ruan and instinctively glanced at Zhang Chen's pocket.
His pocket twitched; Xiao Ruan seemed to be sleeping.
He swallowed and continued:
"However, the point of this story wasn't about the fate of the last two members anyway. In short, the once-famous Prophet Organization disappeared from the roster."
"This is human nature. When faced with resources and becoming stronger, so-called gratitude is just fleeting clouds... sigh..."
Zuo Nan sighed for a moment, then suddenly realized something and quickly added:
"But I'm not that kind of person. I'm still very grateful... Heh heh... heh..."
The last two laughs were particularly forced.
He knew Zhang Chen was very smart, and his strength was immeasurably great.
Even if he wasn't grateful, did he have the ability to kill Zhang Chen?
Everything he had said was completely superfluous.
"How did you link bats to the Prophet Organization?"
Zhang Chen, unfazed by Zuo Nan's embarrassment, continued to ask.
"Well... the Prophet Organization discovered a mutation inducer from an indigenous laboratory. This substance can attract mutated creatures to swarm."
"Not all types arriving together, but from weak to strong, with the same type of creature attacking like a tide."
"This way, survivors could prepare in advance and defend against enemies behind solid defenses, achieving the fastest improvement in strength at the cost of minimal casualties!"
"Mutated vampire bats usually live in caves or deep within forests. Their sudden appearance in this vast plain area can only be attributed to being attracted by some hormone!"
Zuo Nan replied.
"I see... but in this area, the military base should be the only survivor camp."
"Could it be... someone here has used the inducer?"
Zhang Chen narrowed his eyes and analyzed.
He always felt that attracting monsters to attack him in exchange for improving his strength was Zheng Hao's style, not something Zhao Longchuan would do.
Just then, Er Pang suddenly stopped and twitched his ears.
Immediately after, a series of wolf howls erupted.
"Awooo!~"
Zhang Chen turned his head to look.
He saw a mutated wolf standing on the roof of a half-collapsed building in the distance, howling at the sky.
It seemed to be transmitting information to its teammates.
"Wolf pack attack? Such high frequency? Just after dealing with bats, and now wolves?"
"I'm afraid the people at the military base won't be able to withstand such high-frequency attacks!"
"The Prophet Organization wouldn't do this. This isn't nurturing survivors, it's outright culling personnel."
Zuo Nan said with a frown.
"Mm, I think there's something wrong too. Let's hurry over and take a look!"
Zhang Chen reached out and patted Er Pang.
The latter immediately transformed into its larger form, its massive body towering above the tall grass.
The previously nearly man-high tall grass now barely reached Er Pang's knees.
"Grrr..."
Er Pang lowered his head, emitting soft growls from his throat.
Meanwhile, at the military base.
The mutated wolves were larger than SUVs and agile.
Their flexibility in running, jumping, and dodging was extremely high.
After the dense beam fire from the city walls, it had hardly posed any threat to the wolf pack.
Most attacks were dodged, and even if a mutated wolf was hit, its thick fur was merely scorched.
It didn't even affect its movement speed.
Faced with the massive size and agile posture of the mutated wolves, the military base's city walls were practically useless.
With a light leap, a mutated wolf could jump onto the battlements.
In close combat, humans were even more at a disadvantage.
As V-type mutated creatures, only mid-level metamorphosers could barely fight them.
Beginner metamorphosers were simply cannon fodder.
High-level metamorphosers could handle them with ease, but the number of strong individuals at this level in the entire camp was extremely few.
Within a short while, the outer city walls were breached by the mutated wolves.
Zhao Longchuan could only grit his teeth and personally enter the fray to hold the line.
It wasn't that he had no troops left to deploy, but rather that he had seen through the wolf king's scheme.
A direct frontal assault, but with ambushers placed in the rear.
Once Zhao Longchuan committed all his main forces to the city walls, the rear would inevitably fall.
At that point, not only would the survivors of the military base be slaughtered by the wolf pack, but the main forces would also be caught in a pincer attack.
Swish!
Colder casually swung his saber, decapitating a mutated giant wolf, then clenched his left fist and smashed the head of another mutated wolf downwards.
He wasn't in a hurry to collect the cores. Stepping directly on the corpses of the giant wolves, he arrived beside Zhao Longchuan and said leisurely:
"To eliminate the wolf pack, you need to eliminate the wolf king!"
"But the wolf king is usually a creature of mutated level VI or above, and it has powerful mutated wolf guards around it. It would be best if Xi Yue could go with me!"
"This..."
Zhao Longchuan hesitated.
Colder had indeed helped him a lot, but asking his sister to undertake such a dangerous mission with someone he had only known for two days still made Zhao Longchuan uneasy.
As he hesitated.
Suddenly, a wolf howl that echoed through the clouds sounded.
"Awooooo~!"
Then, the wolf pack let out a series of whimpers and retreated, tails tucked between their legs.
Immediately after, under the moonlight, a mutated wolf even larger than a heavy truck, with its eyes emitting a faint green glow, slowly emerged from the wolf pack.
With every step it took, it exuded an aura of death. A powerful bio-energy field caused green arcs of electricity to erupt intermittently between its fur.
The mutated wolves on both sides lowered their heads, flattening their ears against their heads, and respectfully cleared a path...
The Wolf King had arrived!
It was... Er Pang!