Chapter 6

Using just 25 enhancement stones, Xiaoming upgraded a piece of plain equipment to the highest level +25!

This was a capability that countless high-end players in the previous life could only dream of, and Zhang Yi, who had been reborn, truly possessed it.

Although upgrading a low-level, 1-star piece of equipment that would soon be phased out to +25 was indeed not worth it, as the base attributes of such low-level equipment were low, and even when upgraded to the highest level, the improvement would not be significant. However, Zhang Yi, who possessed the [Divine Enhancement] talent, did not care about this.

At least this +25 hammer could allow Zhang Yi to reach the safe zone without any obstacles, and Zhang Yi remembered that the first player to reach the safe zone in each area would receive a substantial system reward.

Moreover, even if this piece of equipment would soon be phased out, once Zhang Yi reached a higher level and obtained better weapons, it would only take 25 enhancement stones, and with the [Divine Enhancement] talent, a +25 equipment could be obtained at will!

Notably, the talent [Severe Wound] unlocked by upgrading this hammer to +25 was truly impressive, increasing the user's attack damage by 30 points, which was equivalent to giving Zhang Yi an additional 30 points of attack, already exceeding the main attribute of this piece of equipment!

With this exclusive talent, Zhang Yi's offensive capabilities were greatly enhanced.

Checking his status bar, his attack power had already increased to 23 points, and with the [Severe Wound] talent, he could probably kill a level 2 bio-spider with just two hits!

Even if it wouldn't last until level 10, this hammer should still be useful until level 5.

In addition to the one-star treasure chest, Zhang Yi also found a copper coin next to the corpse of the level 2 bio-spider.

This was the universal currency in the Apocalypse World, and also a very important resource, but the newbie monsters were indeed quite stingy.

1 gold coin = 100 silver coins = 10,000 copper coins.

Thus, Zhang Yi picked up the only copper coin and left the waiting room.

According to the mini-map, it was not a wise choice to go from the waiting room to the safe zone.

When he returned to the train tracks where he had spawned, he saw a large group of players from his batch fighting level 1-3 bio-spiders, completely forgetting the survival task of [Finding the Safe Zone] and immersed in the joy of fighting monsters.

After all, except for Zhang Yi, all the players were experiencing this highly realistic 100% virtual game for the first time, and the thrilling and exciting feeling indeed made them lose themselves in it.

Zhang Yi in the previous life also spent half an hour killing spiders before remembering to complete the survival task...

Opening the map and following the arrow, Zhang Yi walked west along the tracks.

At this moment, a white light flashed, and a level 3 bio-spider spawned right in front of Zhang Yi!

Because the spawn distance was too short, the level 3 bio-spider that spawned almost at Zhang Yi's feet left him no time to react, and he stepped on it...

"Roar!"

With a roar, the bio-spider, which had been stepped on for no reason, immediately targeted Zhang Yi with its aggression and opened its mouth to spit a ball of green venom at him.

"Slap!"

The venom splashed onto Zhang Yi's chest.

"Beep! You have been attacked by a bio-spider, losing 13 points of health!"

The attack power of the level 3 bio-spider was indeed too high, and Zhang Yi, who had no armor, even with 15 points of endurance growth, could not withstand its damage, losing one-sixth of his health bar.

With Zhang Yi's 75 points of health, he could only withstand six attacks from this bio-spider at most.

At this moment, the players behind, who were still fighting level 1 bio-spiders, saw Zhang Yi provoke a big monster and looked at him with sympathetic eyes.

"That kid is really bold, daring to provoke a level 3 spider!"

"Yeah, he's doomed~"

Just as several players were discussing, Zhang Yi swung the large iron hammer in his hand and slammed it down on the head of the level 3 spider in front of him.

Bang—

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A crisp sound, and the damage number that appeared on the bio-spider's head made the players watching from behind gape in shock.

With Zhang Yi's 23 points of attack, he could only deal 17 points of damage to the level 3 bio-spider with 6 points of defense, but the [Severe Wound] talent of the iron hammer contributed 30 points of damage.

Ducking to avoid the bio-spider's second attack, Zhang Yi swung the hammer down again—

-94 Critical Hit!

With a critical hit, the golden critical damage, Zhang Yi killed the bio-spider with two hits.

With a mournful "Roar," the level 3 bio-spider, which had 130 points of health and seemed almost invincible to the surrounding players, was directly killed by Zhang Yi with two hits, its health bar drained to zero, and it fell to the ground.

"Beep! You have killed a bio-spider, gaining 6 experience points!"

High risk, high reward, the experience from a level 3 bio-spider was already three times that of a level 2 bio-spider!

In addition, the level 3 bio-spider dropped two copper coins and a silver stone the size of a fist—

[Level 1 Enhancement Stone]:

Description: Can be used to enhance 1-star quality equipment, a good thing to improve player combat power (two same-level enhancement stones can be combined into a higher-level enhancement stone)...

Not bad luck, it actually dropped an enhancement stone.

Thus, Zhang Yi bent down to pick up the copper coins and the enhancement stone, then, holding the large iron hammer, stepped on the corpse of the level 3 bio-spider, and walked towards the direction of the Hope Town, leaving a group of players in disarray in the darkness.

Player A: "I... Was I seeing things just now?"

Player B: "Seeing things? Then I must be blind! What the... He killed a level 3 bio-spider with two hits? Is he human??"

Player C: "He must be cheating!!"

With this +25 hammer in hand, Zhang Yi could completely dominate the train station, using these level 1-3 bio-spiders to level up to level 3 and above.

In the previous life, Zhang Yi might have done just that, but now, he had a bigger goal and did not care about these small gains.

Following the train tracks, he walked in a straight line for more than twenty minutes, climbed over a fence, and crossed a hill. Standing at the top of the hill, Zhang Yi finally saw the Hope Town nestled at the foot of the hill.

The town was surrounded by a concrete wall, and from a high vantage point, one could see that the town was peaceful and calm, while the city ruins outside the wall were filled with countless bio-monsters. Without the protection of the wall, these bio-monsters would have long stormed into the town and killed all the survivors.

There was no area announcement yet, which meant that in the 886th newbie safe zone where Zhang Yi was, no player had entered the safe zone, and the achievement of being the first to enter was still available.

Thus, Zhang Yi, dragging the large iron hammer, walked towards the Hope Town in the darkness.