Inside the house.
Chen Hao suddenly opened the bedroom door and quickly retreated to the bed.
He pointed the gun at the door for a long time, but the mutant cat did not rush in.
With the door wide open, he could see almost the entire scene in the living room, but there was still no sign of the mutant cat.
Chen Hao walked out of the bedroom with a gun and carefully explored the house.
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found nothing.
The mutant cat seemed to have left and did not regard them as prey.
He looked in the corridor again, but there was no sign of the mutant cat.
Obviously.
The mutant cat had left the sixteenth floor.
Lin Yuerou followed Chen Hao out into the hallway and asked, "Has the mutant cat left?"
Chen Hao nodded, glancing at the closed door of Room 1603. "I'm going downstairs to check. Do you want to go home first or come to my place?"
Lin Yuerou stared at the closed door, remembering how Xu Zhiqiang had just locked her out after seeing the mutant cat.
Sadness welled up in her heart.
But remembering how kind Xu Zhiqiang had been to her in the past, she whispered, "I'll go home first. Be careful."
Chen Hao nodded, then disappeared around the corner with his gun in hand, leaving Lin Yuerou standing alone in the hallway.
The door opened.
Xu Zhiqiang looked at Lin Yuerou with concern, explaining, "I'm sorry, honey. I didn't mean to leave you. I just saw such a huge tiger and, in my panic, didn't think twice."
"I wanted to just rush out and fight that tiger.
But..."
"Stop it." Lin Yuerou watched Xu Zhiqiang's defense, feeling that her husband, whom she had known for so many years, had become so unfamiliar.
Obviously,
he wasn't like this before!
Seeing Lin Yuerou's disappointment, Xu Zhiqiang quickly slapped himself and apologized profusely,
begging for her forgiveness.
But no matter what Xu Zhiqiang did, it couldn't change the fact that he had locked Lin Yuerou out when he was in danger.
...
Elsewhere,
Chen Hao had already reached the fourteenth floor.
He listened to the roars, meows, and sounds of fierce fighting downstairs, and his eyes flashed with excitement.
Judging from the movement,
it seemed that the mutant cat and the mutant were fighting each other. As the
saying goes, when
the snipe and the clam quarrel, the fisherman benefits.
Maybe today he could be the fisherman again.
Once the result was known downstairs, he would go downstairs to empty the magazine.
Saving time and effort!
Chen Hao waited on the stairs for a while before he saw a tabby cat as big as an ox rush into the stairwell, sprinting down the stairs at an incredible speed, and disappeared in the blink of an eye.
He watched the mutant cat run downstairs, and when he looked up, he saw the King Kong mutant rushing into the stairwell.
Though covered in wounds, the King Kong mutant's
terrifying power remained.
Compared to a few days ago, the King Kong mutant had grown even larger.
His massive black scales didn't diminish his imposing frame, giving him an air of power.
However, many of the King Kong's scales were shattered, and several deep claw marks stained black blood.
One arm was missing, and black blood flowed all over the floor.
The two men locked eyes.
The King Kong mutant's hatred was instantly drawn to Chen Hao, and he charged at him.
"A mad dog, biting everyone he sees!" Chen Hao cursed inwardly, raising his gun without hesitation and firing, emptying the magazine.
Thirty rounds in three seconds.
The stairwell was cramped, and the King Kong's enormous size made
it impossible to dodge. He absorbed all thirty rounds with his body, and in an instant, he was reduced to a hornet's nest.
His basketball-sized head was completely shattered and mangled.
As his massive body collapsed to the ground,
the stairwell was completely blocked by the King Kong's massive body.
Seeing the mutant dead.
Chen Hao replaced his magazine with a spare, a thrill of revenge welling up in his heart.
He hadn't forgotten how he'd nearly died at the hands of the King Kong mutant a few days earlier.
Soon,
he found the King Kong mutant's energy crystal, a quail egg in size.
Chen Hao quickly wiped the crystal and put it in his pocket.
Then,
he recovered his steel balls and cut off some of the King Kong mutant's tough black scales.
He planned to use them to make a black-scale armor set sometime later.
He didn't have much room in his pockets anyway, so using some black scales wouldn't hurt.
After finishing his work, Chen Hao reloaded his magazine with steel balls and checked the thirteenth floor. He saw that all the residents there were dead, their bodies nearly devoured by the King Kong mutants.
After checking, he headed downstairs, gun in hand.
The mutant cat seemed injured, too; he saw a lot of its fresh blood on the stairs.
If it hadn't gotten far,
he might have been able to kill it and harvest an energy crystal.
However, the twelfth and eleventh floors had become a living hell, with both humans and mutants reduced to minced meat.
Barring any unforeseen circumstances,
it was most likely
the work of the King Kong mutant. Chen Hao reached the ninth floor before spotting the Clawed Mutant.
He was trapped in a room, unable to escape.
He easily killed this average-sized mutant with sharp claws and a tail stinger. He
harvested three peanut-sized, jelly-like energy crystals.
These energy crystals contain the least energy, incomparable to the harder ones, making them the most common.
If we categorize them,
these would be level zero, while the peanut-sized, hard crystals would be level one.
The quail-egg-sized crystals he'd obtained from the King Kong mutant would be at least level two or three.
After he finished consuming them, he could gauge the energy content based on the crystals.
The crystals indicated
rapid evolution of mutants during this period.
King Kong mutants and slightly less powerful, cow-sized mutant cats had appeared in their building.
Remember,
it was daytime outside when the blood mist descended.
Who knew how many mutants would be among those outside?
As they devour each other, many powerful mutants will surely emerge.
Not to mention the countless mutated insects and beasts, their numbers are truly uncountable. It would be a true hell on earth.
Those living downstairs are likely to be struggling between life and death every day.
Unfortunately, the bloody mist between heaven and earth shrouded the sky, obscuring the outside world. Only the occasional roar of beasts could be heard.
Chen Hao cleared out the mutants and beasts downstairs, primarily hoping to get to the first floor to see what lay beyond.
Relying on the powerful force of his pistol, he fought his way all the way to the sixth floor .
There,
he encountered an incredibly fast Claw mutant and narrowly avoided being attacked and ripped open by its ambush.
Fortunately, his coat provided ample protection, blocking the mutant's claw attack, allowing him to finish it off with a flurry of bullets.
On the sixth floor,
Chen Hao surveyed the mutant's corpse on the ground and found a solid, first-level energy crystal within its skull.
It was clear that
this faster mutant was an evolution of the Claw mutant.
Not only was he incredibly fast, but he also possessed a sneak attack, nearly thwarting his opponent's fate.
Thankfully, aside from this minor incident, he encountered no more powerful mutants or beasts on his way down.
Even the residents of the floors below weren't many still alive.
Most were dead.
On the first floor,
Chen Hao stared at the intact iron gate, curious about where the tabby cat had gone.
He'd fought his way down without seeing the cat, and since it hadn't escaped from the first floor, it most likely had gone downstairs.
Chen Hao glanced at the stairwell leading to the underground garage, but decided against giving chase.
He stared at the blood mist outside the iron gate, opened it, and walked out.
Outside the building,
Chen Hao stared at the thick blood mist, which reduced visibility to just six or seven meters.
He noticed the plants in the flower beds growing wildly, some even covering the ground. Many weeds sprouted from areas free of concrete.
Some blades were bright red, covered in blood-red thorns.
Other weeds had turned black, their leaves sharp as knives, seemingly poisonous, a truly eerie sight.
Fortunately, the concrete floor hadn't yet been covered by the mutated plants,
leaving him with no escape route.
However, before he could enter the blood mist to investigate, he heard movement from the mist ahead. It
was approaching from afar.
Hearing the movement and seeing the blood mist swirling ahead, Chen Hao felt as if a monster was approaching. He quickly fired several shots into the mist.
A roar echoed.
A centipede-like monster burst out of the blood mist and scurried towards him.
The monster's body, revealed through the blood mist, resembled a gigantic black centipede, covered in a black exoskeleton.
But the monster's head resembled a human, with a meter-long bone spur on its head and several shorter ones on its back. Beneath its body were two rows of human-like hands covered in bone armor.
It crawled at an extremely fast speed.
At first glance, Chen Hao mistook it for a giant black centipede and, without hesitation, opened fire.
The gunshots resonated like thunder.
A continuous barrage of bullets rained down upon the centipede, instantly cracking its carapace and leaving bloody holes throughout its body.
However, the centipede's body twisted and thrashed as it crawled, so he missed its head.
Instead, most of his bullets struck its torso, breaking many of its legs, which resembled human hands.
Injured,
the centipede roared in anger, its dense mass of human hands slithering rapidly, covering several meters in a flash.
It slammed headfirst into Chen Hao's stomach as he retreated rapidly toward the iron gate.
Instantly,
Chen Hao felt a sharp pain in his stomach, and the onrushing centipede sent him careening toward the elevator on the first floor.
Fortunately, his coat protected
him from the monster's meter-long bone spur, preventing him from piercing his stomach. The impact was merely painful.
Seeing the centipede monster already slithering through the doorway, Chen Hao, ignoring the pain, gritted his teeth and scrambled to his feet.
He quickly ran to the stairwell, pulling a spare magazine from his pocket and replacing the empty one in his pistol.
He had barely finished replacing the magazine before reaching the stairwell when
the centipede monster caught up and rammed him into the buttocks.
Fortunately, the blow wasn't fatal, thanks to his sturdy pants. The force wasn't great, merely knocking him against the wall.
Steadying himself with his hands on the wall, Chen Hao quickly dodged to the adjacent stairwell.
A split second later,
the centipede monster slammed headfirst into the wall where he had been, its bone spur penetrating over a foot.
Without hesitation, Chen Hao fired at the monster's head repeatedly, emptying his magazine in a flash and blasting its skull apart.
As the saying goes:
Even a centipede dies, its limbs remain stiff.
But the centipede monster wasn't like a real centipede, which could survive for a while after being shot in the head.
In a flash,
the headshot centipede monster fell silent.
Chen Hao felt the pain in his body, looked at the purple bruises on his stomach, and took out a kitchen knife to chop off the monster's head.
A moment later,
he harvested an energy crystal, about the size of a quail egg.
As he removed the energy crystal, he saw the monster's body moving out of the building.
Chen Hao thought the monster wasn't dead yet and was about to shoot it twice more when he saw its limbs limp and motionless.
Clearly,
something outside the building was dragging the centipede monster out.
Chen Hao, wounded, saw this and couldn't help but retreat. He turned and ran upstairs.
Once he recovered and
digested the energy crystal, he could explore the outside world.
After this battle, Chen Hao felt that the power of his pistol needed to be improved and planned to upgrade it a few levels.
The most important thing was that
the steel balls used in his pistol were too small to be fatal against the huge monster.
Only by increasing the power of the pistol can we cause greater damage to the monster and blow it up with a powerful attack force.
After all, as long as the power is strong enough, a six-millimeter steel ball can instantly shoot a basketball-sized hole in the monster.
And the bullets can also be strengthened to increase the power of the bullets.
Not long after.
Chen Hao returned to the sixteenth floor and sprayed some Yunnan Baiyao on the injured area.
Then he took out the energy crystals and washed them with clean water.
He cleaned half a floor.
He harvested a lot of energy crystals.
Two quail egg-sized hard crystals, two peanut-sized hard crystals, and sixteen peanut-sized soft crystals.
Chen Hao knew that the effect of the crystals would weaken as his physique became stronger.
In order to maximize the effect,
he ate the soft crystals first.
As he ate the crystals one by one, his physical strength also increased rapidly.
It didn't take long.
After consuming the twenty crystals in his hand, his physical strength increased dramatically.
His muscles tightened, and he felt a surge of power.
His body became stronger and more powerful, and his height increased slightly, reaching about 1.9 meters.
Whether it was due to his improved physique or the effective effects of the Yunnan Baiyao, his injuries had healed considerably.
The pain had greatly decreased.
Soon,
Chen Hao experimented and found that he could easily lift his family's double-door refrigerator, which weighed 200 to 300 kilograms.
He estimated that his strength now reached at least 500 to 600 kilograms,
about three times what it had been two weeks ago.
After adjusting to his current strength, Chen Hao began to strengthen his Red Dot Pistol.
While he could still engage monsters in close combat with a sharp kitchen knife at his current strength
, he naturally wouldn't risk his life in close combat with a pistol with ranged attacks.
If his guess was correct, the Red Dot Pistol would likely gain a special ability when it reached level 7.
If this powerful ability emerged, the pistol's power would undoubtedly increase significantly.
However, despite his greatly increased physical strength,
strengthening the Red Dot Pistol, which had already reached level 6, was more difficult.
After strengthening his pistol for a while, Chen Hao took out a steel ball and began strengthening it.
He wanted to see what properties would appear after strengthening the steel ball to level one .
A few seconds later,
the steel ball in his hand reached level one.
[Hardness Ball LV1: 0% (6mm steel ball cast from steel, high hardness)]
[Feature 1: Hardness (This steel ball's hardness increases slightly)]
The properties were average.
Chen Hao examined the steel ball's properties and took out another one to strengthen.
The steel balls were relatively small, making them easier to strengthen.
He quickly strengthened over twenty steel balls to level one.
While most of them had the Hardness property, a few were quite powerful.
[Explosive Ball LV1: 0% (6mm steel ball capable of explosion)]
[Feature 1: Explosion (This steel ball explodes after a violent impact, one second later)]
The one-second delay
meant that he could fire it from his pistol, and it would only explode inside the target after hitting it a hundred meters away.
He
also strengthened steel balls with armor-piercing and highly toxic properties.
But the most peculiar thing was a steel ball with a transforming property.
[Transformation Ball LV1: 0% (Transformable Steel Ball)]
[Feature 1: Transformation (This steel ball can change shape at will)]
Chen Hao experimented and discovered that simply by inputting his supernatural power, he could alter the shape of the steel ball at will, even transforming it into a strand of steel the size of a hair.
However, the transforming ball was too small, making its transformation useless.
Chen Hao was most satisfied with the three types of steel balls that increased their power: the explosive, armor-piercing, and toxic balls.
Before long,
he had upgraded all of the hundreds of steel balls he had to level one. He
obtained eighty hardness balls, twenty armor-piercing balls, ten explosive balls, and six toxic balls.
In addition,
there were several steel balls with ordinary properties, such as a magnet-like magnetic steel ball.
Not long after, while
Chen Hao was strengthening his pistol, Lin Yuerou arrived.
Although she claimed to be there to cook for him, her eyes were filled with worry, a weight on her shoulders.
However, she immediately went to the kitchen to cook, and he didn't ask.
It wasn't until they were eating that
Lin Yuerou hesitated for a moment before looking at Chen Hao and saying, "Can I live with you from now on? I'll cook for you, and you just need to take care of my food."
Chen Hao looked at her seriously, but without further questioning, he simply smiled and said,
"Sure."
Seeing Chen Hao's straightforward agreement, Lin Yuerou bit her lip and said,
"Thank you!"
She didn't explain why, and Chen Hao didn't ask further.
However, based on what he had learned over the past few days, it seemed she hadn't left Xu Zhiqiang to cling to him.
If that were the case,
she would have left him long ago, not waited until now.
Chen Hao suspected Xu Zhiqiang had done something to completely disillusion Lin Yuerou and cause her to leave him.
Chen Hao looked at Lin Yuerou, who was stunningly beautiful and had a stunning figure.
He was looking forward to their future life together. With
such a stunning beauty,
since they were already living in the same house, it was only a matter of time before they shared the same bed.
However, he was also very curious. Given Lin Yuerou's personality, what had Xu Zhiqiang done to cause her to act this way?
However, since Lin Yuerou clearly didn't want to talk, he didn't force her.
Not long after,
Chen Hao accompanied Lin Yuerou out, preparing to bring back her clothes and belongings.
As soon as Xu Zhiqiang opened the door, he saw Chen Hao standing there. Fear flashed in his eyes, and he immediately tried to close it.
Chen Hao narrowed his eyes, stepped forward, and pressed his foot against the door. Just as Xu Zhiqiang was about to desperately close the door, Chen Hao pushed it open, nearly knocking him to the ground. "You seem afraid of me?" Chen Hao looked at the retreating Xu Zhiqiang, his eyes filled with suspicion. He had assumed that his previous act of murder had made Xu Zhiqiang somewhat afraid of him. But now it seemed... Xu Zhiqiang seemed a little too afraid of him. It was as if she had done something wrong and was afraid of his revenge. "No, no." Xu Zhiqiang glanced at Lin Yuerou, who stood expressionless at the doorway, and feigned composure. "You just scared me by coming out so suddenly. What are you doing?" "She came back to get something," Chen Hao said with a half-smile. He naturally hadn't let go of his suspicions, but considering Lin Yuerou, he decided to give up the idea of pressing her. After all, her wife was about to move in with him, and he couldn't just resort to violence over a little suspicion. It was too overbearing. After all, she was just an ordinary person, not going to cause any trouble. Lin Yuerou walked into the house and began to pack her things without a word. Seeing this, Xu Zhiqiang panicked. "What are you doing?" He stepped forward, grabbed Lin Yuerou's hand, and demanded angrily, "You want to leave me? Have you been together for a long time?" Filled with rage, he didn't care about offending Chen Hao at this moment. He thought of Lin Yuerou's frequent visits to Chen Hao's house. He probably thought they had been together for a long time. The thought of being cuckolded filled him with even more rage. Snap! Lin Yuerou broke free from his grip, raised her hand, and slapped him, saying coldly, "I didn't have much to do with him before, but I may not be in the future." Xu Zhiqiang angrily raised his hand to teach Lin Yuerou a lesson, but was grabbed by Chen Hao, who had walked into the house. Xu Zhiqiang struggled to break free, but was unable to move at all. Chen Hao raised his hand and pushed Xu Zhiqiang to the ground, throwing down a bag of mutant cat meat. He said in a flat tone, "This is what Lin Yuerou asked me to give you. It should be enough for you to eat for a few days." " I hope you won't bother her in the future , or you won't be polite." "Adulterer!" Xu Zhiqiang gritted his teeth and roared angrily, "You will both die miserably." A cold look flashed in Chen Hao's eyes, and he was about to pull out his gun to deal with this trouble. Lin Yuerou quickly grabbed him, eyes full of pleading, "Please let him go, please. I've already let him down." Chen Hao suppressed the murderous intent in his heart, nodded speechlessly, feeling like a villain. Those who didn't know would think that he had cheated on Xu Zhiqiang and came to humiliate him. "I don't want to say much, let's part ways amicably." Lin Yuerou looked at Xu Zhiqiang lying on the ground, and sighed slightly in her heart. If she hadn't been completely heartbroken, how could she leave him. But now it seems that Xu Zhiqiang hasn't realized his mistake yet. Lin Yuerou didn't want to say much, quickly packed up her clothes and belongings, and followed Chen Hao out of 1602. Xu Zhiqiang looked at the two people leaving, his eyes full of anger and a hint of fear.
What if...
on the other side.
After Chen Hao brought Lin Yuerou back home, he noticed she was feeling down, so he took the initiative to put her clothes in the second bedroom.
"This room belongs to my sister. You can stay here first."
Lin Yuerou glanced at the pink room and asked curiously,
"You have a sister?"
"Yes,"
Chen Hao nodded. "She's studying at a university in another province, and she probably won't be back for the time being."
Although he appeared calm, he was deeply concerned about his sister's situation.
However, in today's world, traveling to another province was no easy task.
He could only suppress his worries and work hard to strengthen himself, so that he would have enough strength to fight his way to another province.
Whether they were dead or alive,
he had to go and see them.
Lin Yuerou wanted to comfort him, but when she thought about her family, who were probably in danger, worry crossed her eyes.
Seeing this, Chen Hao smiled and changed the subject, saying, "I have a lot of toy guns here. You can practice your shooting skills. Later, I'll get you a real gun so you can kill monsters with it."
"Really?"
Lin Yuerou looked at him happily, her attention drawn to his words.
If she had a gun, she wouldn't be just a useless vase.
She wanted to ask Chen Hao where he got the gun, but hesitated before asking.
Their relationship wasn't close enough to a level of intimate knowledge.
She didn't want to upset Chen Hao.
After a while,
Lin Yuerou packed her things and asked Chen Hao, "I see there's still plenty of water at home. Can I take a shower?"
"Anything," Chen Hao nodded, agreeing immediately.
Although Lin Yuerou was beautiful, she had started to smell after being here for so long.
He wanted a beautiful woman with a fragrant and soft body, not someone who could inhale Lin Yuerou's stench just by being near her.
It was too much of a turn-off!
Chen Hao watched Lin Yuerou walk into the bathroom, carrying a set of clothes.
His mind raced, and the scene in the bathroom flashed through his mind.
He shook his head,
dispelling the evil thoughts.
He pulled out his pistol and continued to upgrade it, hoping to get it to level seven as soon as possible.
As he upgraded, Chen Hao thought about his few steel balls and where he could get some.
Compared to using a large amount of reinforced BB bullets, it was more cost-effective to just buy steel balls.
He remembered that there was a hardware store not far from Longteng Community, which should have 6mm steel balls.
But how to get there was also a problem.
Outside.
It was much more dangerous than inside the building!
A day later,
Chen Hao upgraded his Red Dot Pistol to level seven, unlocking its third trait.
[Red Dot Pistol LV.7: 0% (Fully automatic pistol with red dot aiming, fires ten rounds per second, effective range 640 meters, maximum range 1,920 meters.)]
[Trait 1: Red Dot (A red dot appears where the muzzle is pointing within the effective range, and a white dot appears outside the effective range, with the color fading with distance.)]
[Trait 2: Burst (This pistol can automatically reload pellets. Continuously pulling the trigger fires a single round, while holding the trigger fires ten rounds per second.)]
[Trait 3: Silent (This pistol's recoil and gunshot noise are slightly reduced.)]
Chen Hao fired a shot at the wall, and sure enough, the power doubled, but the recoil and noise were actually reduced.
He had been worried about the pistol's excessive recoil, making it difficult to control,
and the loud noise attracting monsters.
But now, with the newly revealed Silent trait.
He could upgrade his pistol without worrying about recoil or loud gunshots.
Then,
Chen Hao upgraded an extended magazine to level three, bringing its capacity to 120 rounds.
He loaded eighty hardness beads and ten armor-piercing beads into the level three extended magazine.
The remaining ten armor-piercing beads, ten explosive beads, and six poison beads were also included.
He planned to further enhance them and use them as a trump card against stronger mutants.
After all, he had tested them and found that the level one explosive beads were not as powerful as grenades, requiring further upgrading to increase their power.
The same was true for the armor-piercing and poison beads; upgrading would undoubtedly increase their power significantly.
Shortly after,
Chen Hao had just upgraded the explosive beads to level three and hadn't had time to test their power when a commotion outside caught his attention.
He opened the door and walked to the stairwell to see several people running down from the upper floors.
"Brother, what happened up there? Why are you running?" Chen Hao stopped the last young man and asked.
The young man wanted to curse Chen Hao for stopping him, but seeing the pistol in his hand, he replied from the heart,
"A swarm of giant spiders ran down from upstairs. Didn't you hear the screams?"
Chen Hao, remembering the faint screams he had heard earlier, asked again, "A swarm of giant spiders? Tell me what's going on."
Although the young man's face was filled with anxiety and he wanted to run away, seeing that the pistol in his hand didn't look fake, he quickly told him what he knew.
According to him,
the entire floor above the 25th floor has been overrun by mutant spiders as big as washbasins.
There used to be a mutant cat that regularly hunted mutant spiders, and it didn't hurt anyone, so they lived a comfortable life.
Occasionally,
they would catch a couple of fist-sized mutant spiders to eat.
But for some reason, the mutant cat ran away a day ago.
Then, the mutant spiders from upstairs began to run downstairs. There were so many of them, many people were killed.
There was no choice.
The survivors upstairs had to leave their homes and start fleeing downstairs.
It wasn't long before the giant spiders would reach the 16th floor.
The young man then urged Chen Hao to go downstairs with them, lest he be blocked by the giant spiders, unable to escape.
Chen Hao waved him off, then thought for a moment before heading back upstairs.
Meanwhile, someone carrying large and small bags was running downstairs, likely having received the message.
Soon,
he reached the 23rd floor and spotted a number of black spiders of varying sizes.
The smallest was no bigger than a coin, the largest barely the size of a fist.
They roamed the corridor and, upon noticing him, crawled over.
Chen Hao had heard from the young man that these spiders were venomous, the larger the size, the more potent the venom.
He didn't dare let the spiders get close, so he raised his hand and fired.
A steel ball instantly blasted a fist-sized black spider to pieces, leaving a hole in the corridor.
Boom!
A loud explosion echoed.
The explosive ball Chen Hao had fired instantly exploded, creating a large crater in the corridor.
The smaller spiders nearby were not spared, killed by the flying debris.
A single level 3 explosive ball
had blasted a crater about a meter and a half in the corridor.
In terms of power...
It's much more powerful than an ordinary grenade.
Chen Hao adjusted to the power of the third-level explosive bead and was very satisfied.
However, his explosion was like disturbing a hornet's nest. Many mutant spiders crawled out from the rooms on the 23rd floor and quickly crawled towards him.
Upstairs, a dense swarm of mutant spiders also crawled down the stairwell.
Most of them were small spiders the size of coins, but there were also many large spiders as big as washbasins.
Chen Hao's scalp tingled at the sight of so many mutant spiders.
He turned around and ran downstairs without hesitation. He didn't stop chasing him until he reached the 20th floor.
But the mutant spiders stopped chasing him, and he was braver again.
Chen Hao chased after them and killed several large mutant spiders. Before the spider army turned back, he grabbed a corpse and ran away.
The mutant spiders he killed were because they ran fast.
They were chasing him the most.
Now that they had returned to base camp, they had separated from the main group.
Therefore, Chen Hao quickly escaped with his loot. The mutant spiders stopped chasing him, only dragging the bodies of several other large spiders back.
Soon,
Chen Hao dissected the large spiders but found no energy crystals within them.
This made him frown, a hint of disappointment in his eyes.
He had originally thought that with so many mutant spiders, he could harvest a large number of energy crystals to increase his strength.
Unexpectedly,
these mutant spiders had no energy crystals.
He guessed it was because the mutant spiders were too small to condense energy crystals.
After all,
those mutant spiders weren't really that strong; ordinary people could kill them.
It was mainly because there were too many of them, and they had a deadly venom.
However, in this case, the mutant spiders were of little value.
Without energy crystals,
he didn't like eating spider meat.
While the number of mutant spiders in the building was a threat to him,
trying to eliminate them was impractical.
After all, while his pistol was powerful, he had limited ammunition and couldn't kill all the mutant spiders.
Chen Hao thought for a moment, then replaced his pistol with BBs and fired a single shot.
He wanted to see if he could use the BBs as bullets, so he'd have enough ammunition to kill the mutant spiders.
Unfortunately, the BBs weren't strong enough to withstand the pistol's force.
The shot left
only fragments of debris.
Chen Hao reached the 20th floor, surveyed the empty floors, and began moving items from several homes to block the staircase.
He planned to seal the staircase shut, preventing the mutant spiders from descending. He
blocked two floors in a row.
He stopped only when he realized someone on the 18th floor hadn't fled.
The couple, with their adorable five- or six-year-old daughter,
hadn't joined the others in their flight downstairs. It wasn't because they weren't afraid of death, but because they felt confident.
In the hallway,
Chen Hao glanced at the calf-sized mutant dog behind the three men.
It looked like
a local dog, Da Huang.
The mutant dog was docile, allowing its young owner to hold its legs.
However, its eyes were fixed on Chen Hao, as if it would pounce if he threatened its master.
Chen Hao hadn't expected a mutated dog to obey its master's orders.
No wonder the mutant cat hadn't hurt anyone, only catching some mutant spiders to eat.
Seeing that the three weren't planning to leave the eighteenth floor just yet, Chen Hao didn't say anything and simply headed downstairs.
After all, the mutant spiders hadn't made it down yet, and he had blocked the stairwell. They probably wouldn't be able to make it down
anytime soon . However, according to his current information, there weren't that many mutant spiders before. But the dense swarms of tiny spiders now were probably newly hatched and would soon be full-grown. By then, the entire building would likely become a nest of mutant spiders. Chen Hao wanted to kill all the mutant spiders before they could fully develop, eliminating the threat from the building. But considering the number of mutant spiders and his limited ammunition, he decided against it. He decided to abandon Building One and head to the hardware store for steel balls.
A few days later,
Chen Hao upgraded his red dot pistol to level eight, doubling its power again. Its effective range reached 1,200 meters, with a maximum range of 3,800 meters.
However, the recoil and noise were significantly reduced, making it
comparable to an ordinary toy gun.
Furthermore, he upgraded his Yunnan Baiyao to level three, allowing for rapid wound healing.
His anti-damage jacket was upgraded to level five, reducing physical damage by 40% and reflecting it back at the enemy. However, after a few days, the mutant spiders upstairs quickly overran the floors, reaching the eighteenth floor. He had to prepare to leave. Obtaining steel balls was his most urgent task. Without sufficient ammunition, he felt a sense of inadequacy. With enough steel balls as ammunition, his pistol could become a machine gun with the power of a sniper. Not long after, Chen Hao told Lin Yuerou about his intention to leave Building One, letting her decide whether to leave with him. Lin Yuerou didn't hesitate, immediately agreeing to go with him. After all, there were mutant spiders in the building, and resources were scarce. Staying here would be a death sentence. After the two decided to leave, they began packing their belongings, placing various items into the space in his trouser pockets. After living together for a few days, Chen Hao had already told Lin Yuerou about his supernatural powers. After all, even if he didn't say it, Lin Yuerou would have discovered it, unless he didn't use the items he had enhanced. It would be better to speak up, to demonstrate his trust in Lin Yuerou and win her heart. He wanted not only Lin Yuerou's body, but her heart. This was why he hadn't forced himself on her for the past few days. However, after a few days of spending time together, their relationship had clearly improved, their feelings rapidly warming, and sharing a bed was just around the corner. However, before he could leave the building, screams rang out from downstairs. The screams came closer and closer, as if those who had run downstairs had encountered some danger and were running back up. Chen Hao, his face solemn, left the room and looked into the stairwell. A moment later. A group of people ran up from downstairs in terror. The three people in front were covered in blood, and it was obvious that they had experienced a fierce battle. However, what caught his attention the most was that the three people seemed to be evolvers. The one in the front had bronze skin all over his body, like a metal bronze man. The two people behind him were covered in black hair, like an orangutan. One was wearing green vine armor, with several vines wrapped around it like snakes. The three glanced at Chen Hao who was standing at the stairs, and continued to run upstairs without hesitation. Chen Hao ignored the three people and focused his attention on the downstairs. He wanted to see what could have allowed the three evolvers to escape. He grabbed an ordinary person who was following the three people. Pointing a pistol. "What happened downstairs, why did you run away?" he asked. The person he captured couldn't break free and quickly and anxiously said, "A pack of dogs has massacred Building 2, killing many people and they're still chasing us." "Brother Tiger and the others can't defeat that pack of dogs. You'd better run upstairs." Chen Hao wanted to ask more, but the incessant screams were already approaching, and the fleeing people swept past him. He quickly looked downstairs. He saw a mutant dog as big as an ox bite off the head of an old woman running behind him, crushing it in a few bites and swallowing it. Then a group of mutant dogs rushed up from downstairs, mauling the slower runners one by one. With one bite, the mutant dogs' bloody mouths could tear people in half. Chen Hao waited for the mutant dogs to run up the stairs to the fifteenth floor and, without hesitation, shot the mutant dog in the front. A single shot to the head, instantly killing the leading mutant dog. But the mutant dogs behind him kept charging up, stepping on the bodies of the dead dogs as they continued their ascent. One mutant dog dragged its companion's body to the fifteenth-floor corridor. Unencumbered, the mutant dogs were faster. But Chen Hao, guarding the stairwell, kept firing at the dogs, quickly dispatching each one. In a flash, several were dead, their bodies blocking the stairwell. Chen Hao took a few steps down, continuing to fire at the dogs below, forcing them to retreat and expose themselves to his gunfire. He thought victory was assured, that the mutant dogs would not be able to cause any trouble. But then a tongue suddenly shot out from below, its jaws clamping down on his calf, attempting to drag him down. Fortunately, there was a handrail in the stairwell, and Chen Hao, with his immense strength, managed to steady himself by grasping the railing. He quickly fired several rounds at the tongue, severing it. Several mutant dogs took advantage of the time when he was bitten by the tongue and quickly dragged away the bodies of their companions who were blocking the stairwell.
Chen Hao had barely broken his tongue when the mutant dogs charged again.
One of the white mutants opened its maw and spit an ice spike at him, instantly piercing his chest.
Instantly,
Chen Hao was sent flying by the ice spike, slamming into the wall. A charging mutant dog lunged at him, its maw gaping as it bit his head.
Bang!
He shot the mutant dog in the mouth, the bullet piercing its skull.
Killing it instantly.
Chen Hao quickly dodged, the mutant dog's body slamming against the wall.
He retreated to the hallway and shot another mutant dog that had rushed to the stairwell.
The massive corpses blocked the entrance, preventing the others behind from getting through.
Using the corpses as a barrier, Chen Hao stood at the stairwell, firing at the mutant dogs.
Any mutant dog that came within his reach was either killed or crippled.
At close range,
a single shot from his rifle could leave a bloody hole the size of an egg in a mutant dog's body, and the bullet's exit was even larger than a bowl.
Even if a mutant dog survived a single bullet, it would be incapacitated and
severely injured .
In a blink of an eye,
the stairwell was filled with the corpses of mutant dogs, blocking it completely.
Chen Hao seized the opportunity and used a kitchen knife to crack open the skulls of the mutant dogs at the entrance, revealing the energy crystals within.
He waited for a long time, but saw no sign of the dogs clearing the corpses.
He pried open a gap and found that the mutant dogs had retreated, dragging away only the corpses of the few he had killed.
Chen Hao spent some time clearing the stairwell.
He looked downstairs, but saw no signs of any mutant dogs.
However, he didn't dare go down directly, fearing an ambush.
After all, if he were ambushed, he wasn't sure he could handle a pack of them.
Using the terrain,
he could dispatch a group of mutant dogs in the stairwell, forcing them to flee.
But in open space, even with his powerful pistol, he would be no match for the dogs.
He didn't want to bet on whether there were any ambushing dogs on the fifteenth floor. He
could only crack open the skulls of the few mutant dog corpses left in the stairwell and take out the energy crystals inside.
In total, he obtained a second-order crystal the size of a quail egg and three first-order crystals the size of peanuts.
By the way,
he also dragged the corpse of the second-order mutant dog back home.
This kind of high-level mutant meat contains higher energy and has a better effect in restoring physical strength, so he naturally would not let it go.
Seeing him dragging a mutant dog back, Lin Yuerou hurriedly asked with concern: "What happened outside? Are you hurt?"
"Nothing."
Chen Hao shook his head and said, "Some people from Building 2 ran into the building and brought a group of mutant dogs with them."
"Plans cannot keep up with changes. We probably won't be able to leave tomorrow!"