“You killed Xiao Ruan?”
Zhang Chen uttered this question with complex emotions.
The first half was laced with anger, while the latter half held a hint of excitement.
He suddenly remembered that Xiao Ruan’s passive ability was to resurrect upon death, and its level would increase by one!
When Zhang Chen fought Xiao Ruan before, he did so with a profoundly conflicted mindset.
Hitting it too hard was not an option, but neither was holding back too much…
Now, it was the Singer’s turn to experience Zhang Chen’s past emotional turmoil!
“You killed Xiao Ruan?”
The Singer, not yet grasping the severity of the situation, shamelessly repeated Zhang Chen’s words.
“Heh, you’re dead!”
Zhang Chen said with a smile.
“Heh, you’re dead!”
After speaking, the Singer was once again engulfed by a mass of pale yellow flames.
The very instant the Singer prepared to launch an attack.
Whoosh!
The flames on its body were instantly extinguished, like a candle blown out by the wind.
This happened almost instantaneously.
As the Singer’s feet lifted off the ground, its entire body was frozen in mid-air.
Around its waist, ankles, wrists, and neck, each area was bound by a thick tentacle, as thick as a bowl.
Countless suction cups clung tightly to the Singer’s skin.
Anytime the Singer attempted to unleash any skill.
Its energy would be instantly absorbed.
This powerful energy-absorbing ability, coupled with its formidable constricting force, rendered the Singer unable to move even an inch in the air.
It was Xiao Ruan!
It had revived!
The new Xiao Ruan was slightly larger in size, but its skin displayed faint blue纹理.
At this moment, a line of prompts appeared beside Xiao Ruan:
[Demigod·Mutant VI Type Mutant Creature, its skin can absorb energy strikes from any angle! Loyalty: 100%!]
Despite being of the same Mutant VI Type, Xiao Ruan held the advantage of being a Demigod. Furthermore, its skills inherently countered the Singer.
Zhang Chen’s victory probability, which was originally only 60%,
had now directly become 100%, making it a challenge-free battle!
Self-inflicted harm leads to one's own destruction!
Zhang Chen sighed inwardly.
After a series of impressive maneuvers, the Singer had ultimately sealed its own doom!
Now trapped by Xiao Ruan, the Singer was unable to unleash clones, nor could it defend itself, rendering it a sitting duck.
“Here it comes, let’s see how you revive this time!”
Zhang Chen unleashed his full strength in a powerful strike, this time cleaving directly through the Singer’s head.
Plop!
A messy spray of red and white liquid splattered everywhere.
As its skull flew off, the Singer’s entire body dissolved into a cloud of white mist and vanished…
Dead?
This time, it should be truly dead.
As the white mist slowly dissipated into the air, Zhang Chen also received a system notification:
Ding! Auto-collection successful! Congratulations on obtaining [Super Condensed Crystal Core] *280 + 280 (30% trigger of Light Blessing), [Energized Crystal Core] *2135, [Energy Crystal Core] *1322, [Faded Nameplate] *1, [Unprocessed Energy Core]
*1.
280 [Super Condensed Crystal Cores]? And a double critical strike trigger?
He was rich now!
One monster directly led to an upgrade!
Ding! Current level Divine Tier 2·Advanced Metamorph Grade 1, upgrade conditions met, 615/100*4.
Do you wish to upgrade immediately?
Yes!
Ding! Upgrade successful! Current level Divine Tier 2·Advanced Metamorph Grade 2. To upgrade to the next grade, 215/300*4 [Super Condensed Crystal Cores] are required!
The Dark and Holy talent trees each gained 4 talent points, for a total of 8 free talent points.
Now, Zhang Chen’s talent points were falling far behind the requirements for leveling up.
He was already at Advanced Metamorph Grade 2, but the Advanced Metamorph talent tree had not yet been displayed.
This was because the Intermediate talent tree had not been fully unlocked!
Zhang Chen checked, and [Bloodthirsty Slaughter] still had 0/3 points remaining.
Only after maxing out this skill would the Holy and Dark talent trees be able to interweave and fuse to produce derivative talents.
Following that, the Advanced Metamorph skill tree would be unlocked.
Previously, in the first stage of the apocalypse, treasure chest resources were abundant, and talent crystals were plentiful.
Now, treasure chests had become scarce resources. To date, Zhang Chen had only opened one level 4 chest.
He speculated that there should be level five or even level six treasure chests in this world!
Zhang Chen guessed randomly.
Upgrade [Bloodthirsty Slaughter]!
Ding! Upgrade successful!
[Bloodthirsty Slaughter]: 2/3, for every 2 high-level infected/high-level mutated creatures of the current tier killed, all attributes are permanently increased by 0.1%, with no upper limit.
Note: High-level infected/mutated creatures of the current tier require Grade V or above.
“Sigh, I need talent crystals…”
Zhang Chen sighed silently, then opened the talent crystal detector and scanned the city.
Still no gains.
Where did all these talent crystals go?! Did they vanish into thin air!
Zhang Chen then shifted his attention back to the items dropped by the Singer.
[Faded Nameplate]: A nameplate worn on clothing, seemingly carried by the Singer from the beginning. Due to the passage of time, the writing on it had become blurred and illegible.
Zhang Chen focused on the [Faded Nameplate], and soon, a line of prompts slowly appeared:
[Raven 003 Laboratory, Specimen 0835!]
Raven Laboratory?
This infected creature was related to Raven Laboratory?
Did Raven Laboratory discover this special infected creature, capture it for research, and it eventually escaped…
Or was this infected creature itself created by Raven Laboratory?
Native inhabitants producing zombies?
If it were in the past, Zhang Chen would certainly not have believed this deduction.
However, ever since witnessing the technology used by the interface city to clone humans and turn them into infected creatures for defense, the moral bottom line of the progress faction in their struggle for survival had been greatly broadened.
Therefore, it was not impossible that it was artificially generated.
But what was the purpose of the native inhabitants in creating such a monster?
Zhang Chen drew a large question mark in his mind.
Finally, he focused on the last item.
[Unprocessed Energy Core]: Upon using the Disassembly skill, it is guaranteed to yield modification points, and randomly obtain skills possessed by the mutant. Unwanted skills can also be transformed into modification points through secondary disassembly.
Current remaining modification points: 150 points!
Disassemble skills?
This felt like a blind box lottery!
Moreover, the Singer’s skills were exceptional; any of them would be incredibly powerful.
Disassemble!
Ding! Disassembly successful!
Congratulations on obtaining 80 modification points, and simultaneously acquiring the skill [Intermediate Aggregation]!
[Intermediate Aggregation]: Allows the aggregation of crystal cores. 3000 [Energy Crystal Cores] can be condensed into one [Energized Crystal Core], and 3000 [Energized Crystal Cores] can be condensed into one [Super Condensed Crystal Core], and so on.
Note: This skill can only be assigned to absolutely loyal humanoid targets. After assignment, it can be removed and changed at any time by spending modification points. When the target’s loyalty drops below absolute loyalty, the skill is automatically recalled.