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Chapter 599 - 250 Lightning_3
Chapter 599 - 250 Lightning_3
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"I need to find a way to train Lightning!"
Lightning has 1,000 HP, which clearly isn’t natural. Wang Tao had seen those farmed pigs—with the little pigs having only about 100 HP. Even when they grew up, they might have a bit more HP, but never as much as 1,000.
Wang Tao suspected that Lightning gained its 1,000 HP from killing zombies, considering that humans increased their HP by killing zombies, perhaps animals could too.
The only question was whether it could integrate Crystal Cores—probably not. Otherwise, Luo Guozhong would have used them on Lightning already...
For now, Wang Tao wasn’t sure how to train it, but there would be plenty of opportunities in the future. It could definitely become stronger!
With Lightning joining the team, there was a lot more laughter and joy. Even the usually cool He Jijun and the typically expressionless Jiang Shixue were extremely happy.
"Lightning, do you know if there are any good things around here?"
Wang Tao suddenly asked.
Lightning might not understand what "good things" meant, tilting its head as if it was quite puzzled.
Wang Tao didn’t know how to describe it either, and after gesticulating for quite a while, suddenly Lightning gave a small bark and then led Wang Tao and the others to the command center.
"Hmm? Are we missing something?"
Lightning brought Wang Tao to the outside of Colonel Luo Guozhong’s room. Wang Tao had glanced inside and, seeing that it was neat and tidy with nothing inside, had left without looking more carefully.
After all, he had great respect for Colonel Luo Guozhong, the hero.
"Woof!"
Lightning barked at one of the wall hangings.
Wang Tao walked over, removed the hanging, and discovered a safe hidden behind it.
"Well, well, there really was something?"
The group was somewhat surprised.
Wang Tao rubbed Lightning’s head, then turned his attention to the safe.
This safe required both a combination and a key to open. Wang Tao didn’t bother with the combination, instead trying the key left to him by Luo Guozhong.
Click~
The lock on the safe door opened.
"Haha, I knew it. Colonel Luo Guozhong would never make it too complicated for the next person to inherit his things!"
Wang Tao said, laughing as he opened the door of the safe, and a bunch of shiny objects inside dazzled their eyes.
"Crystal Cores."
Wang Tao wasn’t that surprised, considering that during the apocalypse, there are only so many valuable things, and it was likely that a Crystal Core would be kept in a safe.
However, upon seeing the specific attributes of these Crystal Cores, Wang Tao was surprised, or rather shocked.
"Level 4 Crystal Core!"
There was actually a Level 4 Crystal Core among them!
Level 1 to Level 3 Crystal Cores were diamond-shaped, with Level 1 being the smallest, Level Two being a bit larger, and Level 3 being larger still.
But the Level 4 Crystal Core was square, about the size of a keycap on a keyboard.
[Fourth-Order Crystal Core: Promotion]
[Quality: Excellent (80%)]
[Purity: 35% (Side Effects: None)]
This Crystal Core was actually a Level 4 Ascension Crystal Core!
This was a huge surprise for Wang Tao.
Wang Tao carefully remembered that the previous battle logs had mentioned that Luo Guozhong and his team had encountered a very powerful zombie, which had taken a great deal of effort to kill. They felt this zombie was much stronger than other Level 3 zombies. But to say how much stronger, was hard to quantify, since they used modern weapons and didn’t have much contact with it...
Now, Wang Tao suspected that it must have been this Four-level zombie!
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Although they weren’t clear on what it actually looked like, they had experience killing level 4 zombies, which meant that these zombies weren’t invincible.
Wang Tao had felt helpless against the Giant Zombie they had seen before, but that didn’t necessarily mean all level 4 zombies were that strong. There was also that hundred thousand HP zombie.
If there was a chance later on, he would look for those hundred thousand HP zombies to really understand what a level 4 zombie was like...
Besides the level 4 Crystal Core, there weren’t too many other cores in the safe, only about a thousand or so. Moreover, level 1 Crystal Cores were rare; most of them were level two and level three.
Wang Tao guessed that Luo Guozhong and his team must have used many crystal cores. Otherwise, judging from the combat logs, there should have been more.
But Wang Tao was content. After all, whatever he got for free was a win.
The safe contained only Crystal Cores, which Wang Tao took. He crouched down and rubbed Lightning’s head.
"Good boy!"
Lightning immediately wagged its tail and frantically rubbed against Wang Tao. After Wang Tao "tortured" it for a while, he turned to the others and said,
"Now there should only be two places left to check, the garage and the hangar... Let’s head to the hangar."
The group arrived outside the hangar. The hangar had several doors, and naturally they entered through a smaller one.
The hangar was large inside and contained many rooms, but the most conspicuous thing was the military transport plane.
It wasn’t clear from the surveillance footage, but on closer inspection, the aircraft looked very old, probably corroded by the acid rain.
However, right now, their attention wasn’t on the plane, but on the several busy figures underneath it.
"Colonel Luo Guozhong..."
"Hehe..."
Feeling the approach of people, the four zombies instantly turned their heads to look at Wang Tao and his group.
Lightning circled anxiously around Wang Tao, acting like it wanted to go over but didn’t dare to.
Wang Tao patted Lightning on the head to reassure it and took a closer look. Luo Guozhong and his men were actually level 1 zombies!
"They didn’t use crystal cores? They’re not Ability Users?"
This was somewhat unexpected to Wang Tao.
But if they were all level 1, then this would be easy to deal with.
Wang Tao immediately activated his Psychic Disturbance Ability. After his ascension to level 3, the range of this ability had increased slightly. Although it still couldn’t affect humans, it was very effective against zombies, especially lower-level ones.
The moment Wang Tao activated his ability, the four zombies stopped moving. They treated Wang Tao as a Zombie Lord.
"Let’s not worry about them for now; let’s check the plane."
Wang Tao first inspected the helicopter.
It was a transport helicopter, with a large space inside. It was Wang Tao’s first time boarding a helicopter, and he found it very novel.
After inspecting the helicopter, He Jijun said to Wang Tao,
"The helicopter is fine!"
"That’s good to hear!"
He Jijun then led the others to inspect the transport plane.
"This transport plane has advanced automatic assistance devices; no wonder they could still fly it... The plane should still be operable, but it needs maintenance..."
After checking the planes, Wang Tao took everything from the airdrop container, but ultimately did not kill the four zombies.
Wang Tao patted Lightning on the head.
"Let’s go."
Lightning reluctantly followed Wang Tao out, looking back every three steps.
Once they had closed the hangar doors, the zombies seemed confused for a moment and then resumed their repetitive task of moving the air-dropped supplies...