First, some big treasures!
Boom!
A mass of black and red fire clouds rose into the sky, blasting away a large number of zombies.
Some were directly burned to charcoal.
Others didn't die.
Their bodies were covered in flames that couldn't be extinguished.
Screams echoed everywhere, sounding chilling.
Four spatial shields!
Two formed a 45-degree angle, blocking between him and Tang Xiaoying.
Charge!
The spatial blade and Sword of Judgment swung.
"Whoever kills the mutant first gets the Level 5 crystal!" Qin Feng laughed.
"Okay!"
Tang Xiaoying's morale surged.
"Damn it..."
Among Zhang Heng's team, everyone except Han Xiao, who looked at Qin Feng's retreating back with admiration, was stunned.
No wonder!
The zombies collectively evolved at nine in the morning.
In an hour, they killed less than 20 zombies.
Team One, however, killed over a hundred.
Looking at it now...
Team One wasn't even using their full strength!
No!
To be precise, Qin Feng wasn't using his full strength.
Was this still human?
They were like a bulldozer!
Wherever they went, zombies fell in swathes, no match for them!
And Tang Xiaoying.
They were all Level 3, weren't they?
Why was the gap so huge?!
Qin Feng was strong; they had known that for a long time.
But!
This was the first time they had seen the vice-captain go all out.
And she was just as formidable!
"Roar..."
The mutant, terrified, turned and ran.
Since its mutation, it had formed a zombie legion and felt powerful.
Until now.
It realized...
That wasn't the case at all!
The humans it used to treat as 'food' were now this strong!
"Run?"
Qin Feng sneered.
Trying to run from a Level 4 opponent?
Not fast enough!
"Mine..." Tang Xiaoying said helplessly.
When killing ordinary Level 3 zombies, she seemed fierce.
Not much different from Qin Feng.
But!
Her speed was far inferior.
Crucially, her Level 3 Sword of Judgment was useless against a Level 5 zombie—even if she caught up, she couldn't defeat it.
Splat!
Blood and flesh flew.
The spatial blade easily severed the head.
Faced with such a formidable opponent, the other zombies scattered like birds and beasts.
"It's yours." Tang Xiaoying said weakly.
"No, it's yours."
Qin Feng decapitated it, retrieved the crystal, and handed it over: "A Level 5 crystal can't directly promote me to Level 5."
Since that was the case.
It was better to let more teammates reach Level 4 first.
Next.
If he obtained another Level 5 crystal, he would absorb it himself without hesitation.
Absorbing a higher-level crystal, though it wouldn't directly lead to Level 5, would speed up his progress.
Soon.
Both teams finished off the remaining zombies.
Except for some zombies that escaped.
Over two thousand corpses were left at the scene.
"Captain!"
Liu Pi was excited: "Napalm bombs are awesome, one blast takes out a whole area!"
"They won't be effective in 22 days." Qin Feng said.
"What do you mean?"
"During the third evolution, zombies will collectively reach Level 4. Napalm bombs will have almost no destructive power against them."
What?!
Everyone was shocked.
Even such a powerful weapon wouldn't work?
"To what extent... will the zombies evolve?" Tang Xiaoying's voice was hoarse.
"Most zombies will not evolve further beyond Level 5."
"Level 5 is the cap?"
Zhang Heng breathed a sigh of relief: "That's great!"
"The 'Living Dead Legion' storyline is 60 days. The third evolution is in 22 days." Qin Feng glanced at him.
The first evolution took 7 days.
The second took 12 days.
The third took 22 days.
After three evolutions, it took 41 days for zombies to collectively reach Level 4.
The further along.
The longer evolution took.
This meant that by the end of the 60-day storyline, zombies wouldn't evolve a fourth time and wouldn't reach the capped Level 5.
Then...
They would enter the third storyline.
Facing other, stronger enemies!
So.
Would the zombies continue to evolve indefinitely, and would that still matter to them?
Wouldn't there be new enemies?
There was one more thing Qin Feng didn't mention.
He only said that most zombies could only reach Level 5.
Zombies were essentially dead humans.
Some had higher talent.
These would continuously evolve!
"This..."
Zhang Heng's excited expression froze instantly.
Then, it turned bitter.
It was never-ending!
"Caw caw!"
Just then.
Bird Master rode Tongtong over.
Seeing the scorched corpses everywhere, the wings exposed on the sides of his overalls immediately flapped in anger.
Had they killed everything before he even arrived?
Weren't they leaving any for him?
Who did they think they were looking down on!
"This time, we owe a lot to Han Xiao."
Zhang Heng recounted what had happened earlier.
If not for Han Xiao using Soul Blast to deter them, they would have been annihilated before Qin Feng arrived.
"Hmph!"
Han Xiao tilted her head, glancing at Qin Feng: "Don't think I'm useless just because I'm in Team Two!"
"Well done." Qin Feng smiled, a rare occurrence.
Her future potential was unknown.
So she was placed in Team Two.
He hadn't expected...
She would prove so useful!
"Boss, it's Zhang Tianbao's doing again." Liu Xiaohui gritted his teeth.
He hated Zhang Tianbao to the core.
"What's wrong with getting experience points?" Qin Feng said calmly.
"Easier said than done, but..."
Zhang Heng frowned and said in a low voice, "This can't go on! He's always cooperating with the zombies. We got lucky this time, but what about next time?"
Qin Feng understood the logic.
But!
Zhang Tianbao lacked strength, but he was cunning and adept at escaping.
He would flee as soon as the situation turned unfavorable.
Difficult to catch.
"Plan revised."
Qin Feng pondered: "From now on, the two teams will act together."
"This hunt will last for three days."
"We'll return to the base after three days!"
"Until the next zombie evolution."
He was worried about one thing.
What if all the mutants evolved to Level 5?
Level 5 mutants would be more intelligent and easily persuaded by Zhang Tianbao, leading to cooperation.
A zombie legion was not difficult to deal with.
But what if there were more?
Even!
He suspected Zhang Tianbao might lead the zombie army into the mountains.
Not just to deal with his base.
After all.
Yanshan Mountain was connected to Taihang Mountain.
There were many survivors hidden in the mountains.
Many had awakened and established bases.
That was.
Humanity's last line of defense.
If Zhang Tianbao led countless zombies into the mountains, the consequences would be unimaginable!
Three days of hunting.
The crystals obtained would be enough to last until the zombie evolution in 22 days.
And by the time of the next zombie evolution...
That person would appear.
Zhang Tianbao would have nowhere to escape!
...
Three kilometers away.
On the rooftop of a skyscraper over 60 stories high.
Zhang Tianbao looked at the death zone with binoculars.
Half an hour ago.
He had escaped from there.
The "brother" he had just recognized died the fastest.
The brother was dead again!
Half of the thousands-strong zombie legion was gone, and the rest were terrified and scattered.
Through the binoculars, he could see the area blackened by fire, with at least one to two thousand corpses lying around.
Too powerful!
Just a few people.
They actually fought against a zombie legion!
"Qin Feng!"
He clenched his fists.
His molars were about to shatter.
Hate!
He had attacked again and again, but could never defeat them, not even a single subordinate of theirs had died.
On the contrary...
He knew that with every attack, even if he escaped safely, he was giving the enemy experience.
Take this time, for example.
Qin Feng had gained thousands of crystals!
The more crystals, the stronger he became.
This couldn't go on!
What should he do?
What on earth should he do?!
...
Blue Star.
The Great Xia live stream was once again filled with curses.
- "It's that scumbag again! Luckily Brother Feng arrived in time, or Zhang Heng and the others would have been doomed!"
- "Didn't Brother Feng say? We can catch Zhang Tianbao during the next zombie evolution."
- "This scumbag isn't far from death!"
- "Look! His expression now, he's definitely thinking of something bad!"