Apocalypse: I Can See the HP Bar, Killing Monsters Drops Loot

Wang Tao was mentally prepared for this situation; it was unavoidable. They would have to go back and clear out these zombies later.

Thus, three days passed.

He Jijun’s teaching had stopped. After all, time was precious, and it was not possible to spend a large amount of time on practice. Mainly, he, as the pilot, was to fly; the others were just for emergency backup.

Wang Tao had also practiced many times. Not to say that he was particularly skilled, but at least he could get the helicopter off the ground. He also learned how to handle some emergency situations.

By now, a large number of zombies had accumulated outside the military base, and they needed to be cleared out quickly.

After scanning the area and confirming there were no four-level zombies, Wang Tao led a few people out of the military base.

It took quite some time, but eventually, they cleaned up all the zombies outside the military base.

And indeed, there were some unexpected gains.

Wang Tao obtained another type of actively attacking Crystal Core, and there were several of them, which could be synthesized into an Epic Crystal Core without side effects.

[Level 3 Crystal Core・Continuous Slash]

[Quality: Excellent (60%)]

[Purity: 40% (Side effect: Body stiffness)]

[Continuous Slash: Consumes energy to attack twice rapidly]

The ones using the Continuous Slash Ability were a group of elite zombies that looked particularly stiff.

At that time, everyone thought they were zombies with poor mobility. Indeed, their agility was low, but their attacks were decisive, able to strike twice instantaneously! The speed of those two strikes was extremely fast, impossible to block. Nie Siyan suffered a setback from them. Luckily, in the end, they were dealt with by Wang Tao.

Wang Tao synthesized this Crystal Core into an Epic Crystal Core and then skillfully integrated it with his [Integration].

Shortly after, Wang Tao learned a New Superpower!

Wang Tao tried it out; the damage of a single slash using Continuous Slash was not as high as that of high-frequency vibration, but the damage from two slashes exceeded that of high-frequency vibration!

This was good news for Wang Tao, as it significantly enhanced his attacking ability.

Now he was only missing one more attack-type Ability. If he could find that, it would be perfect.

However, the zombies around the base had been cleaned out, and there were no other gains. They could only search in the city.

"Wang Tao, what do you think? I feel that the weather has been good these past days. Although the rain hasn’t stopped, there hasn’t been much wind or thunder..."

He Jijun looked to Wang Tao.

Wang Tao took a deep breath, then said sternly,

"Then... tomorrow, we shall make a trip to the city district tomorrow!"

Upon hearing this, everyone felt a mix of nervousness and excitement.

They had been training at the base for so long, just waiting for this day.

"As for the personnel arrangement... Old He will fly the helicopter, Nie Siyan as co-pilot, Jiang Shixue and I will be shooting, Zhang Hong and Little Jun will load bullets."

Everyone’s role was important, but as far as shooting was concerned, Wang Tao felt it appropriate only for himself, He Jijun, and Jiang Shixue.

However, He Jijun would be flying the helicopter, so he naturally could not shoot. Wang Tao had the Precision Shooting Ability, and Little Xue had good eyesight, so the two of them would shoot.

Everyone naturally had no objections to this arrangement.

"Woof!"

Lightning suddenly barked.

Wang Tao looked down at Lightning, who sat at his feet with a serious expression, and said with a smile,

"You come with me to help me stay alert to the enemies."

"Woof!"

That night, they began refueling the helicopter, performed simple maintenance, and loaded various ammunition, incendiary grenades, smoke grenades, and other items onto it...

...

The next day, everyone got up early.

"God is helping us too!"

After looking at the sky, He Jijun grinned.

Today was still a rainy day without much wind or thunder.

After breakfast, they were all fully armed.

Wang Tao waved his hand.

"Let’s go!"

Xu Xiaojun drove out first, pulling the helicopter out of the hangar.

The corrosive acid rain kept falling; if the helicopter stayed in the hangar, it would eventually be damaged, so it needed to be well protected.

He Jijun started the helicopter, and everyone entered in single file.

"Departure!"

Wrrrrrr—

The helicopter made a huge noise as it moved towards the city district.

Inside the helicopter, as Wang Tao looked at the increasing number of zombies below, he felt somewhat helpless. The noise from the helicopter attracted all the zombies on the ground.

Even though these zombies couldn’t keep up with the helicopter, as the zombies in front fell behind, more zombies from the back filled in. These zombies were like the helicopter’s shadow, almost running along with it. It was quite chilling to watch.

"This is horrific!"

Zhang Hong exclaimed as he looked down at the scene below.

There was a saying among the survivors—that you don’t know how many zombies are around you until you make a big racket!

Now, that saying was proved true; along the road they traveled, even though it seemed clear of zombies, as soon as the helicopter passed by, zombies ran out from all corners!

It felt as though these zombies were like cockroaches; in these deserted places, if you find one, there definitely isn’t just one, but at least a swarm!

"Wang Tao, do you think these zombies can reproduce?"

Zhang Hong suddenly asked.

"That’s really hard to say..."

Wang Tao frowned.

Although he hadn’t seen zombies with the ability to reproduce, they had been to the Night Demon’s Nest and observed that Night Demons could hatch more of their kind. Of course, that hatching couldn’t be considered reproduction, as they used humans or ordinary zombies to create new Night Demons, resulting in a one-for-one output. It didn’t increase the number of zombies.