Chapter 7

Liu Xichen is at QH University in BJ City, and the distance from here to BJ is over a thousand kilometers. If he walks fifty kilometers a day, it would take him about twenty days to get there.

However, the problem is that in this chaotic period, walking from WH to BJ is not as simple as a leisurely hike.

Firstly, due to the earthquake and the collision of continents, the crust may have undergone some changes, causing the land to twist, which makes it difficult to determine directions.

However, since it is still modern society, with the help of maps and compasses, these minor difficulties are not a big issue.

The most serious problem is that along the way, he might encounter monsters like those in movies and TV shows. Without a certain level of self-protection, it would be impossible to complete this journey.

In his previous life, Chen Mu took nearly a year to reach BJ. After that, he spent almost a month searching for his sister in the desolate city. When he finally found her, she was a tragic corpse!

However, if he plans without personal emotions, and if history develops according to inertia without interference, he can deduce from his sister's body that she died no more than ten days before. This means that if he can reach BJ within a year, with the experience from his previous life, he can easily find his sister.

But in this chaotic period, human life is as cheap as a dog's. Chen Mu has seen countless young and beautiful women who, in dire straits, had to use their bodies to exchange for food and safety.

The sooner he reaches BJ, the sooner he can be at ease, and the less danger his sister will be in.

However, to set out, he must have a certain level of self-protection. Relying solely on a hand crossbow to ensure safety along the way is almost a pipe dream.

To gain strength, he must rely on the monsters that have descended.

Monsters, humans, and other beings from movies, TV shows, anime, and novels will appear on Earth in various ways. After the chaotic period ends and the new continent stabilizes, people call these beings "Descenders."

After killing a Descender, there is a certain chance that something called a "Drop Treasure" will appear.

Drop Treasures are about the size and shape of a glass ball and emit a faint light, containing peculiar magical power.

There are two types of Drop Treasures.

One type is ability-type Drop Treasures. For example, after killing a Descender that can control fire, the ability-type Drop Treasure that drops can fuse with a human, allowing the fusioner to also control fire.

Chen Mu's "Immortality" in his previous life came from this.

The other type is item-type Drop Treasures.

These Drop Treasures may appear based on the Descender's abilities or be items like potions, weapons, or various strange things from games and anime. Some are one-time use items, while others can be used repeatedly or even permanently.

For example, the "Lucky Potion" Chen Mu used in his previous life is an extremely rare usage-type Drop Treasure.

It's worth noting that there is compatibility and variability between ability-type Drop Treasures and individuals. Some people can fuse with certain Drop Treasures, while others cannot, no matter what. Item-type Drop Treasures, on the other hand, can be used by anyone, although some particularly powerful item-type Drop Treasures have strict limitations and costs when used.

For example, the Drop Treasure that dropped after Chen Mu killed the Phantom Cat, Kitty, was a one-time use item-type Drop Treasure. Based on Kitty's ability, it allowed a person to travel back in time mentally.

From the movie, it can be seen that Kitty's ability is not something an ordinary person can handle. However, Chen Mu, with his "Immortality," compensated for this. Even so, his body exploded after using the Drop Treasure, while his consciousness successfully returned to the past.

Most of the strong individuals during the chaotic period of the new continent gained astonishing abilities after killing Descenders and rapidly grew in strength. Chen Mu was the same in his previous life. If it weren't for the lucky acquisition of Claire's "Self-Healing" ability, he wouldn't have this second chance.

Theoretically, anyone can fuse with Drop Treasures to gain abilities without limit. However, in practice, it is extremely difficult and risky for someone who already has an ability to fuse with more ability-type Drop Treasures.

After the chaotic period, various organizations and forces exchanged information and found that the success rate of fusing a second ability, without considering compatibility, is sixty percent for those who already have one ability.

The remaining forty percent is the death rate!

Failure means death!

For those who already have two abilities, the success rate of fusing another compatible Drop Treasure, without considering other factors, is no more than ten percent!

The death rate is over ninety percent!

However, without exception, those who possess three abilities are all renowned strong individuals or leaders of forces.

For example, the leader of the organization Chen Mu served in his previous life, the father of "Miss," is a three-ability possessor.

As for four-ability possessors, he only heard of them in his previous life but never saw one.

Chen Mu himself, besides his immortality, also has a second ability.

In this life, his plan is to definitely obtain Claire's "Self-Healing" again. This is the ability he is most familiar with and is also a very powerful and practical ability.

Wu Zhi, with over a decade of experience from his previous life and always being by Miss's side, has a much deeper understanding of Descenders and Drop Treasures than others.

For example, he knows that the strength of the first ability affects the success rate of fusing a second ability. The stronger the first ability, the more severe the interference. If the first ability is too strong, the death rate when fusing a second ability can exceed ninety percent!

Therefore, the best way to fuse abilities is to start with easier and practical ones before moving on to more powerful ones.

This is a conclusion that scholars only reached after the chaotic period had passed for seven or eight years. However, by then, the leaders and elites of various forces had already fused their second or even third abilities, making this belated research somewhat useless.

However, for Chen Mu, this information is extremely useful now.

In his view, he doesn't need to pursue overly powerful abilities; he just needs to enhance his self-protection capabilities.

Moreover, at the beginning of the chaotic period, the Descenders that descended were not very strong.

Chen Mu walked down the street, where the wide boulevards were in ruins. Three days ago, when darkness suddenly descended, countless vehicles crashed, and some bodies were half-exposed from open car doors, starting to rot in the hot weather.

For ordinary people, seeing such a scene might cause nausea and vomiting, but Chen Mu merely glanced at it indifferently and continued on.

For him, this is just a minor issue. He has seen far more disgusting scenes. After seeing them enough times and removing the thorn in his heart, he realized that a dead person is just a pile of rotten flesh, no different from the chicken, duck, and fish meat on the kitchen cutting board. It's just not as aesthetically pleasing.