While the cleared area is safer, it doesn't mean they can move freely. This is especially true for newcomers like Wei Chengxue, who have little experience killing zombies. Therefore, they are cautious. After all, the female warriors following them aren't there to babysit them.
While the female warriors were diligently expanding the base and clearing the zombies, Su Ming, using his lightning power, had already reached the city center. Having thoroughly enjoyed a meal with his mother and daughter yesterday, he didn't fully enjoy Wenrou Township. Instead, he planned to upgrade his own power level.
Downtown Jiangcheng...
Su Ming walked along a street. Before the apocalypse, this place had been one of the most luxurious in the entire city, bustling with people. Luxury goods and shopping malls lined the streets. But now, all that remained were swarms of howling zombies and shattered buildings. Burnt cars and bloodstains littered the ground. The world seemed quieter, its former prosperity reduced to ruins.
"Found it! It's right here..." Su Ming smiled slightly, gazing at the words "Zhonghai Building" overhead, and strode inside.
Arriving at the top of the tallest building in Jiangcheng, Su Ming slowly closed his eyes as he watched the city fall into silence. He mobilized his supernatural powers, and his entire body began to blaze with lightning. A vast amount of lightning flashed across the rooftop, making Su Ming look like a raging ball of lightning.
He pushed with all his might, and a dull rumble of thunder echoed. He leaped down from the air and then split apart, like a thunderstorm. The dense bolts of lightning roared, spreading further out before falling.
Boom!
Crackle~Sizzle~Sizzle!!!
With Su Ming's Zhonghai Building as the center, a thunderstorm erupted within a ten-kilometer radius. Violent lightning, like a celestial force or a scattering of flowers, shot out in all directions.
Myriad bolts of lightning struck each zombie's head with pinpoint accuracy, piercing through their skulls and directly destroying the life force within them, shattering their skulls. The headless corpses collapsed to the ground, unaware of what had happened.
At this moment, a fierce sonic boom erupted, rapidly spreading outward.
Such a massive commotion, like a thunderstorm covering a ten-kilometer radius, was even more thrilling than a mushroom cloud from a missile explosion, and the visual impact was even more intense. Many survivors in suburban areas dozens of kilometers from the city center witnessed this apocalyptic scene.
[Congratulations to the host for killing a level 1 zombie. Earned one point. Current points: 25,668. Power experience: 56,333/100,000.]
[Congratulations to the host for killing a level 1 zombie. Earned one point. Current points: 86,990. Power experience: 98,641/100,000.]
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[Congratulations to the host for reaching 1v6 power level.]
It was almost a series of screen-filling notifications. Su Ming had no choice but to turn off the system screen to avoid the distracting notifications. His Thunderstorm attack practically wiped out all the zombies within a ten-kilometer radius, slaying all zombies below level three. This earned him tens of thousands of points and supernatural experience, raising his supernatural level to level 6. Another upgrade would require another 500,000 points, but the distance wasn't far off; a few more Thunderstorm attacks would suffice.
However, this technique isn't suitable for large-scale use in cities. Its power is too great, and it could easily affect any remaining survivors. Take the previous technique, for example: all living creatures within a 10-kilometer radius, including cockroaches, rats, and mosquitoes hiding underground, were killed by the penetrating current. Few creatures survived Mirror Lake. Under this kind of power, not to mention ordinary people, even a strengthened female warrior would have a hard time surviving.
If there weren't so few survivors in the city center, Su Ming wouldn't have rashly used the Thunderstorm technique. Not only did it drain all his supernatural powers, but its power was also terrifyingly powerful. Even a missile bombardment without a nuclear warhead would likely have had the same effect.
Looking at the streets blasted by the thunderstorm, Su Ming couldn't help but sigh. Burn marks were everywhere, and the ground was covered with zombie corpses, piled densely like a small mountain. However, even if his move killed tens of thousands of zombies, it was only a small part of the millions of zombies in Jiangcheng.
He clenched his fist, feeling the power within him. His lightning ability, now at level 6, had grown even stronger. He could now unleash that Thunderstorm move at least a dozen times without a problem. Meanwhile, his inner powers had multiplied several times, and his strength, fueled by the lightning power upgrade, was insanely increasing. He even felt like he could shatter a building at any moment. This was pure physical strength.
Ten minutes earlier, when Su Ming activated the Thunderstorm, spreading across the rooftop of the Zhonghai Building, the women who had received his power transmission seemed to sense something and rushed out of the house simultaneously, heading towards the city center.
Gazing at the distant scene resembling a divine punishment, dense bolts of lightning pushed through the clouds, flashing a dazzling blue light that was almost blinding. The vast might of the heavens inflicted immense fear upon all intelligent creatures, and countless zombie birds screamed and fled from the center of the lightning.
Gaze upon the dazzling lightning that practically discolored the sky and earth, and the unparalleled, almost divine power, Fang Qingqing felt a streak of cold sweat on her forehead, her heart trembling with fear.
"Is this, is this the master's special ability being promoted?" Fang Qingqing asked fearfully.
Sensing the familiar aura emanating from the distant thunderstorm, Su Qingge felt a sense of peace. "Yes, that must be him upgrading his abilities."
"Everyone, calm down. There's no need to panic. This is just the master breaking through... It's nothing serious." Su Qingge soothed the frightened maids in the base. Such earth-shaking divine power had them all a little panicked.
Su Qingge's words did indeed reassure the maids, but they were also followed by a wave of deep surprise and astonishment, followed by a profound shock. They had seen Su Qingge in action before, and her inhuman strength was truly astonishing. She had even once toppled a small building with a single thunderstorm. But compared to today's thunderstorm, which covered an area of over ten kilometers and reached heights of hundreds of meters, it was nothing.
The thunderstorm in the distance slowly dissipated. Though far away, the crowd seemed to see a godlike figure standing atop the city's tallest building, in the center of the raging pool of lightning. It shocked everyone who witnessed it.
At this moment, all the survivors who witnessed this scene were stunned. The women in the base were even more overwhelmed. Many of the maids had already knelt excitedly, praying in awe and submission to the godlike figure in the distance.
Although Su Qingge and the others did not react in the same way, they were also deeply shocked, their expressions somewhat bewildered.
"It's simply perverted..." Zhao Yanyan said, blinking and gritting her teeth.
Fang Qingqing rolled her eyes at the outspoken young woman and picked up Chu Xiaoyue, a similarly frightened and trembling girl beside her. "Xiaoyue, don't be afraid, it's okay."
Chu Xiaoyue, the young and adorable little girl, quickly attracted the affections of many of the women in the base, especially Fang Qingqing and the others. Gradually, the little girl began to accept the situation and lost her initial unfamiliarity and fear. Of course, she remained closest to Mu Ling.
Speaking of Mu Ling, she was leading a team clearing the zombies when Su Ming unleashed a thunderstorm, sending the zombies across most of Jiangcheng rioting in fear. A few areas with high-level zombies remained calm, while the lower-level zombies elsewhere were in a state of panic, feeling the fundamental pressure of an incomparable life-level.
"You're saying this is the result of the master's breakthrough?" Wei Chengxue said, looking at Mu Ling in disbelief.