Chapter 7

"Alright, Stark, calm down. Jia Shuai also has his difficulties. After all, everyone's points are earned with their lives. It does take time and patience to convince them to hand over their points to buy the map."

A girl with a rather sweet appearance stepped forward to mediate.

Luo Jie couldn't remember this girl's name, but he vaguely recalled that she was some kind of cultural affairs minister, always very amiable and speaking softly to everyone.

"I'll think of a way to get the map," Jia Shuai frowned, unconsciously gripping the drink bottle in his hand, showing the immense psychological pressure he was under. "What do you think we should do now?"

Stark crossed his arms, occasionally pinching his layered chin, and said firmly, "Find weapons, gather food supplies."

"Damn, I know these two things too. Can you be more specific? Like where to find these things?" A dark-skinned boy complained.

Stark was also annoyed and retorted, "Without a map, even if I tell you where to go, do you know which way to go?"

Jia Shuai, rubbing his temples, found Stark's words harsh but reasonable. Not having a map was indeed a problem.

"Shopping Street."

After a moment, Stark suddenly blurted out a place name.

"What?" Jia Shuai was taken aback.

"In the game, the Shopping Street has the most types of weapons and is the easiest place to obtain them. There should also be supermarkets there for food and water supplies... However, I don't remember how to get to the Shopping Street in the game, and even if I did, it probably wouldn't be useful. From what we can see, the scale of this Lucky City is much larger than the game map, and the locations of various facilities have definitely changed."

"Thank you." Jia Shuai stood up and patted Stark's broad shoulder. "The information you provided is very useful. We'll rest tonight and organize a team to find the Shopping Street tomorrow."

...

"Shopping Street..."

Following the safe house on the map, Luo Jie found the location of the Shopping Street and switched to its surveillance footage.

The Shopping Street was an indoor pedestrian street, about 150 meters long from south to north, with various shops on both sides and a leisure square and pedestrian walkway in the middle.

Before the zombie virus outbreak, it was the most prosperous central business district in Lucky City, but now it had become the most terrifying zombie stronghold.

After several switches in the surveillance footage, Luo Jie spotted a familiar figure on the screen.

The man in the sunglasses.

At that moment, he was crouching behind a pot of green plants at the bathroom door, gritting his teeth and glaring at the densely packed zombie horde on the street.

Luo Jie couldn't help but feel a bit amused.

The man in the sunglasses was probably regretting his decision to abandon the newbies, leaving him without anyone to help distract the zombies.

Of course, this situation wouldn't last long.

Luo Jie remembered that in his previous life, the man in the sunglasses had reached a cooperation agreement with Jia Shuai by noon the next day, setting up traps to kill a large number of zombies, successfully entering the Shopping Street and earning a substantial amount of points.

Unfortunately, Luo Jie was alone and couldn't recreate the trap from his previous life. Otherwise, the zombies in the Shopping Street alone would have been enough to earn half the points needed for an E-grade weapon.

"Whatever, be practical."

Luo Jie shook his head in self-mockery and began to search through the personal lockers in the security room.

He used keys for those with locks and a crowbar to break open the others. He quickly opened over twenty iron lockers, collecting a large number of guns, ammunition, electric batons, security uniforms, and a pile of distinctly American personal items.

Luo Jie had only 700 points left, insufficient to take all these items, so he temporarily authenticated a white-grade armor and a pistol.

【Lucky City Security Uniform】

Type: Armor

Quality: F (White)

Level: LV1

Strength: 25

Description: Stylish black uniform with the Lucky City emblem on the left arm, equipped with a lightweight bulletproof vest, but the bulletproof effect is highly questionable.

Authentication Cost: 100 points.

【Red M92F Pistol】

Type: Semi-automatic Pistol

Quality: F (Green)

Level: LV1

Power: 50

Description: Beretta 9mm semi-automatic pistol, one of the Olympic Five Rings color limited editions.

Authentication Cost: 500 points.

As for the bullets, Luo Jie took six 10-round magazines and 120 loose rounds.

Unauthenticated bullets couldn't be taken back to the real world, but they could be used in the illusion as long as the gun was authenticated.

Looking at the 100 points left on his main panel, Luo Jie frowned.

It seemed he had earned a lot of points, but he had also spent a lot.

"It looks like I need to earn some points..."

Luo Jie didn't expect to earn 200,000 points before the illusion ended, but at least he wanted to take the remaining blue and purple weapons.

In the illusion, the most cost-effective way to earn points was undoubtedly completing various hidden quests.

However, Luo Jie didn't plan to choose this method for now.

Because, in his opinion, there was a more efficient option.

Luo Jie's gaze subconsciously fell on the 【Red M92F Pistol】 in his hand, his expression somewhat conflicted. He took a deep breath and resolutely pressed the gun to his temple.

Bang!

When Luo Jie opened his eyes again, he looked at the familiar room, his expression slightly dazed.

But it was only for a moment. His eyes quickly cleared, and he leaped up from the ground, grabbing the phone on the opposite computer desk.

This phone was placed there in advance to record the entire process of his death and resurrection.

The video showed that at the moment the gunshot rang out, his body fell in the opposite direction of the gun, then remained motionless, as if he were really dead.

Ten seconds later, changes began. The wound on his head started to heal at a visible speed.

No, "heal" wasn't the right word. In fact, the entire wound was being reconstructed from scratch, with no visible gradual regeneration of body tissue.

A second later, he opened his eyes, ending the entire death and resurrection process.

"In other words, the first ten seconds are complete death, and the resurrection starts from the eleventh second... Although it's different from what I imagined, this time difference can be used for many tactical counterattacks."

Luo Jie pinched his chin, muttering to himself. He casually deleted the video from the phone to avoid anyone discovering his biggest secret.

The effect of death and resurrection was undoubtedly powerful, but it wasn't omnipotent, especially in the current illusion, where it could be quite problematic.

Luo Jie could easily imagine that if he died unexpectedly in a zombie attack, he wouldn't be revived with full health. Instead, the zombies would be delighted to find a piece of meat that never ran out.

Of course, he didn't just conduct this experiment to test the resurrection time, but to confirm a hypothesis.

Luo Jie moved his body, gripping a sword and swinging it with full force.

After the death and resurrection, all the fatigue and soreness from the battle were gone, and his strength had returned to its peak.

Moreover, from the clarity of his mind, it seemed his mental energy had also been restored.

As he had suspected, the 【Death Resurrection】 ability was not as simple as "full health revival."

【Death Resurrection】 (Passive) — Revive in perfect condition after a certain time (10 seconds + 30 seconds per percentage of body damage), while clearing all positive and negative effects.

When Luo Jie first saw this skill description, he noticed a subtle term.

— Perfect condition.

Yes, due to the rarity of resurrection items and skills, he still clearly remembered that whether it was the S-grade item 【Phoenix Tail】 or the S-grade skill 【Blessing of the Life Goddess】, their descriptions were "intact condition," not the "perfect condition" in the 【Death Resurrection】 description.

"Intact condition" specifically referred to the physical body, limited to healing internal and external injuries and repairing severed limbs.

"Perfect condition," on the other hand, represented the restoration of all attributes, and from the current situation, it even included the recovery of energy.

Despite the one-character difference, the effects were worlds apart.

"Since the hypothesis is correct, let's begin..."

Luo Jie wiped the blood off his face in the mirror in the security room.

In his new, crisp black security uniform, with his current energetic appearance and harmless smile, he looked nothing like a zombie slayer who had just emerged from a bloodbath. Instead, he looked like a shy, innocent young man.

There was no way around it; he had a naturally deceptive good-guy face. Only those who knew him well knew that he was actually all black inside.

Opening the door, he stepped out into the corridor outside the security room, sword in hand.

This time, he didn't cautiously probe as before but charged straight into the approaching zombie horde.

A few zombies let out hoarse roars, awkwardly raising their hands to grab him.

Luo Jie leaped forward, his long sword slicing through the air in a crescent-shaped arc, the whistling wind carrying the sound of death.

Without any defense, he unleashed the 【Ranger's Half Sword】 with full force, its sharp blade slicing through the zombies' decayed muscles and bones. Two disgusting heads, half a shoulder, and a severed arm flew into the air.

After a slight recovery, Luo Jie almost immediately turned and swung his sword again, brutally slicing a zombie in half at the waist, the upper half of its body flying several meters away, trailing a mess of intestines.

"Damn! Missed!"

Luo Jie cursed under his breath, then swung his sword downward, splitting the head of a zombie that had pounced from behind. The two halves of the head and shoulders flipped to the sides, spraying blood as they hit the ground.