Chapter 24

Never would he have thought that this blood corpse, despite suffering such severe injuries, would still remain standing, raising an arm to grab Wang Tanzhi.

In that second, everyone present thought the same two things: first, this monster’s brain was probably just a mess; second, Wang Tanzhi was probably going to be directly OVER.

Bang! Another gunshot.

Feng Jue’s actions and thoughts were equally swift, and he was quite calm and efficient. At this moment, he had already appeared two meters to the side of the blood corpse, raising his gun and shooting at its head. Due to the close distance, the bullet penetrated through, piercing the blood corpse’s head, and a pool of unknown liquid sprayed out along with the bullet that flew out of the skull.

The blood corpse’s movements finally came to a halt, and Wang Tanzhi quickly broke free from the grip, jumping away from its shoulder.

Feng Jue then walked to the front of the blood corpse, aiming his gun at the monster’s forehead: "Very interesting, it seems its back brain is almost useless." Before he finished speaking, he fired another shot, the bullet entering through the blood corpse’s forehead. This time, it didn’t even make a sound, completely losing all reaction.

"Hmm... I understand. This guy tends to focus on a high-damage target, so it’s very easy to deal damage from behind. Although its head is undoubtedly its weakness, the system has deliberately set its most fatal weakness to the front, giving it high attack and high health characteristics..." As Feng Jue spoke, the blood corpse had already fallen. Actually, for him, killing the monster wasn’t important; knowing how to kill this type of monster most efficiently was more important.

Long Ao Ming finally recovered at this point. He could still stand and walk, but his face looked very bad. Although others didn’t know how much of his survival value was left, they all knew his condition was quite dire...

Compared to Long Ao Ming, the survival value Wang Tanzhi lost was negligible. Of course, even at 90% of his survival value, if he were hit by that blood corpse, he would probably be finished.

Just as everyone thought they had defeated the small boss and could catch their breath, darkness descended again, and various terrifying sounds echoed in their ears. Everyone’s shock values soared, and they couldn’t help but think: If the darkness passed and the blood corpse on the ground stood up again, and became even stronger, what would they do?

A few seconds later, the darkness dissipated, just as it had the last time, coming and going quickly. Feng Jue had already raised his gun again, aiming it at the blood corpse’s head on the ground, but the latter showed no reaction, apparently dead.

"From this, it seems... the second of the three possibilities I mentioned earlier is correct." Feng Jue aimed for about five to six seconds, then lowered his gun when he saw no movement: "This darkness is a kind of natural phenomenon, and its effect is that after each appearance, all ‘living’ monsters become stronger." He glanced at the blood corpse on the ground: "I suspect this blood corpse has already been enhanced once... not just it, but all the monsters in the city that weren’t killed during the first darkness have been enhanced."

Long Ao Ming, Loneliness, and Solitude had already walked to Feng Jue’s side. Long Ao Ming didn’t say much, casually handing over the [Mario’s Plunger], and Feng Jue casually took it, neither of them making a big deal out of it.

Feng Jue continued: "If we hadn’t killed this blood corpse by now, it would have mutated again in the darkness."

"Then isn’t this script’s difficulty too exaggerated? If this darkness comes a few more times, the whole city will be running with monsters, right?" Wang Tanzhi said.

"This is a way to urge us to complete the script as soon as possible. Because this city is large, and the monsters in the script aren’t densely packed, at least not like in zombie movies where they’re everywhere... so the system uses this method to prevent players from leisurely searching the city." Feng Jue said: "If we don’t hurry, forget the main quest, in a few hours, any monster we encounter will be as strong as a boss, and we’ll definitely be wiped out."

"Then what are we waiting for... let’s hurry..." Before Long Ao Ming finished speaking, Feng Jue shook his head: "We need to prioritize our tasks. Our plan remains unchanged." He turned to look in the direction of the police station: "Now that this monster has been dealt with, there will definitely be a reward after a battle of this level. We should still search for equipment in the police station, try to arm everyone, and also restore some of Long’s survival value."

As Feng Jue spoke, he walked to the broken wall, taking out a broken flashlight from his backpack as he said: "I have a skill that can make this faulty gadget work normally for about three minutes, but it costs 100 stamina points. Since I had to rush back to help, I didn’t have time to search further, and it’s not advisable to randomly spend stamina points before a battle, so I didn’t use this skill."

Considering the limited light sources inside and only one flashlight, I suggest I go in alone. If I find other, more reliable lighting equipment, I’ll come out to find everyone, and then we can go in together to search."

He turned and said: "Of course, if anyone wants to go in with me now, you can, but you’ll have to follow me, and your line of sight will only be in the area I illuminate."

"No need, we’ll wait here. Do you think we’re afraid you’ll keep the equipment for yourself?" Long Ao Tian laughed heartily and sat down cross-legged, "I can rest a bit more and recover some stamina points."

Loneliness didn’t voice any opinions at this point. In the two team survival modes he and Solitude had participated in before, high-level players wouldn’t come to protect or consider them, let alone share equipment with them. Now, this "crazy brother" had specifically come to the police station to get equipment for the team, so they had no objections.

Feng Jue exchanged a glance with the four of them, then nodded and entered the gap in the wall again. This time, he had a flashlight in his hand. After taking a few steps forward, he used [Rash Repair]. As his stamina points decreased by 100, some two-dimensional data fragments appeared on the flashlight, and it quickly transformed into a perfect state.

[Name: Flashlight]

[Type: Tool]

[Quality: Common]

[Function: Illumination]

[Can it be taken out of the script: Yes]

[Note: Requires two AA batteries to function.]

Although this thing could be taken out of the script, it wasn’t useful because once Feng Jue’s skill effect ended, its quality would become ruined, and it wouldn’t light up. It wasn’t a plot item and wouldn’t turn into a puzzle card.

With a handheld light source, Feng Jue’s search became extremely efficient, and he quickly found something very important...