Apocalypse: I Can See the HP Bar, Killing Monsters Drops Loot - Chapter 359: Night Demon_3

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This also has one greatest benefit: Level 1 Crystal Cores are much more common compared to Level 2 Crystal Cores!

Wang Tao now only has one Level 2 Shockwave Crystal Core, and gathering 30 Level 2 Shockwave and 30 Level 2 Precision Shooting Crystal Cores would be extremely difficult—not due to lack of strength, but because he doesn’t encounter Level 2 Terrorizers and Level 2 Police Zombies.

But if it’s 100 Level 1 Shockwave Crystal Cores, 100 Level 1 Precision Shooting Crystal Cores, and 20 Level 2 Ascension, then it becomes relatively easier. There are still plenty of Level 1 Elite Zombies. Wang Tao also has quite a few Level 1 Omnipotent Crystal Cores, which can all be put to use.

Plus, these two methods can be carried out simultaneously!

If he has enough Level 2 Crystal Cores, then he can synthesize into a Level 2 Epic Crystal Core.

If he has enough Level 1 Crystal Cores, then he can use Ascension Crystal Cores to upgrade them to Level 2!

Add these efficiencies together, it’s a case of 1+1 being greater than 2!

Wang Tao has a premonition that his speed of ascending from Level 2 to Level 3 might even be faster than his ascent from Level 1 to Level 2!

“Just hang in there a bit longer!”

Wang Tao put away the Omnipotent Crystal Cores, then looked at the items burst out from the incubation flesh. There were four packages in total, each containing an Extraction Crystal Core.

With these four Crystal Cores, Wang Tao now had five Extraction Crystal Cores in total.

Actually, Wang Tao could use the Extraction Crystal Cores himself, which would save up to 5000 Special Energy.

But these Extraction Crystal Cores inevitably contained impurities.

If he chose to save the 5000 Special Energy, then the price would be using more Cleansing Potions to remove Internal Impurities.

Wang Tao currently only had five Cleansing Potions and needed to use them sparingly. After all, Special Energy could be obtained by defeating Zombies above his level, no matter the type. But he did not yet know what zombies would drop Cleansing Potions…

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The next day, early morning.

Wang Tao and his two companions continued on their journey, heading towards Zijing City.

They were in luck today, encountering quite a few Level 1 Elite Zombies on the road, and even a Level 2 Elite Zombie, all of which they managed to deal with easily.

Wang Tao felt that if they kept up this efficiency, by the time they reached Zijing City, he would definitely have no problems amassing a few hundred Crystal Cores.

At night, they still rested in houses by the roadside. Along this journey, aside from his own party of three, they hadn’t seen any other survivors. Naturally, they had their pick of the houses.

However, Wang Tao noticed that most of these houses had been scavenged, which meant there must be survivors around; he wondered if there was a survivor camp nearby.

“I can do it again~”

Jiang Shixue looked at Wang Tao eagerly. She felt she could continue her cultivation.

“Then let’s go!”

Wang Tao took out the Zombie Culture Fluid and skillfully fed it to Jiang Shixue. An hour later, Jiang Shixue’s HP increased by 1000, reaching [22200/22200].

Wang Tao was somewhat envious of Jiang Shixue’s constitution, as it was so easy for her to increase her HP.

Of course, Jiang Shixue could also increase her HP by killing zombies, but Wang Tao needed HP as well, so for now, he prioritized getting the last hit himself.

Moreover, Wang Tao had 800 doses of Zombie Culture Fluid on hand, perfect for adding 8000 HP, which could bring Jiang Shixue’s HP up to thirty thousand. There was no need for her to kill zombies for HP.

The next day, they continued their journey.

Perhaps it was because Wang Tao complained about the scarcity of Level 1 Elite Zombies before, but today, they encountered many more of them. This allowed Xu Xiaojun’s HP to finally reach 4999!

Wang Tao had prepared Crystal Cores for Xu Xiaojun that have been fully integrated by now. He currently possessed “Level 1 Shockwave+10”, “Level 1 Rush+10”, “Level 1 Toughness+10”, and “Level 1 Power+10”.

Wang Tao directly gave him four Level 2 Ascension Crystal Cores. These Ascension Crystal Cores hadn’t been synthesized and contained impurities, as Wang Tao didn’t have many of them. But each core was of either red or orange quality, and Xu Xiaojun successfully integrated all of them.

After the successful integration, Xu Xiaojun’s situation was almost the same as Wang Tao’s before—he could feel he needed to sleep within three days, and this sleep would last for 24 hours.

Wang Tao told him to go ahead and sleep.

Since Xu Xiaojun was about to ascend to Level 2, there was no rush to keep moving. After all, only after reaching Level 2 would Xu Xiaojun truly become a supportive teammate for Wang Tao. Currently, Level 1 Xu Xiaojun was merely acting as a porter.

And on the morning of the second day after Xu Xiaojun went to sleep, another plane flew overhead!

“Is that another military transporter? This time… there should be an airdrop, right?”

Wang Tao watched the military transporter in the sky, his voice tinged with uncertainty.

Mainly because his location was quite remote and the plane might not choose to drop the airdrop there.

But a moment later, Wang Tao saw several small black dots fall from the rear of the plane. He immediately broke into a grin.

“I knew it, my luck has been pretty good lately!”

Especially when Wang Tao saw that an airdrop wasn’t too far from him, he promptly instructed Jiang Shixue:

“Little Xue, watch over Little Jun here. I’m going to grab an airdrop, I’ll be right back.”

“Okay~”

Jiang Shixue nodded.

Wang Tao located the direction of the airdrop and, in about ten minutes’ time, reached precisely under where the airdrop would land.

Thud—

The supply crate landed right in front of Wang Tao.

Having already observed that there were no dangers nearby, Wang Tao confidently opened the airdrop. This was the safest time he had ever claimed an airdrop.

Inside the supply crate were inhibitors, a total of 100 bottles!

Wang Tao had given all of his inhibitors to Han Rui and Ding Yuqin, carrying a few on himself, but he’d lost them while escaping. So now, Wang Tao had not a single inhibitor.

These inhibitors came at just the right time.

“And a Monster Manual… I’ll look at this when I get back.”

Wang Tao took the items and returned to Jiang Shixue without incident.

Then, he opened the Monster Manual, and the first thing he saw was a familiar type of zombie.

“Night Demon… A zombie that appears only at night, minimum level 3 and above, extremely strong, and possesses a certain degree of intelligence, capable of cooperation, and even quite vengeful. If you encounter a Night Demon, run if you can. Besides, killing them yields no Crystal Cores, so even if you’re powerful, don’t provoke them. However, Night Demons have a fatal weakness: they fear Ultraviolet Light…”

Reading this introduction, Wang Tao nodded.

“The authorities named those Blood-red Zombies ‘Night Demons,’ which fits well with Mad Demon Zombies—like the latter, they have no Crystal Cores, so there’s not much benefit in killing them…”

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